(start of the intervention out of microphone) ... the intolerable situation of political prisoners in Belarus: the longest dictatorship in Europe with the tyranny of Lukashenka for more than 30 years, the only country of the former Soviet Union excluded from the Council of Europe, and we do so by focusing on opponents of Lukashenka who challenge the electoral fraud of August 2020 and are in prison…
18Sep
2024
EN
Answer
The Hungarian “National Card” scheme and its consequences for Schengen and the area of freedom, security and justice (debate)
All threats against security, all threats against internal security in a Member State of the European Union, are a threat to the European Union as a whole, and to the security of European citizens. We have made that point very strongly in the European Parliament, and that, of course, includes golden visas and golden passports that have been put in practice by many Member States through the so-call…
18Sep
2024
ES
Speech
The Hungarian “National Card” scheme and its consequences for Schengen and the area of freedom, security and justice (debate)
Mr President, Commissioner, representative of the Hungarian Presidency, the issue is geopolitical, more so than its wording seems: an examination of the system of national cards established by the Hungarian government of Viktor Orbán for citizenship of Russia and Belarus, allowing them to enter and reside in the Schengen territory of the European Union. It therefore raises two problems that deserv…
18Sep
2024
ES
Speech
Organised crime, a major threat to the internal security of the European Union and European citizens (topical debate)
Madam President, Commissioner, in the first thematic debate of this European Parliament legislature, we discussed organised crime as a major threat to the security and citizenship of the Union. A statement with which we can agree. And, of course, no alarmist speech - as has been heard in this rostrum - that tries to generate panic in the citizens and then exploit it electorally, let alone using fa…
17Sep
2024
ES
Speech
Global measures towards social media platforms - Strengthening the role of DSA and protecting democracy and freedom in the online sphere (debate)
Mr President, Commissioner, why is the extreme right rising in Member States of the European Union with a history of social cohesion? Part of the answer lies in the ancestry of those social networks whose algorithms are designed not only to spread hoaxes and lies, but machismo, denialism, all forms of discrimination. It is not freedom of expression, it is a business model that puts social networks…
16Sep
2024
ES
Speech
One-minute speeches on matters of political importance
Mr President, Commissioner, I am talking about the Canary Islands, an external border territory of the European Union subject to an incessant flow of rescue and rescue operations for desperate people coming from the African continent and with pressure from unaccompanied minors that saturates its response capacities and that requires the mechanism of shared responsibility and mandatory solidarity t…
16Sep
2024
ES
Speech
Persistent problems of anti-Semitism in Europe and of other forms of hate speech and hate crimes (debate)
Mr President, Commissioner, this Parliament has done everything in the last legislature to put on the agenda the European strategy adopted by the Commission for the period 2021-2030 against hate speech and against all forms of discrimination between categories of Europeans. It is the strategy to fight anti-Semitism – because we are talking about the Jewish communities that are an integral part of …
25Apr
2024
ES
Speech
Interinstitutional Body for Ethical Standards (debate)
Madam President, Commissioner, on the last useful day of the last plenary session of this 2019-2024 European Parliament legislature, this European Parliament continues to increase and strengthen its performance balance, which has been outstanding in this legislature. It does so by adopting an inter-institutional agreement with the Commission and the Council, the aim of which is to strengthen the r…
24Apr
2024
ES
Speech
Advance passenger information: enhancing and facilitating external border controls - Advance passenger information: prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of terrorist offences and serious crime (joint debate - Advance passenger information)
Mr President, one billion people enter and leave the EU or travel within it every year and this directive is a step forward in the transmission of such advance passenger information, which may be relevant to ensuring that Europeans combine their freedom and security and therefore serve the fight against serious transnational crime and terrorism. The concern of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Jus…
24Apr
2024
ES
Speech
Recent attempts to deny dictatorships and the risk of Europe returning to totalitarianism (debate)
