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Mr President, I voted in favour of this resolution for young researchers because, indeed, researchers in all Member States need some form of support. For example, in Bulgaria and other Eastern European countries, support for young doctoral students is clearly not enough for them to have a quality of life that allows them to develop and work scientifically. Not to mention the importance of this for entrepreneurship, for businesses, for European countries to be competitive and to be able to respond to competition from countries outside the European continent, such as the United States of America and China, for example. So I think, unlike many other resolutions that are voted here and are just scary, this is a step in the right direction and a similar attitude should be promoted towards young researchers, young doctoral candidates, young researchers to produce surplus value of products made in the EU by the Member States of the European Union.

on behalf of the ALDE Group. - Mr President, I have strongly voted against this report. This is one of the most important documents adopted by this European Union. In it, in this report, which absolutely changes its meaning – it is called almost for the protection of the rights of persons who are adopting and adopted, it is in fact an undisguised propaganda of the so-called rainbow families, same-sex and the like. There is no stronger, brighter, more visible, more flagrant name change and propaganda. In that report, that document mentions the word ‘mother’ three times, three times, while the word or definition ‘the person who gave birth to the child’ is mentioned more than 16 times. This speaks for itself and very clearly shows the propaganda nature of the document. Once again, it shows that Parliament has been used as a propaganda platform. Rainbow, I do not know what, any other such things that have nothing to do with the title that is written above. In this way, anti-family propaganda is carried out, which cannot be tolerated.

Member of the Commission. - Mr President, my colleague Kohut, a little something has got the debate mixed up, I hope it's okay with his thoughts on suicide. At the end of the day, everyone says whatever they want. It's kind of like Hyde Park, but that's not the point. The topic is on how to improve the application of European Union law. Here I immediately address the Commissioner with a remark on her allegations. European Union law is based on the Treaties on the Functioning of the European Union and the Commission is entrusted with tasks under those Treaties. No one can claim more rights than they are granted under the Treaties, and no one should think of having more rights. There are different ranks and hierarchies of legislative acts that confer rights and obligations on the European Commission, the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg, as well as on national courts and their several instances. So I ask you very much, do not try, do not imagine to appropriate more rights than you have and to turn the European courts, the European Commission, into a kind of ombudsman. To engage in such non-personal tasks as defending the imaginary rights of groups of people who imagine that they have them and do everything else to impose them on us in some way. For example, I give you the so-called tourism of rainbow families who travel around different countries and try to provoke national laws. You have your obligations under the law, Commissioner, I hope you'll pay attention to me. Maybe you're checking something out of what I'm telling you? Yeah, that's great. You have obligations that are given to you on the basis of the Treaties and you must act within the framework of the Treaties.

Mr President, there are exactly six people in this House, which is a scandalous attitude to the debates, because it is not even afternoon. I'm tempted to ask you to check the quorum and close this meeting, which would straighten everyone's hair. So maybe it is right, because such an attitude to debates is offensive. Mr. Chairman, please take a stand. Let the groups gather the people to come to the hall, even if they pretend to be interested. This is a scandalous treatment of taxpayers. Six people on Thursday morning, not after a vote, not in a hurry for planes. Look at the room, the people upstairs are the taxpayers, and they're looking at this job, and that probably annoys them. Now on to the subject of the treaties. It is no secret that the European institutions are trying to appropriate more competences than they have and than they are given. And that's not right. The Union must be a union of independent, free, sovereign states, which have competences as much as they have been given by the Treaties. Therefore, Commissioner, what you have to do in the Commission is to be very careful when applying Article 218 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. Either way, Mr President, there is no one in this Chamber, you can let me have a little more talk. We have to entertain the audience anyway, but still, Commissioner, be careful when... (President takes the speaker's floor)

