What Isabel spoke about.

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Jul

2026

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The threat of war crimes, the escalating violations of international humanitarian law and the human rights situation in El-Obeid, Sudan

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I suppose you have seen images of women in Sudan with their children crying in despair. Faced with this, there are two options. One is to explain what is happening in Sudan by resorting to the old account of colonialism according to which the conflicts in the Global South are due to the fact that they are barbarians, that they do not know how to live together in…

7

Jul

2026

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Presentation of the Action Plan on Cybersecurity and AI (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, during the minute I speak, Elon Musk's assets will have increased by $280,000, Zuckerberg's by $74,000, Bezos' by $40,000. I insist, only in a minute. And while Trump's friend oligarchs get rich, what good is AI for us? To live better, so that scientific advances are put at the service of the general interest? Well, no. Look, Commissioner, today at the NATO summ…

17

Jun

2026

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Electrification Action Plan (debate)

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May

2026

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Political repression and humanitarian situation in Cuba (debate)

Madam President, Mrs Kallas, Cuba needs urgent help. How can it be that on the verge of a humanitarian collapse, when there is no fuel, when there is no light, you are doing the dirty work for Donald Trump? Because they come here to talk about the Cuban government and deliberately forget the fact that Cuba has been suffering for 60 years from a criminal blockade by Washington, which Trump is inten…

29

Apr

2026

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Shortcomings and deficiencies of the ‘Amnesty Law’ in Venezuela

29

Apr

2026

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Sudan’s abandoned humanitarian crisis: three years of conflict (debate)

29

Apr

2026

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The need for targeted criminal provisions and platforms’ responsibility to effectively address cyberbullying and online harassment (debate)

27

Apr

2026

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Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU (debate)

Madam President, this Parliament takes a step that will always be remembered: To recognize something as simple and at the same time as important as that if a person lives a sexual relationship in which he has not consented, in which there is no consensus, in which there is no agreement, it is not a free relationship, it is sexual violence. For centuries, women's bodies have been conceived as objec…

25

Mar

2026

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 19 March 2026 (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Iran, bombed by oil; Venezuela, intervened by oil; Cuba, suffocated without light; the Strait of Hormuz, burns... The illegal wars of their heads in the United States and Israel are leading us to an energy crisis like that of the 1970s. Oil already exceeds 120 dollars, gasoline, electricity, food... And who pays? You guys? The big oil bosses? …

11

Mar

2026

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Child sexual abuse online: protect children, not perpetrators (topical debate)

10

Feb

2026

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Presentation of the action plan against cyberbullying (debate)

10

Feb

2026

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Extreme weather events in particular in Portugal, southern Italy, Malta and Greece: European response in strengthening readiness, preparedness and solidarity mechanisms (debate)

21

Jan

2026

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Presidential elections in Honduras, the non-recognition of the outcome by the incumbent administration and the attacks on opposition members of the National Assembly

(start of off-microphone intervention) ... While bombing Caracas and illegally abducting the president of Venezuela on the excuse that he was releasing a non-existent drug cartel, in Honduras he insulted a former president convicted of drug trafficking so that his party would come to power. Donald Trump has made it very clear: He wants Latin America for the United States, to be his backyard. Thank…

21

Jan

2026

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Restoring control of migration: returns, visa policy and third-country cooperation (topical debate)

Mr President, it no longer takes much imagination to know what you want to do here with migrants in Europe. We are seeing it in the United States: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), under Trump's orders, murders people, massively locks up those who have not committed any crime, separates children from their parents, and terrorizes the population. Terrorism and fascism in broad daylight. Th…

18

Jun

2025

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Safeguarding the rule of law in Spain, ensuring an independent and autonomous prosecutor's office to fight crime and corruption (debate)

Mr President, Spain is not a full democracy. The party of the ERE in Andalusia attacks the party of the Gürtel and, in turn, the party of the Punica and Mrs. Ayuso attacks the party of the Ábalos case or the Santos Cerdán case. It seems that you are competing for who is the corrupt exemplar, for which of the two he steals best. What is behind – what is at issue – is the case of ‘bipartisanship’: t…

