Speeches

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, to speak of war in Gaza, Commissioner, as you do, is to protect the genocidal State of Israel. Commissioner, when a criminal state murders more than 41,000 people, half of them children; when it devastates 60% of homes, 85% of schools, 65% of roads; when it forcibly displaces more than 80 % of the population; When it prevents the entry of water, energy, medicine, humanitarian aid... it is not a war, Commissioner, it is genocide. A genocide that is only possible because of the necessary complicity of the United States and Europe, which give economic, military and political support to the genocidal people. I do not know if you do not realize the hypocrisy, the misery and the political decay, Madam President, which means that it bothers you more that my colleague Rima has a kufiya in plenary than the fact that we are complicit in a genocide against the Palestinian people. Why don't they practice a full arms embargo? Why do they keep the economic and trade agreement with the genocidal? Why do they finance the apartheid? Why don't they bring Netanyahu to justice? Why are they criminalizing the Palestinian solidarity movement? Today the Gaza Ministry of Health published the list of the 41,000 killed. These leaves are only half, Honourable Members, only half: people up to 29 years old killed. How long, Commissioner? Stop helping Israel commit this genocide.

Tell me, who wins with the war, besides the American military-industrial complex, besides the United States or Putin's criminal? Where are we going, to the direct confrontation between nuclear powers? How many millions of people have to be killed for us to defend what must necessarily happen to end any war conflict, which is peace? Do you know what the real misfortune of all this is? That this great consensus of war that the Socialists, the Greens and the European People's Party are supporting is going to be the excuse for you, Meloni's extreme right, to enter through the back door into European governance, that war is going to be the excuse for the extreme right to command more than it already commands in Europe, and that is a problem for democracy in Europe and throughout the world, ladies and gentlemen.

Your Honor, what needs to be done is what has always been done to end wars, which is to negotiate peace: Precisely where Putin's criminal is comfortable is in war, and Putin is going to go as far as you let him go with this great war consensus that goes from socialists and greens to Meloni's far right: until the direct confrontation between nuclear powers. Your Honor, Putin's narrative is the narrative of war and what we have to do is defend life and peace and end war conflicts as it has ended all conflicts in the history of humanity: diplomacy and negotiation for a lasting and just peace.

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the United States and Europe are now deepening the escalation of war with the use of long-range missiles. Feeding the war does not approach the end of the conflict; on the contrary, it pushes away the possibilities of a ceasefire and brings us ever closer to a great risk, the use of tactical nuclear arsenal. Commissioner, you tell us that sending more weapons, escalating the conflict and timing the war is good. You, Commissioners, are lying to the peoples of Europe: Lengthening the war is good for Putin, it is good for the United States, it is good for the military-industrial complex that does business, but it is bad for Ukraine, which accumulates tens of thousands of murdered civilians and millions of displaced people, mostly women, and children, and it is bad for the peoples of Europe, who see how energy or food costs more for a war that their elites have decided. Their bid for war while remaining shamefully complicit in the genocidal state of Israel sends a dangerous message to humanity: whereas the law of the strongest is worth more than human rights and international legality and there are no institutions capable of stopping war and defending life and a just international order; This is the greatest threat to global peace and security. The European Union must make an unequivocal commitment to negotiating peace: to protect the peoples of Europe is to defend peace; To defend Ukraine, ladies and gentlemen, is to defend peace.

Madam President, good morning to all, everyone, dear colleagues. The Group of the European Left in the European Parliament, The Left, presented this candidacy to defend a Europe of peace, which bets on the end of the genocide against the Palestinian people. A feminist, green, anti-racist, anti-fascist, workers' rights and social justice Europe. A great consensus of war is being imposed on the peoples of Europe, just as a great coalition of austerity was imposed on us fifteen years ago, from the consequences of which we have not yet recovered. We know well that wars always bring enormous suffering for workers and for the popular classes. With the war, the price of food and also energy rises. Millions of people don't make ends meet. Austerity and cuts in public services such as health, education, pensions and, also, cuts in public policies that ensure social justice, the right to housing or labor rights return. The priority for Europe must be to stop the destruction of social rights and to support workers' and trade union struggles, which allow workers to have more rights. It will be impossible for Europe to develop green policies with social justice: the militarisation of Europe and the escalation of war will exacerbate the ecological crisis and impede the just energy transition, as well as protect biodiversity and animal welfare. Feminist and LGBTI rights are also in question. "Never forget that a political, economic or religious crisis will be enough for women's rights to be questioned again": This is what Simone de Beauvoir said. Feminism is the most powerful democratic force of our times and it is urgent to move forward – because more than half of the population lives in it – to guarantee lives free of sexist violence, ensure legal, safe and free abortion, and make care a right and that the rights of LGBTI and trans people are guaranteed by ending LGTBIphobia. We also need an anti-racist and welcoming Europe. Europe cannot sustain a migration policy on the idea that migrants are a threat, or on the externalisation of borders, or on the systematic violation of the human rights of children and migrants. Nor can we define our migration policy on the idea and on the basis of the labour needs of our economies. No human being is illegal, ladies and gentlemen, and our migration policy must respond to this principle. What is left over in Europe is not the people, but the vulture funds and large corporations that turn workers' rights into a business. Peace is the most urgent task for Europe. I believe that even those who most strongly defend the consensus of war know that the victory for Ukraine and for Europe over the criminal Putin is peace. They are leading us to a war in which the Ukrainian people lose, the peoples of Europe lose and the Putinist oligarchy wins, but also the American military-industrial complex that is being made of gold with the increase in military spending in our countries. The peoples of Europe cannot be subjects of U.S. military interests. The workers of Europe cannot pay with their rights for the consequences of the escalation of war. Ladies and gentlemen, you are irresponsibly leading us into war while protecting a genocidal person. Netanyahu could not carry out this genocide against the Palestinian people without the determined support of the United States and Europe. And Europe cannot continue to be an accomplice of the genocidal state of Israel. Why don't we break the partnership agreement? Why aren't sanctions imposed on the genocidal Netanyahu just as they have on the criminal Putin? This hypocrisy is unbearable and will not count on our silence. Humanity's priority at this time is to end the genocide and illegal occupation of Palestine. And we also defend the fight against corruption and the transparency of the European institutions. You can't repeat a Qatargate. Look, ladies and gentlemen, many people here defend a cordon sanitaire to the extreme right and the elections in France leave us with a democratic and anti-fascist lesson: The far right is beaten by the left. Neoliberal policies and the narrative of moderation not only do not hold back the far right, they put a red carpet on it. Fascists are guaranteed rights. From the Group of the European Left we believe that it is time to engage politically to grow the forces of peace, the end of genocide, the right to housing, public services, labour rights, feminism, anti-racism, green policies, anti-fascism and social justice. The strength of ethical principles must be strengthened; also the strength of hope in the face of the law of the strongest. The present must serve to build a Europe of rights and a better world. And for that we ask for your confidence and your vote.