What Raúl spoke about.

16 Sep

2026

ES Speech

Stop gold-plating, relieve SMEs: Member States must implement EU legislation without adding extra bureaucracy (topical debate)

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Madam President, we are already carrying a few bus packages which, we are seeing, are proving to be absolutely insufficient, basically because of their lack of ambition. And in the meantime, here and also in the national parliaments, we spend our time regulating to introduce more burdens, more obligations, more formalities, more bureaucracy to businesses, as we have also seen here on the occasion …

7 Jul

2026

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Urgent measures to strengthen the competitiveness and safeguard quality jobs in the EU’s automotive sector (debate)

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Madam President, how long are we going to witness, resigned, the decline of the emblem of European industry? The situation in the automotive sector in Europe today is the result of years of many mistakes; also years of political errors, years of impossible obligations, unattainable targets, unaffordable energy costs and also unacceptable administrative hurdles. Against that, one consequence – one …

17 Jun

2026

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Electrification Action Plan (debate)

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19 May

2026

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Political repression and humanitarian situation in Cuba (debate)

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Madam President, the Castro regime has its days numbered. The process for the restoration of democracy and the rule of law in Cuba will come sooner rather than later, and the European Union has a moral and political obligation to contribute to its realization, avoiding looking the other way. That contribution necessarily involves the demand that this Parliament suspend the Political Dialogue and C…

10 Mar

2026

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Cutting red tape to enable a competitive and clean transition – the urgent need to shorten and simplify permitting (debate)

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Mr President, another debate to highlight the obvious is that, if we want to advance in competitiveness and in the decarbonisation process, we must try to reduce the suffocating bureaucratic burden on our companies. Here's an example: in Spain, a clean energy project, a clean energy plant, requires a process of approximately ten years, ten years of paperwork, bureaucracy, paperwork, windows, ten y…

11 Feb

2026

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Addressing subcontracting chains and the role of intermediaries in order to protect workers’ rights (debate)

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11 Feb

2026

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Urgent actions to revive EU competitiveness, deepen the EU Single Market and reduce the cost of living - from the Draghi report to reality (debate)

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21 Jan

2026

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Online piracy of sports and other live events: urgent need to address unsolved issues (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, online piracy of sporting events is by no means marginal. It is a cross-border phenomenon, massive and perfectly organized, and against which, unfortunately, the European Union does not have a unitary response, but 27 absolutely unequal, absolutely ineffective and absolutely insufficient national responses. And the question now would be: Is it possible to end pi…

16 Dec

2025

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Presentation of the automotive package (debate)

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27 Nov

2025

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Outcome of the UN Climate Change Conference - Belém (COP30) (debate)

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Thank you. What I am aware of is that the German Government, like all the parties that are part of the European People's Party, is committed to technological neutrality, to the diversification of energy sources and to energy efficiency. Also, by the way, in Germany.…

27 Nov

2025

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Outcome of the UN Climate Change Conference - Belém (COP30) (debate)

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Mr President, the Belém Summit leaves us with a conclusion that many would not want to hear. Realism has been imposed. Beyond passionate speeches, the symbolism of holding the Summit in the middle of the Amazon, the reality is that the main objective pursued, which was to get an agreement to put a date on the end of fossil fuels, has not been achieved. The problem is recognized, but there are no p…

25 Nov

2025

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Digital Package (debate)

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Mr President, Madam Vice-President, those of us who, from the beginning of the legislature, had been calling for measures to help us effectively boost competitiveness, those of us who had been talking about the need to harmonise, simplify and speed up regulation, were calling for a package such as the one presented last week. A text that, unlike other regulatory packages of the Commission, does re…

22 Oct

2025

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UN Climate Change Conference 2025 in Belém, Brazil (COP30) (debate)

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Madam President, a new COP and a new opportunity, a new race to demonstrate how committed we all are in the fight against climate change; and a new CP which, of course, the European Union wants to lead. In the light of what I have heard here, I see how easy it is to talk about great objectives, pompous principles, global challenges, and how difficult it is to translate them later into concrete com…

8 Oct

2025

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Establishment and functioning of European Works Councils - effective enforcement (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, we started this legislature by saying that this was going to be the competitiveness legislature. All of this is based on what the Draghi report said. And we were all clear that achieving competitiveness, achieving it, was not a matter of big slogans, big headlines or declarations, but required, of course, concrete actions, structural reforms and clear strategies to b…

