What Tomáš spoke about.

11

Mar

2025

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Presentation of the proposal on a new common approach on returns (debate)

Madam President, four and a half million orders to leave the European Union and only a 20% success rate. Yes, unfortunately, this is a system where we risk the trust of the citizens of the European Union. The new proposal promises to change: a unified system, strict rules, real consequences for those who ignore our laws, return centres in third countries as a pillar of this proposal. It is an effe…

13

Feb

2025

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Threats to EU sovereignty through strategic dependencies in communication infrastructure (debate)

Mr President, when it comes to our security, Europe cannot be dependent on a foreign country. After all, it is absolutely stupid for some Member States to want to use Starlink for secret government communications. Europe has a solution. We have our GOVSATCOM and IRIS here2, which are reliable platforms that are not threatened by foreign interests and through which we have independence and autonomy…

12

Feb

2025

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Honouring the memory of Ján Kuciak and Martina Kušnírová: advancing media freedom, strengthening the rule of law, and protecting journalists across the EU (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, the sad anniversary of the deaths of Ján Kuciak and Martina Kušnírová is approaching. Two young people who believed in truth, justice and a better Slovakia. Their deaths were supposed to intimidate journalists. Instead, she awakened a nation, showing the power of people who are not afraid to stand up to evil. Today, however, we see that Slovakia is changing. Independ…

12

Feb

2025

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Commission Work Programme 2025 (debate)

Mrs. Finale, who are you talking about as mercenaries? You've been warming people here for years who are allied with Russia, who are murdering people in Ukraine. You yourself go to the Iranian embassy and you are not transparently able to prove what you were doing there. Do you know what the Iranian embassy is doing? Do you know what the Iranian embassy is doing in the European Parliament? Do you …

12

Feb

2025

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Commission Work Programme 2025 (debate)

Ladies and gentlemen, I want to ask you one thing. Do you think you can stop climate change by shifting more bureaucracy to farmers, who, since 2017, have been constantly multiplying the number of tables they have to fill in? Do you think we can stop climate change by having projects that do nothing? How to grow kiwi in Italy? Or that we stop climate change by giving money to projects that have no…

22

Jan

2025

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Systematic repression of human rights in Iran, notably the cases of Pakhshan Azizi and Wrisha Moradi, and the taking of EU citizens as hostages

Madam President, I'm sorry, I usually wait only for women. Sorry that I am here a little bit late. Ladies and gentlemen, I think that we have to say that Iran's regime is really the criminal that is systematically attacking the people who are living in Iran. And I'm very happy that we have here a very good resolution that is talking about the Kurdish activists, but that is also speaking about Chri…

22

Jan

2025

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EU financing through the LIFE programme of entities lobbying EU institutions and the need for transparency (debate)

Colleague, one more time. Would you really like the Commission to hire non-profit organisations linked to the PfE Group to lobby against or for the migration pact? Would you really like us to spend some of our money in a direction that is contrary to the interests of the European Union? And how do you look at the fact that one of those nonprofit organizations that have been funded labels you as an…

22

Jan

2025

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EU financing through the LIFE programme of entities lobbying EU institutions and the need for transparency (debate)

I totally agree with the point you said. I am for transparency everywhere. Also, really, if you have a transparency register here in European Parliament, everybody has to register, and there is no difference between NGOs or some commercial lobbyists. Of course, for me it's really necessary to have the same level of the information. With my background, I took PhD studies, and you can find a lot of …

22

Jan

2025

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EU financing through the LIFE programme of entities lobbying EU institutions and the need for transparency (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, no one is saying that non-profit organisations steal or that non-profit organisations should not be part of the legislative process. But let's do it transparently. Let's not make it so that one of the taxpayers' money in the European Commission commissions a study that confirms his point of view. Let's do this in a way that we can really rely on…

22

Jan

2025

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Links between organised crime and smuggling of migrants in light of the recent UN reports (debate)

May I ask you one thing? I wonder what the former head of Frontex did to prevent this from happening. He sits in your ranks today as one of your MPs. Why wasn't he the one who initiated some important, I would say, solution? And the second thing I want to tell you. Have you ever been to the border? Have you ever patrolled the borders of the European Union? I was guarding them, and believe me, I wa…

21

Jan

2025

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Welcome

If you have followed the order, at the beginning of every intervention you need to say your paragraph why you are speaking. If you want one-minute speech, you have Monday evening and you can present it everything what you want. Colleague, please follow this.…

19

Dec

2024

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Need to update the European strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, disabled people do not need our sympathy, they need concrete actions that we, as the European Union, will begin to take. They do not need us to talk about discrimination in the long term, but they need us to remove the barriers that prevent them from education, from entering the labour market and from living in a normal and dignified way in the 21st century in the Eu…

