What Maria spoke about.

23 Nov

2021

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Voting session

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, today I believe that we are voting on a very important report and I want to thank the Committee on Budgetary Control for entrusting me with this report. This is the resolution amending the regulation on the financial rules applicable to the budget of the European Union. In private life, we have learned that it is not enough to have a budget, it is …

11 Nov

2021

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The outcome of the EU-US Trade and Technology Council (TTC) (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, I believe that no one questions the need for an agreement between the European Union and the United States. I had a failure, from my point of view, with TTIP, I hope we don't get to the same point and I hope we learn from what happened in the TTIP negotiation. In fact, what I still see as unclear today is the harmonisation of standards, the abandonment of the princip…

10 Nov

2021

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Mr President, Commissioner, the pandemic crisis of almost two years, of course, has done a lot of damage to the economy, but the worst is that it has caused a lot of human casualties and could have saved a lot of people, at least, I know and know very well, in my country, in Romania. There's no coherent strategy, we don't have drugs. It is not right and it is not right and it is not humane for chr…

10 Nov

2021

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Disclosure of income tax information by certain undertakings and branches (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, I would first of all like to congratulate you on your ambition and your work. That is why I hope that this report of ours, which has been waiting for five years and, in fact, it is not us who are waiting, but the citizens, because, in the end, the money that is taken to tax havens impoverishes millions of citizens; Few become rich and many become poor. And yes, this …

10 Nov

2021

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Strengthening democracy, media freedom and pluralism in the EU (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, I believe that tonight's topic has been discussed before. Without freedom of the press and freedom of expression, we cannot say that we have a democracy. But we all know that in the crisis the pressure on the press is even greater, and here we are, two years ago, since we are in this crisis of the pandemic, if you analyze state by state, you will see that many journa…

10 Nov

2021

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The escalating humanitarian crisis on the EU-Belarusian border, in particular in Poland (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we are, I think, in a first-of-its-kind situation: a member state - and here we are not talking about the internal policy of Poland, but we must talk about the policy of the European Union -, a member state of the European Union now has on its border a human war, after all. We know, not since yesterday, that Lukashenko has a certain policy. We must…

21 Oct

2021

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Insurance of motor vehicles (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, today's debate is of particular importance for the citizens of the European Union, because, after all, it has a great deal to do with citizens' lives. Of course, it has been a long way, it has been said here, to debate the amendment of Directive 2009/103 on its efficiency and coherence. The European Commission itself has identified four points that we, in the work done …

6 Oct

2021

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European solutions to the rise of energy prices for businesses and consumers: the role of energy efficiency and renewable energy and the need to tackle energy poverty (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, we are in a real energy crisis on the brink of winter. You cannot take measures to close, as happened in my country, the Hunedoara Energy Complex without having alternative measures. Utilities are not a luxury for citizens, they are natural necessities, we learned this from Maslow. We cannot have millions of citizens who, now, in my country and in other states, canno…

16 Sep

2021

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Government crackdown on protests and citizens in Cuba

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Commissioner, Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, let me first express my sympathy to the victims in Cuba and say that yes, solidarity must not be within the national borders of a state or of the European Union, solidarity must not have a political colour. But we need to look at what we, the European Union, could do about what is happening in Latin America, in Cuba - here is this resolution, co…

8 Jul

2021

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Sustained price increase of raw and construction materials in Europe (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, as Vice-President of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, I am very pleased that today we are debating an extremely important subject, namely building materials, the lack of building materials, and I congratulate the Commission, and I congratulate you, Commissioner, on the fact that you mentioned in your speech that we have…

6 Jul

2021

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The creation of guidelines for the application of the general regime of conditionality for the protection of the Union budget (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, protecting the budget of the European Union is an essential obligation of all European and national institutions. After all, the European Union budget means citizens' money and that is why it must be protected, but let us not forget that the European Commission has the lever, Commissioner, and that is why I believe that the Commission must monitor breaches of th…

5 Jul

2021

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Financial activities of the European Investment Bank - annual report 2020 - Control of the financial activities of the European Investment Bank - annual report 2019 (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, today we are analysing a very important report. The European Investment Bank, as we know, is of particular importance in financing, especially now, after the pandemic crisis. However, I must express my dissatisfaction and I am surprised that the President of the EIB, in his speech, has shown that he is satisfied with how much he has financed SMEs, …