Speeches

Madam President, yes, I agree, this Serbia has no place in the European Union. This is the same Serbia that makes provocations in Kosovo. This is the same Serbia that makes provocations in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This is the same Serbia that supported Russian propaganda during Russia's war against Ukraine. This is the same Serbia that maintains Russia's largest logistical spy center in the Balkans, all over Europe, this is in the city of Nis, I guess you all know that. It is this Serbia that is crushing the national minorities. Here in this room very often many of you are defending various minority rights, where rightly, where not, but today they are not, they are silent because it is about real problems. Yes, this Serbia oppresses the Croats in its country, oppresses the Bulgarians, violates their rights, crushes them, looks to displace them, assimilates them, expels them and continues to behave in a way that is unacceptable and unacceptable. This is what Serbia is today. And I'm surprised there are people here who are literate. How do you think that if you keep sucking up to those in power in Belgrade who are proxies of the Kremlin, what will they suddenly become Europeans? No, they won't. This Serbia, which is a conduit for the Kremlin and Putin, has no place in the European Union, understand that.

Mr President, honourable Members, it is with great regret that it must be said and noted that this report is weak. This report is weak because it hides the facts on the ground, on the ground. He does not disclose the circumstances as they are, and they are as follows: The Croatian community in Bosnia and Herzegovina has no guaranteed rights of representation. Croatian interests in Bosnia and Herzegovina are not guaranteed and they are threatened, they are violated. The equilibrium between the three ethnic communities has been destroyed. And this report, instead of showing things as they are, uses, as usual, nice but empty talk, clichés, wishes and other alabalicisms, which aim to present a candied picture, which, however, is not true. For there to be stability in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Croatian community must be represented on an equal footing, protected on an equal footing. Everything else is in the service of Belgrade and the Kremlin.

Mr President, I voted absolutely against the idea of a treaty change convention, because this idea of treaty change is deeply anti-democratic and it aims at one thing only - a violent, artificial, false federalisation that will take sovereignty away from the Member States and put it in the hands of anonymous bureaucrats, unelected by anyone, irresponsible and unaccountable to anyone, who will impose on us the follies that change the lives of our societies. We affirm, believe and support the idea that every nation-state should solve the issues of culture, education and the family. The treaty change will mean that the sovereignty of the sensible states, represented by people who are chosen by their nation to make important decisions, will be taken away. I can give an example of this with the Republic of North Macedonia. If you had this tool, by now you would have let go of a state built on an anti-Bulgarian ideology, a man-hatred, hate speech directed against the Bulgarians in Macedonia. You'd have let her negotiate for Europe by now. That's not acceptable.

Mr President, I did not support this report, although it makes sense for the European Parliament to have some legislative initiative because of the nature of the political processes in the European Union and the European Parliament at the moment. Giving legislative initiative at this time, in this political configuration, will allow the far-left majority to impose its agenda, which, in my view, is not the agenda of European citizens. Institutional equilibrium is important and must be preserved in order to protect European countries from insanity such as the green deal, green hysterism, green climate hysterism. A legislative initiative in this parliament of these colleagues would mean a dictatorship of their very strong, very vocal, very strong speaking minority, which, however, they impose with the zeal of a new religion. For this reason, I think it is too early to talk about such an initiative. And this would be detrimental to the interests of the citizens of the Member States. The legislative initiative still needs to remain, in my view, in the national parliaments.

Mr President, Members, the political attack on Poland continues. Poland is a country that currently bears the burden of helping many people fleeing war. Poland has its own national government, elected by Polish citizens. Here in this room there are people who are trying to politically change the Polish government, to replace the vote of Polish citizens. For this reason, they are looking for all sorts of ways to replace the Poles' vote for years. This report is part of the disgraceful behaviour directed against the Polish state and the Polish nation, the sovereign Polish nation. This is totally unacceptable. For us, the European Union must be a union of countries that respect their sovereignty. A union of states that have their own opinion and stand up for it – an equal union. For this reason, the report and the attempt to stop Poland's recovery plan is completely unacceptable and disgraceful. Long live the Europe of the Fatherlands!

