What Gordan spoke about.

Thank you and you are fully right. I mean, the scenes with the lady Maricarmen are really heartbreaking, and it really is showing us how our senior citizens are especially under the attack and are suffering the housing crisis. So yes, when we are developing such legislation, let's also see what can we do more for our senior citizens not to be evicted out of their houses, but also not to be cheated

Mr President, Commissioner, the new Eurostat data show that only in three Member States, we see the trend of annual decrease in house prices. Rent prices are still rising like crazy: Romania 41 %, Croatia 22 %. So the crisis is still hitting hard. In that context, we welcome the Affordable Housing Act, which will target only one segment of the housing crisis: uncontrolled short-term rental policie

Madam President, colleagues, this point of order is according to Rule 40. Since 2021, 37 000 tonnes of PFAS-containing hazardous waste was illegally imported from Slovenia, Italy and Germany and disposed of in Croatia, in the city of Gospić – the birthplace of Nikola Tesla, the genius inventor of modern electricity. Gospić and the County of Lika are one of the most beautiful natural preserved part

Mr President, this is my first MEP mandate, and I'm actually happy that I took this file, although there hasn't been a lot of competitiveness around this file because many people didn't believe that we will come to this end. But I'm really happy that after 10 long years we have found a compromise and we have tomorrow – I hope – the good vote. So if capital can float so freely across the European U

Dear Chair, colleagues, many of you have already spoken about the serious obstacles facing our Single Market. And we know that we will not make a move until there will be good will from Member States to go in that direction, but today I would like to talk about what we can already do now, how to fight inflation that really kills individual citizens in individual Member States. We see two key culpr

Dear Chairman, Commissioner, I must share with you that the debate on this budget has often sounded to me as if we were discussing a national budget, not a European one. And colleagues are confusing the notions of whether this is a national or a European budget, which is not surprising to me because the proposal that came from your side went a lot in the direction of nationalization of the budget.

Madam President, dear colleagues, this was really a pleasure to listen to this debate because I hear a lot of echoing from you supporting what the citizens and activists are also requiring: to ban the conversion practices in the European Union, and I am convinced we will do it. But we should do more. In my gay life, I haven't met any LGBTQI person who became straight, but also in my gay life, I me

Dear Chairman, I will continue with the previous speaker because I want to talk about bilateral blocking of negotiations and instead, to discuss the veto, yes or no, to try to see what we can do with policies of relaxation and common sense. I remember Slovenia blocking Croatia. We ended up in an arbitral tribunal because we couldn't agree on a boundary line. And today Commissioner Kos thinks the l

Madam President, millions of our fellow citizens are looking at this House with the expectation to deliver a solution on the devastating housing crisis. Today, a strange divided majority will deliver the report, which unfortunately will not provide solutions. On the contrary, it may even deepen the crisis. The housing crisis is not a natural disaster. It is the result of political choices, decades

Dear colleague, you have mentioned how it's really important also to solve the crisis on the local level in the cities. And you come from Italy, with beautiful Milan and Rome, etc. But where to build more in Milan? Where to build more in Rome? Can you explain it to us? Is there still some space to give it and to build the new stock? Can you explain a little bit about that?

Madam President, dear colleague, you mentioned how you warmly support this report and you also said that there is really great need to build a new stock to solve this crisis. But at the same time you are coming from the Netherlands and I am reading the data that there are 200 000 empty flats in the Netherlands, 21 000 in Amsterdam alone, and this in this report there is nothing about that. So what

Dear Chairman, the memory of Croatia is most often associated with our blue sea and beautiful beaches. You may have been lucky enough to try Pag cheese or Istrian Malvasia, and what kulen is, probably few of you know. Few of you probably know that Croatia has the poorest pensioners in the European Union. That these benefits, which I have mentioned, can only be dreamed of by many, as the EUR 5 600

Madam President, remember, Trump did not pick Minneapolis accidentally. Ranked the happiest city in the US with affordable housing, a high minimum wage and valuable scholarships, unleashing agents with near-total immunity to abduct and kill had one goal: to divide this community. Simply, when divided, it's easier for Trump to loot the economy, cut financing for schools and hospitals while enrichin

Madam President, Commissioner, Madam Minister, I will not call it historic, but an unusually important European Council meeting is taking place tomorrow. For the first time ever, the Member States will discuss affordable and, I also hope, social housing. And this is good news. We have seen what the leaders will put focus on tomorrow, first discussing and then calling on the Commission to present t

Dear President, Dear Commissioner, on the eve of the anniversary of the tragedy of Novi Sad, I would like once again to express my condolences to the families of the victims, who to this day have no answers to the causes of the tragedy and no adequate compensation. Justice must reach them as soon as possible. This tragedy has put Serbia on its feet. The protests mobilized an incredible amount of y

Since the beginning of this term of office, we are today discussing for the first time the situation of older people in the Union, people who have worked and built our European Union every day throughout their lives. Without their contribution, the Union would not be such an attractive place to live today. And what do we offer them in return? Almost nothing or too little. We hide behind the phrase

Dear Chair, it is close to a year since that historic press conference of Commission President von der Leyen with Vucic when she said that he is a great fighter for the rule of law. Now, it's been 11 months and things have changed drastically, by 180 degrees. They have changed thanks to the citizens of Serbia who took to the street and thank them once again for changing the atmosphere in this parl

I'm interested in how you talk about political blackmail in cohesion funds from your majority perspective in Hungary, where you have completely politically marginalized any opposition politicians? For example, how many European funds have you allowed to go to the city of Budapest? You don't let that money go just because someone from another party is at the head of that city. And then I don't unde

Dear Chair, Commissioner Fitto, I am very pleased that through this first report to be adopted by Parliament on housing, we have clearly identified the problems of the housing crisis. First, speculative investment and leaving housing policy to private capital. He can't do it like that anymore. The second is the lack of investment in affordable and social housing, the mobilisation of empty dwelling