What Stephen Nikola spoke about.

Dear Chair, colleagues, today we are discussing the priorities of the European budget. Some argue that the budget should be increased, others that more should be allocated to Ukraine, but ladies and gentlemen, we look at the situation in France, for example. Streets upstairs. The government is powerless, completely powerless to suppress this. The political left even incites further disorder, robbe

Dear Chairman, colleagues, it is good that we finally discuss today in this high home the situation on the islands. Croatian islands are not just tourist destinations, they are the homes of our people, guardians of our tradition and identity. Croatia has more than a thousand islands, but many are facing depopulation, the departure of young people and increasingly difficult living circumstances. Th

Dear Chair, colleagues, the introduction of the digital euro is not a technical issue but a first-rate political question and deserves an answer from this entire Parliament. While here we are discussing numerous reports, one of the most important legislative proposals, the creation of money in digital form, does not come before the entire home for an open discussion. The question is why? I've been

Thank you. Commissioner Kadis, colleagues, we are finally discussing fisheries policy in plenary. It is not an exaggeration to say that the situation is alarming. Europe imports over 70 percent of the fish we consume. In a way, our regulations help competition, we create stronger competition than necessary, and our fishermen continue to cope with a very heavy burden. I have not yet met a fisherman

Dear Chairwoman, thank you for asking my colleagues Sokol. Unfortunately, this is a great hypocrisy in Europe, so today Europe is actually ashamed of its own identity. We have people who raise their voices in the name of human rights. I would even say, sometimes I have the impression that animals enjoy more protection in some people in this Parliament than innocent people. So we have to clear up s

Dear President, colleague and colleague, Christians are the most persecuted religious group in the world. The media ignores this fact, this plenary hall is empty. Today we stand in front of a terrible massacre in the village of Kawel, Nigeria, where militants stormed the village on June 22 and killed dozens of innocent people, priests, women and children. As we condemn this massacre of Christian v

Dear Chair, colleagues, what have we learned from the COVID pandemic? It seems to me very little, unfortunately. What actually happened? A horrible abuse of a situation where, above all, the media spread fear among people. Today we see in the streets especially older than ourselves wearing masks. The day of today. Therefore, we must not allow this to happen again in the name of protecting people.

Dear Chairwoman, colleague and colleague, there has been a lot of talk lately about increasing competitiveness in Europe, but words are not enough. We need to look into reality and look into the eyes. The reality is that Europe is losing the economic race. The greatest talents move to America, and today the poorest state of Mississippi has the same standard as one Germany. So more expensive, we pa

Dear Chairman, colleague, the way of war is certainly changing rapidly and Europe needs to adapt. Here Croatia can be an example in many ways. It is important to emphasize that we have great experience in warfare due to the imposed war from Serbia during the nineties and we learned here on our own skin and use drones, already then. During the Homeland War, despite the embargo and lack of resources

Dear Chairman, colleagues, we are again looking at another large Brussels package, this time digital, beautifully packaged, and inside full of new procedures and hidden cargoes. They present it as simple, but we know very well what it looks like in practice. Any reform that supposedly reduces bureaucracy eventually creates even more bureaucracy. We are talking about better use of data. But we know

By imposing the so-called green agenda, the European Union is destroying its own production and industry and trying to frighten people with the climate disaster narrative. Climate alarmism has taken hold, but common sense will eventually prevail. The European Commission is not able to protect Europe's borders or solve, for example, the migration crisis, and it thinks it can save the planet. It is

One year after the tragedy in Novi Sad, we are having another discussion about the situation in Serbia, but there is no progress, as if we were spinning in a circle. Serbia has made no significant progress in the past year. The government continues to refuse to recognise core values. As far as Croatia is concerned, it still refuses to acknowledge the aggression of the 1990s. Serbian society seems

Thank you for that question. My view, in principle, is that hate speech as a legal concept is almost impossible to define. We also have many examples of abuse of this concept; for example, the former German Minister of Economy Habeck, I believe from The Greens, reported over 700 cases of hate speech. These German citizens are now awaiting trial because of something they said, perhaps critical or i

Thank you for the question. I don't impose any false thesis. I am delighted with every success of Croatian start-upHowever, I cannot support that our government continues to fund the so-called. fact checkers. We need to learn lessons from the past. So, very much is being censored, still, on digital platforms and unfortunately the Government accepts the principle that it will determine to some exte

Dear Chairman, colleague and colleague, the European Union is in trouble. Particularly worrying is the excessive control of social networks, where behind the story of security lies the desire for censorship and manipulation of political processes and even elections. As a sovereign state, Croatia must not be allowed to be imposed externally by rules that restrict freedom of speech, freedom of choic

Dear Chairman, colleague and colleague, when talking about Serbia, we must speak realistically, not about the wishes left in this high house. First of all, it should be said that in Serbia, politicians still nurture old myths and live in a parallel world. It is not only a question of Vucic and the change of power, a deeper catharsis of the entire society is needed, which does not recognize its res

Dear Chairwoman, colleagues, this year we are marking several important anniversaries. A terrible crime has already been mentioned in Srebrenica, but we also have 30 years of the Dayton Accords. I would also mention the 30th anniversary of the military operation Storm in Croatia, which not only liberated Croatia, but also enabled peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina. As far as the European aspirations