What Ana spoke about.

2 Apr

2025

ES Question

European oceans pact (debate)

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Madam President of the European Parliament's Committee on Fisheries, I imagine you have seen this photograph: five hundred ships in the estuary of Arousa a few weeks ago, demonstrating precisely against a highly polluting project that can be installed in the heart of my country, of Galiza, and that can affect the most important seafood bank. Are you going to ask the Committee on Fisheries, and als…

2 Apr

2025

ES Speech

European Steel and Metals Action Plan (debate)

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Madam President, Mr Vice-President, the European steel industry is fundamental to our economy. Also in my country, in Galiza, where the geopolitical situation may also affect. That's why I ask him: How will all of President Trump's imposition of tariffs affect aluminum? It is therefore necessary to protect such quality employment. I am very concerned about the loss of jobs and I will give you an e…

1 Apr

2025

ES Speech

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

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Madam President, Mrs Kallas, the European Union is late. He's late for a genocide. Or don't you see that we are facing genocide? You went to Israel last week and shook hands with several ministers. Here in Parliament, a number of Israeli ministers have also been allowed in. We have denounced it, but you in the European Union continue to protect them, to receive them, to protect them, to let their …

1 Apr

2025

FR Speech

Crackdown on democracy in Türkiye and the arrest of Ekrem İmamoğlu (debate)

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Madam President, all our support goes to the mayor of Istanbul, Mr İmamoğlu, leader of the opposition. In Turkey, respect for the people, elected representatives, the HDP party of Mr Demirtas – still imprisoned –, women and students, is adrift. I show all my respect to the social movement in Turkey, to the people who demonstrate in the streets, to those who are attacked for their values and who st…

1 Apr

2025

PT Speech

Improving the implementation of cohesion policy through the mid-term review to achieve a robust cohesion policy post 2027 (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, very little is said about the lack of European mechanisms for the control of spending and the proper implementation of funds. In Galicia, my country, 50% of European funds were not implemented in 2022 and this comes from years ago. We are accustomed to interested reprogramming by the Galician Government, always in the interests of partisan interests and not of my people…

1 Apr

2025

PT Question

Improving the implementation of cohesion policy through the mid-term review to achieve a robust cohesion policy post 2027 (debate)

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Mrs Tavares, you are Portuguese, I am Galician and we have two territories in common that we want to have a lot of European funds and a lot of cohesion policy. Now we have the initiative of BRIDGE for Europe, which will be approved soon, and we have worked hard for this connection between Portugal and Galicia: by train, in firefighting, in mobility. How do you see such cross-border policies?…

1 Apr

2025

PT Speech

EU Preparedness Union Strategy (debate)

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Madam President, the political climate has changed. There are drums of war and instead of working for peace, Brussels joins the discourse of the warmongering escalation. Of course we need a kit survival: one kit with work, with public services, with houses, with food at economic prices, with social justice and with dignity. This kit 72-hour survival, which in other countries is mandatory, but not …

1 Apr

2025

ES Speech

EU Preparedness Union Strategy (debate)

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Madam President, I wanted to raise a point of order in relation to the intervention of the Member who spoke two shifts ago, on the basis of Rule 10(4) of Parliament's Rules of Procedure, which says that in parliamentary debates Members will not resort to offensive language. I consider, at least from an ethical point of view and also following the Rules of Procedure, that uniting an immigrant with …

31 Mar

2025

PT Speech

One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Cheese. A protected cheese, unique, traditional, sustainable. It is produced in a territory threatened by a highly contaminating project, which the Galician Government wants to do, of the Portuguese company Altri, which even Portugal rejected. They want to trade cows for eucalyptus, cheese for cellulose, farms for smoke. With the highest risk at European level for a European initiative in a green …

31 Mar

2025

PT Speech

One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Madam President, this is a cheese, a cheese from my country, Galicia...

13 Mar

2025

PT Speech

Action Plan for Affordable Energy (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, as a Galician MEP, I would like to warn you that, in order to have affordable energy, we must stop the scandalous benefits of lobby electric. In my country, we are producers of electricity and we are penalised for producing without favouring our people. The price of energy has soared in recent years by 300 %. The benefits of electric companies as well. O lobby Electric …

12 Mar

2025

PT Speech

Action Plan for the Automotive Industry (debate)

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Madam President, in my country, Galicia, the automotive sector is strategic and my city, Vigo, where one of the Stellantis factories is located, is one of the industrial engines. Any plan or measure implemented must take into account its social impact, Commissioner. Galicia lost 22 companies in the automotive sector between 2008 and 2024 and a total of 24 000 jobs. Precisely the Stellantis plant, …

11 Mar

2025

ES Speech

European Council meetings and European security (joint debate)

