What Izaskun spoke about.

19 Oct

2023

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European protein strategy (debate)

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Madam President, I welcome the fact that this report contains the contributions we have made from the Committee on Fisheries so that the European protein strategy incorporates fishery and aquaculture products. The marine environment provides proteins of the highest quality and with a low carbon footprint. Good example to improve the Farm to Fork Strategy, which we want to call "From the sea to the…

18 Oct

2023

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A true geopolitical Europe now (topical debate)

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Madam President, the crises that have marked this legislature encourage me to acknowledge and applaud the work we have done to grow our Union as a global actor. We have to keep it that way. Deepen common external action and improve our action in Africa or in America and on other continents. We have been a global reference in the pandemic, extolling our science and our social model; achieving a vac…

16 Oct

2023

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Implications of Chinese fishing operations for EU fisheries and the way forward (short presentation)

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Madam President, this week, the Ocean Outlook organisation valued that the findings and global scope of a four-year investigation into the activities of the Chinese squid fishing fleet are nothing like what we have done before, neither because of the global scope nor because of the facts discovered. This report responds to the same concern. We need transparency on China’s fishing activities global…

16 Oct

2023

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Fisheries control (debate)

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Madam President, today I would have liked the Commissioner for Fisheries to be present when we are going to talk about the most important regulation of your entire legislature. I would like to thank Clara for her work and also Isaac and Itxaso for all these five years of work on this regulation which strengthens and modernises the control of fishing activities in European and international waters.…

5 Oct

2023

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Poor sanitary conditions, low levels of security and lack of parking places in rest areas for truck drivers (debate)

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. – Mr President, Commissioner, one of the mandates contained in the mobility package is to improve state-of-the-art, digitalised rest areas with accessible, monitored and safe services for men and women. This means an improvement in living and working conditions for this group, and also contributes to road safety. It also encourages generational renewal and the recruitment of new and new professi…

4 Oct

2023

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Decent Housing for All (topical debate)

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Madam President, solving the problem of housing in the Union requires combating precariousness, poverty and the risk of exclusion. Our social model must therefore include a European housing programme focused on boosting supply, limiting the financial costs imposed on buyers and boosting support programmes for access to housing for the most deprived. Commissioner Schmit recalled yesterday that excl…

2 Oct

2023

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Intelligent Road Transport Systems (debate)

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Madam President, thank you to the rapporteur, Mrs Plumb, for her work and cooperation. The implementation of an integrated and intelligent mobility system is a priority so that by 2050 we reach the goal of reducing transport emissions by 90%. We need this Community standard to ensure interoperable, technologically neutral systems adapted to our data protection standards, which are deployed gradual…

13 Sep

2023

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Guatemala: the situation after the elections, the rule of law and judicial independence

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Madam President, the enemies of democracy, the organizations that do not accept the decisions of citizens, continue to have power and influence in Guatemala. Sandra Torres' refusal to accept her defeat, attacks against the Seed Movement, arbitrary detentions of legal operators, threats and harassment against those responsible for the electoral process are worrying symptoms. That is why this debate…

12 Sep

2023

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Sustainable aviation fuels (ReFuelEU Aviation Initiative) (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, this new regulation combines ambition with pragmatism and will deliver results because it is done with and not against the industries concerned. This is the best way to recognise their commitment and stimulate their involvement to decarbonise air transport. The rule obliges airports and fuel suppliers to incorporate at least 2% of biofuels into their operations by 20…

12 Sep

2023

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New Agenda for Latin America and the Caribbean in the aftermath of the EU-CELAC Summit (debate)

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Mr President, Mr Borrell, the European Union aspires to be a decisive global player. And to prove it requires that we return to the annual format of summits such as the one held last July with the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, CELAC. Ten years later we recognize that it is key to sign association agreements and promote compliance and improvement of bilateral agreements, such as…

12 Jul

2023

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State of the SME Union (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, European SMEs are fundamental to the competitiveness of the Union. They create wealth and jobs and also create the fabric that makes Europe attractive to companies of another dimension. Today, being under pressure from inflation, interest rates and scarcity of raw materials, it is more urgent than yesterday to establish a fair, predictable and harmonised fiscal framewor…

11 Jul

2023

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Greening transport package (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, decarbonising transport is one of the keys to achieving our climate goals. I welcome this package because it touches on issues critical to achieving it, including emissions and vehicles. I hope that it will also encourage us to comply with standards that we already have, such as the mobility package and the railway package, which are an excellent basis for dealing wi…

10 Jul

2023

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Madam President, with this intervention I would like to call on the French Government to open the border crossing points that separate the communities from the cross-border area of the Basque Country today. And I want to ask the Commission to mediate to end these closures. This decision is incompatible with the Schengen Borders Code. And two different studies denounce the tremendous impact that th…

