What Izaskun spoke about.

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Mar

2023

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Situation in Georgia (debate)

Mr President, the unrest experienced in recent weeks in Georgia is one more step of the many who have been giving their citizenship to get closer to the values of the European Union. We, in line with the motion approved in the Spanish Senate on November 2 at the initiative of my party, ask that this trajectory, maintained despite the Russian threat, be recognized and addressed. Georgia, when fulfi…

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Mar

2023

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Mr President, France has just announced that it will delay the connection of its high-speed rail network to the Iberian Peninsula for 17 years. This decision undermines a European priority project, the Union, its finances, laws and values. It promotes protectionism and harms institutions and actors that have always been committed to the Union and to the free movement of people and goods. From the …

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Feb

2023

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CO2 emission standards for cars and vans (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, there is a saying in Spanish: The best is the enemy of the good. Turning a utopia into a legal obligation doesn't usually work. An industry fully committed to the climate transition. Energy and automotive technicians, focused on innovation, accept the challenge of staying at 10% of zero emissions by 2035, something really ambitious and objectively good. I therefore e…

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Jan

2023

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Small-scale fisheries situation in the EU and future perspectives (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, small-scale fisheries, together with large-scale and large-scale fisheries, are key to maintaining the life, activity and cultural heritage that coastal communities bring to the Union. The former urgently needs a definition that captures all its diversity and guarantees its access to European programmes. We have to guarantee generational renewal by making this activi…

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Jan

2023

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The storming of the Brazilian democratic institutions

Madam President, Commissioner, the assault on the three powers of Brazil on 8 January deserves our resounding condemnation and demands the utmost solidarity with the new authorities that emerged from the polls. It is the second attempt that a world movement, reactionary and violent, makes to impose itself on the democratic will of the citizens. Trump supporters have already tried to storm the Capi…

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Jan

2023

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Terrorist threats posed by far-right extremist networks defying the democratic constitutional order (debate)

Madam President, on 25 October 2018, this Parliament adopted a resolution which put its finger on the problem at hand. In some Member States, falsification of the history of totalitarian regimes that have ruled in European countries is tolerated. In mine, it contrasts the admirable speed with which journalists or puppeteers have been prosecuted for making jokes about the Crown with the passivity w…

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Jan

2023

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Protecting the Rule of Law against impunity in Spain (topical debate)

Madam President, the Spanish PP today presents a problem of legal technique as an attempt to favour sex offenders. The legislator's will was the opposite. In fact, the criminal definition of rape has improved. As the objective seems to be shared, I encourage you to lower the tone and find the solution by agreeing on a better text in the Cortes. And, incidentally, apply the same recipe to a deeper …

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Jan

2023

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“The Road to 2023” - Towards a stronger EU-Latin America partnership (debate)

Madam President, relations between the European Union and the Latin American and Caribbean region need more attention. That is why the Summit, which, after eight years of waiting, will bring together leaders from both parts of the world this year in Brussels, must relaunch the relations between two regions that are needed to advance the cause of sustainability and social justice on a global level.…

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Dec

2022

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The 30th anniversary of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, uniting in diversity implies recognition and respect. It manufactures coexistence. Prevents conflicts. Today we have to deplore the fact that in the Union there are diversity, cultures and minority languages, that we suffer unthinkable discrimination against nationalities, languages or cultures identified with a state; minorities, such as the Basque, who were from th…

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Dec

2022

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Addressing persistent challenges in the aviation sector and the impacts on passengers, workers, capacity and safety (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, in the aftermath of the pandemic, air transport is facing an enormous challenge to survive and to do so by contributing to decarbonisation and high safety standards, which are badly affected by the degradation of working conditions. This sector is key to our competitiveness, but it also brings coexistence and builds community, promotes affordable prices and freedom o…

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Nov

2022

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Eliminating violence against Women (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, Article 36 of the Istanbul Convention: ‘The Parties shall take the necessary legislative or other measures to criminalise, when committed intentionally: non-consensual vaginal, anal or oral penetration of another person's body with any part of the body or object; other acts of a sexual nature not consensual about another person; obliging another person to engage in n…

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Nov

2022

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A high common level of cybersecurity across the Union (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, I am going to support this report because strengthening harmonised, precise and powerful rules to boost cybersecurity will help us prevent huge threats, stimulate digitalisation processes and incentivise investments that grow under the protection of security and certainties, both material and legal. I think improving the definitions of what we consider an essential a…

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Nov

2022

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Mr President, José Barrionuevo, former Spanish Minister of the Interior, applauded this week the mistake that was made there for decades to combat terrorism. Democracy, pluralism and the values that allow us to live together were at stake. Several governments bought ETA's war speech. They thus dispensed with threatened pre-political values. They committed serious crimes. Kidnappings and extrajudic…