Mr President, in this sitting we have heard in Spanish calls for rebellion against democratic legality that equate their spokesmen with the enemies of democracy with which they fill their mouths so much. In this session we have not come to speak of calling by name the terrorism of ETA that disappeared from our lives defeated by democracy under the leadership of President Zapatero. No. We have come…
24Apr
2024
ES
Speech
The sixth Anti-Money Laundering Directive - Anti-Money Laundering Regulation - Establishing the Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (joint debate - Anti-money laundering)
Mr President Pedro Silva Pereira, I would like to congratulate the negotiating team of the European Parliament, whose names I cannot name one by one, for this job well done; for having put in place the regulatory system against the laundering of money from illicit businesses and against the financing of terrorism and all forms of organised crime. They have thus put an end to national divergences, …
23Apr
2024
EN
Answer
The use of Russian frozen assets to support Ukraine’s victory and reconstruction (debate)
I do agree and I appreciate your suggestion – everything at hand, but beginning with us making up our mind. It is about time! Yes, of course we are encountering technical requirements and difficulties of all kinds – naturally, because this is the first time we are seeing a situation like this. It is unprecedented. The whole thing is unprecedented. But yes, we are on the move. We need only to make …
23Apr
2024
ES
Speech
The use of Russian frozen assets to support Ukraine’s victory and reconstruction (debate)
Madam President, Mr High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the Commission, you know that since the beginning of Putin's illegal and criminal aggression against Ukraine you have had a clear, strong and sustained majority of this European Parliament in favour of everything that can be done against Russian interests in the European Union, starti…
23Apr
2024
ES
Speech
European Disability Card and European Parking Card for persons with disabilities - European Disability Card and European Parking Card for persons with disabilities for third country nationals legally residing in a Member State (joint debate - Disability cards)
Madam President, Mrs Dalli, one hundred million people with disabilities do not seek to obtain from this European Parliament a preferential treatment response, but a removal of all forms of discrimination, as mandated by Article 21 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and, specifically, Article 26, in relation to persons with disabilities. And this European Parliament, by fin…
23Apr
2024
ES
Speech
Combating violence against women and domestic violence (debate)
Mr President, Commissioner Dalli, this is the last plenary session of the 2019-2014 legislature and we are adopting nothing less than the first European law against gender-based violence, violence against women. It is a pride, having been Minister of Justice of a Government that made history by putting into force a very committed law against violence against women in Spain, to do so now in this so…
22Apr
2024
ES
Speech
One-minute speeches on matters of political importance
Mr President, Commissioner Johansson, last week the interior ministers of the five countries that make up the so-called Mediterranean group (Med5) - Italy, Spain, Malta, Cyprus and Greece - met in the Canary Islands with the intention of coordinating responses to the migratory event that affects the Canary Islands so much. There is a balance of deaths that makes the Canary Islands the most dangero…
22Apr
2024
ES
Speech
Amending Directive 2011/36/EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims (debate)
Madam President, Commissioner Johansson, in 2011 I had the honour – together with a co-rapporteur from the Committee on Women's Rights, Soraya Rodríguez – of being the rapporteur for the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs for the evaluation report on the ten-year validity of the current European anti-trafficking legislation. And now I have the honour to be, indeed, shadow rappo…
10Apr
2024
ES
Speech
Ongoing hearings under Article 7(1) TEU regarding Hungary to strengthen Rule of Law and its budgetary implications (debate)
Mr President, indeed the umpteenth debate - a classic unfortunately of every plenary session of the European Parliament - on the Hungarian syndrome, which is a general syndrome of non-compliance and, even more so, of contempt for European law. Just listen to those who defend Viktor Orbán and his government. They do so not because there is a discrepancy of interpretation with regard to what it is t…
10Apr
2024
EN
Speech
Laying down additional procedural rules relating to the enforcement of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (A9-0045/2024 - Sergey Lagodinsky) (vote)
Madam President, in view of the vote, I can only invoke Article 59(4) of our Rules of Procedure and ask for the referral back to the committee for interinstitutional negotiations.
