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Oct

2025

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The EU’s role in supporting the recent peace efforts for Gaza and a two-state solution (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, two years ago there was a cruel and savage massacre of Israelis. And then we've had two years of war and suffering in Gaza. But right now we have a ray of hope in the peace plan presented by the United States that the European Union and the Member States should unreservedly support because it is the only serious, viable and feasible initiative to bring peace and end …

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Sep

2025

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Ukraine (joint debate)

Madam President, High Representative, I extend my congratulations to the rapporteur on the report on Ukraine. I think that it is time for the European Union to cobble together a comprehensive initiative on peace for Ukraine. During the summer we have been attending a lot of meetings and encounters in Alaska and in Washington, and I think that the people, our public opinion outside, need to have a …

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Jul

2025

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Situation in the Middle East (debate)

Thank you, dear colleague, for your intervention. It's totally unbalanced and untrue: Spain, again, never set up concentration camps in the modern time in Cuba. I mean, the real oppressors of Cuba are the communist regime under Fidel Castro and his successors. And you know that millions of Cubans have left the country because they cannot live in Cuba. These are the oppressors of Cuba: the communis…

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Jul

2025

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Situation in the Middle East (debate)

Madam President, the Middle East is enduring a change of geopolitics and of the geopolitical map, and one of the main elements for this change is to hold Iran accountable for its sponsorship of terrorism and destabilisation across the region. We know that appeasement doesn't work with this regime, and we know as well that direct military intervention is not advisable either. What will work will be…

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Jul

2025

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Preparation for the 2025 EU–China Summit - Tackling China's critical raw materials export restrictions

Madam President, thank you very much President of the Commission, reciprocity, transparency and respect for a level playing ground. These are truly the three principles upon which our relationship with China has to build up. Firstly, on the security front, we cannot accept that China continues supporting and assisting Putin's Russian war of aggression against Ukraine. If China wants to be recognis…

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Jun

2025

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Upcoming NATO summit on 24-26 June 2025 (debate)

Madam President, thank you High Representative for your introductory remarks, in the run up to the NATO summit next week, we have to ask ourselves why NATO has been the most successful defence organisation ever in history. I think there are three elements. First of all, because we Europeans and Americans share the same principles, we share the same convictions. This is the strength of our relation…

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Jun

2025

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Situation in the Middle East (joint debate)

I am delighted to be here today. The bottom line, when I think of the Palestinian crisis today, is how to help the Palestinians in practical terms. Apart from making rhetorical, political vents, how do you help them in practical terms? And the best way to help in practical terms is to have influence with the Palestinians and with the Israelis to try to bring them to the negotiating table and preve…

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Jun

2025

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Situation in the Middle East (joint debate)

Mr President, High Representative, is suspending the EU-Israel Association Agreement going to advance the Palestinian cause by an inch? Will suspending the EU-Israel Association Agreement help the pitiful humanitarian situation of Palestinians in Gaza? Is suspending the EU-Israel Association Agreement going to make it easier for the parties to negotiate? If the answer to these questions is no, we …

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Jun

2025

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The human cost of Russia’s war against Ukraine and the urgent need to end Russian aggression: the situation of illegally detained civilians and prisoners of war, and the continued bombing of civilians (debate)

Madam President, the war in Ukraine is reaching unthinkable levels of cruelty and inhumanity. Putin and his army are systematically and voluntarily bombing hospitals, schools, basic infrastructure, power plants, water reservoirs ... clearly with the aim of breaking the will of resistance of the heroic Ukrainian people and provoking waves of immigration to Europe. He's not gonna make it: neither wi…

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May

2025

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The EU's response to the Israeli government's plan to seize the Gaza Strip, ensuring effective humanitarian support and the liberation of hostages (debate)

Hamas is what it is: is a terrorist movement that can have no prominence in the future (inaudible words) in the political, social and economic life of Palestine. Israel is engaged in an existential struggle against Hamas and Hezbollah, and we must therefore recognize that we must also assist Israel in that effort to end terrorism. If these terrorists carry out their objectives in the Middle East, …

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May

2025

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The EU's response to the Israeli government's plan to seize the Gaza Strip, ensuring effective humanitarian support and the liberation of hostages (debate)

Madam President, I believe that the question today is whether the European Union – if this House – wants to act as an international actor of peace. Yes or no? Logically, the answer is – or should be – positive. For that, we must begin by recognizing reality, the whole reality. The reality is that we have to demand that the Israeli Government stop the massive bombing of the Palestinian civilian pop…

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Apr

2025

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EU Preparedness Union Strategy (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, I believe that the strategy proposed by the European Union must be integrated into a broader concept of comprehensive human security, which has a classic defence dimension – the armed forces – but also has a civilian dimension, which is preparedness for conflicts, natural disasters and unforeseen events. This basically means that we have to prepare for these eventual…