My colleague Ilčić is right. This report is not about the right to parenthood and the right to adoption, this report is only about the imposition of LGBT ideology, about same-sex marriage, about rainbow families, about pink ponies, unicorns and all the other things that are in your heads, colleagues. And it proves the text of the report and your behavior here in the room. Two-thirds of those defending the report are talking about same-sex couples and rainbow families, and I don't know what else, as if there are no other real problems in this Union and these countries, but that is of course your problem. But I'm showing you some proof of the claim I'm making now. Read the text of the report you have proposed. The word mother is mentioned in it only three times, three times in a legislative proposal. 16 times you have the definition of the person who gave birth to the child. I have a secret for you, colleagues, the person who gave birth to the child is always a woman. Only women give birth and women who give birth are mothers. That's the mother. There are no people who have given birth to the child. You may decide in your heads that something else is giving birth, but mothers are giving birth, and this is the biological, objective reality. Всичко друго е в сферата на Вашите фантазии.

My dear fellow Member, you said that a minority had a different opinion in this House. Was it not your group and your groups who argued that every minority should be respected and that the opinion of every minority should be taken into account? If that is the case, dear lady, then you should consider and respect and take into account the opinion of the minority. Am I wrong or am I not wrong?

Madam President, an expected leftist, expected federalist, expectedly not very much saying report, carried out in the best traditions of the European Union. I congratulate his authors, who look at me there wisely, who write and say in an awful lot of words little, little essential things. I see they're happy, which is good. I'm serious here. However, these things with the leading candidate, with federalism, will not happen to you much, colleagues, will not happen to you. You asked the EPP for a lead candidate, you had a lead candidate. What did you do? You fought something, and then you changed it. You put Mrs von der Leyen on the table, she wasn't your lead candidate. Someone else was your lead candidate, so this job's a little off for you. However, I hear that you are concerned that in European countries the debates were not very European, they were national. Well, what are they? What would they be if they weren't European, if they weren't for the things that matter to the people in the countries that live, wouldn't be Martian? For example, the debate on Schengen is important to us. So a lot of federalism, zero score, but still success! Take it easy! Child is said, if you do not help, at least do not harm.

This happened during the last session, here in the room of the European Parliament, started in the room of the European Parliament and continued in committee.

Madam President, I would like to bring to your attention a point of order concerning a breach of Rule 10 of the Rules of Procedure of the European Parliament. This is the conduct of a Member of the European Parliament that is contrary to the Rules of Procedure. Please take a stand.

Madam President, "Job creation, just transition, positive investments" is the report that I did not support and voted against. Dear colleagues, this sounds like the title of a report delivered to the Political Bureau of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the European Soviet Union on the successful implementation of the Five-Year Plan or in the countries of the Union for Mutual Economic Assistance, the younger of you do not remember this at all. Another report amplified by green alarmism, which focuses on climate change without taking into account that Europe as a continent is actually the smallest polluter. And despite the good title, this report does not suggest measures to secure jobs. On the contrary, it aims and will succeed in closing down jobs and leading to the depopulation of entire regions. This will also happen in Bulgaria, with the closure of coal-fired tets in the Marish basin. Apropo, those who talk about green energy, now see how much electricity is produced from these coals and how much is produced by the fins. Twelve thousand people work there, and the enterprise is the backbone of the economy and energy in the region. This just transition will put them out of work, and the money allocated under the mechanism for it will sink into certain companies that make fins and solar batteries – nothing more. I therefore voted firmly against the report. It is anti-investment, anti-market, anti-industrial, anti-European in essence. Europe needs development, business, a strong economy, not the green communism of a planned economy.

Madam President, I voted in favour of the report on this strategic compass and the European Union's space-based defence capabilities. In the current geopolitical context of increasing strategic competition and increasing threats to the European Union, decisive steps must be taken to ensure its security. On 10 March 2023, the first ever EU space strategy for security and defence was adopted, and this is important and useful. The Union lags far behind other space powers. We have seen in practice how important geospatial images and strong connectivity are in military targets, maneuvering and defense. Our task is to have autonomy in this area, to guarantee European countries with access to such systems. All these actions must be within the framework of the North Atlantic Treaty and in line with its strategic actions. The report is ambitious and probably seems very distant, but I believe that, on the basis of the serious military rift in Europe and the military conflicts at our borders, measures must be taken to ensure the security and defence of the Union.

