What Izaskun spoke about.

24 Apr

2024

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Recent attempts to deny dictatorships and the risk of Europe returning to totalitarianism (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, the memory of episodes of systematic and continuous violation of fundamental rights is the necessary condition to repair the damage caused, to face the truth of what happened and to do justice so as not to repeat dramatic mistakes. That is why it is a democratic setback to repeal the laws of memory that began, forty years after the death of the dictator Franco, to trave…

11 Apr

2024

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Resumption of the sitting

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Mr President, allow me today to dedicate a memory in the European Parliament to the lehendakari José Antonio Ardanza Garro, who passed away this week, who was a politician of European stature. A few decades ago, the Basque Country was suffering from the tragedy of terrorism and a deep economic crisis. It was a problem in Europe; Today, it is a model of success that owes much to this leader, forged…

29 Feb

2024

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EU/Chile Advanced Framework Agreement - EU/Chile Advanced Framework Agreement (Resolution) - Interim Agreement on Trade between the European Union and the Republic of Chile (joint debate - EU-Chile agreements)

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Mr President, Commissioner, I would like to welcome the signing of this Advanced Framework Agreement with the Republic of Chile because it modernises our current association agreement. It is a model to follow in the commercial and political architecture of the European Union for the coming years because it incorporates into its contents the score of our Green Deal, a giant step to advance in the e…

27 Feb

2024

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Critical situation in Cuba (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, the deterioration of freedoms in Cuba persists. The degradation of a system that is constitutionally declared immutable reaches macabre records in terms of respect for the most fundamental rights and freedoms. Poverty reaches 80% of the population. Dissidents are persecuted, detained and imprisoned. The island breaks records in prison population and the ruling regime…

27 Feb

2024

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Unitary supplementary protection certificate for plant protection products - Unitary supplementary certificate for medicinal products - Supplementary protection certificate for plant protection products (recast) - Supplementary protection certificate for medicinal products (recast) - Standard essential patents (joint debate - Patents)

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Mr President, Commissioner, the protection of intellectual property is a key factor in incentivising innovation and encouraging investment that catalyses it. However, in the case of standard-essential patents, precautions must be taken to ensure a balanced position for both holders and enforcers of standard-essential patents. We are in it the competitiveness, not only of the holders of these paten…

26 Feb

2024

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Tackling the inflation in food prices and its social consequences and root causes (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, the increase in the price of the shopping basket linked to conjunctural factors, such as the invasion of Ukraine, requires, to begin with, the promotion of a European scheme that orders progressive aid to protect the most vulnerable consumers, but other structural problems must be tackled by bringing transparency to the process by which each subsector adjusts its income…

7 Feb

2024

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The fight against hate speech and disinformation: responsibility of social platforms within the Digital Services Act (topical debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, large digital platforms sell grouped audiences to which to target, with maximum efficiency, the advertising messages of their customers. To group them together they need our personal data. Therefore, they design algorithms that enhance extreme messages, polarization and disinhibition, which tell everything about each user. In this swampy terrain, in mega-trafficking bas…

7 Feb

2024

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Empowering farmers and rural communities - a dialogue towards sustainable and fairly rewarded EU agriculture (debate)

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Madam President, I want to denounce here that you have made an intransparent management of the times. There are people we've been here all day. We've been asking for the floor since minute one. We have listened responsibly to the whole debate. We have stayed here out of respect for this institution. You've made a management saying... (the Chair withdrew the floor from the speaker).…

5 Feb

2024

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Mr President, the ban imposed on the Bay of Biscay to protect dolphins lacks an impact study. It has avoided advisory councils and ignores scientific evidence. A study by the Euskadi Oceanographic Institute AZTI shows that pingers reduce by 90% the incidental catches of these cetaceans. It didn't matter. Nor the recommendations of the International Council for the Exploitation of the Sea or the ex…

5 Feb

2024

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Union-wide effect of certain driving disqualifications (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, this directive advances the principle that our Union is a shared area of freedom and security. It will save many lives every year, because it will prevent a driver sanctioned in one Member State with the loss of a driving licence from being able to drive legally in another State because we are not able to share this information. Withdrawal of the licence shall have imme…

18 Jan

2024

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Implementation of the Common Market Organisation (CMO) Regulation in fisheries and aquaculture - Regulation (EU) 1379/2013 (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, thank you for your answer and your position, but there is one thing on which we disagree: we need to re-establish storage aid mechanisms in order to be able to address future crisis problems. It's not enough with what we have. I would say to Mrs Roose that this Parliament, the Committee on Fisheries and this report do not say that plant products should not be used; What…

18 Jan

2024

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Implementation of the Common Market Organisation (CMO) Regulation in fisheries and aquaculture - Regulation (EU) 1379/2013 (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, first of all, I would like to thank all the groups for their cooperation in finalising this work and tell them that the common organisation of the markets in fishery and aquaculture products is a basic tool for contributing to the objectives of the common fisheries policy: It ensures a varied supply of seafood under conditions of competitiveness and market stability, pr…

18 Jan

2024

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Implementation of the Common Fisheries Policy and future perspectives (debate)

