What Juan Fernando spoke about.

4 May

2022

ES Speech

Threats to stability, security and democracy in Western and Sahelian Africa (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, if you are still wondering about the relevance of this Parliament discussing instability and insecurity in the Sahel and West Africa, it will be enough to listen to the key arguments on this point of our agenda. Because motivation is inescapable: Africa is experiencing a population explosion unprecedented in human history. It has doubled its population in the last fifty…

4 May

2022

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Use of the Pegasus Software by EU Member States against individuals including MEPs and the violation of fundamental rights (topical debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, this important debate coincides with the start of the work of the Pegasus Committee of Inquiry, a highly sophisticated telephone spy technology that threatens the European idea of democracy, its values and its rights. Unlike any precedent with which we can compare it, Pegasus is characterized, not only by its opacity, difficult to trace, but also by its intrusiveness an…

3 May

2022

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Strengthening Europol’s mandate: cooperation with private parties, processing of personal data, and support for research and innovation (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner Johansson, you have heard it clearly, the European Parliament is well aware that in the pandemic years there has been an exponential increase in cybercrime – such as phishing or online sexual abuse – which requires a reinforcement of Europol’s mandate to handle big data, but to do so consistently in the face of globalisation and the technological revolution and with t…

3 May

2022

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EU preparedness against cyber-attacks following Russia invasion on Ukraine (debate)

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Mr President, Vice-President Schinas, the dizzying event of Putin's war against Ukraine has come to change everything, from the local to the global. We read a lot these days and we hear a lot about the conduct of the war on the military plane, therefore, on the war plane, but there are other Putin wars where a battle is fought in which Russia is a superpower as in the nuclear, mainly in disinforma…

3 May

2022

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Artificial intelligence in a digital age (debate)

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Madam President, after a year and a half of work, the Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence concludes with this document that the European Parliament is examining today and that impacts all the matters and legal bases on which the European Parliament legislates content related to industry, energy, trade and, of course, employment. This document must also respect the European standard for th…

7 Apr

2022

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The situation of marginalised Roma communities in the EU (debate)

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Madam President, I really appreciate the opportunity, once again, to be able to pay tribute, in a debate on the marginalised situation of the Roma community in the European Union, to those who time and again bring to the European Union's awareness the unacceptable discrimination they suffer, at all levels, in Member States of the European Union. I remember recently attending the screening of a doc…

6 Apr

2022

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Violations of right to seek asylum and non-refoulement in the EU Member States (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner Dalli, international humanitarian law is an integral part of the sources of European law (Article 6 of the Treaty on European Union). That is why we must know that the guiding principle of the right to asylum is that of non-rejection, let alone violent or forcible rejection, of people who, fleeing despair or conflict zones, try to knock on the door of the European Uni…

6 Apr

2022

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Ongoing hearings under Article 7(1) TEU regarding Poland and Hungary (debate)

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Thank you for your question, Your Honor. It is the Commission that has the institutional responsibility to be guardian of the Treaties and to monitor compliance with European law. But the Court of Justice is the ultimate guarantor of compliance with European law and its judgments are binding. This European Parliament has therefore taken note of the fact that the Polish Government is asking the Con…

6 Apr

2022

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Ongoing hearings under Article 7(1) TEU regarding Poland and Hungary (debate)

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Madam President, Madam Vice-President Jourová, the European idea of democracy has never been reduced to simply governing with a majority. No electoral victory, therefore, exempts from complying with European law. That is the rule of membership of the European Union. And that rule of belonging is very demanding, and that is exactly why we find here again that we have a debate on Poland and Hungary …

6 Apr

2022

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Cooperation and similarities between the Putin regime and extreme right and separatist movements in Europe (topical debate)

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Madam President, Vice-President Jourová, the Special Committee on Foreign Interference in All Democratic Processes in the European Union, in particular Disinformation, of which I have had the honour of being a member, draws some unappealable conclusions. One of them is the need to strengthen cybersecurity and the fact-checking against manipulation. But another, no less important, is that there is …

5 Apr

2022

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Situation in Afghanistan, in particular the situation of women’s rights (debate)

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Madam President, yes, this European Parliament has said forcefully and clearly that Putin's brutal war against Ukraine and its people is illegal and that the European Union must do everything in its power to stop it and as soon as possible, and has also said that war crimes, of which we have unappealable testimonies, cannot go unpunished. But neither one thing nor another, neither war nor war crim…

5 Apr

2022

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EU Protection of children and young people fleeing the war against Ukraine (debate)

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Mrs Kempa, the effort being made by the countries of the first frontier – Poland, Hungary. Slovakia and Romania – is being recognised across the European Union, but that is not the final destination of displaced persons: They are arriving in Estonia, they are arriving in Austria, they are arriving in Czechia, which means, therefore, that we are facing a change of era that will require a solidarity…

