PRESENCE IN THE MEDIA

Javier Zarzalejos, Member of the European Parliament and Director of the FAES Foundation, took part in the closing session of the FAES Campus alongside the President of the Partido Popular, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, and former Prime Minister of Spain and President of the FAES Foundation, José María Aznar. Zarzalejos called for a stronger political presence…

Javier Zarzalejos, Director of the FAES Foundation and Chair of the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE); Nuria González, Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Barcelona; and Cristian Pizarro Allard, former editor of Chilean newspaper El Mercurio and Deputy Editor of El Debate, took part in the round-table…

On Friday 18 September, Javier Zarzalejos was interviewed on RTVE’s Europa 2026 programme, where he warned of the extreme seriousness of the Ceuta crisis, not only for Spain but for the European Union as a whole. Zarzalejos said that the European People’s Party is helping to raise awareness among the European institutions of the particular…

Javier Zarzalejos, Chair of the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE), chaired a new meeting of the Committee in Brussels, during which members addressed the recruitment of minors by organised crime, the presentation of the European Union Agency for Asylum’s (EUAA) Asylum Report 2026, and ongoing legislative procedures. New rapporteurs…

Javier Zarzalejos, Chair of the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE), hosted a press conference in Brussels by the President of Ceuta, Juan Jesús Vivas, on the migration crisis affecting the autonomous city since the end of July. Vivas holds Morocco responsible for the mass influx The President of Ceuta…

On 8 September, Javier Zarzalejos held a meeting with the National President of Nuevas Generaciones, Ignacio Dancausa; its Secretary-General, Alonso Nieto; and several members of its Executive Committee. Immigration was a major focus of the meeting. Zarzalejos analysed the Ceuta crisis and recalled the extraordinary session convened in August by the European Parliament’s Committee on…

Javier Zarzalejos, Chair of the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE), took part on 16 and 17 July in the Informal Meeting of Justice and Home Affairs Ministers at Dublin Castle. At the meeting, organised by the Irish Presidency of the Council of the European Union and chaired by Minister…

On 15 July, People’s Party MEP Javier Zarzalejos took part in the opening session of the Libertas Forum, an initiative of the European People’s Party (EPP) that brought together political leaders from Europe and Latin America in Madrid to discuss the defence of freedom, democracy, the rule of law and the common challenges facing Western…

On 13 and 14 July, the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE), chaired by Javier Zarzalejos, held a new meeting in Brussels with an agenda focused on some of the European Union’s main challenges: migration management, internal security, counter-terrorism and the protection of fundamental rights. The meeting began with the…

The European Parliament and the Council held their fifth trilogue on Monday since negotiations began in December 2025 on the European Regulation to prevent and combat online child sexual abuse. The meeting was the last under the Cypriot Presidency of the Council and helped consolidate the significant progress achieved over the past six months. Thanks…