What Leire spoke about.

21

Jan

2025

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Humanitarian crisis in Sudan (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, 10 million displaced people, 25 million people in urgent need of humanitarian aid, an escalation of intolerable and unimaginable sexual violence, areas classified as famine areas: We are witnessing a catastrophe of historic dimensions. Sudan is today, sadly, the great forgotten crisis, ignored by the indifference of those who can and should do something. Sudan also forc…

21

Jan

2025

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

Mr President, we Socialists and Democrats – all Democrats – are deeply concerned about the current situation in Venezuela. Venezuela has suffered a serious political conflict for ten years, with a serious economic, social and democratic deterioration. What happened on July 28 is the culmination of this profound democratic deterioration, based on the denial of the political adversary and the ruptur…

20

Jan

2025

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Ceasefire in Gaza - the urgent need to release the hostages, to end the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and to pave the way for a two-state solution (debate)

Mr President, human suffering must be taken care of wherever it is, paying special attention to the most vulnerable. Thus they pray the values of our culture and religion, of what we have called our civilization. And so, too, does the European consensus, that of all of us, on humanitarian aid. The cry and tears of desperate hope - which came to us a few days ago from the thousands of Palestinian r…

17

Dec

2024

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Misinformation and disinformation on social media platforms, such as TikTok, and related risks to the integrity of elections in Europe (debate)

Mr. President, in 1932, Hitler won the elections in Germany: This is a phenomenon that has been studied on many occasions, but it came as a surprise to those who thought that it did not have the support of the main media, which was then the press. It used three key elements: the first, a new means of communication that was not so well known, radio; the second, propaganda or disinformation, and, a …

17

Dec

2024

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Toppling of the Syrian regime, its geopolitical implications and the humanitarian situation in the region (debate)

What I advocate, Your Honor, today, then and always, is equal access to humanitarian aid for all human beings. What I advocate is the need to stop sowing hatred whenever there is conflict and to stop using human tragedies to sow hatred in our societies, as you do over and over again. Stop taking advantage of the really devastating situations of others. We must be in solidarity. We must build new h…

17

Dec

2024

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Toppling of the Syrian regime, its geopolitical implications and the humanitarian situation in the region (debate)

Mr President, welcome, Mrs Kallas. We want to go back, but we are afraid. And the question is to go back to where. These are the words of Shadia, a Syrian woman who, along with her husband and two disabled daughters, fled Homs five years ago due to the brutal dictatorship in her country. Today Shadia and her family are in a refugee camp in Lebanon, as are millions of Syrians in the region. In the …

27

Nov

2024

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Recommendation on smoke- and aerosol-free environments (debate)

Mr President, the right to health is one of the fundamental rights of the citizens of the European Union: is the right to live in a healthy and safe space. However, the reality is that 700 000 Europeans die every year as a result of smoking. Our obligation here is to legislate based on scientific evidence, protect the most vulnerable people, guarantee smoke-free spaces, report on the real health c…

25

Nov

2024

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The outcome of the G20 Leaders' Summit (debate)

Madam President, the G20 Leaders' Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro, has left us with a bittersweet feeling. On the one hand, we want to value a joint statement with positive elements, something that many did not expect. But on the other hand, we see – with regret – how it is becoming increasingly difficult to reach comprehensive agreements at the multilateral level, where we need more multilateralis…

14

Nov

2024

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Enhancing Europe’s civilian and defence preparedness and readiness (debate)

Madam President, the Niinistö report is timely because it alerts us to the real threats we have today: military aggressions, cyberattacks, sabotage of our infrastructures, health and climate crises, such as DANA in Spain. But in an increasingly globalized world, we must ask ourselves what it means to be better prepared. The report clearly states that greater preparedness is not built by isolating …

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, the DANA disaster that has struck my region is unprecedented in Europe. It is something that will go to more according to all experts and that forces us to fight harder against climate change. The time will come to assess the response and to debug responsibilities. Wow, we will! But we will not allow ourselves to be carried away by the strategy of those who seek to cover up their …

22

Oct

2024

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Urgent need for a ceasefire in Lebanon and for safeguarding the UNIFIL mission in light of the recent attacks (debate)

Madam President, I would like to appeal here today not to our values and ideas, or even to the constituent values of the European Union that should always govern and seem not to do so in situations such as Gaza: I want to appeal here today to the slightest sense of humanity and from there I want to ask you to condemn, once and for all, the violation of international humanitarian law because, ladie…

8

Oct

2024

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Outcome of the Summit of the Future: transforming global governance for building peace, promoting human rights and achieving the sustainable development goals (debate)

Madam President, the results of the Future Summit are valuable, first of all, because they are based on a great consensus during a time of deep global polarisation. And they are also because they are demanding greater ambition, greater political commitment, in favor of cooperation and multilateralism. But words are not enough: we really have to commit ourselves to financial commitments and politic…

19

Sep

2024

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Possible extradition of Paul Watson: the danger of criminalisation of environmental defenders and whistle-blowers, and the need for their protection in the EU (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, thank you for your presentation and for your commitment. It brings us here today - and I regret that it is at the end of this plenary session - a subject of fundamental rights, of basic pillars of the rule of law and democracy, because today we are talking about Captain Paul Watson, a well-known environmental activist for his denunciation and his actions against illegal…

18

Sep

2024

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EU response to the Mpox outbreak and the need for continuous action (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, I thank you for your commitment. This is precisely the moment when we should ask ourselves two questions: the first is what we have learned from a pandemic that only a few years ago put our security, our economy, our health systems and our lives in jeopardy, and the second is whether we are better prepared today than a few years ago to respond to possible upcoming epide…

17

Sep

2024

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Outcome of G20 ministerial meeting in Rio-de-Janeiro and fighting inequality (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, first of all I would like to highlight the Ministerial Declaration on Development of the G20 summit, in its commitment to tackling inequality - the main challenge that surely lies ahead - and I would also like to highlight the leadership of Brazil and President Lula in the initiative to fight hunger and poverty that we support. Now, after that agreement, we have to s…

17

Sep

2024

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Situation in Venezuela (debate)

Madam President, this is my first speech in this House, in this Chamber, and I do so out of the deep respect that I have for it and for the role that we who are here today must play. Venezuela has been in serious political conflict for many years: of course, with profound elements of lack of democracy and freedom. The S&D Group is committed to Venezuelans, freedom and democracy in the future. The …