What Maria spoke about.

12 Dec

2022

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Towards equal rights for persons with disabilities (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I am also nervous now because I am talking about our colleague, we are talking about people with disabilities. We have studies, we have research done, what impact there is in society on these people, the UN Convention. But in practice, in every country, the first problem for these people is accessibility, and we have seen that even in the Europe…

24 Nov

2022

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Establishing the Digital Decade Policy Programme 2030 (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, I am pleased that we are debating this subject and this issue, digitalisation. Of course, we know that the proverb exists in all situations: “the road to hell is paved with good intentions”. It is very important and I am glad that you spoke, Commissioner, that not only investments in technology are enough, but we also need to increase skills, because now, when we spe…

23 Nov

2022

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The need for a European solution on asylum and migration including search and rescue (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, Commissioner, we have been debating this issue of a single solution in the European Union on the issue of migration for seven years. I'm skeptical and have reason to be. We have talked here about a united Europe, solidarity, humanity, rights, but we have a service blocker that is the Council. And I'm setting an example to be well understood. If my 11-year-old country is…

22 Nov

2022

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Question Time (Commission) - Future legislative reform of the Economic Governance Framework in times of social and economic crisis

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Mr President, Commissioners, of course, when we make a legislative change, we also think about the impact. It is very good that you also explained to the answers you gave, that you wanted to leave a greater ease for the fiscal space, depending on the degree of indebtedness of each state. My question is: Did you think that at the same time we have to implement a new strategy for the reindustrialisa…

22 Nov

2022

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Gender balance among non-executive directors of companies listed on stock exchanges (debate)

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Dear colleague, after what you have presented to us, I think you have not read at all the document that we are debating now or you do not understand anything. You say that 40% would be the percentage, that it would be discrimination for the population, which is over 50%. Where is the discrimination? That's a problem. Second, how do you see the problem of women having competence on boards of direct…

22 Nov

2022

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Gender balance among non-executive directors of companies listed on stock exchanges (debate)

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It is inexplicable to me what you are saying here and I ask you: Have you ever read an anthropological study? Do you know what native qualities women have? Credeți că dacă se pune această cotă, nu se mai ține cont de criteriile de calitate, de competență? Or what were you thinking? Mathematically, there are 60% of university graduates, it is clear that there can be only 8% on the boards of directo…

22 Nov

2022

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Resilience of critical entities (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we often speak very technically and perhaps less intelligible to citizens. In fact, what does the resilience of critical entities mean? It means that we are now thinking, through this directive, to increase the resilience of some sectors that ultimately have to do with their quality of life, their lives. Energy, health, food, space... 11 areas, as …

21 Nov

2022

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Madam President, Commissioner, social cohesion is one of the objectives of the European Union. Social cohesion in the internal market in the 27 countries. But how can there be social cohesion when the market is fragmented? When do we have a double measure? When I see that my 11-year-old country is not in the Schengen area. We have two Europes, Schengen and Non-Schengen. And today we were discussin…

21 Nov

2022

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Implementation report on the European Innovation Council (short presentation)

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Madam President, Commissioner, an extremely important subject. The biggest mistake in private management is that when there's a crisis, you cut funding from research, from innovation. Unfortunately, in the public space, and here too, the European Commission has even considered this programme to stop it. We cannot promote, first of all, the disappointment of the companies that waited and believed i…

21 Nov

2022

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Borrowing strategy to finance NextGenerationEU (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I am sure that we are debating this report on the borrowing strategy for financing Next Generation, a necessary project, because yes, it is a crisis. But what we have to say to the citizens, because we don't talk in the abstract like that, we borrow 2 billion, 2000 billion, 450 billion. The citizen wants to know how he can influence this budget,…

10 Nov

2022

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A high common level of cybersecurity across the Union (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, I agree with what you have presented here. Now, 30 years after we celebrate the Single Market, I will speak from the perspective of the Single Market, but also of the citizen. Of course, there is no safe single market unless we also have a cyber defence policy. The problem that I see now that we have, is that the 27 states are at different stages of digitization, bec…

10 Nov

2022

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Racial justice, non-discrimination and anti-racism in the EU (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the subject is extremely important for humanity: hate, racism. From my point of view, being part of a humanist, social-liberal party in my country, I believe that man must be put at the centre of every action of us, of the Council, of the Commission, of Parliament, of everyone. But I wonder, does the European Council not discriminate against my cou…

