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2025

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

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…

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Apr

2025

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

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?…

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2025

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EU Preparedness Union Strategy (debate)

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 …

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Apr

2025

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EU Preparedness Union Strategy (debate)

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 …

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2025

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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 …

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2025

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

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Mar

2025

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Action Plan for Affordable Energy (debate)

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 …

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Mar

2025

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Action Plan for the Automotive Industry (debate)

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, …

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2025

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European Council meetings and European security (joint debate)

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…

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2025

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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%…

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Feb

2025

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EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement (debate)

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…

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Feb

2025

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EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement (debate)

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?

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Feb

2025

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EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement (debate)

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!

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Feb

2025

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

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…

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Feb

2025

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

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, …

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Feb

2025

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Wider comprehensive EU-Middle East Strategy (debate)

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..…

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Feb

2025

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Wider comprehensive EU-Middle East Strategy (debate)

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…

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Feb

2025

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Wider comprehensive EU-Middle East Strategy (debate)

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…

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2025

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

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…

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Feb

2025

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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…

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Feb

2025

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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)

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…

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2025

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Addressing EU demographic challenges: towards the implementation of the 2023 Demography Toolbox (debate)

Mr President, with regard to the demographic winter, I am going to talk about my country, Galicia. Today, the Galician countryside is dying. There is no access to transport, there is no possibility of conciliation, because there are no jobs. There are only two options, Commissioner, namely job insecurity or emigration. Let me give you an example of this critical situation in my country: Galician f…

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Jan

2025

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Addressing EU demographic challenges: towards the implementation of the 2023 Demography Toolbox (debate)

When I hear speeches like yours or that of the previous VOX party speaker in which they talk about illegal immigrants, I wonder: Do you know why those people who come to live, who come to work and who come many times to save themselves from very difficult situations, because there are no legal avenues? I am talking about those people who, like the Galician emigrants who once lived in Molenbeek – w…

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Jan

2025

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Addressing EU demographic challenges: towards the implementation of the 2023 Demography Toolbox (debate)

Honourable Member, you are talking about policies that are against the territories. I want to talk to you about an issue that has been removed from your country, from Portugal. There is an environmental bomb in the heart of my country, Galicia, which is Altri's project. Altri is supported by the Galician Government of the Popular Party and wants to produce 400,000 tons of soluble cellulose in Gali…

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2025

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 19 December 2024 (debate)

Madam President, Mr Costa, welcome! I speak in our common language, as I spoke to you a few years ago, when we spoke precisely about fires, a theme common to our countries. And I speak in this language, because it is a European language. I would like to tell you how important it is that the peripheral territories of our continent are not left out of the transport networks – such as Galicia, my cou…