What Diego spoke about.

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Jun

2025

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Digital Markets, Digital Euro, Digital Identities: economical stimuli or trends toward dystopia (topical debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we are being sold the digital euro and digital identity as progress, but behind it is something much darker: full control over the citizens. This isn't just about technology, it's about power, about deciding how we spend, what we consume, where we are. It is the door to mass surveillance where our freedom is tied to a screen and who controls it. And the worst pa…

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Jun

2025

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Electricity grids: the backbone of the EU energy system (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we can have the best car in the world, but if we put it down a goat road, we are not going anywhere. And that's what we do with energy in Europe: Get her down broken paths while we think we're champions of the future. Europe cannot afford to waste any more time. Today in Spain we already know what a total blackout is, what it is to see how ineffici…

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Jun

2025

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Safeguarding the rule of law in Spain, ensuring an independent and autonomous prosecutor's office to fight crime and corruption (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, when in a State powers are withdrawn from judges to be handed over to prosecutors controlled by the Attorney General, put to the finger by the President of the Government, we are not talking about reforms, we are talking about institutional demolition: the Constitutional Court, the Court of Auditors, the General Council of the Judiciary, make the Attorney Genera…

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May

2025

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Choose Europe for Science (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, there are two strange things to see: a boat going to a communist country and a researcher thinking of staying in Europe. Europe wants to be the home of science, but for that it has to be a place where living, working and creating is not a risk sport. We are a continent with strong democracies: health, education, mobility... Yes, but can a young researcher afford an a…

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May

2025

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Resilience and the need to improve the interconnection of energy grid infrastructure in the EU: the first lessons from the blackout in the Iberian Peninsula (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, on 28 April the Iberian Peninsula experienced an alarming episode: A massive blackout affected Spain, Portugal and part of southern France. Millions of citizens, hospitals, transportation systems and communications were left in the dark. The cause? A fragile electrical system, exposed to green ideological dogmatism and hostage to it. At that time, 80% of electricity …

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May

2025

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Winning the global tech race: boosting innovation and closing funding gaps (topical debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, Europe is at a turning point. As the United States and Asia accelerate their technological leadership, the European Union cannot get caught up in bureaucracy. We need agility and political courage. European start-ups – especially in countries such as Spain, where the entrepreneurial ecosystem has grown by 30% in five years – have global potential, but they want a clear,…

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Apr

2025

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Energy-intensive industries (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, energy voracity and ultra-bureaucracy cannot destroy our industry. Today the European Union's energy policies are pushing our industry to the brink. We are talking about the electrointensive industries, which support more than 20% of industrial employment in Europe and are the basis of strategic sectors such as construction, automotive and defence. However, in Spain,…

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Mar

2025

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Action Plan for the Automotive Industry (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, today we are not just talking about regulations or deadlines, we are talking about thousands of jobs, about factories that are the lifeblood of our economy, about an automotive industry that has made Spain the second largest producer in Europe. And yet we're dropping it. While China and the United States protect and subsidize their manufacturers, Europe imposes regul…

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Mar

2025

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Clean Industrial Deal (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, if we continue in this direction, we run the risk that, by 2030, our industries will have disappeared and our sovereignty will be in the hands of foreign powers. Our industry relocates, our companies close, our competitiveness disappears... The only thing we bring them from Europe is bureaucracy, obstacles and suffocating taxes. Europe has gone from setting the cours…

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Feb

2025

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Threats to EU sovereignty through strategic dependencies in communication infrastructure (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, Europe is losing ground in the global technology race. As the United States and China consolidate their digital dominance, we continue to rely on third parties for our security, competitiveness and economic independence: We can't afford it. Spain has a key geostrategic position in this challenge. It is a nexus of union between Europe, America and Africa, with critical i…

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Feb

2025

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EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, what is this agreement with Mercosur about? To sell them industrial production in exchange for them flooding our markets with products grown with pesticides banned in Europe? These controls that say they are going to be implemented, are they the same controls that let pass all the products that come from Morocco without control? That is, do we sell the health of our cit…

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Jan

2025

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Cryptocurrencies - need for global standards (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, the MiCA Regulation, although presented as a step towards regulating crypto-assets, represents a direct threat to citizens' rights. Under the guise of protecting the consumer and ensuring financial stability, this framework could undermine privacy, financial freedom and innovation. Imposing global standards on a system created to be decentralized is literally putting…

