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2023

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Cohesion dimension of EU state aid and de minimis rules (debate)

Madam President, the fact that the Commission, as a result of the unfavourable economic developments caused by the confluence of many crises, will mention the Russian aggression in Ukraine, has decided to allow the Member States to support their economies, is perfectly understandable and, of course, I also welcome this step. I also welcome, of course, the support for the green transition, which ar…

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2023

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IPCC report on Climate Change: a call for urgent additional action (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, climate change is happening with more force than was expected – extreme drought, fires. In fact, we are talking about this every summer here in the European Parliament. Floods, sea level rise is even higher than expected. No one is even denying the ongoing climate change, but some say that Europe can do nothing, that we are dependent on China and the US. I don't think w…

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Apr

2023

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Sustainable carbon cycles (A9-0066/2023 - Alexander Bernhuber)

Madam President, I also supported this report. For a number of reasons. Carbon capture is indeed a technological challenge. Perhaps one of the older methods that I could mention here is that if you make a very high-quality table of wood that lasts for decades, maybe even centuries, you've done a lot of work because a lot of carbon is trapped in that wood. We must exploit the full potential of carb…

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2023

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Social Climate Fund (A9-0157/2022 - David Casa, Esther de Lange)

Madam President, I also supported this proposal because I consider our climate commitments to be really serious. And the reverse of our ETS 2, which we have already approved, is the Social Climate Fund. This represents our responsibility towards vulnerable people and also towards investments to be made in the national budgets of the Member States. The amount of EUR 80 billion earmarked for this sy…

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2023

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Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System (A9-0162/2022 - Peter Liese)

Madam President, both the European Union and the European Parliament support the commitments of the Paris Agreement. All Member States have supported these commitments, and only in the areas of transport and energy does the European Union generate half of its emissions. If we are serious about our environmental commitments, we must clearly drastically reduce these emissions. Despite some doubts ab…

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Apr

2023

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EU Rapid Deployment Capacity, EU Battlegroups and Article 44 TEU: the way forward (debate)

Madam President, I previously did not support the creation of parallel structures on security issues, because I thought that NATO structures were sufficient. But I changed my mind after the occupation of Crimea. I think that the rapid deployment capacity of 5,000 men is really just a small thing. It's a start, and we need a much larger security force to deploy quickly. Many times we have learned t…

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2023

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Mr President, I would like to draw attention today to a serious problem, which is the non-transposition or late transposition of European law into national legal orders. As our citizens in Europe have the right to consume the benefits of our legislation that we adopt, they should, of course, also have responsibilities. If European law is not transposed into national legal states, there is a violat…

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2023

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Sustainable carbon cycles (short presentation)

Mr President, I would like to thank the rapporteur for a very good report on this point, because it is really built on finding sustainable solutions and new resources to finance carbon sequestration. There is no doubt that we need to better reward land managers for carbon sequestration and biodiversity conservation from the point of view of the issues to be touched upon. And it is important that t…

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Apr

2023

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Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System - Monitoring, reporting and verification of greenhouse gas emissions from maritime transport - Carbon border adjustment mechanism - Social Climate Fund - Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System for aviation (debate)

Mr President, people and young people in particular are protesting against the impact of climate change on their lives, against the aggravation of these consequences. We see it every year, drought, we talk about it here in the hemicycle almost every year, extreme rainfall on the other hand. We're seeing sea level rise. These are all the consequences of human activity, and we must stand up to this …

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Apr

2023

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Deforestation Regulation (debate)

Mr President, I would like to acknowledge the role of the rapporteur in this regulation, because he has done a great deal of work. I myself was the rapporteur of the legislation, or only of the opinion that went to the protection of the world's original forests. I think we have come a long way over these two years, and I would like to appreciate the role of the European Parliament, because we have…

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Mar

2023

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Lack of actions taken by the Commission in the context of the duty of sincere and loyal cooperation (debate)

Mr President, I really consider this approach by our democratic governments to the use of spyware to be indefensible. It is an incredible scandal when our democratic governments use this software against their citizens, even against their opposition, as many indicia suggest. And I think that there is also an incredible attitude of the European institutions. The silence you hear when you talk about…

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2023

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Advancing the 2022 Bridgetown Agenda (debate)

Mr President, when a tropical storm strikes a small island developing state, it can destroy the island's infrastructure with significant economic and social consequences. Restoring this infrastructure requires a lot of money. But such a small state does not have many ways of mobilising capital to rebuild damaged infrastructure, for a number of reasons – it has a small economy, of course, it has a …

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2023

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Implementation report on the Agreement on the withdrawal of the UK from the EU (A9-0052/2023 - Pedro Silva Pereira)

Mr President, on the contrary, I supported this report. I am very sorry that Brexit has taken place. I think that the British themselves could already have known that many of their politicians had lied to them, as well as those who sat in this House. However, I think it is important to turn the page, that it is very important to appreciate the agreement that we have finally made between Great Brit…

