What Ana spoke about.

27 Feb

2024

ES Speech

Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2023 (debate)

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Mr President, if we talk about human rights, we have to say that the opposite of human rights is impunity. Impunity like the one that is occurring right now with Israel. Genocide is undoubtedly the ultimate attack on human rights for a people. In the case of Palestine, the occupation and the apartheid Israel’s reports are – or should be – included in all human rights reports. There is no mention i…

27 Feb

2024

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War in the Gaza Strip and the need to reach a ceasefire, including recent developments in the region (debate)

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We saw the Egyptian Red Crescent logistics hub and goods rejected by Israel with international humanitarian aid – medicines, food, electric generators or shelter shops – coming from 21 international agencies and 40 donor countries. I have no words left after visiting Palestinian evacuees in El Arish hospital. All the interlocutors with whom we have spoken say that there is an imminent risk of coll…

27 Feb

2024

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War in the Gaza Strip and the need to reach a ceasefire, including recent developments in the region (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, tell Mr Borrell that we need more international pressure on Israel to bring about a ceasefire in this genocide and prevent a major catastrophe in Gaza. This Saturday, I was with other MEPs at the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza. There – between ambulances and tanks – is the humanitarian blockade that Gaza is suffering, with more than two thousand trucks …

27 Feb

2024

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War in the Gaza Strip and the need to reach a ceasefire, including recent developments in the region (debate)

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Mr President, the honourable Member says here that the Gaza problem is a series of things. And I remember the 16 years of the occupation of Gaza, where almost no humanitarian aid comes in. I am not the one who reminds this humble Member of this, as the United Nations says. You would have to visit the UNRWA schools. I would have to visit as they give, at this moment, home to the people who have bee…

5 Feb

2024

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Mr President, the very serious problem that is affecting thousands and thousands of families with rising interest rates and rising housing loans is a European problem that affects many territories such as mine, Galicia, where wages remain low and where the prices of basic things for life are increasingly high. Families are drowned by payments to banks and, especially, for example, in Galicia, they…

18 Jan

2024

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Recent ecological catastrophe involving plastic pellet losses and its impact on micro plastic pollution in the maritime and coastal habitats (debate)

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Thank you so much for the question. The PP government in Galicia, as you have just said, took more than a month to ask for state aid. I speak in my own language. Thank you very much. Even today, we are still waiting. Across Galicia, there are 469 workers, hired by the Galician Government, clearing 1,500 kilometers of coastline... No interrumpa me. Take a tila o, si no, liquor coffee. ...rejecting …

18 Jan

2024

ES Speech

Recent ecological catastrophe involving plastic pellet losses and its impact on micro plastic pollution in the maritime and coastal habitats (debate)

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Mr President, as a galega MEP, I called for this debate in the face of the environmental catastrophe of the pellet tide that floods the coast of my country, Galiza. It is not just a Gallic problem, it is a European problem, as we discussed with you today, Commissioner. December 8 was the accident. On the 13th the first pellets arrive. On 4 January the Government Galician is addressed to the concel…

15 Jan

2024

EN Speech

Statements by the President

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But Madam President, more than 20 years after the Prestige, once again the Galician Government has been irresponsible, manipulating and lying. Don’t leave Galiza alone, please.

15 Jan

2024

EN Speech

Statements by the President

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Madam President, the ecological disaster that is happening on the Galician coast due to the microplastic pellet spill that fell into the sea from a flag-of-convenience ship needs the help of Europe. Look at these pictures!…

14 Dec

2023

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Improving the strategic approach to the enforcement of EU Law (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, on 13 October 2022, the European Commission adopted a communication entitled ‘Enforcing European Union law for a Europe that delivers’. This document and previous Communications, in particular the 2017 Communication entitled ‘Union law. Better results through better implementation’, define the Commission’s strategic operational framework for the im…

13 Dec

2023

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Review of the Spanish Presidency of the Council (debate)

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Madam President, Mr Sánchez, as a Galician Member of the BNG, I welcome you. I represent in this Parliament many Galicians and Galicians who want another model of Europe: A Europe where we are all heard. Because here, many policies that affect our lives are decided: European funds, labour, energy, productive sectors, transport, economy. Because there is another possible Europe, that of the peoples…

12 Dec

2023

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Attempt of coup d’Etat in Guatemala (debate)

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Mr. President, I support the people of Guatemala in their struggle for sovereignty in the face of the relevant attacks to undermine the democratic process. As a member of this Parliament's international observation mission, I had the honour of being there and we saw the legitimacy of the outcome in the Guatemalan elections. We saw that it has been a very clear electoral result: the Semilla party h…

12 Dec

2023

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Need to release all hostages, to achieve a humanitarian ceasefire and prospect of the two-state solution (debate)

