Rada Laykova
Country
Bulgaria
Group
ESN

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35
Since July 1, 2024
Time at the Floor
0.9 h
53 min
Average speech length
1:35
Rank: 143 / 696

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35 Speeches

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Strengthen global AI governance (debate)

Madam President, today we are debating global AI governance. Last week in Tianjin in China, I saw the world's first smart zero-carbon container terminal, which is fully automated. AI is no longer a debate in China, but it is actual real-life infrastructure. And where is the European Union at the same time? Where is Washington? Washington exports the full stack of chips, clouds and models and Beiji

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Presentation of the Court of Auditors' annual report 2025 (debate)

Mr President, the European Court of Auditors is one of the few institutions in the European Union that still do their job honestly. And that is exactly why it is absolutely scandalous that this Parliament is blocking any attempt by the European Court of Auditors to check the billions that are being sent to Ukraine. Cartel parties blocked the audit without explanation. But let's be clear. The audit

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Empowering Europeans to address the cost-of-living crisis (debate)

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Mr President, I would like to draw this House's attention to the case of Iva Mihaylova. She is a European citizen who is currently a political prisoner and hostage in the Republic of North Macedonia. Doctors say she needs treatment, and the court says no over and over again. The risk is permanent disability, and the only witness in her defense today is accused of perjury. Colleagues, this is not j

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Hybrid attacks against the EU Member States (joint debate)

Mr President, every now and then some dubious drone makes an appearance, or a drone is conveniently found somewhere. We had that in Bulgaria, while Ursula von der Leyen was circling around, and now in Leipzig. Likewise, the so-called hybrid attacks with the drifting balloons in Belarus. No one can coherently explain what a so-called hybrid attack even means. It is just one of those EU-approved wor

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Presentation of the Action Plan on Cybersecurity and AI (debate)

Mr President, dear colleagues, the Commission presented its action plan on cybersecurity and AI. It promises to make Europe a global leader in artificial intelligence. But leadership is not declared in a PR strategy; it is demonstrated when the technologies that matter are developed. And recently, the American company Anthropic presented Mythos, an AI model capable of identifying complex chains of

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Financial activities of the European Investment Bank Group – annual report 2025 (debate)

Madam President, yes, the European Investment Bank has funded some sensible projects, but that is history. Today it is mutating into a state capitalist lender, a state bank, which is modelled – whether this House will admit it or not – on the Union's secret role model: China. But even Beijing invests in things that work, and the EIB does the opposite. It blindly follows the goals-driven agenda of

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An EU future for the Western Balkans (joint debate)

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Achieving digital sovereignty and resilience for Europe, in light of recent developments affecting access to advanced AI technologies (debate)

First, I want to remind you that Europe and the European nations do not come down to the EU. And if this EU model comes to an end, then Europe will not cease to exist. We talk about sovereignty, and we talk about sovereignty in digital infrastructure, and our solution is more power to the nation state, as you know, because this is the only way that decisions can be made and implemented. The only w

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Achieving digital sovereignty and resilience for Europe, in light of recent developments affecting access to advanced AI technologies (debate)

Mr President, three races are under way: money, intelligence and biology. The European Union has entered none of them as a builder. The European Union passed the world's first comprehensive AI act and called it 'leadership'. And the result is that American companies are building EU-only product tiers, which are slower, weaker and sometimes even absent from our market. While the EU is writing the r

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Financial literacy and the rise of finfluencers in the context of the savings and investments union (debate)

Madam President, the EU has zero credibility to lecture anyone on financial literacy, and even less so on competitiveness, because it is one of the worst investors on the planet, wasting money, missing opportunities and surviving only because European taxpayers pay for its failures. And yet you dare to lecture them because your policies are actually destroying wealth with deindustrialisation, stat

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European Semester for economic policy coordination 2026 - European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2026 (joint debate)

Madam President, this report contains the truth about the current economic and fiscal situation of the European Union. The truth is that we have ridiculously low, almost nonexistent economic growth, rising debt, persistent violations of the Maastricht criteria, and manipulated budget data. The problem is that such reports are completely meaningless, because when it comes to legislation, the Europe

