Speeches

I absolutely agree with your statement. I am grateful that the subject of mental health is something that unites us all and I wanted to ask you a question, because we are very concerned about the relationship of mental health, the problem of suicide, etc., that you say, with the regularization that the European Parliament is trying to carry out in terms of drug use. Some, such as marijuana, are clearly proven to lead to the problems you mention. I would like to ask you whether your European family, and you in particular, can tell us a little more about how we reconcile the rules on the legalisation of certain drugs that are being discussed in committee with this very pressing problem.

Madam President, my name is Alvise and I want to ask for permission to be able to create a new religion called Alvinism in which I am allowed to murder 5 000 Christians a year; in which I am allowed to organize an Olympics where they mock and mock Christianity, as we saw in France; where I can burn 27 churches, as happened in France last year – more than a dozen churches have already burned in France – and where I am allowed, for example, to treat homosexuals as if they were sick, to treat women as if they were animals with fewer rights than a dog or, for example, to be able to cover an eight-year-old girl with a black cloth because maybe I am sexually aroused. You would say that I am crazy and that we should not have the slightest tolerance with people who defend this. Why should we tolerate people who violate the Treaty of Lisbon and the fundamental rights of the European Union? We must say yes to religious freedom, yes to freedom of belief, yes to freedom of thought, yes to freedom of expression, but not at the expense of the fundamental rights of all Europeans.

Madam President, Mrs Serra, I do not know from what guindo she has fallen, because no one here has defended shooting immigrants. If you consider that all immigrants approaching European borders have to enter, then why do we want borders, miss? For that, we make a conga and let everyone go online dancing to the European Union. It's absurd. Is the Eastern European border important? Yes, and the southern border is also important. As a Spaniard, I am very concerned about the situation my country is suffering with regard to Morocco: extortion of massive cayucos to the Canary Islands and southern Spain; the massive mineral theft already planned by Morocco on Mount Tropic; the Parliament of Morocco saying that Ceuta, Melilla and the Canary Islands are Moroccan territory; reports leaked by intelligence services that say an invasion of the Canary Islands by Morocco is planned before 2030, and the production of more than 40,000 tons of hashish per year. Morocco is a serious problem for the southern border of the European Parliament, and Frontex is not a criminal organisation, as is said here. Frontex is absolutely necessary. Let us hope that the European Union will help us defend the southern border, which is just as important as the Union's eastern border.

In general, we agree with your intervention. There is a serious housing problem, especially in Spain. Thank you for your intervention, but of course I agree with the previous speaker: Where are the housing responsibilities in the European Union? In the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, in the TFEU, where do you think housing is reflected in the European Union?

(start of the intervention out of microphone) ... in the end the demagoguery is from both sides. Both sell weapons on both fronts. I was going to address the High Representative, Mr Borrell, who has just entered. I am happy to see you, but it is true that the Spanish army has 669 soldiers deployed in Lebanon in the operation that, as you well know, is called Libre Hidalgo of the UN, when right now the UN is not carrying out any mission with these Spanish soldiers in Lebanon. And I'm very concerned because there are 669 military lives that are being unnecessarily put at risk between crossfire and collateral damage. Mr Borrell, I would like you to answer this question to me: Why don't we withdraw those troops, return them home and prevent a single Spanish life from taking an unnecessary risk, basically because since 2006 we have already lost more than sixteen Spanish soldiers in this conflict? If you could please explain to us why we cannot return them home, I would very much appreciate it.

Mr President, are you really criticising social media and talking about hoaxes, disinformation and media pluralism here in this Parliament? Some of you, as I'm hearing on the left side, with moral authority. Have not scientific studies been censored here in this very Chamber on the side effects of the vaccines with which the husband of the President of the European Commission became a millionaire, and for what he was, incidentally, recently accused of corruption? Scientific studies - not by TikTok, which some have laughed about, but with sample, with design, with peer review, data transparency and replicability - pure science censored in this House and censored in Europe purely for political and economic reasons, while there are thousands of people affected, for example, in my country, with thrombi and cancers that are absolutely ignored. And this can be said here because, in every other social network, if you say it they censor you or, even worse - and it is a topic that we should start dealing with - they demonetize you. Demonetisation is another form of censorship contrary not only to the fundamental rights of the European Union, but also to e-commerce rights. And yet not a single Member of Parliament ever criticises him here. Were legal media not censored here in Europe solely because of their country of origin? Or how do we talk about countries, such as Spain or France, where massive duopolies such as those of Atresmedia and Mediaset or Bouygues and the Vivendi group are allowed? We have obtained almost one million votes in Spain and we have not yet been interviewed by any television channel because there is no freedom of expression in my country. Perhaps these expressions that I verbalize here can only be found on social networks and in no other medium.