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Mr President, 'if I have to die, I want you to live to tell my story ... if I have to die, to give hope, to be a story', as the Gaza poet Refaat Alareer, murdered by Israel on 7 December, said. Hell on earth is in the Gaza Strip. This crisis of humanity is unsustainable. The reality is that Israel's genocide in Gaza is state terrorism. Europe must annul, Commissioner Borrell, the agreements with I…

12 Dec

2023

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Need to release all hostages, to achieve a humanitarian ceasefire and prospect of the two-state solution (debate)

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Mr Mandl, do you know that some members of the Delegation for relations with Israel - I am one of them, I am also a member of the Delegation for relations with Palestine - have been harassed by a person who is there, who is responsible for the European issues of the Government of Israel in Brussels? He's sitting there. I could not address this question to the Chair of the Delegation for relations …

23 Nov

2023

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International day for the elimination of violence against women (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioners, 51 women have been murdered in Spain, two of them in Galicia, murdered by gender-based violence this year. But this fact is only the tip of the iceberg of machismo rooted in our society, since behind the numbers there are lives destroyed by macho terrorism. On this 25th of November we want to denounce that femicide and brutal, transversal and structural violence crosse…

22 Nov

2023

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Threat to rule of law as a consequence of the governmental agreement in Spain (debate)

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Mr. President, what a bad thing to lose some have, but what a bad thing to lose. They failed to say, "Long live Franco!" And some even raised their hand, we have seen them. The truth is, when they say that in the streets there are many people, what I see are camorristas, insulters of women, insulters of minorities, of different peoples, camorristas of the street. And how sad that the Popular Party…

20 Nov

2023

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Mr. President, congratulations on your appointment, because this is the first time we've seen you here. Today we mourn for Argentina, we mourn for each and every one of the 30,000 victims of the Argentine dictatorship, denied by President-elect Milei. In Argentina and other parts of the world, as we saw in Brazil with Bolsonaro, leaders supported by financial, economic and media powers double. The…

8 Nov

2023

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Madam President, we are in the centre of Europe, where public transport works well, but the daily reality of public transport in Galicia, my country, is as follows: full buses in towns and cities, people waiting for hours to arrive or return from work and study centres, the failure of hourly frequencies and tickets, which forces those who need to travel to book many weeks before, continuous delays…

8 Nov

2023

PT Speech

Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 26-27 October 2023 - Humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the need for a humanitarian pause (joint debate - Conclusions of the European Council and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the need for a humanitarian pause)

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Madam President, more than 10 000 people have been murdered by Israel in Gaza, more than 4 000 children, many still in the rubble. What is the EU doing to stop civilian killings? To prevent attacks on ambulances, hospitals, schools, refugee camps, water infrastructure, electricity, apartments? This is disproportionate genocide, it violates international humanitarian law. Yesterday they heard the m…

8 Nov

2023

EN Speech

Order of business

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Madam President, do you know that more than 4 000 of the 10 000 persons killed by Israel in Gaza are children? I call the European Parliament for a minute of silence. What is doing the European Parliament and the European Union to avoid the death of these civilians? Palestinian children sent yesterday a message: they want to live, they want peace, they want food, water, medicines and education – n…

18 Oct

2023

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The despicable terrorist attacks by Hamas against Israel, Israel’s right to defend itself in line with humanitarian and international law and the humanitarian situation in Gaza (debate)

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Mr President, President von der Leyen, how is it possible for you to give lessons in ethics, if you have taken sides, instead of exercising mediation and neutrality to facilitate peace? Europe has been silent in front of Gaza. He is more concerned with using an Israeli flag in Brussels or visiting Netanyahu than denouncing the cruel and relentless punishment of the people of Gaza. And that's why, …

17 Oct

2023

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Water scarcity and structural investments in access to water in the EU (debate)

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Mr President, Galicia, my country, suffers the consequences of poor water management by the Spanish State by failing to comply with European regulations, in particular the Water Framework Directive, especially by failing to update its watershed plans and flood risk management plans. That is why the European Commission launched an infringement procedure in February last year and also, on 28 Septemb…

16 Oct

2023

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Madam President, I am going to talk about the AP9 motorway. We welcome the collective’s complaint, lodged with the European Commission, which opened an infringement procedure against the Spanish State in 2021 for failing to call for the public tender of that motorway. Spain has failed to comply with the obligations of the Directive and the procedures for the award of public works contracts. The Eu…

16 Oct

2023

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Fisheries control (debate)

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Madam President, I wonder where the Commissioner is. Indeed, in a debate like this that has taken so many years, it is truly shameful that the Commissioner for Fisheries is not present. The activity of fishing crews is a very risky daily exercise to obtain few resources and, in many cases, to risk their lives. Ships are not offices at sea, as the European Commission officially intended in its firs…

4 Oct

2023

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The spread of ‘anti-LGBTIQ’ propaganda bills by populist parties and governments in Europe (debate)

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Mr President, Samuel Luís was murdered in A Coruña because he was gay. (The Chair interrupted the speaker)