What Carmen spoke about.

13

Mar

2025

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A Vision for Agriculture and Food (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, it is time for European defence and, therefore, the first thing we have to do is to reclaim the role of food as a fundamental European defence weapon for the interests of food and food sovereignty. To this end, shielding CAP funds in the new Multiannual Financial Framework is essential: without a mix of funds, where we would lose out. Trade agreeme…

23

Jan

2025

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Combating Desertification: 16th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP16) of the United Nations Convention (debate)

Mr President, Mr Luena, the NextGenerationEU instrument and the Recovery and Resilience Facility in Spain are at 51% of their commitment, 49% is missing and they have had no water perspective, only an energy perspective. If Commissioner Roswall now establishes a governance to be able to use this money in a water perspective, would this be the case for the Socialist Party and the Government of Spai…

23

Jan

2025

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Combating Desertification: 16th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP16) of the United Nations Convention (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, thank you for the push on water from the new Commission. We think it's fundamental. I am from a desert land, next to the European desert of Tabernas, and there it is demonstrated with the orchard of Europe – because 80% of the fruit and vegetable product is exported from there – that it is possible to address this issue. Why? Because there is twenty times less water foo…

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Jan

2025

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Heat record year 2024 - the need for climate action to fight global warming (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, colleagues, global warming affects the entire population, European security and the health of Europeans, especially the most vulnerable. We must work to reduce greenhouse gases. But how to do it also without putting Europe's jobs and economy at risk, without radicalism, without sectarianism, with common sense, with correct policies and with economic resources? And insid…

16

Dec

2024

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Right to clean drinking water in the EU (debate)

Madam President, Mr Vice-President, access to safe and quality drinking water is a fundamental right of every human being. But the reality is that access to water is not guaranteed in Europe due to drought. With climate change, 45% of the territory is affected and today there are water cuts in southern Europe. So we have to do that, access the water, and then also control the contaminants and micr…

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)

Mr President, Commissioner, thank you, first of all, for supporting our country in this devastating DANA in Valencia, Andalusia and other regions of Spain; But, above all, in reconstruction, because I believe that this is important for competitiveness. At this time we already have funds in place: with Measure 23 through the EAFRD, with the crisis reserve, but also with RESTORE, with the ERDF and w…

13

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, Spain and Valencia are deeply saddened by human life and the losses we have had. Today DANA is in my land, in Malaga, but we want to thank Europe for its solidarity. Climate change must be combated, especially DANA in the Mediterranean. But how? We are also fighting against the water denialism represented by Mrs Ribera. Because the Hydrological Plan in 2004 was also done by scient…

23

Oct

2024

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Need to strengthen rail travel and the railway sector in Europe (debate)

Mr President, we are talking about the future of rail in Europe, but now we have a present and, precisely, in our country, where there is unprecedented rail chaos. And that affects the precarious way the European connection looks. Isolation of regions such as Extremadura, Cantabria, important areas of Galicia or provinces such as Huelva or mine, Almería, which are absolutely isolated. And the late…

22

Oct

2024

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Question Time with Commissioners – Situation of animal health in Europe: how to prevent and prepare for future sanitary crises in agriculture (continuation)

Finally, because the beginning I think you have heard, we were talking about having a crisis, and especially in some countries. I told them that we had a crisis in Spain especially, with bluetongue or epizootic haemorrhagic disease, and that, in addition, there was a crisis throughout Europe. The measures that the European Union is putting in place are standard measures, but with those crises we n…

22

Oct

2024

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Question Time with Commissioners – Situation of animal health in Europe: how to prevent and prepare for future sanitary crises in agriculture

Madam President, Commissioner, first of all, what you are talking about is normal action on animal health issues, but at the moment we have a major crisis in Europe: I am especially telling you about my country, where, with bluetongue and epizootic haemorrhagic disease, we have a very serious problem. I think that at the moment it is talking about EUR 230 million, but with such a crisis, what has …

22

Oct

2024

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General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sections (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much, Commissioner, and also the rapporteurs. I believe that the budget is committed to the productive sectors - as we particularly wanted and as President von der Leyen wanted in the strategic dialogue - but, in reality, although the EUR 96 million for the CAP and young people are very important, we have lost an opportunity to fight climate change with the productive …

19

Sep

2024

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Droughts and extreme weather events as a threat to local communities and EU agriculture in times of climate change (debate)

Mr President, Europe has a problem that has already become structural: climate change, especially drought, affects 45% of the territory, but especially in southern Europe, especially in territories such as mine, Spain, especially in autonomous communities such as Andalusia or Murcia. The autonomous communities have worked to have a 20 times lower water footprint in agricultural products, but, on t…

16

Sep

2024

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Outcome of the Strategic Dialogue on the Future of EU Agriculture (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, we welcome this change of position, as we consider the dialogue with the sector to be very important. I also think that the sector has been asking us for help for a long time because of the problems of excessive demand: without time, without resources, with war conflicts, with costs ..., in addition to a Green Deal without resources or time. I think we have to fight to …