What Loránt spoke about.

Energy prices have risen significantly in recent weeks and there are few European households where this has not been felt. Many consumers are in a vulnerable situation. Families in need are in the most critical situation, but there is no sector that is not affected by price increases. The increase in energy prices implies an increase in consumer prices, including food prices. Member States do not

Madam President, Commissioner Brunner, dear colleagues, I believe that for too long we have been too naive. We assume that when we speak about diversity, tolerance and fundamental rights, everybody understands these concepts in the same way. Unfortunately, this is not always the reality. When we speak about a European strategy to counter Islamist entryism, we are not speaking about targeting a rel

Madam President, colleagues, there has been no parliamentary debate on this resolution, yet it has already stirred some media controversy, so let us be clear about what this proposal does. It calls on the Commission to present a legislative regulation that addresses the financial shortcomings and ensures predictability for the European political foundations. The proposals we have put forward will

Mr. President, please. It was interesting to listen to the debate and see that the question of unanimity versus qualified majority dominated most of the speeches. Unanimity is not just about sovereignty. This is our primary tool to enforce compromise and cooperation between Member States. Eliminating monotony in sensitive areas will not magically increase our global weight. Instead, it results in

Mr. President, please. The European People's Party is committed to unconditional respect for human dignity. It is unacceptable for anyone in Europe to be disadvantaged in accessing services, healthcare or education just because they are older or because they have faith. The loopholes must be filled. For the People's Party, equality of rights is not only a principle, but also a practical requiremen

Madam President, Commissioner, dear colleagues, behind every irregular arrival, there is a transactional lie. Families sell their last possessions because a criminal network promised them a VIP ticket to Europe. Instead, they are packed into the back of a suffocating truck or forced into a leaking boat. The business of these networks is not just illegal migration; it is the trade of human hope for

Mr President, Commissioner, dear colleagues, as someone coming from central and eastern Europe, I can say with conviction that enlargement is not only a policy, but a promise fulfilled. EU integration transformed my country. It brought prosperity, democracy and, yes, a lot of common challenges to face. Today, we must ensure that the next wave of enlargement brings the same success, for both the ca

(in writing) The new rules for European parties and foundations are long overdue. I am grateful to my co-rapporteur, Charles Goerens, to the shadow rapporteurs, to the Polish Presidency, and to the Commission for their readiness to unblock this seemingly complicated file. Let me highlight a few key elements of the regulation. It provides European parties and foundations with clear rules on governa

Madam President, Commissioner, equality is at the heart of the European project. Yet 50 million citizens, from traditional minorities in different regions of Europe, remain ignored by the Commission. You have been mandated to defend all minorities, but when it comes to historical communities rooted for centuries in Europe, you are no longer heard. Yet these communities represent almost 90% of our

Mr President, Madam Commissioner, a number of policies supporting the Roma population were designed and paid for over the past 15 years, but their effective implementation and persisting commitment at all levels has been painfully slow and inefficient. Hundreds of thousands of Roma citizens still live in houses without electricity or running water. Tens of thousands of children do not attend kinde

Madam President, Madam Commissioner, dear colleagues, the European Parliament is under attack. We face external enemies who would like to see a weakened parliament. But there are also internal interests that oppose a strong, influential and increasingly relevant parliament. The EPP Group fully supports the ongoing judicial investigations and upholds the presumption of innocence for all individuals

Well, I believe that for the EU it is important to find the right way for coordination, institutional and financial support, for cross-border law enforcement. Yes, education is important, but it's equally important the environment in which those children live. We know, unfortunately, in many western European societies, parallel societies, parallel neighbourhoods grew up. That made it impossible fo

Madam President, Commissioner, reality cannot be ignored anymore. From France, all the way up to Sweden, there are more and more terrorist street shootings linked to drug and human trafficking and gang-related assassinations. More and more innocent victims and ruined lives. These are criminal acts, predominantly involving individuals and groups with a migration background. How did we get there? We

Oh, Mr. President. I welcome the Commission's action against online platforms. We need to look at what happens during the election. Romania is the first country where it turned out that TikTok clearly influenced the result of the presidential election by strengthening partisan positions and foreign interference. However, TikTok and foreign interference cannot be held solely responsible for the sit

Dear Madam President, It is good to see, it is good to hear, that common sense is beginning to return to the European Parliament, because five years ago, who proposed measures that wanted to stop illegal migration, immediately gave it the adjective of extremism. In the end, we managed to break the taboos, or more precisely, the voters broke the taboos, when in June they said that this is an import

Madam President, dear colleagues, since its inception, the European project was built on dialogue and measured decisions. Today, we mostly witnessed a forceful political exchange but no dialogue and not about the Hungarian Presidency's priorities – maybe next time. The core of the presidency programme is competitiveness. Presented in July, it anticipated key elements of President von der Leyen's p

Oh, Mr. President. After more and more terrorist acts in Western Europe, political leaders are falling into fatalism, as if such horrific events could not be prevented. As if it is not our right to decide who can enter our countries and how we can live in safety. In 2023, almost 400 000 illegal entries were recorded at the EU borders. This number can be reduced by one means: stricter protection of

Madam President, the agreement on the directive on asset recovery and confiscation had very broad support in the Parliament in all the phases of negotiations. Allow me to highlight some elements of this new tool in fighting organised and cross-border crime. The new confiscation framework of assets deriving from criminal activity targets the core motivation of organised crime: financial gain. Their

I wish you a good day. Doamnă președintă, domnule președinte, fiecare cetățean român înțelege această urare în limba maghiară. Nu pentru că majoritatea a început să învețe limba minorității, ci pentru că în 2020 ați folosit limba maghiară ca instrument politic împotriva adversarilor dumneavoastră. Iar de când sunteți președinte nu ați răspuns deloc la propunerea venită din partea comunității maghi

Mr President, dear colleagues, this proposal not only revisits last year’s resolution calling for the revision of the Treaties that already included some specific areas to be amended, but is in fact a profound EU reform. While each of us can find in it an element that resonates with the priorities of our voters, looking at the text and its annexes, it would change the entire EU architecture. One s

Madam President, dear Commissioner, dear colleagues, congratulations to the organisers of the Fur Free Europe successful European Citizens’ Initiative. As standing rapporteur for the ECIs in Parliament, I am glad that another initiative made it to the plenary: the tenth in 10 years. More than 1.5 million Europeans signed your proposal. It is a remarkable number, which means not only a huge respons

Dear Mr President, Thank you, Commissioner, Mr Secretary of State. Dear Members, I live in a safe part of Europe. In Romania, people of Jewish origin do not have to fear for their lives. There is no room for ideological controversy in our schools, so we do not delay teachers. Ethnic coexistence is not always easy, but no one has to fear for their life because they are wearing another country's foo

Mr President, colleagues, I agree with the Council that there is an important lesson from this year’s exercise regarding the Parliament’s seat distribution, and that is that we need a permanent allocation mechanism and a reasonable timeline for the adoption of such a complicated file. I am not using the word ‘mathematical formula’, because it would be impossible to balance the weight of the Member

Mr President, dear colleagues, as co-rapporteur of the file on the composition of the European Parliament, I welcome that in its draft decision on the distribution of seats, the European Council has followed the logic of the Parliament’s proposal, carrying out, however, some additions to it. In the absence of a permanent allocation mechanism for the distribution of seats that could be properly lin

Mr President, no need to take the floor. We agreed with the co-rapporteur that in this given situation, when there are so many divergences on this file, we would rather proceed with the votes.