What Francisco spoke about.

16 Sep

2026

PT Speech

Deteriorating situation of media freedom and freedom of expression in Hong Kong following the recent arrest of bookseller Leticia Wong and the convictions of Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung

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Madam President, Commissioner, like Hong Kong, Macao has been under one country, two systems, since it returned to Chinese rule in 1999. Unlike Hong Kong, however, China has succeeded in silencing civil society and suppressing dissent. In recent years, no demonstrations have been authorised in Macau. Opposition politicians were deposed. Freedom of speech has been destroyed. This demonstrates well …

17 Jun

2026

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Political prisoners in Nicaragua – the cases of Carlos Brenes, Salvadora del Socorro Martínez Aburto and Brooklyn Rivera

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Mr President, a dictatorship is a dictatorship. Whether it is left-wing or right-wing, it is a dictatorship, and there cannot be the slightest condescension on our part to any kind of dictatorship. There is no doubt that Nicaragua is today one of the most dreadful dictatorships we are confronted with. I am part of a generation that was enchanted in its adolescence by the Sandinista Revolution and …

19 May

2026

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Political repression and humanitarian situation in Cuba (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, I believe that there is no doubt, for those who want to make a rigorous analysis of the situation, that the economic collapse that Cuba is facing today is the result of a great political and moral failure that preceded that economic collapse and that is the great political and moral failure of the Cuban revolution. In fact, this revolution that created huge expectati…

18 May

2026

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Negative trade-related effects of global overcapacity on the Union steel market (debate)

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Mr Oliveira, I would like to begin by answering the second question. I believe that the answer lies in my speech; I expressed the same concern. We have a manufacturing industry that could be harmed if care is not taken to strictly monitor and monitor the implementation of the measures that are now going to be approved. I therefore believe that the European Commission now has a huge responsibility …

18 May

2026

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Negative trade-related effects of global overcapacity on the Union steel market (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Europe's trade opening is one of its major international strengths and an enormous economic advantage. We therefore see with growing concern the resurgence of an ultra-protectionist discourse which may be popular, but which seems to us to be contrary to European interests. However, we do not ignore the need to protect certain strategic sectors. The…

29 Apr

2026

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Shortcomings and deficiencies of the ‘Amnesty Law’ in Venezuela

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Mr President, Mrs Delcy Rodríguez, a double illegitimate president of Venezuela at the moment, has announced the end of the amnesty law. It refers to new legal instruments, which do not yet exist, to resolve the many outstanding cases. Let us be clear: the absolute priority in Venezuela must be an immediate return to democracy. This can only be achieved by holding free elections. Those who are afr…

29 Apr

2026

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New Chinese law on ‘ethnic unity and progress’ and the intensified suppression of ethnic identities

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the law on 'ethnic unity and progress', adopted in March, is nothing more than a legal tool for the forced assimilation of the identity of the various minorities that exist on Chinese territory. Drafted in vague terms, it leaves the field open to all kinds of arbitrariness. It is a typical legislation of a totalitarian project, which sees diversity and plurality…

29 Apr

2026

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Sudan’s abandoned humanitarian crisis: three years of conflict (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, three years after the beginning of barbarism in Sudan, the international community and the European Union continue to clamorously fail with the population being bombed, raped and deliberately besieged to starve to death. We cannot continue in this graduation of human suffering that leads us to action in some conflicts and to inaction in others, as if there were …

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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Mr President, the situation in Lebanon is too tragic and too complex to be properly analysed by means of simplistic visions and purely dichotomous confrontations. It is unquestionable that Hezbollah is a serious problem, and that the Israeli army obviously has the legitimacy to try to end Hezbollah. And Hezbollah has behind it, as we know, Iran and Iran's project to destroy the State of Israel. Th…

29 Apr

2026

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The need to combat antisemitism and protect Jewish life in Europe, following the recent attacks against the Jewish community in the Netherlands and Belgium (debate)

