What Milan spoke about.

Mr President! Dear! I have been the European Parliament's standing rapporteur for Erasmus+ for almost ten years. This was a golden period of this most effective and visible programme in the European Union. I'm glad we doubled our budget at the time. At the same time, we have made it possible to involve people, not just young people, much more in Erasmus+. In short full, we have eliminated some of

Madam President! Dear Sir/Madam, At the initiative of France, Germany and the United Kingdom, Europe has reintroduced sanctions against Tehran. This reintroduced control of Iran's nuclear programme. For more than 30 years, the Iranian opposition movement has been revealing the regime's secret nuclear activities. These revelations have been instrumental in ensuring that the Iranian regime has so fa

Mr. President! The Media Freedom Act has therefore been implemented. If we look at it impartially, so that we do not just praise or criticize it, we can say that it also brings something positive. I am thinking, in particular, of greater ownership transparency, which is above all a problem in some post-communist countries, where the old former structures have had and still have a decisive influenc

Mr President! Iran is once again proving itself as one of the most brutal dictatorships in the world. The political prisoners Ehsani and Hasani are sentenced to death simply because they dared to demand freedom for the Iranian people. Their only fault is the courage to stand up to a regime that has been intimidating and murdering for decades. Under the leadership of Ali Khamenei, who is now rightl

Mr President! With the fall of al-Assad, there was a positive geostrategic shift in the region. After all, this is the end of repression against the Syrians, the end of the organic link between the Iranian regime and Hezbollah, in a way, the defeat of Russia and Iran in the region, and the plan to destroy Israel is now less likely. So what needs to be done by the European Union? First of all, it i

Dear President! It's been a year since the war in the Middle East when Hamas launched an attack on Israel. Today's war with Hezbollah in Lebanon is just one of the consequences of this attack. But remember, in the last year, 13,200 rockets from Gaza, 12,400 from Lebanon, 4,000 from Iran – more than half of them ballistic, 180 from Yemen, 60 from Syria – have flown into Israel. Some say Israel is a

Mr. President! Iran poses a double threat: First of all, internally, because they systematically kill and violate human rights. Mr Borrell, you have never clearly stood up for the Iranian opposition, led by Maryam Rajavi, and its 10-point programme. The second danger is external: Iran has the capacity, even militarily – it has an excellent military industry – to threaten the Member States of the E

Mr President. I never imagined that, at the end of my third term of office, I would have to cover the functioning of the European institutions. Express concern about, for example, excessive interference by the European Commission in the actions, in the policies of the Member States. As an example, I would like to mention Mrs Vera Jourová, who intervened in the Slovenian legislative process at the

Dear Mr President-in-Office! It is right for the European Union to stand up for respect for human rights and for the strengthening of democracy throughout the world. We see that democracy is in recession, including the protection of human rights. There are no more new waves of democracy spreading around the world, and it makes sense that this is also an integral part of the European Union's foreig

Dear Madam President-in-Office! I would also like to join my colleagues in asking where Mr Borrell, the High Representative for European Security and Foreign Policy, is today. I have already mentioned and condemned the Hamas attack on the Israeli state on several occasions, and I repeat this today. I think we should also emphasise Israel's right to self-defence. But there is another problem here,

Mr. President! I'm sorry that Hungary is back on the wallpaper today. She has often been a victim of double standards. This is not good for the future of the European Union. The deprivation of voting rights seems to me to be a disproportionate, strong, strong penalty for each Member State. Yesterday, I must admit, I was very sad in this House. In this fierce hostility towards Hungary, almost 80 pe

Mr. President! I consider the report to be a good one, because it is critical, above all, of the European Commission, which too often refuses to publish documents or only partially grants disclosure, as I did at first when I asked Commissioner Jourová for internal documents from her controversial visit to Slovenia. For four months now, the Vice-President of the European Commission, who is supposed

Mr. President! I myself have strong concerns about today's debate on the alleged deterioration of the state of democracy in Israel. It seems to me that we are once again playing the role of a kind of supreme arbiter in this assembly, which will not improve our reputation in international relations. I think Israel is on the wallpaper of this house for the third time in a few months. This young coun

Madam President. Let me start by taking a look at today's topic. It would be better to deal with both left and right extremism together, that is, to deal with it. In this way, it would be easier to achieve a certain consensus of the democratic arc on the unacceptability of both dangers. Research shows that left-wing extremism is more present in our space, so first of all, a little more about it wi

Mr. President! First of all, I would like to congratulate my colleague McAllister on his excellent work report. The report shows that the EU's rather united response to Russia's aggression against Ukraine is proof that we have learned from past mistakes and that our foreign policy position is improving. We are also slowly improving our approach to Iran. By the way, I would like to commend the Pres

Dear Madam President-in-Office, Commissioner, dear colleagues! There are 74 million young people aged 14-29 in Europe. That's relatively large. It is worth trying for them, but on the other hand, in a situation where we are talking about an elderly society in Europe, too little. Too little. But research shows that young people want to be more proactive in society, want to be more involved. They dr

Thank you very much, Mr President-in-Office! So, after the brutal murder of Mrs. Amini, the Iranian people woke up again. Not the first time, most recently in 2019. But this time, women are at the forefront, and the protests promise change. But even then, years ago, and even today, the Iranian regime uses all possible means, violence, to prevent the rebels from achieving democracy and freedom. But

Mr President-in-Office. My colleagues have already given us all the necessary figures on the subject we are dealing with. I would just like to point out that the Member States have a great role to play here, as do some European programmes, including Erasmus, which will also have to restructure certain items. What is at stake is that Erasmus can do a lot to help not only those refugees who come to

Mr President, honourable Commissioner, dear colleagues. Sometimes we say: ‘The world stands on young people’, and then young people replied once: “What should we stand on?” Well, this basis can be given to them by us, a little less young or older, and those who have the opportunity to decide on youth policies. And today we are making decisions and providing young people with the financial basis fo

Mr. President! The European Commission has concluded that Slovenia has no problems with the rule of law, as the institutions are functioning. However, then the left-wing political pole of this House could not agree with this position, especially the Slovenian colleagues, and this working group was created within the framework of LIBE, which visited Slovenia and, of course, prepared a report on whi

Dear Madam President-in-Office, Commissioner. First of all, I would like to thank the co-rapporteurs Janusz Lewandowski and György Hölvény and all the shadow rapporteurs for their good and constructive cooperation in preparing the report on the implementation of the European Union Trust Funds and the Facility for Refugees in Turkey. Politically and operationally, trust funds have brought a new qua

Mr President, honourable Mr President-in-Office, honourable Commissioner, dear colleagues! For 27 years, Aliaksandr Lukashenka has been terrorizing, implementing his dictatorship with the clear support of the Kremlin, which means that Moscow also bears its share of responsibility. He is a dictator who terrorises not only his citizens, imprisons them, we have over 700 political prisoners, some are

Dear Madam President-in-Office, honourable representative of the Commission, Mr Šefčovič, honourable President Janša. First of all, thank you to President Janša for presenting the Presidency's programme. I think it's fairly balanced. On the one hand, there are some important, powerful points that touch on the issue of security, especially cyber security, and on the other, there are the policies an