What Nicolás spoke about.

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Jul

2026

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2025 Commission report on Ukraine (debate)

Mr President, thank you to the Commission for the good report on Ukraine and thank you to my colleague Michael Gahler for the opinion paper. I think that here we have to be clear. The accession of Ukraine as a full member of the European Union is a balance exercise. We have to bring together the demands of geopolitical and strategic order that invite for a fast track for the session and, at the sa…

20

May

2026

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Repression and execution of protesters, dissidents, political prisoners and religious minorities in Iran

Mr President, when we talk about Iran, we are talking about one of the most repressive regimes in the world. Only this year, in four months, they have executed as many as 32 persons, second only to China. But last year, in 2025, they carried out as many as 2 150 executions. The first country in the world in carrying out executions. In addition to this, with the people's uprisings in January, they …

19

May

2026

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Europe's response to reduced US military deployments in Europe, particularly at its Eastern flank in the light of the latest US decisions (debate)

Madam President, I think that the point here that is bringing us together is – regardless of what the Americans are deciding in the eastern part of Europe – that the European Union has to accelerate our preparedness 2030. Regardless of what the Americans do, we have to accelerate and speed up. Time is of the essence. And I think that we have no time to lose. First, we have to decide at what pace w…

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May

2026

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Question Time with the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy - EU’s strategy to address the current crises in the Middle East

High Representative, I have two questions. When there are currently international efforts in order to organise a kind of multilateral mission to secure the free navigation through the Strait of Hormuz, and you have said also that indeed we have actually deployed in the region some naval missions, as it is the case for EUNAVFOR, for ASPIDES or for ATALANTA, how do you intend to insert these Europea…

29

Apr

2026

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Situation in Lebanon: implementation of the ceasefire, support peace efforts and humanitarian access (debate)

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Apr

2026

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Ensuring accountability and justice in response to Russia’s continued attacks against the civilian population in Ukraine (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, Russia is increasing the intensity of its attacks on civilians, hospitals, schools, housing and critical infrastructure, because Russia is really losing the conflict and losing the war. Its increase in attacks on the civilian population is a sign of weakness, not strength, but we Europeans must be aware that the more its Russian intensity increases, the greater must …

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Apr

2026

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Control of the financial activities of the European Investment Bank Group – annual report 2024 (debate)

Madam President, dear Vice‑President of the EIB, dear Commissioner, as EPP coordinator for security and defence in the European Parliament, I am very happy to see how the EIB has been able to break up many long‑standing, unjustified taboos. Now it is ready to invest directly not only in dual‑use technologies, but also in the pure military projects of the European Union. I am also happy to see how …

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Mar

2026

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EUCO and situation in the Middle East (joint debate)

10

Mar

2026

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Tackling barriers to the single market for defence - Flagship European defence projects of common interest

Madam President, Commissioner, we have in front of us two reports that I think are indicating the right direction. We have to create a European single market on defence, which is better said than done. We have a lot of hesitations within Europe and a lot of enemies outside Europe against this European single market on defence that demands a European industrial and technological base with European …

24

Feb

2026

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Four years of Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine and European contributions to a just peace and sustained security for Ukraine (debate)

Madam President, four years after the criminal war in Ukraine, I think the time has come to pose the question: Putin, where is your victory? The answer of the European Parliament is: nowhere. You have lost the war politically, morally, and most likely you are going to lose the war militarily also. You wanted to topple the regime and to put a puppet government in Ukraine, but thanks to the resilien…

10

Feb

2026

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Building a stronger European defence in light of an increasingly volatile international environment (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, thank you very much for your readout. I think that you have said Europe finds itself at a real crossroad concerning security and defence out of different reasons, but mainly because we have to set up a credible deterrence against Russia for future possible military adventurism and because we have to reset the European link on a new basis, on an equality basis. So far…

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Jan

2026

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CFSP and CSDP (Article 36 TEU) (joint debate)

Mr President, thank you very much to my colleague and friend, Mr McAllister, for the presentation of a very good report. It's very difficult at this time when things are changing so quickly to come up with a report which is not totally updated. You have a report and after a couple of weeks, you have to update it again. First of all, I think that in the report it is underscored, and I wanted to hig…

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Jan

2026

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Brutal repression against protesters in Iran (debate)

Mr President, 3000 dead, 20 000 injured. Thousands and thousands of people in jail. We don't know, actually, the figures of the massacre of the Iranian people by the regime. We cannot turn a blind eye to that. We have to cry. We have to support the Iranian people as they deserve. What can we do? We can still do a lot of things. And I think that we should proceed ahead very quickly. First, we have …

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Dec

2025

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Mass kidnapping of children in Nigeria, including from St Mary's Catholic school in Papiri

