Speeches

Of course I believe that, in this society, women and men in Europe have equal rights. Of course I do. And if at some point – most importantly – a woman sees that her rights are not being fulfilled or are being violated, she has a constitutional guarantee in Spain, for example, and throughout Europe, to go to justice and denounce that her rights are not being fulfilled. You are here trying to manipulate the fact that there are injustices in society, that there are injustices, that there are machismos, that maybe some women have difficulties because of their personal circumstances. You are using these circumstances as if there is no guarantee here in Europe that these women can achieve their goals with all the guarantees in the world, because there is justice and a legislative framework that protects it. So what it cannot be is to use those situations to generate an ideological discourse that has nothing to do with being male or female. It has to do with the policies that from this Parliament you push to boost your ideological discourse, basically.

Madam President, Commissioner, imagine a woman getting up before dawn to be able to carry out her exploitation. Now imagine that that same woman is listening to us here today talk about gender-sensitive infrastructures, talk about intersectional financial literacy. What do you think that young farmer would think? For this is exactly what is happening here today. We have a suffocated field, abandoned, with a lack of infrastructure, with funds that do not arrive, with bureaucracy, with a lack of generational renewal and they intend to make us believe that all this is a gender problem. Really? Do you really think that not all these problems are also faced by a young farmer or a young farmer who is struggling to get his farm off the ground? Ladies and gentlemen, the problem is not being a woman, the problem is her ideological policies: with more costs, more rules, more bureaucracy and, of course, with the unfair competition that both the People's Party and the Socialist Party like and encourage. And as the countryside unites, you respond with quotas, intersectionality and a gender perspective - even in the form of lettuce - when you should be talking about land, costs and access to credit. A farmer, Your Honor, does not need quotas, she does not need more ideology, she needs to be able to live from her work and she does not need to be explained her problems, she needs you to stop creating them, because in the countryside there are no men against women, there are people working from sun to sun against their policies.

Mr President, Commissioner, first of all we congratulate Mr Fidanza on this excellent report, and of course we are going to vote in favour because he recognises something essential: that livestock farming is strategic for Europe. However, I recognize that this debate is looking more like a play to me than a parliamentary debate, because I am listening to grand speeches that applaud the farmer, while what the farmers really feel out there is that this Parliament and this Commission are their worst enemy. And why? Well, very simple: because here they have their mouths full talking about profitability as long as they keep increasing their costs; because they speak of generational renewal, but have allowed Europe to lose almost 40% of its farmers in 20 years; because they talk about avoiding animal diseases, but they open the door wide to imports that they know do not comply with one tenth of our health and environmental regulations; because they also talk about food sovereignty while negotiating agreements that squander our field; and because they even defend – they say defend – the European farmer while voting in favour of Mercosur to replace them with farmers from Brazil. So, socialist and popular gentlemen, to defend livestock is not to say it here in a speech, it is not to sell your head out there.

I do not think I am the right person to answer your question as to why you do that, since my fellow socialists and communists should answer that question, who are the ones who encourage this massive uncontrolled immigration from countries – as you say – where women are worthless, countries that despise women, stone women, rape women and treat them as mere objects. If we massively import people from countries where women are despised, in the end we have Algeria in Spain, Algeria in Europe, and that is what we do not want, indeed, for women. Therefore, from VOX we say that these migration policies are a serious attack on the security of women.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the main problem in protecting women in Spain is called 'socialism' and it is called 'Pedro Sánchez'. The Spanish left, with its "sueltavioladores" laws, its agents of inequality, its migration policies and its anti-maltreatment bracelets that do not work, has turned Spain into a true paradise for aggressors and rapists and into a hell for women. And, even so, the socialists run to take the picture in feminist demonstrations to the cry of "sister, I do believe you" while in their party, day yes and day also, scandals of harassment and prostitution erupt, but there they no longer believe the sisters, there the sisters give them completely the same. Because, I don't know if they knew, but false denunciations exist, although only when the aggressor is from the left. This is the socialist MeToo: I'm pricked too, but the chair is sacred. The best fight against sexual harassment, Commissioner, is for rapists and abusers to be held in prison until they rot in prison; that the socialist gangsters and puteros are held accountable to justice for the damage they have done to the Spaniards; and that those who profit from gender bars start looking for work, because we are going to end their business and we are going to reinvest all that money in really protecting women.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, today the Commission presumes here to simplify the CAP, right? But let me tell you the real translation: acknowledge, late and poorly, that they have strangled the European farmer. This reform is not a success; This is proof that Brussels has been wrong for years while the countryside continues to pay the price for its ecosuicidal ideological engineering. What really hurts our producers hasn't changed at all. Its PAC keeps intact environmental obligations and budget cuts and, what is almost worse, gives carte blanche to an openly enemy government of the countryside, such as the Government of Pedro Sánchez, to continue subduing and ruining the farmer. In Galicia, half (half!) of its dairy farms, which produce more than 40% of Spanish milk, have disappeared in just a decade. But every year in Spain they close dozens of family farms drowned by this CAP and by the costs that you impose from here. So, Commissioner, the European field is not asking for any more aesthetic touch-ups. What he's asking for is courage. And when this Europe has the opportunity to demonstrate this courage, it simply decides not to. So this simplification is simply disappointing.

