What Nicolae spoke about.

Madam President, Madam President of the Commission, Mr President of the European Council, dear colleagues, 'you never know how strong you are until being strong is really your only choice'. It's not some great philosopher, it's just Bob Marley who said that. But it applies to Europe, because we are really living through the hardest times that I've witnessed in my life. I think we really need to st

I take note that you didn't speak for one moment about les lycéens, the kids who protest for their rights for education. Not for one moment did you say anything about their plight. Not one moment. You just avoided the subject completely.

You know, colleague, I am also from Eastern Europe, and I heard you speak with such hate towards demonstrators that it made me think of Jaruzelski, when he was speaking against people from Solidarność going on the street because they couldn't anymore. These people on the street, they might be your sons, they might be young people who go there because they have a reason. They've been going for 17 d

Mr President, Commissioner, I was in Madrid and it was horrible as a human being to see this 87-year-old woman dragged out of her house. Thousands of people came out – out of solidarity – and thousands of people cannot afford the housing they need, which is a human, European right. It should be a human right. My problem with the housing plan is that the Commission does not define affordability. An

I'm sorry – I know you have elections in November and I know you take your national fight here. But I will tell you that I did this. (Mr Ștefănuță rattled a set of keys) I was there with the people of Spain and I saw their suffering. And I feel the same in Romania, in Croatia, in Italy – the pain is the same everywhere. You cannot fight it with only your market measures, because we need social hou

I listened to you. And I was there in Madrid just two weeks ago, when Maricarmen was thrown out of her apartment – a woman of 87 who lived in the same apartment for 70 years. It is nice that you are now on the side of the people, but maybe you can convince your colleague who spoke against this position that you had. Ms Tovaglieri said: 'no, get more jobs, try not to be poor, try to get an apartmen

So your answer to young people is: stop being poor. That's it. Just stop being poor, right? As if it's easy to stop being poor. Just get 15 jobs at the same time, right? Do you know how many applications young people send to have one job? I will tell you: 400. Because they write to me every single day that they send 400 applications to have one interview for a job. You don't know the reality. You

But if not, I will just tell you one thing. I know what the Soviet Union looked like, and it's not like you described it. I know, because now young people in Romania cannot find a house. Young people stay with their parents until they are 35 before they move out of their house. Young people cannot afford a house. They need a million salaries to even put the money down. It's different than the real

Madam Commissioner, Executive Vice-President, thank you for your patience.

Thank you. We will report this further.

We continue the debate. Please be reminded that this is a serious debate, and we shouldn't go down to differences between Members as regards hairstyle.

The session of the European Parliament shall be suspended. The session is closed.

The next part-session will take place from 5 to 8 October 2026 in Strasbourg. I want to thank all the Parliament staff, interpreters, ushers, workers, assistants, officials, parliamentarians, down to everyone making this Parliament work. And really, thank you for your work.

The minutes of this meeting will be submitted to Parliament for approval at the beginning of its next sitting. If there are no objections, I will forward the resolutions adopted at today's meeting to the persons and bodies referred to in the resolutions.

That concludes the explanations of vote.

We now move to the explanations of vote on the recent hybrid attacks and instrumentalisation of migrants in Ceuta and the need for a coordinated response to protect the EU’s external borders.

We now move to the explanations of vote on 'Narco-trafficking in Europe’s waters: protecting our borders and supporting our law enforcement officers'.