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'Macro-Financial Assistance+' instrument for providing support to Ukraine for 2023 (C9-0373/2022)

Mr President, I voted in favour of this report. The recent escalation of Russia's brutal military aggression against Ukraine is a confirmation of its decision to violate Ukraine's fundamental rights to independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity within its internationally recognised borders and to destroy its viability as a state. The courage, courage and determination of the Ukrainian peo…

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Revision of the Medical Devices Regulation – how to ensure the availability of medical devices (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, colleagues, when I look at the facts surrounding the revision of the Medical Devices Regulation, I am once again disappointed to see that something is profoundly wrong with the way decisions are taken and implemented in the functioning of this European Union. There is no explanation why, once this regulation has been adopted, due to the excessive bureaucratic and financ…

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Legal protection for rainbow families exercising free movement, in particular the Baby Sara case (debate)

Mr President, I read the Constitution of the Republic of Bulgaria, Article 46, first paragraph: "Marriage is a voluntary union between a man and a woman. Civil marriage shall be lawful.’ A few lines below in the following paragraph: “Children born out of wedlock have equal rights to those born out of wedlock.” This, colleagues, proves everything you are discussing here, you are fooling each other …

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The need for a European solution on asylum and migration including search and rescue (debate)

Of course, honourable Member, anyone who supports and encourages the illegal crossing of a state border is a political accomplice to those who make human trafficking. There are organizations that promote human trafficking that organize human trafficking that receive money for human trafficking, and here in this room, there are people who advocate human trafficking. And I'm surprised, but I'm not r…

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The need for a European solution on asylum and migration including search and rescue (debate)

Mr President, colleagues, crossing a state border is a crime. This crime must be investigated, prosecuted, charged, tried and convicted. Instead of this happening, however, this House supports such crimes. It often talks about the rule of law. What rule of law when you support breaking the law and crimes? The hall of this European Parliament occupied by the extreme left, the extremist left, is com…

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Resilience of critical entities (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, I welcome the proposal for a directive on the resilience of critical sites, and I am pleased that the opinion of the Committee on Transport and Tourism is also being taken into account. Transport is an essential sector, connectivity is an important thing and, of course, critical infrastructure needs to be arranged, assessed and safeguarded. But when we talk about these …

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Racial justice, non-discrimination and anti-racism in the EU (A9-0254/2022 - Evin Incir)

on behalf of the ECR Group. - Madam President, unlike my fellow Member, I voted absolutely against this report because this report is nothing more than a hypocritical, two-faced escape and pinning of a badge. When this hall understands and sees that in Bitola, in Ohrid, real racism develops, real xenophobia, real hatred based on the national origin of the local Bulgarians there, this hall is silen…

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Full application of the provisions of the Schengen acquis in Croatia (A9-0264/2022 - Paulo Rangel)

Madam President, I supported this report not only because Croatia has fulfilled all the conditions and deserves to be part of the Schengen area, but also because I want to remind those Member States that continue to break the rules. It is absolutely hypocritical, two-faced and irregular for them to suspend Romania and Bulgaria from Schengen membership for their own economic reasons, because they v…

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REPowerEU chapters in recovery and resilience plans (A9-0260/2022 - Eider Gardiazabal Rubial, Siegfried Mureşan, Dragoş Pîslaru)

Member of the Commission. - Madam President, I have abstained from supporting this report because of its content. We have heard many times here that there are increased prices, that energy is expensive. Why is energy expensive? Because of the votes in this House. Because for years, systematically, the people who voted in this House did only one thing: made electricity more expensive, fuels more ex…

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UN Climate Change Conference 2022 in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt (COP27) (B9-0461/2022)

Mr President, I am very pleased with these meetings of ours on Thursday evening, in the afternoon. I voted firmly against this resolution for the following reason: I do not believe in this ideology - climateism, hysterism, greenism, an ideology that is not based on any real scientific data and no real scientific facts. The result of this ideology is the deindustrialization of the European continen…

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Growing hate crimes against LGBTIQ people across Europe in light of the recent homophobic murder in Slovakia (B9-0476/2022, B9-0477/2022)

on behalf of the ALDE Group. - Mr President, I have strongly voted against this resolution for several reasons. First of all, crimes, murders must be prosecuted, punished, regardless of the person of either the criminal or the victim. This is the work of criminal justice, this is the work of criminal law, because otherwise ideological explanations, ideological reasons and ideological justification…

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The Rule of Law in Malta, five years after the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia (B9-0470/2022, B9-0471/2022)

on behalf of the ECR Group. - Mr President, I supported the resolution on the rule of law in Malta, five years after the murder of journalist Daphne Galizia, because I believe that through her work she managed to raise the issue of corruption in her society, particularly large-scale money laundering and, unfortunately, pay for it with her life. The resolution is balanced, welcomes the additional c…

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European support to the Ukrainian research community (debate)

