What Ana spoke about.

7 Oct

2024

FR Speech

The reintroduction of internal border controls in a number of Member States and its impact on the Schengen Area (debate)

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Mr President, speeches by the far right, such as those by Salvini, Le Pen and Bardella, in favour of reinstating border controls are speeches against European cohesion. We have had a lot of discussion in the European Parliament's Committee on Petitions about the petitions of citizens from different Member States such as Bulgaria or Romania. I do not see Mr Bardella in the Chamber, as I have never …

7 Oct

2024

ES Speech

One year after the 7 October terrorist attacks by Hamas (debate)

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Madam President, all lives matter. We care about all lives, but do all deaths matter the same? A year later. A year of murder. A year without going to school. One year of families suffering: all families. A year without a home. A year of destruction of hospitals. A year of not being able to cure diseases. A year without enough humanitarian aid for lack of medicines. A year calling for peace. A yea…

19 Sep

2024

PT Speech

Droughts and extreme weather events as a threat to local communities and EU agriculture in times of climate change (debate)

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Mr President, all my solidarity with disasters throughout Europe. The image of the scorched earth in Portugal... All my solidarity with the brother country. The ashes are coming to my country, Galicia. It's devastating! Deaths, affected agricultural land, loss of biodiversity, depleted firefighters. And you know why? Because the eucalyptus is the species that burned the most in Portugal and Galici…

18 Sep

2024

ES Speech

The case of José Daniel Ferrer García in Cuba

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Madam President, imagine that you live in a country that cannot give enough resources to its citizens, in a country that is absolutely blocked, in a country where scientists are prevented from publishing in international journals because there is a blockade, the blockade of the United States, that unjust blockade that has been denounced at the United Nations so many times by an overwhelming majori…

17 Sep

2024

ES Speech

War in the Gaza Strip and the situation in the Middle-East (debate)

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The reality is this, it is a series of international crimes that violate international law, with an abandoned population; the reality is this and, although they do not want to see the photographs, nothing happens, it is that it is reality: there are more than 41,000 people killed. And it annoys me very much that there are MEPs like Mr Girauta, who has just left, who has been paid by the European P…

17 Sep

2024

ES Speech

War in the Gaza Strip and the situation in the Middle-East (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, Madam President von der Leyen, it is not a war, it is genocide. And as such genocide I will show you this image, Commissioner: Look at her, please. You've seen her many times. Or this image...…

16 Sep

2024

PT Speech

One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Mr President, as a Galician MEP, I want to represent the mandates given to me by the voters to stop Altri's pulp project in Galicia. A project that degrades the environment, landscape, agriculture, waters, ecology and way of life of an entire territory. Multinationals arrive, they consume our resources and then they leave. In Galicia, we refuse to allow this situation to continue. European funds s…

16 Sep

2024

PT Speech

Outcome of the Strategic Dialogue on the Future of EU Agriculture (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner McGuinness, as a Galician MEP, I invite you to come to my country to talk about the Strategic Dialogue, to talk to the producers and producers, who asked me during the election campaign: why does a Galician farmer or a Galician farmer receive less than a farmer from Germany or France? We have to live to produce, not live poorly, as is happening with many Galician farm…

16 Sep

2024

EN Speech

Announcement by the President – Election of the European Ombudsman

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Madam President, after the more than 41 000 Palestinians and international victims killed by Israel in the Gaza Strip, in this new term, colleagues, I want to reiterate my request of the past mandate for a minute of silence for the victims in Gaza. The European Parliament must stop with the double standards with the victims and stand against the genocide in Gaza, calling for a permanent ceasefire …

24 Apr

2024

ES Speech

Recent attempts to deny dictatorships and the risk of Europe returning to totalitarianism (debate)

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Mr. President, Chato Galante, an anti-Franco activist and activist of democratic memory, said that there will never be true democracy as long as there is no truth, justice and reparation. To him and to all the victims of Francoism who have had to go to Argentina, to the Argentine lawsuit against Francoism, I dedicate this intervention today. Listening to the People's Party and listening to VOX whi…

24 Apr

2024

PT Speech

Forging a sustainable future together: economic, social and territorial challenges for a competitive, cohesive and inclusive Europe (debate)

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Mr Angel, thank you very much for your mandate. The ninth Cohesion Report speaks of the government of my country, Galicia, and reads as follows: Galicia disapproves of the European Union examination. This Cohesion Report says that the quality of government is below the European average. We know this well, Galicians and Galicians, with a demographic challenge, with professionals fleeing, with a lac…

24 Apr

2024

EN Speech

Resumption of the sitting

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Madam President, I want to thank all the workers of this Parliament. I want to thank you in all the languages. (The speaker said ‘thank you’ in several languages)

23 Apr

2024

ES Speech

EU’s response to the repeated killing of humanitarian aid workers, journalists and civilians by the Israel Defence Forces in the Gaza Strip (debate)

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Madam President, we have to stop this genocide. The European streets are telling us, day after day, week after week, that this genocide must be stopped. Mr Borrell, you know that the European Parliament has asked you for more action, sanctions, recognition of Palestine, support for humanitarian aid and expulsion from Israeli embassies, just as they do not allow Members of the European Parliament t…

23 Apr

2024

ES Speech

Combating violence against women and domestic violence (debate)

