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Sep

2022

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Conservation and enforcement measures applicable in the Regulatory Area of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organisation (NAFO) - Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Convention Area: conservation and management measures (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, the resolutions of the regional fisheries management organisations that we are debating today have been agreed after lengthy negotiations, although systematically the Commission's proposal in transposing these agreements tends to go a little further. No one is against taking ambitious measures to manage fisheries. However, ambitious measures must be agreed and implement…

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Jul

2022

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Russia's invasion of Ukraine: Crisis measures in the fisheries and aquaculture sectors (A9-0182/2022 - Nuno Melo) (vote)

Madam President, I take the floor very briefly before opening the vote because, unfortunately, matters relating to the Committee on Fisheries do not seem to be very important for some groups who, sitting after sitting, deny the possibility of them being debated and given visibility in plenary. Matters as outstanding and substantial as the report that we are now going to put to the vote, drawn up b…

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Jun

2022

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Future of EU-Africa trade relations (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, first of all, I would like to congratulate the rapporteur on his work. Africa must be a priority continent for the European Union. We are all aware of the enormous potential of their markets and also of their complex reality and diversity. Africa is growing economically and demographically and has natural resources at its disposal, is increasingly promoting its trade…

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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, the impact of Brexit on fisheries extends beyond the geographical area of the United Kingdom and has important implications for the entire area of the North-East Atlantic Ocean, as well as for the European Union fleet operating in other parts of the world, such as the waters around the Falkland Islands, Greenland and Svalbard. The geopolitical scenario has changed wi…

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Mar

2022

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Need for an urgent EU action plan to ensure food security inside and outside the EU in light of the Russian invasion of Ukraine (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, thank you for this communication, especially for including fisheries and aquaculture, which, together with the entire seafood value chain, are key sectors contributing to food security in the European Union. Thank you very much. However, the measures envisaged for fisheries are clearly insufficient. For months now, the fisheries and aquaculture sectors have been faci…

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Feb

2022

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EU-Africa relations (debate)

Madam President, Mr High Representative, Africa must be a priority continent for the European Union. To begin with, they separate us just fourteen kilometers and our interests are not only commercial and economic, but also political, migratory or security. We know it well in the Canary Islands. The European Union now has a great opportunity with the creation of the African Continental Free Trade A…

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Feb

2022

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Announcement of voting results: see Minutes

of the amendments, I request referral back to committee to start interinstitutional negotiations.

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Dec

2021

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The situation in Nicaragua (debate)

Mr President, the situation in Nicaragua is unsustainable: the continued authoritarian drift directly undermines human rights, democracy and all the values that we stand for in this House. What we experienced in the last fraudulent elections in the country is a new finding of something that we have been denouncing for a long time: the Ortega-Murillos are dynamite Nicaraguan democracy from within, …

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Nov

2021

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Mr President, we are still stronger than the volcano, let no one doubt it, but every day it costs us more; fifty-two days have passed since the eruption of the volcano on my Isla Bonita and there it continues, doing damage to homes, farms and infrastructure, but above all in the spirit of the palm trees: Believe me, listening to the volcano's uninterrupted roar for days and days is hard to bear. S…

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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, when the volcano continues to roar with force and the lava rivers continue, it is difficult to speak of anything other than survival and recovery. And recovery is what the island of La Palma needs in all areas, also in tourism. The Canary Islands as a whole need the certainty that the European Union must guarantee and La Palma, in particular, urgently needs, in addition to funds, …

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Oct

2021

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Order of business

Madam President, the volcano that erupted a fortnight ago on my island, the island of La Palma, is ravaging houses, roads, water infrastructure and crops, but, above all, illusions. He's leaving a trail of pain, of broken personal stories, of thousands of evacuees. It is changing the island's own orography, which will no longer be heart-shaped. A heart that palm trees have shown and that has won t…

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Jul

2021

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European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund (debate)

Madam President, my first words must necessarily be of gratitude. Firstly, to the shadow rapporteurs Pierre Karleskind, Manuel Pizarro, Rosanna Conte, Ruža Tomašić, Francisco Guerreiro and João Ferreira. His work has been fundamental. On the other hand, and most especially, I would like to express my special thanks to my colleague Francisco Millán Mon for leading the negotiations during the period…