Your Honour, I do not quite understand what the question is, but well, given your reflection, I will tell you that we are precisely the party of coherence here, because we do not want to prevent you from going by plane. On the contrary, we want everyone to be able to go by plane or in the transport that they decide. Those who forbid the popular classes and the workers to go by plane and in their cars are you while you take your private plane, go in business and go to their homes and mansions full of security and with their electric cars built in China too, a country that is the largest emitter of CO2, as you know. So lessons here of coherence, none. Secondly, about the damage you mentioned: It is very easy for the left to continue blaming climate change instead of taking responsibility for the policies that have led precisely to the increasing frequency of these phenomena. Why? Because you do not build watersheds and you establish policies that unprotect citizens and farmers.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, today we are talking about your annual eco-posture gala, the COP30 gala: the red carpet - sorry, green - grand speeches and, of course, hundreds of private jets to return home fighting hard against climate change. But, if the show is really embarrassing, it is even more so that they come here to boast of having compensated the 130 000 tons of CO2 which you yourself generated with your Summit. This is equivalent, to be understood, to 80 000 European cars circulating for a whole year. But, yes, all this show to point out the worker who is driving to his work, to point out the farmer who produces food and, of course, so that the green and popular and socialists continue to ask for more climate ambition with a gender perspective or even a Treaty, as we have just heard, against fossil fuels. Meanwhile, the Commission itself recognises that 70% of European primary energy depends on these fossil fuels. Prohibit what sustains the European productive and logistic industrial fabric: Of course, this genius could only come out of you, gentlemen of the bipartisanship. In your climate metaverse these delusions may work, but in reality they don't, so keep on your green carpet that we will continue to defend those who produce and sustain our nations.

Madam President, let's call things by their name. This Gender Equality Strategy is neither a strategy nor an equality strategy, it is an ideological tool to control European policies with a single purpose: destroy everything that makes women strong, such as family, identity, effort, unity and freedom. Where are the proposals here in this report that do help women? Where is the support for work-life balance, motherhood, access to housing, job stability? Where are they? Well, they're not, they don't exist. This left that presumes to be a feminist does not even know how to answer such a simple question as what is it to be a woman? It is limited to writing reports on malespheres, while they try to erase our biological reality and turn us into a kind of ideological construct that they themselves do not know how to define. They speak of abortion, moreover, as something liberating, when true freedom consists precisely in having all the tools to be able to choose life and not be pushed to destroy it. The left claims to fight for equality, but in reality, it massively imports cultures that deny that equality and, moreover, quiets mercilessly when the aggressor is an immigrant. So their feminism is not such, it is simply an ideological idea that aims to turn women into that, into a political tool to get a political return from them. On the left the woman does not hurt, it serves her.

