What Juan Fernando spoke about.

14 Sep

2022

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Existence of a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is founded (debate)

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I mean, you’re talking to President von der Leyen, not to me. But I'm only glad and I can only thank you for bringing up the migration issue because it’s also an issue. Or is it not that Hungary has proved to be the champion of unsolidarity when it comes to not abiding by the binding measures that have been taken according to EU law precisely to deal with migration issues at European level? Is it …

14 Sep

2022

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Existence of a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is founded (debate)

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In accordance with the Spanish Constitution, emergency measures can be adopted in extraordinary situations, unprecedented both in Spanish democratic history and in the European Union as a whole, and those measures were adopted with the broad majority support of the two Chambers of the Cortes Generales in Spain. Of course, these measures have been examined throughout Europe because they were adopte…

14 Sep

2022

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Existence of a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is founded (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner Reynders, this morning in the debate on the State of the Union I applauded the passage in the speech in which President von der Leyen has ratified her commitment to the rule of law, the values of the Union and the fight against corruption, but it was not the first time, that is why she has ratified it, as it is not the first time that we in this Parliament have discus…

13 Sep

2022

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The situation in the Strait of Taiwan (debate)

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Madam President, Vice-President Borrell, this debate has shown that for decades Taiwan has been on the European Union's external agenda in a delicate and fragile balance with the doctrine we call 'One China policy'. That is the status quo that has so often been alluded to in so many interventions and that has been unilaterally broken by cyber-attacks and military maneuvers and occupation of the ai…

12 Sep

2022

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Surveillance and predator spyware systems in Greece (debate)

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Mr President Karas, Commissioner for Justice Reynders, the European Union prides itself on having the highest standard of protection in the world for the privacy and confidentiality of personal communications. And we face, when necessary, even our differences with strategic partners like the United States, because we are proud of that standard of protection. Moreover, all Member States are bound b…

7 Jul

2022

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Identification of the violation of Union restrictive measures as crimes under Article 83(1) of the TFEU (C9-0219/2022 - Juan Fernando López Aguilar) (vote)

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Madam President, the political point here is enlarging the scope of Article 83 as the legal basis for adopting legislation on criminal matters. The procedural point we had on Tuesday was the urgent procedure for the vote we’re having today, which is the consent for the Commission to take initiative.…

7 Jul

2022

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Better regulation: joining forces to make better laws (debate)

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Mr President, the European Parliament is distinguished by being the only directly elective institution in the European architecture, the only one legitimised by the vote. But it is the only parliament in the world that is supranational and legislator. Therefore, when we talk about 'better regulation', we have to know that there is no deficit of democratic legitimacy or legislative power in this Eu…

6 Jul

2022

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 23-24 June 2022 (continuation of debate)

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Mr President, I would like to draw the Council's attention to the need to give political impetus to the New Pact on Migration and Asylum, which does not appear in the conclusions, because there is no second to lose. There are five regulations from 2022 and four pending from the previous legislature. It is imperative that everyone moves forward in a balanced way, as the roadmap endorsed by this Eur…

5 Jul

2022

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Identification of the violation of Union restrictive measures as crimes under Article 83(1) of the TFEU (C9-0219/2022) (vote)

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Madam President, thank you, it won’t be 3 minutes. Just to explain what it’s about. The Council has addressed the President of the European Parliament in order to request from this European Parliament to vote on the urgent procedure of a consent procedure regarding criminal law to punish violations of restrictive measures imposed by the European Union. That is including the violation of restrictiv…

4 Jul

2022

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Loss of life, violence and inhumane treatment against people seeking international protection at the Spanish-Moroccan border (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner Johansson, an event at the European Union's external border which has resulted in a death toll yet to be determined and which is overwhelming is regrettable and unacceptable. But it has not happened in Melilla, it has happened on the other side of the border between Spain and Morocco, that is, of the border between the entire European Union and the entire African cont…

4 Jul

2022

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US Supreme Court decision to overturn abortion rights in the United States and the need to safeguard abortion rights and Women’s health in the EU (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner for Equality, today is 4 July. Today 246 years ago the Declaration of Independence of the United States and that is why it is your national holiday. It is the foundational mythical act of a democracy that today manifests itself wounded, fractured and exposed to serious setbacks. And yes, it is sad that these setbacks are imposed by a Supreme Court of archaic compositi…

23 Jun

2022

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EU Digital COVID Certificate - Union citizens (A9-0138/2022 - Juan Fernando López Aguilar)

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Madam President, I thank you all, just a minute of your time to show appreciation for the work that has been carried out by the negotiating team in order not only to respond to the Commission’s initiative to extend the current instrument before it comes to its deadline – soon enough, 1 July – but also to improve it in at least two ways. First, by stating the principle that the Commission is to ass…

23 Jun

2022

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National vetoes to undermine the global tax deal (debate)

