Esteban GONZÁLEZ PONS

What Esteban GONZÁLEZ PONS has said (13)

• 2026-06-15 “14:58 – 18:15:22): The debate is closed. Thank you very much to your colleagues for your help during this 1st experience of the new system of discussion. And especially thanks to the vice president, Sejugnet, who's been very helpful. And he has learned and has show us how the system should work. So”
  EU public communication strategy
• 2026-06-15 “(18:00:17 – 18:00:57): that might be the case, but, we're looking at how this new debate is going to work. And I note the situation so that we can improve the format on subsequent occasions, but I can't give you the floor now. And I apologize for that. Let's continue with the debate. Now I have to give the floor to madam Van Bruck. Yes. Perfect. Forsetter, commissarios.”
  EU public communication strategy
• 2026-06-15 “50:23 – 17:50:54): Thank you. For you to know how the new system is working, The vice president still have 2 minutes and a half for a 3rd intervention if he wants to. And we have no less than 11 requests for the CATCH DI. So that this is how things are are going. I beg the speakers of the 2nd part to respect the time as the 1st speakers have done.”
  EU public communication strategy
• 2026-06-15 “Should work. So, next item, on the agenda is the joint debate on The U EU US trade deal. The report by mister Langhe, adjustment of customs duties and opening of tariff quotas for the import of certain goods originating in The United States Of America, and the report by mister Langhe, nonapplication of custom duties on imports of certain goods. I would like to remind speakers that given the test measures currently in place and the fixed end time of the debate, strict observance of speaking times will be required. 1st place is going to be my speaker, mister Langhe, as reporter.”
  EU-US trade relations
• 2026-01-29 “E-000366/2026 Answer given by Mr Brunner on behalf of the European Commission On 29 January 2026, the Commission presented the first European Asylum and Migration Management Strategy 1 , setting out the way forward to achieve three objectives: preventing illegal migration and breaking the business of criminal smuggling networks; protecting people fleeing war and persecution, while preventing abuse of the asylum system; and attracting talent to boost the competitiveness of the EU’s economy. The combination of the reforms brought by the Pact on Migration and Asylum 2 balancing solidarity and responsibility, an assertive migration diplomacy, and effective operational cooperation within and outside the EU is already showing results, notably with a significant reduction in illegal arrivals since 2023. Notwithstanding the distribution of competences defined by the EU legal order in relation to policies and individual decisions to regularise the status of illegally staying third-country nationals, in an area without internal borders, Member States’ decisions may have consequences on other Member States and on the EU as a whole. A national residence permit does not give the authorisation to move around the EU, but only to live and work in the Member State that issued it. The EU has clear rules that need to be respected. For example, if a person holding a national residence permit is found to be illegally staying in another part of the EU, or if that person applies for asylum in another Member State, that person must go back to the Member State that issued the residence permit. National authorities must act in a spirit of sincere cooperation for this to happen swiftly. The Commission has not received an official communication from Spain about the draft measure to regularise illegally staying third-country nationals, announced on 27 January 2026 3 . 1 Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council, COM (2026) 45 final, https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/document/download/ce0d294e-5dd9-4e2a-bf6853d9d16fc95a_en?filename=European%20Asylum%20and%20Migration%20Strategy.pdf. 2 https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/policies/migration-and-asylum/pact-migration-and-asylum_en. 3 See website of the Ministry for inclusion, social security and migration: https://www.inclusion.gob.es/en/w/elgobierno-inicia-los-tramites-de-un-proceso-de-regularizacion-extraordinaria-para-integrar-a-personasextranjeras-que-ya-viven-en-espana.”