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Apr

2025

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

Madam President, thank you very much indeed. I, as well as my colleague, have been listening very carefully to all the interventions I think I can draw four main ideas. The first one is that we have to face a new geopolitical paradigm. This new paradigm changes from the multilateralism that helps everybody to a zero-sum geopolitics scenario in which the powers like the US, China and Russia are com…

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Apr

2025

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

Madam President, Mrs Kallas, dear friends, I have the honour to present the report on the common European security and defence policy for 2024. It is a report that, by its nature, is a bit special. Firstly, because it reflects not only the priorities of the European Parliament on these issues, but also those of the Commission and those of the European External Action Service as the first report of…

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Feb

2025

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Wider comprehensive EU-Middle East Strategy (debate)

Mr President, tectonic changes are taking place in the Middle East that are likely to change the geopolitical and geostrategic map in the area, and even to the borders. But at the moment what we have is a truce agreement between Hamas and Israel that gives us hope that peace will return to that region. There is a reality that we cannot lose sight of: Between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan Ri…

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Feb

2025

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Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggression (debate)

Mr President, after three years of war, devastation and death, it seems that we are working towards a peace negotiation perspective. But a peace for Ukraine must be a just, lasting peace, and a just and lasting peace must respect the principles of the Charter of the United Nations: the intangibility of borders, territorial integrity, political independence, the freedom of any state to choose its i…

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Feb

2025

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Preparedness for a new trade era: multilateral cooperation or tariffs (debate)

Madam President, the trade war declared by Trump was already coming, because he announced it during the election campaign. Trump's trade tariffs have a double dimension: an outer dimension and an inner dimension. The external dimension consists of using them as weapons of coercion for a negotiation against the trading partners, to put their interlocutor on the defensive, but the internal dimension…

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Jan

2025

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Geopolitical and economic implications for the transatlantic relations under the new Trump administration (debate)

Mr. President, Donald Trump has returned to the White House and, therefore, we have to offer a positive agenda, of meeting, of dialogue, of negotiation, from a point of view of firmness of our principles and our convictions. And when there are difficulties and when there are problems, we must be smart enough to turn them into opportunities for the European Union. On three fronts you will mainly no…

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2025

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Ceasefire in Gaza - the urgent need to release the hostages, to end the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and to pave the way for a two-state solution (debate)

Mr President, yesterday was a day of joy in the Middle East and a day of hope. But it is a hope in a fragile ceasefire, which we have to take care of, because this ceasefire is not guaranteed: These are three stages, which we hope will end well, but it is a ceasefire that is subject to all sorts of provocations and ruptures. The European Union can clearly assist in the achievement and maintenance …

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Dec

2024

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Toppling of the Syrian regime, its geopolitical implications and the humanitarian situation in the region (debate)

Mr President, Madam High Representative, we can only congratulate ourselves on the fall of an autocrat and a dictator like Bashar al-Assad, who subjected his people to a tyranny with crimes, with torture, with displaced people and, therefore, the first idea would be to congratulate all European democrats. The second is that, precisely now, we are witnessing a redefinition of the geopolitical and g…

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Nov

2024

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Reinforcing EU’s unwavering support to Ukraine against Russia’s war of aggression and the increasing military cooperation between North Korea and Russia (debate)

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Nov

2024

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Enhancing Europe’s civilian and defence preparedness and readiness (debate)

Madam President, preparedness must be costly, but the price of being unprepared is far higher. I think that is the main message presented by the wonderful report from Mr Niinistö. This is the one I will retain. The second one is that we have to raise awareness of the whole civil society in order to face the real risks going across the board. That means, at the same time, that we have to make a sen…

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Oct

2024

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State sponsored terrorism by the Islamic Republic of Iran in light of the recent attacks in Europe (debate)

Madam President, Iran is a big country. It holds a three-millennia culture, natural resources and a really qualified, very skilled population. It has all the features to be a driving force for good, but it is not; it's a driving force for evil. Iran exports and sponsors terrorism throughout the Middle East and throughout the world. Iran spreads destabilisation – political destabilisation – around …

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Oct

2024

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Urgent need for a ceasefire in Lebanon and for safeguarding the UNIFIL mission in light of the recent attacks (debate)

Madam President, once again we are facing a crisis in Lebanon, an unprecedented humanitarian crisis: There is a lot of human suffering, thousands of displaced people and a country in total crisis. This obliges us, in the European Union, to redouble our diplomatic efforts, our political efforts, to try to find a peaceful solution to the conflict and, above all, to demand a ceasefire: an immediate c…

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Oct

2024

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Outcome of the Summit of the Future: transforming global governance for building peace, promoting human rights and achieving the sustainable development goals (debate)

Madam President, the old order has not finished dying and the new order has not just been born. We are in a period of transition from an old order that emerged from World War II, based on effective multilateralism, the United Nations system, collaboration, cooperation and the rule of law, to a new order in which the protagonists are the great powers that compete with each other. If today we wanted…