What Juan Fernando spoke about.

22 Oct

2025

ES Speech

Preparation of the European Council meeting of 23 October 2025 (debate)

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Madam President, Madam President von der Leyen, two requirements are necessary for the Council's commitments to be credible. One is unity. The one that was missing yesterday – as seen – to mobilise Russian assets and finance reparations for Putin’s war of aggression against Ukraine, or to ensure that the Sharm el-Sheikh agreements are not peace and therefore sanctions and the fight against impunit…

21 Oct

2025

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General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sections (debate)

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Mr President, the European Parliament is the budgetary authority under the Treaties. But he's not alone. There is also the Council, decorated as never before towards conservative and biased positions, which make the mistake of thinking that more can be done with less. And, therefore, this budget declines in relation to the expansive budgets that we knew last legislature. And yet the Social Democra…

21 Oct

2025

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Stepping up funding for Ukraine’s reconstruction and defence: the use of Russian frozen assets (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner Dombrovskis, this European Parliament has supported all the sanctions packages, starting with the freezing of the assets of the Russian Central Bank, up to the sum of three hundred billion Russian euros frozen in the European Union in successive sanctions measures. And it is sad that at this point we are discussing the feasibility of a legal solution and the coverage …

21 Oct

2025

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Criminal intimidation against investigative journalists in the EU: the attempted attack on Sigfrido Ranucci (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in this plenary session we commemorated Daphne Caruana, a murdered journalist. Not the only one! We have also seen it in Slovakia, Greece, the Netherlands, even Spain, during the years of ETA terrorism: Journalists who fell under criminal bullets. And at this moment we pay tribute to Sigfrido Ranucci, threatened many times, among hundreds of Italian journalists …

21 Oct

2025

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Commission Work Programme 2026 (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, President von der Leyen has proclaimed aEurope's independence moment» This requires above all unity, which we cannot display when Viktor Orbán receives Putin in Budapest the same week we debated in this European Parliament the use of Russian assets to finance Ukraine's defence effort. He also spoke about the Pact on Migration and Asylum, which clearly requires unity in …

21 Oct

2025

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Delayed justice and rule of law backsliding in Malta, eight years after Daphne Caruana Galizia’s assassination (debate)

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Mr President, President von der Leyen, Vice-President Virkkunen, for eight years in a row we have paid respect to the memory of Daphne Caruana Galizia regularly every year, and rightly so. But it's not fair to use that commemoration and pay tribute to Daphne Caruana to attack Malta, because Malta has not challenged the rule of law framework. Malta has not challenged the ruling of the European Cour…

21 Oct

2025

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Institutional consequences of the EU enlargement negotiations (debate)

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The history of the European Union is the history of its growth, of its enlargements and – therefore – it is a fact that enlargement has made the European Union stronger and – moreover – shows that it is still alive. It shows that, despite its crises, its paralysis and – sometimes – its impotence, it continues to be a pole of attraction for its virtuous combination of rights, freedoms, correction o…

21 Oct

2025

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Changing security landscape and the role of police at the heart of the EU’s internal security strategy (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner Brunner, yes, freedom and security go together in Article 6 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. And there is no freedom without security. As there is no security without freedom. And this European Parliament makes that bet when it renews the internal security strategy so that the European Union is a global actor against organised crime and terrori…

21 Oct

2025

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Recent peace agreement in the Middle East and the role of the EU (debate)

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Mr President, the Sharm el-Sheikh agreement is not a peace agreement: undertakes the neutralisation of Hamas terrorism, yes, and opens the way to the exchange of hostages and prisoners; but it does not under any circumstances guarantee the two-state solution, which is the only way for the two peoples to live together within secure borders and to recognise each other; let alone Israel's withdrawal …

20 Oct

2025

ES Speech

One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Madam President, Mr Vice-President Séjourné, the new multiannual financial framework for the coming years, announced by the Commission, is an unprecedented threat to agricultural policy, cohesion policy and regional policy as we have known it. But it is particularly unacceptable for the outermost regions, such as the Canary Islands, which should move you, as the French representative in the Commis…

20 Oct

2025

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A new legislative framework for products that is fit for the digital and sustainable transition (debate)

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Mr President, Mr Vice-President Séjourné, I never agreed that in the last parliamentary term the Vice-President responsible for fundamental rights was at the same time responsible for consumer protection. But I find that connection justified in this new legislative framework for digital and sustainable transitions to the circular economy. Because it is to strengthen the rights of Europeans, to str…

20 Oct

2025

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The decision to impose a fine on Google: defending press and media freedom in the EU (debate)

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Mr President, Vice-President Ribera, a risk threatens this legislature from minute one: to degrade or dilute the legislative record of the last parliamentary term of the European Parliament: Digital Agenda, Digital Services Act, European Media Freedom Act, artificial intelligence in coherence with the General Data Protection Regulation, which sets the highest standard in the world for the protecti…