Mr President, Commissioner, honourable Members, forests are a national treasure. Green is patriotism. Forests are the lungs of the planet – there is no dispute about that. And my colleague's report is very timely. Illegal logging and illegal logging is a theft by future generations and must be severely sanctioned. At the same time, however, it is necessary to know and specify who is doing it. In Bulgaria, where we have one of the largest areas of forest in Europe and in general, the forests are managed by the Bulgarian Socialist Party, which stands on the left. He is a member of the Socialists and Democrats, of the Social Democrats. A is illegally obtained by the functionaries of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, the people who belong to the Renew Europe group. So when we talk about the destruction of forests, point out those who do. And they are on the left and on the left – in these ranks. These are the people who cut down illegal forests. They sell them, destroy them, and thus endanger not only our lives, but everyone else's. What I want to tell you is that green patriotism and the forest must be protected.

Member of the Commission. - Mr President, colleagues, it was with a huge and pleasant surprise that I learned that you are interested in and very much defending democracy. That's very nice. But yesterday, when you received a lesson in democracy, when your green folly in the form of a green deal was rejected, all of a sudden you stopped being Democrats and asked to vote again. What kind of double standard? When something saves you, democracy is good. When I don’t get rid of you – it’s not good, you want to vote again, to change. For this reason of yours, this hypocrisy, this double standard, your proposed reform will actually be and is a complete failure. He was the person who was screaming here, screaming at the end of the Conference on the Future of Europe for a minute. You offer us a union of double standards, of bureaucracy, of the left-liberal dictatorship. We have lived under a Bolshevik dictatorship and do not want a new Soviet Union. What you are proposing to us is a new Soviet Union, in which you will make decisions by a majority, which you will then impose on the rest of us. No, it's not gonna work. What we want is a union of sovereign states. We want a union based on the idea of a European community, of equality, freedom, sovereignty. We want our union, our traditional families. We want the union of nation-states and nations. This is our union – a Europe of homelands.

Mr President, Commissioner Timmermans. Unfortunately, this zero-emissions work is not going to happen anytime soon, and for this reason we all have the feeling that we are living in some not-so-smart joke. Dear Commissioner Timmermans, the rise in energy prices started long before the war in Ukraine. Of course, it has its impact, but the main fault for raising this price lies in this room, in this building, and in the European institutions in general, which are imposing a new utopia and a political religion called ‘greenism’. With a Bolshevik rage, the people who serve this cult stop at nothing. Neither do they hear that nuclear energy is safe, nor do they notice the geopolitics that clearly shows that our competitors are not giving up their fossil fuels. The biggest polluters are reluctant to participate in this conversation, and you expect poor Europeans and poorer people to pay that price. Of course, this will also have a very serious impact on transport. This will deprive thousands of people of the opportunity to move into their own lives. And that's part of that cult, too. This can not help but come back against those who impose this green harmful pseudo-utopia.

Mr President, honourable Members, I voted for this report because there must definitely be a normal, new and genuine conversation in the European Parliament and the European Union about how to respond to such aggressions. I remind my fellow communists who live in their own utopia that the war was started by Putin and Ukraine was attacked by Russia, not the other way around. So justifying aggression is just shameful for this room. But what the European Parliament has to do is shake off the pink illusions, remove the pink glasses and start thinking about its own security and its own sources. It's obvious it won't happen with fins, it's obvious it won't happen with windmills. What we need to do is turn back to nuclear energy, which is clean, reasonable and safe. To turn to our own sources, such as minerals, to look for our resources, our gas, whether conventional, shale or some other. And to look for the options in which European countries will not be able to be blackmailed by any other aggressor, by any other attacker. This is why we need to work in this direction. And once again I will say that justifying the aggression and the attacker is shameful.

on behalf of the ALDE Group. - Mr President, I supported the report on Albania because the country has met the criteria, unlike the Republic of North Macedonia. And there is nothing to prevent this country from opening accession negotiations with the European Union. For example, Albania can and should be an example to look at the entire Western Balkans. The rights of all ethnic groups and all communities other than the Albanian population are respected and respected in this country. For this reason, and after the deep reforms that Albania has made, there is no reason to stop it. And it can and should start the negotiations for membership in the European Union. Literally at the first subsequent meeting, when the Foreign Affairs Ministers of the General Affairs Council meet, agreement can and must be given for Albania to start negotiations for membership of the European Union. She's an example and a model. We just talked about Macedonia. They can see how in Albania the government recognized and strengthened the rights of the Bulgarian minority. And they coexist beautifully, in mutual respect. And that's a good example.

