Political repression and humanitarian situation in Cuba (debate)
Madam President, I understand that a certain section of this Parliament is angry because you already know that on Thursday the CIA visited Havana, this Saturday they extradited Maduro's front man, yesterday the United States sanctioned the entire Cuban intelligence apparatus and just today they judicially accuse the greatest supporter of that murderous regime, which has been former President Zapatero. So can anyone explain to me what this Parliament is doing by inviting and legitimising emissaries of the Castro regime? Perhaps because that regime has survived - and we are not hypocrites - thanks to European companies that have made gold with Cuban misery? Spanish included, huh? Meliá – the Escarrer – has 30 partner hotels in Gaesa, the military arm of the Castros. The French do the same with Pernod Ricard or Air France. You Italians do exactly the same. They are billions of euros that have given oxygen to the Cuban regime, while the Cuban on the street is starving to death eating rice with a cat. And now that the regime is sinking, it is time to pretend that here we care about the Cubans, whom this Parliament has abandoned for decades. To me, being so hypocritical would embarrass me, especially for those who call themselves feminists here while defending a regime that is a factory for widows and prostitutes.
Preventing sexual harassment in public institutions: latest revelations and resignations in Spain and institutional responses (debate)
It hurts to hear the reality of the boatman. PP, PSOE, Buxadé... Have you finished littering, seeing who violates less or who has fewer advisors? Okay, I'll start. Who uncovered the Tito Berni scandal in the PSOE with photos and parties presumably paid for with public funds? Oh, good. Who brings to light the wasaps of the victims of the mayor of the PP in Algeciras, which the Socialist Party has treated here today? Who took out those wasaps? I: is published in the media. And now you all come here, when you hide in Spain your own sexual scandals, to shame others, international. You are all eager to use the [...] politically.
Preventing sexual harassment in public institutions: latest revelations and resignations in Spain and institutional responses (debate)
Mr President, how I am enjoying this plenary session. Although, Irene, I've seen you a little loose. I imagine that after seeing what your colleagues Errejón and Cía were doing, it costs a lot to come here. Although it is even more difficult to talk about the fear that employees have to stay here alone with their bosses when you have risen politically to marry your former boss in the party. It's surreal what we hear here. Let me talk. Can you let me talk? Well, nothing, report me...
Development of an industry for sustainable aviation and maritime fuel in Europe (debate)
Mr. President, you have to see what good people we are all here: It seems that Europe has decided to save the planet alone. It must be that the CO2 China or India is kinder and pollutes less, because they continue to burn coal as if there were no tomorrow, while here we close industries, raise costs and above half of this Parliament cheerfully applauds Greta Thunberg. I thought that here we had been voted to be MEPs - except for the Commission, where no one voted for them - but no, it turns out that here half of Parliament has a complex of being presidents of the United Nations. This is the Commission's talk of just transition. Right for who? We have a suffocating electric bill. China already controls 60-90% of most critical materials in batteries, panels and technology. If Beijing wants to, tomorrow all this farce of the green transition is over. If Beijing gave the order tomorrow, this is going - forgive me for saying it - to hell. Integration is putting panels and turbines and that's it? Nobody mentions new electricity grids, storage, backup to avoid blackouts like the ones we are suffering in Spain. And when we talk here about defending nuclear energy, the illuminated one on duty jumps talking about Chernobyl, when the only knowledge they have of the matter is to have seen that miniseries on Netflix that we have all seen. Leave some sectarianism here and let's agree on cheap energy for once.
Thank you very much for your question. I regret that, as a Member of Portugal, you have told me?, you have not been concerned to understand that, if someone does not divide between left and right, it is usually we who consider both parts of the same moral hemiplegia that hijacks this continent. Your own group is saying here, dear colleague, that parents are unable to monitor - you have used the term ‘monitoring’ - children 24 hours a day. What does that mean? What do you want the European Commission to do to keep an eye on our children 24/7 where parents don't arrive? Or as the Spanish left said: As children are not of the parents but of the State, what more does it give! You are authoritarian, you are hypocrites. And, really, we assure you that, if we have to fight to the end to defend internet freedom, we're going to do it.
