Debate contributions by Alma EZCURRA ALMANSA

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to ask you a question: Does anyone here find it patriotic to use the legitimate concern of millions of Europeans to inject hatred and not push for solutions? Here what we see is that there is a left that manufactures victims and multiplies the problem and an extreme right that tells us that all immigrants are executioners, regardless of what they do. And everyone – in one way or another – calls for breaking the law. What they have to do is openly acknowledge that they are not moved by solidarity or security, but by agitating grief and fear for pure electoral gain; In the meantime, they are abandoning Europeans. Of course there is a security problem and of course it is linked, many times, with illegal immigration, but the answer is not communist collectivizations or fascist dehumanizations: the answer is to expel the one who does not want to be integrated, to integrate the one who complies and to protect, in truth, European identity, democracy and freedom. That is to be a patriot: Not to warm the street hidden behind a seat, but to put the common good before partisan interests out of respect for the people who feed us.

Mr President, Madam High Representative, what Pablo Escobar once dreamed of, today Maduro has achieved: He has kidnapped a Colombian state, controls a loyal army, has embassies in our capitals and sits at the United Nations. Is Maduro a narco? Yes, but with state power and uses terror to subdue his people with the connivance of European and Spanish governments and leaders, such as the socialist José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. So we're going to have to understand one thing: What is happening in Venezuela, like what is happening in Colombia, is not internal affairs, it is a global threat. That is why the People's Party today wants to ask for two things in this House. The first is that the Europeans, together, declare that the cartel of the Suns, led by Maduro along with the Colombian narco, is a terrorist organization. And the second is that this is only the first step towards much more determined, much deeper and much more courageous actions, because the world and Europe cannot remain unmoved by what the peoples of Venezuela and Colombia are suffering. And because whoever does not vote in favor will not be neutral, but guilty of complicity.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, there is indeed a huge coalition in Europe. A deep and narrow: between those who want to raise taxes and those who ask for more tariffs; between the goodists who call every day to break the law to thousands of people and the xenophobes who incite hatred of the different; among those who persecute journalists and judges, whether in Hungarian or Spanish. And if not, tell me one thing: Who benefits from growing nationalism in Europe? Or who is interested in radicalizing the discourse of the left? Recognize that you are all faces of the same coin and all enemies of freedom. And, in the meantime, a ghost returns to Europe: The reaction of millions of people against the policies of a sectarian left that has been putting ideology before common sense for decades. Where there was civilization, degrowth; where there were Western values, delirium Woke; and, instead of competitiveness, climate fundamentalism, socialism and poverty. Do you really believe that the solution is to return to the Europe of walls and single thinking? They forget that we Europeans have been strong when we have been able to open up to the world, when we have strengthened our democracies, when we have attracted excellence wherever it comes from and when we have removed obstacles for our nations, together, to compete in freedom. So masks out. We already know who collaborates with whom. And let no one doubt: the European People's Party is going to stop you all.