8 Oct

2025

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Europe’s automotive future – reversing the ban on the sale of combustion cars in the EU (topical debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, the game in which we are playing the future of the automotive industry has begun. Winning or losing means maintaining or destroying our flagship industry of the European economy and also millions of jobs. And today we already know that we will not win the game at all if we bet on absolute electrification in the year 2035 and that we will only win the game if we know how…

9 Sep

2025

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Devastating wildfires in Southern Europe: the need to strengthen EU aid to restore the massive loss of forests and enhancing EU preparedness (debate)

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Mr President, I should like to begin by thanking those who have spoken before me. This is particularly true for me, who come from Castile-Leon, one of the regions which, unfortunately, has suffered the most this summer from the devastating fires that have ravaged southern Europe. Extraordinary meteorological circumstances have caused extraordinary fires in an extraordinary number. In the face of t…

9 Jul

2025

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EU Preparedness Union in light of the upcoming wildfire and droughts season (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, the fire season has unfortunately already begun. They know very well in the province of Tarragona and in the region of Marseille, that they are not living an abstract threat in the form of fires, but are suffering in their own flesh a tragedy in human terms, in economic terms and, of course, also in ecological terms; It is also a threat that grows year by year. It is…

8 Jul

2025

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Need for the EU to scale up clean technologies (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, it is clear, we all agree that Europe needs to accelerate the deployment of clean technologies, a process that is absolutely necessary for the achievement of the objectives we have set ourselves in this legislature: industrial competitiveness, energy sovereignty and, of course, the achievement of climate objectives. But in order to address this process, in addition to v…

21 May

2025

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Amending Regulation (EU) 2023/956 as regards simplifying and strengthening the carbon border adjustment mechanism (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, tomorrow the first of the reforms of the omnibus package is approved, a necessary and urgent step that will allow us to continue orienting our industrial policy towards the objective of competitiveness, but which will also allow us to simplify, clarify and relax some of the rules of sustainability, without thereby losing our capacity for growth. It will also, of course,…

13 Mar

2025

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Action Plan for Affordable Energy (debate)

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Mr President, the Commission points out in its communication that nuclear energy is key to decarbonisation, also to security of supply and, of course, to lowering the cost of energy. In line with this, most EU states are considering new investments in the field of nuclear energy or at least extending the lifetime of their plants. There is only one country whose government is going against it and i…

12 Mar

2025

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Social and employment aspects of restructuring processes: the need to protect jobs and workers’ rights (debate)

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Madam President, if we really want to bet on the competitiveness of our economy, it is clear that we cannot continue to accept that industrial relations continue to be trapped in models that, we know, are outdated and, above all, are serving solely and exclusively to curb investment and the growth of our companies. We need, of course, to introduce tools that serve to energise, speed up and simplif…

12 Mar

2025

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Action Plan for the Automotive Industry (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, thank you for the speed, thank you for listening to the sector before taking decisions and thank you also for the importance that is finally being given to the automotive sector. First of all, we must recognize that this Plan represents an important step forward, mainly because it solves some of the immediate problems facing the sector, such as the issue of sanctions…

11 Mar

2025

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Clean Industrial Deal (debate)

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Madam President, the United States is withdrawing from climate policies. China, a leader in renewables, is also a leader in pollution. It is a golden opportunity for Europe to take climate leadership. A good opportunity if we know how to play our cards well, some cards that in the past we have not been able to play properly: We are punishing industrial policy for achieving over-ambitious climate t…

18 Dec

2024

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Restoring the EU’s competitive edge – the need for an impact assessment on the Green Deal policies (topical debate)

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Mr President, Madam Vice-President, sometimes when we talk about competitiveness, we have the majority of us here who are clear about what our shortcomings are, what are even the objectives to be achieved, and we begin to agree on what the tools must be to restore competitiveness to our economy; In that regard, we warmly welcome President von der Leyen's announcement of the Clean Industrial Pact. …

27 Nov

2024

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Topical debate (Rule 169) - Budapest Declaration on the New European Competitiveness Deal - A future for the farming and manufacturing sectors in the EU (topical debate)

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Mr President, we of course support the content of the Budapest Declaration. It is a text very much in line with the Commission's programme and also with the Letta and Draghi reports which, for the most part, we share in this House. We are already clear about our weaknesses, we are already clear about our threats, we are also clear about our strengths, and we even agree on generic objectives. Now, …