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Maria GRAPINI

MEP · Romania

Plenary speeches · European Parliament

Plenary speeches · EU Parliament

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Speeches updated 9 days ago

All Contributions

431

Since July 1, 2024

Time at the Floor

8.6h

≈ 517 min

Average speech length

1:17 min

≈ 1.3 min · Rank 561/693

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Since July 1, 2024

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1	Lukas Sieper	GermanyDE	Renew Europe (Renew)	369
2	Sebastian Tynkkynen	FinlandFI	European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR)	340
3	Juan Fernando López Aguilar	SpainES	Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D)	311
4	João Oliveira	PortugalPT	The Left in the European Parliament (GUE/NGL)	213
5	Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis	LithuaniaLT	Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D)	204

15 Sep

2022

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

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

15 Sep

2022

RO Speech

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

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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,…

14 Sep

2022

RO Speech

State of the Union (debate)

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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…

13 Sep

2022

RO Speech

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

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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…

13 Sep

2022

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Adequate minimum wages in the European Union (debate)

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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…

12 Sep

2022

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Energy efficiency (recast) (debate)

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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…

12 Sep

2022

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Energy efficiency (recast) (debate)

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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…

7 Jul

2022

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Sustainable aviation fuels (ReFuelEU Aviation Initiative) (A9-0199/2022 - Søren Gade)

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Mr President, this sure report is important, a negotiation has been attempted to strike a balance between the decarbonisation of the aviation sector and the possibilities of industry. I have always believed, as an engineer, that we must be realistic when we take some measures and do them at the pace at which, as the Commissioner said today, the industry can reach those objectives, especially since…

7 Jul

2022

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Developing an EU Cycling Strategy (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, obviously cycling is not just fun and leisure. The implications are manifold, from health to the replacement of more expensive and polluting means of transport. Obviously, from my point of view, it is not a strategy at European level that prevents Member States from having subsidiarity and from thinking about their mode of transport. But we are thi…

7 Jul

2022

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Sustainable aviation fuels (ReFuelEU Aviation Initiative) (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we must start from the idea that air transport is extremely important for the economy and that air transport in the European Union is not alone on Earth. We have air transport in other parts of the globe, where emissions are certainly much higher than in the European Union, where we have only 2%. I agree that we need to work on decarbonising the av…

7 Jul

2022

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Recent heat wave and drought in the EU (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, we are, in fact, discussing a subject that pertains to people's lives: heat, drought, fires. In my country, in the county where I live, they burned the wheat fields, they don't only burn the forests, they burn the grain. What are those farmers doing? They have bank loans. The cost of bank loans has increased, at least in my country. I'm left with nothing. We have a surv…

6 Jul

2022

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Financial activities of the European Investment Bank – annual report 2021 - Control of the financial activities of the European Investment Bank – annual report 2020 (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, Mr President, the European Investment Bank has an extremely important role in the European Union's economy, especially now, amid the triple crisis - I could say - because we started with the pandemic, as a result of the pandemic, we had an economic crisis, obviously, and now the crisis of war. I have read the report carefully and appreciate the work of the EIB as a w…

6 Jul

2022

RO Speech

Facilitating export of Ukrainian agricultural products: key for Ukrainian economy and global food security (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I have learned from a very young age that an injustice you do not remedy with another injustice, that solidarity must be done in such a way that you do not create other serious things. And yes, I speak from the perspective of my country, Romania. We were very open to helping refugees. Now we are very open to help transport grain, but we have pro…

6 Jul

2022

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 23-24 June 2022 (continuation of debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, of course, I regret that we no longer have the Council here, it is probably on its way somewhere, Mr President. I wanted to tell him that he informed us here that he had prepared a European political community. I wanted to remind him that, historically, the European Union must be an economic community. And what do we do for it: for the people of the European Union, for …

