What Laura spoke about.

21

Jan

2025

ES Speech

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Need to enforce the Digital Services Act to protect democracy on social media platforms including against foreign interference and biased algorithms (debate)

Madam President, freedom of speech, yes, but freedom to lie or freedom to hate women and immigrants, no. Ladies and gentlemen, European democracies are being attacked from multiple external fronts and we must raise our voices, without double standards, and send a loud and clear message to say that our laws are not being touched and that our democracy is not for sale. Because we are not facing a ba…

17

Dec

2024

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Misinformation and disinformation on social media platforms, such as TikTok, and related risks to the integrity of elections in Europe (debate)

I'm sorry, I don't know this case in the Netherlands. I just want the European Commission to apply and enforce the Digital Service Act all across Europe and ensure the truth and information in all countries and to fight against foreign interferences.…

17

Dec

2024

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Misinformation and disinformation on social media platforms, such as TikTok, and related risks to the integrity of elections in Europe (debate)

Madam President, how much are our democracies worth? The world is experiencing a pandemic of disinformation through social media that the far right uses to try to destroy our democracies: since the referendum of the Brexit to the Dana de Valencia, through COVID-19 vaccines, European citizens have been bombarded with millions of posts, tiktoks or digital pseudo-press articles with false and mislead…

26

Nov

2024

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Political and humanitarian situation in Mozambique (debate)

21

Oct

2024

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A stronger Europe for safer products to better protect consumers and tackle unfair competition: boosting EU oversight in e-commerce and imports (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, 71% of the European population buys goods and services online. Online trading is comfortable, it's cheap, but it has a lot of risks. Therefore, regulating it well is already unpostponable. We know that e-commerce platforms, such as Amazon, Aliexpress, Temu or Shein, are affecting our commerce in three key aspects. First, in the safety of products we consume: toys, cloth…

21

Oct

2024

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Empowering the Single Market to deliver a sustainable future and prosperity for all EU citizens (debate)

Madam President, Mr Letta, ladies and gentlemen, thirty years after its creation, the Letta report provides us with a unique opportunity to move towards the future of the single market in three key areas: Firstly, inspired by Jacques Delors, we support his idea of adding a new freedom of movement, which is the freedom to stay in the corner of the European Union that we want. We do not want just a …

18

Sep

2024

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The deteriorating situation of women in Afghanistan due to the recent adoption of the law on the “Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice”

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Laura Ballarín is not speaking today. They are going to allow me to use this minute to give my voice to an Afghan woman who has sent me a message from Afghanistan, where she is hidden because her life is in danger: My name is Tooba Hotak. I studied law and worked at the Afghan Supreme Court until the Taliban took Kabul. From that moment I was forbidden to work a…

17

Sep

2024

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Global measures towards social media platforms - Strengthening the role of DSA and protecting democracy and freedom in the online sphere (debate)

Mr Elon Musk, your platform is a cancer to our democracies. But we Europeans, we said 'enough'. Meta, TikTok, this is also about you. We will continue to investigate and punish every illegality you permit and, of course, you commit. We already set up a vaccine – a shield to protect our democracy from the disinformation pandemic: the Digital Services Act. Because there is no freedom in fake news. T…

17

Sep

2024

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Global measures towards social media platforms - Strengthening the role of DSA and protecting democracy and freedom in the online sphere (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, is it freedom of expression to incite lynchings of immigrants following the false accusation of murder of a child, as happened this summer by a Honourable Member who has just intervened? Or is it freedom of expression to feed false theories of electoral fraud or anti-vaccine theses, or to say that the women of presidents of the Government are actually trans men?…

10

Apr

2024

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Union code relating to medicinal products for human use - Union procedures for the authorisation and supervision of medicinal products for human use and rules governing the European Medicines Agency (joint debate - Pharmaceutical package)

Madam President, we are lacking medicines in Europe: We have a strong pharmaceutical dependency because many laboratories have moved to China or India. That is why the revision of this pharmaceutical package after 20 years - which I have worked on and which we approve today - is so necessary and relevant. I highlight three elements of the S&D Group: firstly, to end unequal access to medicines betw…

13

Mar

2024

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Discontinuation of the European ODR Platform (A9-0058/2024 - Laura Ballarín Cereza) (vote)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the Europe that protects is the Europe that cares about its 450 million consumers. EU consumers have the right to access procedures to resolve their complaints to businesses easily, quickly and less expensively than going to court, regardless of whether the dispute is domestic or cross-border or whether the purchase was made in their local store or online. We…

11

Mar

2024

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Amending the Directive on alternative dispute resolution for consumer disputes (short presentation)

