What Ana spoke about.

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 cleaning staff offered by the state government. Thanks to the agreement with the insurer, for example, the Muros City Council has 100 workers cleaning the beaches. Y no tengo la respuesta written, tengo los datos here, señora Montserrat... (el Presidente removes la palabra a la orator).

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 concellosAlmost a month later, to tell them it was their responsibility to clean up the beaches. In the face of government inaction Galician, they had to clean alone, feeling abandoned and overwhelmed. I take this opportunity to greet the mayor of Muros, María Lago, who is in the gallery, an example of dignity, together with the mayor of Ribeira and the volunteers in the fight against this ecological tragedy. Thank you to MEPs from five political groups for signing the letter we will send you, Commissioner. Galiza It's not soa. The Government Galician It took a month to activate the anti-pollution plan and alert 2. This is an obvious case of denial of catastrophe. We only have to listen to the gentlemen and ladies of the PP, who repeat slogans that come from Galiza improvisation, manipulation, negligence in management and lack of transparency. The PP government calls more than a thousand bags of pellets "plastic pellets" that do not stop reaching our coast. That pouco lles doe! What incompetence! Galicia is a fishing nation with marine resources and unique biodiversity. This plastic pollution affects the marine environment and, of course, can affect the way of life of the fishing and shellfishing sector, to which I transfer all the support of the BNG. The PP government has been hurting them for 14 years. That does harm the fishing sector, gentlemen of the PP. Don't come here and try to divert attention like you do on TVG. This Sunday there is a demonstration in Santiago with more than one hundred groups that support it, including the fishing sector. But this mismanagement is not new. Reminds us of the disaster of prestige. They haven't learned anything. Its carelessness is such that the Xunta commissioned a marketing company linked to the PP part of the cleaning of the pellets: "You will be given a vest of the Xunta and, if you want to collect the pellets, much better," they said. What the Government Galician we do not do it here, demanding that pellets be considered dangerous goods to avoid accidental losses and that they be considered contaminants in the new Regulation on losses of microplastics. (She spoke in an unofficial language.) (She agreed to answer a question under the "blue card" procedure.)

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!

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 implementation of Union law. Under this strategic approach to the implementation of Union law, the Commission decided to prioritise systemic deficiencies, excluding individual cases if it considers that they do not raise issues of broader principles. In particular, the Commission focused its efforts on what it considers to be the most serious infringements of Union law detrimental to the general interest. These may be cases where Member States fail to notify transposition measures, fail to correctly transpose directives or fail to comply with a judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union; they may also be cases where Member States have seriously damaged the financial interests of the European Union or invaded exclusive competences of the Union. In all other cases, the Commission tends to refer petitions at national level, in particular to national courts. As a result, when a petitioner in our Committee on Petitions alleges a breach of EU law, the Commission often refuses, Commissioner, to act, at least in part, because the petition concerns an individual case and not a systemic petition. As we all know – and this has already been confirmed by the Court of Justice – the European Commission has full discretion to decide whether or not to open infringement proceedings. However, the Commission’s current approach to dealing with alleged breaches of EU law and the infringement procedure could be perceived as inappropriate by EU citizens. This can lead to a stalemate in proceedings for years at the pre-litigation stage, without referral to the Court of Justice and without access to documents and information on the various actions taken in relation to infringement proceedings. I also know this because I initiated proceedings in relation to the most serious accident in the last 25 years in the history of Europe, the Angrois accident in Santiago de Compostela, which has been pending for several years. Bearing in mind everything I have just said, I would therefore like to ask the Commission today, on behalf of the Committee on Petitions and as its first Vice-Chair, the following: Does the Commission consider that a backlog of individual cases could demonstrate the systemic nature of an infringement? could the Commission develop tools, in particular digital ones, to help connect and associate complaints and petitions to this end? And secondly, how could the Commission improve its strategic approach – including increasing transparency in ongoing infringement procedures – to ensure proper follow-up of potential infringements detected by citizens through complaints and petitions? could the Commission devise a new mechanism, such as a new collaborative and more transparent platform, allowing the Commission and Parliament to notify Member States of alleged violations and raise concerns in a constructive dialogue? And finally, another question: what measures does the European Commission intend to take to increase the effectiveness of enforcement measures and what measures can be taken at national and EU level to bring infringements of EU law to an end more quickly? The question of the application of Union law and the way in which the Commission fulfils the role of guardian of the Treaties are of the utmost importance. There is a need to assess the strategic approach to the implementation of EU law, especially at a time when it is important to maintain the link with the citizens of the European Union, to make them feel heard and trust our institutions. We therefore look forward, Commissioner, to your answers. And I take this opportunity, President, since today I have had time to speak and you have not cut me, to complain about the day you cut me for wearing a shirt that was not a political shirt. I wear a lot of T-shirts, I wanted to tell you in a moment.

