What Juan Fernando spoke about.

1 Apr

2025

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 20 March 2025 (debate)

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Madam President, Mr President Costa, Commissioner Šefčovič, often the most useful Council conclusions are those that have not been written down but can be read between the lines. The first is the untenable unanimity in foreign policy decisions, which has forced 26 Member States to form a coalition of volunteers to once again exclude a Hungary whose government is increasingly incompatible not only …

31 Mar

2025

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Madam President, Commissioner Roswall, on 28 March the General Affairs Council met to discuss the future of regional and cohesion policy in the multiannual financial framework to come after 2027. It is an extremely sensitive issue for the most vulnerable regions of the European Union and particularly for the outermost regions. Next week the representatives of the outermost regions will meet and th…

31 Mar

2025

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Need to ensure democratic pluralism, strengthen integrity, transparency and anti-corruption policies in the EU (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, this parliamentary term of the European Parliament starts as it all does, forced to learn from your experiences, and particularly from the bad ones. It does so with a commitment to strengthening its integrity, transparency and accountability. Why? Because in the last legislature we had a bad experience with the so-called 'Qatargate', which forced this European Parlia…

12 Mar

2025

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Frozen Russian assets (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner Hansen, this debate on the confiscation of Russian assets has been presided over by the living awareness of this European Parliament that it has done everything in its power to help Ukraine in the face of a Russian war of aggression, which, incidentally, is an international crime under the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, as this Parliament has also decl…

12 Mar

2025

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Adoption of the proposal for a Parenthood Regulation (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner Hansen, the alleged legal arguments invoking the sovereign right of the Member States to their family laws and the need for unanimity to change that competence actually hide prejudices – that is, ideological prejudices – which are incompatible with the obligation of the Member States to respect the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, which enshrines free…

11 Mar

2025

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White paper on the future of European defence (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, three clear lessons emerge from this debate on European defence. The first is that strengthening European defence cannot depend on increasing 27 fragmented national budgets, because without interoperability and common structures we will not have any deterrent capacity vis-à-vis Russia, even though our army and our joint budgets are superior to theirs; Not, of course,…

11 Mar

2025

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Presentation of the proposal on a new common approach on returns (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, as far as the Return Regulation is concerned, you have heard points and criticisms that must be addressed, because a regulation creates obligations for the Member States and it is not, therefore, a matter of opening up to them the margin of manoeuvre in the view that migrants and asylum seekers are a threat to our security. First point: For returns to be possible, wh…

10 Mar

2025

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Madam President, Commissioner, in this debate in the European Parliament there has been talk of an omnibus package and we have referred to the needs of the outermost regions. There is also talk of the European Social Fund and the reformulation of regional policy, which requires that this regional dimension be respected in the definition and implementation of the policy that corresponds to the part…

10 Mar

2025

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Cutting red tape and simplifying business in the EU: the first Omnibus proposals (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, this omnibus package is the first major legislative initiative of the von der Leyen II Commission and sets the tone for the legislature. But the tone of this European Parliament's response has been announced: Simplification is not deregulation. Can the reform of the InvestEU Regulation move in the right direction because it makes it possible to optimise all currently…

12 Feb

2025

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Honouring the memory of Ján Kuciak and Martina Kušnírová: advancing media freedom, strengthening the rule of law, and protecting journalists across the EU (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner McGrath, Ján Kuciak and his colleague Martina were murdered not only for practising journalism, but also for defending the right of citizens, not only Slovaks but also Europeans, to truthful information. And we must not only condemn that murder and, of course, fight for there to be no impunity for the murderers of Ján Kuciak and Martina, nor for those of the Greek Karaiv…

12 Feb

2025

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Need for targeted support to EU regions bordering Russia, Belarus and Ukraine (debate)

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Madam President, Vice-President Fitto, cohesive solidarity is Europe's raison d'être: It began as inter-territorial and regional solidarity and then achieved social and intergenerational solidarity. If I have defended this with passion for the outermost regions that border other continents, with the same conviction I defend it for the regions that have a border no less than with Russia, Belarus an…

