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2024

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A stronger Europe for safer products to better protect consumers and tackle unfair competition: boosting EU oversight in e-commerce and imports (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we are talking about consumer protection and fair competition in the market, Commissioner. Of course, we have debated today and we are debating online commerce. We have a lot of rules, you've listed them. I ask: Can a citizen, a consumer who has purchased a product online defend himself if the product is defective, if he gets sick, if the product is not complian…

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Oct

2024

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Implementation of the Single European Sky (recast) (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, for ten years I have been on the Committee on Transport and we have been debating the need to improve the Single European Sky. Transportation by air is extremely important. I was talking earlier at Mr Letta's report about connectivity, about free movement. Commissioner, I have four flights a week – it is not only because of weather conditions that …

21

Oct

2024

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Empowering the Single Market to deliver a sustainable future and prosperity for all EU citizens (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, Mr Letta, I also greet you this week. I'd say a lot. First of all, congratulations: is an accurate X-ray, but not only an X-ray, there are also concrete measures. I would ask you, do you estimate how much of this report will apply? Because, behold, the new committee does not have a Commissioner, there is no portfolio for the internal market. Who is in charge of the i…

10

Oct

2024

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World Mental Health Day - need for a comprehensive EU strategy on mental health (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, of course, we are debating on World Day for Combating Mental Illness, the possibility of having a strategy. Is that enough? No, it's not! We need to reassure citizens that we will have this strategy, and the strategy must go to the causes, not look at the effects. Prevention is very important and it is necessary to have budgets to do prevention. Wh…

9

Oct

2024

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Ensuring sustainable, decent and affordable housing in Europe - encouraging investment, private property and public housing programmes (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we are talking about ensuring decent housing throughout the European Union, especially for young people. Of course I don't want it to remain a slogan. We have to think about how we do this, because it's not enough to want. We have a commissioner on the house, it's very good. We cannot talk about demographic growth as long as young people cannot hav…

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Oct

2024

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Strengthening Moldova's resilience against Russian interference ahead of the upcoming presidential elections and a constitutional referendum on EU integration (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I do not think anyone can think that the Republic of Moldova does not need support. It has a special year now, referendum and elections. And I think, Commissioner, you said a certain amount, more money is needed, but they need something else. I know the Republic of Moldova very well, I am in the delegation for three mandates, I know what is there, …

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Oct

2024

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The crisis facing the EU’s automotive industry, potential plant closures and the need to enhance competitiveness and maintain jobs in Europe (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, I think you agree with me that an economy without industry has no future. You have just been nominated for a portfolio in the economy and I believe very strongly, Commissioner, that when a decision is made, deadlines are set for the industry, as was the case with the automotive industry, an important pillar which has 14 million jobs and has a positive balance. When a de…

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Oct

2024

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Preparation of the European Council of 17-18 October 2024 (debate)

Mr President, Minister, Commissioner, very important words have been used here: competitiveness, innovative industry, jobs, raising living standards. I hope that next week's Council is not like that, just to tick the Draghi report and talk about competitiveness. How can we do, Commissioner, how can we do, Minister, with energy that is three times more expensive than in the United States? How can w…

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Sep

2024

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The historic CJEU ruling on the Apple state aid case and its consequences (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, this is possible! If we act, we can. This Apple penalty is an example that we have to go down this path, to recover the money, tax evasion. I voted for a lot of things here: profit to be taxed at large companies, where they do it, to pursue tax havens, not to kill SMEs, because when we protect these tax evasions at large companies, obviously we no …

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Sep

2024

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Droughts and extreme weather events as a threat to local communities and EU agriculture in times of climate change (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, first of all, let me express my condolences to the families of Romania and other Eastern countries who have lost loved ones and sympathy for those who are now standing in the water and in the rain and without homes. Commissioner, you said, among other things, that we need to make an assessment of the impact on farmers and reduce the effects of floods. I ask you, after f…

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Sep

2024

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The Hungarian “National Card” scheme and its consequences for Schengen and the area of freedom, security and justice (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, we have discussed here and there have been pros and cons on the issue of the Hungarian card and the Schengen area. I'm not going to add anything. I will relate to what a colleague said: "the biggest conquest is the Schengen area" and on this statement I will put a question to the Commission and a question to the Minister. Commissioner, I know that it is not you who shou…

18

Sep

2024

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The devastating floods in Central and Eastern Europe, the loss of lives and the EU’s preparedness to act on such disasters exacerbated by climate change (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I can only begin by offering my condolences to the families who have lost their lives in the countries of the East. There are 8 dead in my country. It is a disaster if one doubts the magnitude of the disaster. Look at the pictures: children who remove mud from school; soldiers, gendarmes, volunteers work to take people out on their arms. Commission…

