What Leire spoke about.

12

Nov

2025

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Commemorating the 10th anniversary of the islamist attacks of 13 November 2015 in Paris (debate)

Madam President, today we are visited by the victims of the damage and also by the mayors who, even today, continue to work and fight to rebuild their villages. That is why I would like this Parliament to give them the warm welcome they deserve and to pay tribute to them. Victims must always be honoured, treated with respect and committed to working hard to ensure that a disaster – and its consequ…

23

Oct

2025

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Breast cancer: the importance of screening (debate)

Madam President, breast cancer is the most common tumor in women. There are more than 35,000 new cases diagnosed annually in my country. And today it is still the leading cause of cancer death in women. It is estimated that one in eight women will develop this disease. That's why prevention and early detection are a lifeline. However, in my country, in some regions governed by the right, unaccepta…

22

Oct

2025

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First anniversary of the DANA floods in Spain: improving EU preparedness (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, we want our first words as a group to be for the victims - two hundred and thirty-five people, two hundred and twenty-nine in our region, in Valencia - for whom a year ago they saw their loved ones die and their homes, their lives and their memories destroyed forever. They are always in the center, above all else. It is before them that we have to commit ourselves once …

8

Oct

2025

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Humanitarian and security situation in Haiti, in particular the rising power of criminal gangs and the recent massacre in Cabaret

Madam President, Commissioner, there are more than 1.5 million displaced people, and half the population suffers from hunger. The tragedy in Haiti is a clear example of a deeply forgotten crisis – a tragedy – such as that in Sudan and many others. A crisis that, despite the human suffering it entails, does not occupy our time, nor our agendas, much less our debates, because it does not occupy our …

8

Oct

2025

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Second World Summit for Social Development (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, indeed, as you said, 2025 is a crucial year for social development and so is the Summit. Now is the time to assess progress and make decisions accordingly. Thirty years have passed since the Copenhagen Summit, but also thirty years since the Beijing Summit, which marked the global agenda for women and equality. And ten have also passed since the Paris Agreement and five…

7

Oct

2025

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EU political strategy on Latin America (debate)

Madam President, in a few weeks we will be holding the EU-CELAC Summit and it is an enormous opportunity to strengthen relations with a region of the world with which we share the same values, the same way of understanding the world and the same interests. In other words, it is a region of the world that we know, that we recognize and with which we have the same interests. But the summit must be a…

7

Oct

2025

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Situation in Afghanistan: supporting women and communities affected by the recent earthquakes (debate)

Mr President, Madam President-in-Office of the Council, Commissioner, today we come to denounce once again a new situation of violation of international humanitarian law, one more twist to the unbearable apartheid of women in Afghanistan. And we want to denounce, loud and clear, the deliberate helplessness to which the Taliban regime has condemned the women victims of the earthquake catastrophe, m…

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Sep

2025

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Summer of heatwaves in the EU: addressing the causes and providing adequate housing and health policies to address record-breaking temperatures (debate)

Mr President, a new heat wave has hit Europe this summer. An estimated 47 000 people die as a result of heat each year, especially in Mediterranean regions, regions and cities such as Alicante. But studies show us that if temperatures in 2023 had occurred 20 years ago, deaths would multiply. That means that prevention and adaptation plans work, when they are put in place. For this reason, politica…

9

Sep

2025

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Situation in Colombia after the wave of recent terrorist attacks (debate)

Mr President, High Representative, I would like to express my strongest condemnation of the recent attacks in Colombia and to convey our solidarity with the victims and their families. Since the 2016 peace agreement, successive governments in Colombia have made enormous efforts to put those agreements into practice. This is also the case with President Petro and his commitment to total peace. And …

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Sep

2025

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Devastating wildfires in Southern Europe: the need to strengthen EU aid to restore the massive loss of forests and enhancing EU preparedness (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, this summer has been particularly painful in Europe: Portugal, Greece, Italy, Spain, the mountain of León, the Bierzo, Orense, Cáceres, Asturias, Palencia have experienced the worst fires in thirty years, 130 fires in a single month, 330 000 hectares burned by fire. We have seen this summer, ladies and gentlemen, burn, with rage and pain, our cultu…

9

Jul

2025

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Outcome of the Conference on the Financing for Development in Seville (debate)

Mr President, in recent years, the number of development-related crises has increased and yet the financial resources to deal with them have clearly decreased. Four out of ten people live in countries where more money is spent on debt interest than on public education or health, as has been said here. And at this rate, according to all studies, we will not meet the Sustainable Development Goals by…

9

Jul

2025

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EU Preparedness Union in light of the upcoming wildfire and droughts season (debate)

Madam President, in recent days a heat wave has swept Europe from north to south. Drought threatens all regions, not only to the south and not only to the Mediterranean, although in the Mediterranean it is devastating. There are fires in Greece, Germany, France, Serbia and Scotland. Two human lives have been lost in Lleida and we are fighting the consequences in Tarragona. Extreme weather events d…