12 Feb

2025

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Commission Work Programme 2025 (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner Šefčovič, before the Commission's work programme, the pro-European response is clear: We need to be more united without making any concessions to reactionary nationalism, which is the opposite of what we need to make an opportunity for the enormous challenges posed to us by disruptive global actors, such as the Trump Administration, or hostile ones, such as Putin's Ru…

11 Feb

2025

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Protecting the system of international justice and its institutions, in particular the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, it has cost humanity and its history many wars, much blood and much accumulated pain to put in place an architecture of international justice of which not only the International Court of Justice of the United Nations system is a part, but also the International Criminal Court, which draws lessons from the courts of Nuremberg, Tokyo, Rwanda and Yugoslavia and prevents…

11 Feb

2025

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Escalation of violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner Šuica, you have received the message very clearly: The problem is not new, nor is violence, but its chronification and escalation to morally unbearable extremes demands a forceful response. That intervention by M23, the covert force behind Rwanda's intervention in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is leaving thousands dead and hundreds of thousands displaced, with al…

11 Feb

2025

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

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Mr President, after three years of Putin's cruel war of aggression against Ukraine, there are three very clear lessons. We activated the Temporary Protection Directive for the first time with a huge financial effort to help countries that have received 11 million people displaced by war, four million of whom stay indefinitely in Europe. But that cannot under any circumstances be a pretext for not …

10 Feb

2025

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Mr President, every week that passes, these fragile boats continue to arrive in the Canary Islands, full of desperate people who come from the African continent. The Canary Islands are the European Union, but boats full of the corpses of those unfortunate people who did not get it continue to arrive in the Caribbean as well. And the lesson of so much tragedy is imperative: urges the Commission to …

10 Feb

2025

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: the need for the European Union to contribute to resolving the humanitarian crisis of persons missing in wars and conflicts (debate)

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Mr President, the role of the European Union in resolving humanitarian crises by identifying people missing in wars and conflicts and the dictatorships that have ravaged the Member States of the European Union is not only fundamental, but also fully consistent with our values, as well as imperative. And it is clear that memory, reparation and truth are the way, as demonstrated in Cyprus - for whic…

10 Feb

2025

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Escalation of gang violence in Sweden and strengthening the fight against organised crime (debate)

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Madam President, we are debating in this plenary session the increase in organised crime in Sweden, but, in reality, we are talking about a syndrome that runs throughout Europe: First of all, organized crime is the crime of our time. Secondly, there is an increase in the number of adolescents – minors – involved in the commission of these crimes, recruited by mafias. And thirdly, the recruitment t…

22 Jan

2025

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Links between organised crime and smuggling of migrants in light of the recent UN reports (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner Brunner, why are transnational criminal organisations that traffic in people a lucrative business? For two premises that need to be expressed. The first is despair. Last week, fifty Pakistanis lost their lives trying to reach the European Union through the Canary Islands from the coast of Mauritania. It takes a lot of desperation to explain that sequence. But the seco…

22 Jan

2025

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Addressing EU demographic challenges: towards the implementation of the 2023 Demography Toolbox (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, it is impossible to tackle the European demographic winter without changing our eyes to migration and, by extension, to asylum claims, because there is no issue in which the contradiction between the real interest of the European Union and the perceived interests is so striking. The real interest is that there is regular migration, with respect for their fundamental rig…

22 Jan

2025

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 19 December 2024 (debate)

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22 Jan

2025

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 19 December 2024 (debate)

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22 Jan

2025

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 19 December 2024 (debate)

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Madam President, President Antonio Costa, the best response to Trump's return to the White House is to establish a...

21 Jan

2025

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The Hungarian government’s illegal espionage of EU institutions and investigative bodies (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen of the Council and the Commission, we are debating Hungary again. We may be talking about breaches of the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union; we may speak of systematic, persevering and persistent disregard for European law; we may talk about non-compliance with the obligations of all Member States in the Pact on Migration and Asylum; We may b…

21 Jan

2025

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Need to enforce the Digital Services Act to protect democracy on social media platforms including against foreign interference and biased algorithms (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, representatives of the Council and the Commission, slandering, defaming, spreading those lies that you call disinformation, hatred and confrontation is not freedom of expression and is not protected by the Charter or by the constitutions of the Member States. And yet that is exactly the design of addictive algorithms, in the hands of an oligarchy of far-right…