5 Apr

2022

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EU Protection of children and young people fleeing the war against Ukraine (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner Johansson, ever since the world - and the European Union, of course - on 24 February called for shock at the brutality of the aggression perpetrated by Putin and his regime against Ukraine and its people, we have witnessed a change of era, a Zeitenwende. Four million people displaced for the first time since the Second World War in European territory have entered the Eur…

4 Apr

2022

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Mr President, between the dates of 19 September and 15 December 2021, a volcano erupted on the Canary Island, Spanish, European, of La Palma, and produced a natural disaster that adds up to all those contemplated in the activation of the Solidarity Fund: fires, earthquakes, havoc, destruction of homes and agricultural production. And that is exactly why, on December 3, the Government of Spain requ…

23 Mar

2022

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Suisse Secrets - How to implement anti-money laundering standards in third countries (debate)

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Mr President, this scandal reveals what remains a fact. There is a Swiss banking sector that does not cooperate against money laundering and does not meet common reporting standards when it comes to high-risk clients. All this takes place in the context of the sanctions imposed by the European Union against Russian oligarchs and underlines the strategic and geopolitical vulnerability of any defect…

23 Mar

2022

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Votes on requests for urgent procedure (Rule 163)

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Madam President, I have also been requested to request this urgent procedure for the handling of the Council decision on the conclusion of an agreement between the European Union and Moldova on operational activities carried out by Frontex, the so-called Status Agreement. The state with refugees at Ukrainian borders, as I said, is dramatic, following Putin’s invasion against Ukraine. The situation…

23 Mar

2022

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Votes on requests for urgent procedure (Rule 163)

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Madam President, on behalf of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, I hereby confirm the urgency and priority of this procedure that has been activated by the Commission proposing a regulation to the Parliament and the Council amending a previous regulation laying down general provisions on the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund, the so-called AMIF, and the regulation, th…

8 Mar

2022

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EU Gender Action Plan III (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner Urpilainen, we in this European Parliament are debating the EU Gender Action Plan III within the framework of the European Gender Strategy and we are doing so no less than on 8 March, International Women's Day, which must commit us all, women and men alike, and until we understand this, we will have understood nothing. For decades now, the Constitutions of each of the Me…

8 Mar

2022

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The deterioration of the situation of refugees as a consequence of the Russian aggression against Ukraine (debate)

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Mr President, in just over ten days of Putin's brutal aggression against Ukraine, the majority of this European Parliament has clearly expressed an awareness of a breaking point, a time-changer, of the European Union's accelerator and of European responses, including nothing less than the activation, at last, more than twenty years after its entry into force, of the Temporary Protection Directive.…

8 Mar

2022

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Foreign interference in all democratic processes in the EU (debate)

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Madam President, Vice-President Jourová, this European Parliament's Special Committee on interference, disinformation and manipulation has worked hard for a year and a half and has stopped, for powerful reasons, attacks on the territorial integrity of Member States by online platforms that support destabilisation by secessionist movements to weaken supranational integration and the threat of hatre…

7 Mar

2022

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Citizenship and residence by investment schemes (debate)

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Mr President, ‘EU values are not for sale’. Do you all remember? I am quoting President von der Leyen. Presidenta Von der Leyen, en su discurso de investidura y, sobre todo, en el discurso sobre el estado de la Unión de 2020, la presidenta de la Comisión se comprometió a atender el requerimiento firme y enérgico que viene sosteniendo la Comisión de Libertades Civiles, Justicia y Asuntos de Interio…

16 Feb

2022

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The Rule of Law and the consequences of the ECJ ruling (debate)

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Madam President, this European Parliament has been instrumental in driving forward the Article 7 procedure, sanctioning Hungary's and Poland's gross breach of the common values underpinning the European Union. This Parliament was also instrumental in the adoption of the Regulation on conditionality of access of European funds to compliance with the rule of law. It is time to recall that the judgme…

15 Feb

2022

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The surveillance of politicians, prosecutors, lawyers and journalists, and other persons and entities in EU Member States using cyber surveillance software(debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, a maxim of scientific progress teaches us that, inexorably, everything that can be done that is within the reach of historically available technology will simply be done. And that the only brake against that determination is the one imposed by ethics and by the civilizing rule of law. Neither of these barriers is invulnerable to criminal practices and unscrupulous ru…

20 Jan

2022

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Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the European Union (continuation of debate)

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Madam President, Vice-President Jourová, French Presidency, human rights either have an effective guarantee or are nothing at all: To affirm such a clear truth, it is not necessary to be a lawyer, it is enough with the commitment shown time and again by the majority of this European Parliament, which represents European citizenship, understanding that human rights include the rights of women's sex…

19 Jan

2022

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Violations of fundamental freedoms in Hong Kong

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Mr. President, the struggle for human rights and democracy anywhere in the world is interconnected, and never as now in globalization. That is why the European Union cares about the deteriorating human rights and freedoms situation in Hong Kong; because it implies respect for the agreement, at the time, between the People's Republic of China and the then Member State of the European Union, the Uni…