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Sep

2025

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Implementation of EU-US trade deal and the prospect of wider EU trade agreements (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, they bring a bad deal, and we do not have to tell those of us who are against it from the beginning, so are those who are trying to come out and defend their deal. In fact, they should reflect on whether the only ones in this Parliament who are happy with this agreement – and defend it very intensely – are those who are in the service of Trump. We just saw him. The only…

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Sep

2025

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State of the Union (debate)

Madam President, Mrs von der Leyen, I would like to ask you whether you have today made a motion of censure yourself, because you have announced just the opposite of what you have been doing in many areas this year. You talk about a strong Europe and then humiliate us and subject us to Trump. You talk about climate change and then agree all the policies related to climate change with the deniers o…

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Sep

2025

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Cohesion policy (joint debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, in the last two years alone, the price of rent has increased by 40% in Valencia. Only in two years. In Elx, 70% of the homes in the city's rental market are hijacked for tourist rental, 70%!, and do not go to neighbors. Or in my city, in Castelló, it turns out that there are students who have stopped studying the university career they wanted because they can not aff…

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Jul

2025

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

Madam President, Commissioner, in my country this summer we are suffering from two historical events. The first, which has been the warmest month of June in history, with four degrees above what is usual at this time. And, at the same time, we are also suffering today from closed fire stations – for the first time in history in summer – and no forest reinforcement for the summer season. These are …

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Jul

2025

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State of play of implementation of the European Media Freedom Act in the Member States (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, you are going to have a lot of work if you really want this European regulation on freedom of the media to be implemented, among others, in my country, in the Valencià country. Why do I say this? Because Article 6(2), which says that editorial independence must be guaranteed, especially of the news media, shows that they have not read it directly, because in the midst o…

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Jun

2025

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Latest developments on the revision of the air passenger rights and airline liability regulations (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, it has been ten years since the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled – very clearly – that charging for the carry-on suitcase is illegal, because it is an essential part of the journey and because airlines do not take responsibility for that suitcase. Therefore, they cannot charge for it. And what have some companies done for ten years? Well, look, ig…

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May

2025

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A unified EU response to unjustified US trade measures and global trade opportunities for the EU (debate)

Mr. President, Mr. Commissioner, Trump's tariff policies are not a trade war. They are, above all, an attack on our values and our democracy. It is a struggle between the oligarchy and the Democrats. We've seen it in two episodes recently. First, it has become clear with the rejection of the Commissioner's proposal to generate a space of zero tariffs between Europe and the United States, as well a…

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Apr

2025

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Topical debate (Rule 169) - Social Europe: making life affordable, protecting jobs, wages and health for all

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we are experiencing a critical moment in the European institutions. Millions of workers are distrusting Europe and embracing populist far-rights. And we cannot make the mistake of thinking that, suddenly, millions of citizens have become radical far-right extremists. That is, among other things, because Europe is failing them, because they feel unp…

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Mar

2025

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen of the European Commission, this week European citizens have received two clear messages by land, sea and air about their safety. The first has been that we have to rearm at the cost of even social cuts, that there will be moments of great pain because we have been left helpless of Trump's defense and that we will allocate that money to buy Mr. Trump's weapons…

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Mar

2025

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Deteriorating situation in Gaza following the non-extension of the ceasefire (debate)

Madam President, on Sunday Israel cut off Gaza's only remaining electricity supply. Thousands of aid workers have been illegally expelled in recent weeks, including from UNRWA, the organisation you named, Commissioner. Today, right now, there are soldiers who are destroying, occupying and disabling Gaza's only remaining fertile strip, where Palestinians worked their land so they could eat; And tha…

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Mar

2025

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Madam President, millions of Europeans are living in fear that Trump's policies could affect their lives. They live in fear that they may lose their job: for example, in the ceramics industry (which, in my country, in my region, accounts for one in three jobs), and also in agriculture. Families also live in fear of how rising prices can affect them with rising tariffs. Meanwhile, in this Parliamen…

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Feb

2025

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EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, you cannot cheat the loner. You cannot say that it is good for the European agricultural sector and, at the same time, say that compensation for the European agricultural sector must be increased. What are we up to? If it is good, it should not be compensated. If compensation needs to be increased, it cannot be good for the agricultural sector. Question 2: You have a…