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 who, like ours, have never been well, neither with centralism nor with fascism. Therefore, you will have us, Mr President, on the democratic and anti-fascist side, on the side of peace, freedom, tolerance, away from insult, intransigence, away from the corrupt and neo-fascist discourses that go around Europe. That show is giving the extreme right and the right in this House today. And they still boast of being democrats. We know this well in Galicia, where the Popular Party has flaws in employment, investment in social spending, misuse of European funds and the flight of professionals. That is why, Mr President, I would also like to talk about the other Europe, Galician Europe... (The President took the floor from the speaker.)

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 has won and there is an elected president, who is called Bernardo Arévalo. There was no fraud, as the Supreme Electoral Tribunal and also the European Union election observation mission said. Neither the Madrid Forum that supports the extreme right nor all the attacks on democracy in our beloved Guatemala are going to achieve a coup d'état. The end of dictatorship, corruption and impunity has finally come. Guatemala has suffered greatly: has problems of poverty and has problems of inequality. This is what the people of Guatemala have voted for: voted for a change. Of course, Guatemalans and Guatemalans, we will always defend you from this Parliament.

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 Israel and implement the arms embargo. Israel must be sanctioned for this war. What hypocrisy! Double standard that this same European Parliament has not devoted a minute of silence to the victims of Palestine and the international victims in Gaza. No minutes of silence. Preventing access to water, destroying hospitals, food and electricity goes against international law. International law has died in the Gaza Strip. An immediate ceasefire must be called for. We must appeal to an ceasefire and stop the war in Gaza.

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 with Israel, Mr López-Istúriz, but since you are also a member of the delegation of which I am a member, I would like to say so. We have been harassed by the Israeli delegation for holding positions on Palestine. This is not acceptable. I mean it here.

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 crosses all spheres of society, some more visible and others invisible, subtle, hidden. These violences are present: In Galicia alone there were more than 3,400 reports of macho violence in the first half of the year, and yet we see how it is denied and trivialised by certain far-right parties and forces. We have to keep putting on the violet glasses to detect all the macho behaviors and fight them. Only in this way will we achieve a more equal society, there, here, throughout Europe and in the world. And just as the demonstrations that took place in my country end, here it is, here you see Galician feminism standing.

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 is associated with Vox. Look, I didn't see you at the demonstrations denouncing the genocide to the Palestinian people. I did not see them in the workers' demonstrations against precariousness. I did not see them in the demonstrations for the defense of public health. Not seeing them, I hardly ever see them in plenary. I don't mean some, but most. The resolution on the rise of neo-fascist violence in Europe, of which I was co-rapporteur in this Parliament, literally calls on the Member States to impose sanctions on those who publicly incite violence or hatred. That's what you should be worried about. And, yes, I am part of the democratic side, the anti-fascist side.

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 far right is organized globally: With false news he spreads messages of fear without caring about the peoples. I denounce, on this sad day for a brotherly country, the advance of neo-fascism in Europe, which we see dirtying the European streets, as has happened in recent days, where the Falange and other fascist and neo-fascist groups - neo-Nazi groups - have called rallies in the streets of the Spanish State in front of the institutions. According to the 2018 Resolution on the advance of neo-fascist violence in Europe, of which I was co-rapporteur, these manifestations of hatred should be condemned and repudiated. Only in this way will we combat the advance of neo-fascism in Europe. Fascism, Don't ever get lost..