Madam President, Commissioner, I rarely approve and rarely agree with Commission proposals, but that is one such thing. This is a good undertaking, so the Commission can be congratulated, which rarely happens to me. I want you to mark it. That's not usually the case. And yes, the suggestion to support young researchers is useful, but if you accept recommendations, I would make one, of course, and it is related to the fact that young researchers should be encouraged to engage in real science. Science that brings surplus value, science that supports the development of high technologies, science in the field of sciences such as mathematics, physics, biology, chemistry, astronomy – things that would help young Europeans to be competitive and develop an economy that can produce surplus product and technology to stay in Europe. It is my personal view that ‘social’ in quotation marks, such as critical racial theory or various gender studies, are not aimed precisely at scientific potential and the scientific world. They are ideology rather than science, and they are politics rather than science. So if you focus the Commission's efforts on actually supporting researchers in the realms of science, those who have surplus value and an accurate product, that would be useful. If we deviate, as is happening in the United States of America and in Britain, from topics relating to absolutely false and absolutely unreal spheres such as those I mentioned earlier – the so-called critical racial theory, for the second time I tell you, and the various so-called gender studies – this will aid the ideologisation of universities, destroy science, equate and dilute the efforts of young people, and steer them in the wrong direction. The results of researchers in the United States and the United Kingdom who fall into similar fields are visible. We can see how the general educational level falls and what are the results of the transfer of ideology and politics into the spheres of science. This is not useful, but otherwise for the rest of the endeavor congratulations. That deserves support.

Madam President, I have strongly voted against this proposal because it is harmful, it is against the interests of citizens, of the Member States. Not only do you turn the European Union into a European Soviet Union, as you rename even the Commission to an Executive Commission – this is like the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The Commissioner-General will be called the Secretary-General. It's so, so ironic that if it wasn't sad, it would be funny. But leave the laughter. Nothing you do today is funny. What is happening is to take away the powers from the Member States and hand over to no one the elected, unelected anonymous officials in Brussels. You are taking away the right of veto, which is extremely important because it equalizes the powers of states. There's no big or small. When you take away this right, the small countries remain second-hand, as are currently Bulgaria and Romania, which are not in Schengen. And this is a disgrace, because it is hypocrisy, a double standard, and it condemns states to be outside the common, to be second-hand, to be second-class. This is wrong, this is harmful. This will cause damage to the European Union. We will continue to fight, but for the European Union, which is the European Union of Fatherlands, of sovereign states, not a Soviet socialist European Union.

Mr President, the Copenhagen criteria are a very good thing, but they are not respected. They are not respected and are not applied as they should be. This should mean that communities that can and want to define themselves in a certain way should be able to do so. Especially countries that want to be candidates for membership in the European Union. Such a country is, forgive the repetition, North Macedonia. It denies the right to national self-determination. It was suppressed and it was taken away and denied to those people who are Macedonian citizens but with Bulgarian national consciousness. And all the colleagues who work here should know that. Especially colleagues from the so-called former Yugoslavia and colleagues from Austria. You're working on it. You know well that pressure must be put on a government in Skopje so that what we all want can happen. We all want the Republic of North Macedonia to start negotiations and join the European Union because its place is in the European Union. We all know that there is pro-Kremlin and pro-Belgrade propaganda there, and it must be stopped. But it's also your role to influence this government. Your task and role is to put pressure on this government and allow Bulgarians to define themselves as Bulgarians in order for this country to start negotiating with the European Union.

