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Jan

2025

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Links between organised crime and smuggling of migrants in light of the recent UN reports (debate)

It is very sad that they continue to use false figures to blur a reality that is not true. The data of the Ministry of the Interior – both your country and mine – say quite the opposite. I wish you only one thing: that the day you have to cross a border - if you have to one day - you will not find yourself in front of people who despise human beings as much as you and your group.…

22

Jan

2025

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Links between organised crime and smuggling of migrants in light of the recent UN reports (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, this week Trump declared a national emergency at the southern border of the United States, describing migrants as invaders and associating them with terrorists and smugglers. With this dehumanizing and warmongering language, he justifies his immigration policy and the business of borders, despising human rights and people's lives. The ultra-right-wing international –…

22

Jan

2025

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 19 December 2024 (debate)

Madam President, Mr Costa, what does it sound like to you if I tell you that, during 2024, about 30 people a day have lost their lives trying to reach the Canary Islands? More than 10,000 people have died trying to reach Europe's southern border. That's an unacceptable figure, isn't it? And it is tremendously painful, but it is not an accident, a natural catastrophe or something inevitable. It is …

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Dec

2024

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Promoting social dialogue and collective bargaining and the right to strike in the EU (debate)

Mr President, thanks to the social dialogue in my country, Spain, the Ministry of Labour has successfully negotiated, together with employers and trade unions, fundamental agreements to improve the lives of the social majority. It has done so by agreeing on a labor reform that has improved the quantity and quality of employment, increases in the minimum wage and non-discrimination measures for LGT…

18

Dec

2024

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Preparation of the European Council of 19-20 December 2024 (debate)

Madam President, I do not know whether the Council is aware of the situation that some of our neighbours are suffering, who are families like ours, schoolmates of our daughters and sons, who take care of our parents and elders or who took on the hardest jobs during the pandemic. Precisely today, on International Migrants Day, all of them are targets of the hate speeches of the extreme right. The C…

16

Dec

2024

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Regional Emergency Support: RESTORE (debate)

Madam President, what the island of Mayotte has experienced and the people of Valencia continue to experience today is not an isolated event. It is the clearest evidence that climate change is no longer a debate for the future, but for the present, no matter how much some, even in this Parliament, continue to deny what science shows. Therefore, we must decide how to face the challenge and for this…

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, more than 5 400 migrant children are trapped in the Canary Islands, in an overflowing reception system that cannot guarantee compliance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which is precisely what we are debating today. Do you also know that, according to the UNHCR, 70% of these children are refugees? And the reason for this embarrassment? The racism and hatre…

27

Nov

2024

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Recent legislation targeting LGBTQI persons and the need for protecting the rule of law and a discrimination-free Union (debate)

Madam President, the reactionary forces in Europe have no other project than hatred. They hate migrants, they hate free and empowered women, and they hate LGBTQ+ people, because when they hate them, they hate our friends and they hate our lesbian sisters and friends, and also our trans sons and daughters. Because when they hate them, they hate us, too. Wherever they can, they censor culture and at…

27

Nov

2024

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Presentation by the President-elect of the Commission of the College of Commissioners and its programme (debate)

Madam President, today Europe has nothing to celebrate. A Commission embracing the far right, Mrs von der Leyen, is being approved here today. And, in addition, you give him a vice-presidency, which is not just anything. Do you owe them that much to give them such an important position? We are going to vote "No". And it will be a resounding and clear 'No', because we will not be complicit in a Com…

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Nov

2024

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Urgent need to tackle the gender pay gap (debate)

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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, first of all, all my solidarity with the victims of the DANA in Valencia and with my Valencian comrades, who have been on the front line fighting and helping their people. This tragedy has made two things clear to us: the infinite solidarity of the peoples and that it is the public services that save the people, responding to those who have lost everything. What Valencians and Val…

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Oct

2024

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Managing migration in an effective and holistic way through fostering returns (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, the most repeated word in your speech this morning was return, return and return. Is that really the short-sighted view we want to apply to migration management? Building prisons for refugees in Europe is barbaric: concentration camps for human beings whose only crime has been to flee to save their lives. Can you imagine that we would have done this with the Ukrainia…

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Oct

2024

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Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States (debate)

Mr President, when we talk about employment policies, what we are saying is that people's lives need to be improved. Do you know how Spain has managed to reach historical employment numbers? Improving working conditions, reducing the temporary rate and with a labor reform that guarantees more stable jobs, far from the uncertainty generated by precarious and temporary contracts. A reform that has p…

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Oct

2024

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General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sections (debate)

Madam President, every day, 13 people lose their lives at sea trying to reach Europe to make their lives safe; in the meantime, this Parliament wants to approve EUR 1 billion for Frontex, an agency that every year multiplies its budget more and more, while it has been questioned both for the violation of human rights and for the management of its funds: €1 billion earmarked for more tragedy, more …

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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, Lebanon has always been a host country, I myself have been able to see it working in its refugee camps and in its settlements in the capital itself. With a population of more than six million, it hosts almost two million refugees in solidarity, refugees who are again forced to flee, now accompanied by the rest of the civilian population. Israel continues to act with impunity again…

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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, having a home is no longer a possibility for everyone. Having a home has unfortunately become a privilege for only a few. Having a home will be something we tell, if we continue like this, to our daughters and grandchildren as a thing of the past. If we do not stop this, Commissioner - and you have a great challenge in this matter - we will have to explain to our sons a…

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Oct

2024

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The reintroduction of internal border controls in a number of Member States and its impact on the Schengen Area (debate)

Mr President, in the 1980s we were able to tear down the Berlin Wall and today, precisely, internal borders are being rebuilt, which are walls to detain people. And I say it like this: to people, to human beings. With a perverse discourse that links immigration with security, not only the Schengen area is threatened, but also our values, our coexistence and respect for international law, including…

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Oct

2024

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One year after the 7 October terrorist attacks by Hamas (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, a year later, neither the Israeli hostages have returned nor the genocide has been stopped. Clearly, Netanyahu doesn't care about Israeli victims. And you know it as well as I do. All he cares about is staying in power and, to that end, he is trying to force a regional war that is clearly dangerous. It has already invaded Lebanon; has attacked Syria, Yemen... How far…

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Sep

2024

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Global measures towards social media platforms - Strengthening the role of DSA and protecting democracy and freedom in the online sphere (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, last July the European Commission denounced the failure of platform X to comply with the DSA. Mr Elon Musk responded by insulting and denigrating the Commission. Commissioner, how long are we going to continue using a platform that does not comply with European regulations? We are seeing how social media has become a kind of "wild West" where anything goes. Under this f…

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Sep

2024

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Need to prevent security threats like the Solingen attack through addressing illegal migration and effective return (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, all my solidarity with the victims of terrorism and violence, from Solingen to Gaza. Unfortunately today we see again how we repeat the same mistakes as always: Continuing to link security and migration is a profound irresponsibility and the perfect seed to foment hatred and discrimination in our society. Indeed, this discrimination is aimed at people who find it inc…