What Dan spoke about.

7 Jul

2026

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Urgent measures to strengthen the competitiveness and safeguard quality jobs in the EU’s automotive sector (debate)

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Madam President, Mr Séjourné, you are the Vice-President of the European Commission and today you are present at an extremely important debate about the automotive industry in the European Union. Today, when we speak, in Romania, Dacia announced the first collective redundancies in the last 22 years. It is a symptom that shows how serious is the situation of the automotive industry and parts for t…

16 Jun

2026

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Russia’s unacceptable provocative actions and drone incursions into Romania, the Baltic states and Finland (debate)

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16 Jun

2026

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Russia’s unacceptable provocative actions and drone incursions into Romania, the Baltic states and Finland (debate)

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16 Jun

2026

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Achieving digital sovereignty and resilience for Europe, in light of recent developments affecting access to advanced AI technologies (debate)

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20 May

2026

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High time to deliver on the Single Market, providing certainty and predictability for EU businesses and quality jobs (continuation of debate)

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Madam President, two weeks ago, Romania unfortunately had bad news: the highest price for electricity in terms of purchasing power, two to three times higher than in other countries in Europe. And this for a simple reason: because the European electricity market is fragmented, it does not work. We are decoupled and cannot benefit from cheap energy that is, for example, produced in Germany, because…

29 Apr

2026

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EU strategy in response to the ongoing Middle East crisis, its implications on energy prices and the availability of fertilizers (joint debate)

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Mr President, the crisis in the Middle East has led to higher prices for fuel, petrol and diesel. Electricity is at an unprecedented price in my country, Romania, and people are waiting for immediate solutions. And that is the role of the European Commission, to come up with new sources of supply, with new ways of using this huge economic power to bring these much-needed raw materials into the Eur…

20 Jan

2026

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Presentation of the Cybersecurity Act (debate)

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Madam President, Mrs Virkkunen, you are Vice-President of the European Commission and today you are presenting a document expected by a very large number of people, namely: what we will do in the field of cyber security. For most of those who look at us, for ordinary people, that means we come up with a clear answer. How we protect and how we protect them, so that they are not the victim of online…

20 Jan

2026

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Presentation of the programme of activities of the Cyprus Presidency (continuation of debate)

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Madam President, one of the priorities of the Cyprus Presidency should be electricity prices. In Eastern Europe ‐ Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Cyprus ‐ electricity prices have become absolutely prohibitive for many people. For Romanians, in Romania, they are now minus 20 degrees, and these prices have become up to 150 euros higher than in Western European countries ‐ 251 euros/MWh. This seriously af…

16 Dec

2025

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Grids package and tackling raising energy prices through robust infrastructure (debate)

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25 Nov

2025

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Effective use of the EU trade and industrial policy to tackle China’s export restrictions (debate)

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Madam President, Mr Séjourné, you are the Vice-President of the European Commission, you are the Commissioner responsible for industry, and together we have taken several decisions, including the one we are referring to today: how to get Europe to have access, European industry to have access, to strategic materials, to critical materials. I have adopted the regulation, the calls for projects have…

22 Oct

2025

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 23 October 2025 (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner Šefčovič, the European Council should focus on the competitiveness of the European economy. But unfortunately, in Romania, in my country, what we all find is that we have the highest, or among the highest, electricity prices in the European Union. Yesterday, 150 euros per megawatt hour, five times higher than in Spain, three times higher than in France, 40% higher tha…

10 Sep

2025

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State of the Union (debate)

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Madam President, President von der Leyen, the recent violations of Polish airspace by Russian drones remind us that in Romania this has been happening regularly for two years and you need to reaffirm your support in order for Romania's borders to be inviolable and protected. Secondly, there is great concern in Romania, President von der Leyen, because the Cohesion Fund proposals are jeopardising t…

9 Jul

2025

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 26 June 2025 (debate)

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Madam President, President Costa, Commissioner Šefčovič, what I would have liked to see in the Council conclusions and I have not found are the concrete measures to make electricity prices in the European Union cost-based, reasonable. It is complicated and very difficult to go to my country, to Romania, and to tell Romanians why they have to pay electricity prices at home, twice, four times higher…

18 Jun

2025

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Upcoming NATO summit on 24-26 June 2025 (debate)

