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Oct

2025

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Combating violence against women and girls, including the exploitation of motherhood (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, life is an unavailable gift and the dignity of the human being is inviolable. Are we respecting this principle? I ask them: Are we not increasingly accepting attacks on the integrity of the person – even legally – in order to satisfy individual wishes or interests? Right to decide on my body or on my life, right to be parents, self-determination…

9

Oct

2025

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World Mental Health Day - addressing the socio-economic factors (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, when we talk about mental health, we understand that there is a psychosocial, emotional and even cultural dimension. We know that family stability, childhood development, affective environment and habits are essential factors for health. But we cannot forget that there are also conditions of the brain and central nervous system that are congenital …

9

Oct

2025

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Declaration of principles for a gender-equal society (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the President of the Commission is a woman, that of Parliament, Commissioners, all of you. For what? To continue fostering an ideology that betrays us as women, that denies our identity, confronts us with man and victimizes us? This statement does not once mention the word motherhood. Look, it's hard talking about a woman. The concern is that women will contribu…

7

Oct

2025

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Situation in Afghanistan: supporting women and communities affected by the recent earthquakes (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in Afghanistan, as we have seen in the recent earthquakes, women cannot be cared for by a man, even if it is to save their lives. Why? For where the law of the Shariah a man is prohibited from touching a woman other than his wife or close relative. To the point of letting them die. It is a clear example of how women are treated, but not only in Afghanistan. They…

6

Oct

2025

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, today more than three hundred and eighty million Christians are being persecuted in the world. But look in the globalist media: They'll find little. They are silent against totalitarian powers, corrupt powers that are imposed by force, that attack the dignity and freedom of the people. Powers that try to end the Christian faith because they know that it is a …

11

Sep

2025

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European strategy for addressing Alzheimer’s and other types of dementia (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Alzheimer's affects millions of people across Europe, about one million in Spain alone. Behind each figure there is a person, a family, memories that, little by little, are going out, and these figures could double in the coming decades if we do not act decisively. And today we know how: with an early diagnosis and access to innovative treatments, …

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Sep

2025

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Circularity requirements for vehicle design and management of end-of-life vehicles (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the failure of green policies was demonstrated during the last term of office. The ballot boxes were clear in calling for a rectification, but the Commission still ignores this and again uses the pretext of an alleged environmentalism to further stifle, if possible, a key sector for Spain and Europe: the automotive industry. This regulation not only adds obstacl…

10

Jul

2025

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Endometriosis: Europe’s wake-up call on the gender health gap (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we have been hearing for decades about gender equality and millions supposedly intended to improve women's lives, but this spending has not been focused on something as important as our health. We have seen campaigns aimed many times at social engineering, while the real problems that affect so many women, such as endometriosis, remain completely i…

9

Jul

2025

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Urgent need to protect religious minorities in Syria following the recent terrorist attack on Mar Elias Church in Damascus

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, Europe is blind or perhaps prefers to close its eyes. On June 22, in Damascus, thirty Christians were killed during Sunday Mass in an Islamic terrorist attack. His church – a place of refuge and prayer – became a scene of death and violence. Can an Islamic fundamentalism that has seized power be trusted? Alawites, Druze or Christians, who are examp…

17

Jun

2025

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Combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child sexual abuse material and replacing Council Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA (recast) (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, one in five children in Europe is sexually abused. Today's adults must be ashamed of us. We are failing them, leaving them unprotected against violent situations that will leave physical, psychological and social consequences that will mark them all their lives. We cannot forget the aggression of exposing minors to pornography. What a child sees…

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May

2025

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EU action on treating and preventing diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular neurological diseases and measles (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Europe cannot look the other way when we talk about excellence in health. Our culture has always been oriented towards the development of science and the humanities. We have trained generations of talented researchers and healthcare professionals, guided by a commitment to the common good. We have a responsibility of leadership, not only by capa…

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May

2025

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High levels of retail food prices and their consequences for European consumers (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, in 2004, a dozen eggs cost EUR 1.20; Now it's around three. The kilo of tomatoes has gone from 0.9 to 2.50 euros, more than double. More and more families are relying on aid to meet their essential needs. This is the result of the socialist ideology that applies today here in the European Union and also in my country, which has always led us to pov…

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Apr

2025

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Health care related tourism: protecting EU patients abroad (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, health tourism is a growing trend at international level. More and more people are traveling abroad in search of specific medical treatments, from aesthetic and dental interventions to specialized surgeries. At the same time, the European Union has become a key destination for patients from other countries seeking quality medical care or more conve…