Madam President, I have listened to all my colleagues and of course we all agree on protecting children. The question is whose? From the internet or some of those in this room? They bring here a mass surveillance document on - and I quote - European digital maturity, mandatory verification, automatic detection, age checks by law. I'm going to tell you frankly: Just because you don't know how to educate your children doesn't mean you have to keep an eye on ours. Let's see if they internalize it. They talk about addictive designs, but how can they talk here (especially the left) about addiction if they live on having half a continent hooked on subsidies and propaganda? But "you have to see how addictive the internet is." Do you know how easy it would be to skip absolutely every legal initiative here with a virtual private network? Technology is infinitely above what this House can do right now by legislating here. We can pass with HTTPS any database, regardless of the legislation here. And I think a lot of pseudo-legislators don't understand that. If we really want to protect the young people and children of this continent, we have to persecute pedophiles, punish impersonations, teach digital literacy, not treat the internet as if it were a kindergarten at the service of the bureaucrat on duty.
First anniversary of the DANA floods in Spain: improving EU preparedness (debate)
Mr. President, how nice the speeches of my colleagues about the damage, the speeches that excited Spielberg, attacking each other, that if climate change, and so on. No one has fallen into the fact that, for example, the Commission has spoken here of two hundred and thirty dead. The official data, in quotation marks, of the Government are two hundred and sixteen. Another body was found last night. Anyway. We don't even have an official list of Dana dead. But what does it matter? All in all, the dead don't vote. Isn't it? And then the European Commission here congratulating itself that it has taken only five months to bring aid to the victims. Five months, do you know what they are for all the victims of our fellow Valencians? Are people aware of what five months is? I don't think so, at all. But what does it matter when we have a Carlos Mazón who, indeed - notice, I totally agree with Irene Montero - should be in prison and we have a Popular Party focused solely on the electoral part of the term? I really only feel sorry and sorry that the only thing we can get out of this Parliament are speeches made with ChatGPT about more than two hundred dead, because even a machine needs to feign emotions. The dead don't care. But anyway, what does it matter?
Arbitrary detention of EU citizens Javier Marañón Montero and David Rodríguez Ballesta in Equatorial Guinea
Madam President, in order to be able to defend - and I agree with the majority of colleagues who have spoken here today - fundamental rights in Equatorial Guinea, we must also have the capacity to defend fundamental rights in Europe. Therefore, I change my speech because something very serious has happened to me, and I am going to tell you as is, dear colleagues and European colleagues. Yesterday, I transferred EUR 106 000 to my bank, the Spanish bank Arquia, with all the necessary legal documentation, to donate, as I usually do, 100% of my salary as a MEP. In the letter that I have just received, I read "We must end the commercial relationship with you because of political ideology", not because of a judicial process or a debt, but only because I criticize the Spanish banking system, and this Spanish bank does not like the ideas of a MEP with more than 800 000 votes from the Spanish people. If there are no fundamental rights and, for a strictly political matter, all of us here can suffer a blockade of an account (and I quote) "for political reasons", what defence do we have to express ourselves freely in - it is supposed, in short - the building of the popular sovereignty of the European people?
Madam President, I already tend to avoid coming to these kinds of debates about Ukraine because I find it very uncomfortable to listen to the opinions of so many puppets. Can we speak with some sincerity for once? Can we say aloud by looking at each other that the dead in Ukraine give us exactly the same thing? Just as we care absolutely nothing about the 5,000 Christians killed in Africa, in a country of the many who are at war. In the end, what we have to talk about is that here we are puppets of powers beyond Europe. We are puppets and we dress in a suit and tie and sit in these 720 seats as if we were painting something. No, no, that's the truth. In the end, "Von der Lucifer," to whom does he kneel? To the United States. U.S. military bases in Europe? Thirty-eight, hundreds of nuclear warheads in Europe. We are literally slaves to American interests; which is not that I criticize it, I say only and exclusively that we speak sincerely, because since we have been chosen by so many Europeans, unless, for once, we say things clearly, right?
