What Krzysztof spoke about.

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Mar

2023

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Adequate minimum income ensuring active inclusion (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. Ladies and Gentlemen, The problem of poverty and social exclusion in the European Union is a serious problem. Following the impact of the COVID pandemic and the dramatically rising cost of living, it has once again become a priority and affects all Member States, without exception, and more than a quarter of our citizens. This is cert…

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Feb

2023

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Availability of fertilisers in the EU (debate)

Madam President, I'm sorry. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. Ladies and Gentlemen, At this point, while we are debating here in the plenary chamber of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, Polish farmers in my region, in the Lubelskie region, including at the border crossing in Dorohusk, are striking and protesting. And this is not just an issue related to the lack of availability and the dramaticall…

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Feb

2023

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Transparency and targeting of political advertising (debate)

Madam President, I'm sorry. Commissioner, I'm sorry. Ladies and Gentlemen, There is no need to convince anyone that the phenomenon of interfering in the electoral process is extremely dangerous, as we have seen, for example, in the famous example of Cambridge Analytica. The issue of the protection, transparency and integrity of the electoral process is no longer only the protection of our fundamen…

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Jan

2023

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Revision of the European Works Councils Directive (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. Ladies and Gentlemen, During this plenary session, we are celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of the European single market. It is one of the pillars of the European Union and over the last three decades we have been determined to remove barriers to the free movement of people, services and capital. And although of course this is no…

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Jan

2023

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The establishment of a tribunal on the crime of aggression against Ukraine (debate)

Madam President, I'm sorry. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. Ladies and Gentlemen, Mariupol, Bucha, Irpień are only three out of several dozen, several hundred towns, where the Russians committed cruel crimes against Ukrainians. There are 21 mass graves, 1,000 exhumed bodies, more than 16,000 murdered civilians, 5,000 torture sites, and thousands of kidnapped and abducted children. All these crimes mu…

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Jan

2023

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30th Anniversary of the Single Market (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. Commissioner, I'm sorry. The single European market is the true beating heart of Europe. A pillar that gives it strength, unity and growth. It is thanks to it that European GDP is on average 8 to 9% higher, while in the case of Poland GDP grew annually by one and a half percentage points faster thanks to the common market. The Single Market has also proven to be …

13

Dec

2022

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A need for a dedicated budget to turn the Child Guarantee into reality - an urgency in times of energy and food crisis (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. Ladies and Gentlemen, The first call for a Child Guarantee came out of the European Parliament in 2015 and was skeptical among some. Six years later, the Commission came up with a recommendation. Today, there is no doubt about the importance of this initiative. It is simply impossible to move on to the fact that there are still childr…

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Dec

2022

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A long-term vision for the EU's rural areas (debate)

Madam President, I'm sorry. Commissioner, I'm sorry. Ladies and Gentlemen, Rural areas account for as much as 30% of the population of the Community, who unfortunately still face many problems. Lack of access to basic services, road connections and appropriate communication, digital exclusion or difficult access to education are just some of them. They also lead to another very dangerous phenomeno…

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Nov

2022

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Establishing the Digital Decade Policy Programme 2030 (debate)

Madam President, I'm sorry. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. Ladies and Gentlemen, In recent years, the words ‘digital transformation’ have been changed by all cases. The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly accelerated the processes and forced us to adapt to the new reality precisely through the more widespread use of digital technologies. There is no doubt, however, that in order for the European Uni…

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Nov

2022

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The Human rights situation in Afghanistan especially the deterioration of women´s rights and attacks against educational institutions

Mr President, thank you very much. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. Dear Colleagues, To say that the human rights situation in Afghanistan, and in particular the situation of women and religious minorities, is difficult is to say nothing. Systemically eliminating women from public life, banning them from parks or sports facilities, restricting freedom of movement – these are just a few examples. The m…

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Oct

2022

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The situation of human rights in Haiti in particular related to gang violence

Mr President, thank you very much. Between 8 and 17 July, 209 people were murdered in the Haitian capital as a result of gang fighting. That means a man was killed every 68 minutes. Nearly half of them were people who had no ties to criminal organizations. There are kidnappings for ransom, rapes, armed robberies. Haitians are completely terrorized. At the same time, they are also deprived of acces…

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Oct

2022

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Question Time (Commission) Tackling depopulation through cohesion policy instrument

Today's debate is in the form of questions, so could I therefore ask and hope that the European Commission will, after all, politely reflect on how to redirect its thinking towards implementing all the policies that we are implementing for depopulated regions in this way, anyway, in order to attract these people to them and not just to retain them? This is my kind appeal in the form of a question.…

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Oct

2022

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Question Time (Commission) Tackling depopulation through cohesion policy instrument

Mr President, thank you very much. Dear Commissioner, Do you not think that the paradigm of thinking on the issue of depopulation of regions needs to be changed? Does the European Commission fail to see such a change in need, because we are talking here a lot about how to stop the depopulation of regions. However, in my opinion, today a huge problem is that a large part of the regions in the Europ…