10 Jul

2023

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Management, conservation and control measures in the area covered under the Southern Indian Ocean Fisheries Agreement (SIOFA) (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, I would like to announce in this debate my opposition to the European Commission's proposal, criticising three aspects of it: Firstly, there is the delay in transposing fisheries conservation, control and management measures in the Southern Indian Ocean adopted by the Indian Fisheries Advisory Council: the SIOFA, which is seven years late. The European Union has been…

10 Jul

2023

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European Citizens’ Initiative ‘Save Cruelty Free Cosmetics – Commit to a Europe without animal testing’ (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, I would like to express my strong opposition to the content of this initiative and to advocate responding to it from the point of view of transparency and the criteria with which science professionals work. For years, the European Association for Animal Research has been promoting and strictly complying with the welfare standards applicable to laboratory animals. Pra…

13 Jun

2023

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Situation in Nicaragua (debate)

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Mr President, activate the democratic clause of our association agreement; encourage an investigation before the International Criminal Court to end impunity for crimes against humanity; providing visas to enable fundamental rights defenders to continue their essential work from exile; focus sanctions, in addition to the hard circle of Nicaraguan dictators, on the courts, judges and prosecutors wh…

12 Jun

2023

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Large transport infrastructure projects in the EU (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, this report is very timely because the basic freedoms, competitiveness and climate objectives of the Union are progressing with the timely completion of the trans-European transport networks. The routes, investments and deadlines that define them are not imposed by Brussels; We established them together in the institutions, by common agreement. When some states fail …

11 May

2023

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Towards a strong and sustainable EU algae sector (debate)

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Mr President, the cultivation of algae, the development of a sustainable industry that takes advantage of the potential of this resource is one of the greatest hopes to respond to the growing demand for food and reverse and correct mistakes made in the past and on firm soil. The multiple applications of a product that regenerates the marine environment and increases our capabilities to sequester a…

11 May

2023

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Protecting and restoring marine ecosystems for sustainable and resilient fisheries - Agreement of the IGC on Marine Biodiversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (High Seas Treaty) (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, on Europe Day many sirens rang in hundreds of EU ports. They denounced that the Commission’s plans to supposedly protect and restore marine ecosystems for sustainable and resilient fisheries, with the progressive ban on trawling by 2030, lack impact studies, are generating more pressure and conflict in areas not affected by restrictions and threaten a sector with which …

11 May

2023

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European Citizens' Initiative "Stop Finning – Stop the trade" (debate)

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Mr President, I have asked a single question to the Commissioner who has not replied and I would like him to give an answer, because many statements have been made here that are not true. I believe that the European Union, with its action and legislation, is part of the solution, not part of the problem, as the Commissioner has just said. And my question, in my speech, was: what is the European Un…

11 May

2023

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European Citizens' Initiative "Stop Finning – Stop the trade" (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, we do not agree with the content of this popular legislative initiative, because the European fleet, as demonstrated in a scientific report prior to the revision of Regulation (EU) No 605/2013, does not practice shark finning (). Our boats are obliged to disembark in port the whole piece of shark species whose fishing is allowed. Since November, in addition, any part th…

18 Apr

2023

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Situation in Peru (debate)

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Mr. President, Peru needs stability to strengthen democracy, social justice and economic progress that place it among the strongest countries in the area. The constitutional solution offered to the crisis of the Castillo government must be strengthened by dialogue and based on the legitimacy provided by transparency. That was the roadmap that was supported from the Union. A response based on those…

17 Apr

2023

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Mr President, last week Europol published, with the security committees of the ports of Antwerp, Hamburg, Bremen and Rotterdam, a report confirming the progress of drug trafficking networks in the European Union. The coordination of networks of corrupt port employees and the misappropriation of container codes are today leading to the introduction into the Union of tonnes of drugs and other illega…

29 Mar

2023

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Fluorinated Gases Regulation - Ozone-depleting substances (debate)

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Mr President, I would like to express my full commitment to the objective of making the Union climate neutral by 2050 and to make sure that this transition to a zero-emission economy is guided by participation, the enhancement of available social knowledge, consensus and technology. Thus, we will avoid episodes such as the one recently experienced with the prohibition of the sale of combustion veh…

15 Mar

2023

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More Europe, more jobs: we are building the competitive economy of tomorrow for the benefit of all (topical debate)

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Mr President, digitalisation and decarbonisation are the keys to the roadmap that must make the Union viable and resilient as a community and competitive as a productive system by 2050. We have to innovate in processes and standards, generate protected and accessible data quarries, transform our mobility, energy generation, consumption habits and encourage the changes that people forge. Therefore,…