Mr President, honourable Members, I strongly voted against this report because of the provocative amendment passed by the Greens with the following text: encourages North Macedonia and Bulgaria to resolve their cultural and historical dispute separately from the accession process and to immediately allow the organisation of the first intergovernmental conference, as North Macedonia has met all official criteria. This is categorically not true. It has not met all the official criteria, nor is the dispute bilateral. This is at least a matter of human rights, and anyone in this House who votes against human rights should be ashamed. You have dozens, hundreds of documented, proven cases of violation of the human rights of Macedonian citizens with Bulgarian national consciousness. And you all know that thing. There is no way to immediately start negotiations with a country that violates the Copenhagen criteria. This was the only meaningful criterion that could be called a ‘European value’. And he says that when a country wants to join, it has to respect human rights. This is not the case in North Macedonia. Yes, it is true that Macedonianism was invented in the Kremlin by the communist international and it was imposed by the totalitarian communist power with terror on the Macedonian Bulgarians. And what's happening here is a disgrace.

Mr President, honourable Members, Commissioner, I have asked for this debate because I want an answer to a very important question and it is as follows. It is addressed to the Commission and I would like to receive a clear answer: Yes or no. Are there any states, state and private companies in the European Union that buy and pay Russian gas under the scheme proposed by Gazprom? That's what I want to hear from you, nothing else. Yes or no? Is it or isn't it? Because if there is, it will turn out that in the European Commission, in the Union and in Parliament once again there is a great deal of hypocrisy and duplicity. While here we are talking about sanctions and how we should fight the bad guys and fight them, someone negotiates separately, because he is more dear to his economy and does not care about everyone else. Gazprom categorically violated the contract with Bulgaria, which was absolutely legal. He illegally violated it with Bulgaria and Poland, and stopped the delivery of a quantity already paid. Yes, this is dependence and this is aggression, but it is solved by common actions, and not when someone separately buys gas and pays in rubles. That's what I really want you to answer. And to you, my friends, a final conclusion. This crisis has shown us the following. It is high time to end the utopias, the ideologisation of the so-called ‘green deal’ that drives up prices. Because here you, in this room, are raising prices when you are constantly pushing for utopian insane ideas that reduce the production of electricity from normal sources. And what we have to do is turn to nuclear energy, to our own resources, to conventional gas, to shale gas, everything we have to have a normal economy, and not to depend on hostile third countries, on the one hand, or on green utopias.

Mr President, honourable Members, dear Colleague. The Copenhagen criteria are the basis of so-called ‘European values’. Among them, the most important, for me at least, is that a country that is a candidate for membership respects and protects all human rights of all its citizens on its territory. You, as well as colleagues in Parliament, as well as the Commission, have repeatedly received information that people who feel themselves to be Bulgarians but are Macedonian citizens are being repressed by their government in Skopje. Don't you think that's the key issue that needs to be solved? This is not a bilateral relationship. This is a matter of human rights, these are European values. Don't you think it should be solved?

Mr President, Commissioner, I would like, in a personal capacity, to congratulate the rapporteur on the tremendous work he has done and tried to do. This file is extremely difficult for him personally and politically. And I understand him for the effort he's put in, so I congratulate him. Dear colleagues, you want Macedonia to start negotiations with the European Union. Oh, that's great. This can happen tomorrow, folks, tomorrow. To do this, it is simply necessary to change the Constitution tonight, to ban hate speech, to stop the humiliation of Bulgarian history and to solve all these issues. But you do not want Skopje to do it, you are pushing Bulgaria. Dear colleagues, are you ready to start these negotiations with a dubious outcome and outcome? Because not to be mistaken, you know it, of course, the government in Skopje is very compromising and very pro-Russian in its actions. Are you ready to lose 7-8 million? Because what is happening at the moment, the pressure, the unfair pressure on the Bulgarian society and memory pushes away the Bulgarians, disappoints them and makes them very Eurosceptic. In practice, this pressure on Bulgaria works for Putin and for the Russian column in Bulgaria and in the European Union. Is that what you want to achieve? I'm sure you know that. What is happening will be a catastrophe and a disgrace to be written on the European Commission. I hope you're listening, Commissioner, these are important things. I hope you're not messing with the phone. Obviously, you're digging through the phone, but that's another topic. But colleagues, what I'm telling you is this: there should be polite political pressure on Skopje to implement the treaty. Nobody wants anything else. That's it.