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Single Market: how to move from an incomplete single market to one market for one Europe (debate)

Madam President, one people, one market, one European Union. The very title of this discussion is the dream of every globalist. A single market for Europe under one Commission. But we can no longer listen to this endless propaganda, because for 30 years we have been promised grandiose goals. This, of course, requires more obedience from the states and more money. But these goals always fail, becau

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European Central Bank – annual report 2025 (debate)

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Presentation of the European Affordable Housing Plan (debate)

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Presentation of the Court of Auditors' annual report 2024 (debate)

Mr President, the European Court of Auditors' 2024 report reveals deep and recurrent abuses in European financial programmes. I must stress here that this is, in fact, one of the few still reliable institutions of the European Union. What does her report show? It shows systematic problems, failed competitiveness strategies, including in artificial intelligence, opaque, ineffective, inadequate eval

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Stepping up funding for Ukraine’s reconstruction and defence: the use of Russian frozen assets (debate)

Madam President, today's discussion has shown nothing less than a huge fraud against European taxpayers. Under the guise of mobilising Russian assets, a scheme is proposed in which bonds worth 140 billion euros are issued and funds are sent to Ukraine. But there is one basic fact: You can't secure debt with assets you don't own. And even experts admitted that the ownership of these assets will not

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Time to complete a fully integrated Single Market: Europe’s key to growth and future prosperity (debate)

Madam President, the Free Market, it was created to help trade, but now Brussels is using it to force Bulgaria to adopt the euro. With your economic policy, you have brought France to bankruptcy, Germany to recession, and Italy to stagnation. You have never been able to understand that Europe is not a single country, but a continent made up of sovereign nations with different financial and economi

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Taxation of large digital platforms in the light of international developments (debate)

Mr President, today we are discussing the taxation of large digital platforms. But actually, no one in this Chamber addressed the elephant in the room: why does the EU so desperately need new fiscal resources? The answer is very simple: the common NextGenerationEU debt. Yes, this is in fact forbidden by the Treaties, and Brussels assumed that low interest rates would go on forever, which was wrong

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Bulgaria's adoption of the euro on 1 January 2026 (A10-0113/2025 - Eva Maydell) (vote)

Mr President, we move to adjourn the vote on the Maydell report until the Advisory Committee has made its ruling based on Rule 206(4). There is an active investigation into a serious conflict of interest because the rapporteur is from the same party that governs Bulgaria, the very government she is expected to evaluate impartially. This report asks one thing: have the convergence criteria been met

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Digital Markets, Digital Euro, Digital Identities: economical stimuli or trends toward dystopia (topical debate)

Mr President, dear colleagues, today we are discussing the very nature of money. The proposal to introduce the digital euro is framed as the inevitable next step in our digital evolution. But we must ask: at what cost does this come? Whether technology becomes a blessing or a curse depends both on those in power and on the rationality of the population. Because any rational citizen recognises the

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Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience Facility (debate)

Madam President, dear colleagues and dear European taxpayers, the Recovery and Resilience Fund is nothing more than a covert budget bailout of some Member States on the basis of massive EU-level debt under the NextGenerationEU programme. This absurd financing model is devoid of any cost analysis and the allocation of the funds is non-transparent and inconsistent. We have complex procedures to obta

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Competition policy – annual report 2024 (debate)

Madam President, I want to raise awareness with the issues I have with this report. First, the EU itself is among the prime reasons for the defects of competitiveness in the EU, and its regulation and energy policy are a complete mess. That's what's intentionally ignored by the Draghi report, in order to demand even more EU for problems which were created by too much EU. Second, the report on the

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Frozen Russian assets (debate)

Mr President, the right to property is a fundamental pillar of Western civilization. Even just discussing confiscation of Russian assets undermines this principle and sends an extremely dangerous signal, and it is your property in the European Union is not protected, we can take it away at any time. We are talking about improving capital markets, while at the same time testing mechanisms for grabb

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Madam President, this House very often talks about European democracy and European values. But let me tell you what European values and European democracy are in my country Bulgaria. For 16 days now, political prisoners have been held in Bulgaria - young people, students with no criminal past, no files and no conviction. Why? Because they have expressed their civic position, their most democratic

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