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Jun

2022

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The human rights situation in Xinjiang, including the Xinjiang police files

Madam President, Commissioner, credibility in the defence of human rights is achieved when all those who violate human rights are measured to the same standard. China is large and powerful, admirable in many respects, but it deserves a resounding condemnation for the mechanisms of repression it applies to dissidents and minorities. Lately we have known evidence and evidence of intolerable behavior…

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2022

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Binding annual greenhouse gas emission reductions by Member States (Effort Sharing Regulation) - Land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) - CO2 emission standards for cars and vans (joint debate – Fit for 55 (part 2))

Mr President, Commissioner, as shadow rapporteur for the opinion of the Committee on Transport and Tourism on this report, I advocate setting the emission reduction for new vehicles at 90% by 2035, compared to the 100% proposed by the European Commission. I support my decision for three reasons. Firstly, I am betting on technological neutrality which should lead to more research and innovation and…

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Jun

2022

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Madam President, Senegal has failed to comply with the fisheries agreement it signed with the Union. It has placed on the verge of bankruptcy some pole-and-line vessels that operate with sustainable arts and under strict control. Signed, at last, the licenses they paid in January, have lost more than one million euros that they now need to return to the sea after five months of forced mooring. The…

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Jun

2022

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Article 17 of the Common Fisheries Policy Regulation (short presentation)

Madam President, talking coherently and realistically about the criteria for allocating State-to-State fishing opportunities is only possible considering the principle of relative stability enshrined in Article 16 of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013. That is why we call on the Commission to produce a report that provides data that we do not have today to better understand the procedures of each State …

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May

2022

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Use of the Pegasus Software by EU Member States against individuals including MEPs and the violation of fundamental rights (topical debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, political issues – and a sovereignty conflict is – are resolved with politics. When instead of opening a debate, recognizing the other, negotiating and seeking agreements one opts for the "for them", for espionage, for the "control of the courts through the back door", for the abolition of parliamentary inviolability, for the imprisonment of ideas, when political police…

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May

2022

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Impact of Russian illegal war of aggression against Ukraine on the EU transport and tourism sectors (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, European logistics is one of the victims of the illegal invasion of Ukraine. All transport sectors are affected, both by the impact of rising energy prices and by operational problems affecting all transport modes and people working in the sector. I welcome the content of the resolution proposed by the Committee on Transport and Tourism and encourage three aspects to be…

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May

2022

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Election of the Members of the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage (debate)

Mr President, transnational lists have only advantages. They do not subtract anything from the States, they only add and will bring fresh air to a Parliament to which they will help prevent national debates from recurring here. We have also reached a compromise in this regard among the major groups in Parliament. They also bring us closer to citizens because Europeans have proposed this reform at …

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Apr

2022

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The situation of the rule of law and human rights in the Republic of Guatemala

Mr. President, the path to dictatorship always starts in the same place: the independence of the judiciary is destroyed, freedom of the press and expression is threatened, dissidents and the organizations that bring them together are persecuted and all control mechanisms are laminated. Alejandro Giammattei's Guatemala is already going down that slope on the backs of corruption and impunity. But th…

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Apr

2022

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Future of fisheries in the Channel, North Sea, Irish Sea and Atlantic Ocean (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, Brexit cannot call into question an overwhelming biological truth: Atlantic waters form a coherent ecosystem. Its fishery resources must be managed in a sustainable manner through the agreement and the relations of trust that are agreed to all coastal countries and with the rigour that they allow and that the existing scientific data on the state of the stocks oblige…

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Apr

2022

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Use of vehicles hired without drivers for the carriage of goods by road (debate)

Madam President, thank you to the rapporteur, Cláudia Monteiro, and to all our technical teams for such an important work on this report. This agreement on the use of driverless hired vehicles for road freight transport offers new tools to professionals to improve the services they provide, make progress in the decarbonisation of transport and match the conditions under which they operate across t…

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Mar

2022

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Roaming Regulation (recast) (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, this agreement to extend free ten years allows anyone to understand what it means to move forward in the digital single market. Thanks to an integration process we consolidate a right that we also notice in our pockets, because there will be no extra costs for making voice calls or using data services while traveling in the European Union. I would like to take this o…

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Mar

2022

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EU Gender Action Plan III (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, in 2005, I broke a glass ceiling: I became the first woman to preside over the Basque Parliament. One of the first calls I received came from here. That House had achieved parity thanks to a pioneering law that forced political parties to include quotas of women and intersect them with men in the candidacies. Today, here, there are those who discuss quotas, while that r…

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Mar

2022

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Rising energy prices and market manipulation on the gas market (debate)

