What Marcos spoke about.

18 Apr

2023

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Question Time (Commission) - Legacy of the European Year of Youth

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Mr President, Commissioner, the European Year of Youth ends exactly three weeks from now and I could repeat the same question I asked in this House a few months ago: How many young people have found out? As an observer of this Parliament that I have been for the development of the European Year of Youth, I have seen the interest that this European Year has aroused in many youth organisations, but …

18 Apr

2023

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The need for a coherent strategy for EU-China Relations (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, High Representative, what lessons has this legislature taught us? We cannot forget the sad scenes we saw in the hardest part of the pandemic. What happened when we depended on sanitary material from China we are living now with the energy crisis we are going through. China accumulates and consumes fuels and causes price increases, while in Europe we struggle to increase…

13 Mar

2023

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Energy performance of buildings (recast) (debate)

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Madam President, you are fighting for the climate and defending the citizens. Parliament is once again setting an example of social ambition with this directive. Buildings are responsible for 40% of energy consumption and it is essential to reduce this figure to save the planet. But I am especially proud to focus our efforts on those who need it most. I am proud that energy poor areas and vulnerab…

12 Dec

2022

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A long-term vision for the EU's rural areas (debate)

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Madam President, what is the value of a culture? Rural areas in the European Union cover more than 80% of the territory, but host only a third of its inhabitants. Thousands of peoples with diverse traditions and diverse ways of life are at risk of disappearing due to depopulation. The European institutions must ensure their survival. The European Union's cohesion policy should boost the developmen…

24 Nov

2022

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The European Year of Youth 2022 Legacy (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, youth is the most decisive period of a life, a moment of personal flourishing that is lived only once and, as such, must be taken advantage of. Hence the importance of this European Year of Youth in raising awareness. However, Commissioner, how many young people have known about the initiative? Unfortunately, not enough. We have failed to reach the general population…

20 Oct

2022

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Cultural solidarity with Ukraine and a joint emergency response mechanism for cultural recovery in Europe (debate)

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Madam President, war is a horror that leaves nothing but destruction in its wake. The most serious thing, without a doubt, is the destruction of human lives, of their homes, and the hunger that leaves behind them. But, in addition, war has a very serious impact on culture and heritage, which is our history, our memory as a species. Following the Russian invasion, Ukraine's heritage has become the …

4 Oct

2022

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Question Time (Commission) Tackling depopulation through cohesion policy instrument

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Commissioner, depopulation is a vitally important issue. It generates poverty and suffering and puts at risk a multitude of traditions and ways of life in rural areas across the European Union. Cohesion policy, in addition to balancing regions, offers an opportunity to combat this phenomenon with tools such as the Depopulation Strategy. This is a very complex problem that we need to address from d…

14 Sep

2022

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Economic, social and territorial cohesion in the EU: the 8th Cohesion Report - EU border regions: living labs of European integration (debate)

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Madam President, cohesion policy has sewn up the European Union throughout its history. It has served to correct, to mitigate the differences of this Union of at least two speeds with a war on our doorstep, a major energy crisis and the climate crisis that is hitting us more and more; Now, more than ever, is the time to strengthen these policies. Strengthen the economic, social and territorial coh…

13 Sep

2022

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The new European Bauhaus (debate)

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Mr President, the seed of the New Bauhaus has sprouted all over Europe, the change proposed by this movement has proved as necessary as it is urgent: most of our houses were built in the 1950s and 1960s, when lifestyles were very different; Now we have fewer children, families have changed, teleworking has arrived, the pandemic has clearly shown us the importance of home. The New European Bauhaus …

13 Sep

2022

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The new European Bauhaus (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, the New European Bauhaus has generated a great wave of illusion: Two years after President von der Leyen sowed the seed here, the project has sprouted across Europe, a cultural and social movement called to transform our countries. As happened with the original Bauhaus, the New Bauhaus comes to improve people's lives, to put culture, architecture, design and urbanism…

7 Jul

2022

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Developing an EU Cycling Strategy (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, we must establish a European strategy to boost the use of bicycles that drives the change from the cities of the last century, designed for private vehicles, to what the cities of the present must be: cities designed for public transport, bicycles and pedestrians. We need to incentivise the implementation of Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans in all cities in the European…