Mr President, Commissioner Reynders, when as consumers we have a problem with a company and we want to claim the damage it has caused us, we have only three options. One, claim directly from the company through forms. Two, file a complaint with a public consumer body. And three, go to an alternative dispute resolution entity to mediate between the consumer and the company. Surely they all sound th…

11

Mar

2024

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Substantiation and communication of explicit environmental claims (Green Claims Directive) (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, 'green', 'green', 'sustainable' or 't-shirt made with recycled plastic bottles' are some of the many claims that have become fashionable and that we find more and more when we make a purchase of clothes, washing machines or even a plane ticket. In the fight against climate change, consumers want to do their bit and that is why we often opt for environmentally friendly p…

27

Feb

2024

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The current situation in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (debate)

Madam President, first of all, as Head of Delegation of this Parliament's Election Observation Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, I regret that the circumstances did not exist to carry it out last December. A missed opportunity to regain the fragile confidence of the Congolese in their institutions. The Democratic Republic of the Congo has more than 2.5 million displaced people and t…

7

Feb

2024

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The EU priorities for the 68th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (debate)

Thank you for your question, Your Honor. My parents educated me that women's economic independence was the foundation of our freedom and our security. Of course I respect the decision made individually, autonomously and without any condition, by women who want to stay at home. But I am talking about a phenomenon in social networks that encourages us to live with our partners and take advantage of …

7

Feb

2024

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The EU priorities for the 68th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (debate)

Mr Vice-President, after more than half a century of working for gender equality at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, we are facing an alarming picture today. In Spain, more than 65% of young women believe that feminism is important to achieve gender equality, while more than 35% of men believe that feminism promotes hatred and discrimination towards men. At the same time, we s…

7

Feb

2024

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The fight against hate speech and disinformation: responsibility of social platforms within the Digital Services Act (topical debate)

Madam President, Commissioner Breton, you launched an investigation into X for the spread of violent content and hate speech during the Gaza war. It remains unanswered. For its part, Meta has been denounced in the United States for harming the mental health of young people through its addictive designs, which promote eating disorders and self-harm. Zuckerberg's response to families has been "sorry…

16

Jan

2024

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Empowering consumers for the green transition (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, consumers care about the environment and, in many cases, they make their purchases based on stamps that make them green, sustainable, recyclable, but are they really? In Europe 78% of citizens believe that companies offer misleading green claims. And the truth is that half of them are. That is why, from this Parliament, with the great work done by my colleague B…

13

Dec

2023

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EU strategy to assist young people facing the housing and cost of living crisis (topical debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we are facing an unprecedented social crisis for Spanish and European youth. Young Spaniards emancipate themselves from their families at the age of 30, four more than the European average, and they spend more than 59% of their salary on paying their rents. In the case of my city, Barcelona, this amounts to 85%. Meanwhile, real estate funds in the …

22

Nov

2023

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Reducing regulatory burden to unleash entrepreneurship and competitiveness (topical debate)

Madam Vice-President, Vice-President Šefčovič, ladies and gentlemen, why do we legislate? We legislate because we want to protect the health of our citizens, advance social standards and drive the growth of our businesses. Legislation is to respond to a changing reality due to technological progress to growing citizen demands or the deterioration of the environment. That is why we believe that the…

20

Nov

2023

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Common rules promoting the repair of goods

Mr President, Commissioner, rapporteur of the report, I grew up hearing that my grandmother's refrigerator was unbreakable or that the battery of the new iPhone was going to last much longer than the previous one. It is not nostalgia for the past, it is the essential demand for a change in the current market to have durable products. For their part, tech giants use their software to control and in…

18

Oct

2023

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Fighting disinformation and dissemination of illegal content in the context of the Digital Services Act and in times of conflict (debate)

Madam Vice-President, which of us have not seen hoaxes and fake news about Israel and Gaza go viral these days? Images that are not real, of conflicts of the past and even generated by video games, that add horror to the horror. Today, our democracies are experiencing a new threat, a pandemic of disinformation that the extreme right has been exploiting for years thanks to a common transmission veh…

5

Oct

2023

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The new European strategy for a better internet for kids (BIK+) (debate)

Madam President, the average age of onset of pornography consumption is eleven. 85% of parents with children of that age believe that their children do not consume pornography. We may not want to believe it, but they are seeing it. These data collected by the association Dale Una Vuelta are extremely worrying and have very clear consequences in Spain: the increase in sexual assaults in packs by mi…

14

Sep

2023

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Violence and discrimination in the world of sports after the FIFA Women’s World Cup (debate)

Madam President, "And I said to you: “A little guy?” And she said to me: “Ok”’. These infamous words are already part of the history of sport. They represent the worst of machismo and discrimination against women. And they overshadowed a historic feat achieved despite wage discrimination, lack of technical support and even the worst footwear compared to their peers. However, they have also provoke…