Madam President, once again we have to lament the mass abduction of Catholics at a school, this time at St. Mary's School in Papiri State in western Nigeria. This mass abduction comes on top of other mass abductions, including of Catholics, in that country. We in the European Parliament have decided to continuously monitor the situation by denouncing the campaign of persecution against Christians …

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Dec

2025

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EU Defence Readiness (joint debate)

Mr President, as the Commissioner has pointed out, throughout the year 2025, we have been able to set up the legal framework for the European defence: the White Paper on defence, we have later on the European defence readiness roadmap, the European defence readiness omnibus, the European industrial transformation framework, but now, in the year 2027, we have to deliver. We are going to be judged a…

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Nov

2025

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Implementation of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (debate)

Madam Chair, after Brexit, we continue to share with the United Kingdom the same geopolitical challenges. That's why we have agreed upon with them the UK‑European Union Strategic Partnership, as well as the European Union‑UK defence and security partnerships. I think that there we identify clearly the common challenges, how we have to fight against hybrid threats, massive disinformation campaigns,…

26

Nov

2025

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EU response to the continuous airspace violations and sabotage of critical infrastructure in the EU originating from Russia and Belarus (debate)

Madam President, by means of the continuous airspace violations and the sabotage of our critical structures what Putin is trying to do is to find out which are our weak points in our collective defence. He's trying also to wreak havoc and to cause mayhem in our political leaders and fear among the society at large. And we have to accept that, to a certain point, he has got it, because he has reali…

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Nov

2025

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The situation of Christian communities and religious minorities in Nigeria and the Middle East, and Europe’s responsibility to protect them and guarantee freedom of conscience (topical debate)

26

Nov

2025

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EU position on the proposed plan and EU engagement towards a just and lasting peace for Ukraine (debate)

Thank you very much for the very pertinent question. The European Union has to make sure that we have a lasting and fair peace – not peace at any price. Peace at any price is no peace at all. It is injustice for the Ukrainian people. In order to achieve that, we have to continue supporting Ukraine, because it is not the stability and the peace in Ukraine which is at stake here – it is our, your, m…

26

Nov

2025

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EU position on the proposed plan and EU engagement towards a just and lasting peace for Ukraine (debate)

Mr President, what does it mean to engage in a lasting and fair peace? It means to understand why Putin marched into Ukraine. He didn't march into Ukraine in order to occupy the Donbas. He already had the control of this through the terrorists and the militias; he marched into Ukraine in February 2022 in order to topple the regime and to put a puppet president in Ukraine. This is the objective of …

25

Nov

2025

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Effective use of the EU trade and industrial policy to tackle China’s export restrictions (debate)

Madam President, I think that the recent Chinese introduction of export restrictions on raw materials and rare earths as a response to our policy concerning electric vehicles and semiconductors is an escalation of the weaponisation of the trade policies by China. We have to confront this in a smart way. That means we cannot decouple from China, but we also have to take a risk in order to reduce ou…

25

Nov

2025

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European Defence Industry Programme and a framework of measures to ensure the timely availability and supply of defence products (‘EDIP’) (debate)

Madam President, I think that we agree that we need European defence for the next years, and that means that we need a European defence, technological and industrial base. And that, at the same time, means that we need a European preference for the acquisition and the joint procurement. That is exactly what the European Defence Industry Programme means. It means that for the first time, Europeans,…

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Oct

2025

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Ending all energy imports from Russia to the EU and closing loopholes through third countries (debate)

Mr President, the time has come to block all means of financing the Russian effort, which is why we strongly support the Commission's proposal to bring forward to 1 January 2027 the total ban on the import of natural gas into Europe. But, in addition, we are in favour of banning imports of other elements, for example nuclear energy or hydrocarbon derivatives. That will blind the financing of the R…

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Oct

2025

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Stepping up funding for Ukraine’s reconstruction and defence: the use of Russian frozen assets (debate)

Madam President, our absolute priority must be to bring Putin to the negotiating table and, for that, we have to alter his calculation. He thinks that we are going to get tired sooner or that we are going to lack the financial, military and political means and resources to help Ukraine, and in that miscalculation we have to influence. We need to make sure that we give Ukraine all the help and fina…

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Oct

2025

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United response to recent Russian violations of the EU Member States’ airspace and critical infrastructure (debate)

Madam President, after three and a half years of war in Ukraine, we see surprised by the incursion of drones into our airspace. After three and a half years of war in Ukraine. That doesn't say much in favor of our capacity for planning and foresight. Russia is using drones and we can only oppose expensive Patriots or the takeoff of sophisticated F-35 aircraft, which is unsustainable. That means we…