What Juan Fernando spoke about.

14 Feb

2023

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The EU priorities for the 67th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner Dalli, the Committee on Freedoms, Justice and Home Affairs has criminally legislated this legislature against cybercrime and cyberbullying against women. That is a priority for the European Union in all international forums, including the United Nations. But it must also be said that no resolution of the United Nations can have the force to force international legality i…

13 Feb

2023

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Electoral rights of mobile Union citizens in European Parliament elections - Electoral rights of mobile Union citizens in municipal elections (debate)

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Madam President, last year, 2022, we celebrated 70 years of the Constitution of the First Parliamentary Assembly of the European Communities. This European Parliament is a leap forward in that it is the only democratically elective, legislative and supranational institution in the world. But it is essential to know that electoral participation in the forty years that this Parliament has been direc…

2 Feb

2023

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Preparation of the EU-Ukraine Summit (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner Hahn, one year after Putin's illegal, illegitimate and unjustifiable war of aggression against Ukraine, this European Parliament has done everything in its power to show its commitment to the sanctions against Russia and its solidarity with the Ukrainian people suffering from this war. We have supported the confiscation of oligarchs' property. We have supported, throu…

1 Feb

2023

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Need for urgent update of the EU list of high-risk third countries for anti-money laundering and terrorist financing purposes (debate)

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Madam President, Madam President-in-Office of the Council, all that is to strengthen the union of the European Union in the fight against money laundering and the financing of terrorism is to go in the right direction and it has the strong support of this European Parliament. Of course, the delegated act, the list of high-risk third countries for money laundering purposes, has it. But it is also i…

1 Feb

2023

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Preparation of the Special European Council meeting of February, in particular the need to develop sustainable solutions in the area of asylum and migration (debate)

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Mr President, Madam President-in-Office of the Council, since the beginning of Putin's war of aggression against Ukraine, 11 million people displaced by horror have entered the territory of the European Union and at least 4 million have decided to remain there indefinitely. And none of that has questioned the European social model or our capacity for inclusion. Therefore, Madam President-in-Office…

18 Jan

2023

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Criminalisation of humanitarian assistance, including search and rescue (debate)

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That is a point. It was unfortunately not adopted, by only two votes. A very tight vote was decisive in this particular case. My assumption is that most of the Members which voted against should have reason to rethink, and particularly some who voted against must have a reason to be sorry about it, because there is the situation as you describe it: some governments are doing their best and investi…

18 Jan

2023

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Criminalisation of humanitarian assistance, including search and rescue (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner Johansson, should it be possible and tolerable in the European Union to criminalise humanitarian assistance, including rescue and rescue operations at sea? The answer is no, and yet it happens, because it still depends too much on the legislation of the Member States and, even worse, on the behaviour of national governments, in the absence of a binding European framework…

18 Jan

2023

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Protection of the EU’s financial interests - combating fraud - annual report 2021 (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner Johansson, we welcome the fact that a debate in the plenary of the European Parliament on the fight against corruption and fraud affecting the financial interests of the Union is already a custom: is institutionalised. Not long ago it was unthinkable; I remember well that the first anti-corruption strategy was launched by your predecessor, Commissioner Malmström. As C…

18 Jan

2023

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Protecting the Rule of Law against impunity in Spain (topical debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner Reynders, for those of us who have the honour of representing citizens in this European Parliament, any six-monthly presidency of the country from which we come this year is a precious occasion to show unity in a pro-European commitment based on shared country objectives. Gentlemen of the Popular Party, are you not ashamed to miss this opportunity to show here your co…

18 Jan

2023

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 15 December 2022 (continuation of debate)

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Madam President Picierno, President Michel, Vice-President Šefčovič, there is no mention of a single debate on Council conclusions in this parliamentary term that did not discuss migration and the rule of law situation in the European Union. It is true that Putin's brutal, illegal and criminal war against Ukraine has resized them both. With regard to migration, however, the humanitarian response d…

17 Jan

2023

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The establishment of a tribunal on the crime of aggression against Ukraine (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, I am among those who conclude that the setbacks and crises from which we come, such as this illegal, unjust and criminal war of aggression, must make the European Union grow in its proclaimed vocation to be globally relevant and, therefore, contribute to the globalisation not only of artificial intelligence, the digital agenda and the fight against climate change, bu…

17 Jan

2023

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The EU’s response to the appalling attack against civilians in Dnipro : strengthening sanctions against the Putin regime and military support to Ukraine (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner Reynders, indeed, one year since the brutal war of aggression that we call Putin's war against Ukraine, which has had seismic consequences on the European neighbourhood as a whole from a social and economic point of view, from an energy point of view, from a humanitarian point of view, but also from a geostrategic point of view, which has led to an exercise in unity f…