Mr. President, our thoughts are with the suffering of all the women who at some point in their lives have had to endure this violence that we denounce here today. But I listened to my country partner, Irene Montero, talk about the systematic problem of violence against women, when she passed as Minister a law that so far has benefited 1 205 sex criminals, paedophiles and rapists among them and has allowed the release in my country of 121 sex criminals, the vast majority of whom - as you will understand - against women. That is why I would like to ask Mrs Irene Montero, since the Blue Card has not been possible, whether her policy of reducing battered women is based on killing them yourself with her policies by freeing those criminals or whether it is rather to regularise millions of Africans so that they can end them themselves. Let's see if you can explain it to us.

Madam President, we must see what we have to hear in this Parliament. We have been able to hear MEP Riba i Giner say that Venezuela only matters to the far right. Madam MEP, you are from the Group of the Greens, are you not? Don't you find it odd that you care more about cauliflowers or animals than the lives of millions of people? We have twenty-four dead in Venezuela, we have more than two thousand wounded, we have more than seven million exiles, and we are here discussing certain resolutions of the European Parliament that seem very good to me, we are going to support them because the Venezuelan people are a brother people, but it will happen as with Belarus, it will happen as with Cuba, it will happen as with North Korea or so many other dictatorships in which wet papers no longer matter, because a dictator tyrant who is made to protect his own Constitution by corrupt military officials and traitors is not thrown only with papers. And it is true that it is a sovereign people, we do not discuss that, but for something we have something called human rights: If we care only about the rights of Europeans, let us call them that. Long live Venezuela! Next September 28 we will be with the Venezuelan people in the streets of the world.

Mr. President, I ask myself a question: What would happen to this system of surveillance and censorship if disinformation came in the future from the European Commission itself, as is already the case today with supposedly official big media? Where have the founder of Telegram been arrested for protecting the independence of his own business, of his own social network? It was not in Russia, ladies and gentlemen, it was in France. Who has threatened Mr. Elon Musk, owner of X? It wasn't Putin, it wasn't China's president, it was the European Commission. The DSA aims to decide what is real and what is a hoax; It is not about fighting disinformation and hate, it is just about giving the European Commission the power to put pressure on journalists to censor profiles and censor social media without a court ruling. De facto, and it is hard to say, this is a "Digital Soviet Union" contrary to the European founding values that we so much want to respect here. We need, it is true, to give Europeans instruments to discern the fallacies of what hoaxes are, we need reality, which is interpretative, to adapt to legislation, but, ladies and gentlemen, with collaborative verification notes, yes, voluntary, not that a European bureaucrat can eliminate your profile or digital business because he considers, subjectively, that you are lying. Or do we talk about the taboo of what happened here, with official and censored scientific reports, under the...

Mr President, the Pew Research Center, the Institute for Jewish Policy Research, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, the ADL, the Foundation for Political Innovation (Fondapol), all microdata from most reputable studies from the European Union and the Member States indicate that there is a direct and clear correlation between the importation of Muslim immigration and the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe. We have seen how this house has today become the center of hate crimes against the Jew and against Israel. Deputy Demirel calling all those who defended the existence of Israel fascists. MP Mendes said she condemned the violence only from Solingen to Gaza. Are the dead killed in Tel Aviv worth less? And while we are here trying to talk about hate crimes without opening the debate - which I think is quite a priority, which is how hate crimes are justified with freedom of expression - we forget that we are in maximum shares of the hatred against the Jew that we have to eradicate.

Mrs. Mendes, I've listened to you very carefully. I am a Spanish MEP who wants to ask you a simple question. It is true that in this European Parliament we are all against racism, against xenophobia, against homophobia, against everything that violates the fundamental rights of Europeans, but it is also true that in my country, Spain, the reports of prisons and law enforcement agencies indicate that it is not racist to link immigration with crime and criminality, but that it is based on official data from some Member States, such as Spain, Germany or France. I'd like you to be able to nuance what you're relying on to completely decouple immigration from these police reports.