What Juan Fernando spoke about.

14 Nov

2024

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

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Madam President, we are discussing in this plenary session of the European Parliament the Niinistö report on how to improve and strengthen the European Union's preparedness and response capacity to increasingly frequent and intense geopolitical, climate and technological crises, whether cyber or hybrid. And that certainly requires education, it requires communication and it requires awareness, but…

13 Nov

2024

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Fight against money laundering and terrorist financing: listing Russia as a high-risk third country in the EU (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner McGuinness, since your war of aggression against Ukraine, Russia has been expelled from the Council of Europe. It has been subjected – because it has been a creditor – to sanctioning measures in which the European Union has demonstrated determination and also unity between the different institutions (of course, the support of this European Parliament). It is time to draw…

13 Nov

2024

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Deplorable escalation of violence around the football match in the Netherlands and the unacceptable attacks against Israeli football fans (debate)

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Mr President, Mr Vice-President Schinas, any discriminatory prejudice that incites hatred and violence is radically anti-European. That is why anti-Semitism, which has no place in Europe, is so, as is anti-Gypsyism and hatred against Muslims and Palestinians. Jewish communities therefore have the right to live in safety in Europe. But condemning anti-Semitism does not amount to ignoring or justify…

13 Nov

2024

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Georgia's worsening democratic crisis following the recent parliamentary elections and alleged electoral fraud (debate)

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Mr President, Vice-President Schinas, why are we talking in the plenary of the European Parliament, at this hour of the night, about suspicions of fraud in Georgia? Because we care. Because it turns out that, after the Balkans, we have granted the status of candidate country to none other than Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia, three republics subject to Russia's aggressive interference in our neighbou…

13 Nov

2024

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EU-US relations in light of the outcome of the US presidential elections (debate)

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Madam President, High Representative Borrell, I have heard the metaphor that in the face of a shock to Europe's conscience it is not enough to sound the alarm, but that Europe has to get out of bed and out of its comfort zone. Trump's return to the White House imposes two enormous challenges on the European Union. One, that conflicts that matter to us in globalization lead to open conflagrations: …

24 Oct

2024

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Abuse of new technologies to manipulate and radicalise young people through hate speech and antidemocratic discourse (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, the business model of platforms – usually run by far-right tycoons – lies not only in exploiting the weaknesses, vulnerabilities and personal characteristics that users put at their disposal, but above all in generating addictive algorithms that target, especially, young people, who are the preferred users who spend half their lives in front of screens, consuming hat…

23 Oct

2024

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Foreign interference and hybrid attacks: the need to strengthen EU resilience and internal security (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, when we are talking about hybrid attacks on the security of the European Union, under that cryptic reference we are talking about Russia: their campaigns of disinformation, intoxication, sabotage, interference in electoral processes, as well as funding or inspiring anti-European and europhobic speeches, formations and candidacies and platforms; for example, we have u…

23 Oct

2024

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The important role of cities and regions in the EU – for a green, social and prosperous local development (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, when we talk about the role of regions in the development of the European Union, I am talking about outermost regions: nine, including the Canary Islands, the only ones mentioned by name in the Treaty of Lisbon, which has a specific basis to protect them and single out the response. And the Members born or resident in the outermost regions have addressed a letter to Mrs…

23 Oct

2024

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Seven years from the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia: lack of progress in restoring the rule of law in Malta (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, once again this Parliament pays tribute to investigative journalist Daphne Caruana, on the seventh anniversary of her murder, and also pays tribute to the half-dozen journalists who have been murdered in other Member States of the European Union, in the Czech Republic, the Netherlands or Greece, because what is at issue here is the protection of freedom of informatio…

23 Oct

2024

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Findings of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on Poland's abortion law (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, why are we discussing in the European Parliament restrictive abortion laws in Poland? It is true that there are aspects of criminal law and family law that remain within the competence of the Member States, but it is also true that in the European Parliament we put in place an EU Rule of Law Framework so that the regression that took place in Poland at the hands of a…

23 Oct

2024

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Managing migration in an effective and holistic way through fostering returns (debate)

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Madam President, a ghost haunts Europe: the spectre of denial and rejection of migration, which we can only manage if we do it together and in accordance with European law. We have worked very hard for a legislative pact, which now requires fair and rigorous enforcement, incompatible with the outsourcing of borders and the outsourcing of asylum applications. Von der Leyen's letter "melonizing" Eur…

22 Oct

2024

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

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Madam President, criminal attacks in Stockholm, Copenhagen, Bochum (Germany) and a brutal assassination attempt against a former Vice-President of the European Parliament, Alejo Vidal‑Quadras: It does not matter if his political positions are not mine or are in their antipodes, he is a European citizen, and all the police and judicial investigations behind this chain of attacks point to the Irania…

22 Oct

2024

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People’s Republic of China’s misinterpretation of the UN resolution 2758 and its continuous military provocations around Taiwan (debate)

