What Juan Fernando spoke about.

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2021

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EU Blue Card Directive (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner Johansson, the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, which I have the honour of chairing, has for years been denouncing and combating the Council's predominantly negative view of migration, which prevents legal and safe access for workers that the European Union indeed needs, and whose rights it has a duty to respect. After years of tense pulse with the…

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2021

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Situation in Afghanistan (debate)

Madam President, High Representative Borrell, I underline from this rostrum two contributions of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs to this resolution, in the face of the global challenge abruptly posed by the return of the Taliban to absolute, despotic and brutally discriminatory power against women. The first is the requirement to activate the Temporary Protection Directi…

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2021

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State of play of the implementation of the EU Digital COVID Certificate regulations (debate)

Mr President, Mr Reynders, during the years that I have been serving European citizens in this European Parliament as a legislator on fundamental rights, justice and home affairs, I have never experienced a legislative procedure such as the one that made the European Union Digital COVID Certificate possible. And, of course, I had not seen that, just a week after the European Union Digital COVID Ce…

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2021

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Breaches of EU law and of the rights of LGBTIQ citizens in Hungary as a result of the adopted legal changes in the Hungarian Parliament - The outcome of 22 June hearings under Article 7(1) of the TEU regarding Poland and Hungary (debate)

Mr President, Vice-President Jourová, who is discussing in this House the right of parents to ensure the education of their daughters and sons? No one. But to pretend that this debate about the infamous Hungarian law is about that is the height of hypocrisy. Children in the European Union do not need to be protected against the dissemination of educational or informational content on diversity, se…

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Jul

2021

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Visa Information System (VIS): visa processing - Visa Information System (VIS): conditions for accessing other EU information systems for VIS (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner Johansson, this very evening we discussed here the state of the Schengen Borders Code and Schengen governance, which has as its corollary a Schengen Information System, which is also legislated European law. And now we are debating the state of the European visa system, also legislated by this European Parliament for a regulation establishing a European Visa Code, for…

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Jul

2021

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Annual Report on the functioning of the Schengen area (debate)

Madam President, thirty-six years ago, in a town in Luxembourg called Schengen, an agreement took place from which the greatest achievement of European integration since then began: free movement, which is today a fundamental right, the one most appreciated by European citizens by far, and which is also legislated by this European Parliament, with the Schengen Borders Code, which is a binding regu…

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2021

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Foreign interference in democratic processes (debate)

Madam President, Mr High Representative, this European Parliament has launched a Special Committee on Foreign Interference in All Democratic Processes in the European Union, particularly Disinformation, because democracy matters to us. And because we care, we have addressed this oral question to you. Because it is the European External Action Service, under its responsibility, that has so far prov…

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2021

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Use of technologies for the processing of data for the purpose of combating online child sexual abuse (temporary derogation from Directive 2002/58/EC) (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner Johansson, any form of sexual abuse is a serious violation of human rights, but it is particularly appalling when it comes to children, particularly vulnerable people. The European Union prides itself on having the highest standard in the world for protecting the privacy and confidentiality of personal communications. But it has been the job of this Parliament to make th…