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Oct

2025

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

Mr President, as my colleague said, this Declaration does not have a single reference to the right to abortion. Why? Anti-abortion lords call themselves pro-life, but they want women to risk their lives in clandestine abortions, they want to kick out migrants, they attack LGBTI people, they justify the extermination of Palestinian children... You are not defending life, you want to dominate women'…

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Oct

2025

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EU political strategy on Latin America (debate)

Madam President, Eduardo Galeano wrote that the metals snatched from the new colonial dominions of America stimulated European economic development and can even be said to have made it possible. Six centuries later, Europe still does not recognize that Latin America was not discovered, but invaded. Spain and other European powers committed enormous looting and genocide and must apologize and repai…

7

Oct

2025

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The EU’s role in supporting the recent peace efforts for Gaza and a two-state solution (debate)

Mr. President, Madam Vice President, how was your day? What is more important on the agenda than breaking relations with the terrorist state of Israel? The Israeli army raids and hijacks European ships in international waters and nothing happens here. What would have happened if it was Russia that carried out this direct attack against NATO countries? And if they do this to Europe with impunity, w…

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Sep

2025

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Summer of heatwaves in the EU: addressing the causes and providing adequate housing and health policies to address record-breaking temperatures (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, this summer Spain has been razed by fire in the heat wave. And the issue here is that the climate emergency and the abandonment of rural areas puts us in danger, but doing business with public services also puts us in danger. I want to express my solidarity with the people affected and I want to ask them if they know that forest firefighters in Spain charge €1,3…

10

Sep

2025

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After 10 years, time to end mass migration now - protect our women and children (topical debate)

Madam President, when a woman denounces a sexual assault, you, the far right, call us madmen, liars, whores, "feminazis". They say that we seek fame or money, that we will have done something, that we are provoking and so no man can resist raping us, that the fault is ours for being drunk. You talk about false allegations, publish our photos and the address of our houses. You call gender-based vio…

10

Sep

2025

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State of the Union (debate)

Madam President, President von der Leyen, you said that Europe is fighting for freedom. Are you willing to go to war for Europe's freedom and to wield one of the weapons you are buying? Do you imagine, President, that Israel burns its children alive, as it is doing with Palestinian children, whom it starves to death? You know that this is going to happen to others, not to you, Madam President, bec…

9

Jul

2025

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Lessons from Budapest Pride: the urgent need for an EU wide anti-discrimination law and defending fundamental rights against right-wing attacks (topical debate)

Madam President, Orbán banned Pride in Hungary saying that LGTBIQ+ lives are a public danger. And this is legalizing hate, it's institutional violence. That's why the response from the street in Budapest has been clear: hatred is curbed with pride, with more visibility and with more rights. And, look, Pride is necessary until all people can be who they are without fear. Think about it. How many pe…

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Jul

2025

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Situation in the Middle East (debate)

Madam President, Israel is continuing its extermination plan and, like the Nazis, is executing its final solution for Palestine. Two years of genocide and, now, on the ruins of Rafah, he will build a concentration camp. This in Warsaw was called "ghetto", Nazi terror, ladies and gentlemen. Europe has legal obligations to genocidal people: the International Arms Trade Treaty prohibits transfers of …

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Jun

2025

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Upcoming NATO summit on 24-26 June 2025 (debate)

Madam President, High Representative Kallas, Israel and the United States are the greatest threat to humanity right now, and you are feeding the monster. Israel illegally attacks Iran as it continues its extermination of the Palestinian people. And what do you do? Ursula von der Leyen supports Israel by saying that it has the right to defend itself when it is the aggressor, Mrs Kallas. The German …

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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 a victim of sexual violence and, therefore, we obviously welcome the fact that this directive improves the persecution of sexual violence against children, which is one of the most serious and widespread violations of human rights, but I would like to highlight the great outstanding debt that this directive owes…

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May

2025

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The illegal visit of President Erdoğan to the occupied areas of Cyprus (debate)

Madam President, kalisperaLadies and gentlemen, I ask you to set Europe's eyes on Cyprus. President Erdoğan’s illegal visit to the Turkish-occupied territories in Cyprus – and the timing of it – is a threat to this Member State. With his unacceptable declarations on a two-state solution, Erdoğan seeks to seal the division of Cyprus by way of fait accompli, and the European Union cannot look the ot…

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May

2025

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Resilience and the need to improve the interconnection of energy grid infrastructure in the EU: the first lessons from the blackout in the Iberian Peninsula (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the blackout has shown that we have an energy system designed to fill the pockets of an electric oligopoly that makes a clear antisocial use of the essential good that is energy. It is a shame that, while any family in Spain pays a fortune with each electricity bill, the big energy companies make historic profits of 11 billion euros in the last year alone, an…

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May

2025

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EU support for a just, sustainable and comprehensive peace in Ukraine (debate)