18

Jun

2025

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Stopping the genocide in Gaza: time for EU sanctions (topical debate)

Madam President, Mrs Kallas, you are as immoral as the genocidal ones. How far will your support for Israel go? How far will they support a genocidal state? After murdering 57,000 Palestinians with impunity, burning children alive, razing Gaza, trying to exterminate the entire population with famine, Israel has decided to launch an illegal offensive against Iran that can lead to a global nuclear w…

13

Mar

2025

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Action Plan for Affordable Energy (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, when the war in Ukraine began, you said that with the escalation of war, increased military spending would make us more independent and more sovereign; Today you see that's a big lie. After three years we are more dependent – mainly on energy – on the United States, which since 2018 has increased its export of liquefied gas by 1 749 %. Those who have fought the war, apa…

12

Feb

2025

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Recent dismissals and arrests of mayors in Türkiye

Mr President, Turkey systematically violates human rights, persecutes Kurdish opponents, locks up political prisoners, removes mayors... it is a state where the rule of law does not exist. Europe must not conclude agreements with countries that violate human rights and must not pay millions for border control, impeding the right to asylum, because Turkey will care more about continuing to receive …

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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)

(start of off-microphone intervention) ...breaks with the World Health Organization or the Paris Agreement, or leaves USAID without funds. What are you telling us? Let the world rot; that the poor die; We are a government of the rich, of technobros who have come to save the big corporations, and goodbye to public health, humanitarian aid and the fight against the climate crisis. And for that they …

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Jan

2025

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Systematic repression of human rights in Iran, notably the cases of Pakhshan Azizi and Wrisha Moradi, and the taking of EU citizens as hostages

Madam President, the death penalty should be abolished worldwide, in Iran or in the United States. Two activists – two Kurdish women – are currently facing the death penalty in Iran. These are Pajshan Azizi and Wrisha Moradi. Their crimes are opposing the Iranian regime, fighting for women's rights, defending and being part of the Kurdish minority: They are political prisoners. From here I express…

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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, the genocide did not begin on 7 October and, unfortunately, it does not end today, because the Zionist project of the State of Israel is the extermination of the Palestinian people, because Netanyahu and his collaborators have to be tried for war crimes and because the Palestinian territory has to be vacated and recovered. You come here today to say that you are celebrating the cease…

17

Dec

2024

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Towards a shared vision for European tourism, its sustainable growth and brand Europe (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, predatory tourism is sweeping our cities, our health, our life time, our neighbourhood networks, our planet. Degrade our spaces at high speed. Where there was a neighborhood store, there is now a neighborhood store. souvenirs; where there was a square, there is a tourist attraction; where there was a beach, there is concrete and large hotels; where there were streets, t…

17

Dec

2024

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Use of rape as weapon of war, in particular in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan (debate)

Madam President, sexual violence is a weapon of war. And today, in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, many women are suffering this most serious violation of human rights. Also in Palestine, by the way. But, ladies and gentlemen, beyond empty words and a return to the normalisation and impunity of sexual violence in our society, what should the European Union do? First, more humanitar…

28

Nov

2024

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Strengthening children’s rights in the EU - 35th anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (debate)

Madam President, today, as we commemorate the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, I want to talk about one of the most common and most terrible causes of the violation of children's rights, which is gender-based violence against children: violence against women that directly affects children, because they are direct victims – not only witnesses – and many are orphans; vicarious violence, whi…

27

Nov

2024

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The shrinking space for civil society in Cambodia, in particular the case of the labour rights organisation CENTRAL

Mr President, the Cambodian Government is politically persecuting workers who organise to defend their rights, trade unionists, activists and journalists, the workers' rights organisation CENTRAL and its director. Today we call from this Parliament for the government to drop the charges, the persecution, the witch hunt against those who defend a democratic country, a democratic society based on la…