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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)

Yes, Mr Oliveira, urban pressure and the savage urbanisation of today are the victims of tomorrow. We have seen it in our land with the dana: It has been built where it could not be built, because it has been seen that the territory was only a space for speculation and not for people to have their living space guaranteed and their lives protected. People have died for being, among other things, ur…

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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, in the last ten years, the desertified area on the Iberian Peninsula has increased twenty-threefold. It is especially worrying in the south of Alicante, in the Vega Baja, a transitional territory, precisely where the urban pressure is wild, where the pressure of overtourism is wild, and where now it no longer happens in isolation that the water is cut, but it is already recurrent. An…

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Jan

2025

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Madam President, does the European Commission justify the infiltration of police into social movements in Valencia, Girona or Barcelona, without any judicial guarantee and without any democratic control over their actions? This is what journalists from Directa or TV3 have uncovered and the activists themselves who suffered these infiltrations for years by four national policemen who were infiltrat…

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Dec

2024

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Need to ensure swift action and transparency on corruption allegations in the public sector to protect democratic integrity (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, do you know the first thing the Government of the Popular Party of the Generalitat Valenciana has done after the damage that left 222 dead? Award a contract for 3.9 million euros to a company convicted of illegal financing of the Popular Party. Do you know the second thing he's done? Finger award a contract of 4.2 million euros to a company convicted of irregular financ…

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Dec

2024

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

Mr President, Commissioner, if we really want to reflect in depth on the European tourism model, we must quickly address the negative externalities of the mass tourism model, and we must do so on a social issue, because the pressure that short-term tourist rentals are exerting on access to housing, on the right of access to housing, is unbearable. We have neighborhoods, whole neighborhoods, that a…

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Dec

2024

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Mr President, President von der Leyen has just announced the agreement with Mercosur as a success. How can something that worsens the lives of most Europeans be advertised as a success? And we can be clear with only three examples. The first one: the agreement with Mercosur will allow unlimited entry of fish and seafood, whose fishing here we are limiting. How can it be? What nonsense to limit fis…

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Dec

2024

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Regional Emergency Support: RESTORE (debate)

Madam President, what the people concerned are asking us to do is to ensure that the funds arrive quickly, and that they are used to rebuild better and that this does not happen again; The fact that they arrive quickly is precisely what we have proposed from our Group and also that this does not happen again, because fifty days ago and, still today, there are four hundred houses, not isolated, but…

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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, in the European Parliament, we commemorate World Children's Day and, while we are here, there are more than 6 000 children in the Canary Islands – on our territory, on European territory – who are totally abandoned by the European institutions. 98% of these girls have experienced sexual violence along the way. They are children fleeing wars and seeking refuge, and they feel…

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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, "when perceiving that a child expresses himself in an effeminate way, the educator must lead him like a magnet towards male realities". This, and other barbarities, is part of the conversion therapies that were in the instructions given to teachers and that we have uncovered right now, in the 21st century, in Valencia: practices that promised to cure what is not a disease, that pe…

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Nov

2024

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, how do you explain that a person, every time he has to travel, must buy two tickets? How do they explain that this happens to tens of thousands of people who have reduced vision and who have to pay a ticket for the person who accompanies them every time they have to travel? How do you explain, for example, that a minister has imposed a fine of 180 million on air…

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Nov

2024

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Mr President, I would like to know how it can be that, during the election campaign, all the parties meet with the farmers and tell them that they are going to be by their side and, right now, both the Commission and some parties have accelerated the agreement with Mercosur, which goes precisely against European farmers. More than fifty-four agricultural organizations throughout Europe have said t…

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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, ladies and gentlemen, I am very ashamed that the pain is used in a partisan way, that the deaths of more than 200 Valencian citizens are used, the pain of more than 200 000 people who have lost all hope, who have also lost their flats, who have lost their property and who are also in an extremely difficult situation. And I say this because it cannot be used in a partisan way to ge…

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Oct

2024

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One-minute speeches (Rule 179)

Mr President, while in this Parliament, a few years ago, and in the Council, just this month, a regulation was approved, the new ambient air quality directive, much more restrictive according to scientific criteria, in the city of Elx, in our third Valencian city, the Government gives free rein to pollution and what it does is destroy bike lanes, pervert the low-emission zone by promoting the use …