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Sep

2024

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State of the Energy union (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we are talking about a subject that is extremely important, because on energy, you know, Commissioner, competitiveness depends, the possibility of reindustrialisation depends and, in the end, people's lives depend. That's why I allow myself to say something from the Draghi report. Mr Draghi tells us here that Europe's fundamental values are prosper…

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Sep

2024

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The future of European competitiveness (debate)

You talked about the Draghi report, which I also listened to carefully. My question is: one point in the Draghi report is that we have strong education and health systems in Europe, and it said this as a strong point in the report – do you agree that we have strong education and health systems? From my point of view, precisely here is the weak point and, if we are talking about competitiveness, wi…

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Sep

2024

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Global measures towards social media platforms - Strengthening the role of DSA and protecting democracy and freedom in the online sphere (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, it is sad that we are witnessing fake news live. Colleagues from the far right called this document, which has been extensively worked on, censorship, although the Commissioner announced from the outset that there was no moderation of the content. I know this document very well, as Vice-Chair of the Committee on the Internal Market, and I tell you …

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Sep

2024

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Continued financial and military support to Ukraine by EU Member States (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I condemn from the outset, I condemn war and the killing of innocent people. Romanians are also dying there because part of Ukraine... in Ukraine, part of the historical territories were Romania's. What I want to say, Commissioner, is: I was very attentive to communication. I believe that we need to change the way we communicate in order to have…

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Sep

2024

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Continued financial and military support to Ukraine by EU Member States (debate)

Mr President, you have said what is right and what is wrong from your point of view. What needs to be done? Tell the Commission, tell us, what are the steps to stop the slaughter. Because it's... (The President interrupted the speaker) You have said what is right and what is wrong from your point of view, but what is the concrete measure or what are the concrete measures? Tell them here: What do w…

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Sep

2024

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Outcome of the Strategic Dialogue on the Future of EU Agriculture (debate)

Commissioner, President, ladies and gentlemen, we are discussing an extremely important document, we are talking about the future of agriculture. Commissioner, you have made some very important points, but know that there is still the concern of the European Agricultural Community and I will tell you why. You talked about fair incomes for farmers. Well, how can they have fair revenues when, on the…

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Apr

2024

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Effective coordination of economic policies and multilateral budgetary surveillance - Speeding up and clarifying the implementation of the excessive deficit procedure – amending Regulation - Requirements for budgetary frameworks of the Member States – amending Directive (joint debate – Economic governance)

Mr President, Commissioners, ladies and gentlemen, it is good and necessary to look at economic governance and to strengthen the budget of the European Union. It was necessary, there are some good things done, which lead to the possibility that Member States could press on the acceleration of investments, for example, not taking into account the deficit of co-financing on strategic investments. It…

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2024

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Conclusions of the recent European Council meetings, in particular on a new European Competitiveness deal and the EU strategic agenda 2024-2029 (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we are looking at competitiveness at the end of the mandate, at the statement by the Commission and the Council. The President of the Commission is performing well, because in five years she has not been able to sit in any plenary to hear the views of MEPs to the end. What performance should we talk about, Madam President? You have shown the gre…

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Apr

2024

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Prohibiting products made with forced labour on the Union market (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I believe that we are ending this mandate with extremely important reports: combating forced labour. Although we have a convention from 1930, we must say that forced labour has not decreased. In just five years, from 2016 to 2021, it has increased by almost 3 million people who actually suffer from this forced labour. Why? Who are the worst? The…

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Apr

2024

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Internal markets for renewable gas, natural gas and hydrogen (recast) - Common rules for the internal markets for renewable gas, natural gas and hydrogen (recast) - Union’s electricity market design: Regulation - Union’s electricity market design: Directive (joint debate – Reform of the energy and electricity markets)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I think it is an extraordinary thing that I am ending my mandate with this extremely important package. As co-rapporteur on behalf of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, we obviously wanted to make this package in such a way as to protect, on the one hand, vulnerable consumers, on the other hand, to take care of small and …

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Apr

2024

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Discharge 2022 (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, honourable Court of Auditors, I must say that I am frustrated when I heard the Commissioner say that the Commission's transparency is at the highest level. At the same time, we are well aware that we are struggling, both the Ombudsman, the Court of Auditors and we, the Committee on Budgetary Control, to find out what happened to the money and contracts concluded by the …

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2024

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Return of Romanian national treasure illegally appropriated by Russia (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, today's resolution is a sign that Romania needs solidarity. We are members of the European Union, we need support. Commissioner, you said it was a bilateral issue. Yes, but what is the purpose of the Union, after all? You should know that Romania is not now asking for the first time for the return of the treasure and to end with the robbery made…

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2024

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Type-approval of motor vehicles and engines with respect to their emissions and battery durability (Euro 7) (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I believe that the Commission has taken the wrong approach, the Commission has taken the wrong approach: that environmental protection, the Green Deal, is in opposition to industrial policy. No, it must be neither industrial policy against environmental policy, nor vice versa. However, we must keep in mind that the transition from one technology to…