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Mr President, I would like to welcome the orientation of this report, which underlines the CFP's contributions and advocates improving its socio-economic and environmental content. Focus our contributions on further improving the management of hand-held fish stocks and not on those who live on them: That's the first hit. Ensuring that the CFP embraces the diversity of the sector, integrates it int…

18 Jan

2024

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Recent ecological catastrophe involving plastic pellet losses and its impact on micro plastic pollution in the maritime and coastal habitats (debate)

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Mr President, the tide of plastic pellets affecting the west coast of the Iberian Peninsula, and particularly Galicia, could lead us to a discussion about the local reaction to such an accident. I believe that the situation involves more those who argue more about who saw or when warned rather than focusing on collaborating to apply to the case the lessons learned after the Prestige catastrophe. O…

17 Jan

2024

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Quality jobs in a competitive future-oriented social market economy (topical debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, a productive system can only compete in the medium and long term, be resilient and robust, sustainable and viable, if it provides affordable goods and services to people who live in dignity and enjoy the same opportunities. Therefore, quality jobs are the main instrument of social inclusion and human development. The digital and climate revolution we face needs knowledg…

16 Jan

2024

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State of emergency in Ecuador (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, the transnational criminal organisations that have established a new black spot for global drug trafficking in Ecuador have made this state the most violent in the region. The last global crises have aggravated the social bankruptcy suffered by the country. An ideal breeding ground for these cartels to be attractive and recruit for crime those who have fewer opportuniti…

13 Dec

2023

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Review of the Spanish Presidency of the Council (debate)

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(The speaker said a few words at the beginning of her speech in an unofficial language) .... her Presidency has achieved good agreements for Europe, some linked to the pact we signed to support her in her investiture. We demand the timely completion of the sections of the trans-European networks that remove critical bottlenecks for the Atlantic façade. We agree to improve the fit of our self-gover…

12 Dec

2023

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Situation in Venezuela (debate)

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Mr. President, the Venezuelan regime is showing these days symptoms of wanting to reverse the timid advances made to end the political, economic and humanitarian crisis in which the country is mired under the regime of Nicolás Maduro. The announcement of the prosecution and the threat of detention that weighs on Claudia Macero, Pedro Urruchurtu and Henry Alviárez, main collaborators of the opposit…

12 Dec

2023

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Attempt of coup d’Etat in Guatemala (debate)

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Mr President, the European Union must cooperate with the legitimate authorities of Guatemala to address at the root a reprehensible coup attempt, which is regrettable for the attempt to illegally revoke the decision of the citizenry that put Bernardo Arévalo and Karina Herrera of the Seed Movement at the helm of the country. It is also embarrassing for the way it has been carried out: illegally, p…

12 Dec

2023

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Need to release all hostages, to achieve a humanitarian ceasefire and prospect of the two-state solution (debate)

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Mr President, devoting the strongest condemnations to the Hamas attacks of 7 October - the spur of the penultimate and most serious crisis in Gaza and the West Bank in recent years - forces us to reject with the same force Israel's illegal response to repress them. That is why, in law, the International Criminal Court must activate, with the same speed as in Ukraine, its investigative machinery to…

11 Dec

2023

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The European Elections 2024 (debate)

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Madam President, I agree that the campaign for the next European elections must focus on this dimension. Insisting on the proposal of the head of the list is one way to do it. Shaping European values in the process, too. The EU's motto is 'United in diversity' and that is why the Rules of Procedure governing the election of Members of the European Parliament include guarantees that the national mi…

23 Nov

2023

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International day for the elimination of violence against women (debate)

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Mr. President, domestic terrorism kills thousands of women and hundreds of their sons and daughters every year, relying on discrimination, on prejudices burned into many subconscious minds. Therefore, we all have a first and undeferable responsibility: identify and combat inequality; learn and teach how to eradicate it in everyday life; assume that equality is a building block for the quality of o…

22 Nov

2023

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Threat to rule of law as a consequence of the governmental agreement in Spain (debate)

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Mr President, the Amnesty Law, which is processed with full guarantees, will be applied by the judges. Those who do not accept the electoral result or the absolute majority that supports this proposal, nor trust the Constitutional Court that will review it, intend to ignore it. They are thus placed outside the system. On 3 October 2017, this Parliament stressed – criticising a police action in Cat…

22 Nov

2023

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Reducing regulatory burden to unleash entrepreneurship and competitiveness (topical debate)

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Madam President, the European Union must not forget that entrepreneurship needs funding, friendly and safe rules and protection against late payments and late payments. In this vein, I transmit two messages from the Assembly of European Small and Medium-sized Enterprises that we held last week in Bilbao. People and technology are the keys to our competitiveness and strategic independence in the gl…

19 Oct

2023

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Generational renewal in the EU farms of the future (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, the social, economic and environmental viability of the Union's agricultural activity and food security depend on generational renewal in the primary sector. The factors that hinder it the most are access to land, a fair return on activity, improved access to basic services and an evolution of the image of the sector that also associates it with technology, knowledge an…