9 Oct

2025

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World Mental Health Day - addressing the socio-economic factors (debate)

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Mr President, this debate on a European mental health strategy appeals to the legislative powers of this European Parliament on technology platforms, whose addictive algorithms have a decisive impact on minors where the suicide rate is the leading cause of death across the European Union, and is directly linked to internet access. The message is therefore very clear: the European Parliament must l…

9 Oct

2025

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Deliberations of the Committee on Petitions in 2024 (debate)

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Mr President, I did not want to miss the opportunity to welcome the work of the Committee on Petitions, because it is a committee in which a fundamental right of European citizenship is substantiated. The petition is, from its conception in the Maastricht Treaty – but certainly in the Lisbon Treaty and in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – a fundamental right. But we have to…

8 Oct

2025

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Promoting EU digital rules: protecting European sovereignty (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner Virkkunen, the Digital Agenda for Europe, the Digital Markets Act, the Digital Services Act and the Artificial Intelligence Act were adopted by this European Parliament not only to make digital services and large technology platforms subject to EU law; not only to affirm the regulatory effect we call digital sovereignty – the so-called ‘Brussels effect’ – but also to …

8 Oct

2025

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United response to recent Russian violations of the EU Member States’ airspace and critical infrastructure (debate)

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Madam President, we have been debating a real threat for hours: the increasing and repeated violation of our airspace by Russian drones in Putin's hybrid war against the European Union and all that the Union stands for. And what lessons come from listening to President von der Leyen? The first, the unit. Of course I do. And the second is a strategy to build a European anti-drone wall and a Europea…

7 Oct

2025

ES Speech

Situation in Afghanistan: supporting women and communities affected by the recent earthquakes (debate)

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Mr President, the European Union is the first global actor in humanitarian aid and development cooperation. But just as we have not been able to translate all the aid to the Palestinian people into unity to impose sanctions on the genocidal Netanyahu government and suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement, we have also not been able to alleviate the suffering of the victims of the 31 August ear…

7 Oct

2025

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Rising antisemitism in Europe (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner Brunner, there is no room in the European Union for hatred or discrimination. I have defended this principle with passion and conviction in all my work in the European Parliament. I strongly supported and promoted the common definition of antisemitism, which should inspire educational actions and criminal legislation in all Member States. In my work as Chair of the Co…

7 Oct

2025

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This is Europe - Debate with the Prime Minister of Luxembourg, Luc Frieden (debate)

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Madam President, Mr Prime Minister, there is a recognition of pro-European Luxembourg in a Union in which there are neither big nor small, since they are all necessary to fulfil common tasks. Luxembourg is the seat of the two most federally oriented institutions: the Court of Justice and the European Public Prosecutor’s Office. But this federal vocation for integration also teaches that there can …

7 Oct

2025

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Time to complete a fully integrated Single Market: Europe’s key to growth and future prosperity (debate)

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Madam President, Mr Vice-President Séjourné, you have already seen it. No one disputes the importance of the single market as a major achievement and objective of the Union. It is disputed, however, that simplification amounts to reducing the standards and requirements of European law under pressure from large technology companies, whether American or Chinese. It is disputed that the single market…

6 Oct

2025

ES Speech

One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Madam President, Commissioner Brunner, it is not gratifying that Netanyahu has signed that the European Union is irrelevant to any agreement in Gaza, but the truth is that, despite the forcefulness of the resolutions adopted in the last State of the Union debate, he has still proved incapable of sanctioning Netanyahu's genocidal government and suspending the EU-Israel Association Agreement for ser…

6 Oct

2025

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Revision of the Visa Suspension Mechanism (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner Brunner, one of the innovations with the greatest political and constitutional impact of the Treaty of Lisbon, the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, was to make visa policy a European policy, with common legislation. A competence that was, for a long time, distinctive of the Member States. And the European Parliament took it seriously, because it legisl…

6 Oct

2025

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Intergenerational fairness in Europe on the occasion of the International Day of Older Persons (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner Micallef, surely the most eloquent and beautiful definition of the European Union is that it is a pact of solidarity, interterritorial and interregional; social, but also intergenerational. And it is good to remember, because Europe has always been known as the Old Continent, and it looks to be an old continent. Reflection on this active ageing and dignity of older pe…

11 Sep

2025

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Solidarity with Poland following the deliberate violation of Polish airspace by Russian drones (debate)

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Madam President, Russian drones in the Union! In Poland, a member state of the European Union that has seen all the borders inherited from the Second World War modified, but which has a direct border with Russia in Kaliningrad. Can we believe the Kremlin when it says that these were lost and out of control drones? Evidently not. How to react with cold head and blood, but, above all, with unity? In…

11 Sep

2025

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A new vision for the European Universities alliances (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, according to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, the right to education is a fundamental right, and access to higher education – the university – is a European public good. Hence the Bologna process, which is named after the oldest university in Europe and the world, the Erasmus programme and, now, this university alliance instrument, which seeks to…