What Zdzisław spoke about.

23

Nov

2022

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A truly interconnected Energy Single Market to keep bills down and companies competitive (topical debate)

Madam President, I'm sorry. We all agree that interconnectors in the energy market contribute by design to greater security, lower prices and lower emissions. We have also worked for a long time with the Commissioner on TEN-E, the guidelines for cross-border energy networks, so as rapporteur for this project in Parliament, I will certainly not deny that this objective is extremely important. Howev…

9

Nov

2022

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 20-21 October 2022 (debate)

Mr President, I would like to thank you. We ask ourselves whether the Council's findings on combating the effects of the energy crisis meet citizens' expectations. Needless to say, not exactly, because, first of all, they are late, insufficient. Security of supply should be taken care of much earlier by the Council and the Commission. How did it happen that only now did the Council and the Commiss…

19

Oct

2022

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Outcome of the first meeting of the European Political Community (debate)

Madam President, I'm sorry. Despite some skeptical voices, I believe that the European political community can play an important role in agreeing on a common position and consolidating European states in the current situation of Russia's aggression against Ukraine. The most important thing is the format of this body. It involves countries that do not want to join the European Union, such as Switze…

18

Oct

2022

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Keep the bills down: social and economic consequences of the war in Ukraine and the introduction of a windfall tax (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. Today, bold and quick market interventions are needed to protect consumers from the negative effects of high energy prices. For example, wholesale gas prices should be reduced as soon as possible. It is necessary to freeze the prices of ETS allowances and introduce mechanisms to limit their price increase. At the same time, the Commission should ensure that the s…

5

Oct

2022

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

Mr President, thank you very much. I'm not going to name names, I'm just calling on my colleagues to do a conscience check. I will not mention Social Democrats or Christian Democrats here, but I could talk about Manuela Schwesig, as my colleague said, about Lars Klingbeil, about Sarah Wagenknecht naturally and many other politicians. So do an examination of conscience and think, Social Democrats, …

15

Sep

2022

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Statute and funding of European political parties and European political foundations (debate)

Madam President, I'm sorry. I understand that the aim of this report is greater transparency and democracy in the financing and operation of European parties and foundations. But my colleagues have already explained why we cannot support it. We cannot support it because, of course, it is also an interference in the activities of parties at the level of nation states and you want to build European …

13

Sep

2022

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EU response to the increase in energy prices in Europe (debate)

Madam President, I'm sorry. Let's be honest and honest: The war in Europe has exposed many weaknesses in our energy policy. And it is not only about dependence on Russian raw materials, but about the weakness of our legislative solutions. An example is the electricity market model developed only in 2019. From the annual control report (ACR) we can learn that the model is perfect, but unfortunately…

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Sep

2022

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Renewable Energy Directive (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. I think, dear colleagues, that in the current situation we should not change the existing objectives of the offers. Moreover, I think that we need a moratorium – two or five years – on the European Commission's lofty ambitions in the field of climate and energy policy. Not because I am against climate protection, not because I do not want our energy sector to tra…

5

Jul

2022

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2021 Report on Serbia (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. Of course, I agree with the general line taken by the rapporteur and I thank Mr Bilčík and the shadow rapporteurs for their work on this report. The report presents many of Serbia's weaknesses from the point of view of the Union and the integration process, while not overlooking the context of the war in Ukraine and Serbia's response to it. It contains a lot of r…

23

Jun

2022

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Gas storage (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. I must say that reality can surprise. It was difficult to assume, say a year ago, that one of the leaders of the Greens in Europe, the intransigent climate defenders, now the Vice-Chancellor of Germany, would announce the re-launch of coal-fired power plants. It was difficult to expect that this Parliament, which had set itself the goal of a heroic and uncompromi…

22

Jun

2022

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Voting time

Madam President, I'm sorry. I just wanted to say that I find the President's decision outrageous that you, in such an important vote, do not allow us to vote on amendments which, as you know exactly, are controversial. The president and some of the people here are simply afraid of democracy. Let's vote, let's vote on the amendments as we should vote.…

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Jun

2022

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Parliament’s right of initiative (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. It must be agreed with the rapporteur that indeed a parliament without the right of legislative initiative is an incomplete, flawed parliament. But the European Parliament is not a parliament in the sense that parliaments are parliaments in states of parliamentary democracy. And even more so, it is not a superparliament above national parliaments, as some colleag…

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Jun

2022

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Binding annual greenhouse gas emission reductions by Member States (Effort Sharing Regulation) - Land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) - CO2 emission standards for cars and vans (joint debate – Fit for 55 (part 2))

Mr President, thank you very much. According to the Stockholm Institute for Environmental Protection, no country has met its commitments under the Paris Agreement, and only one-tenth of all environmental goals have been achieved since 1972. Greenhouse gas emissions from economic activities in the European Union returned in the last quarter of 2021 to a level higher than before the outbreak of the …