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Madam President, High Representative, you are the person who will manage all the things pertaining to the future of the European Union from a military, security point of view and in preparation for the NATO summit, I would like to tell you some of the things that are important for Romania. The eastern flank must be treated as a strategic priority in Europe's security architecture. Romania, as a st…

2 Apr

2025

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Energy-intensive industries (debate)

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Madam President, Mr Séjourné, you are the Vice-President of the European Commission, responsible for industry, for the strategic industries of the European Union, for steel, for aluminium, and there are high hopes for the measures that you have to take. Energy is a main reason why these strategic industries – steel, aluminium – are uncompetitive in the European Union. Mr. Vice President, in Galati…

2 Apr

2025

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European Steel and Metals Action Plan (debate)

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Madam President, Mr Séjourné, you are the Executive Vice-President of the European Commission and today you are bringing the news that hundreds of thousands of workers in the steel and metals industries, including aluminium, are expecting for the European Union. And I want you to know that this signal was more than expected, for several reasons: First, unreasonably high electricity prices have mad…

1 Apr

2025

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 20 March 2025 (debate)

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Madam President, Vice-President Šefčovič, President Costa, we all need to take urgent action today so that the European Union's strategic industries can withstand, survive and have a future that has certainty, that we are talking about the steel, aluminium, chemical fertilizers, automotive, energy, chips industries. They are all under tremendous stress, because, on the one hand, we have energy pri…

13 Mar

2025

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Action Plan for Affordable Energy (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner Jørgensen, you are the Commissioner for Energy of the European Union and you have a very challenging mandate before you. The European Union's electricity market is in an extremely worrying situation. In my country, Romania, last month, the price of electricity reached EUR 160 per megawatt-hour, more than twice as high as in the same month last year and higher than in Fra…

12 Mar

2025

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Action Plan for the Automotive Industry (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, this is very good news – an action plan for a revitalisation of the European automotive industry is what everyone expects, because the situation is very bad. Why is this situation so unfortunate that we are going through this period? The reasons are simple: an internal market that is invaded, flooded with products coming from outside the European Union, cars from Chi…

11 Mar

2025

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Clean Industrial Deal (debate)

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Madam President, Mr Vice-President of the European Commission, there is great hope for your mandate, and I must confess that everyone expected the first concrete measures to support European industry to emerge in the first 100 days, so that we can have a process of transforming this industry into a clean industry. Today, when we speak, unfortunately, the situation is very bad. European industry is…

11 Mar

2025

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European Council meetings and European security (joint debate)

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Madam President, President Costa, Commissioner Šefčovič, today we are discussing a programme to actually ensure the security of the European Union. For me as a Romanian and for my country it is extremely important to know not only that we are on the edge of Europe and that we have to defend the European Union on the eastern flank, but we have to make sure that we have and with what. I must assure …

17 Dec

2024

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Misinformation and disinformation on social media platforms, such as TikTok, and related risks to the integrity of elections in Europe (debate)

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This is exactly about the manipulation we were talking about, the manipulation that is present and that we all need to prevent, because every man must be responsible for what he says and be able to be appreciated or not for what he says. As far as you are concerned, those working on the campaign team had resigned and it was obvious that they had resigned because you intend to retire to the green t…

17 Dec

2024

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Misinformation and disinformation on social media platforms, such as TikTok, and related risks to the integrity of elections in Europe (debate)

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Madam President, Executive Vice-President of the European Commission, you announced today that the European Commission has started an investigation into TikTok's meddling and interference in the Romanian elections. I congratulate you, because when the European Commission starts such an investigation, it means that there are clear indications that there were major irregularities and major interfere…

27 Nov

2024

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Presentation by the President-elect of the Commission of the College of Commissioners and its programme (debate)

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Madam President, President von der Leyen, the Romanian delegation from the S&D Group will vote for you and the College of Commissioners today, because we believe in a strong and united Europe, but it is not a blank vote, it is a vote conditional on meeting some very clear and precise criteria for us, but also important ones. We want a social Europe, we want to have energy bills that people can pay…

23 Oct

2024

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Tackling the steel crisis: boosting competitive and sustainable European steel and maintaining quality jobs (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, you said that without steel nothing would be possible in the European economy. And then, when I go to Galati, to the steel plant there, I have to tell the 10,000 people why they are actually trying to survive. Why is this the case in all steel-making plants in the European Union? Because, on the one hand, we have energy, electricity and gas prices that fluctuate, acc…