What Juan Fernando spoke about.

12 Jun

2023

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Assessment of the new Commission communication on outermost regions (short presentation)

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Madam President, this report, which responds to the Commission’s 2022 initiative, changes the tone from previous strategies for the outermost regions and is correct because, while recognising the specificities and uniqueness of the legal basis (Article 349), it draws attention to problems that have been highlighted in recent times – such as vulnerability to the volcano and the migratory phenomenon…

1 Jun

2023

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Foreign interference in all democratic processes in the European Union, including disinformation - Election integrity and resilience build-up towards European elections 2024 (debate)

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Madam President, during your term of office, this committee, which has studied foreign interference in democratic processes, has produced a very relevant conclusions document. I am particularly interested in your third and fifth conclusions because they are the ones that connect technology platforms – and the need to subject them to a European regulatory framework – with defence against foreign in…

31 May

2023

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Threat to democracy and the rule of law in Poland, in particular through the creation of an investigative committee (debate)

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Mr President Wieland, Council, Commissioner Reynders, the President of the Court of Justice of the European Union, Koen Lenaerts, has stated that the European Union is seeing its foundations, that is, its values, threatened, which puts its very existence at risk. The drift of Poland has been the subject of resolutions in this European Parliament since 2018. And here we are faced with an unacceptab…

31 May

2023

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Breaches of the Rule of law and fundamental rights in Hungary and frozen EU funds (debate)

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Mr President, the rule of law in Poland. This European Parliament adopted its first resolution no less than in 2016; it required the activation of the extraordinary penalty procedure provided for in Article 7 of the Treaty on European Union in the event of a clear risk of a serious breach of the common values of the rule of law, democracy and fundamental rights. Since then, I have lost count of th…

10 May

2023

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Adequacy of the protection afforded by the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner Reynders, we are here to discuss the decision of the European Commission to launch the process to adopt an adequacy decision as to the EU-US data privacy framework. For the third time, we have the record in mind, because the European Court of Justice in relevant rulings 2015 and 2020 invalidated two previous instruments: Safe Harbour and Privacy Shield. What’s different …

10 May

2023

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Fighting cyberbullying of young people across the EU (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner Reynders, this European Parliament has shown its determination to combat criminally all forms of cybercrime that grew geometrically in connection with the pandemic, but the cyberbullying that we are dealing with today existed before the pandemic, as tragically demonstrated by the death of the young Irish woman Coco, whose mother Jackie we pay tribute to here today. Becau…

10 May

2023

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Update of the anti-corruption legislative framework (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner Schmit, we are discussing updating the European anti-corruption strategy. All right. It is a commitment of the President of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, in this legislature and it also brings about the impetus we gave her in the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs to fight corruption, as Commissioner Malmström rightly recalls. And, therefor…

10 May

2023

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Externalising asylum applications and making funding to third countries conditional on the implementation of return agreements (topical debate)

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Madam President, Madam President-in-Office of the Council, Commissioner, why have we been discussing migration and asylum so intensely for so many years? For three very powerful reasons. The first is because the Treaty of Lisbon lays down a common European policy and legislation on immigration and asylum and makes this Parliament a legislator, so that the past in which the Member States had exclus…

9 May

2023

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Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence – EU accession: institutions and public administration of the Union - Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence - EU accession: judicial cooperation in criminal matters, asylum and non-refoulement (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner Dalli, why are we debating in the European Parliament the final ratification of a Council of Europe convention adopted no less than in 2011, today, 9 May 2023, Europe Day, signing a commitment against all forms of violence against women? Well, first of all, because this Parliament has the power to do so. It has the final say so that any international convention negoti…

20 Apr

2023

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Decision to enter into interinstitutional negotiations: Addressing situations of crisis in the field of migration and asylum (A9-0127/2023 - Juan Fernando López Aguilar) (vote)

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Madam President, dear colleagues, I thank you because I am requesting from you just a short minute of your attention. I'm sorry to do it, but I have to, because in the exercise their rights, two political groups have challenged the vote that was adopted in the Committee of Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs of the files of which the new migration and asylum pact consists of five regulations, incl…

19 Apr

2023

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Universal decriminalization of homosexuality, in light of recent developments in Uganda (debate)

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Mr President, this Ugandan law, adopted in March 2023, which condemns the death penalty for homosexuality, shakes the conscience of the European Parliament, as this debate with the Commission and the Council shows. This is unacceptable in a country that receives massive aid from the European Union, and diplomacy must ensure that this law cannot be applied in any case. But this morning we heard a p…

19 Apr

2023

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Children forcibly deported from Ukraine and the ICC arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin (debate)

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Mr President, Vice-President Jourová, the Duma of the Russian Federation has decided to criminalise any form of cooperation with the International Criminal Court, which Putin does not recognise. It is not just another step in its frontal gallop against international legality, but a clear sign that the European Union also has a reason here to support the International Criminal Court, which has deci…