17 Jan

2023

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

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Madam President Metsola, Prime Minister Kristersson, the Swedish Presidency takes place this year 2023, decisive for the balance of achievements of this 2019-2024 legislature. You have heard the many expectations placed on the Swedish Presidency, but also expressions of concern to see them devalued on a main issue, such as the one referred to as a 'migration threat of mass emigration', which contr…

15 Dec

2022

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The 30th anniversary of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, this is the 30th anniversary of the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities by the UN General Assembly. It is clear that, after these thirty years, there are millions and millions of people belonging to minorities who continue to suffer forced assimilation, persecution, prejudice, discrimination, stere…

14 Dec

2022

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The Commission’s reports on the situation of journalists and the implications of the rule of law (debate)

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Madam President, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, Commissioner Hahn, the Rule of Law Report, the third of this year 2022, is fully correct to receive a point underlined by the LIBE Committee: freedom of the press and freedom of pluralism in the context of the EU Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy. Because there is no freedom that does not have pluralism as a corollary. But to ensure p…

14 Dec

2022

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Defending the European Union against the abuse of national vetoes (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner Gentiloni, there will come a day when the European Union will dare once and for all to make a more perfect union as we Europeans dream, and when national vetoes will be an antique and a relic of the past. Unanimity can make sense for constitutional issues and for the enlargement of the European Union itself. But experience clearly shows that national vetoes have become a…

14 Dec

2022

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 15 December 2022 (debate)

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Madam President, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, Madam President of the Commission, in the conclusions of the Conference on the Future of Europe, there is one that coincides with an old aspiration of the Socialist Group of this European Parliament: to put an end to the vetoes of unanimity in any decision that does not concern constitutional aspects, common values, the Charter of Fundamental…

13 Dec

2022

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The recent JHA Council decision on Schengen accession (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner Johansson, for many years this European Parliament has done everything in its power, with all the instruments at its disposal, to defend Schengen, to protect Schengen against arbitrary restrictions and contrary to the measures of necessity and the time limit indicated by the Court of Justice, and to protect Schengen by wanting Schengen to be completed at once with the Me…

13 Dec

2022

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Suspicions of corruption from Qatar and the broader need for transparency and accountability in the European institutions (debate) (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner Johansson, this European Parliament was the first Parliament in the world to legislate for the criminal and procedural protection of whistleblowers. This European Parliament has legislated harshly and in a way that is binding on all Member States against all forms of corruption and laundering. That is why this Parliament must be rigorously united, unbroken, in condemning…

12 Dec

2022

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Madam President, Putin’s unjustifiable war of aggression against Ukraine has required this European Parliament to adopt a whole range of measures, both to prevent impunity for war crimes and to adopt restrictive measures against Russia, its agents and accomplices, including a ban on Russian ships calling at EU ports. But it is reasonable that the Commission should assess, in so far as the conflict…

12 Dec

2022

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Towards equal rights for persons with disabilities (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner Dalli, when we talk about equal rights with people with disabilities, we are talking about fundamental rights and the Charter that protects them, Article 21, which prohibits any form of discrimination against them and Article 26, which orders the European Union to promote and fully integrate them. This is the point of this report by the Committee on Civil Liberties, J…

23 Nov

2022

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Legal protection for rainbow families exercising free movement, in particular the Baby Sara case (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner Dalli, what are we talking about when we ask the Commission to take an initiative to legally protect rainbow families? To adopt a regulation on filiation and a regulation on the recognition of families founded by persons of the same sex. Because we are talking about fundamental rights. The first, free movement and choice of residence – Article 45 of the Charter of Fundam…

23 Nov

2022

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The need for a European solution on asylum and migration including search and rescue (debate)

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Mr President, Vice-President Schinas, Commissioner Johansson, migration, asylum, rescue and rescue have a common denominator. They are indeed a European question that requires a European answer and there is only one European answer, a European solution, as the title of this debate suggests. It's within our reach to give it to him. The New Pact on Migration and Asylum – five Regulations: We are wor…

22 Nov

2022

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EU response to the increasing crackdown on protests in Iran (debate)

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Madam President, no, this is not the first time that this European Parliament has discussed the unacceptable human rights situation under the Islamic Republic of Iran. But let's face it, we had never seen a rebellious explosion of courage like the one we have seen since the death of Mahsa Amini at the hands of the "morality police" on September 16. We've seen demonstrations. We have also seen a ba…

22 Nov

2022

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Resilience of critical entities (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner Johansson, this Parliament welcomes this revision of the directive on strengthening infrastructure and critical entities, which is part of strengthening the security of Europeans in the face of hybrid attacks, which were dramatically highlighted during Putin's war against Ukraine, and which extends the security of Europeans, beyond energy and transport, to other affected…