What Irena spoke about.

Madam President! Competitiveness is at the heart of this mandate. Okay. But competitiveness does not exist without people. We're forgetting that. Meanwhile, we talk a lot about the lack of a skilled workforce, especially people with specific professional and technical skills. At the same time, the professions that provide these skills are still too often regarded as second-class. This has no logic

Mr President, colleagues, Commissioner, we have the Anti-Corruption Directive now. It's crucial. But the sharpest legal tool is useless if the hands holding the scales of justice are tied. And that dangerous squeeze is visible across the Member States, unfortunately – also including Slovenia, where under Janez Janša's new government, prosecutors' offices are being overhauled under the hollow guise

Madam President! When it comes to children, adults have incredible talent. We like to save. Especially yourself. I'll explain. Children online absolutely need protection, and legislation in preparation is finally an opportunity to do so. But the kids didn't create this problem. We demand self-control from our children. The system is designed to lose it. Someone designed infinite scrolling. Include

Madam President. We do not see psychosocial risks, we cannot touch them, but we can see the consequences very well. Long-term stress, burnout, depression, chronic diseases, work accidents, sick leave, premature exit from the labour market. Intangible, therefore, does not in any way mean harmless. Psychosocial risks are one of the biggest challenges for people's health in the workplace today. Digit

Mr. President! This debate was initially foreseen with a different, very clear title. It clearly indicated the perpetual chemicals – PFAS. And in it, or in the title, there was also a clear reference to the case of polluted groundwater in Croatia. And then the title went through an interesting clean-up action. Today, it only protects human health from toxic substances. It is a pity that 37,000 ton

Mr. President! Health systems stand on people who make sure that these systems are still functioning every day, but years of underinvestment, austerity and political delays have led, we know, unfortunately, to a serious crisis of health personnel and thus systems. There is a shortage of these workers across the Union. Those who remain are exhausted. Their burdens are increasing, their exposure to

Madam President, colleagues, I rise for a point of order under Rule 202, regarding Rules 60, 73 and 170, regarding the derogation that we will be voting today. This House has already sovereignly expressed its position and voted down this extension twice. The President had no mandate to ask the Council to proceed to a second reading, yet we are here today. This urgent procedure hit our agenda befor

Madam President, the people of Serbia defend European values more courageously than many in this Chamber. Support from the European Union, at least at the highest level, does not get even a little, at most the opposite. Then you wonder why there is no trust in the European Union in Serbia. Since when is stability without democracy stability and since when are messages for non-progress being sent w

Mr President, colleagues, some of you are talking about the reconstruction of Gaza as if the need arose from a natural disaster. Gaza was destroyed, and that destruction has a name: 'genocide'. It is astonishing that some still spend more energy avoiding that specific word rather than condemning what is happening – true champions of justice and peace, indeed. Now, one thing is to pay the bills, bu

Madam President, this report is a report on the European future of the Macedonian country. Why did I end up supporting it – although, of course, not the text as a whole? Because this country is not responsible for the obsession of some with its nation. You ask yourself, but you know: Who really has a problem here? Macedonians or those who can't even write an amendment without them, let alone a sub

Dear Sir/Madam, This directive is an important step forward because it finally strengthens the protection of victims, access to psychological assistance, the protection of privacy and the prevention of secondary victimisation – I will repeat – at last. But I'm afraid I have something else to say. Some in this Chamber very much like to talk about the protection of victims until the victim also dema

Dear – “A nation should not be judged by how it treats its most privileged citizens, but by how it treats those most vulnerable.” Of course, Nelson Mandela's quote is not randomly chosen. This is not just a nice moral reminder, it is a mirror of Europe and a real test of the anti-poverty strategy presented. Because poverty in Europe today has the face of people who are working, who are struggling

Mrs Kallas, your facial expressions do not go unnoticed when, for example, you are being asked questions about the double standards of the European Union. And this is not meant to be a criticism, because personally, let's say, I prefer this to some forced political correctness. But the problem is that many European citizens feel that Brussels is becoming more tired of questions about Gaza than of

Madam President! If today someone can use a single algorithm to paralyze a hospital, erase confidence in elections, or trigger panic among millions, then cybersecurity is no longer just a technological topic, is it? Who will make the rules in the future: democratic institutions or non-transparent systems without accountability? When one hacker with publicly available artificial intelligence hacked

Mr. President! There is no need to think twice about who is behind the title of this debate on the Commission's alleged interference in democracy. Patriots, of course. Patriots only in the name, but in fact defenders of foreign interests, European not under any other way. We are already accustomed to these perverse games of blaming someone for your actions, but in this debate, this propaganda is p

Madam President, many believe that politics and integrity don't go together. I believe they do – if one dares, of course. Our responses to the Middle East situation are predictable, too slow and, above all, ineffective and selective. So when Merz speaks about Trump in a way that normalises dangerous escalation in Iran, that's not even Realpolitik. It's irresponsible. The EU must not follow the imp

Mr. President! Consent. Basically a very simple concept, colleagues, even if you want to turn it around, there on the right above all. There can be no different interpretations, never and nowhere. This concept follows questions with only one of two possible answers: "Yes" or "No"? That's it. And as a child, you are not always happy when, say, your mother says ‘no’. Ask my five-year-old daughter, I

Madam President! Historically, politics have been a tool of social division, often by race or religion, always following the same logic: We are against them, rich or poor, we are against you. Today, the unimaginably rich in many places dictate state, even world politics. You know, Musk-Trump, for example. The motive is clear: Protecting your own interests and money at your expense. This is why thi

Madam President, colleagues, it's no secret that we are watching a dangerous contagion spread across Europe – from Orbán in Hungary to Janša in Slovenia, from the shadows of PiS in Poland to Fico in Slovakia. Fico's style is not just authoritarian, it is deeply paranoid. As we see elsewhere, illiberal politics turns opponents into traitors and critics into enemies. This paranoia has a purpose: if

Madam President! Rations, gunshots, murders, fear, division into ours and the problem. With a promise: We will restore order, dear ones, the problem will be removed. So, first you define a group of people as a problem, and then an apparatus that proves this problem every day, even when it is not. It's not security, it's control, it's power. This is a method that does not solve problems because it