18 Apr

2023

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The need for European solidarity in saving lives in the Mediterranean, in particular in Italy (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, exploiting electorally the overwhelmed sense of loneliness or lack of solidarity in the face of an emergency situation in the Mediterranean is within the reach of any populism, of any nationalism decorated to the extreme right. But it's a woefully wrong response and one that leads to frustration and failure. That's Meloni's decree. The problem is real, but the answer ca…

18 Apr

2023

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Adoption of the Cyber package proposals (debate)

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Madam President, Vice-President Schinas, Commissioner Breton, in the face of Putin's war of aggression against Ukraine, the European Union has responded unitedly on the humanitarian level, in defending international legality by avoiding impunity for war crimes, and also in defending cybersecurity, that is, in defending our security and our critical infrastructure. And that is why we welcome this C…

30 Mar

2023

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2022 Rule of Law Report - The rule of law situation in the European Union - Rule of law in Greece - Rule of law in Spain - Rule of law in Malta (debate)

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Mr President, Vice-President Jourová, third European Parliament resolution on the third rule of law report. I have the honour of being the author of this resolution as Chair of the Committee on Freedoms, Justice and Home Affairs, and the report contains some of the requests of this European Parliament, country-specific recommendations, information pluralism and compliance with judgments of suprana…

15 Mar

2023

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Combating discrimination in the EU - the long-awaited horizontal anti-discrimination directive (debate)

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Mr President. Good evening, Council. Swedish Presidency, good evening. Again, Commissioner Dalli, good evening. Dear colleagues, it is my honour to present before you this oral question on behalf of the Committee. I am also honoured to chair the Committee on Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. This is an oral question on equality: anti—discrimination horizontal directive. On good reason, on good …

15 Mar

2023

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Cross-border adoptions from third countries (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner Dalli, it is true that the debate on cross-border adoptions at global level must reflect some concerns, particularly in a context where there is an increase in crimes against children, including trafficking in children and trafficking in organs. But in the European Union, the fact that there are very different substantive and procedural rights in all Member States cannot…

15 Mar

2023

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The EU Guidelines on Human Rights Defenders (debate)

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Madam President, on the agenda we defended a strong position of the European Union on behalf of fundamental rights activists in the European Union – in the case of an activist for the rights to the free development of personality and sexual and reproductive rights, persecuted precisely for providing an abortion pill for termination of pregnancy in Poland. How can we not transfer these criteria, as…

15 Mar

2023

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Women activism – human rights defenders related to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) (debate)

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Madam President, when you look at the rubric of this debate, 'Women's activism: human rights defenders related to sexual and reproductive health and related rights", it seems abstract, but it is not. You are talking about European citizens of flesh and blood: Justyna, in Poland, threatened with a sentence of up to three years in prison by a public prosecutor directly submitted to the Prosecutor Ge…

15 Mar

2023

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Combating organised crime in the EU (debate)

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Madam President, Madam President-in-Office of the Council, Commissioner, organised crime is the crime of our time. More than 75% of crime in the European Union is organised and cross-border. And that is why we welcome the fact that the Council has clearly set out its ten priorities in assessing this threat, which include, of course, terrorism, drug trafficking, economic and environmental crime and…

15 Mar

2023

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Deaths at sea: a common EU response to save lives and action to ensure safe and legal pathways (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner Johansson, this is the fifth debate in the last two years in the European Parliament on deaths in the Mediterranean and the need for legal and safe pathways and a European rescue and rescue mechanism. Seventy-two dead off the coast of Calabria, near Crotone. According to the testimony of the survivors, at least two hundred people were crammed into the old fishing boat. A…

15 Feb

2023

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EUCO conclusions: the need for the speedy finalisation of the Road Map (debate)

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Madam President, migration is a fact. It is not a threat to our security or our identity and, of course, walls are not the answer. The answer must be European in its scope, in its values, but also in its law legislated according to the principles of binding solidarity and shared responsibility. This Parliament has implemented this legislated law on migration and asylum. If we are negotiating a new…

15 Feb

2023

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The erosion of the rule of law in Greece: the wiretapping scandal and media freedom (topical debate)

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Madam President Regner, Commissioner, Madam President-in-Office of the Council, we are once again debating in the European Parliament the erosion of the rule of law and information pluralism. And we do it on the ground. Since the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs mandated the Commission – Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders – to bring an annual report on the rule of law, demo…

15 Feb

2023

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One year of Russia’s invasion and war of aggression against Ukraine (debate)

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Mr. President Karas, we have a year of Putin's unjust and criminal war against Ukraine. But we must go back many years to remember a Parliament whose broad majority is so united in the exercise of leadership vis-à-vis it by High Representative Borrell and President von der Leyen. This Parliament has supported humanitarian measures for displaced people, supported the commitment to strategic autonom…

14 Feb

2023

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Establishment of an independent EU Ethics Body (debate)

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Mr President Karas, Commissioner Jourová, President of the Council, in September 2021, this European Parliament adopted a resolution requiring an inter-institutional agreement that would put in place an ethical body that would make declarations of financial interests and incompatibilities of Members of the European Parliament transparent and accessible. But now ask for more. Calls for a legislativ…