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Oct

2022

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Radio Equipment Directive: common charger for electronic devices (debate)

Madam President, I'm sorry. Commissioner, I'm sorry. Dear Colleagues, €250 million a year in savings for consumers, 11,000 tons less e-waste for the environment. It is these real, concrete benefits that the introduction of universal charger rules will bring. The universal charger also means convenience, because thanks to it Europeans will be able to get rid of entangled cables from home drawers, f…

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Sep

2022

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Economic, social and territorial cohesion in the EU: the 8th Cohesion Report - EU border regions: living labs of European integration (debate)

Madam President, I'm sorry. Dear Commissioner, Ladies and Gentlemen, In recent years, the European Union has been confronted with unprecedented crises that have one common denominator. And it is cohesion policy, thanks to which it was possible to take action quickly and flexibly to counteract their negative effects. This is undoubtedly a huge success and achievement of cohesion policy. However, we…

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Sep

2022

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Adequate minimum wages in the European Union (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. When we started working on the Directive on adequate minimum wages in the European Union, we were still in a different reality. And even though we already saw that in the Union they are particularly vulnerable to group poverty, and that there is a phenomenon of in-work poverty, perhaps we have never been so convinced of the need to ac…

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Jul

2022

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EU action plan for the social economy (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. Friends and colleagues! The social economy comprises a wide range of actors that share one thing: activities for the benefit of local communities and the common good. In addition, the social economy is our ally in delivering on the European Pillar of Social Rights. The sector contributes to the creation of quality jobs, the promotion …

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Jul

2022

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Digital Services Act - Digital Markets Act (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. Dear Commissioners, I admit that I am speaking today with a unique sense of a true historical event. With the adoption of both the Digital Markets Act and the Digital Services Act, the European Union is the first in the world to end the "Wild West" of online giants and embark on a clear and transparent regulatory framework that protects internet users' rights, re…

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Jun

2022

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The human rights situation in Xinjiang, including the Xinjiang police files

Madam President, I'm sorry. Mr President, thank you very much. Ladies and Gentlemen, A massive leak of police files showed the brutal face of the Chinese regime. According to the UN, up to half a million men, women and adolescents from the Muslim Uyghur minority may have been sent to mass internment camps. The materials and photos published in the media speak for themselves. The systemic violation…

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Jun

2022

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The Commission's proposal for "Attracting skills and talent to the EU", particularly the Talent Partnerships with North African countries (topical debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. Legal immigration can bring huge benefits to the EU. It responds to labour market shortages and demographic challenges. It can contribute to the post-pandemic recovery of the economy and attract intellectual capital to the European Union. Actions on legal immigration also contribute to combating the activities of smugglers and traffickers and enhancing the protec…

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May

2022

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Question Time (Commission) Europe’s Energy Autonomy: The strategic importance of renewables and energy interconnections and efficiency

If the Commissioner were kind enough to develop this a little bit, because I do not quite understand the problem of the fact that this energy produced in Ukraine comes from nuclear energy. Yes, Poland is already buying energy from Ukraine, but my question went in this direction: Does the European Commission intend to create an instrument that will buy this surplus energy in Ukraine, no matter from…

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May

2022

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Question Time (Commission) Europe’s Energy Autonomy: The strategic importance of renewables and energy interconnections and efficiency

Madam President, I'm sorry. Commissioner, I'm sorry. I wouldn't want to repeat myself. We all know that the European reason for the state is to become independent of energy resources from Russia. We need to look for new directions of importing these raw materials. We need to develop renewable energy sources. But my question is about the surplus of energy production in Ukraine. At the moment, among…

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Apr

2022

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Right to repair (debate)

Madam President, I'm sorry. Commissioner, I'm sorry. Ladies and Gentlemen, Undoubtedly, each of us has been many times in a situation where broken equipment was more profitable to replace with a new one than to repair. Repairs are often expensive and long-lasting, and spare parts are often difficult to access. As a result, Europe ranks third in the list of the largest producers of electrical waste…

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Apr

2022

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Global approach to research and innovation: Europe’s strategy for international cooperation in a changing world (debate) (debate)

Madam President, I'm sorry. Madam President, I'm sorry. Dear Commissioner, Friends and colleagues! Firstly, I would like to thank the Commissioner very much for all the initiatives that are being taken to support researchers from Ukraine, both those who have fled to Europe and those who have remained there. These are very important and necessary actions. Well done, Commissioner. That's a great job…

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Apr

2022

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Increased pre-financing from REACT-EU (C9-0127/2022) (Rule 163) (vote)

Mr President, thank you very much. On behalf of the Committee on Regional Development and its chairman, Mr Younous Omarjee, who is not with us today because he is on a mission in Poland, on the Polish-Ukrainian border. He is trying to recognize the needs in this refugee crisis. I would like to express my support for the urgent vote on the proposal as regards the increased pre-financing from the Re…