9 Nov

2022

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 20-21 October 2022 (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, listening to today's debate, I am thinking about what a citizen would understand if he had listened to the debate. The President of the Council blames the Commission for not coming up with legislative proposals. Did the council find out now that winter is coming in three weeks? Why didn't he send the 9 measures that Mr. President was talking about …

9 Nov

2022

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 20-21 October 2022 (debate)

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Mr President, dear colleague, I have seen that you praise the work of the Council and the decisions taken at the last Council. That's the theme, too. And you said yes, the gas price went down. Are you aware that the bill for the citizen has also decreased? Because from the information I have, at least in my country, but maybe you tell me in Italy what is happening, the citizens' bills are exactly …

19 Oct

2022

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 20-21 October 2022 (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, today we are also debating something that we have been asking for for months. What the President of the Commission has presented to us, the citizens have heard before. We have also heard many times: proposals, proposals, proposals. The Council does not take any decision. Now, when we speak, the citizens of my country and other states have their bills regularized, pri…

18 Oct

2022

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Mental health (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, health, we all say that it is a priority. Mental health is also a priority. But you yourself, Commissioner, have said that during the pandemic, during the COVID period, the number of cases has increased, and yes, it has increased because, or because, you have taken measures that are not justified, and even the WHO has said so. Is anyone in charge of these cases? Now peo…

18 Oct

2022

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Keep the bills down: social and economic consequences of the war in Ukraine and the introduction of a windfall tax (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, we are talking about stopping the increase in bills, with social and economic consequences, but now that we are discussing, in very many Member States, bills are being regularised, bills are being raised, 10 times the cost of energy. And here, not only in my country, where citizens have notified me that electricity prices have increased 10 times, here, and in Belgium I …

5 Oct

2022

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The accession of Romania and Bulgaria to the Schengen area (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, Minister, ladies and gentlemen, I do not know if you can understand me, but I have a feeling of frustration. And that's not just me, but all the citizens of my country. How many times have we debated? How many times have we voted in the European Parliament? This is the second time the Commission has written to the Council, to the 27 Heads of State and Government, which,…

5 Oct

2022

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Russia’s escalation of its war of aggression against Ukraine (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, I want to ask you a question about what the President of the European Commission has said. The conflict in Ukraine is exacerbating the energy crisis. He said here, Madam President, that gas prices need to be capped, and I think everyone agrees. But I want to ask you what did the President mean by a ‘homogeneous level’ in the European Union market? What does a homogeneou…

4 Oct

2022

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Situation of Roma people living in settlements in the EU (debate)

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Dear colleagues, this is certainly not the first time we are debating the situation of the Roma in the European Union. We also have a plan, but, Commissioner, I want to draw attention to something that has also resulted from this debate. I have seen that the rapporteur and other colleagues have also nominated the countries of the East as being those that discriminate against the Roma. My country h…

4 Oct

2022

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AccessibleEU Centre in support of accessibility policies in the EU internal market (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we are talking about people, almost 80 million people in the European Union who have a greater or lesser disability. Almost 30%, Commissioner, are on the brink of poverty. Sure, we have a strategy for people with disabilities by 2030, but people need facts. I represent here in the European Parliament the Humanist Party in my country and we under…

4 Oct

2022

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Radio Equipment Directive: common charger for electronic devices (debate)

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Commissioner, President, colleagues, citizens are waiting for concrete things, and today we can demonstrate that together, Parliament, the Commission and the Council, we can offer citizens something concrete, namely savings. Citizens enjoyed it enormously, and I think you all know, when roaming was introduced, it was simply a euphoria, because the citizen felt he had something concrete. The same g…

3 Oct

2022

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Madam President, Commissioner, the energy crisis is worsening, winter is knocking on the door. From my point of view and from the point of view of the citizens I represent, from Romania, the European Commission is mimicking solidarity. And I'll explain why, Commissioner. Romania has only half of the households that use biomass. Less than half of households, 44%, are connected to methane gas. One t…

3 Oct

2022

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Impact of new technologies on taxation: crypto and blockchain (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we are discussing the impact of new technologies on taxation. It has been said here, of course, we must not run away from new solutions, new technologies. The only problem is that in order to establish a proper taxation according to the solution, we must have studies done and we must have them before new technological solutions and new technolog…

15 Sep

2022

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State of the SME Union (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, since I have been here in 2014, I have heard how important SMEs are. What strategy should we have for SMEs? Here you are again talking about the state of SMEs. You talked about the lack of access to finance, the huge bureaucracy, that's what we're talking about. I am Vice-President of the SME Intergroup and Vice-President for the Internal Market, but nothing is happe…