7 Jul

2022

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Recent heat wave and drought in the EU (debate)

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Mr President, we have to go further and think that heat waves are no longer something punctual or passing. We have to focus on those places in southern Europe where, every year, we experience longer summers, with prolonged temperatures of 35 degrees during every day of the summer. This translates into a silent social emergency that generates, perhaps, less alarm than the large fires we see on tele…

22 Jun

2022

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Inclusion measures within Erasmus+ 2014-2020 (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, education opens the way for our young people to travel their entire lives. For those who have a lot: It's a path of roses that will take you far. For those who have little: a winding, bumpy road. The Erasmus+ programme is an excellent tool to reduce the differences between them, to educate on values, to break down borders and create European citizenship. But we must …

6 Jun

2022

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Madam President, the shadow of bullying has always haunted our children, but now, for the children who suffer from this hell, not even their home is a refuge because every time they take their mobile phone out of their pocket they face such cruel violence. With the generalization of social networks, these attacks have acquired an unimaginable complexity a few years ago. The European Union must go …

19 May

2022

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Establishing the European Education Area by 2025 – micro credentials, individual learning accounts and learning for a sustainable environment (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, we have a date marked in red on the calendar: 2025. By 2025, the European Education Area should be the driving force behind quality, inclusive, accessible and affordable education for all. In this way we have three complementary instruments: micro-credentials, a tool that should be public to recognise short learning periods; individual learning accounts, a way to contri…

2 May

2022

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Mr. President, I address you with deep concern. The Mar Menor, one of the largest salt lagoons in Europe, is dying in the face of the scandalous inaction of the most direct political leader: the Government of the Region of Murcia. Illegal agriculture, which breaks the rules, continues to pollute the land and groundwater with nutrients that then end up in the Mar Menor. A new episode of anoxia with…

5 Apr

2022

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Implementation of citizenship education actions (debate)

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Mr President, the situation we have been seeing for more than a month in Ukraine reminds us of the importance of education in transmitting the values of democracy, solidarity and diversity. European values. Citizenship education is the main tool at our disposal to weave the project of the European future. Moreover, at a time when the fight against climate change is facing a life-threatening challe…

5 Apr

2022

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EU Protection of children and young people fleeing the war against Ukraine (debate)

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Mr. President, how would you feel if your children suddenly ran out of class for a whole month? What consequences would this blockage have for their formation? This is what is happening to millions of children fleeing the horror of the war in Ukraine. Our obligation is to go beyond words. We need concrete action to help those who have lost everything. And one of the fundamental issues for child de…

16 Feb

2022

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One youth, one Europe (topical debate)

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Mr President, Mr Vice-President, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, the pandemic has hit our entire society hard over the past two years. But if there is one group that has suffered especially from the consequences of the pandemic, it is youth. Being young can't mean having fewer opportunities. Being young should not mean not having a living wage. Being young cannot be synonymous with unpaid i…

14 Dec

2021

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European Year of Youth 2022 (debate)

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Mr President, thank you, Commissioner, for being here with us today. Every generation has only one chance in life to be young. Today's young people are the generation of Europe's future, and the pandemic has hit them especially hard. We cannot afford to run out of a future. It is time to dedicate a European year to European youth. But we need to make sure that this initiative puts in place policie…

10 Nov

2021

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The European Education Area: a shared holistic approach (debate)

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Mr President, thank you, Commissioner, for coming to this important debate. Education is a fundamental right to which all people must have access throughout their lives. Education is the main driver of equal opportunities between people and the European Union must strive to achieve this full equality of opportunities. The European Education Area should certainly aim to be the guarantee of educatio…

20 Oct

2021

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An EU strategy to reduce methane emissions (debate)

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Madam President, every day that passes and we do not act against climate change is a lost day for the next generations and for our planet; time passes: We cannot lose a second in achieving compliance with the Paris Agreement and the 55% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. Methane, after CO2, is the second largest contributor to climate change and accounts for more than 10% of total gree…