What Maria spoke about.

11 Sep

2025

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Summer of heatwaves in the EU: addressing the causes and providing adequate housing and health policies to address record-breaking temperatures (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, dear colleagues, in fact, today we are debating the development of coherent policies for housing and health, and here some colleagues are politicising. This is not what citizens expect, to turn any subject into a political dispute. We need to make these policies about fighting natural disasters. Now we are talking about the heat that has suffocated all of Europe. Yes, o…

10 Sep

2025

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Package travel and linked travel arrangements: make the protection of travellers more effective and simplify and clarify certain aspects (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, of course, we needed to correct or improve the existing directive on package travel and consumer protection. I also see myself as the Vice-Chair of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, but also as a former entrepreneur. I am glad that a balance has been reached in this amendment of the directive, because yes, we need to …

10 Sep

2025

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Implementation of EU-US trade deal and the prospect of wider EU trade agreements (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the outcome of a negotiation, whether it is a political agreement or a trade agreement, depends on the negotiating power. Sure, and courage, and competence. Let's be realistic, that was the power of the European Union. It has fallen year after year, and then we can't say that the one who has the greater bargaining power is guilty. We need the agree…

10 Sep

2025

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State of the Union (debate)

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You said that for the European Union, safety is the main thing. Of course, we debated today and the President presented us with the state of the European Union that goes beyond security and safety. Do you think that the programme presented by the President, among which she said she wanted to work with the European Parliament, is a solid programme, with clarity, transparency, cohesion, security and…

9 Sep

2025

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Cohesion policy (joint debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we are debating cohesion policy, perhaps the most important thing for the European project. The three reports: Just transition, housing crisis, simplification of cohesion funds, all of them, Mr Vice-President, can lead to real cohesion. The problem I'm putting here, and please answer: Do you think you are taking these reports ‐ the Commission ‐ …

9 Sep

2025

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Devastating wildfires in Southern Europe: the need to strengthen EU aid to restore the massive loss of forests and enhancing EU preparedness (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I begin by thanking the firefighters in my country and all over Europe, who this summer faced perhaps the most and most serious fires, and exposed their lives. In my country, you know that firefighters are number one in the popularity and trust of the population, but we must, Commissioner, have a coherent programme at European Union level. I've hea…

8 Sep

2025

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Investments and reforms for European competitiveness and the creation of a Capital Markets Union (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, you can see that here, too, in Parliament, there have been some colleagues from the far right who have said: What does the Commission want to do? To take the money from the citizens' accounts and use it. So badly communicated on this project, Commissioner, that the citizens also in my country asked me: Really? Are you going to regulate there? Yo…

10 Jul

2025

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Endometriosis: Europe’s wake-up call on the gender health gap (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, honourable colleagues, of course, we are debating, as my colleague said, perhaps too late. And on the last day of our plenary. But we need to fix this once and for all. It's been an overlooked disease for too long, Commissioner. And I remember addressing letters and oral questions to the Commission in 2023. However, millions of women live in silence, without diagnosis, …

10 Jul

2025

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Post-2027 Common Agricultural Policy (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the Common Agricultural Policy after 2027 must first and foremost be a policy of fairness, of responsibility towards all European farmers. Thank you, Commissioner, for the discussions we have had and I hope that you will come to my country, to Romania, to talk directly with the farmers, because this is what the farmers want. I represent them tod…

9 Jul

2025

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EU-US trade negotiations (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, trade negotiations between the European Union and the United States are vital, but we must admit that eight months have passed since the election of President Trump and we are not moving forward. You said, among other things, that "soon". You used this phrase: We'll have the text soon. Can you tell us more about this text? What will the negotiations ultimately be? Becau…

9 Jul

2025

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 26 June 2025 (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, President of the Council, I must say that I was pleased, Mr Costa, when you said that you make your decisions on the basis of facts, not perception. Unfortunately, when the President of the Commission came, she only put out empty words: “must, must, must”. And in the conclusions after seven months, you have no point on the social life of citizens. Mr President, witho…

8 Jul

2025

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Preparation for the 2025 EU–China Summit - Tackling China's critical raw materials export restrictions

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, 50 years of relationship with China and, if we take stock, we find that we have lost much of what we could have had in these 50 years. But I learned from an investor in President Ursula von der Leyen's country that you can't kill the competition, you have to learn smartly how to overcome it. That is why I believe that at the summit we need to pu…

7 Jul

2025

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Product safety and regulatory compliance in e-commerce and non-EU imports (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, product safety and compliance with e-commerce regulations (we are talking about products imported from third countries) must be increased. The number frightened me. In 2024, imports doubled compared to 2023. Millions of packages up to 150 euros have reached the citizens. We do not know whether the products are safe or not, but in any case, they mak…