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Mr President, this debate on the veto imposed against an agreement on minimum corporate taxation in all the Member States, which has a very long mandate from this European Parliament, shows, first of all, that this is a directive and, therefore, the governments of the Member States have the opportunity to assert their tax specificities in the Council, where there are, for example, island territori…

8 Jun

2022

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Global threats to abortion rights: the possible overturn of abortion rights in the US by the Supreme Court (debate)

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Madam President, let no one be deceived: this is not a debate on a US Supreme Court ruling that has not yet occurred, no; this item has been brought to the agenda of the European Parliament by parliamentary groups, and men and women, members of this European Parliament, firmly committed to the sexual and reproductive rights of women and to the idea that they are an expression of fundamental rights…

8 Jun

2022

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Parliament’s right of initiative (debate)

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Mr President, the European Parliament is the only institution directly elected and legitimised by the vote of the European architecture. It is a true Parliament, but it is more: It is the only multinational parliament with legislative powers around the world. It is a legislative Parliament, and it is a true Parliament because it invests the Commission in the person of its President with its vote, …

7 Jun

2022

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The rule of law and the potential approval of the Polish national Recovery Plan (RRF) (debate)

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Both of them – Hungary and Poland – are Member States of the European Union. They are bound exactly by the same rules and by the same law as the rest of us and the rest of the Member States of the European Union. This European Parliament represents 10 million Hungarian citizens in their European citizenship. This European Parliament represents 40 million Polish citizens in their Polish citizenship…

7 Jun

2022

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The rule of law and the potential approval of the Polish national Recovery Plan (RRF) (debate)

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Madam President, President von der Leyen, when the Commission announces that it will authorise the disbursement of no less than EUR 24 billion in subsidies, in addition to EUR 11.5 billion in loans to Poland, it is contradicting the resolutions of this Parliament, but also its own statements in this rostrum before the European Parliament. The recovery fund is a sign of solidarity across the Europe…

6 Jun

2022

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Madam President, when President von der Leyen announced in her investiture her ambitious green agenda and her intention to place the European Union in the global lead in the fight against global warming, no one said it would be easy. But a clear majority in this European Parliament supports that unavoidable objective, an indisputable one. In addition, we call for a just transition to a carbon-free…

6 Jun

2022

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EU islands and cohesion policy (debate)

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Madam President, the European Union is not just a contiguous territory from the Atlantic to its border with Russia, Belarus, Ukraine or Turkey. They are also islands in which millions of Europeans live who need this European pact of islands proposed by the rapporteur Omarjee, which addresses the State aid provided for in Article 107, the regional policy of 174 and the problems of adaptation to the…

19 May

2022

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Preservation, analysis and storage at Eurojust of evidence relating to genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and related criminal offence (C9-0155/2022) (vote)

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Mr President, just shortly, as I had the honour to state yesterday, the LIBE Committee supports both the substance and the urgent procedure as to this amending regulation of Eurojust. So the LIBE coordinators have mandated me to present shortly the LIBE position as follows: First, we have to stick to the minimum amendments possible to improve the draft proposal. Second, we have included the consid…

18 May

2022

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Madam President, while we are debating in this plenary session of the European Parliament, the Conference of the Outermost Regions is taking place in Martinique; outermost regions that are the only ones mentioned by name in European law, in the Treaty of Lisbon, exactly to protect their uniqueness: six French regions, including Martinique, two Portuguese and one Spanish, Canary Islands. And they a…

18 May

2022

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Commission’s 2021 Rule of Law Report (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner Reynders, from overcoming with the decisive impetus of this European Parliament that embryonic phase of commitment to the rule of law, democracy and fundamental rights enshrined in Article 2 of the Treaty on European Union to turning this already regular, regular debate on the Commission's annual rule of law report into an institution of this European Parliament, we h…

18 May

2022

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Votes on requests for urgent procedure (Rule 163)

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Mr President, at this stage, I’m humbly and kindly asking you to endorse this proposal for amending the Eurojust Regulation. You know what it’s like: after the war launched by Putin’s Russia against Ukraine, the urgent need came to light to amend the Eurojust Regulation precisely to ensure its capacity to prevent impunity of the atrocities perpetrated in this war against Ukraine by Russian troops.…

5 May

2022

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Decision to enter into interinstitutional negotiations: EU Digital COVID Certificate - Union citizens (A9-0138/2022 - Juan Fernando López Aguilar) (vote)

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Madam President, if you will allow me, this is just a call for the Members to endorse the mandate of the LIBE Committee to engage into negotiations – the so-called interinstitutional negotiations – as it is an extension of the timeframe of the first version of the EU Digital COVID Certificate. It makes sense insofar as the pandemic is not over – the worst is over, but the pandemic is not over yet …

5 May

2022

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The impact of the war against Ukraine on women (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner Johansson, very well, Robert Biedroń, Chair of the Committee on Women's Rights, for bringing to this European Parliament an urgent question on a drama that has to be high on our agenda: the impact of the war in Ukraine on women, who make up the vast majority of people who have fled the war zone. They are the most vulnerable victims of the sexual violence brutalized by…