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

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…

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2022

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Developing an EU Cycling Strategy (debate)

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…

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Sustainable aviation fuels (ReFuelEU Aviation Initiative) (debate)

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…

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2022

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Recent heat wave and drought in the EU (debate)

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…

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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)

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…

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2022

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

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…

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

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 …

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

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…

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2022

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Common European action on care (debate)

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…

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2022

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National vetoes to undermine the global tax deal (debate)

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…

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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…

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Future of EU international investment policy (short presentation)

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…

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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)

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…

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2022

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

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…

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2022

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

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…

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

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…

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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))

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 …

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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))

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…

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Establishing the European Education Area by 2025 – micro credentials, individual learning accounts and learning for a sustainable environment (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, of course education is very important for economic competence and competitiveness and for the social order, after all, within the European Union. Of course, we must start from the idea that education is subsidiarity, it is the competence of the Member States. The question to the Commission is how, in a complementary way, the European Commission, the European Union, coul…

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Madam President, Commissioner, I have chosen to speak today about dual citizenship in the European Union versus the double standard. And why I chose this. Romania has over one million workers in Spain. They live there, they have families there, they have children. And yet, they do not have access to all jobs - as we say, that in the European Union, all European citizens have access - because they …

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2022

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Minimum level of taxation for multinational groups (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, I believe that the debates on this issue lead in one sense, namely that we must hurry to apply this minimum level of taxation for multinationals, because it is something that is expected not only by us, by the MEPs who have spoken here, it is expected by the citizens, it is expected by micro-enterprises, by small and medium-sized enterprises. We need to achieve a tax…

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2022

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2021 Report on North Macedonia (debate)

Mr President, we all know that the Western Balkans are geographically part of Europe. We all know what has been repeated here: The Council has already approved the accession of North Macedonia to the European Union since 2020. And we also know, or should know, the leadership of the European Union, that we need to make political decisions in context, and we all know the context now: the war in Ukra…

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May

2022

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Commission’s 2021 Rule of Law Report (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, we have debated the rule of law a lot. I am also a member of the Committee on Civil Liberties and Justice, I voted for this conditionality for European funds; I am also a member of the Committee on Budgetary Control, but I am also a Vice-Chair of the Committee on the Internal Market and the uncertainty that has remained in the minds of citizens is why the citizen has…

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2022

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EU Association Agreement with the Republic of Moldova (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, today's debate on the agreement on Moldova's accession to the European Union is welcome. Mrs. President is also welcome, who presented her point of view, but I think it is necessary not only to vote on this agreement, but to find a solution to help and support the citizens of the Republic of Moldova, now that they are in the face of fire, in the fa…

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2022

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The impact of the war against Ukraine on women (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we all know that traffic networks are becoming stronger and more active in the crisis. Women are the most exposed. Violence and rape is not only against women, it is also against girls, minors. I believe, Commissioner, that we need to have a record of the most vulnerable women who have remained in Ukraine, who have not been able to leave, who ne…