What Dace spoke about.

18 Oct

2023

LV Speech

New European innovation agenda (debate)

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Mr President, Good evening, Commissioner. The New European Innovation Agenda is a welcome roadmap explaining the importance of innovation, especially in the context of digitalisation and regional growth. The first thing I would like to highlight is an impressive geographical gap between Member States in terms of attracting investment to businesses and innovation. For example, recent Innovation Fun…

14 Jun

2023

LV Speech

Implementation and delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals (debate)

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President, I would like to talk about the report's recognition that if all the people of the world were to consume as much natural resources as the people of the European Union, then two commas of eight globes would be needed to sustain this demand. In this context, I would like to ask colleagues whether we should look more critically at the shadows of the European way of life. Obviously, not ever…

20 Oct

2022

LV Speech

Cultural solidarity with Ukraine and a joint emergency response mechanism for cultural recovery in Europe (debate)

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Madam President, Colleagues, The war in Ukraine is also a cultural war. In his essay of 12 July 2021 on the historical unity of Russians and Ukrainians, Putin claims that Russians and Ukrainians are one people, one whole, part of the same historical and spiritual space. Pseudo historian Putin writes a story of Ukrainian history, culture and language, which serves as an ideological basis for the oc…

19 May

2022

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Establishing the European Education Area by 2025 – micro credentials, individual learning accounts and learning for a sustainable environment (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, the European Parliament’s Culture and Education Committee is delighted to witness a real progress being made in order to strive for establishing a European education area by 2025. The three proposals for the Council recommendations, namely to develop a European approach to micro—credentials, individual learning accounts, as well as learning for environmental sustainabil…

3 May

2022

LV Speech

Threats to the safety of journalists and media freedom, on the occasion of the World Press Freedom Day (debate)

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President, Dear Commissioner, Dear colleagues, Last Thursday, during a visit to Ukraine by the UN Secretary-General, Russia fired missiles on Kyiv. This symbolic desire of Putin to humiliate the UN unfortunately also claimed the life of Radio Svoboda journalist Vira Hiriča, who is the twenty-third journalist killed in this war. Some of these journalists have been deliberately killed by the Russian…

6 Apr

2022

LV Speech

Data Governance Act (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, colleagues. A strong and harmonised legal framework for data management is an important step to address existing data security concerns and open up more possibilities for data use in the EU. In this way, we would also make an additional contribution to national economies. The analogy of data as oil of the twenty-first century remains unquestionably relevant. The EU m…

8 Mar

2022

LV Speech

Foreign interference in all democratic processes in the EU (debate)

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Good morning, colleagues! Since 24 February, when Russia launched brutal hostilities in Ukraine, in a short space of time, many theoretically and academically described probabilities have become a harsh reality in our report on foreign interference in European democratic processes. In front of our eyes, Putin's military literally destroys a free and independent state, punishing it for its efforts …

16 Feb

2022

LV Speech

One youth, one Europe (topical debate)

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Dear Chair, As the European Year of Youth, 2022 is undoubtedly a good opportunity for young people to raise their own concerns and take greater responsibility for the implementation of these challenges and initiatives. But we need to understand that the quality of participation is important. And the quality does not arise in an empty place. We therefore need to think about how to combine incentive…

10 Nov

2021

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The European Education Area: a shared holistic approach (debate)

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Good evening, colleagues! Good evening, Commissioner. I believe that we should see the European Education Area as one of the decisive initiatives for the future of Europe. If we want to see the European Union as a region of excellence, global competitiveness, creative diversity and sustainability, we need a smart society motivated by lifelong learning. However, the ambitious rhetoric of the Europe…

18 Oct

2021

LV Speech

Europe’s Media in the Digital Decade (short presentation)

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Mr President, Dear colleagues, This is a truly crucial moment to strengthen the European Union's media and audiovisual sectors. Unfortunately, the media ecosystem was already fragile before the pandemic. The last ten years have signalled that the state of media freedom has deteriorated significantly and that there are real risks to media diversity. The COVID-19 pandemic has deepened existing chall…

5 Oct

2021

LV Speech

Disinformation and the role of social platforms (debate)

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Dear Chair, Good evening, colleagues! the documents just released by the former employee make it clear that we have been lying for years saying that it is fighting disinformation. knows clearly that its algorithms amplify hate speech, lies, conspiracy theories and fake news. know that this platform is used by authoritarian states to manipulate elections, both at home and in our democracies. have t…

14 Sep

2021

LV Speech

Direction of EU-Russia political relations (debate)

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Mr President, I represent Latvia in the European Parliament, which is located in the immediate geopolitical vicinity of Russia. And our history, unfortunately, teaches us not to cherish naive illusions in relations with Russian authoritarian regimes. Through disinformation and other forms of hybrid interference, Russia – the Kremlin – is also now constantly interfering in the internal policies of …

6 Jul

2021

LV Speech

Foreign interference in democratic processes (debate)

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Hello, Madam President, Colleagues, Dear Mr Borrell, Disinformation campaigns, political and economic interference from countries such as Russia and China are everyday life for us and our neighbours. We therefore need to significantly strengthen the capacity of the European External Action Service's operational teams and of all the European institutions. As the representative of the Baltic States,…