Mr President, Commissioner, it has been almost a year since you and Mrs von der Leyen promised that this would be the legislature of the dialogue with farmers; that, after years of normative asphyxiation, the field would once again be heard and respected. But the reality they offer is different: skyrocketing production costs, sunk prices and unfair trade agreements such as Mercosur, which threaten to wipe out entire sectors. We only had the CAP left, but even that: the Commission signed its death certificate in July with a cut of more than 22%, a success here of the popular and socialists who govern in Brussels. And, Commissioner, we have told you on countless occasions: we will support all those measures that benefit our primary sector, yes; No, we do support written and transparent contracts to give more security and bargaining power to those who need it most. We do support the revision of long-term contracts so that no farmer sells below their costs. We do support strengthening cooperatives and producer organisations so that they can negotiate under the best conditions. And yes, of course, we support more incentives for young people, because without generational renewal there is no future for the European countryside. What we are not just going to validate is its rectification policy after verifying that its ecofanatic policies and its European Green Deal only lead us to misery, abandonment and depopulation. The simplification of the CAP must be real and complete. So, Commissioner, bring back to the field the three words that Brussels has forgotten: productivity, profitability and competitiveness.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, you, from the Commission, have turned climate into religion and fear into politics, because every heat wave is sold here as if it were the apocalypse, when really, for example, in Spain the worst heat wave took place more than 20 years ago, in 2003, when more than 13 000 people died. You mentioned here figures that do not reach 2 000 people. Therefore, the heatwaves - this apocalypse that you want to present to us - are nothing new. Heat waves have repeated over time, with different frequency and with different intensity. What is new is not the climate, but its European Green Deal, which has been running since 2019. In this demonic European Green Deal you ban clearings, pursue grazing and have turned the mountain into a gas can, waiting for a spark to catch on. And here we have the result. In Spain this summer we have had - as you know - more than 200 fires, of which it is true that a third of them have been caused by arsonists, yes, but all of them fed and aggravated by their "ecofanatic" policies. So the criminal lights the match and you, with your policies, fan the flames. And worst of all, even seeing the consequences of your policies, you have little decency to say here that we still need...

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, once again, our farmers are once again the target of geopolitical disputes that they have not provoked. This is what has happened, for example, with the United States, where they have accepted a 15% tariff on our exports while the Commission opened the market wide to vulnerable sectors, such as nuts. But they are also currently suffering from the negotiation of Mercosur, where the Commission – with premeditation and treachery – is trying to close a trade agreement that it knows, in advance, will be lethal for our countryside and for our rural areas. And now, in addition, China, because our farmers are hostages of an unfounded investigation in retaliation for the European tariffs on the Chinese electric car. And we owe all this to Mrs von der Leyen, a successful European Commission negotiator who is unable to defend, firmly, those who produce, today, the best pigmeat in the world. Every negotiation in Brussels ends with the same result: The European countryside is the one that pays the bill, and each bill is another step towards the ruin of our farmers and ranchers. That is why we say, Commissioner, that you are not building Europe: They're digging it.

Your Honor, I think the answer to that question is obvious: I have seen cows many times, in person, I have visited a lot of farms every week. I can tell you that I visit farms, farms, livestock, etc. Those who seem not to have seen a cow in their life or visited an agricultural holding are all of you, who legislate behind the backs of the countryside, who legislate without talking to the countryside, who legislate totally behind the backs of our farmers and ranchers, because if you did, you would not apply legislation such as the European Green Deal and all those legislations. It only takes you to go out into the street to see how the tractors are every day in the street denouncing the policies that you make here in your offices...

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, what was the first great lesson that the pandemic left us? That without farmers there is no food, and without food there is no Europe. And there they were, our farmers, the first ones, when we needed them most. And today, five years later, this Commission is thanking you with a historic swipe at the CAP. The excuse? The EUR 30 billion we have to pay in interest on squandered European funds. And of course, von der Leyen tightens his belt, but what a coincidence that always at the neck of the field! And as long as you all nod here, there is a political force in this Chamber that does not kneel before bureaucrats or before lobbies environmentalists. Here is a stronghold that will fight for every farmer in Europe, because from VOX and Patriots for Europe we will continue to defend a decent CAP, a CAP with a strong budget that, at least, adjusts to inflation. A free CAP, without ideological impositions, such as the European Green Deal. A useful, agile, productive and fair CAP, and, above all, a CAP that is loyal to those who feed Europe, because you say here every day that the future will be green or it will not be. I tell them that the future will be with them or it won't be.

Mr González Casares, I think that to say that renewables had nothing to do with the blackout is to lie and be a little irresponsible, because that day, precisely, 71% of electricity generation in Spain was renewable – 58%, specifically, was solar: asynchronous sources without the ability to stabilize the network when the frequency fell. And Vox does not say this, I do not say it, the government's own report says it: There was a lack of synchronous generation and firm technologies that could maintain the system. So, indeed, renewables are not the enemy. The problem is to impose them at any price, without planning, without a clear strategy, without backup and without a network that supports it. That's what caused the collapse: its ideology and its energy policy, tremendously ideological, without any strategy, planning or common sense.