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Madam President, everyone knows that, since 1971, it is the People's Republic of China that occupies the seat representing the Chinese people in the United Nations system and in its Security Council, and that the principle of 'one China' has been assumed in the foreign doctrine of the chancelleries of all the Member States of the European Union. But the High Representative of the Union for Foreign…

22 Oct

2024

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Situation in Azerbaijan, violation of human rights and international law and relations with Armenia (debate)

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Mr President, before the European Union it was the Council of Europe, an organisation that was born in 1949 with ten Member States and grew to 46, and which ceased to be a reference for guaranteeing democracy, human rights and peace in Europe with the entry of Russia, which made war on Georgia – also a member of the Council of Europe – and on Ukraine – a member of the Council of Europe – and has w…

21 Oct

2024

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One-minute speeches (Rule 179)

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Mr President, Commissioner, solidarity and cohesion are the European social model and if there is a threat hanging over that model, it is the difficulty of access to housing that runs throughout Europe. This last weekend in the Canary Islands, again, thousands of people have taken to the streets again to protest against what they consider to be an excess of tourist pressure, because in the Canary …

10 Oct

2024

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The rise of religious intolerance in Europe (debate)

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Madam President, Vice-President Schinas, this is 2024, isn't it worrying that we are talking about the growth of intolerance and religious hatred in the European Union? The diagnosis is made: It is put on the table by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights and we have heard it exposed in choral polyphony here in this debate in the European Parliament. The point is to act, because, since …

9 Oct

2024

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2024 Annual Rule of law report (debate)

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Mr President, Madam Vice-President Jourová, fifth annual report on the rule of law in the European Union. We struggled to move it forward, but there it is, examining all Member States on judicial independence, corruption, pluralism of information and separation of powers. And it has taught us to distinguish those situations where there is something worth commenting on, even if they are criticisms …

9 Oct

2024

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Prevention of drug-related crimes, their effect on European citizens and the need for an effective European response (debate)

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Madam President, Vice-President Schinas, those of us who love the freedom enshrined in the Charter of Fundamental Rights know that it is enshrined in the same article as the right to security of European citizenship. When we are discussing here the EU Drugs Strategy, of course, we look at the reports of the European Union Drugs Agency in Lisbon, which tell us that tons and tons and tons and tons o…

9 Oct

2024

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Strengthening the security of Europe’s external borders: need for a comprehensive approach and enhanced Frontex support (debate)

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Mr President, Mr Vice-President Schinas, yesterday we were discussing Schengen in this very rostrum. But the other side of the coin of the free movement of persons is the mandate of an integrated management of the external borders of the Union, respecting European law and laws. For that we launched Frontex, which has turned out to be the largest agency, with a budget of nine hundred million euros …

9 Oct

2024

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Presentation of the programme of activities of the Hungarian Presidency (debate)

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Madam President, Prime Minister Orbán, this European Parliament is not a foreign power, it is a directly elected Parliament of 450 million people, including 10 million Hungarians, who want to remain European despite the contempt of the government you preside over for the European institutions. I heard him talk about the European motto: "United in Diversity". It does not apply only to the Union, it…

8 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)

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Mr President, the Summit of the Future is a work of maturity for the United Nations system, whose founding charter will be 80 years old next year, and, three years later, will be fulfilled by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. And it is true that, so long after the Second World War, its most obsolete piece is precisely the Security Council, which gives permanent veto rights to the five gre…

8 Oct

2024

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Preparation of the European Council of 17-18 October 2024 (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner Šefčovič, on the preparation of the October European Council, chapter on migration, I see no higher priority than requiring Member States to raise their implementation plans for the Pact on Migration and Asylum, with a loyal commitment to fulfilling their obligations on solidarity and offers of solidarity with the external borders. The Canary Islands is by far the deadli…

7 Oct

2024

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Madam President, European Commission, last 28 September a tragedy took place in the waters of El Hierro (Canary Islands, European Union). While Salvamento Marítimo was rescuing a boat full of migrants, the boat capsized and, in a few frantic minutes, only a few operators managed to save twenty-seven people and rescue nine corpses. But, according to all the testimonies, another sixty-three people s…

7 Oct

2024

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Facing fake news, populism and disinformation in the EU - the importance of public broadcasting, media pluralism and independent journalism (debate)

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Madam President, Madam Vice-President Jourová, in a democratic society, freedom of expression and freedom of the press have their corollary in pluralism of information. But no democratic society can allow media pluralism to be rendered inane and helpless in the face of the proliferation of bots, trolls and pseudo-media that spread lies, defamation, slander and hatred. And, therefore, those who fro…

7 Oct

2024

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The reintroduction of internal border controls in a number of Member States and its impact on the Schengen Area (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner Johansson, Schengen is the metaphor of the free movement of persons without internal borders within the European Union, a fundamental right enshrined in the Charter and most appreciated by the more than 400 million citizens who enjoy it. This Parliament has worked very hard to put in place a Pact on Migration and Asylum, but also to put in place a Schengen Borders Code, …