What Marko spoke about.

The Honourable Chairman, 8 billion and 300 million euros of European money have been invested in Croatian agriculture, and our production is still falling. Except we have less production, we import more. Unfortunately, investment is also falling because only 2.7% of agricultural holdings in Croatia benefit from investment support. Large agricultural players take most of the cake, while those small

Dear Chair, dear colleagues, cities are not just places where we live. They are drivers of development, innovation and just transition, but also the first line of response to the housing crisis, transport problems and social inequalities. Cohesion policy is crucial for all of them. For Croatia, where urban development problems are big and serious, this is especially important. These are investment

Dear President, Prime Minister, what is Europe today? Fires, droughts, wars, insecurity. And where are the institutions that should be there for people? Too often they fail, and that is why people trust them less and less. It is also a message to all of us. Firefighters, farmers, students, women seeking safety, bigger cities, smaller cities, rural communities, we all say the same, we can't. That i

Dear President, how can we irrevocably lose trust in our institutions? An example in two cases. Croatia has been hit by natural disasters as well as the whole of Europe. This year, there were fires across the Dalmatian coast. It was especially tragic in Omis where three people lost their lives. The property was damaged and thanks to the brave firefighters and pilots of the Canadians who prevented

Dear Chairman, if we want genuine strategic autonomy for the European Union, we need to start from what is the foundation of every economy, our natural resources and the ability to use them sustainably. This is why bioeconomy is not only a development opportunity, but a strategic necessity. It allows Europe to become less dependent on imports, strengthens our production and at the same time respon

The co-financing of projects in the European Union is increasingly becoming an obstacle to development, especially at local levels. Smaller local units with a weak fiscal capacity find it increasingly difficult to secure funding, i.e. their own share to co-finance these projects, and even for those projects that are essential for citizens. At the same time, we have uneven criteria, we have politic

Dear Chairman, false lands and pastures, political land allocation, phantom farmers, non-existent tulips, corruption, crime, manipulation. Unfortunately, all of this is part of the European Common Agricultural Policy, one of the pillars of the European Union. Billions of euros were lost due to abuses with agricultural aid, which were supposed to be the cornerstone of European food security and the

Dear Chair, Dear colleagues, it is time for the European Union to truly adopt a definition of rape based on clear consent. As we face an alarming rise in violence in all spheres, the digital dimension has taken on a monstrous level. Recently, so-called rape academies and online platforms have been revealed to us, where a community that exploits unconscious victims is developing freely. These platf

Dear Chair, Commissioner, colleagues. In Europe, real estate accounts for 57% of household net wealth and is the main way of saving for the rich. As many as 25% of property owners in the Union have more properties, while around 30% of Europeans think they will never be able to afford their own roof over their head. In my country, Croatia, the research I conducted showed that the situation is even

The European beekeeping sector faces major challenges and the sustainability of domestic production is questionable. In 2024, we imported as much as 175,000 tonnes of honey. In fact, this makes European beekeepers dependent on cheap global competition and constantly pushes prices. In the country I come from, Croatia, we have about 9,000 beekeepers and more than 440,000 beehives, which speaks enoug

Colleague Glavak, I don't think you're right. It is true that Croatia is somewhere on average, therefore, of the European Union when we talk about the gender pay gap, and you know well what pensions are in the Republic of Croatia and you know well how much less women receive pensions. We have one of the worst indicators regarding the purchasing power of our pensioners. It's really sad that you eve

In 2026, women earn on average 13% less than men in Croatia. For pensions, this gap is even larger, at more than 23%. So, women receive less for the same internship, for the same work. This is not new, this is not accidental and this is not insoluble. This is, in a way, the failure of a system that encourages gender stereotypes and often blocks women's progress. It is the responsibility of the ins

Today, the situation in European agriculture is so alarming that we are once again witnessing the protests of European farmers. If we look at things nationally, they're even worse. In Croatia, we are faced with a decline in agricultural production of as much as EUR 50 million. Our livestock numbers have halved, the sector is facing natural disasters, with diseases that literally destroy everything

Today, the Honourable Chair, the Honourable Colleagues, Commissioner, we are discussing changes to the Common Agricultural Policy framework to make the European agriculture system simpler, fairer, more resilient to the crises that affect our people in the countryside the most. Our farmers, especially small family farms, young people and those in mountain areas ask us for solidarity against the bur

Dear Chairman, thank you. I listened carefully to the whole discussion and I really thank everyone for their support, for the comments. Some discussions I would not comment at all because I think they have said everything through their discussions, and even by choosing words, absolutely inappropriate to such an institution. I will only say that we must not look at equality through one narrow lens,