What Juan Fernando spoke about.

21 Nov

2022

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Madam President, last week, at the European Parliament in Brussels, the Conference of the Outermost Regions of the European Union took place, at which the Canary Islands received the presidency's witness for next year 2023. And the conference has two fundamental objectives. The first is to coordinate the action of island and remote regions themselves in the defence of their interests. But the seco…

21 Nov

2022

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Situation of human rights in the context of the FIFA world cup in Qatar (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, 12 years ago FIFA decided that the 2022 World Cup would take place in Qatar. Is it or is it not a sad paradox that, now that this championship starts, the debate on the situation of labor rights, human rights, the principle of non-discrimination against women, against the LGTBI collective ... is more heated than ever? It is. This Parliament cannot review FIFA's decis…

21 Nov

2022

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Assessment of Hungary's compliance with the rule of law conditions under the Conditionality Regulation and state of play of the Hungarian RRP (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner Reynders, this European Parliament, no less than six years ago, took the initiative to initiate the sanction procedure referred to in Article 7, considering that, even then, the government headed by Viktor Orbán in Hungary indicated a clear risk of a serious and systemic violation of the fundamental values of the European Union. And since then it has only worsened the…

10 Nov

2022

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Racial justice, non-discrimination and anti-racism in the EU (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner Dalli, this debate on racial justice and the European strategy and plan against all forms of discrimination and racism is very well brought about, as is the presentation by our colleague Evin Incir. You said it, racism has no place in Europe and there is a European plan against racism and discrimination 2020-2025 that includes an anti-racism coordinator; So far it shows …

9 Nov

2022

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 20-21 October 2022 (debate)

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Mr President, in this European Parliament we are all aware that the Council is facing very difficult decisions to respond to the energy supply crisis and to the increase in its costs for businesses and families. However, that cannot make us forget or neglect the need, which stems from the abrupt breakdown of all forms of cooperation with Russia, to support sectors that depend not only on energy su…

20 Oct

2022

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Non-recognition of Russian travel documents issued in occupied foreign regions (C9-0302/2022 - Juan Fernando López Aguilar) (vote)

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– Mr President, is there a referral? Just to call for the referral back to the relevant committee for interinstitutional negotiations.

19 Oct

2022

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Lukashenka regime's active role in the war against Ukraine (debate)

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Madam President, the branding of Putin's Russia as a threat to peace and security in Europe has forced quite a number of Member States to review their own record of political, diplomatic, strategic and energy relations with Putin's Russia, but this is not the case with Belarus. No one has been deceived. Everyone knows that it is the longest-lasting dictatorship in Europe. He has been in an increas…

19 Oct

2022

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Whitewashing of the anti-European extreme right in the EU (topical debate)

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Mr President, just as there are people who think that populism is too generic a formula that requires national conclusions, there are those who say that the extreme right also requires a detailed examination, which is not the same as the one that reaches the government in Italy as the one that does it in Sweden. And yet they exhibit common traits: the first is reactionary nationalism, prone to emb…

19 Oct

2022

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 20-21 October 2022 (debate)

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Madam President, the debate is now drawing some clear conclusions. The first is that decoupling gas from the final price of electricity means, let's face it, that what was once called the Iberian exception becomes the general rule of the European Union. The second is that catching gas to protect European consumers from inflation involves intervening in a market that does not work. The third is tha…

18 Oct

2022

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Recognising the Russian Federation as a state sponsor of terrorism (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner Johansson, since the start of Putin's brutal war of aggression against Ukraine in February of this year, this European Parliament has done everything to support all the actions taken by the European Union to respond. Noting, first of all, that it is a gigantic, direct neighbour of the European Union – the Russian Federation – a direct border of the European Union in t…

18 Oct

2022

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Setting up a comprehensive framework for missing children and missing persons at risk (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner Johansson, in a plenary session so full of extremely sensitive issues, this European Parliament is once again dealing with the rights of minors and particularly with the problem of missing minors. It's creepy. The numbers are really overwhelming. The only known record – a 2013 report – indicates that at least 250 000 reported children are missing in the European Union…

18 Oct

2022

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Impact of Russian invasion of Ukraine on migration flows to the EU (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner Johansson, the facts are eloquent, the facts are eloquent, but the facts are no less so. Since Putin’s war of aggression against Ukraine, at least one third of the Ukrainian population has been forcibly displaced. More than 11 million people from Ukraine have entered the territory of the European Union. As you have pointed out, about seven million have returned to Ukrain…

18 Oct

2022

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Continued internal border controls in the Schengen area in light of the recent ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union (C-368/20) (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner Johansson, never before in this parliamentary term have we discussed Schengen so much: "in trouble", "under pressure", "in very bad condition"... We have reason to be concerned that Schengen is identified as the most precious asset of European construction. It means free movement of people, without internal borders. And what has happened? That a succession of episodes of…