Madam President, I abstained from this report with great regret. Why? First of all, the report is necessary. The problem is real, it's huge, it's disgusting, and it has to be solved. On the other hand, however, it is absolutely inexplicable and absolutely unrelated to the topic and absolutely out of place. In this report, colleagues on the left, following their political left-radical Marxist line on the agenda, inserted texts that have nothing to do with the topic being talked about. They inserted propaganda, they inserted their narrative of changing societies, they inserted topics, part of their propaganda, which have no place in this report and which in no way help the people targeted by this report, namely the women and girls who have suffered from the war in Ukraine. For this reason, I regret to have abstained.

Madam President, I voted firmly, firmly and without any doubt against this resolution. This resolution is wrong, inept, superfluous, and I would even call it stupid at a time like this. Poland is currently the country providing the most assistance to Ukraine in the war against the occupier and the invader on its territory. Not only with the reception of hundreds of thousands of refugees, but also with humanitarian and military assistance. And it is at this very moment, when it has to really defend Europe, the European way of life and what you call European values, that a resolution appears that wants to punish and fine Poland, because someone here was dissatisfied with the results of the elections in Poland, with the results that the Polish people and the Polish nation have chosen to make in free elections. I remind you again that the elections in Hungary and Poland were free. You all worked against Orbán and Orbán punished you with a huge result. All of you, all of the political forces here, are working against this and you have seen the result. And now the European Parliament has suicidally insanely voted a resolution against those who protect Europe. I don't know what that's called, but it's neither normal nor right.

Madam President, I abstained on this report for a very simple reason. This report should give an account of the European Commission’s activity in Parliament in terms of competition in the period 2021. We cannot support a report that does not say and show all the bad decisions taken by the European Commission against competition in the European Union, against the free market and against free enterprise. I would like to remind you that this Chamber, against the rules of the European Union, against the idea of a free market, against the idea of free competition, has imposed the harmful and detrimental Mobility Package, which has caused and continues to cause serious damage to the transport industry in all peripheral countries: Bulgaria, Romania, Greece, Baltic republics, Spain, Italy, etc. I remind you that the Commission, which left and did not listen to the questions, has not yet answered the question: Are there countries in the European Union that agree with Russia to buy gas in rubles? What competition are we talking about here? For this reason, I abstained.

Madam President, Commissioner, it is difficult to find a more ridiculous debate in this situation. A situation where Europe is at war with the Kremlin, an invasion with the Kremlin. At the same time, we see a hybrid operation, led by both the Kremlin and Lukashenka, which relocates people who are brought by fraud, forced into Belarus and then thrown into Europe. And at this moment, when there should be unity and protection of the European interest, of all of you, here is the conversation about protecting the interests of the dragonfly, of the green euglena, of various locusts and the like, whose rights have been violated. Many times in history the term "useful idiots" has been used. Please check what this means and who used it and why they used it. I am very sorry to hear Putin's propaganda in this room against Poland's efforts to protect European citizens. Poland, which is currently hosting tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of refugees, which is really helping. And you condemn it because you support Kremlin propaganda. It couldn't be more schizophrenic. Or he could. Go ahead, surprise us. Obviously, you can think of something more. You should be grateful to Poland, to Spain, to Bulgaria, to all those who guard the external borders, and not to try to engage in Putin's propaganda.

Mr President, Commissioner, I understand that yesterday, at the meeting between Mr Michel and the President of Moldova, Maia Sandu, military aid to Moldova was also promised. This, of course, must happen and happen as quickly as possible, so that we do not again witness post-factual actions and the search for excuses, and so that this parliament and this hall do not become a place for bowing, pitying and reading sorrowful sympathies. What the European Union and the European Parliament must do, of course, is to pay attention as much and as quickly as possible to how Moldova can be supported both humanitarianly and with the necessary resources, and also by being given a path to the European Union. People are right to say that the government has made an effort. The colleagues are right, who say that not only the current situation should be the reason, but also the level of readiness at the moment of the country itself. But something else needs to be done quickly. There must be centralised organised humanitarian aid so that the Moldovan state can cope with the influx of thousands of women and children from Ukraine who need to be helped.

