What Juan Fernando spoke about.

10 Sep

2025

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Taxation of large digital platforms in the light of international developments (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner McGrath, do you realise how many times in this plenary session of the European Parliament, including in the State of the Union debate, there has been talk of digital platforms and their business model as a European problem? Because only from Europe can the tooth sink to that oligarchy that has been called "techno-feudalism", which escapes European law if it can. Therefor…

10 Sep

2025

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Rule of law and EU funds management in Slovakia (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, this Parliament, you know well, has done everything in its power to establish a political cycle with a binding framework of the rule of law, democracy and fundamental rights that prevents - and not only corrects when it is too late - deviations from the European standard, which is binding on all Member States. The European Union is not only a market or an interest cl…

10 Sep

2025

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Serious threats to aviation and maritime transport from Global Navigation Satellite System interference: urgent need to build resilience against spoofing and jamming (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner Kubilius, this morning, upon hearing the news of the flagrant violation of Polish airspace – European ergo – by Russian drones, we heard President von der Leyen in the State of the Union debate make a very concrete commitment to the European defence industry. Yes, we know that there has not been in history a more effective engine of federal unity than defense, because…

10 Sep

2025

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Need for a strong European Democracy Shield to enhance democracy, protect the EU from foreign interference and hybrid threats, and protect electoral processes in the EU (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, yes, attacks against the European model of democracy that protects its law are becoming more frequent, intense and disruptive, coming from foreign interference, but not only from state actors – notoriously Russia – but also from non-state actors, such as those digital platforms with social networks, whose business model is addictive algorithms that devastate European…

10 Sep

2025

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Package travel and linked travel arrangements: make the protection of travellers more effective and simplify and clarify certain aspects (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, you mentioned in your speech that tourism is an industry that generates millions of jobs in the European Union and accounts for 10% of its gross domestic product (GDP). In some regions particularly dependent on this industry, such as the Canary Islands, it accounts for 35% of GDP and 36% of employment, and the collapse of Thomas Cook meant a catastrophe for consumer …

10 Sep

2025

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State of the Union (debate)

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Mr Tarr, does it not seem strange to you that, so far, no speaker on behalf of the EPP Group - to which Mrs von der Leyen belongs - has mentioned the paragraph of your speech in the debate on the State of the Union dedicated to migration and asylum, which is surely the most challenging and sustained issue in time, since the Treaty of Lisbon entered into force? Because he mentioned that there is a …

9 Sep

2025

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Strengthening Moldova’s resilience against Russian hybrid threats and malign interference (debate)

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Mr President, when we are debating here the hybrid threats and the interferences looming over the impending elections in Moldova, we are calling the elephant in the room by its name: Putin's Russia, which maintains a military presence in Transnistria (Moldova's secessionist) and which has also made it clear that any extension of the European Union to the east – let alone NATO – will not only not c…

9 Sep

2025

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Cohesion policy (joint debate)

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Madam President, the survival of a regional governance echelon in cohesion policy is not only an existential examination of Europe's raison d'être, but also of the sense of belonging of the citizens whom this Parliament represents, especially in island and remote regions such as the outermost regions. And you can't do more with less. The priorities for the Socialist Group are therefore set out in …

9 Sep

2025

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Ukraine (joint debate)

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Madam President, High Representative Kallas, there are two debates this morning in plenary on Ukraine and Gaza, conflicts of very different causality and nature, but with a common thread that denounces the impotence that threatens the irrelevance and hypocrisy of the European Union's foreign policy. The "coalition of the willing" is a surrogate for the absence of unanimity, which means that there …

8 Sep

2025

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Mr President, the intensity of the meetings of the Contact Group on Asylum of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs of the European Parliament expresses the commitment to the implementation of the obligations of the institutions and the Member States with regard to the legislation adopted in the Pact on Migration and Asylum. And in the last session we had an intense conversati…

8 Sep

2025

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Governance of the internet – renewal of the mandate of the Internet Governance Forum (debate)

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Mr President, Mrs Virkkunen, the S&D Group strongly supports the renewal of the mandate of the European Parliament in the participation of the United Nations Internet Governance Forum, but that it does so above all in coherence with the values that distinguish the European Union and, in particular, with the legislative acquis that we managed to put into force in the last legislature 2019-2024, whi…

10 Jul

2025

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European Citizens' Initiative 'Cohesion policy for the equality of the regions and sustainability of the regional cultures' (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, this is a citizens' initiative. It gets one million signatures in at least seven Member States. It therefore deserves respect, in addition to exercising a right recognised in Article 11 of the Treaty on European Union. But it also echoes widely shared concerns in this European Parliament, including my own: the first, with a budget of just 1% of European GDP, the cont…

9 Jul

2025

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Democratic Republic of the Congo-Rwanda peace deal agreement (debate)

