What Tomáš spoke about.

12

Nov

2025

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The first European Annual Asylum and Migration report and the setting up of the Annual Solidarity Pool (debate)

Madam President, first of all, let me commend your pronunciation of my name. Commissioner, thank you for letting us discuss this very topic here today, because I have been warning for 12 years that unaddressed migration is the biggest problem, an internal problem in Europe, and it divides us too much. That is why we need to work systematically with it. Yes, someone will say that the migration pact…

12

Nov

2025

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The first European Annual Asylum and Migration report and the setting up of the Annual Solidarity Pool (debate)

You said what you don't want, but tell me any solution. You are every time criticising everything. I never heard something constructive from you. So, you have 30 seconds now, tell me, what is your solution for immigration? And tell me one thing: why do you use immigrants in your hospitals? Why do you use nurses from central and eastern Europe? When you use doctors in your hospitals, they are also …

22

Oct

2025

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Key objectives for the CITES COP20 meeting in Uzbekistan (debate)

Mr President, you know, I do not want to repeat what has been said here, because I think that everything you have said here is important. The protection of nature and the prevention of illegal trade in animals is the main theme of the CITES COP20 conference in Uzbekistan. For me personally, Uzbekistan, as the former head of the Central Asia delegation, is a very good example of a state that has un…

22

Oct

2025

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UN Climate Change Conference 2025 in Belém, Brazil (COP30) (debate)

I have just a question about why you are speaking about the EPP today. We saw your reliability – you promised us to vote on one issue with us and half of your group resign for this opinion. Also, why are you saying that the European People's Party is not against climate change? We are a predictable partner. The problem is the Socialists. If you are not in, we will vote it with someone who has, wit…

22

Oct

2025

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Presentation of the Court of Auditors' annual report 2024 (debate)

Mr President, if I were not an MEP, I would like to be a member of the European Court of Auditors. And why? Because I would work in an institution that is absolutely professional, reliable and gives us good advice on how to deal with European funds. Indeed, the 2024 annual report confirms once again that the accounts of the European Union give a true and fair view of the overall error rate. The we…

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Oct

2025

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General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sections (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, I would say that you have made a brilliant speech if you did not forget the aspect of the Committee on Budgetary Control, which is actually trying here to ensure that every euro that citizens of the European Union receive goes not just to oligarchs, but to things that are connected to the European Union. We in the Committee on Budgetary Control …

7

Oct

2025

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Request for the waiver of the immunity of Klára Dobrev (A10-0184/2025 - Ilhan Kyuchyuk) (vote)

Madam President, yes, I have a point of order. Markus Ferber's card doesn't function. Also, it's really shameful that we are having technical problems here. Also we will call for a repetition of the vote.…

10

Sep

2025

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Rule of law and EU funds management in Slovakia (debate)

Mr. Kaliňák, thank you for the question. You should address this issue to the CONT secretariat, which processed the report. Otherwise, I think you're mentioned quite often in our security services. I think your visits to the Russian embassy and running out the back door or your cooperation with Voice of Europe, which belongs to the pro-Russian disinformation scene, and many politicians have been p…

10

Sep

2025

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Rule of law and EU funds management in Slovakia (debate)

Madam President, I will be also strict. Madam President, let me start a little in person. My korene vedú aj to Slovakia. The old father came from Trenčín and part of my family still lives in Slovakia. Every year I come back here and I feel at home. Therefore, what I want to tell you today is not just a political speech by an MEP, but the confession of a person who cares about Slovakia. I remember …

10

Sep

2025

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Need for a strong European Democracy Shield to enhance democracy, protect the EU from foreign interference and hybrid threats, and protect electoral processes in the EU (debate)

Mrs. Konečná, my grandmother always said that a bad goose always speaks up. She meant it in connection with the hunting of my family, which had a tradition with us. So when the goose was shot, she always started making noise. I think there is a lot of evidence of your activities and your meetings with various Chinese companies, your activities at the Iranian embassy and your meetings with Russian …

10

Sep

2025

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Need for a strong European Democracy Shield to enhance democracy, protect the EU from foreign interference and hybrid threats, and protect electoral processes in the EU (debate)

Madam President, democracy in Europe is under threat today as never before, both physically and online. Russia is funding extremist parties in Europe that tell us who is an agent and who is not, spread Russian propaganda, carry out cyberattacks, but also abuse migration to weaken the European Union. Meanwhile, China is supplying low-cost technology for mass surveillance, investing in media and inf…

10

Sep

2025

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Need for a strong European Democracy Shield to enhance democracy, protect the EU from foreign interference and hybrid threats, and protect electoral processes in the EU (debate)