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, the failure of connections to rural areas and precarious contracts for transport workers. The bus sector in Galicia is almost monopolised by the transport company Monbus, supported by the Galician Government of the Popular Party, as just confirmed by the justice. European competition rules are still not respected in Galicia. I ask the Commission to follow up on this problem, which is, of course, discriminatory towards Galicians and Galicians, who want quality and dignified public transport as in the rest of Europe.

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 message of the children of Gaza: We want to live, we want peace, we want food, water, medicines, not war rockets. Unprecedented human suffering. A little empathy, Europe. This Europe that was here and is now gone. They must press Israel for a ceasefire, the humanitarian pause is not enough. What a shame for Europe to be silent in the face of genocide! Stop the war with diplomacy, that is enough, as the Secretary-General of the United Nations has said. The European peoples, like mine in Galicia, are denouncing international crimes, calling for a ceasefire and peace. Ceasefire and stop the war!

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 – not bombs. (The speaker spoke a non-official language) Stop the war! Ceasefire!

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, President, you should resign. Bombs on hospitals and power, water, energy and food cuts are an international crime. And they cannot, under any circumstances, count on the shameful complicity and hypocrisy of Europe. Not on our behalf. The occupation suffered by the Palestinian people, denounced in numerous United Nations resolutions, was deplorable. Because the apartheid The blockade of Gaza by the Zionist government is deplorable. Israel's disproportionate violence towards Palestine is a collective punishment of a people demanding their self-determination. I absolutely reject the genocide in Gaza and the ethnic cleansing that Israel is carrying out in Palestine. We demand a ceasefire, humanitarian corridors and the immediate implementation of international humanitarian law. It is necessary to work tirelessly for the immediate cessation of violence in Gaza and for a peace solution. We don't want any more deaths of any nationality. Oh, oh, oStop genocide in Gaza! Not in our name!

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 September, presented an ultimatum to the Spanish State to complete the revisions of its hydrological plans, before taking the case to court, Commissioner. Droughts, floods, supply problems are consequences of a climate change that requires actions by responsible governments and a coordinated program. Each year, the drought is more drastic, it is more dramatic, because in my country the availability of water is conditioned by the supply network, sized according to its wet conditions. This is why droughts in several territories have shown that Europe faces growing challenges related to water scarcity, which require a coordinated programme.

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 European Court of Justice has stated that the extension of a new concession is equivalent to a new concession. The two extensions by the governments of the Spanish State were given to the company Audasa, in breach of several Community directives, and made it one of the most expensive motorways in the Spanish State. This is a serious competition problem for Galicia and northern Portugal, since this AP9 motorway has no alternative, as is already the case in other territories of the Spanish State. We will continue to denounce.

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 first proposal. That is why, from my party, the BNG, we do not have a favourable position towards this control regulation, also based on the opinion of the fishing fleet. galega was stationed for many months in many ports in protest of the Control Regulation. Because the end of fishing activity can be done with certainty, but it has to be done with sufficient means and they are not being put. Undoubtedly, although there are exceptions, even if it is said that the text has been improved, artisanal fishing – inshore fishing – is the one that will suffer the most. Control measures must be realistic and simplified, not placing a greater burden on crews, fishermen and shipowners, as the sector complained. Galician after many months of unemployment. Above all, dialogue and respect for competences are called for.

