Speeches

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.