10Apr
2024
ES
Speech
Screening of third country nationals at the external borders - European Criminal Records Information System - Third Country Nationals - Common procedure for international protection in the Union - Establishing a return border procedure, and amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1148 - Asylum and migration management - Addressing situations of crisis and force majeure - Establishment of 'Eurodac' for the comparison of fingerprints for the effective application of Regulation (EU) No 604/2013, for identifying an illegally staying third-country national or stateless person and on requests for the comparison with Eurodac data by Member States' law enforcement authorities and Europol for law enforcement purposes (recast) - Union Resettlement Framework - Standards for the qualification of third-country nationals or stateless persons as beneficiaries of international protection - Standards for the reception of applicants for international protection (recast) (joint debate - Migration and Asylum package)
Madam President, the European Parliament is the only directly elected supranational and legislative institution in the world. We are a democratic expression of the irreducible diversity and complexity of European integration. We come from our 27 Member States, which have not dissolved with the European Union, and we are going to elections on 9 June. And I say this to remind you that the legislativ…
10Apr
2024
ES
Speech
Screening of third country nationals at the external borders - European Criminal Records Information System - Third Country Nationals - Common procedure for international protection in the Union - Establishing a return border procedure, and amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1148 - Asylum and migration management - Addressing situations of crisis and force majeure - Establishment of 'Eurodac' for the comparison of fingerprints for the effective application of Regulation (EU) No 604/2013, for identifying an illegally staying third-country national or stateless person and on requests for the comparison with Eurodac data by Member States' law enforcement authorities and Europol for law enforcement purposes (recast) - Union Resettlement Framework - Standards for the qualification of third-country nationals or stateless persons as beneficiaries of international protection - Standards for the reception of applicants for international protection (recast) (joint debate - Migration and Asylum package)
Mr President, Mr Vice-President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen of the European Parliament, today we are taking a decisive vote, certainly by decision, not only looking to the past and present of the European Parliament, but, above all, looking to the future. Because it is a question, first of all, of fulfilling a mandate under European law, the Treaty of Lisbon and the Charter of Fundamental …
13Mar
2024
ES
Speech
The time the European Commission takes to deal with requests for public access to documents (debate)
Mr President, Commissioner, the right to good governance, good administration, transparency and access to documents are fundamental rights protected by Articles 40 and 41 of the Charter. Moreover, it turns out that there is a regulation – binding, therefore, on the Member States – from 2001 which this Parliament has been trying to update in line with the Charter for years and which has been blocke…
13Mar
2024
ES
Speech
Rising anti-LGBTIQ rhetoric and violence: recent attacks in Thessaloniki (debate)
Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for being here late at night testifying to a commitment put in writing by the Commission in the LGBTIQ Equality Strategy 2020-2025, but, above all, honouring mandates of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, which entered into force with the Treaty of Lisbon with the same legal value as the Treaties, and whose Article 2…
13Mar
2024
ES
Speech
Allegations of corruption and misuse of EU funds in Spain during the pandemic (topical debate)
Mr President, yes, we already know, ladies and gentlemen of the Spanish right. They do not like the amnesty law that requires for approval the absolute majority of the Congress of Deputies: all groups except the PP and its far right. And you do not like the Government of Spain, which has reduced independence to a historical minimum, the support for independence, when you had it at a maximum, with …
13Mar
2024
ES
Speech
Need to address the urgent concerns surrounding Ukrainian children forcibly deported to Russia (debate)
Madam President, Madam President-in-Office of the Council, Commissioner, it has been two years since Putin's criminal war against Ukraine, during which this European Parliament has debated and established imprescriptible war crimes involving dozens of innocent civilian victims, including, of course, children. But here we are talking about another war crime qualified as such by the International Cr…