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Jan

2025

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Need to enforce the Digital Services Act to protect democracy on social media platforms including against foreign interference and biased algorithms (debate)

Madam President, today we are talking about implementing the Digital Services Act to safeguard democracy and prevent manipulation. But I ask them: Safeguard her from whom? Avoid what manipulation? The real problem is that the European ruling class does not tolerate questioning the foundations of this system designed to suit them for decades. In Spain, the Government of Sanchez already controls tra…

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Jan

2025

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Madam President, it has been 83 days since a great flood swept entire populations in my land, Valencia. You start to know more about what happened, although there are still many unknowns to clear. It is known that both PP and PSOE governments left in the drawer projects to adapt the ravines in the area, because they were not interested in spending money on prevention. It is known that floodgates w…

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Jan

2025

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Powering Europe’s future - advancing the fusion industry for energy independence and innovation (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, fusion energy is an incredible promise, a clean and inexhaustible future, but achieving the Sun's temperatures here on Earth and storing that energy is literally one of humanity's greatest challenges, as ITER demonstrates. I'm sure we'll make it, but let's face it, that future is still far away. In the meantime, we need solutions that work now, that are sustainable a…

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Dec

2024

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Need to update the European strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, today I want to talk about Ezekiel: Ezequiel Gómez Ruiz. Ezequiel is a child with disabilities, neighbor of Catarroja. Ezekiel has not left home since October 29. Ezequiel is kidnapped by local authorities because they don't want to help clean the garage of the house where he lives. Yesterday the administrator of his building confirmed to me that they are still in th…

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Dec

2024

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Regional Emergency Support: RESTORE (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, 48 days have passed and Valencia still needs a lot of help. Aid is being received, for example to buy cars, but it is not enough. There are families that are asking for loans to be able to buy those cars. The time will come when families will have to decide if they pay a loan, if they pay a electricity bill or if they have to eat. In short, families working to pay de…

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Nov

2024

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Rise of energy prices and fighting energy poverty (debate)

Madam President, this month, in Spain, the cost of energy has once again reached annual peaks. Normally, private companies usually develop strategic plans for three or five years, and we evaluate sales data, profits, we review them and see if our plans are going well. Obviously, if we look at the plans and signals that energy prices are sending us for both industries and homes, we have to realize …

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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, I shall leave a few comments and questions. First comment: in Valencia the system has failed. As much as you and Sanchez say, the only thing that has worked have been the citizens who have stepped forward. On the issue of the technology gap: Either we start to take a 180-degree turn or with the regularization we have of technology we do not reach either the United States or China.…

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Nov

2024

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Prison conditions in the EU (debate)

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Nov

2024

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Mr President, today I would like to share with you the situation in Valencia, on 25 November, in the affected area. By the way, do you know how much water or how much it rained on October 29 in Paiporta? Do you know how much water was unpacked, for example, from the Forata reservoir? Were the authorities notified of the unpacking of that water? On whom do these infrastructures depend, future Commi…

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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, how many hours have you slept in the last fortnight? How many muds have been removed? How many volunteers have you managed? Today I am not here to talk only about figures or infrastructure. Today I speak to you of humanity, of lives lost, of solidarity, of the values that unite. Valencia, my land, has been devastated by a murderous DANA that has devastated lives, homes, businesses…

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Oct

2024

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Closing the EU skills gap: supporting people in the digital and green transitions to ensure inclusive growth and competitiveness in line with the Draghi report (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, if we want a competitive, realistic and sustainable Europe, we need rapid impact changes on our citizens. We have three important areas where you have to take a 180-degree turn. First, a suicidal and totally inverted population pyramid. Without family, birth and work-life balance policies, this will not be solved by importing millions of immigrants…

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Oct

2024

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Tackling the steel crisis: boosting competitive and sustainable European steel and maintaining quality jobs (debate)

Madam President, 'you will have nothing and you will be happy'. Looks like we took the highway road to that destination and we're packed. The automotive, ceramics, steel, agriculture, etc. industries all have a common denominator: the crisis. Where is the problem so that all these industries are crying out to us for help and change? Will it be the regulations and regulations that we are forcing th…

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Oct

2024

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The crisis facing the EU’s automotive industry, potential plant closures and the need to enhance competitiveness and maintain jobs in Europe (debate)

What's the question? What we're saying is we can't influence. We can't set rules for the electric car. What we need to do is invest in combustion and biofuel technologies to continue to have a strong automotive industry.…