What Oihane spoke about.

12

Mar

2025

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Action Plan for the Automotive Industry (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, you know from conversations we have had that this sector is also strategic for Euskadi, with more than 38 000 jobs, and that it is also suffering, as in the rest of Europe. Firm steps and stability are key to realising the investments needed to innovate, decarbonise and strengthen the value chains and ecosystems surrounding this sector. In that sense, we appreciate t…

11

Mar

2025

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Clean Industrial Deal (debate)

Madam President, Mr Vice-President of the Commission, in this context of ongoing tension and threats, you already know that we welcome the Clean Industry Pact. In addition, in Euskadi we have already started working on it, we have had meetings with the industrial sector to take advantage of it. So today, taking into account the latest news and the context, we want to focus on these possible 25% ta…

13

Feb

2025

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EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, Europe has been negotiating this agreement for more than 20 years and that shows the complexity and extra effort it needs in terms of transparency and working with sectors. It seems that we will have benefits for automotive, machinery, tools, aeronautics, advanced services to the industry, wine producers, dairy, cheeses. But we also have part of a society that is concer…

12

Feb

2025

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Repression by the Ortega-Murillo regime in Nicaragua, targeting human rights defenders, political opponents and religious communities in particular

Mr. President, we publicly condemn the repression in Nicaragua and express our concern about the constitutional reform that the National Assembly of Nicaragua approved on January 30. The Ortega regime thus takes control of all branches of government, independent institutions and the media and ignores Nicaragua's adherence to international human rights conventions and treaties, including the one pr…

12

Feb

2025

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Competitiveness Compass (debate)

Mr President, Mr Council representative, Commissioner, we received with some optimism what the Competitiveness Compass is and also the accelerated commitment they made yesterday to this European artificial intelligence model, but we must demand more of them: We need answers that are concrete and time-bound for all those sectors and people who are currently telling us that they cannot compete on an…

11

Feb

2025

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

Mr President, I come from the Basque Country, a region that has a public health service that, in a very few years and due, among other things, to the impact of COVID-19, the ageing of the population and the change in needs, and above all due to the lack of professionals, has become one of the greatest citizen concerns along with housing. Despite having privatization rates of the lowest in Europe, …

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Jan

2025

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Situation in Venezuela following the usurpation of the presidency on 10 January 2025 (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, I will be very brief today. Nicolás Maduro lacks democratic legitimacy and we will repeat it from this Parliament as many times as necessary. On January 10, he took office without publishing the minutes, without respecting the will of Venezuelans who were demonstrating that day in different parts of the world. And today María Corina Machado is still living in hiding and…

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Dec

2024

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Restoring the EU’s competitive edge – the need for an impact assessment on the Green Deal policies (topical debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, welcome. You are in your first hundred days and we believe it is time to share challenges, priorities and concerns. Ours this week is specifically in news related to the closure of BSH in the Autonomous Community of Navarra and the proposed ERTE of Siemens. These events always they are accompanied in the shadow of a lack of competitiveness, the need for more investment …

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Dec

2024

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A European Innovation Act: lowering the cost of innovating in Europe (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, you are in your first hundred days and we are left with those plans on European innovation law to reduce gaps with the United States, to promote key sectors such as biotechnologies or disruptive technologies, to promote simplification, access to risk capital, promote the growth and birth of start-ups and scale-ups ... I come from the Basque Country, a region where in th…

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Nov

2024

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Rise of energy prices and fighting energy poverty (debate)

Madam President, now that we have a new College of Commissioners (and Commissioners), we are going to speed up and focus on those issues that are worrying people. And we know that one of them is the high price of energy, because it is weighing on the competitiveness of our industry and drowning vulnerable families, increasing concern for housing in general. It is, without a doubt, one of the facto…

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Nov

2024

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International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (debate)

Mr President, today, 25 November, I want to denounce that the extreme right and the denialists fill digital platforms, institutional spaces and the streets with intolerable messages and actions that permeate some strata of society and that put collective achievements in this area at risk. A few minutes ago we saw how women's well-being compared to animal welfare. Con todos mis respetos al bienesta…

13

Nov

2024

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The devastating floods in Spain, the urgent need to support the victims, to improve preparedness and to fight the climate crisis (debate)

Madam President, I offer all our support and solidarity to the Valencian people and to other regions that, to this day, are still being affected and are suffering the consequences of DANA. I am proud to belong to a society that, from minute one, has turned to the drama of a town that in a few hours lost several hundred neighbors and that was destroyed physically, socially, economically and emotion…

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Oct

2024

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The important role of cities and regions in the EU – for a green, social and prosperous local development (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, at the beginning of September we put a question to the European Commission, conveying our concern with regard to certain rumours that, in the new multiannual financial framework, we had to group together programmes which, today, are managed jointly with the regions, with a view to making a single programme at national level: the answer was not at all clear. Today I was …

10

Oct

2024

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World Mental Health Day - need for a comprehensive EU strategy on mental health (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, today is World Mental Health Day and we have the opportunity to make visible a reality that is very present in our society. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, already one in six people, some 84 million people in total in Europe, suffered from mental health problems and since then this has only worsened and especially among young people. I want to remember today the Basque pr…

9

Oct

2024

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Ensuring sustainable, decent and affordable housing in Europe - encouraging investment, private property and public housing programmes (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, we are pleased that this issue is being discussed in the European Parliament. We are talking about access to affordable housing, especially for young people. We know that it is a real global problem that affects at European level and, knowing that competences are limited, we welcome the fact that we are going to have a European Commissioner on housing and, also, that we…

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Oct

2024

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The crisis facing the EU’s automotive industry, potential plant closures and the need to enhance competitiveness and maintain jobs in Europe (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, thank you for presenting the vision of the strategic and tractor sector for the Basque and European economy. Specifically, in the Basque Country it has an approximate weight of 25% of GDP and employs 40,000 people. Mario Draghi was already aiming to maintain ambitious decarbonisation targets, driving supply chain transformation. Therefore, Europe must rely on research a…

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Sep

2024

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The deteriorating situation of women in Afghanistan due to the recent adoption of the law on the “Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice”

Mr President, we had no hesitation in proposing the debate on an urgent case for the degradation of women's freedoms in Afghanistan. On August 21, the Taliban government, a few days after completing three years in power, ratified a law that tightens social repression. What this law does is include measures such as prohibiting women's voices from being heard in public spaces and their faces from be…

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Sep

2024

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Situation in Venezuela (debate)

(start of intervention in an unofficial language) ...and my first words to send a strong hug to the entire Venezuelan community and people. Fifty days have passed since the National Electoral Council gave good results that do not have any disaggregated data and do not have any voting minutes to support them. The only acts that are known and that have also been endorsed by independent international…

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Sep

2024

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State of the Energy union (debate)

(start of intervention in an unofficial language) Mr President, I was simply saying good afternoon in Basque, in my language, in this my first speech in Strasbourg, hoping to be able to do so officially in the not too distant future. Thank you very much, Commissioner, for your intervention and for coming to Parliament to let us know the state of play on something as strategic as the Energy Union. …