PRESENCE IN THE MEDIA

On Tuesday, 12 December, the European Parliament awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought to Iranian national Jina Mahsa Amini and the ‘Women, Life, Freedom’ movement, in recognition of her courage in speaking out for a better, free and democratic Iran. Jina Mahsa Amini was killed on September 12, 2022 by Iran’s morality police…

Watch video We cannot accept that those who have seriously violated the Constitution go unpunished. 60% of Spaniards believe that the amnesty is unfair and is a privilege and 85% are very clear that the only explanation for the amnesty that will benefit the Catalan secessionists is that Pedro Sánchez can govern. In Spain we…

On November 30, Javier Zarzalejos received in the European Parliament a group of the Tocqueville Club, a civil society initiative to help update and disseminate the vision of a constitutionalist Catalonia that values the principles of the rule of law and liberal democracy. In his speech, the MEP addressed the most sensitive issues for the…

The PP MEP Javier Zarzalejos presented last November 29th in the Joint Committee on Civil Liberties and Women (LIBE-FEMM) the draft report on the revision of Directive 2012/29/EU on the rights of victims of crime, for which he has been rapporteur in LIBE. The MEP welcomed that “the new Victims Directive strengthens the protection of…

On November 28 and 29, the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) held an international congress at its Associated Center in Brussels under the title “Elections 2024. The challenges of the European Union”, and in which topics such as European identity, the current prospects of the European Parliament as a representative body, the challenges…

For the fourth time since the death at the hands of Iran’s morality police of Mahsa Jina Amini on September 16, 2022, the European Parliament has spoken out on the actions of the Iranian regime and overwhelmingly adopted a new resolution condemning the latest attacks on women and women’s rights defenders and the arbitrary detention…

The President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, opened the part-session with a strong condemnation of the attack suffered on November 10 by the former Member and Vice-President of the European Parliament, Alejo Vidal-Quadras, while expressing the Parliament’s full solidarity with him, trusting that the Spanish authorities are doing everything possible to bring the perpetrators…

During this plenary session, Miriam Rajavi, leader of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, visited the Parliament in Strasbourg to discuss with MEPs the situation in Iran and the horrible repression that the regime is carrying out against the Iranian population. During an event attended by MEPs belonging to all political forces, Javier Zarzalejos…

The European Parliament’s Joint Committee on Civil Liberties and Public Health (LIBE-ENVI) approved last November 28th by a large majority its position on the European Health Data Space, of which the PP MEP Javier Zarzalejos has been co-rapporteur of the European People’s Party group. Zarzalejos welcomed the agreement, since “the new Space will be a…

Last Thursday, November 16, MEP Javier Zarzalejos received in the European Parliament a group of students from the University Francisco de Vitoria. The MEP had a conversation with the students about the current challenges facing the European Union and European citizenship as a whole, as well as explaining the importance of the European Parliament as…