Mr President, honourable Member, I congratulate you on the question you have raised. It is timely and important. Dear Commissioner, I often, not to say almost always, criticise you for things that I believe are true, but in this case the question that has been raised and your reaction deserves both congratulations and respect. The community, the scientific community, in Ukraine must be helped, bec…

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Fighting sexualised violence - The importance of the Istanbul Convention and a comprehensive proposal for a directive against gender-based violence (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, violence against women and children is and must be a crime, and every crime must be prosecuted, accused, condemned and punished. And so it is right and so it should be, because this crime is abominable. However, the debate here is slightly different, because the Istanbul Convention is not this document to protect women and children from domestic violence or any gende…

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EU-Western Balkans relations in light of the new enlargement package (continuation of debate)

So, dear colleague, do you know where is the town of Bitola? The town of Bitola is one of the major cities in so—called North Macedonia. There are Bulgarians there – good guys. They created a cultural club. Well, this club was attacked and set on fire. What is your comment? By government—led arsonists. What is your comment? I want to know.…

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EU-Western Balkans relations in light of the new enlargement package (continuation of debate)

Madam President, what enlargement are we talking about at the moment when another fierce anti-Bulgarian campaign is raging in Skopje? Commissioner, a Bulgarian cultural club was set on fire in Bitola, a Bulgarian cultural club was destroyed in Ohrid, an old Bulgarian capital. The same day, the National Assembly, the Skupshtina of the Republic of Macedonia, North Macedonia, passed a law banning non…

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COVID-19 – Sustaining EU preparedness and response: looking ahead (debate)

Member of the Commission. - Mr President, thank you also for your understanding in taking the floor. Dear Commissioner, many things have been said here and most of them are true. But the fight against the pandemic is a matter for the medical authorities, Commissioner. But the question for you is different. My question is how much did the organisation of the European Commission cost? Who carried ou…

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The accession of Romania and Bulgaria to the Schengen area (debate)

Member of the Commission. - Madam President, I hope you will really take action, as you have said. Dear colleagues, the non-accession of Bulgaria and Romania to Schengen is a real political disgrace for the leadership of the European Union. A real political disgrace, because all of you in this room, for which, by the way, I congratulate you, confirm the fact that both Bulgaria and Romania have met…

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Countering the anti-European and anti-Ukrainian propaganda of Putin’s European cronies (topical debate)

Mr President, there is Russian aggression against Ukraine, there is Russian propaganda. But this Russian propaganda is on American platforms. The biggest lies of this propaganda are spread by American platforms and they don't take them down. Why is that? Because they obviously do not want to, and because they help you in a lie, namely in the lie that the right were Putin's allies. No, it's not tru…

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Protection of the EU’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2020 (A9-0175/2022 - Katalin Cseh)

Mr President, it is always an honour, a pleasure and a very interesting thing to listen to fellow Irish communists. Communism in Ireland is impressive, inspiring, it is clearly more outspoken, more real communism than that of Stalin, Lenin, Trotsky and all the other Soviet communists. But let's get back to the topic we're talking about, fraud. The frauds, of course, are reprehensible, but we voted…

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Sustainable aviation fuels (ReFuelEU Aviation Initiative) (A9-0199/2022 - Søren Gade)

on behalf of the ALDE Group. - Mr President, we have voted firmly against this report because it once again confirms the serious political divisiveness of the individual in this House. On the one hand, colleagues say that they want to have sustainable fuels, that they want to have an environmental component, a recoverable component in fuels in the aviation industry. Then this component is added an…

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Developing an EU Cycling Strategy (debate)

Member of the Commission. - Mr President, I have a question for all the colleagues here who are defending this strategy. My question needs a very quick answer. Which one of you came from your birthplace to here on a bike? Can you raise your hand? Perhaps our fellow communists from Ireland came on a bicycle? Mrs. Kelly, did you come on a bike? From Ireland? This is news because there is an ocean, a…

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Better regulation: joining forces to make better laws (debate)

Mr President, the rapporteur deserves congratulations on the report he has made and on the efforts he has made. I would like to draw attention to a fundamental mistake in the policy of the European Parliament and the Union. And this is not the rapporteur's effort, I say again, it deserves congratulations. The pursuit of more regulation is deeply flawed, honourable Members. Wanting more regulation,…

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The Three Seas Initiative: challenges and opportunities (topical debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, the Three Seas Initiative offers a unique chance for the rapid development of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Numerous infrastructure projects, the improvement of digital connectivity and, of course, energy projects are the three pillars of economic development on which the countries participating in this initiative should focus. It includes many importa…

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2021 Report on Kosovo (debate)

Madam President, Madam Rapporteur, I congratulate you on your fruitful work. This report is quite different from the previous two we looked at a moment ago. What I will, of course, immediately stress is that, with the support of colleagues from different groups, our amendments were adopted, which call on the government in Pristina to consider the petition from more than 500 Bulgarians in the regio…