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May

2022

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The REPowerEU Plan: European solidarity and energy security in face of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, including the recent cuts of gas supply to Poland and Bulgaria (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. It seems that we all understand that the main problem of our energy policy is the discrepancy between long-term goals and actions that need to be taken in the near future. It is not known how long this next time will last. The most pressing current problem is Europe's supply of non-Russian hydrocarbons. And that is the most important problem. The following questi…

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May

2022

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Commission’s 2021 Rule of Law Report (debate)

Madam President, I'm sorry. To make our debate a little more productive, we asked eminent legal professionals to evaluate last year's Commission reports. Their initial assessment confirmed, Commissioner, the many weaknesses of these reports, but also the fact that everyone – even a layman like myself – is caught in the eye when looking at them. The fact of unequal treatment of countries. This show…

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Apr

2022

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Cooperation and similarities between the Putin regime and extreme right and separatist movements in Europe (topical debate)

Madam President, I'm sorry. We must tell ourselves that the bitter truth is that almost all of Europe has poisoned itself with Putin and poisoned itself with Russia contrary to our warnings – our Polish warnings. The European right in many Western countries believed that Putin was a defender of traditional values. Some separatists believed that Russia could be an ally in the quest to change border…

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Apr

2022

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Trans-European energy infrastructure (debate)

Madam President, I'm sorry. Thank you very much for this discussion. As I said, we have tried to find a compromise that takes into account the objectives of the Union, but also the interests and position of various countries, including Malta and Cyprus. And this exception we have made for these two countries is, as you know (those who have criticised it), subject to a number of reservations in ord…

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Apr

2022

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Trans-European energy infrastructure (debate)

Mr President, as you said, I was appointed rapporteur for the Commission proposal on the revised guidelines for trans-European energy infrastructure. But it was almost one year ago, and it took us one year of negotiation to achieve an agreement. First in the Parliament, what was not easy, then with the Council and the Slovenian Presidency. But I would like to thank my colleagues, shadow rapporteur…

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Mar

2022

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The Power of the EU – Joint European Action for more affordable, secure and sustainable energy (debate)

Madam President, I'm sorry. My group also believes that the Commission's proposals go in the right direction – reducing dependence on Russia by diversifying sources of fossil fuel supply, reducing consumption, developing renewables more quickly. But this means that so far, until February 24 this year, we have been going in the wrong direction or not in the right direction enough. I have been here …

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Feb

2022

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The Rule of Law and the consequences of the ECJ ruling (debate)

Madam President, I'm sorry. In my view, this judgment of the CJEU confirms the views expressed some time ago by Professor Andreas Voßkuhle, former President of the German Federal Constitutional Court, that the CJEU is a court with a political agenda – further centralisation of the Union – and in this spirit interprets the Treaties and creates secondary European law. Now we are waiting whether the …

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Feb

2022

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EU-Russia relations, European security and Russia’s military threat against Ukraine (debate)

Madam President, I'm sorry. They will enter, they will not – this is the question we asked ourselves in Poland in 1981. This is the question Poles asked themselves in 1956. When they entered, like in 1920 or 1944, they murdered us and stifled our freedom. Now we have asked this question in relation to Ukraine. Fortunately, they did not enter that night – this does not mean that the danger has been…

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Feb

2022

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Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2021 - Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2021 (debate)

Madam President, I'm sorry. My two colleagues, the esteemed Foreign Ministers Waszczykowski and Sikorski, were somewhat critical of this report and at the same time agreed, which rarely happens to them. On the other hand, I would like to commend these two reports for their realism. For me, this is an expression of growing realism. One element of this realism is that both reports acknowledge that N…

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Nov

2021

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State of the Energy Union (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. Commissioner, I'm sorry. This year's State of the Energy Union report shows the two most important phenomena or processes. Firstly, the ongoing energy transition, which the Commissioner spoke about in 2020, is the first time that renewable energy sources will overtake fossil fuels as the main source of electricity in the Union. It's good because it shows that we …

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Oct

2021

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European solutions to the rise of energy prices for businesses and consumers: the role of energy efficiency and renewable energy and the need to tackle energy poverty (debate)

Madam President, I'm sorry. Commissioner, I'm sorry. What is most surprising about this debate is the surprise that energy prices are soaring. How can they not grow? It would be a miracle if they didn't grow. After all, as always, variable weather, speculation on emission allowances under the ETS, dependence on Russia for gas supplies, which uses gas as a political measure, contribute to this. But…

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Oct

2021

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The situation in Belarus after one year of protests and their violent repression (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. Commissioner, I'm sorry. I just wanted to remind you that the European Parliament has already adopted three resolutions on the situation in Belarus, two – last year, one – including. The EU has imposed sanctions on Belarus in four packages, targeting as many as 166 individuals and 15 entities. Despite this, Lukashenko, unaffected by these harsh sanctions, suppres…