Recommendation on EU-China political relations (debate)
Global economic and political balances are changing. New power centres are shaping the international system, while Europe's economic weight and competitiveness are declining. In a changing world order, Europe's weight depends on its own strength and capacity to act. Europe can remain a key player if it maintains its economic openness and political space, adapts to a polycentric world and cooperate
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European support to defend the International Criminal Court (debate)
Dear colleague of mine, we are here to represent the European citizens. European citizens, they want peace right now and under the current circumstances, with the conflict that we are having right now. My question, as someone who is representing them, is: are the international system and the court system helping to do the job of diplomacy or not? What I see right now is that the ICC is not helping
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European support to defend the International Criminal Court (debate)
Madam President, dear colleagues, this debate is about opposing the American Administration sanctioning ICC judges. I remember when the previous American Administration, the Biden Administration, imposed sanctions on a minister of the Orbán Government, an EU Member State's democratically elected government. The treatment was the same. It is very painful to be sanctioned by the American Administrat
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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance
Mr President, reading about how Hungarian envoys spoke at the Imperial Diet centuries ago, I noticed two things: Hungarians were deeply respectful and brutally honest. Perhaps the former softened the consequences of the latter. So, with great respect, Europe is in trouble. Peace and security – both inside and in the neighbourhood – are disappearing and the economy is declining. And the European Un
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Escalating student riots in France: arson attacks on schools, assaults against firefighters, police officers and teachers, including in La Ciotat, and the role of far-left parties in inciting violence (debate)
Mr President, I'm a new Member here, and I came from far away. But I am shocked about what the debate was about; this is why I asked for a minute. I think it's obvious, it's out of question, it's unquestionable and it's undeniable what happened in France. Young people with migrant backgrounds – first, second, third generation migrant backgrounds – breaking the law in a violent way. This can be see