What Juan Fernando spoke about.

20 Jan

2026

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CFSP and CSDP (Article 36 TEU) (joint debate)

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Mr President, High Representative Kaja Kallas, the national security strategy of the United States does not consider the European Union a friendly partner, but, on the contrary, an organisation that it considers weak to harass. What else does it take for the European Union to decide to mature? You don’t just have to wake up –wake up call— but to step out of their comfort zone and, in addition, mak…

20 Jan

2026

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Brutal repression against protesters in Iran (debate)

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Mr President, High Representative Kaja Kallas, many of us here reject foreign intervention in Venezuela as illegal and contrary to international law and, for the same reason, we cannot contemplate or support the same intervention in Iran. But that doesn't mean silence or helplessness. First, all sanctions within reach and those that are still lacking are necessary; Stand up to remove obstacles. Se…

20 Jan

2026

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Presentation of the Cybersecurity Act (debate)

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Madam President, Vice-President Virkkunen, this is a step in the right direction, because our security does not depend on the linear increase of 27 Member States’ budgets, much less on the arbitrarily imposed 5% percentage by those who do not even respect us, no. It depends on this pooling of capabilities, on the commitment to cybersecurity at European level to protect the integrity of our elector…

20 Jan

2026

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Territorial integrity and sovereignty of Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark: the need for a united EU response to US blackmail attempts (debate)

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Mr President, High Representative Kaja Kallas, the leak by the President of the United States of messages sent by European leaders and the Secretary-General of NATO reveals something more serious than their content, that is, how he perceives us: weak, divided and, above all, dispensable for their language of force. It depends on their responsibility that, in the first place, this perception change…

20 Jan

2026

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Tackling AI deepfakes and sexual exploitation on social media by making full use of the EU’s digital rules (debate)

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Madam President, Vice-President Virkkunen, you see, in this debate there are two approaches to sexual violence against children and women and the pornography of the ultra-false on the net, which are the business model of the digital oligarchy: the far right thinks it is freedom of expression, but we Europeans remember that we have passed laws in this European Parliament on digital services and art…

19 Jan

2026

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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19 Jan

2026

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Humanitarian aid in a time of polycrisis – reaffirming our principles for a more effective and ambitious response to humanitarian crises (short presentation)

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19 Jan

2026

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The 28th Regime: a new legal framework for innovative companies (debate)

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18 Dec

2025

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European Democracy Shield – very large online platform algorithms, foreign interference and the spread of disinformation (debate)

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18 Dec

2025

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30th anniversary of the signing of the Dayton-Paris Peace Agreement (debate)

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17 Dec

2025

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Cases of pro-Russian espionage in the European Parliament (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner McGrath, what a bad thing it is to have hostile neighbours, the enemy at the gates! Putin's Russia, immediate border with the European Union, with its Kaliningrad enclave in Poland and its proxy, Lukashenko's Belarus, which threatens us with drones, balloons and attacks on the critical infrastructure of the European Union, but also with espionage and bribery. There we…

17 Dec

2025

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Implementation of the rule of law conditionality regime (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, the adoption, by this European Parliament, in 2020, of the Regulation on conditionality of access to European funds to compliance with the constitutional values of Article 2 (of the Treaty on European Union) was a formidable impetus to make it mandatory for all Member States subject – and not, in the event of a breach, to the imposition of Article 7 sanctions. Howeve…

17 Dec

2025

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The urgent need to combat discrimination in the EU through the horizontal anti-discrimination directive (topical debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, explaining the European legislative procedure in a 700-seat Parliament and then approving 27 governments is not easy. But not only is it incomprehensible that this horizontal anti-discrimination directive has been blocked for no less than 13 years, but it is also unacceptable. We call it horizontal precisely because it is transversal and cross-sectoral and reinforces th…

17 Dec

2025

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 18-19 December 2025, in particular the need to support Ukraine, transatlantic relations and the EU’s strategic autonomy (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner Šefčovič, we agree that Trump’s national security strategy – an insult to the European Union – accelerates our strategic autonomy and our declaration of independence. But the question is: how? With a multi-annual financial framework that does not have enough resources, that renationalises its policies in national envelopes and that does not provide funding for a European…

16 Dec

2025

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Continuous Belarusian hybrid attacks against Lithuania (debate)

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16 Dec

2025

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Condemnation of the terrorist attack against the Hanukkah celebrations in Sydney and solidarity with the victims and their families (debate)

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16 Dec

2025

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European Citizens’ Initiative ‘My voice, my choice: for safe and accessible abortion’ (debate)

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16 Dec

2025

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Presentation of the European Affordable Housing Plan (continuation of debate)

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(Start of speech off mic) ... one of the Rules of Procedure, which is exactly the observance of the Rules of Procedure when it comes to making the combination of the catch-the-eye and the blue cards. We have seen more than 20 blue cards in this debate and all of them granted – even for people who were on the speaking list that have taken the floor after having a blue card, and then there is no tim…

16 Dec

2025

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Phasing out Russian natural gas imports and improving monitoring of potential energy dependencies (debate)

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15 Dec

2025

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Mr President, Commissioner, the National Security Strategy dictated by Trump is offensively aimed at weakening the European Union. And it does so in a particularly aggressive way in its support for the giants in the network (the so-called techno-oligarchy of Silicon Valley) in its resistance to submit to European law, which exemplify fines such as the 3 billion euros imposed on Google by the Vice-…

15 Dec

2025

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Relations between the EU and Saudi Arabia (short presentation)

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Mr President, I would like to raise not only the opportunity but also the content of this report by Ms Jalloul Muro regarding the relationship between the European Union and Saudi Arabia, which has proved to be a relevant regional actor. The European Union should actually fulfil its commitment to become a globally relevant actor – if Saudi Arabia is a relevant partner for the US, for Israel, for t…

15 Dec

2025

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Incentivising defence-related investments in the EU budget to implement the ReArm Europe Plan (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner Hansen, once again, the European Union degrades a plausible objective with obscure and incomprehensible language: Why call bus the reasonable objective of incentivising defence investments and coordinating the efforts of the European Union and its Member States with all the instruments at its disposal, such as the Digital Europe Programme, the European Defence Fund, t…

15 Dec

2025

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Murder of Mehdi Kessaci - urgent need for ambitious European action against drug trafficking (debate)

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Mr President, the EU Drugs Action Plan and the Complementary Strategy have as their first obligation to draw the lessons from the work of the European Union Drugs Agency, which it is for, and which tells us that, first of all, it is necessary to adapt with agility to changing methods and routes; but, above all, to exchange information, including not only law enforcement agencies, but also Frontex …

15 Dec

2025

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Order of business

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Madam President, this is the last plenary before Christmas of this European Parliament, and I take this opportunity to draw your attention to the relevance of Rule 181 of our Rules of Procedure, which gives you full power to prevent or curtail the misuse or abuse of false points of order – disguised political statements which belong rather to the one‑minute speeches, the last item on the agenda in…

27 Nov

2025

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Application of the Treaty provisions related to the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality and the role of national parliaments in the EU legislative process (A10-0224/2025 - Marieke Ehlers) (vote)

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Mr President, as S&D coordinator of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, in which this report has been discussed, I would like you to consider the following oral amendment: 'Recalls that subsidiarity and proportionality are fundamental to the Union's democratic functioning; stresses that these principles must not be misused to obstruct necessary EU action, nor invoked by political forces seeki…