Health care related tourism: protecting EU patients abroad (debate)
Mr President, first and foremost, I ask that MEPs be respected here by avoiding calling ourselves Nazis among us. How absurd in a plenary that has absolutely nothing to do with it. Please respect each other. I, as a Spaniard, can say that we suffer absolutely all the problems that you have verbalized here: We suffer the people of northern Europe who want to come in for surgery to lose weight, we suffer those who want to put teeth in our health system and we find it magnificent, as long as they pay for it. The problem here is basically that the European Commission is now giving its opinion on whether it is right or wrong and for what reasons Europeans are doing tourism. Here the real problem is how economic transactions are made so that we Spaniards can charge the excessive expense we have of this type of tourism, so that, in short, they can return the money to us fifteen days ahead, not a year, as happens on some occasions. And, above all, the concept of reciprocity. How is it possible that I, as a Spaniard, if I get bad, in certain countries have to be paying for a service that we then offer for free to depending on which people? Among them, by the way, those of the problem that this House always addresses, which is mass immigration, especially illegal immigration. So, if we had a little reciprocity in European health systems, in dealing with countries outside the European Union - and also, by the way, a little common sense with the taxes we levy on donations made to people who are hospitalised in third countries, such as the famous Valencian in Bangkok, who has had to pay more than three hundred thousand euros in taxes - we would all do much better.
Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2024 (debate)
Madam President, well, first of all, bravo! I admire the theatrical capacity of those of you who come here to lecture us on human rights in the world. But then, when I ask some of you in committee, you have no idea of most wars outside the European Union today. But, well, let's talk about human rights. But let's do it about Europe. What has the European Commission said about the illegal use of sonic weapons against civilians in Serbia - what we learn from social media like so many other things? What have they said about sabotaging Georgescu's legitimate candidacy in Romania or banning the country's most voted candidate from running in the French elections, simply because, in the end, they don't like Le Pen's management of funds? Today, in this very plenary session, the parliamentary immunity of the German MP Petr Bystron was taken away for daring to publish a simple satirical meme, for a satirical meme! All the political rights of a MEP! Is this the freedom we defend in the European Union? I myself – I give you an example – want to disqualify myself for peacefully mobilising more than 20 000 Spaniards in the Madrid protests against Pedro Sánchez last year. Gentlemen, this Europe that talks so much about human rights is not that it is dying, it is that it is dead. You are only the vultures who eat the pieces of what is left of this Europe.
Mr. President, well, anyway, expropriating people just for being Russian... I don't like redheads, we can expropriate them too. What a circus! Really, how eager I am to enlist and go to die in Ukraine! What a thrill! How eager I am to give more power to these bureaucrats of the European Commission who have never been directly elected by anyone, but who decide for everyone's lives! Because if we lack something in this European Union - with its runaway inflation, with its industry in free fall - it is more centralization, more control, more blind obedience and more billions of euros for armaments. Because here the blood of Ukrainians doesn't matter at all; It is important to make the arms companies millionaires. And I really want to understand how it is possible that von der Leyen said two years ago that Russia only had World War II weapons. But now it turns out that we need to freeze the funds of all Russians so that we can defend ourselves against a Russia that has four times fewer tanks than the Europeans. Anyway, what an irony! With a tyrant - a tyrant! - like Putin, unable to conquer more than 20% of Ukraine... But above all, I really mean it, rather than dying, how I want to put an end to this warlike circus called the European Union! Because if there is anything more dangerous than this war, it is to leave the European Union in the hands of bureaucrats, tyrants and murderers, like all of you.