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2023

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European Semester for economic policy coordination: Employment and social priorities for 2023 (A9-0051/2023 - Estrella Durá Ferrandis)

Mr President, I did not support this report and I would like to explain why. I do not deny at all that it is important that this coordination of economic policies takes place, of course. This policy has also been successful. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it certainly provided security for a number of employees. I also agree that this policy must address social problems, social exclusion, poverty, …

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2023

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The further repressions against the people of Belarus, in particular the cases of Andrzej Poczobut and Ales Bialiatski (B9-0163/2023, RC-B9-0164/2023, B9-0164/2023, B9-0165/2023, B9-0166/2023, B9-0167/2023, B9-0168/2023)

Mr President, I, of course, supported this motion for a resolution. The repression of Andrzej Poczobut and Ales Bialiatski are unacceptable. Of course, it's not just these two cases. These cases are the vast majority that we have encountered and discussed in recent months. Belarus has become a totalitarian state, trampling on all conceivable human rights, and it is important to say that the Belaru…

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Mar

2023

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Iran: in particular the poisoning of hundreds of school girls

Mr President, dear colleagues, Iranian girls and women have been the target of this organised gas attack launched by Khomeini agents against them in hundreds of schools because they want to target the women and girls who are the hope for change in Iran There is mounting evidence of government involvement in these horrific attacks. And today we heard directly from Iranian women representatives how …

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Feb

2023

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The situation of human rights defenders in Eswatini, notably the murder of Thulani Maseko

Madam President, as has already been said, Swaziland is an absolute monarchy, but that does not entitle it, this country, to practices that are truly unacceptable. Restrictions on human rights, political parties are outlawed and, in fact, fundamental acts of violence against opponents of the regime, representatives of the monarchy, this is really unacceptable. If today we are even witnessing the m…

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Feb

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Access to strategic critical raw materials (debate)

Madam President, I fully agree with my colleagues that without resources of raw materials, green transition cannot really be managed. It is clear that it is even impossible, if not undermined. And it is important to say that raw material sovereignty is essential. We should definitely do much more in the field of our diplomacy, because we will not only solve our raw material needs by circular econo…

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Feb

2023

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CO2 emission standards for cars and vans (A9-0150/2022 - Jan Huitema)

Mr President, I have abstained on this regulation and I would like to explain why. I appreciate the outcome of the Czech Presidency that it has managed to negotiate a majority on such a complex file both in the Member States and, in fact, in the European Parliament. It is important for this sector to know what it can undoubtedly count on. And there is no doubt that transport contributes to increas…

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Electoral rights of mobile Union citizens in European Parliament elections (A9-0297/2022 - Damian Boeselager)

Mr President, I also supported this draft report, although I am rather sceptical about the possibility of uniform EU-wide female candidates. I have already explained this position here, but this proposal goes in a slightly different direction, namely to try to bring as many voters as possible to the polls and to allow them to vote. It should be emphasised that the European Parliament is the only d…

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REPowerEU chapters in recovery and resilience plans (A9-0260/2022 - Eider Gardiazabal Rubial, Siegfried Mureşan, Dragoş Pîslaru)

Mr President, I also supported this draft report. It is actually the closure of the whole process and I welcome it, because EUR 20 billion is already quite a significant amount and is intended to reduce the dependence of European countries on fossil resources, especially Russian ones. This is a response to the unprecedented illegal act of Russian aggression in Ukraine. We need to diversify our ene…

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Amendments to the European Long-Term Investment Funds (ELTIFs) Regulation (debate)

Mr President, I thank the Commissioner for presenting the proposal. The reform of financial markets is, shall we say, the fundamental objective pursued by this proposal. This is a long-term goal, and it follows from the proposals already presented in an earlier period. I believe that, unfortunately, the long-term nature that we are declaring here in this report is not entirely sufficient. The chal…

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Establishment of an independent EU Ethics Body (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, I would like to start by welcoming this initiative by the Commission and its President and also supporting the proposal as presented here by the Commissioner. In my opinion, it is very important to think carefully about the proposal, because it is not easy to create a new inter-institutional body. On the other hand, it is clear that the European Union has rules in indiv…

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Feb

2023

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Madam President, I would like to join my colleague Ştefănuța in strongly condemning the Russian activities that are now directed towards Moldova. What President Maia Sandu has said today is truly extremely serious and there is no reason not to believe it. We all know that Russia has long-term plans for this country. The idea of a violent coup in the country, the exacerbation of the situation of th…

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2023

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Following up on measures requested by Parliament to strengthen the integrity of European institutions (debate)

Madam President, I felt a little challenged by my colleague Aubry if the EPP is here. So here we are, we are talking in this discussion, also featured our colleague Hohlmeierová, of course Jan Olbrycht and others. On the merits of the case: we support most of the proposals put forward by President Metsola. I think more transparency about meetings is absolutely possible. I don't object to her, blac…