Madam President, if President von der Leyen had not slipped out of this debate, I would have asked her if she is willing to have her sons and daughters go to war. Any of you willing? Of course: For this silence is the great hypocrisy of Europe, because you ridicule peace and order rearmament, while those who die and those who pay the consequences are the sons and daughters of the working class. Wh…

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May

2025

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An urgent assessment of the applicability of the Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement (PDCA) with Cuba (debate)

Madam President, High Representative, ladies and gentlemen, I believe that, now that Trump's trade war against the world has put us in danger, we understand that the main threat to freedom and human rights in Cuba is the criminal blockade that the United States has imposed on the island for more than sixty years, preventing its commercial relations, preventing it from buying medicines, food, basic…

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Apr

2025

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Dramatic situation in Gaza and the need for an immediate return to the full implementation of the ceasefire and hostage release agreement (debate)

Madam President, I thought that, since the High Representative had not been warned to shake hands with a genocidal woman, today they would allow us to show support and solidarity for the Palestinian people and the victims of the genocide. High Representative, six days and 730 Palestinians killed after the unilateral rupture of the ceasefire, you travel to Israel to show your solidarity and reaffir…

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Feb

2025

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Commission Work Programme 2025 (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, why is Mrs von der Leyen absent from this debate and thereby avoiding democratic control? It is because you who are being asked to give the go-ahead is not the peoples of Europe, it is the United States. Commissioner, the fact that Europe's best friends are a sexual aggressor and a genocidal is not only inhuman and immoral, it is that you are putting us at risk. Euro…

22

Jan

2025

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Presentation of the programme of activities of the Polish Presidency (debate)

Madam President, Prime Minister Tusk, I would like to ask you who the security you are talking about is for. Is it safety for women? No: You, after more than a year of government, have not yet guaranteed the right to safe abortion. Is it safe for people who migrate? No: for them, militarisation of borders and serious human rights violations. Is it safety for LGTBI people? Neither is it. Is it safe…

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Jan

2025

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Geopolitical and economic implications for the transatlantic relations under the new Trump administration (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, there is a dangerous criminal who is already the President of the United States: Donald Trump is, at the moment, the greatest threat to democracy and human rights. And the thing is that Donald Trump and that band of superrich who lead the international reactionary offensive are not crazy, they are healthy children of a neoliberal system that is destroying life and th…

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, machismo remains one of the great inequality gaps in the world. But I believe, Commissioner, that we cannot go and defend before the United Nations what we are not able to protect at home. What credibility does this European Commission have to defend feminist rights if it has within it anti-abortion, racist and denialist commissioners of the sexist violence of the extre…

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Nov

2024

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Presentation by the President-elect of the Commission of the College of Commissioners and its programme (debate)

Madam President, the European Commission being voted on today is a potentially fatal wound to the European project. His political priorities are war, austerity and criminal racism at the borders. You are going to spend on weapons the money people need for schools, for hospitals, for housing, for science or to deal with the climate emergency. In addition, the pact that makes this Commission possibl…

13

Nov

2024

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The devastating floods in Spain, the urgent need to support the victims, to improve preparedness and to fight the climate crisis (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, in Spain we are facing the greatest climate catastrophe in our history. And I want all of you to know that the Popular Party in Spain has made an incompetent and homicidal management. The climate emergency kills; But, in Spain, the management of the Popular Party has also cost lives, and you have to know that. Right now the priority is to build a strong socia…

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Oct

2024

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Findings of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on Poland's abortion law (debate)

Member, I am a Member, not dear: Take the machismo off your face a little bit. And secondly, if we want women in Europe to have sons, daughters or daughters, we must guarantee the right to housing and not give the housing of Europeans to investment funds; if we want families in Europe to have sons, daughters and daughters, we need to guarantee decent wages, we need to guarantee public services and…

23

Oct

2024

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Findings of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on Poland's abortion law (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, you are well aware, ladies and gentlemen, that preventing the right to abortion does not mean that there is less abortion: It makes more women die aborting. That is exactly what is happening in Poland. You do not defend life, you put at risk the lives of more than half of the population, that is, women, and the institutions of Poland are exercising violence against wome…

23

Oct

2024

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Findings of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on Poland's abortion law (debate)

Mrs. De la Pisa, I think you are fully aware that they lie, and they lie because what their legislation prohibiting abortion does is put women's lives at risk. You know perfectly well that when abortion is prohibited there is no less abortion: What you have is more women risking their lives and more women dying trying to decide on their own bodies. What kind of society do you want? What kind of cr…

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Oct

2024

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Urgent need for a ceasefire in Lebanon and for safeguarding the UNIFIL mission in light of the recent attacks (debate)

Madam President, international standards also prevent genocide and here is Europe supporting one. They don't comply with that rule. Commissioner, why do you continue to support genocidal people? This is not a humanitarian crisis, it is an invasion and it is a genocide. And if Europe were to stop buying and selling weapons to genocidal people and allowing the transit of weapons, if trade relations …