6 Jul

2022

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

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Madam President, Prime Minister, I appreciate, I tell you from the outset, the priorities of the Czech Presidency and I wish you success. I come from Romania, I know your country well. I was a child when, in 1968, your country was invaded by Russia, and I rejoiced when my parents suffered alongside the Czech Republic and when my country opposed the entry of Russia. But, Prime Minister, you have sp…

5 Jul

2022

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Common European action on care (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, on the issue of care, I believe that there are three main directions in which we must act. Of course, it falls within the competence of the Member States. I know the problem very well in my country and in the countries of the East. We have a problem, on the one hand, with those who do the act of care, very often they are treated without dignity, th…

23 Jun

2022

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National vetoes to undermine the global tax deal (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, here is, once again, a deadlock in the Council. Yes, hiding under subsidiarity that taxation falls within the competence of the national state is ridiculous, because here we are talking about an agreement to put an end to the scourge, to put an end to tax evasion, which is transnational. Let's be serious! They cannot fight SMEs in a Member State or…

22 Jun

2022

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, tonight I want to talk about the rights of carriers, freight forwarders, in the European Union market. I have received many petitions and recently I was on a visit from the TRAN Committee to France to see whether or not the Mobility Package we voted on here is having a negative effect. And yes, we found that, as I said in the debates on the mobi…

22 Jun

2022

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Future of EU international investment policy (short presentation)

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Madam President, Commissioner, frankly, I regret that this important project is being debated very briefly, without allotted time and at such a late hour. I believe that we must be interested in the future of international investment, in the policy that we are doing on international investment, because yes, and in my country I have met exactly what the rapporteur was saying here: heavy money is so…

22 Jun

2022

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 23-24 June 2022, including the meeting with Western Balkan leaders on 23 June - Candidate status of Ukraine, the Republic of Moldova and Georgia (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, Minister, I took the floor here today, because I wanted to ask you, Minister, - do you conclude your Presidency - if you do not think that the Council should never exist, should it never be missing from the agenda and the discussion about the situation of citizens in the European Union? Today I had a debate in my country about the perspective of the European Union and I…

9 Jun

2022

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A new trade instrument to ban products made by forced labour (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, I must say that I am very glad that we have come up with this subject, but, as was said here, if it took 10 years to keep discussing finding an instrument, I hope it will not take another 10 years until we apply it. Because, you see, we had discussed an important topic before. Parliament has no power of legislative initiative and we are at the mercy of the Commission: t…

9 Jun

2022

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The call for a Convention for the revision of the Treaties (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, representative of the Council, I can only begin with a criticism of you, because the reason is childish, to say that the train is late. You have to take action, to be here, on such an important subject. Because a colleague from Renew reminded me of what Mr Macron said, I will also remind you what he said in 2017. I am pro-European. I, I am pro-European and I want the Eu…

9 Jun

2022

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The call for a Convention for the revision of the Treaties (debate)

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Dear colleague, I understand from your speech that you support this topic and I support it, at least from two points of view: the fact that Parliament does not have the right of legislative initiative and the fact that, behold, my country stands outside, because only one country opposes it, being unanimous in the Council. But, I ask you, do you think we need to go towards a federal union or remain…

7 Jun

2022

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Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System - Social Climate Fund - Carbon border adjustment mechanism - Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System for aviation - Notification under the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) (joint debate – Fit for 55 (part 1))

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, what we will do tomorrow will probably decide the direction in which the internal market of the European Union and the lives of its citizens will take. I am worried and I am worried because I know the situation in many countries very well. I am best aware of the situation in my country, in Romania, and if we apply Procust’s bed when we have states …

7 Jun

2022

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Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System - Social Climate Fund - Carbon border adjustment mechanism - Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System for aviation - Notification under the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) (joint debate – Fit for 55 (part 1))

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Dear colleague, you spoke of ambition and I want to ask you whether you now, knowing the package we have to vote for tomorrow, consider that the ambition is strictly in line with reality and whether it is covered by everything we have to vote for tomorrow, the issue of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, industry, because the French Commissioner, who belongs to your group, has just launched…