19 Jun

2025

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Institutional and political implications of the EU enlargement process and global challenges (debate)

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Enlarging the European Union's space, in my view, is a necessity, and you have said it yourself. Do you think that before making the accession process of other states, we should reform and amend the Treaty related to the possibility of initiative of the European Parliament? I ask you: Should the current context, with the war in Ukraine, lead us to the conclusion that the Republic of Moldova is in …

18 Jun

2025

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Safeguarding the rule of law in Spain, ensuring an independent and autonomous prosecutor's office to fight crime and corruption (debate)

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Dear colleague, I did not understand, you said that Mr. Sánchez came to power illegally. I knew he was elected by the law of amnesty. Can you explain to me how it can go illegal for giving an amnesty law? This is 1 and 2, related to European funds, you know better that you are in the budget committee, European funds are controlled, there is control. I am in the Committee on Budgetary Control, how …

18 Jun

2025

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Upcoming NATO summit on 24-26 June 2025 (debate)

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Mr President, dear High Representative, dear colleagues, the upcoming NATO summit must start with the idea of peace and security, increasing the security of citizens. We are elected here and we represent the interest of citizens, and if we were to ask a question in all Member States, I think that citizens put security first. Of course we need schools, education, health, but if we don't have securi…

18 Jun

2025

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Upcoming NATO summit on 24-26 June 2025 (debate)

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You said in your intervention that it would be good to invest in hospitals, in schools, in society and not in the defence industry. I ask you, do you think that under war, under bombing, you can do education, you can do health, you can do wage growth? How can we, under the bombing, for example, as it is in Ukraine now, do what you say? Don't you think that first we must have peace, we must have pe…

17 Jun

2025

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2023 and 2024 reports on Moldova (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, I returned from the Republic of Moldova on Sunday, I am first vice-president of the delegation for the Republic of Moldova and I go there very frequently. I participated in extraordinary actions at the Academy of Sciences, Buiucani Medical Association. We have seen hearty people who want this European path and we need to support them. The Republic of Moldova certainly h…

17 Jun

2025

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Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience Facility (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, I believe that today's debates and the content of the report convince the Commission and I also hope that the Council will make this 18-month extension. You said yourself, we still have 68 goals to meet and more than half the amount to spend. These funds are necessary and we need to adapt, because new conditions have emerged, so I do not think that the Member States …

17 Jun

2025

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Combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child sexual abuse material and replacing Council Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA (recast) (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we are talking about combating sexual abuse and sexual exploitation. There are murders, let's not run away from words. It must be the harshest punishment, and we cannot speak of consent here either. How to give consent to a 6-year-old, 7-year-old child, were situations of sexually abused 5-year-old children. How to give consent? No, it's not abo…

16 Jun

2025

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Mr President, Commissioner, you have inherited from the old committee a programme for the reindustrialisation of the European Union. I also asked the question: Do we want to have an industry or are we just talking? I have some statistics from last year. Countries like my country, Romania, but also Italy, and Spain, and France have the industry, for example, for ceramic tiles almost destroyed, beca…

16 Jun

2025

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Strengthening rural areas in the EU through cohesion policy (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, strengthening rural areas is an extremely important objective. Commissioner, we need to think about the Cohesion Fund together with the Common Agricultural Policy, but not take money from the Common Agricultural Policy and put it into cohesion, because we have done nothing. We have opportunities and opportunities: to develop tourism, rural touri…

16 Jun

2025

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The human cost of Russia’s war against Ukraine and the urgent need to end Russian aggression: the situation of illegally detained civilians and prisoners of war, and the continued bombing of civilians (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, I have listened to you carefully and I must say that I am disappointed. You've given us some briefings, actually. The citizens who listen to us here have had enough of three years of us debating, making resolutions, the Commission noticing, and in fact not having anything happen. People are dying there, Commissioner. My country has welcomed refugees, children, and ad…

16 Jun

2025

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State of play and follow-up two years after the PEGA recommendations and the illegal use of spyware (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, here we are talking about such an important subject ‐ spyware ‐ in a democratic space, when we know well that espionage was characteristic of states in which there was a dictatorship. I come from a communist state and it is difficult for European citizens to understand how we can not have measures to counteract these programs. If the Commission mov…

7 May

2025

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EU support for a just, sustainable and comprehensive peace in Ukraine (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, now, when we must rejoice that it is 80 years since the end of the Second World War, we are on a powder keg and I am certainly not populist if I criticise the President, because every time she comes, says and leaves, she does not listen to us. I would have liked to know how the European Union is contributing to the reconstruction of Ukraine, bec…