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The functioning of the EEAS and a stronger EU in the world (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, I usually criticise you and believe that this is correct, but in this case I cannot but support your words at the beginning of your presentation. Yes, the Russian aggression has finally led even our sluggish colleagues to reflect on the need for a more organised, more unified common foreign policy of the Member States of the European Union. This, of course, cannot happe…

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Binding annual greenhouse gas emission reductions by Member States (Effort Sharing Regulation) - Land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) - Revision of the Market Stability Reserve for the EU Emissions Trading System (debate)

Madam President, Members, the proposed legislative package is and can only be qualified as the deliberate and ritualistic economic suicide of Europe. The green transition in this form is a kind of mirage. The transport sector will be particularly affected. Personal mobility will be further constrained, while the transport industry will collapse due to rising fuel prices and impossible environmenta…

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2023

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Developing an EU cycling strategy (B9-0102/2023)

Thank you, it was my mistake. Г-н Председател, гласувах в подкрепа за резолюцията относно разработване на стратегия на Европейския съюз в областта на велосипедния транспорт. Безспорно колоезденето не трябва да се разглежда само като спорт и развлекателна дейност, но и като истинско транспортно средство с индивидуална политика и специално финансиране. Велосипедът е средство за транспорт, което пред…

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Developing an EU cycling strategy (B9-0102/2023)

Mr President, I voted against the resolution on minimum income because, like any document on the good ... of the European Parliament, it is about the otherwise good idea and cause of combating poverty [....] (The President interrupted the speaker due to the inconsistency of his speech with the topic under discussion)…

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One year of Russia’s invasion and war of aggression against Ukraine (RC-B9-0123/2023, B9-0123/2023, B9-0126/2023, B9-0131/2023, B9-0132/2023, B9-0134/2023, B9-0139/2023)

Mr President, it has been one year since the illegal Russian military aggression against Ukraine. A year of terror, violence and murder of innocent civilians, occupation of territories that the Russian Federation itself recognised in 1990 as part of Ukraine, has passed. What we, the countries that remember the Soviet occupation, should do is to assist Ukraine in every way and insist that it be res…

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European initiative to promote civic engagement to protect and better support European volunteers (debate)

Mr President, fellow Members, Commissioner, at last a meaningful and useful initiative. Unfortunately, there are not many people in the room at the moment – our colleagues. But yes, Commissioner, the initiative is useful and commendable and needs to be supported. We live in a time when more and more different types of disasters, earthquakes, fires, floods are happening on our continent and the cit…

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Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence: EU accession (continuation of debate)

Mr President, the Istanbul Convention does not solve the problems of violence against women. Violence against women is a crime and must be prosecuted under national laws. However, the Istanbul Convention, which you are pushing very hard here, actually has other goals. It conceals propaganda and politics that are contrary to women's interests. For example, it supports an ideology that would allow b…

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CO2 emission standards for cars and vans (debate)

Mr President, this dossier is, to put it mildly, outrageous. Totally at that. As shadow rapporteur for the opinion of the Committee on Transport and Tourism, I would like to point out that there is hardly a better metaphor than this legislative report for the war against ordinary people that green lobbyists in this House organise and lead. Hardly any of you can say what is the carbon footprint, wh…

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Preparation of the EU-Ukraine Summit (RC-B9-0092/2023, B9-0092/2023, B9-0093/2023, B9-0094/2023, B9-0095/2023, B9-0096/2023)

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group. - Mr President, I voted strongly in favour of this resolution because I believe that the Ukrainian people need support and that all of us here should make this support clear. It is an absolute shame, an absolute disgrace to say that the attacker must surrender and not defend himself. It is clear who is the aggressor of all who think and are not paid by Kremlin pro…

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Revision of the European Works Councils Directive (A9-0295/2022 - Dennis Radtke)

Mr President, I voted firmly against this report because of its aspirational and populist nature. I understand the Left's desire to present itself as a defender of the rights of the people to wage labor, but firstly, this report will not achieve this thing, and secondly, it fulfills the wishes of the best times in which the people of Central and Eastern Europe lived for many years under communist …

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Transparency and targeting of political advertising (A9-0009/2023 - Sandro Gozi)

on behalf of the ALDE Group. - Mr President, I abstained on this report because it does not answer the really important questions relating to political advertising and the influence of social networks, namely the question of the organisation of the moderation of social networks that use political advertising. It is good to talk about transparency, it is good to talk about the organization of this …

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Mr President, on 19 January this year, a young man, Kristian Pendikov, was attacked by a group of gunmen in Ohrid and beaten for his Bulgarian national consciousness. A classic hate crime, recorded and established by the prosecutor in Ohrid, who describes and says that the young man was attacked because of his self-determination as a Bulgarian. This hate crime was preceded by several attacks on Bu…

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Upscaling the 2021-2027 Multiannual Financial Framework (A9-0281/2022 - Jan Olbrycht, Margarida Marques)

