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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…

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Implementation report on the European Innovation Council (short presentation)

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…

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Borrowing strategy to finance NextGenerationEU (debate)

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,…

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

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…

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

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…

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

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 …

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

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 …

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

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…

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Mental health (debate)

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…

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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)

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 …

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

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,…

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

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…

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

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…

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

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…

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

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…

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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…

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

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…

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Sep

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State of the SME Union (debate)

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…

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2022

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Implementation of the Updated New Industrial Strategy for Europe: aligning spending to policy (debate)

Sorry, I was here at 9.00. I was on the phone but stayed here. I was the first person in Parliament.

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Statute and funding of European political parties and European political foundations (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, the quality of the political act depends on how we choose people, how we know them. Obviously, for this, citizens need information, and information is done when you have a budget. I agree to regulate and make transparent the financing of political parties both at national and European level. The problem is that funding is only for big parties. People new to politics,…

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Sep

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State of the Union (debate)

Dear colleague, you said that the State of the Union speech has been the best since you have been in this House, and yes, if I think about it, the President has very often said ‘I need’ and ‘I want’, it is true. Now, however, when we speak, 25 million European citizens have the minimum wage and we cannot talk about the future and the 2030 and 2050 targets without knowing what we are doing now, bec…

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EU response to the increase in energy prices in Europe (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the energy strategy must not be left-wing, right-wing, in the European Union or in the Member States. Energy policies and measures must be for people. I'm worried and I ask: Why do we discuss and pass 5-6 months in inventory the problems of the energy crisis and do not find the measures to apply them? We see that today we are debating, and it wi…

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Adequate minimum wages in the European Union (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, frankly, I am glad that we have come to have such a debate and tomorrow to have a vote. Yes, they're poor, a lot of people are poor. The adequate wage, obviously we have to see what it means appropriately, because if in Germany, the hourly wage is 12 euros, in Romania it is three. But I have to say one thing very clearly. If a country opposes the introduction of a minim…

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Energy efficiency (recast) (debate)

Mr. President, it wasn't a question, it was an explanation. I hope that when applying, of course, it is also the responsibility of the Member States, but I hope that when applying it it will be absolutely pragmatic and with the calculation of the impact, because we cannot misfortune a generation now in the states that cannot comply with these targets. In my country it will not be possible, that is…

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Energy efficiency (recast) (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I do not think there is anyone who does not want energy efficiency. The problem is that we need to think about the context in which we are doing this. When we started the debate about energy efficiency, there were totally different conditions. I come from a communist country, Commissioner. I lived in the cold, I lived without light, I did my homewo…