08/04/2025 | 19:16:47 I apologise. Thank you very much to the rapporteur for a serious, measured, and balanced report. As far as I can tell, it's raised some suspicions in some groups. Some do not want to deal with the topic at all, while others are clear on their position. I think it shows, once again, that these are not good times when it comes to freedoms, democracies, and rights. This report should not be necessary, because collective expulsions are prohibited. It is absolutely clear that it has been agreed... 28/01/2025 | 18:22:06 I'm going to speak in Spanish. So, we're talking about the conflict between Israel and Palestine here and the need to, of course, condemn the terrorist attack, the taking of hostages, the thousands and thousands of assassinations. That on the one hand, but we also need to call out the disproportionate unjustified response by Israel. Some 46 000 casualties, so many minors, children who are now left orphaned as well. Hospitals and schools weren't shielded, the press was not free, and we're... 01/10/2024 | 19:33:28 Thank you, Chairman. I will speak in Spanish. I begin by condemning Hamas' attack, the terrorist attack which a year ago claimed the lives of more than 1 200 Israelis, and the taking of hostages. I say this, of course, but I would also like to condemn the disproportionate action by Israel. More than 40 000 killed in Gaza, more than 14 000 children. They've been at schools and hospitals. Humanitarian aid workers and others have been attacked, all in the interest of releasing hostages and... 18/04/2024 | 18:15:26 Thank you. The first thing that I would like to say is that I am happy that we have changed the title of this debate because it is difficult to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe that has been with us for some time. We are already late in addressing this. All that we can do now is try to minimise the damage. I would like to start by expressing my clear and absolute condemnation of the Hamas attack. At the same time, I would also extend similarly the absolute condemnation of the position... 17/04/2024 | 18:49:52 Thank you. I will speak in Spanish. I would like to start by thanking Mr Christophe LACROIX for the work of his report. Members of the LGBTI community often suffer discrimination. This discrimination often takes the form of persecution, outside Europe but also within Europe. I think it's interesting to note, and you refer in your report to asylum, in some cases LGBTI people are stigmatised and indeed criminalised. What we have to remember is that within the LGBTI community, and I will include... 16/04/2024 | 18:15:19 First of all, allow me thank Ms Dora BAKOYANNIS for her work, the work presented before the Chamber today. Since Kosovo declared its independence, my political party, the Basque Nationalist Party, has been supporting it. We think it was a triumph of freedom and democracy and we believe that this was also the triumph of the free decision of the citizens of Kosovo, and therefore, we should respect that and, of course, respect the right of minorities, like the Serbs, in Kosovo. All of their... 14/10/2022 | 11:59:12 Good morning and thank you very much. First of all, a big thank you to the rapporteur for the report before the house. A number of comments have been made already on Covid-19, on the consequences of Covid-19, the past vaccination over the past few years. We've already talked about this multiple times in the house and now we are talking about the most urgent issue. Of course public health is a supreme value, it has to have precedence. But there are other aspects that we also need to take into... 13/10/2022 | 18:27:00 Thank you, Chair. First of all, I would like to thank the rapporteur for the wonderful work done. And irrespective of the progress that has been made, as you mention, discrimination in sports still exists and it is an indication of the inequality that exists in general between men and women. I am afraid that I do not know any other sphere where we have this level of discrimination. I would like to speak at two levels. First of all, about school sports. In school sports, there are more... 13/10/2022 | 16:21:30 Thank you very much. The fact of the matter is, that I'm not going to say anything new. But it struck me as important that this Chamber knows that there are many of us who are supportive, because of course, the LGBTI+ community has problems. There is discrimination in many areas, something that is unacceptable in my view. That is why it is important we take preventive measures in some areas if there are certain quarters that think that certain communities are dangerous, then that is... 12/10/2022 | 19:41:57 I'll be talking in Spanish. I'd like to start by thanking the rapporteurs for the two reports they've submitted. I'd like to remind everybody that we're all talking here about a Fortress Europe which we try to make ever stronger. That seems to be the primary objective of our immigration policy. Either we externalise our borders to do this and afterwards we pay countries, countries which don't always have a very good reputation when it comes to democracy and respective human rights. The idea...