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Mr President, there is an increase in gender-based violence in Europe. Violence is a scourge, it is a structural problem and it must be combated. On the streets, feminism has said loud and clear that we don't want violence. If they hit one of us, they hit all of us. If they kill one of us, they kill all of us. We had to wait until 2024 to have such a directive; a directive that is not complete, as…

22 Apr

2024

PT Speech

One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Mr President, as a Galician MEP for the BNG, I defend pacifism and antimilitarism. We defend peace, politics as dialogue, diplomacy as a bridge, negotiating conflicts rather than escalating them by sending more weapons that prolong wars and genocide. Not on our behalf. War is defended by all those who are willing to send more weapons and prolong conflicts, those who are willing to do anything. And…

22 Apr

2024

PT Speech

Preventing plastic pellet losses to reduce microplastic pollution (debate)

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Madam President, as a Galician MEP, this debate is very important for my country, Galicia. The environmental disaster of the loss of plastic pellets off the coast of Galicia was evidence of the lack of response from the Galician government. Mr. Millán Mon, it was a veritable irresponsibility of the People's Party government. I welcome the rapporteur's words. Always present and always helping so th…

22 Apr

2024

EN Speech

Approval of the minutes of forthcoming sittings

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Madam President, this day four years ago my mother died. I think every day in sadness of the mothers and children of Gaza. Mothers without children. Children without mothers. President, I want to reiterate my request for a minute of silence for the Palestinians and international victims killed by Israel in the Gaza Strip. It’s the only case which we don’t have any minutes of silence. It’s time, Pr…

10 Apr

2024

PT Speech

One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Mr President, in the centre of my country, Galicia, the speculators of the Portuguese company ALTRI, through their Galician society, want to install a gigantic polluting cellulose factory in a territory with a unique nature, water, heritage, work and landscape. The project promotes a forestry model contrary to European objectives and protected areas such as the Natura Network, promoting the monocu…

10 Apr

2024

ES Speech

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)

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Madam President, I greet the representatives of the Galician association Asarga who are present here in Parliament. I want to say that this association was born as an association of Galicia, of my country, and now brings together patients from all over the Spanish State, and that it has been denouncing the lack of access throughout the State to medicines approved at European level by the European …

10 Apr

2024

PT Speech

Screening of third country nationals at the external borders - European Criminal Records Information System - Third Country Nationals - Common procedure for international protection in the Union - Establishing a return border procedure, and amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1148 - Asylum and migration management - Addressing situations of crisis and force majeure - Establishment of 'Eurodac' for the comparison of fingerprints for the effective application of Regulation (EU) No 604/2013, for identifying an illegally staying third-country national or stateless person and on requests for the comparison with Eurodac data by Member States' law enforcement authorities and Europol for law enforcement purposes (recast) - Union Resettlement Framework - Standards for the qualification of third-country nationals or stateless persons as beneficiaries of international protection - Standards for the reception of applicants for international protection (recast) (joint debate - Migration and Asylum package)

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Madam President, the world is looking at us, not with our vote, because we do not want a fortress Europe, with borders and supporting dictatorships by paying to externalise borders. The Immigration and Asylum Pact is based on security policy and sets aside solidarity and human rights. We cannot accept the speeches of the far right in this Parliament, and of the far right in general, to tell us wha…

10 Apr

2024

ES Speech

Order of business

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Madam President, embassies are inviolable. The raid, attack and kidnapping carried out by Ecuador at the Mexican Embassy in Quito are unacceptable. Mexico and any country have sovereignty in their diplomatic missions. The kidnapping of former Vice President Jorge Glas has violated diplomatic protection under several international treaties. I express our solidarity with Mexico and we call for a deb…

14 Mar

2024

PT Speech

Healthy lifestyle and active ageing in the EU (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, we are still speaking in the same language. The ageing of the population in Europe, as in my own country, Galicia, is an indisputable fact. In fact, for example in Galicia we have to talk about population loss and aging. As for the population loss, Galicia has lost almost 100 000 inhabitants since 2009. Just this week I was talking to Commissioner Šuica about this, s…

14 Mar

2024

PT Speech

Inclusion of the right to abortion in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (debate)

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Mr President, I shall continue, after Maria Manuel Leitão Marques, also in our language. We women have the right to decide on our bodies, contrary to what the far-right and right-wing parties, which deny women’s rights, want. That right should therefore be included in the European Charter of Fundamental Rights. The right to abortion is a human right that feminism has fought for all its life. Femin…

13 Mar

2024

ES Speech

The immediate risk of mass starvation in Gaza and the attacks on humanitarian aid deliveries

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Mr. President, it is unacceptable that Israel is using hunger and preventing humanitarian entry as a weapon of war in its quest for revenge. I've been to the Rafah border crossing. I saw the blockade of more than two thousand trucks while children are dying from malnutrition and half a million people are at risk of famine in Gaza. It is indefensible that Israel has killed 31,000 people, more child…

13 Mar

2024

PT Speech

Cohesion policy 2014-2020 – implementation and outcomes in the Member States (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner Ferreira, as a Galician MEP I note that a decade ago cohesion investments in Galicia did not always have good results, as we have already mentioned in some of our meetings, mainly because the Galician government did not respond to the necessary challenges: creating jobs, retaining talent, rural infrastructure or sanitation. The European Parliament report states that t…