Madam President, yes, it is a point of order, if I may. I would like to ask you to postpone Wiener report, ‘Sustainable use of plant protection products’, under Rule 200.

Madam President, Mr Prime Minister, colleagues, Prime Minister, you started your introduction with short historical references, which, however, from my point of view, were quite, quite partial. Let me remind you that around today's dates in the years back, there is also the Neuilly dictatorship and the illegal occupation of the western Bulgarian outskirts, the black border, which happen with the consent of the state of France, to which you thank today. With tacit consent, violation of treaties, division of settlements, persecution of people, only, the intervention of President Wilson saved the Bulgarian nation from division. This should also be remembered, it should be said specifically here in Strasbourg, because no one benefits from the partial citation of history. My impression, Prime Minister, is that you were wrong about President Kennedy's epitaph on his tombstone. You said, we need to see what we are doing for Europe, for the European Union. You are a Bulgarian Prime Minister, not a high-ranking European official. You have to ask yourself what the Bulgarian government is doing for the Bulgarian citizens. Every morning in front of the mirror you should ask yourself this, because the Bulgarian citizens are your bosses and employers, not the European bureaucrats. These are the important things. Otherwise you said that you see white balloons, that you see beautiful colorful kites and colorful balloons, white pigeons. Surely, however, Bulgarian citizens see high prices for fuel, transport, etc. This is because Bulgaria is not in Schengen and Bulgaria is not in Schengen, Mr Denkov, because the economic interests of some of the European countries stand in the way, they are economic. Bulgaria has fulfilled all its obligations, but some people are fulfilling their economic interests, and that is what you should tell them. You are the Prime Minister. You have to say in the European Council, Bulgarian citizens cannot suffer because of your economic interests. There can be no high prices, the Bulgarians cannot stay outside. We can't be second-hand people. He can't. It is not European, it is not European and it is not right. Everything else is hypocrisy. Everything else is a double standard. We can't afford this thing. You are not a travel agent. You are the Prime Minister. You have to knock on the table and talk important to these people so that they understand you. You also quoted our support for Ukraine. It's important, and it has to be there, of course. But when we support people in distress and need, you should demand the support of these people for Macedonia, for the Bulgarian cause in Macedonia. Because you didn't mention a word about repression, about violence, about the denial of the right to self-determination. Colleague Séjourne, you talk about how you will support us, but there are people in your group who pretend not to see the violence against the Bulgarians in Macedonia. Explain it to them. They are in your group. You are applying for Renew. There will be chiefs of MRF, they in Bulgaria will be your chiefs and here they will be your chiefs. There's nothing wrong with that. That's how you chose it, and that's how you arranged it. No, this is not a problem especially, but still tell them there is violence against the Bulgarians in Macedonia. This is not European. The right to self-determination, the right to national self-esteem, the right to national dignity are European values, European values. Behind you are your diplomats. Tell them, when defending these cases in Strasbourg, to be more active, to really defend the Bulgarian cause. Because these are the important things. Oh, hey, hey! The western outskirts, we talked about the occupation, about the Neuilly Dictatorship. There's a poet there named Ivan Nikolov. This month on the eighth, on Arkhangelovden, on the day of occupation, of Kosovo were Serbian authorities and civilian policemen with a poet. They're searching him. Call him, look at this man, give him support. His right to self-determination was violated by the Serbian authorities, pro-Belgrade, pro-Kremlin. This also happens in Macedonia, this is denied to the Bulgarians and this cannot continue in the same way. About Schengen, we've already talked about it. You were going to check the subsidies, but check them, the agricultural ones. The difference in subsidies is what makes Bulgarian farmers poorer, less competitive. This has to be checked and this has to be put here. This needs to be discussed and put on the agenda. Carriers, you once again talked a lot about what is happening in an international context in Chad, in Mali and in Burkina Faso. These are important things, but I think the agenda of the Bulgarian Prime Minister and the focus should be on the interests of the Bulgarian citizens and how they, the Bulgarian citizens, should have access to the single market, to travel, to the European perspectives and horizons, and not to be second-hand citizens. So on a personal level I wish you good health, but in political terms you will need a lot of firmness, a lot of courage, a lot of character and a lot of political backbone to defend the Bulgarian interest. The Bulgarian interest in the formats you have to represent it and you have to resist it.