18 Oct

2022

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Growing hate crimes against LGBTIQ people across Europe in light of the recent homophobic murder in Slovakia (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner Dalli, this Parliament has debated many times about the increase in hate crimes in the European Union, but I could not miss this debate which is not only about a hate crime, but about a crime against the LGTBI community on grounds of sexual orientation perpetrated by a far-right gunman. Therefore, in addition to what has been said and the Council statement that I believe…

18 Oct

2022

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Question Time (Commission) - Protecting critical infrastructure in the EU against attacks and countering hybrid attacks

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(beginning of the out-of-microphone intervention) ... Vice-President Schinas clearly expressed that the aspiration is indeed that it should not happen again that, on such a shocking event as the interruption of the gas supply or an attack on the Nord Stream, there can be long-standing doubts as to the causality, who has done it, the responsibility, and what the European Union can do, not only to t…

18 Oct

2022

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Question Time (Commission) - Protecting critical infrastructure in the EU against attacks and countering hybrid attacks

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Commissioner, I know that you understand me well if I ask you directly about an issue related to the subject of this Question Time, live and live, but certainly not expressed so far, and that is that it is possible not only to protect critical infrastructure against hybrid attacks, but also to share information, not only between Member States, but with citizens. It is shocking that there is still …

18 Oct

2022

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Non-recognition of Russian travel documents issued in occupied foreign regions (C9-0302/2022 - Juan Fernando López Aguilar) (vote)

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Madam President, colleagues, again, it’ll be short. Just to explain the subject matter of the issue, you know that Russia has decided to illegally annex some territories in Ukraine and recognise independence for other territories in Georgia, started to issue travel documents, namely so—called Russian passports, to the residents of those illegally occupied territories. The Commission has decided to…

17 Oct

2022

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FRONTEX's responsibility for fundamental rights violations at EU's external borders in light of the OLAF report (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner Johansson, corruptio optimi lousy: This Latin adage tells us that the corruption of the best is the worst of all, just as the diversion of power of those entrusted with the task of ensuring compliance with the law is a damage to the whole system of which they are part. This is the case with Frontex, unfortunately. We are not surprised, because we have been on top for qui…

17 Oct

2022

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The Rule of Law in Malta, five years after the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia (debate)

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Mr President, the press room at the seat of the European Parliament plenary in Strasbourg is named after Daphne Caruana Galizia, a heroic investigative journalist who was vilely murdered for conducting inquiries into a serious corruption issue. There has been a judicial investigation, there have been convictions in the Member State of the European Union, no less, in which this crime was perpetrate…

3 Oct

2022

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Madam President, it is a fact that the European Union has been built through its crises, uniting in its diversity, and nothing expresses it better than insularity, the island regions in which no less than 20 million Europeans live. These are 60 island regions, among which the outermost regions stand out, which are the only ones that are enshrined by name in the Treaty of Lisbon. In some of them, t…

3 Oct

2022

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The EU's actions in the field of freedom of religion or belief worldwide (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner Dalli, if there is one point of interest for the group I represent, the Socialist Group, in this debate on freedom of religion or belief worldwide and the action of the European Union, it is precisely the one that reminds us that freedom of religion, belief and thought is a fundamental right enshrined in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union not only…

15 Sep

2022

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Statute and funding of European political parties and European political foundations (debate)

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Madam President, Vice-President Jourová, I would like to welcome the step forward in the process always wanted by a majority of this European Parliament to democratise and parliamentarise European political life and the European process. How do you take that step? Adopting this crucial regulation on the statute and funding of European political parties and European political foundations. And I par…

14 Sep

2022

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Illegal detention of the opposition leader in Bulgaria (topical debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner Reynders, this very morning, on the State of the Union debate, President Ursula von der Leyen reaffirmed and reaffirmed the Union's commitment to its values, to the rule of law and its demands, and to the fight against corruption, in which the launch of the European Public Prosecutor's Office to investigate corruption offences, misappropriation offences, fraud offences, …

14 Sep

2022

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Situation of fundamental rights in the EU in 2020 and 2021 (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner Reynders, to conclude this debate I can only thank you for the intensity and, of course, the extent of this exchange of views that we have just attended. And all I can add is that there is, as I have heard, no contradiction between the universality of fundamental rights and the emphasis we have placed on the protection of equality and the prohibition of discrimination ag…

14 Sep

2022

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Situation of fundamental rights in the EU in 2020 and 2021 (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders, the European Parliament has more reasons than ever to take seriously the state of fundamental rights in the European Union, not only because it is thirteen years since the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, which enshrined as common values and expression of the common constit…