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Oct

2022

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Commission implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1614 of 15 September 2022 determining the existing deep-sea fishing areas and establishing a list of areas where vulnerable marine ecosystems are known to occur or are likely to occur (debate)

Madam President, I too hope that the Commissioner will recover as soon as possible. Aurelio, my father, is ninety-one years old; Hilaria, my mother, ninety. I went to university thanks to his effort, to the risk he ran for decades embarked on a shell, fishing; to the constancy of her working in the port. They are sustainability enthusiasts. They suffered the effects of overfishing and love the sea…

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Oct

2022

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Whitewashing of the anti-European extreme right in the EU (topical debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, the European far right lives on the poison it spreads on social networks and the falsification of history and thanks to the impunity that in some states prevents it from investigating crimes against humanity committed by dictatorships such as Franco's. Interested amnesia like the one practiced, to be clear, political organizations that, in my small country, encouraged a…

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Oct

2022

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Setting up a comprehensive framework for missing children and missing persons at risk (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, every year 300 000 disappearances are reported in the European Union. Our goal, joining organizations such as Missing Children or AMBER Alert, is to improve the response of the authorities to this phenomenon, particularly dangerous for children. The risk of serious violations of rights or endangering the integrity of missing persons grows the longer it takes us to cl…

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Oct

2022

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Mr President, today I bring to this House the SOS of European pole-and-line tuna vessels in Senegal, which may end up being scrapped if the European Commission does not unblock the payment of the aid they need to survive. They had licenses in place. They paid for them. An unforeseeable, arbitrary and unfair decision by the Government of Senegal left them five months moored to port and without fish…

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Oct

2022

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Sustainable maritime fuels (FuelEU Maritime Initiative) - Deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, I would like to express my support for these initiatives because the deployment of sufficient, visible and accessible recharging and refuelling infrastructure for alternative fuels is a prerequisite for the decarbonisation of transport. It forces the industry to innovate in the production of vehicles and fuels. But also legislators must offer legal certainty to the indu…

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Oct

2022

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Momentum for the Ocean: strengthening Ocean Governance and Biodiversity (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, I share the need to strengthen ocean governance and protect diversity, but I recall, as the common fisheries policy has shown, that achieving this requires involving all the actors involved. This has not been the case with the decision by which the European Commission intends, on 9 October, to close 87 fishing areas to European vessels. This Decision is arbitrary bec…

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Sep

2022

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Economic, social and territorial cohesion in the EU: the 8th Cohesion Report - EU border regions: living labs of European integration (debate)

Madam President, regions should have direct access to cohesion funds: the direct involvement of regions and cities ensures better alignment of programmes with the needs and capacities of the productive fabric, brings decision-making processes closer to citizens and improves control possibilities. This measure also better involves cohesion policy in the energy transition and decarbonisation process…

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Sep

2022

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Nicaragua, in particular the arrest of the bishop Rolando Álvarez

Madam President, Commissioner, the arrest on 19 August of Bishop Rolando Álvarez together with nine other people and the closure of Catholic radio and television stations are the last straw of the deterioration affecting freedoms in Nicaragua: The flower Sandino planted withered. The Government issues the charges on the news, and there are judges and police who abide by, detain and imprison: disse…

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Jul

2022

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Sustainable aviation fuels (ReFuelEU Aviation Initiative) (debate)

Mr President, I would like to congratulate Søren Gade, because his proposal, as balanced and realistic, will be able to turn good intentions into concrete facts. That is the best praise that can be made of a legal text. This text is more demanding with the percentages of progressive use of sustainable fuels in aviation, which will apply to all companies operating more than 500 flights per year; ma…

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2022

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Facilitating export of Ukrainian agricultural products: key for Ukrainian economy and global food security (debate)

Madam President, one of the consequences of the invasion of Ukraine is the effect it is having on the world's food security. This republic is a world power in grain production, and its export under the difficult conditions created by Russian aggression is very complex. From the Committee on Transport, after listening to the Ukrainian Deputy Minister of Infrastructure, we are committed to making cu…

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Jul

2022

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EU action plan for the social economy (debate)

Mr President, Jordi, thank you for your commitment in this report, because boosting the social economy is boosting the resilience and transformation of the Union: an environmental and digital transformation, but focused on people. The social economy places them at the center of entrepreneurship, takes care of their working conditions, promotes transparency and solidarity, fixes development to the …

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Jul

2022

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Loss of life, violence and inhumane treatment against people seeking international protection at the Spanish-Moroccan border (debate)

Madam President, an expressive sign of the seriousness of what happened on 25 June at the Moroccan Hispanic border is that today, nine days later, I cannot pay tribute here to those people by pronouncing their name. I also don't know how many died there. They crashed into a police action, on both sides of the border, that demands an immediate and independent investigation. It is urgent to identify…