What Juan Fernando spoke about.

28 Apr

2026

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The Commission’s 2025 Rule of Law report (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, with this 2025 annual report on the rule of law in the European Union, we are consolidating an institution that we invented and launched in 2019, and there are six exercises already in which we examined – together with the state of the Union – each of the 27 Member States in terms of separation of powers, judicial independence, information pluralism and anti-corruption …

28 Apr

2026

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Situation of fundamental rights in the European Union in 2024 and 2025 (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, we are debating the annual report on the situation of fundamental rights in the Union by the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, which responds to ongoing concerns in the S&D Group: protection of minorities from discrimination, including migrants and asylees, and gender equality and sexual orientation. But it happens that we are not discussing – as t…

28 Apr

2026

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Enforcement of the Digital Markets Act (debate)

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President, Vice-President Ribera, the European Union has taken care of the transfer of trade data in the transatlantic relationship. That is why he has negotiated a safe harbor, a shield of protection and a data transfer agreement that Biden approved by executive order and that Trump has not repealed. However, the large technological platforms protected by the US Administration are resisting as a …

28 Apr

2026

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Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034 (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, the Committee on Constitutional Affairs of the European Parliament, in this debate on the multiannual financial framework 2028-2034, stresses, first of all, that, according to the Treaties, this European Parliament is the budgetary authority and therefore has to be consulted and informed in a timely manner at all stages of the implementation of the cycle in order to be …

27 Apr

2026

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Financial literacy and the rise of finfluencers in the context of the savings and investments union (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, how many times has this European Parliament called for European digital literacy programmes as an essential tool to protect citizens' rights from the injuries imposed by the business model of addictive algorithms and big tech platforms? What this program wants is financial literacy (financial literacy) to better protect especially vulnerable people. Let us think of s…

27 Apr

2026

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Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2024 (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, as Chair of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, I had the honour of being the rapporteur for the directive on the fight against fraud to the Union's financial interests by means of criminal law, which is the basis on which the European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO) was established, with the aim of increasing that competence, in cooperation wi…

27 Apr

2026

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Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, those of us in the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs who took part in the legislative procedure for the adoption of the Criminal Directive against violence against women are well aware that we are not completing the work because of the Council's resistance to accepting the consistency of this European criminal legislation with the Istanbul Conven…

26 Mar

2026

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Global Gateway – past impacts and future orientation (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, for a long time and more than ever since the withdrawal of US aid, the European Union has been the world champion of development cooperation and humanitarian aid. Global Gateway seeks to relaunch that heavyweight by asserting the green and digital transition, education and European values not only in Africa, but globally. It has been said here that it…

26 Mar

2026

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EU-US trade deal (joint debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, it is true that the relationship with the United States that we know as transatlantic is important for workers and businesses, because it is not in vain the European Union's first trading partner. And it is also true that the United States is not Trump: they pre-existed him and will survive him. But it has been Trump at Turnberry, on his golf course in Scotland…

25 Mar

2026

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Madam President, Commissioner, on 16 March last, representatives of the governments of the nine outermost regions of the European Union met in Tenerife, in addition to members of the European Parliament born or resident in the outermost regions and civil society with a shared message: support for the continuity of the OR funds in the next multiannual financial framework, but also s…

25 Mar

2026

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Combating corruption (debate)

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Madam President, an effective European criminal law directive against corruption is a step forward, but not because it is a response to Qatargate, that whatever corresponds to that name is being prosecuted by Belgian criminal law before the Belgian criminal justice system in the absence of European law. Nor to point to a particular country, as some far-right discourse has tried to in…

25 Mar

2026

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European Citizens’ Initiative 'Ban on conversion practices in the European Union' (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner Lahbib, what are we discussing here? Incredibly, because it is 2026, that homosexuality is not a disease – homophobia is – and that the so-called ‘conversion therapies’ are not a therapy, are a serious violation of fundamental rights provided for by the Charter of Fundamental Rights in Article 21. In addition, when they are coercive, intrusive and not to …

25 Mar

2026

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 19 March 2026 (debate)

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Madam President, Mr President Costa, Commissioner Dombrovskis, in this debate on the Council's conclusions there are two elephants in the room. The first is, of course, the war in Iran, which destabilizes not only the Middle East, but the whole of the European Union engaged globally. And we must call things by their name, Council and Commission: we are talking about an illegal war, and we …

25 Mar

2026

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Energy security, independence and supply in the geopolitical context - ensuring market stability and affordable energy for industry and citizens (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner Jørgensen, you have done well to start your speech by pointing out the historical background to the exponential increase in fuel prices: from the Suez crisis to the last aggression of Trump and Netanyahu in Iran, to Putin's aggression against Ukraine, all with catastrophic consequences for the population as a whole and, particularly, for the middle and …

12 Mar

2026

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Activities of the European Ombudsman – annual report 2024 (debate)

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11 Mar

2026

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Human trafficking and grave human rights violations linked to the recruitment of non-Russian nationals, in particular from Africa, for Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine

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11 Mar

2026

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AccessibleEU and the strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities: state of play and the future of EU accessibility policy (debate)

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11 Mar

2026

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Situation of the rule of law in Greece, following the Court decision on Predator spyware (debate)

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11 Mar

2026

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Rise of political violence, notably by far-left organisations (debate)

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11 Mar

2026

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Immunity of International Criminal Court officials and the activation of the EU Blocking Statute to strengthen EU strategic autonomy (debate)

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11 Mar

2026

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Child sexual abuse online: protect children, not perpetrators (topical debate)

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11 Mar

2026

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EUCO and situation in the Middle East (joint debate)

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10 Mar

2026

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Tackling barriers to the single market for defence - Flagship European defence projects of common interest

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10 Mar

2026

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Recommendation on enhanced EU-Canada cooperation in the current geopolitical context, including the threats to Canada’s economic stability and sovereignty (debate)

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Mr President, it is clear from this debate that this European Parliament recommendation on enhanced cooperation with Canada is loaded with meaning with a perfectly reliable like-minded partner: for starters, in security in the Arctic, when the European Union has attracted so much unity in supporting Greenland, in Danish constitutional law and in international law. Secondly, in upholding the rules …

10 Mar

2026

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EU enlargement strategy (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, talking about enlargement in earnest means talking about its institutional implications. To begin with, we are talking about eight candidates on the waiting list - nine if we add Turkey, which has never been formally excluded or discontinued - and that has implications: to begin with in this Parliament, with a seismic impact, but also in the Council, questioning the una…