What Şerban Dimitrie spoke about.

Dear Mrs. Șoșoacă, thank you. There are many questions in one. The drug problem in Romania is a serious problem. We have found, through long and wide Romania, that this problem exists, it is serious, in high schools in Romania, even in a city like Deva, in the center of Transylvania. The drug problem is completely out of control. The grain problem in Ukraine, indeed, is a matter of standards. We h

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, do you really think we can still do this? Can we still watch as we suffocate in bureaucracy and taxes, and others outside Europe gain from strangling our entrepreneurs? Can we still bear the huge energy prices, produce cheaply and buy expensively? Can we still endure so many security threats, drones and crises over crises and no solution for our peace of mind? D

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the war of this era does not necessarily begin with tanks. It can start with a drone entering airspace, a cyber-attack on an energy network, or jamming communications. Our leaders need to understand that the time for political strife is over. Now we have to do something that matters more: to keep our citizens safe. We need to focus on defending energy infrast

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Romania has the longest land and sea border with Ukraine. The direct consequence of this border is 46 unauthorized intrusions into the Romanian airspace, from the beginning of the war until today. Because we need to talk more about the anti-drone defence of the eastern flank, we need to recognize the effort made by the states on the eastern flank and work tog

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, in just a few hours entire communities in Nepal have been devastated. More than 1,400 people have lost their lives and more than 5,000 are still missing. Thousands of families lost their loved ones, their homes and sometimes everything they had built. As chairman of Parliament's delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia, I asked for this debat

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Serbia's accession to the European Union must mean real reforms, the rule of law and full respect for national minorities. Serbia needs to take the rights of Romanians on its territory seriously, without attributing artificial identities such as Vlachs. Romanians are Romanians, wherever they are. At the same time, we must see good neighbourly relat

Mr President, colleagues, I am glad that the Republic of Moldova has opened the first negotiating chapter for accession to the European Union. From now on, our duty is not to turn this European road into an endless waiting room. The Republic of Moldova needs to be properly assessed. It is natural for Romania to support the Republic of Moldova in its accession to the European Union. Supporting Roma

Mr. President, dear colleagues, do not imagine that Romanians are still a cheap workforce. Romanians are hardworking, hardworking and good professionals in many fields. But it's time to move on to lower labour taxes, because today they are the highest in the European Union. Basically, a country that is still catching up regionally with Western Europe is taxing work the most. And please do a simple

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, there are no ideal societies. We have our problems in Europe, but fortunately communism and totalitarianism are not among them. I say this because if we look at Cuba in 2026, the reality is brutal: suppression of peaceful protests, arbitrary arrests and torture in prisons. This is the policy of the communist regime in power. The entire population of Cuba is s

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Romania has the highest energy price for household consumers in the European Union. Today we pay 58.6% higher bills than last year, even if Romania produces energy. We have nuclear, rivers, wind, sun. How did we get here? Other states have understood that it is not necessarily the one who produces more that wins, but the one who produces when he must and stores

Mr President, colleagues, we need to speak more clearly about the money of European taxpayers, including Romanians, who have the right to know that every euro spent in Brussels serves a real purpose. As ECR shadow rapporteur, I will not vote in favour of the Commission’s management of the 2024 budget. First, the report highlights serious failures in the RRPs. By the end of 2024, only half of the f

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I am concerned. Europe has borrowed massively in recent years, with €700 billion in less than five years. Although I understand why, we have to ask ourselves honestly: where does the emergency end and addiction begin? And what hurts me the most is that Romania, my country, borrows from foreign markets and pays 3% of GDP only for interest, not for development.

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, on an increasingly unpredictable international stage, we need, more than ever, to defend our security interests. The European Union can no longer stand at the door of the great powers, but must become a strong leader on behalf of all its Member States when the situation demands it. Unity makes strength - and more of us are stronger, unquestionably.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I sincerely ask myself: Where was the European Commission when, for years, Romanians did not benefit from European funds, as is their right? Is it not the duty of the European institutions to watch over how governments respect their commitments? At the moment, we have an absorption rate of only 18% of cohesion funds, and we can say that the NRRP was a historic m

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, geopolitical circumstances require us to adapt rapidly to the changing dynamics of international relations. These days, in Davos, the economy also draws the lines of security and the subject everyone is talking about is the security of our continent. The reality is as follows: competitiveness has taken the place of foreign policy. Europe's competitiveness must b

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the freezing of relations between Brussels and Tbilisi is deeply regrettable, not only for Georgia, but also for the entire European Union. We have a clear strategic interest in being present and relevant in the South Caucasus, a region essential for the security of our continent, for the stability of the Eastern neighbourhood, but also for the energy and econom

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I am sending a clear message today from the plenary of the European Parliament: The Russians want justice. Any honest Romanian wants to know that if he is wronged, he can go to court to get justice, not to be humiliated. Any honest Romanian wants to live in a country where the powers of the state are separated, without hidden interventions and without favoritism

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, it is European solidarity that unites us and makes us stronger. The tragedy in Spain that we are commemorating today reminds us of one simple thing: The European Union must be prepared not only to react, but to react in time. It is a good thing that we have European mechanisms and funds dedicated to emergency management. However, it is regrettable that Europe

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, a state that sincerely aspires to European integration cannot limit the freedom of its citizens to peacefully exercise the fundamental rights that define a true democracy. And that includes respecting the rights of national minorities on its territory. The situation of ethnic Romanians in the Timoc Valley can no longer be ignored. Besides the fa

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in 2024, Romania had the highest number of citizens suffering from serious deprivation in the whole of the European Union, that is 17%, three times more than the European average. Today, one in three children in Romania live in poverty. Economic progress requires to go hand in hand with social justice, but it remains for many Romanians only a dream. We see how t

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, in a reality that is struggling between the specter of war and the depths of the economic crisis, Romanian steel is in a critical state. Under the burden of record energy prices and unfair competition from outside the European Union, we ended up exporting scrap and importing finished steel. While other European countries have adopted clear strategies to suppo