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Mr President, last April I had the honour of being part of a mission of the European Parliament – of the Africa-EU Parliamentary Assembly, of which I am a member – to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We met at length with the President of the Republic, Felix Tshisekedi, and I think I do not reveal any secrets if I say that all his intervention focused on the concern regarding the conflict wit…

9 Jul

2025

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Alleged misuse of EU funds by Members of the far-right and measures to ensure institutional integrity (debate)

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Mr President, many in the European Parliament, and especially in the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, are working hard and resolutely to put in place the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, active since 2021, which has the power to investigate any criminal evidence against the EU budget and its financial interests. But not only that, you can exercise the criminal accusation…

9 Jul

2025

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Lessons from Budapest Pride: the urgent need for an EU wide anti-discrimination law and defending fundamental rights against right-wing attacks (topical debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner McGrath, once again the government of Viktor Orbán in Hungary in the plenary of the European Parliament on the subject of a double infamy: the first, to claim that sexual orientation is gay ideology and that gender identity is LGBT propaganda sponsored by Brussels; and second, to pretend that prohibiting sex education in the education system is to protect children. It…

9 Jul

2025

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 26 June 2025 (debate)

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Madam President, Mr President of the European Council, Commissioner, for a while now this part is more the task to be done than what is reflected in the Council conclusions. In defence and foreign policy: Trump's follow-through must be reversed, which means drawing conclusions from Netanyahu's genocide and suspending the Association Agreement with Israel, in addition to betting on integrating mili…

8 Jul

2025

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State of play of implementation of the European Media Freedom Act in the Member States (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, freedom of expression and the freedom to disseminate and receive truthful information are fundamental rights enshrined in Article 11 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. Freedom of expression is the public's right to know and the right to say what some powerful person does not want to hear. But these freedoms, which have as a corollary information…

7 Jul

2025

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Madam President, Commissioner, the Pact on Migration and Asylum - consisting of eight interlinked regulations - is one of the achievements of the last legislature, with all its difficulties and limitations, but, of course, many of us voted for its pillar of solidarity and, consequently, with the commitment that, in the time set for its full effectiveness - two years, so that when it is adopted in …

19 Jun

2025

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Institutional and political implications of the EU enlargement process and global challenges (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, only a few days ago, on 12 June, the 40th anniversary of the accession of Spain and Portugal to the then European Communities was celebrated. This clearly shows the success of the enlargement policy, does it not? Because it was not only an impulse to political reforms and economic modernization, but also, and above all, to the stabilization of democracies in the two Ibe…

18 Jun

2025

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Safeguarding the rule of law in Spain, ensuring an independent and autonomous prosecutor's office to fight crime and corruption (debate)

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Mr. President, all my life I have fought all corruption with a belligerent commitment. I did it as Minister of Justice, promoting criminal reforms and the fight against money laundering and deploying the current Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office, but that does not prevent me from rejecting this unfair offensive cacophony against the Government of Spain; time and again, these right-wingers and ul…

18 Jun

2025

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Freedom of assembly in Hungary and the need for the Commission to act (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner McGrath, sixteen years of suffocating absolute majorities of a reactionary far-right party in Hungary, reinforced by the reforms of its electoral system, have rendered unrecognisable the rules of subjection of Hungary, which is a Member State of the European Union - as no delusionally brought up in this rostrum is - so that it is no longer possible to recognise in Hungar…

18 Jun

2025

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Upcoming NATO summit on 24-26 June 2025 (debate)

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Mr President, Mrs Kallas, the priority objective of the next NATO summit is to affirm once and for all the strategic autonomy of the European Union, to begin with with with a major partner - the United States - whose commitment to common defence is increasingly doubtful, and it must do so, to begin with, without any follow-up to the Pentagon's instructions to increase the defence budget by 5% for …

17 Jun

2025

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The Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law report (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner McGrath, the annual report on the rule of law in the European Union is a regular and objective review of the 27 Member States that helps to strengthen democratic quality. And, therefore, because it is a very serious matter, it is so regrettable that there are speakers in Spanish obsessed with attacking the Government of Spain with arguments as grotesque and cartoonish…

17 Jun

2025

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Combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child sexual abuse material and replacing Council Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA (recast) (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner Brunner, Article 24 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union obliges the European Union to protect children and their best interests with all the instruments at its disposal, including through criminal law against very serious crimes, such as online sexual abuse, child pornography and the recruitment of children for sexual exploitation purposes, incl…

16 Jun

2025

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Mr President, Vice-President Fitto, at the end of last May a delegation from the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs travelled to the island of El Hierro. This is the busiest point on the deadliest migration route to the European Union. My tribute to Herreña society, and to the Canary Islands in general, for their humanitarian approach to migration, without any concession to xen…