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Ladies and gentlemen, anti-Semitism is one of the oldest and most tragic moral diseases in Europe. In the transition from the 19th to the 20th century, one of the greatest figures of German Social Democracy, August Bebel, stated the following: Antisemitism is the socialism of fools. We must constantly reflect on this, at a time when a growing majority of Jews claim to have been victims of anti-Sem…

28 Apr

2026

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Situation of fundamental rights in the European Union in 2024 and 2025 (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, the European continent experienced in the 20th century the totalitarian phenomenon, in its Nazi and Soviet versions, the Holocaust, the most repugnant manifestation of the persecution of the Jewish people known in history. But it was precisely to react to this that a political project emerged: the European project, based primarily on the promotion of human rights. And t…

11 Mar

2026

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Human trafficking and grave human rights violations linked to the recruitment of non-Russian nationals, in particular from Africa, for Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine

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11 Mar

2026

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Immunity of International Criminal Court officials and the activation of the EU Blocking Statute to strengthen EU strategic autonomy (debate)

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11 Mar

2026

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Savings and Investments Union: time to accelerate the process to deepen market integration (debate)

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11 Mar

2026

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Savings and Investments Union: time to accelerate the process to deepen market integration (debate)

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11 Feb

2026

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Systemic oppression, inhumane conditions and arbitrary detentions by the regime in Iran

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Mr President, Commissioner, today they are spending exactly 47 years on an Islamic revolution that led, at the time, to the accession of some European intellectual sectors, completely dominated by ideological blindness, which led them to believe in the merits of a revolution that quickly proved to be the origin of one of the most tetric regimes that contemporary times have known. And the cruelty o…

11 Feb

2026

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State violence in Minneapolis and the rule of law in the United States (topical debate)

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Madam President, in 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville visited America and, four years later, published his famous book Democracy in America. And what did he see in America? He saw the most advanced laboratory in modern democracy. He saw in the United States an unprecedented model of balance between individual freedom and representative government, based on a solid institutional structure. It saw a socie…

10 Feb

2026

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Violence in the Great Lakes Region, particularly in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (debate)

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10 Feb

2026

ES Speech

Spain’s large-scale regularisation policy and its impact on the Schengen Area and EU migration policy (debate)

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10 Feb

2026

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Urgent need to address the humanitarian catastrophe in Sudan and to achieve a sustainable peace (debate)

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10 Feb

2026

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Situation in Northeast Syria, the violence against civilians and the need to maintain a sustainable ceasefire (debate)

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21 Jan

2026

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Case of Joseph Figueira Martin in the Central African Republic

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, half a year later, we are once again discussing the situation of Joseph Figueira Martin. We'll all be more or less the same. Unfortunately, he is much worse. In the meantime, he was tried and sentenced to ten years of hard labor. A trial that developed in absolutely precarious conditions. And our position can only be one - the one we had half a …

21 Jan

2026

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Restoring control of migration: returns, visa policy and third-country cooperation (topical debate)

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Monsieur le Président, the European Union's migration policy is following a path that gives us cause for concern. We cannot accept that the European Union systematically departs from the protection of the right to asylum and from the fundamental principles on which the European project itself is based. We are and have always been ready to work on improving the Common European Asylum System, as dem…

21 Jan

2026

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European Council meeting (joint debate)

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Mr President, Madam Vice-President of the Commission, Mr President of the European Council, we Europeans today are faced with a truly tragic situation, which consists of the following: Our main historical ally is on the verge of becoming our adversary. This is for a clear reason: There is an anomaly today in the United States - a democratically elected autocrat is leading the world's greatest powe…

20 Jan

2026

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Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2025 (debate)

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Madam President, Madam Vice-President, ladies and gentlemen, we have had a very interesting debate here in the last few minutes, something that many people in the world aspire to and which, unfortunately, they cannot access; and a debate in which they were also able to speak, with the legitimacy of having been elected, some and some who are not exactly very supportive of human rights and the valor…