Madam President, the lack of houses, their high price and rising interest rates are some of the main problems of concern to the popular classes in our countries. Prices rise, speculative capitalism rises, robbing the possibility of living with dignity, banks and real estate funds are left with houses for tourist apartments. It's a business. Empty houses, people without houses, houses without people. A young man with no prospect of a future who returns to his family home because he cannot afford an apartment. In Europe, public housing accounts for 9.3% of the total, while in my country, Galicia, it is less than 1%. In my city in Vigo alone, there are 20,000 empty apartments, while in Spain there are 3 million houses. We must not forget that between 2014 and 2017, the Galician Government of the Popular Party did not build any public housing for rent in Galicia. The price of rentals increased by 95 %. A real catastrophe. There is a need for public policy, affordable prices and the introduction of limits on tourist apartments. Dignified housing for all and for all.

Mr President, in the European Parliament today, we have been many Members from different political groups expressing our solidarity with the Armenian people. It is a disaster, it is genocide, ethnic cleansing and Europe was absent. We are facing a silent war, and silent in front of the world. Azerbaijan is responsible for the fate of the Armenian population. While the Armenian forces asked for our help, while the Azerbaijani forces blocked the humanitarian aid corridor, the European Union reached a ‘reliable agreement’. A reliable agreement: the supply of gas against human rights and against the people of Artsakh. This reliable partner of the European Union and Ms von der Leyen has caused exodus, military control and human rights violations. We in the European Free Alliance stand with the people of Artsakh, with international solidarity and call for sanctions against Azerbaijan.

Mr President, rising prices have made it impossible for many people to live. Living each day and reaching the end of the month is a heroic act. Commissioner, you have just been in my country, Galicia, in Santiago de Compostela, where the minimum interprofessional wage does not reach 50% and where there are 680 000 poor people, temporary contracts, low wages and a lack of job stability. The worst is that inequality among young people has worsened. Young Galicians with higher education have a low activity rate and higher qualifications. And what happens? Young Galicians emigrate, emigrate to Europe, Commissioner. Precariousness has a woman's face, a young man's or a girl's face, a single-parent family face, a popular class face. Precarity is the opposite of dignity.

Madam President, fifty years after the coup d'état in Chile, the assassination of the president of Popular Unity, Salvador Allende's project is still valid in the demands for equality, historical memory, democracy and freedom. Allende was betrayed because he was fighting inequality in Chile with transformative changes, without taking a step back, he paid with his life for loyalty to the people. The dictatorship brought years of silence and it was thanks to the struggle of left-wing social forces, the Mapuche people, social movements and human rights and memory organizations that his legacy remained and is still alive. From Recoleta to Temuco, from Santiago to Chiloé, the Allende, Salvador, is a heritage of the world, not only of Chile, it is an international reference that today we must honor in the European Parliament, as was honored yesterday in the streets and sidewalks of Chile. That is why, today more than ever, he is alive and is the opposite of far-right forces that attack democratic governments with hate speech. Allende is never again, never again, to torture, to murder, to exile and to disappearances. Allende is democracy, dignity, equality. Allende is a town because, as he said: They have the strength. They may overwhelm, but social processes are not stopped either by crime or by force. History is ours and the peoples make it. Comrade Salvador Allende! Come on in! Now and always! Allende lives. The fight goes on.

Mr President, Mr High Representative, the alliance between Europe and Latin America is strategic and must be preferential, fair and harmonious. I hope that for the first time there will be a predisposition to the opportunity of this regional cooperation based on mutual respect and reciprocity and that it will put nature and life at the centre of public policies. It is time for this bi-regional cooperation, which must be based on mutual respect, reciprocity and transparency and be inclusive and supportive. Because until now Europe has spoken to Latin America and the Caribbean with a colonial position, not respecting the sovereignty or self-determination of peoples and, above all, plundering their natural resources. Latin America presented itself at the EU-CELAC summit in Brussels with a strong voice, demanding equal treatment, fighting for societies free of poverty, exploitation and racism, seeking paths of peace, dialogue and sovereignty of peoples. And demanding respect for their linguistic, cultural diversity and their native peoples. By the way, Mr. Borrell, in America there are more than 550 indigenous languages, in addition to other languages, with which, what wealth, right? As President Petro said, we are in a crisis between capitalism or life. Let these agreements be the center of commitments, life, nature and, of course, equality.