What Juan Fernando spoke about.

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…

15 Dec

2021

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The proposed Council decision on provisional emergency measures for the external border with Belarus based on article 78(3) TFEU (continuation of debate)

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Madam President, Vice-President Schinas, a debate returns to the European Parliament on the challenge posed by what we have called a ‘hybrid attack’ perpetrated by the rogue Lukashenka regime – Europe’s last dictator, 30 years in power – and directly affecting its neighbours in the European Union, Lithuania, Latvia and Poland. The occasion would have been propitious for Poland, so reluctant to com…

15 Dec

2021

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Plans to undermine further fundamental rights in Poland, in particular regarding the standards of the European Convention of Human Rights and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (debate)

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Madam President, Vice-President Schinas, again Poland: debate on the rule of law, democracy and fundamental rights in a Member State of the European Union. On 7 October 2021, the Polish Constitutional Court, massively intervened by the government party in Poland, declared at the request of the Minister of Justice and Prosecutor General – who are the same person – that the Treaty on European Union …

15 Dec

2021

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The European Commission Guidelines on inclusive language (topical debate)

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Madam President, Vice-President Schinas, plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, with so many legislative issues to deal with and here we have a supreme example of an issue that should not have reached this rostrum because it is not a legislative act, not even an official Commission document, an official Commission communication, but an internal working document that recommends t…

15 Dec

2021

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 16-17 December 2021 - The EU's response to the global resurgence of Covid-19 and the new emerging Covid variants (debate)

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Mr President, Commission, it is now six months since this European Parliament approved the Digital COVID Certificate under the urgency procedure, for which I had the honour of being rapporteur, with limitation of purpose and serving the restoration of free movement in the European Union, and for which the Commission undertook to review its performance after nine months. A plausible scenario is a n…

13 Dec

2021

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Combating gender-based violence: cyberviolence (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner for Equality, that gender-based violence and violence against women is not a strictly local phenomenon, nor is it confined to the perimeter of the Member States of the European Union, is something assumed by this European Parliament, and that is why we have supported the ratification of the Istanbul Convention by the European Union and why this European Parliament has ur…

24 Nov

2021

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Fundamental rights and the rule of law in Slovenia, in particular the delayed nomination of EPPO prosecutors (debate)

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Mr President Castaldo, Commissioner for Justice, Minister, this is the second time that this European Parliament has discussed the situation of fundamental rights and the rule of law and the situation of the European Public Prosecutor's Office in Slovenia. Believe me, as chairman of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs of this European Parliament, I am not happy. On the contr…

23 Nov

2021

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Legal migration policy and law (debate)

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Mr President, Vice-President Schinas, in an ageing Europe with increasing labour shortages in a growing number of jobs, it is a great idea that this European Parliament is going to adopt a report on how to reaffirm, widen, improve and update legal immigration routes to the European Union with nine recommendations. The idea of talent pool and talent partnerships to attract skilled labour is a good …

23 Nov

2021

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Condemning police violence against Romani people in the EU (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner Dalli, on 19 June 2021, Stanislav Tomáš, a Roma European citizen, a citizen of the Czech Republic, died in a terrible episode of police brutality choked to death; I would recall the case of George Floyd, with the only difference that in Europe a movement shouting 'I can't breathe' has not resonated in all latitudes of the Union. As denounced by the European Union Agen…

23 Nov

2021

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Situation in Belarus and at its border with the EU and the security and humanitarian consequences (debate)

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Madam President, the exploitation of the desperation of human beings at the external borders of the European Union as General Winter approaches is not a migration crisis, it is a political challenge posed by a tyrant in our neighbourhood who takes advantage of the blatant lack of unity in the response and exploits the vulnerability of both migrants and the European Union itself. It is never repeat…

22 Nov

2021

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Madam President, in this plenary session of the European Parliament we voted on the outcome of the agreement between the Council and the European Parliament on the 2022 budget. I would like to highlight a contribution with a clear social-democratic imprint: an increase of EUR 211 million in the initial allocation of EUR 500 million for the European Union Solidarity Fund. I want to share with this …

10 Nov

2021

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Strengthening democracy, media freedom and pluralism in the EU (debate)

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Madam President, Vice-President Jourová, freedom of expression, of the press, and pluralism of information are nuclearly linked in the same article, Article 11, of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union because they are consubstantial to the European idea of democracy, and it is a fact that nowhere are freedoms, not that of the press, protected, not secured, not consolidated forev…

10 Nov

2021

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The escalating humanitarian crisis on the EU-Belarusian border, in particular in Poland (debate)

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Mr President, High Representative Borrell, when a humanitarian challenge reaches a limit, precisely in the most difficult and worst-handled times, it is useful to return to the principles, and the first is the one that reminds us that, if there are unscrupulous rulers who instrumentalise ⁇ weaponise, as we usually say ⁇ the unspeakable suffering of defenceless human beings, either on the sea or…

21 Oct

2021

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2019 Discharge: European Border and Coast Guard Agency (debate)

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Madam President, yes, I am stating here the case of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE). As you are well aware, LIBE recommended in its first opinion for the 2019 discharge, to postpone the discharge for the agency. But then, in September 2021, the LIBE Committee called on the Budgetary Control Committee (CONT) not to grant discharge for 2019 to Frontex due to allega…

20 Oct

2021

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Pushbacks at the EU's external border (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner Johansson, when a ruler is a tyrant and a despot with his own people, it is no surprise that he behaves like a hooligan and a scoundrel with his nearest border; therefore the whole neighbourhood has a problem: We are talking about Lukashenka and the European Union. Of course, the instrumental use of human beings as a tool of pressure on the European Union is unaccepta…