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Jun

2025

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Rise in violence and the deepening humanitarian crisis in South Sudan (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, the UN report on humanitarian aid shows that there are two trends that are increasing humanitarian needs in the world: conflicts and the devastating consequences of climate change. Both are desperately occurring in South Sudan. A country exposed to the consequences of climate change, natural disasters and violence, yet the hardest part of everything South Sudan faces…

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Jun

2025

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Assassination attempt on Senator Miguel Uribe and the threat to the democratic process and peace in Colombia (debate)

Mr President, I want to condemn in all firmness the political violence in Colombia and, of course, the attack on Senator Uribe and the attacks on all the victims who preceded him. I also condemn the escalation of violence they suffered a few weeks ago in Cali and Cauca. But I also want to take this opportunity to condemn the murder of our fellow Democrat and her husband a few days ago in the Unite…

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Jun

2025

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Situation in the Middle East (joint debate)

Mr President, once again we bring to plenary the continuous and daily genocide of the people of Gaza. But today enough of words. It is time to talk about inaction, shameful hypocrisy and our indifference. Madam High Representative, are we really going to tell our citizens again that we are not going to do anything? Will we continue to tolerate the killing of children and the blockade of humanitari…

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May

2025

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The EU's response to the Israeli government's plan to seize the Gaza Strip, ensuring effective humanitarian support and the liberation of hostages (debate)

Madam President, the last year and a half, the last months and especially the last hours will be marked in the calendar of history forever; They will mark what kind of society we are, what moral stature we have – especially political representatives – on which side of history we were. And when our children, nephews and grandchildren look us in the eye and ask us what we were doing and how we respo…

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May

2025

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An urgent assessment of the applicability of the Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement (PDCA) with Cuba (debate)

Madam President, Madam High Representative, we European socialists always defend freedom, democracy and human rights, and we do so in any country, in any situation, including when there are arbitrary detentions: We do it in Cuba, also in El Salvador, in Gaza and elsewhere. And I would like to recall that the defence of democracy and respect for human rights are precisely the central element of the…

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Apr

2025

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European Action Plan on Rare Diseases (debate)

Mr President, in this debate we should start with language, because rather than rare diseases we are talking about diseases that affect between 27 and 36 million people in the European Union. We are talking about between six thousand and eight thousand different diseases, some of which can affect only a few, but others can affect more than 245,000 people. Approximately 80% of these diseases are of…

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Apr

2025

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EU Preparedness Union Strategy (debate)

Madam President, Commissioners, 'the process of globalisation has broadened the concept of security which, going beyond purely military conceptions, has acquired a multidimensional character'. This phrase was uttered by our first High Representative, Javier Solana, more than twenty years ago. He was already right then and, from then until today, the European Union has experienced floods, devastati…

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Mar

2025

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Severe political, humanitarian and human rights crisis in Sudan, in particular the sexual violence and child rape

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the humanitarian situation in Sudan is the mirror where all the failures of the international community are reflected: the impact of climate change, the extreme poverty of more than half the population, rape and systematic sexual violence against children as a weapon of war, the disappearance of hospitals and any kind of infrastructure... one wonders what else h…

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Feb

2025

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EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement (debate)

Mr President, it has been said that the agreement with Mercosur is very relevant in trade terms, but it is above all very relevant in geopolitical terms. We have been talking for months about the need for strategic autonomy for the European Union. And with whom are we going to ally ourselves if not with a region like Latin America, with which we share values, with which we have defended the Paris …

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 are deeply concerned about the situation in Nicaragua. This Parliament, in fact, has already pronounced itself on up to seven occasions to condemn the authoritarian drift of the Nicaraguan authorities since 2018, and today again we have to raise our voices to denounce the last constitutional reform recently approved: It is yet another twist on democracy, another twist on political…

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Feb

2025

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US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, the World Health Organisation and the suspension of US development and humanitarian aid (debate)

Madam President, multilateralism has entered its worst-case scenario following Donald Trump's return to the White House. The withdrawal of the United States from WHO global agreements and research programmes is a lethal blow to peace, the fight against climate change, pandemics and inequality. Worse, the deliberate dismantling of the world's most important humanitarian aid architecture is a messag…

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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)

(start of the intervention out of microphone) ... here this debate, but I invite you to make it a sincere debate, to be hypocrisies. Because the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a declaration of peace for all people to live free and equal in dignity and rights, and there are groups in this House that differentiate humanitarian crises and also victims: just look at what they say or how they…

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Jan

2025

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Combating Desertification: 16th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP16) of the United Nations Convention (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, it has been said repeatedly here that we are facing a seemingly silent but profoundly devastating crisis: desertification, loss of fertile soils and water resources. Again, it is a global crisis that affects us all, also in Europe, especially in the Mediterranean, in countries like Spain, in regions like Alicante. Up to 40% of the world’s land – almost half – is…