Mr President, while the European Parliament is struggling to preserve the European eel, something certainly very important, and in Bulgaria the inept government, the non-coalition assembly, manages to fail, to steal and to corrupt an election. There's no joke, there's no cheating. At 9.45 on 20 November, the European Parliament debated the European eel. These are good things, important things. In the midst of two fierce wars raging on our borders, we, you fight the eel, for it, I don't know. One would think that it might be difficult to make Parliament look more ridiculous, but you are doing your best. Anyway, it's not that important. More importantly, however, in Bulgaria, a deputy minister from the Democratic Bulgaria quota steals codes for voting machines, after which machine voting is cancelled, paper voting comes, and is abused. Four hundred thousand invalid voices and again people are deceived. But it's quiet here. You're not talking about these things, you're fighting for the young European eel population. This is what the European Union and the European Parliament look like. Don't be surprised, don't be angry later.

Madam President, I have strongly voted against this report. This report once again introduces legal requirements that will lead to uncertainty in car production and lead to higher car prices. Despite the commitments made not to introduce more standards, we see once again an attempt at a new restriction that will make cars more expensive, which will take away people's ability to move around. This is a reminder from the old Soviet times, when the right to personal, individual private property was not allowed, and European officials would decide who could move and who could not move. Total nonsense, against every economic logic, against every market logic. This is an ecological political Brussels bubble, which once again shows that people in Brussels have lost touch with reality and what they are doing is only directed against the interests of consumers.

Mr President, let me not quarrel with you today. We are friends with you, but I can't help but notice the following fact. You are now talking about how democratic, how pro-European, pro-Western Serbia is, and now, literally an hour ago, four Bulgarian citizens – two MPs and one party president – are stopped at the Bulgarian-Serbian border and cannot enter to see the Bulgarians, the Bulgarian minority, in the occupied western Bulgarian outskirts. This is happening right now. And I ask you whether this is a democracy and whether these are European values? The same is true with regard to the issue of North Macedonia. If we disregard the paid pro-Belgrade, pro-Kremlin balalaikas that we hear here in the hall, we ask ourselves where the entry of the Bulgarians, the Croats and the other communities in the Constitution of the Republic of North Macedonia went. They were supposed to be in a year ago, weren't they? Such were the promises, but this, of course, did not happen, because there are, I say again, pro-Serbian, pro-Russian forces lying to you. I don't know why you fall for this stuff. I know a lot of people because it's understandable. Five-pointed means she talks a lot, but that's another topic. So fairy tales are a good thing, a very good thing, democracy is a good thing, too, but facts are facts. Please check the case, there are stopped Bulgarian citizens who are not admitted to the Western Bulgarian outskirts. I was asking you a question anyway.

Mr President, I supported this report because it is an indisputable fact that farmers are ageing and there is less and less generational renewal in the area. I agree with the findings made in the text that a fair and decent income and an adequate quality of life for farmers and their families are essential for attracting new young people to the agricultural sector. I also firmly believe that this is the future of Europe and the future of feeding the continent and the people who live on it. One of the main barriers for young farmers is access to land. Due to its specific nature, it is both expensive and limited. I believe that we must make the best use of the opportunities that the Common Agricultural Policy presents to support so-called generational renewal and that rural areas must be developed as places providing suitable living and development conditions for young and new farmers and their families. Clean food is extremely important and it will be much sought after and much needed. And of course, I can't help but comment on how ridiculously the title of this report was formulated to avoid young farmers, the long explanation, the farms of the future and so on, which is political correctness, superfluous and burdensome, but in general the report is good.

