What Ana spoke about.

Madam President, I come from an energy-producing country which has the most expensive electricity tariff in the Spanish State and one of the most expensive in Europe. As electricity companies feed their benefits, people suffer the consequences of this energy price crisis. Prices go up, household money goes down, prices go up and workers, small and medium-sized enterprises and the self-employed lose their quality of life and their chances of survival. The cold is coming, the winter is coming. We need urgent public intervention in the electricity market. I have just come to Parliament in this parliamentary term and I thought that this debate would have taken place much earlier and it is a debate that comes late, because there are many families who have stayed by the wayside, like some farmers in my country, who are closing down agricultural holdings because they cannot afford to pay the price of energy.

Mr President, renewable energies, yes, but taking people into account. In the world of renewables, not everything is as beautiful as some want to paint. They seem to forget a fundamental part: their fitting into the territory, the productive saturation concentrated in a territory, as happens in the territory of Galicia by land and by sea, can have very negative environmental consequences. Also for other productive activities not everything is valid. The territory supports what it supports. Energy lobbies have allies very willing to create green discourses, responsible for building and measuring part of the institutional narrative. If some had made the same political effort, moving towards new energy formulas, such as decentralisation, such as the energy sovereignty of Belgian society, where there has been a real revolution in energy efficiency, it would be much better. We in Galicia are complaining to the European Commission about the lack of participation in wind macro-projects.

Mr President, Commissioner, do you know that in Galicia more than 43 000 hectares have been burned by the fires? Almost 2,000 Galicians had to leave their homes this summer. The fire came to the houses. Protected natural spaces have burned, such as the Courel Biosphere Reserve, Valdeorras or the Serra da Barbanza. Devastated, Galicia burned without preventive, material means and with planning failures of the Galician government. A green country that burns. All solidarity for the fire brigades and for the people affected. The European forestry strategy should be based on encouraging the use of indigenous biomass volumes, such as oaks, birch trees, chestnut trees and beech beech trees, and not encouraging large areas of fuel-loaded biomass, such as eucalyptus trees on my land, with a risk of fire transmissibility.

Mr President! I know you from the last term. – Senhor Presidente, peço desculpa pelo atraso porque eu estava a falar com um marinheiro, com um pescador da Galiza, que me estava a contar por telefone o gravíssimo problema de preços que está a sofrer, o gravíssimo problema que têm as classeses populares hoje em dia em todos os povos europeus. Eu volto a ser eurodeputada num momento muito difícil para a Europa. É importante e mais necessário que nunca falar aqui dos problemas das classes trabalhadoras, porque dos povos e das pessoas esqueceu-se esta União Europeia sem alma nem coração. O momento que vivem muitos povos é complicado. Estamos diante do desafio de responder à grave crise económica que provocou a pandemia e a gravíssima crise energética que está causando o aumento excessivo de preços, a inflação e um belicismo selvagem. Parte desta situação atual é consequência da tomada de decisões prejudiciais, medidas económicas de austeridade. As múltiplas crises (O Presidente Retira a Palavra à Oradora)