Mr President, our energy dependence is structural. It requires a swift response, such as the one we gave to the pandemic or to the effects of the invasion of Ukraine with the sanctions that its protagonist deserves. We need a strategic reserve of gas, but we must moderate the influence that this fuel has on the calculation of the price of light: the operating accounts of many energy companies show…

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Feb

2022

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Charging of heavy goods vehicles for the use of certain infrastructures (debate)

Mr President, I would like to ask you for a 20-second extension. I need you as a member of a fishing family to remember, in the heart of the Union, the victims of the shipwreck of the . My solidarity with the pain of their families, my fraternal embrace for those who have lost everything, and my vindication of a sector and people who deserve empathy, understanding and support, what it feels and un…

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Dec

2021

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Stocktaking of the European Year of Rail (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, the European Year of Rail has been more than a good idea. The general public has discovered the train as a key agent against climate change. It has brought together operators and key players to triple high-speed passenger transport by 2050 and double freight transport by 2050. Continuing this initiative means that Next Generation Funds support innovation and digitalisat…

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Dec

2021

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EU response to the transport poverty (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, the free movement of people and goods is one of the keys to the European project. It is key for the construction of European citizenship, because it promotes the coexistence of diversity, and for the single market, because it eliminates the barriers that allowed many economic agents to live in their comfort zones. It is also a fundamental tool for integration. Promoting…

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Dec

2021

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The situation in Nicaragua (debate)

Mr. President, Nicaragua has become a dictatorship. Running for election carries a prison sentence. Defending human rights, opposing bad environmental practices, the destruction of indigenous communities, denouncing abuses, pointing out those responsible lead to the harshest repression, aggression and harassment. There is no freedom of the press or expression. Under these circumstances, the last e…

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Oct

2021

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UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, the UK (COP26) (continuation of debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, we applaud the global agreements of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and this Glasgow COP; these objectives are linked to the NextGenerationEU funds, with which we aim to transform our mobility, our economy and our consumption habits and advance sustainability and resilience, but, with the same energy, we recall …

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Oct

2021

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Farm to Fork Strategy (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, if farmers are 'guardians of the land', EU fishermen, seafarers, are 'guardians of the sea'. They deserve that the high-quality proteins they contribute to the EU’s diet are fully integrated into a strategy that should be called ‘From Sea and Farm to Fork’. They provide proteins that are fished or grown under environmentally and socially sustainable conditions and wi…

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Oct

2021

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Assessing the Union’s measures for the EU tourism sector as the end of the Summer season nears (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, the crisis that the pandemic has caused in the tourism sector has accelerated another reflection that was already underway: sustainability should be one of the key factors in the design and delivery of tourism services. Digitalisation and the use of new technologies and innovation processes should improve high-impact issues in the tourism sector: The design of the of…

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Oct

2021

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EU Road Safety Policy Framework 2021-2030 – Recommendations on next steps towards "Vision Zero" (debate)

Mr President, the human factor is today the main cause of road accidents in the European Union. Alcohol and drugs and speeding, usually combined, are at the origin of more than half of the million accidents that occur every year in the European Union. We need zero tolerance for these infringements, to remove consumers of these substances from the road, to strengthen training, to bet on digitalisat…

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Sep

2021

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Government crackdown on protests and citizens in Cuba

Madam President, Cuba is facing the abyss. Our best contribution is to denounce the obvious, serious and repeated violations of human rights that the Díaz-Canel Government is carrying out and to promote active solidarity with the victims of this wave of repression. The answer lies in the values and instruments of the Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement between the European Union and Cuba,…

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Jul

2021

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Situation in Nicaragua (debate)

Madam President, Mr Borrell, once again, speaking of Nicaragua we have to regret that the worst prophecies have been fulfilled and try to put the means so that the current political and social crisis that shakes the country does not end up transforming into a trace of the humanitarian crisis that shakes other countries such as Venezuela. Sandinismo overthrew a dictator. Unfortunately, the country …

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Jul

2021

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Connecting Europe Facility - Streamlining measures for the realisation of the TEN-T - Railway safety and signalling: Assessing the state of play of the ERTMS deployment (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, I believe that the best way to celebrate the European Year of Rail is to launch debates and initiatives such as those brought together in this joint debate. It is another step towards ending the fragmentation of the European railway area, a problem that prevents this means of transport from bringing all its virtues to European mobility. A mobility that we want to turn, …

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Jul

2021

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European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund (debate)

Madam President, I want to conclude this interinstitutional agreement because it improves the Fund we had, makes it a more flexible and simpler tool and incorporates lessons associated with the pandemic, climate objectives and new problems, such as those associated with . I regret the 5% cut, but I hope that, by increasing the participation of the sector, recognising its diversity and getting clos…