Mr President, the war in Ukraine caused by the Russian aggression has caused force majeure in all sectors. Undoubtedly, such sectors are transport and tourism. Fuel prices are breaking records, there is already a shortage of raw materials, and all this affects transport connections and transport relations. In this sense, the situation in which Ukraine finds itself today is particularly worrying, given that its sea and river ports are blocked and this hinders its exports and trade. However, in this room, some colleagues are doing their utmost to hinder the transport industry by constantly introducing new and new regulations and restrictions, as they did with the Mobility Package. I would like to draw attention to another serious problem. It is clear that both the Russian and Ukrainian markets will remain closed for the foreseeable future. I therefore ask the European Commission to take steps to ensure not only the supply of gas at European level, but also the supply of raw materials to all sectors of the European Union. Particular attention should be paid to the fact and the sphere of industrial production, the provision of a sufficient amount of cheap steel for the construction sector and, of course, access to cheap fuels. In conclusion, we must make sure that this insane war ends as soon as possible and ensure the maximum stability of these sectors in our societies.

No sir, with all my respect, I believe these people were Germans, Austrians, Hungarians, Italians, Greeks. And yes, we share this continent, and we need to live together and work together, but we have our differences and we have our own national identity and we must be proud of our identity – respecting the others, of course – but there is no such thing as a European one, because people are different. What was it? ‘United in diversity’? Isn’t that right? Yes, it is. So there is no European identity. There is a national one, and there is a European Union and we have to work together respectfully for each other.

I am very careful. My hands are over here, just so you know, because maybe someone will misunderstand my gestures. Dear colleague, it’s not about the people here. It’s about the so-called Conference of Europe itself. It was a charade. It was a Mickey Mouse fake organisation. This is the truth. NGOs ... who picked the people here? Please, I am answering here. Show some respect. Do you know how are organised, the people from the NGOs, here? Who picked them? No? You don’t know? Yes, of course you don’t. Nobody knows. That is the answer. Ah OK. Member States? No, it’s not true.

Honourable colleague, it was not a question; it is against the procedure, under the blue-card procedure you are expected to ask me a question, not to make a statement. No, it was not a question. Madam Chair, is it normal for the Member to take the floor for himself?

Madam President, it is extremely amusing to watch you try to justify the untenable clowning you have created and loudly called the Conference on the Future of Europe. What kind of conference, what kind of future for Europe? Where is your representativeness? A bunch of NGOs, a cheerful band called Detelinka. That was your representativeness. You should have invited Mickey Mouse, Duck Donald, Duck Yaki. They would be more representative and would accurately show what you did with this ridiculous clown you spent a lot of money on. (noise) (the speaker interrupts his speech and addresses the President) Madam President, would it be a good idea to ask this fellow Member to behave himself rather than as if he were in the stadium of his birthplace? Oh, thank you. I urge you to give me back my time. (speaker resumes speech) Colleague, you seem a little agitated to me, if you've calmed down, let's move on. The question is, how much money did you spend on this job? Who gave them and what did they go for? In fact, the truth is that we are fighting for a Europe of fatherlands: A normal Europe, with a normally organized society, a family created by man and woman, as the natural, good, good order of things goes. And because you are constantly talking about a European identity – which there is not, there has not been, there cannot be, I will quote to you a great European, Otto von Bismarck. Some of you who are fond of books may have met this name. He says: “I have always found the word “Europe” in the mouths of those politicians who wanted something from other powers that they did not dare to demand in their own name.” That's it, folks. It's a shame. This conference ended in disgrace. You need to see how much money you spent on it. (The speaker agreed to respond to three "blue card" interventions)

Mr President, I strongly oppose this report, of course. It is yet another proof and another example of how there are people in this room who live in a completely different place, outside of living life. This report clearly shows that we continue to think in the schemes of non-governmental organizations and to think in the direction of taking sovereignty away from nation states and giving it to the wrong organizations, giving it to people who are not responsible to anyone. Not to mention that this report also violates – categorically violates – the Treaties. It is possible that the number of European representatives from one country will violate and go beyond these treaties. This clearly shows one thing - here in this room you continue to think that the world revolves around you, which is not true. And the right to vote must remain in nation states, in national democracies and in citizens, because they are responsible, they choose, they live in their own countries and there is no need for anyone to tell them from outside how to live and how not to live. So I am categorically against this report, it is harmful and it is going to catastrophe.