Colleague, thank you for what you said. I have one question for you. Do you think social media should be anonymous? Should troll farms overwhelm networks of politicians with content generated? Or do you think that someone who is on social media should show an ID card?…

10

Sep

2025

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State of the Union (debate)

Madam President, fellow Member, I was delighted to hear your speech. So show us at last the rational solution to deal, for example, with the United States. Why don't you show us how to handle it yourself? Say that you will go there instead of Commissioner Šefčovič and that you will show how you agree with Donald Trump. I often see speeches on your social networks criticising the European Union. Sh…

9

Jul

2025

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Alleged misuse of EU funds by Members of the far-right and measures to ensure institutional integrity (debate)

Thank you, dear colleagues, I have one question: do you think that some decision of ethics body will have an impact on the behaviour of some groups that are not respecting the law, that are systematically misusing funds? There are, in this group, many decisions of the courts that the members of this group were stealing money, including Marine Le Pen. What do you think, how will they behave?…

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Jul

2025

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Alleged misuse of EU funds by Members of the far-right and measures to ensure institutional integrity (debate)

Thank you very much for this great question. I was expecting this question, and I think this is not something that is linked with ethics. This is normally fraud. Also, we cannot use any ethical standard for someone who doesn't know what ethics mean. Also, we need a criminal investigation and to bring the people to court. And I think it's very important to say that stealing the money of European pa…

9

Jul

2025

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Alleged misuse of EU funds by Members of the far-right and measures to ensure institutional integrity (debate)

Mr President, I thank a colleague from an extremist group for a fun insert during this evening. Dear colleagues, allow me to continue this debate seriously. The misuse of European funds is an attack on citizens' trust in the European Union, and it does not matter whether it is committed by left-wing or right-wing extremists. Today we are faced with a serious case that shakes the confidence of the …

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May

2025

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Discharge 2023 (joint debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, President of the European Court of Auditors, ladies and gentlemen, if there is one single institution in the European Parliament that everyone from left to right agrees is doing a great job, it is the European Prosecutor's Office (EPPO). This office has really shown fantastic results in those few years and months. It exposes fraud, unravels complex corruption network…

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May

2025

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Discharge 2023 (joint debate)

Mr President, today it is like this déjà vu, to see you here again, but let me take a look at opinion the LIBE Committee. In addition to being a coordinator of the EPP in the Committee on Budgetary Control, I am also a member of the LIBE Committee, where I worked on budgetary discharges on behalf of the European People's Party. And I'll tell you one thing. The time when socialists and communists w…

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May

2025

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Discharge 2023 (joint debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, let me begin by saying one important word: Thank you very much. I thank all my colleagues, rapporteurs, shadow rapporteurs, but especially all the teams that have done an incredible, huge amount of work. Without you it would not be possible to complete discharge. This is an unbelievable result of cooperation across committees, factions, but above a…

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May

2025

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Control of the financial activities of the European Investment Bank – annual report 2023 (debate)

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May

2025

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Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2023 (debate)

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Apr

2025

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Prosecution of journalists in Cameroon, notably the cases of Amadou Vamoulké, Kingsley Fomunyuy Njoka, Mancho Bibixy, Thomas Awah Junior, Tsi Conrad (debate)

Mr President, your pronunciation of my name is better and better. Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, freedom of the press is the foundation of democracy. Without it, there is no freedom, only oppression and dictatorship. Today we stand to draw attention to serious violations of the rights of journalists in Cameroon. They are unjustly imprisoned, tortured and some have lost their lives. All this b…

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Apr

2025

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Delivering on the EU Roma Strategy and the fight against discrimination in the EU (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, two weeks ago, four children and their grandmother were burned to death in Velké Šariš, Slovakia. They lived in a settlement without water, electricity, sewage and roads. This is not an example from the Middle Ages, this is the case of Slovakia in the 21st century. This is the reality of one Member State of the European Union. And I think we need to change that.…

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Apr

2025

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Safeguarding the access to democratic media, such as Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (debate)

Madam President, you know, we, who have experienced a time when our parents secretly listened to the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe, remember that time, even as young children, we were not allowed to talk about it. And I think today is a time when we have to spread free information where there is no freedom. If we here, democratically elected MEPs, sleep in a democracy, then we will wake u…

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Apr

2025

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Safeguarding the access to democratic media, such as Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (debate)

Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to ask you: What is freedom of speech for you? Do you think there should be something like Radio Free Europe that actually changed the communist regime in Eastern Europe? Or do you think there is freedom of speech in countries like Russia, Iran or China?…