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Madam President, Mrs von der Leyen, in the face of militaristic and warmongering escalation, I would like to convey to you, as MEP of a pacifist organisation, our strongest opposition to this European rearmament. The war lady does not care that military spending is paid by the peoples, she does not care that the bill of war is paid by the citizens, she prefers to support warmongering rather than s…

10 Mar

2025

ES Speech

One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Madam President, the world is changing at such a rapid pace that multilateralism and peace are shaking. The President of the United States, Mr. Trump, threatens European industrial sectors, such as the metal sector in my country, Galiza. As an MEP galega, I would like to convey the concern of thousands of workers in the metals sector and shipbuilding companies about the recent threats to apply 25%…

13 Feb

2025

PT Speech

EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement (debate)

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Mr President, the Commissioner says that agricultural products must comply with the rules that apply in the EU. How will that be guaranteed, Commissioner? Is the Mercosur Agreement good for everyone? For Galician livestock farmers and meat and milk producers it is not beneficial. For small and medium-sized agricultural enterprises? It's not beneficial. Have you spoken to the 40 000 Galician agricu…

13 Feb

2025

EN Question

EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement (debate)

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My question is: you have made some very strange affirmations. You change the products with animals. I don't understand. So why are you making these kinds of affirmations?

13 Feb

2025

DE Question

EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement (debate)

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I'm Galician, I'm from Galicia. We have a lot of farmers. They are from a fascist party. You are not right – you spoke about the Greens/EFA Group – sorry!

12 Feb

2025

PT Speech

Silent crisis: the mental health of Europe’s youth (debate)

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Mr President, according to the WHO, one in seven young people has some mental health problem – depressed, anxious, low self-esteem, distress, social isolation and other problems. Suicide is the fourth leading cause of death among young people. They suffer. Do you know that for every 10 000 inhabitants there is a difference of 50 percentage points in the comparative proportion of psychologists betw…

11 Feb

2025

EN Speech

Protecting the system of international justice and its institutions, in particular the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice (debate)

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Madam President, President Trump has further increased his threats against those who support and defend the work and jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court. This is unacceptable. The ICC is the first and only permanent and independent international court with the authority to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. The court must be respected. The EU, …

11 Feb

2025

ES Speech

Wider comprehensive EU-Middle East Strategy (debate)

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Mr President, I would like to refer to those obscene words of President Trump, who declares that he wants to annex Gaza, that he wants to expel the Palestinians – who are in their legitimate territory – from their place: of their place of life and the place where they want to enjoy a dignified life and not this life of genocide that Israel is putting them through. Removing Palestinians from Gaza..…

11 Feb

2025

PT Question

Wider comprehensive EU-Middle East Strategy (debate)

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Madam President, I would like to ask Mr Oliveira, you come from Portugal, and both in Portugal and in Galicia, my country, there is a lot of solidarity. But in this Parliament, there was no minute of silence for the victims killed by Israel in Gaza. What is your opinion? And I also wanted to ask: Can you go to Palestine? I can't go, as Israel forbids me because I've been on a humanitarian boat. An…

11 Feb

2025

ES Speech

Wider comprehensive EU-Middle East Strategy (debate)

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Madam President, I would like to refer to Rule 10(4) of the Rules of Procedure. In parliamentary debates in the Chamber, Members shall not use offensive language: defamatory language, hate speech and incitement to discrimination within the meaning of Article 21 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights. UNRWA is not a terrorist organization, it is a United Nations organization, so I call for a rectific…

11 Feb

2025

PT Speech

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

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Commissioner, in my country, Galicia, job insecurity in the health sector due to the abuse of temporary contracts is normal. Health workers are lacking, public investments are lacking and decent wages and access to treatment are lacking. If the European average of nurses is 8.5, the Spanish state average is 6.3 and the average in Galicia, my country, is 5.1, with the worst rate of nurses in the Eu…

10 Feb

2025

ES Speech

One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Mr. President, do you know what the word means? facha? I'll explain. Watch the videos and photographs of the conclave of fachas that was held in Madrid last weekend: Abascal, Orbán, Le Pen, Wilders, Salvini, André Ventura. The worst of every house paid for by the Patriots for Europe Group of the European Parliament. Conspiracy theories, climate denialism, hate speech against democracy and the Euro…

10 Feb

2025

FR Speech

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: the need for the European Union to contribute to resolving the humanitarian crisis of persons missing in wars and conflicts (debate)

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Mr President, we are talking about humanitarian law and where is Mrs Kallas? Second part-session in Strasbourg and second absence. Does it consider that Parliament's role is useless, unimportant? How many people have disappeared in Gaza? Can Mrs Kallas answer me? I will tell you about the genocide and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Since 30 January, UNRWA has been expelled from Israel. No statem…