Madam President, this report confirms exactly what VOX has been denouncing for years, which is that they have put millions of Europeans at risk with a tremendously ideological, accelerated and technically unfeasible energy transition. Your energy model has been designed, ladies and gentlemen, to fail: because they have replaced firm, synchronous technologies, such as nuclear or hydraulics, with intermittent, asynchronous generation without sufficient backing. They have demolished our energy sovereignty, that of all Europeans, in the name of the European Green Deal. They have turned this Pact into their climate religion, and we saw the result on 28 April, when Spain went dark, when at least ten people died – my condolences from here to their families – and when we suffered more than €1.6 billion in losses. Fifty-one days later, the Government of Spain has limited itself to handing out blames as pamphlets, while we have had to witness here the embarrassing situation of a former minister of energy ruin and her current commissioner, Teresa Ribera, who ran away, fleeing the debate of the blackout. The network has not failed, ladies and gentlemen, its ideology has failed. You've failed, again.

Mr President, this Parliament today has a historic opportunity to live up to the principles it claims to uphold, because what has happened in Spain with the amnesty law is a frontal attack on the rule of law and on the equality of citizens before the law. This report mentions, for the first time, the treason involved in amnesty for criminals convicted of violating the constitutional order in exchange for the handful of votes that Pedro Sánchez needed to be able to continue clinging to power, so this Parliament can no longer look the other way: If it is indeed the home of European democracy, today it must unambiguously condemn this infamy, out of respect for Spain and the Spanish people. And although we know that the Socialists are extremely stingy and embarrassed about this point, for VOX it is so crucial that our final vote will depend on it; Because today not only one report is voted on, it is voted on whether this House stands with the citizens and justice or with those who trample and twist the law to remain in power.

Mr. President, you knew, ladies and gentlemen. Since 2021, they knew that this European Green Deal rule would stifle our SMEs with disproportionate costs. Even the Commission itself recognised, in its impact assessment, that the CBAM would particularly penalise SMEs and yet approved it; They moved on as Europe's industrial fabric sank. Now, late and bad, as they have been doing lately in each plenary session, they try to make up this disaster with patches, thresholds and exceptions, but the problem of all this is the bureaucratic monster they have created: carbon certificates, emission calculations, sanctions ... while other countries – such as China or the United States – laugh at us and, what is worse, dedicate themselves to supporting their industry and their citizens. The CBAM – like the rest of the European Green Deal – is a confiscatory and bureaucratic trap, a job-destroying machine and a highway to Europe’s deindustrialisation. We don't want thresholds, compasses or transitions. What we want is industrialization, employment, economic freedom and for the Commission to stop playing, from its offices, with the bread of all Europeans.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, do you know what a beef steak and a Tesla have in common? That for many European families today both products are inaccessible. Since 2019, beef in Spain has increased by 65%. But, in Europe, the shopping basket has increased by 30%, much more than the CPI. Now we have to listen here to everyone complaining about the price of food and poor families who can't fill the fridge. But I've never seen anyone sing the mea culpa with its European Green Deal, which is primarily responsible for the brutal increase in prices and energy costs. Nor do they do so because they have voted against measures to mitigate the impact of tariffs on fertilisers, which have already increased by 120% and which are going to skyrocket even more with their policies, making our food even more expensive, of course. This is your legacy, ladies and gentlemen: while here they play to save the planet with their European Green Deal, they leave the fields empty and now they will also leave the dishes empty.

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, while here they draft documents on resilient infrastructure, citizens are still waiting for water works that really protect them. None of the amendments tabled by VOX or the Patriots for Europe Group have been accepted. Not a single one. They have refused to speak clearly of water infrastructure as an essential tool to prevent flooding. They reject reservoirs, dams, bypass channels. They refuse to shield these infrastructures from the ideological impositions of Brussels. And in the meantime, the water is either missing or overflowing. How quickly you have forgotten Valencia! They prefer to point to climate change as the sole culprit, as if droughts and floods have not existed since historical records exist. However, the real responsibility is political, not climate change. It is not having built the necessary infrastructures to store, manage, protect. It is not investing in real solutions based on technical criteria, while citizens pay the consequences. Of course, continue to point to farmers as large consumers of water. Continue to call for the price of water to rise, for gender criteria to be introduced into water decisions, for the dogmas of the 2030 Agenda, the Green Deal or the Nature Restoration Regulation to be maintained. Go on, that we will continue to defend citizens above any ideological agenda. We will continue to fight for the infrastructure that Spain and Europe need and, thanks to this, we have at least managed to include the cleaning of rivers, because while others here agree on armchairs, we fight for real solutions.