Mr President, I definitely voted against this so-called strategy. I believe that a report whose aim must be to enable an increase in protein production in the Union and to support and incentivise farmers is unacceptable. Instead, let's talk about developing the potential for growing insect proteins intended for human consumption and animal feed as a method of reducing dependence on imports. Why do we forget that animal proteins in the European Union are produced according to some of the highest standards of sustainability and animal welfare, the climate and the environment in the world? If the European Commission really wants to create a workable strategy, this must be based on a holistic approach aimed at farmers and involve farmers, and not make us dependent on proteins produced by locusts, moths, cockroaches, mosquitoes and any other such nonsense. I cannot understand how, on the one hand, agriculture is being destroyed, how producers are being persecuted abroad, how imports from third countries such as Turkey, such as Brazil, are increasing. Brazil, meat from Brazil, from Argentina. And here we will see a bunch of moths, mosquitoes, insects and all sorts of other crazy things. This is just another insanity. I can't support him.

Mr President, I supported this report because Kosovo society deserves this, and Kosovo, the people of Kosovo, are perhaps closest to the European idea, to European values, and they deserve to be part of the European Union. What needs to be realized in this Chamber is that the policy of Serbia, which is pro-Comintern, pro-Yugoslav, pro-Kremlin to a great extent, is hindering all the time and this must be ended. And there are a lot of compromises here, because there is the wrong idea that you can get along with both sides at the same time and that there will be “both the wolf being full and the lamb being whole”. This has never been, and never will be. But yes, Kosovo deserves support and should be part of the European Union. And now, within a minute, allow me a very brief comment, Mr President. Yeah, you're right. The colleague who raised the issue should have stayed here and listened to your reply. But I repeat for eight years now that this debate on Thursday makes a bad impression on the people who watch the room, which is empty. This is not a reproach to you, but to Parliament, which must find a way to make this debate, as part of the agenda, more frequent, not look empty.

Commissioner, allow me to congratulate you on the speed with which you are entering the topics. You seem to have a side and you're doing great. But let me also express my disagreement with this very Commission proposal, which has not been drawn up by you. The Commission is trying to introduce or make a policy aimed at the social economy. At the same time, this same Commission makes all kinds of obstacles for entrepreneurs, introduces taxes like air, introduces constantly new and new requirements for costs to producers, to energy, to farmers, to transport business. He chases this business from Europe, other countries accept him as the United States of America, which even gives state aid to our business and entrepreneurship. And this same Commission wants to redistribute the wealth that it drives away from the European continent. I hear colleagues from the Left. They love to distribute wealth. Create it for me first, colleagues, work something real. Again, the other thing that is a problem is the social economy. Again we talk about illegal immigration, again we talk about gender roles and other things that have nothing to do with the economy and people's obligations.

Mr President, the terrorist Islamist attacks in French schools are a direct consequence of the outrageous, irresponsible and politically impotent governance of the European states in Western Europe and of the European Commission. For years, false integration, massive migration, illegal migration. Years of covering up illegal migrants, Islamist cells, years of turning a blind eye to how people come to Europe who want to change this continent valuefully and religiously. For years, this policy has been supported by this House. I wonder how you are not ashamed, colleagues from the European People's Party, from socialists, from democrats, from this whole global left. You support this policy, you defend this policy, and you justify this policy. You exonerated human trafficker NGOs, you exonerated illegal smugglers and their illegal gatherings, you exonerated and explained how you would integrate the unintegrated. This is a serious political failure for which you are responsible and it is a shame to leave the floor now. How does the Commission respond to us at the moment? The same tales empty, more of them, some common such things, but the prom, which will never happen. Colleagues from .... quoted Oriana Fallaci and were absolutely and completely right. Either we wake up or we disappear. There is one treatment for this disease and it is called stopping migration and starting deportation. Stop migration, start deportation.