Madam President, I voted firmly against this report because, as usual, it has nothing to do with reason and common sense and is aimed at utopias, greenisms, climatisms and other topics that doom Europeans to more energy poverty, more spending and a non-competitive economy. What we have just talked about, namely critical infrastructure and so on, is related to the damage done by the policy made by …

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90 years after Holodomor: Recognising the mass killing through starvation as genocide (RC-B9-0559/2022, B9-0559/2022, B9-0560/2022, B9-0561/2022, B9-0564/2022, B9-0566/2022)

Madam President, starvation is a crime against humanity. In fact, there are several gladomors, against the Ukrainian state and people, there are at least two, and they are accompanied by more crimes of the Stalinist regime, such as forced deportations, the relocation of many peoples, of many nations. The Taurian, Zaporizhzhian, Crimean Bulgarians were repatriated, as were many other peoples within…

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Suspicions of corruption from Qatar and the broader need for transparency and accountability in the European institutions (B9-0580/2022, RC-B9-0581/2022, B9-0581/2022, B9-0582/2022, B9-0583/2022, B9-0584/2022, B9-0585/2022, B9-0587/2022)

Madam President, I voted for this resolution because exposing this corruption ring, this coalition, Cathar corruption in the socialist, democrat and other left-wing circles is a real scandal in the European Parliament. For years, we've been hearing accusations about how some very right-wing, far-right people were taking money somewhere outside the EU to work against it. What did it turn out to be?…

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Major interpellations (debate)

It is snow. Well, it’s because of global warming. And my question here was: where is your global warming, ladies and gentlemen? Outside is like Siberia and snow is falling down. And that’s why we need to know who is behind the sabotage of this critical infrastructure. So your question is absolutely right and full on time, because we are not stupid people. We need to ask two questions. The first qu…

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Major interpellations (debate)

Member of the Commission. - Madam President, my fellow Member, Güner, this is a very timely question. We can answer this question in this way. What you see is a snowball. I gathered this snowball outside, in front of Parliament. I didn't bring it to throw the Chairman, this snowball is here to show that... (President interrupts speaker)…

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The humanitarian situation in Ukraine due to Russia’s attacks against critical infrastructure and civilian areas (debate)

Mr President, thank you for giving me the floor so quickly. The Russian aggression against Ukraine has entered a new phase. Something familiar from the history of Russian and Soviet occupation and autocratic regimes. Attacks on civilian infrastructure aimed at forcing the Ukrainian government to end its resistance. But the purpose of this attack and the destruction of infrastructure will be the de…

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Defending democracy from foreign interference (debate)

Mr President, the revelations and suspicions of corruption in the ranks of the Socialists and Democrats are a huge disgrace and stain on the European Parliament. It turned out, as always, that the saying of the wise Bulgarian people, "The thief cries, hold the thief", is true. Of course, this corruption must be investigated to the end. These trade unions, non-governmental organisations that probab…

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Defending the European Union against the abuse of national vetoes (debate)

– OK, he’s from Belgium. If you want to discuss geography, we can of course. But still, Mr Verhofstadt is very patient to defend Brussels, not the national states. That’s why we are political opponents. But geography is geography, yes.…

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Defending the European Union against the abuse of national vetoes (debate)

Thank you, but there was no question here. This is some kind of violation of rules here in this room. But still, there is no question. Can I answer something or just think something? I don’t know. But yes, Mr Verhofstadt, the national states need their rights to defend the interests of their citizens against the bureaucratic system in Brussels.…

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Defending the European Union against the abuse of national vetoes (debate)

Mr President, I am glad that you have started to follow the rules, that is good. When we talk about the veto of nation states, to see (by the way, Mr Verhofstadt, and here he is) citizens of the Netherlands talking against a veto is hypocrisy. Why hypocrisy? For 11 years, without any reason, the Netherlands and Austria have stopped Bulgaria and Romania from joining the Schengen area because of the…

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Defending the European Union against the abuse of national vetoes (debate)

So you said ‘bad guys’ use the veto. Well recently two countries – Austria and Netherlands – stopped, vetoed Bulgaria and Romania, for 11 years now, for their own reasons: because of the economy, because of transportation, because of their economical reasons. So please tell me, are these countries bad guys, Netherlands and Austria? Please, I want to hear you.…

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Protection of livestock farming and large carnivores in Europe (RC-B9-0503/2022, B9-0503/2022, B9-0504/2022, B9-0509/2022, B9-0514/2022, B9-0518/2022, B9-0519/2022, B9-0520/2022)

Mr President, I voted in favour of this report because the growing wolf populations in the European Union and the problem that these populations allegedly pose in terms of biodiversity and traditional livestock farming in Europe, as well as the need for a joint assessment of the conservation status and transboundary measures for the conservation and management of the population of large carnivores…

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Assessment of Hungary's compliance with the rule of law conditions under the Conditionality Regulation and state of play of the Hungarian RRP (B9-0511/2022)

Mr President, I voted against this report categorically because measures under the Conditionality Regulation must be implemented by the Commission, which violates the principles of the rule of law and directly affects or seriously risks affecting the sound financial management of the Union. In no way does this policy, pursued by the European Union and the European Parliament with regard to Hungary…