18

Dec

2024

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Human rights situation in Kyrgyzstan, in particular the case of Temirlan Sultanbekov

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I am glad that we can discuss the situation in Kyrgyzstan today, because, as former Chair of the Delegation for Central Asia, I have long been careful to have very deep and very balanced relations with these countries. Of course, the situation in Kyrgyzstan is not easy. On the one hand, there is the threat and pressure from Russia to keep Kyrgyzstan one of the c…

18

Dec

2024

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11th year of the occupation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol by the Russian Federation and the deteriorating human rights situation in occupied Crimea, notably the cases of Iryna Danylovych, Tofik Abdulhaziiev and Amet Suleymanov

Dear Mr Volgin, I come originally from an aristocratic family. We have a very clear memory of all times, and especially we have an allergy of Communist times – that everything was changed. My father doesn't want to study. We were really under pressure from the Communist regime. Look at the members of my family – by Nazis they were killed; by Communists, they were put into prison. Of course, the Ru…

18

Dec

2024

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11th year of the occupation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol by the Russian Federation and the deteriorating human rights situation in occupied Crimea, notably the cases of Iryna Danylovych, Tofik Abdulhaziiev and Amet Suleymanov

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, let me begin by responding to Mr Volgin, who gave a speech that was cut out of a Russian journal. Do you really think, Mr Volgin, that in the 21st century someone will believe the lies spread by Russian propaganda? Even a small child can look in the search engine and can see what the Budapest Agreements were. What was this agreement on the integrity of Ukraine w…

28

Nov

2024

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Foreign interference and espionage by third country actors in European universities (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, are we really so naive as to let foreign agents work in our universities? Are we really stupid enough to let ourselves be robbed of the greatest wealth we have through spyware and the insolent behavior of third powers? Ladies and gentlemen, let's not be naive. The most important thing and what we pay for here, what we call for, is innovation, new t…

26

Nov

2024

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Continued escalation in the Middle East: the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the West Bank, UNRWA’s essential role in the region, the need to release all hostages and the recent ICC arrest warrants (debate)

26

Nov

2024

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2025 budgetary procedure: Joint text (debate)

26

Nov

2024

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Reinforcing EU’s unwavering support to Ukraine against Russia’s war of aggression and the increasing military cooperation between North Korea and Russia (debate)

13

Nov

2024

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Deplorable escalation of violence around the football match in the Netherlands and the unacceptable attacks against Israeli football fans (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, I just want to say that in the 21st century, seeing footage of someone being beaten because they are Jewish is something disgusting, inexcusable. You can't excuse it with a human word. It's just a monstrosity, and I don't want to live in a world like this. I don't want my children to be raised to watch the horrors. And thank you to all of you who have condemned this, be…

23

Oct

2024

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Presentation of the Court of Auditors' annual report 2023 (debate)

Mr President, let me start by thanking the European Court of Auditors first. Its audit standards are very high and I thank you very much for representing us in the European Union in a body that is trying to compare its methodology with internationally recognised standards in all developed countries of the world. The European Court of Auditors states that the error rate for budgetary expenditure is…

22

Oct

2024

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State sponsored terrorism by the Islamic Republic of Iran in light of the recent attacks in Europe (debate)

Madam President, it must be said at the outset that Iran is being very hostile to us. Iran has long supported Hezbollah and other terrorist groups that pose a serious threat to the whole of Europe. State-sponsored terrorism is absolutely unacceptable and must be repressed vigorously. Every day, Israel stands in the fight against terrorists, both from Hamas and Hezbollah. Today, Israel is fighting …

22

Oct

2024

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General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sections (debate)

Madam President, the European budget is the largest investment instrument we have. We need to learn how to work with the budget so that investments are efficient, well-targeted and impactful. Ladies and gentlemen, the budget must support growth and create competitive jobs. Europe must be first globally, not the other way around. We must no longer throw our own sticks under our feet and help the Un…

10

Oct

2024

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The rise of religious intolerance in Europe (continuation of debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, it is quite unbelievable that in the 21st century, someone is afraid to wear a cross in public or that they are afraid to send their children to school. This week I had the opportunity to speak with the Jewish community. They told me about repeated attacks against their children and adults. They're just scared. They are afraid to live in the Eur…

7

Oct

2024

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Signature of acts adopted in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure (Rule 81)

Madam President, I would like only to explain to new colleagues that a point of order is a special procedure where you can react to some order that we will discuss here, not for political speeches. If you want to take the floor for political speeches, you can use the one-minute speeches.…