Debate contributions by Ana MIRANDA PAZ

Madam President, Commissioner McGuinness, as a Galician MEP, I invite you to come to my country to talk about the Strategic Dialogue, to talk to the producers and producers, who asked me during the election campaign: why does a Galician farmer or a Galician farmer receive less than a farmer from Germany or France? We have to live to produce, not live poorly, as is happening with many Galician farmers. There is talk of renewal and a future for young farmers. In my country, they leave the rural sector because there are no services, because prices are very low, because there are no fair wages in agriculture. We need a reform to ensure access to land and that you pay for producing, for working, and not for having, not for hectares. We need services, advice and a rural structure that is not based on eucalyptus, as is now the case with the Galician government. Between 2005 and 2020, half of the dairy and meat farms in my country closed down. 200 milk farms have disappeared each year. Of course we have to dialogue. Discuss to make it easier and not for farmers to disappear.

Madam President, after the more than 41 000 Palestinians and international victims killed by Israel in the Gaza Strip, in this new term, colleagues, I want to reiterate my request of the past mandate for a minute of silence for the victims in Gaza. The European Parliament must stop with the double standards with the victims and stand against the genocide in Gaza, calling for a permanent ceasefire and sanctions on Israel: children, hospitals, schools, journalists are not a target.