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RO Written Statement

State of the Union (debate)

Madam President, Today you presented us with the state of the EU and the Commission's proposals for the future. Unfortunately, you have only presented dreams, not figures, not the impact on the lives of citizens. Trust in the EU and the EU project is falling precisely because of lack of transparency, poor communication, lack of fairness, fragmented internal market, social crisis, homeless young pe…

17 Sep

2026

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An EU health workforce crisis plan: sustainability of healthcare systems and employment and working conditions in the healthcare sector (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we are discussing the health crisis, but we are not discussing it for the first time. I heard all sorts of slogans from the President yesterday: equal conditions for all, access to health for all European citizens, health must be a priority. But let's think about what causes us, why we got into this situation. Because the crisis of doctors, the departure of d…

16 Sep

2026

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Urgent need for EU support to Ukraine against Russia’s escalation of its war of aggression (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I live in Romania, a country that has already suffered because of the war. On the one hand, economically, at first, when we know well that grain was transiting and our farmers suffered, some time ago, for a year, it rains drones, so, on a block, in a family, they hurt the child and so on. Commissioner, all diplomatic negotiations have failed. Th…

16 Sep

2026

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The impact of the implementation of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) on SMEs, its administrative burden and challenges for the European Single Market (debate)

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Mr President, with regard to the regulation on packaging, I wrote a letter to the Commission, following petitions from producers, because there are a lot of uncertainties, starting with the definition of producer, what happens when a product is made by one producer, it is marketed by another entrepreneur, the packaging is from another entrepreneur, and this is how a bird of responsibility actually…

15 Sep

2026

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Devastating heatwaves, wildfires and droughts in Europe: lessons from summer 2026 (debate)

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I appreciate what you said and the fact that you came up with some concrete proposals: strengthening the European Civil Protection Mechanism, better management. The question is what the Commission must do, what we must do – because a lot of things are about subsidiarity – so that, indeed, we can be prepared and prevent, because many of the fires – we know well – were set, were not created naturall…

14 Sep

2026

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Establishing the Union Customs Code and the European Union Customs Authority (debate)

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14 Sep

2026

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Public Procurement Act (debate)

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14 Sep

2026

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Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: extension of its scope to downstream goods and anti-circumvention measures - Establishing the Temporary Decarbonisation Fund - Market stability reserve for the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS): ceasing the invalidation of allowances

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9 Jul

2026

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Feasibility of a 28th tax regime and its potential to support EU competitiveness (debate)

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Sure, you said that we very much need this single European framework, but do you think it can only work if we now put this European framework in place, as long as we have, for example, 27 public procurement systems? Because we asked, the Parliament, and the Council blocked it. I asked for a regulation. We have 27 laws for late payments. Again, he's stuck at the Council. How do you think we should …

9 Jul

2026

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Evaluation of the Common Fisheries Policy and follow-up (debate)

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I agree with what you have said about fisheries policy and the revision of the regulation. But you did not say anything and I am interested if your political group, if you look at all fisheries regulations from a social perspective, because in many areas, as it is in my country, it is a source of income for many, for small fishermen. And you talked about the need for funding. Don't you think or do…

8 Jul

2026

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Harnessing the potential of a competitive and sustainable EU Bioeconomy Strategy for EU strategic autonomy (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, of course the European Union needs a bioeconomy strategy. It is only that, Commissioner, you yourself have said, there is capital, but what do we lack? Confidence. Because very often, during this period, regulations have been made in the European Union that obstruct each other. And to give you a concrete example: there was talk here of pharmaceutic…

8 Jul

2026

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 18-19 June 2026 (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, thank you for the information you have given us, but I would like to refer to a few points. First of all: The MFF. Commissioner, you said there were two levels. It is not clear what we are doing with own resources, because we, Parliament, have proposed very often where these new resources can come from in order not to have a smaller MFF, not to have a smaller budget …

7 Jul

2026

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2025 Commission report on Moldova (debate)

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Commissioner, Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the ambitious programme of the Republic of Moldova to conclude accession at the end of 2028 must be supported. It is to be welcomed, but it will not be implemented if we do not all support it. And I want from the very beginning to thank both the Commissioner and the colleagues who supported this project. I am Romanian, I am Moldovan, I know the Rep…

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, Commissioner, you started your intervention by saying that last year you said that the car industry is in mortal danger. And so it is. The problem is to ask why? I believe that the European Commission has embarked on a programme, disregarding the concrete situation. A private manager takes into account the global situation and this is why we are now in a situation where, globally,…

6 Jul

2026

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Coordination of social security systems (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we needed the coordination of social security systems. We could have had it much earlier, but, as the rapporteur said, it took years. But it is good that we have it, because we know clearly and we all have, perhaps, examples of people who did not have health insurance, who had accidents at work, especially in the construction field. There have been…

6 Jul

2026

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Financial activities of the European Investment Bank Group – annual report 2025 (debate)

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Madam President, Mr President, Commissioner, the European Investment Bank - we know very well - is extremely important. I congratulate her for reaching this historic record of 100 billion in new investments. But the problem I see is that the European Investment Bank must overlap with the investment programme on the strategic plan of the European Union. Why am I saying this? We have this cohesion o…

6 Jul

2026

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Air passenger rights (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I have been on the Committee on Transport for 10 years and I hoped to come to an end with this amendment to the Regulation on Passenger Rights and Air Transport, and here we are. A large majority in Parliament supports and fought very hard because - we have to admit - at Council level it was a deadlock and it was very much a deadlock. lobbying f…

18 Jun

2026

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Joint Declaration on ‘Culture for Europe - Europe for Culture’ (debate)

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18 Jun

2026

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Circularity requirements for vehicle design and management of end-of-life vehicles (debate)

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17 Jun

2026

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Preparation of the European Council (joint debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, again I see, and I cannot help but notice that you have a very busy agenda, but the citizen is not here. We're talking about competitiveness, but we don't have facts. We have a fragmented single market. Commissioner, I have also said, how to put in trade agreements higher tariffs on raw materials than on the finished product? How to develop industry, how do you want …

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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15 Jun

2026

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Madam President, the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation, if it remains as it is now, will certainly have a negative - peak, paradoxical - effect on the environment. And I'll explain why. Thermo-retractable films that are necessary to facilitate the handling of beer cans, other cans, other beverages, are necessary in order to be able to handle themselves, not to injure themselves, not to caus…

15 Jun

2026

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EU-US trade deal (joint debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the transatlantic agreement is a necessity and we must recognise that. It's a provisional agreement, a lot of work has been done, and we still have to admit something. Mr Lange with the team managed to improve the first form of the agreement, let's remember what the first form was like. It's very good, it's provisional, and we can keep pushing. We …

15 Jun

2026

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Time for European economic independence (debate)

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Mr President, of course the subject we are discussing has been valid for 30 years, since we made the internal market. We need economic independence, Commissioner, I was very attentive to what you said. How do you think we can have an industrial policy, develop, invest in the internal market, when the European Commission - in my opinion as an industrialist - has made the worst policy. We have highe…