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Apr

2025

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European Action Plan on Rare Diseases (debate)

Mr President, Commission, ladies and gentlemen, life is the beginning of everything and without it we cannot talk about rights. Today I want to give a voice to more than 30 million Europeans suffering from rare diseases, whose right to live and do so with dignity is at stake. Spain ranks 27th out of 33 European countries in access to orphan medicines, with an average approval time of 517 days and …

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Apr

2025

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Targeted attacks against Christians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo – defending religious freedom and security (debate)

Madam President, the Commission's position is really incomprehensible. It speaks of conflicts of a different nature. A far-fetched speech not to mention Christians. Twenty-three killed in March 2025, one woman burned alive, children beheaded, in February seventy Christians beheaded with machete inside a church. It is intolerable that they are not clear, that they do not call things by name. It's a…

12

Mar

2025

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Adoption of the proposal for a Parenthood Regulation (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, every child has a father and a mother. You have the right to know them and to be cared for by them as much as possible. This regulation jeopardises this natural principle by interfering with family law, over which the European Union has no competence. Under the pretext of simplifying the paperwork of complex situations in itself, it is proposed …

12

Mar

2025

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Social and employment aspects of restructuring processes: the need to protect jobs and workers’ rights (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the best way to protect employment and workers is to facilitate initiative, to create opportunities, both for employees and for the self-employed. In Spain SMEs make up 99% of the business fabric, many in the agri-food sector, and today they have to combine their intense day to day with coming here to defend themselves from European regulations that can make …

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Mar

2025

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Roadmap for Women`s Rights (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, although the President is a woman, it seems that the Commission does not fully understand our aspirations. We don't hate men. We value family, motherhood, life and being able to take care of our own, as well as being able to develop a professional vocation. We want to be respected and loved, not reified. We would like to be quiet both at home and o…

13

Feb

2025

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Cross-border recognition of civil status documents of same-sex couples and their children within the territory of the EU (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, family law falls within the competence of the Member States. The Declaration of the Rights of the Child is clear: Every child has a father and a mother and has the right to know them and to be cared for by them as far as possible. The natural bonds between parents and children must be respected, as they transcend one's own existence: Who am I? Where do I come…

12

Feb

2025

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Competitiveness Compass (debate)

Mr Nardella, the simple fact that we are talking about competitiveness, the simple fact that the Commission has to present this Compass demonstrates the failure of the previous mandate. I repeat: the Commission maintains its chairmanship. How is someone who has disoriented us going to help us find our way?…

12

Feb

2025

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Competitiveness Compass (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, this Compass, like Jack Sparrow's, does not point north. Makes us stay in the storm. Industry, the countryside and the citizens have been deceived. A rectification was hinted at in the campaign, but there is no intention of amendment. In the face of the devastating effects of their policies, the answer is always the same: more ambition, more Green …

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Feb

2025

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The need to address urgent labour shortages and ensure quality jobs in the health care sector (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, a plant that is not watered dries up. To begin with, very few places are offered to young people to access these studies. It also fosters a culture that does not value life and discredits care, service to others. This is also how the health professions are discredited. It is about breaking the doctor-patient trust; They are intended to impose visio…

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Jan

2025

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Systematic repression of human rights in Iran, notably the cases of Pakhshan Azizi and Wrisha Moradi, and the taking of EU citizens as hostages

Madam President, Commission, ladies and gentlemen, more than a thousand executions have been carried out in Iran in 2024, including 34 women. It is no coincidence that it is a country where a regime of radical Islamism prevails, whose laws already violate the human rights and dignity of people, especially women. Iran's history has long been marked by major massacres. The police of the terrorist re…

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Jan

2025

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Addressing EU demographic challenges: towards the implementation of the 2023 Demography Toolbox (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the demographic crisis is yet another symptom of the social and cultural depression we are suffering. An existential pessimism promoted, undoubtedly, by the ideological lines that have been tried to impose from the international institutions in recent years; Among them, a radical feminism that defies a natural order, confronts man and woman, denies motherhood, p…

19

Dec

2024

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Recommendation to the Council on the EU priorities for the 69th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women - EU priorities for the 69th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (joint debate - EU priorities for the upcoming session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Saint John Paul II already predicted that the success of this conference depended on offering a vision of women's true dignity and aspirations. Then there was talk of women and girls. It wasn't questioned who we are, like today. There was talk of equality between women and men, not gender. It defended the empowerment of the role of women in society…