Debate contributions by Esteban GONZÁLEZ PONS

The next item is the debate on the oral question to the Commission on a new action plan to implement the European Pillar of Social Rights, tabled by Li Andersson on behalf of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (O-000045/2025 – B10-0003/26) (2025/2980(RSP)).

The next item on the agenda is the debate on the report by Reinis Pozņaks, on behalf of the Committee on Security and Defence, on drones and new systems of warfare – the EU’s need to adapt to be fit for today’s security challenges (2025/2088(INI)) (A10-0270/2025).

The next item is the debate on the oral question to the Commission on the European Democracy Shield – very large online platform algorithms, foreign interference and the spread of disinformation, tabled by Alexandra Geese, Andrey Kovatchev, Tomáš Zdechovský, Axel Voss, Nathalie Loiseau, Raphaël Glucksmann, Sandro Gozi, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Pierre Jouvet, Sandro Ruotolo, Helmut Brandstätter, Sabine Verheyen, Rasa Juknevičienė, Antonio López-Istúriz White, Sebastião Bugalho, Sunčana Glavak, Davor Ivo Stier, Eszter Lakos, Sandra Kalniete, Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz, Ioan-Rareş Bogdan, Lena Schilling, Sara Matthieu, Virginijus Sinkevičius, Jaume Asens Llodrà, Nicolae Ștefănuță, Jutta Paulus, Michael Bloss, Majdouline Sbai, Kim Van Sparrentak, David Cormand, Anna Cavazzini, Brando Benifei, Benedetta Scuderi, Marina Kaljurand, Daniel Freund, Kathleen Van Brempt, Lucia Yar, Alex Agius Saliba, Christel Schaldemose, Hannah Neumann, Juan Fernando López Aguilar, Markéta Gregorová, Alice Kuhnke, Diana Riba i Giner, José Cepeda, Sabrina Repp (O-000044/2025 – B10-0016/25) (2025/3021(RSP)).

The first item is the debate on the Commission statement on the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Dayton-Paris Peace Agreement (2025/3032(RSP)).

The President has received from the Council its position at first reading regarding detergents and surfactants. The President has also received the reasons which led to its adoption, and the position and the opinion of the Commission. The full title will be published in the minutes of today's meeting. The three-month period available to Parliament to adopt its position begins tomorrow, 19 December.

The next item is the joint debate on: – the report by Petras Auštrevičius and Roberts Zīle, on behalf of the Committee on Security and Defence and the Committee on Transport and Tourism, on military mobility (2025/2090(INI)) (A10-0242/2025); and. – the report by Christophe Gomart, on behalf of the Committee on Security and Defence, on European Defence Readiness 2030: assessment of needs (2025/2142(INI)) (A10-0243/2025). Before giving the floor to our next speaker, I beg you to keep silent, to respect our colleague. Thank you very much for being so kind.

The first item on the agenda is the debate on the Commission statement on development of an industry for sustainable aviation and maritime fuel in Europe (2025/2992(RSP)).

The President has received from the Council its position at first reading regarding alternative dispute resolution for consumer disputes. The President has also received the reasons which led to its adoption and the position and opinion of the Commission. The full title will be published in the minutes of today's sitting. The three-month period available to Parliament to adopt its position begins tomorrow, 28 November.

Madam President, colleagues, the peace plan put forward by the US Administration offers a possible path to end the war, but it also brings serious risk for the future of Ukraine and Europe if it is not built with clarity, certainty and courage. Talks started in Geneva and will continue for the next days, but the European Union cannot and must not be silent. Europe should talk about enlargement, sanctions or the immobilised assets. Those cannot be negotiated without us. We want peace, but not peace at any price. Not if that peace reduce the safety for our Union or our Member States. Not if that peace humiliates the Ukrainian people and leaves them open to future slavery. Not if that peace does not return Ukrainian children to their families where they belong. Not if that peace fails to bring war criminals to justice. Not if that peace becomes one more appeasement of a tyrant. Not if that peace means surrender, because democracy can only win. This is about giving back freedom to Belarus, not about losing it in Ukraine. Dear colleagues, our work must continue. United and with a joint and strong voice, let the world know that we stand together until the end.

Ms Steger, you have two blue cards, one from Mr Freund from the Greens and the other one from Mr Brandstätter from Renew. Do you accept them? Just Brandstätter, okay.

The next item is the debate on the report by Tineke Strik, on the existence of a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is founded (C9-0000/2022 – 2018/0902R(NLE)) (A10-0231/2025).

The next item is the debate on the report by Marko Vešligaj, on behalf of the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality, on the Gender Equality Strategy 2025 (2024/2125(INI)) (A10-0210/2025).

The next item is the debate on the Council and Commission statements condemning the illegal unilateral declaration of the secessionist entity created by Türkiye in Cyprus and the continued Turkish military occupation (2025/2947(RSP)).

The next item is the debate on the report by Ondřej Knotek, on behalf of the Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety, on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1119 establishing the framework for achieving climate neutrality (COM(2025)0524 - C10-0137/2025 - 2025/0524(COD)) (A10-0223/2025). I would like to inform you that there will only be one round of political group speakers for this debate. Therefore, there will be no catch-the-eye procedure and no blue cards will be accepted.

Mr. President, yesterday, a year later, a possible corpse of a victim was still rescued from the mud. The flood we suffered was a misfortune so fiercely inhuman that it admits of no historical comparison. I express my deep respect and solidarity to the families of fatalities. As I said in the Committee on Petitions, the dignified status of victims goes beyond any political consideration and makes it a moral imperative to share their demand for memory and reparation. The Spanish state, taken in its broad sense, failed in the province of Valencia. It can not be explained, otherwise, that the works of channeling the ravine would not have been done, that the prediction of the rain was not correct or that the communication between institutions was a broken phone. The slogan "Only the people save the people", with which thousands of volunteers flocked to attend to the people trapped by the devastation, is sufficiently expressive of this widespread failure of the institutions that, according to the social contract, exist to protect the citizens. Therefore, politicizing suffering, wanting to take political advantage of misery or turning debates into blaming each other does not return any exemplary leadership, but on the contrary: delve into institutional shipwreck and citizen disaffection. Guilts, if any, will be cleaned up in the ongoing criminal procedure and, in addition, the Generalitat Valenciana has presented a recovery plan and its obligation is to carry it out. With humility, let us learn the lesson and do everything possible so that such a disaster does not recur, because if today it rained again as a year ago we would find ourselves in them: No infrastructure, no alarm, no prediction mechanism has been improved since that damn night. Countries tend to come out more united from disasters. Let's not be the only Spaniards who, again, take advantage of them to separate us more.