What Costas spoke about.

10 Nov

2021

EN Speech

The escalating humanitarian crisis on the EU-Belarusian border, in particular in Poland (debate)

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Mr President, as European representatives and officials in European politics, we are primarily judged by our insightfulness and results, not by intentions. When Erdoğan was instrumentalising unfortunate people in migration in a hybrid attack against the EU and certain Member States, we all knew about it, just as we know now about Lukashenko. Same methods, same brutal exploitation of human sufferin…

6 Oct

2021

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Banking Union - annual report 2020 (debate)

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Madam President, firstly, I would like to thank the rapporteur, my colleague Danuta Hübner, for our excellent cooperation in drafting this report. The Banking Union has been one of our key achievements since the financial crisis in 2008. The aim, though, of this annual report is to assess the state of play and functioning of its three pillars: the Single Supervisory Mechanism, the Single Resolutio…

5 Oct

2021

EL Speech

The future of EU-US relations (debate)

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Mr President, warm congratulations to my colleague, Tonino Picula, on his report on the future of European Union-US relations, such an important and topical issue. Importantly, because close cooperation from trade to security was based on shared values, shared priorities and shared interests and so needs to continue and broaden on issues listed in the report, such as climate change, human rights, …

14 Sep

2021

EL Speech

Instrument for pre-accession assistance (IPA III) 2021–2027 (debate)

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Mr President, this mechanism is an important tool for the accession countries to carry out the necessary reforms to fully comply with the European acquis. Congratulations to the contributors to this document. But before we reach full compliance, some fundamental conditions are laid down concerning the principle of democracy, human rights, the rule of law, respect for agreements with the European U…