  Legal migration · Asylum & border control
• 2025-11-11 “E-004476/2025 Answer given by Mr Dombrovskis on behalf of the European Commission Spanish gross domestic product (GDP) data have been published by Eurostat following the standard validation procedures in place for all Member States. The revisions of GDP in Spain published in 2024 were in line with the methodology provided for in Regulation (EU) No 549/2013 on the European system of national and regional accounts (ESA 2010) 1 . They were due to the implementation of a regular benchmark revision of national accounts and balance of payments done in a coordinated way in all Member States, carried out at least once every five years to incorporate new data sources and major changes in international statistical methodology. The impact of the revisions on Spanish nominal GDP of 1.6 % (average per year over 20202023) was within the range of -3.8 % and 6.8% observed for the other Member States. The average revision of the annual real GDP growth rates was 0.3 percentage points in Spain (average per year over 2020-2023) while the average revision for Member States varied between -0.4 percentage points and 1.1 percentage points. The Commission continuously monitors compliance by the Member States with EU legislation. The most relevant legislation in this particular context is Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European statistics 2 , mentioned by the Honourable Members. This Regulation establishes the statistical principles, including the principle of professional independence, which are further elaborated in the European Statistics Code of Practice 3 . As the Commission noted in its reply to written question P-002326/2022 4 , it does not have any information indicating that Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 would have been violated in relation to the decision by the President of the Spanish National Statistics Institute to resign in 2022. 1 Regulation (EU) No 549/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 May 2013 on the European system of national and regional accounts in the European Union, OJ L 174 26.6.2013, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2013/549/2025-09-01. 2 Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 on European statistics, OJ L 87, 31.3.2009, p. 164, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2009/223/oj. 3 https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/quality/european-quality-standards/european-statistics-code-of-practice. 4 P-002326/2022 - https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/P-9-2022-002326-ASW_EN.html.”
  EU Supervision of the Rule of Law · Rule of law in Spain
• “The debate is closed. The vote will be held tomorrow. We jump now into the next item on the agenda, the joint debate on EU Uzbekistan and indeed the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement, the recommendation by Mr. Kuchuk, EU Uzbekistan and our Partnership and Cooperation Agreement and the report of Mr. Kuchuk EU Uzbekistan and the Participation and Cooperation Agreement resolution. Mr. Kuchuk as rapporteur, has the floor. As first speaker.”
  EU policy on Central Asia
• “Madam president. The world is becoming anti European and we must accept that our main partner is insisting on tariffs. China is taking advantage of its market to get rid of its industrial surplus. But we can't take a step back. We have to remember the epic spirit that led us to a mass purchase of vaccines in Covid. The new MFF needs to renationalise our common policies. This is a step backwards. Institutions cutting regional policies and help for fishers and farmers. If we don't have European policies, why do we have a European Union? Don't you think it's absurd that member States are sending an envelope with money to Brussels to feed into the European budget? And once that budget has been instituted, they get another envelope back instead of common policies. Madam president, the breach of our air space by Russian drones is the real state of the Union. There's nothing else. And tomorrow there is not going to be any other talk of anything else. The era that we're entering means that Europe will only survive if it acts like a country, as a single country. There's no other option. Congratulations on your speech. You know that you can count on us. Your luck will be that of Europe.”
  EU political integration
• “Thank you, miss Mandy, would you like to accept a blue card from Mr. Perez from ECR? If that's not the case, thank you madam. Madam for her please. **Angéline FURET Better to vote than not to. We have known about the crisis in the steel industry for a long time, but what we have also experienced is this dogmatic approach, the creation of a situation where the cost of manufacturers has gone up by 35% in 2022. We've seen deliberate sabotage of our nuclear industry at the same time. This is a hypocrisy. We are against unfair competition. But nevertheless, you import steel from abroad, which is not a green steel. So it's the workers in Europe which are paying the bill. We're seeing a punitive, uh, regime and we're seeing a possible return to competitive nuclear energy. And we have this wild free trade, which you have been advocating. The companies and the factories should be allowed to continue manufacturing. Thank you.”
  Energy (green transition)
• “Thank you very much, Mr. Sieper. I'm going to read the rules of procedure that say that the members rising, the blue card and the speaker should not be from the same political group, and they should not both be Non-attached members. Exactly. Is what the rules are saying. Remember it for the next time. Our next speaker is Madame Maydell.”
  Transparency requirements of EU institutions
• “And excuse me, because I should have not given the floor to Mr. Sieper because he belongs to the same group as Mr. Massey, which is the Non-inscrits group. So sorry for giving him the blue card. No thank you. It's very clear in the rules.”
  Transparency requirements of EU institutions
• “(18:26:11 – 18:26:24): Mister Beke, after his speech, I will close the catch the eye list. So if someone is still wanting to ask for the floor, it's the last chance. My friend, mister Beke, you have the floor.”
  EU political integration
• “Thank you, Vice president. Motion for a resolution to wind up this debate. The vote will be held today, and now we suspend for a couple of minutes till we wait for voting time. Thank you.”
  EU political integration