What Juan Fernando spoke about.

20 Oct

2021

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Increased efforts to fight money laundering (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, as with the rule of law, in the fight against money laundering any loophole in a Member State affects the European Union as a whole; It is therefore imperative that national supervisors and financial intelligence units against suspected money laundering transactions and activities have common rules against technological innovation of criminal means. We therefore welcome…

19 Oct

2021

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The Rule of law crisis in Poland and the primacy of EU law (debate)

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Mr President, President von der Leyen, Prime Minister Morawiecki, the Polish citizens, the Polish citizens who follow us know full well that it was the indefatigable demand of this European Parliament that has brought to the debate, time and again, the continuing challenge of the government it presides over, under the baton of Jarosław Kaczyński, to European Union law and its founding values. And …

7 Oct

2021

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European Union Agency for Asylum (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, this European Parliament and the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, which I chair, have fully exercised their responsibility to legislate the Common European Asylum System in all its parts, including this regulation on the European Union Agency for Asylum, with our rapporteur, Elena Yoncheva, at the helm. We see, again, how an embryonic organism gro…

6 Oct

2021

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Pandora Papers: implications on the efforts to combat money laundering, tax evasion and avoidance (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner Gentiloni, over the last few years this European Parliament has devoted many hours of work to combating money laundering from illicit businesses and tax evasion. In the past legislature, the LuxLeaks revelations and, later, the Panama Papers led to the commission of inquiry of which I was a member and from which important lessons were drawn to clarify the true ownersh…

5 Oct

2021

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The situation in Belarus after one year of protests and their violent repression (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner Johansson, the tremendous challenges imposed by the neighbourhood with the European Union of Belarus under the infamous Lukashenko regime do not, of course, boil down to migration issues. But it is impossible to ignore, from the perspective of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, the rights of potential asylum seekers at the EU's external borders, …

5 Oct

2021

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The future of EU-US relations (debate)

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Mr President, High Representative Borrell, we are debating and voting in this plenary session of the European Parliament on nothing less than a very extensive resolution on relations between the European Union and the United States. I will focus – seeing that they are not what they were, let us not deceive ourselves, and, in the global disorder from which we come, they will hardly be again soon – …

4 Oct

2021

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Order of business

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Madam President, for more than two weeks a volcano has roared in La Palma: more than 80 million cubic meters of fire, lava and sulfur. It is happening in the Canary Islands, an outermost region of the European Union, as much Europe as Brussels or Strasbourg. And the citizenship concerned is full European citizenship, and this Parliament represents it. They are entitled to all our solidarity and to…

16 Sep

2021

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United States sanctions and the Rule of law (debate)

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Madam President, it is my privilege to present and raise before you this oral question addressed to the Commission. On behalf of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, which I chair, the situation goes like this. Background in summary: on 2 June 2021, the US Administration announced that its Department of Treasury had sanctioned three individuals and their networks in Bulgaria…

15 Sep

2021

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Second voting session

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Madam President, thank you for the kindness of giving me the floor at this late hour of this plenary session in Strasbourg. But with all respect, I would simply state that as Chair of the LIBE Committee, I’m requesting that the two following files are referred back to the LIBE Committee (the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs) for interinstitutional negotiations under Rule 59(4…

15 Sep

2021

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Media freedom and further deterioration of the Rule of law in Poland (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner Reynders, . Poland again, in a resolution proposed by no less than five parliamentary groups in this House, five pro-European groups, identified with European values and again securing a majority for a resolution reiterating the European Parliament's concern about the deterioration – the erosion – of the rule of law in Poland. ‘Further deterioration» means an addition…

15 Sep

2021

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State of the Union (continuation of debate)

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Mr President, President von der Leyen, I agree with all the considerations of our spokesperson for the Social Democratic family in this House, but I also share with you two points: you urged the European Parliament to legislate as soon as possible on the new Pact on Migration and Asylum. It will only be a "covenant" when the European Parliament endorses it, and that will only happen when binding a…

14 Sep

2021

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EU Blue Card Directive (debate)

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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…

14 Sep

2021

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Situation in Afghanistan (debate)

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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…

7 Jul

2021

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

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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…

7 Jul

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)

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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…

6 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)

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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…

6 Jul

2021

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

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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…

6 Jul

2021

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Foreign interference in democratic processes (debate)

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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…

5 Jul

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)

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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…