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Jun

2025

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Institutional and political implications of the EU enlargement process and global challenges (debate)

I don't think it's benevolent, actually, your question. What we can certainly say is that Ukraine, which is also fighting for its existence, but which is fighting for its people and for European values, has an ambition to join the European Union. When and how this will happen is not easy to answer, it will not happen overnight in any case. However, what exists as an ambition I think we should resp…

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Jun

2025

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Institutional and political implications of the EU enlargement process and global challenges (debate)

Dear Chairman, colleagues, Russian influence, Chinese investments and anti-European regional actors who do not share our European values strengthen their presence precisely where Europe hesitates. The credibility of European enlargement policy is built precisely through a stronger partnership with countries and actors who share the aspiration towards a common future, but also through stronger poli…

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Jun

2025

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Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience Facility (debate)

Dear Chair, the idea contained in this report of a targeted 18-month extension for those projects that are mature, objectively able to be implemented on time should be supported. I do not think that European funds can be an end in themselves and that in this way we can prevent, as I said, that on the one hand these funds do not remain unused, but on the other hand, what can be even worse, to be, a…

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Jun

2025

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Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience Facility (debate)

With all its shortcomings and challenges, the Recovery and Resilience Facility has proven to be a historic response to both the real test of European solidarity and one of the greatest crises of our time. Deeper economic fragmentation between Member States has been prevented and a common instrument has enabled unprecedented investments, with concrete reforms that strengthen the resilience and comp…

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May

2025

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A revamped long-term budget for the Union in a changing world (debate)

Dear President, Commissioner, colleagues, in a world where the ruthless logic of geopolitics returns and security is no longer guaranteed, Europe needs a long-term budget that fits the new reality – politically ambitious, fair, but also financially sustainable. Through technically complex Excel tables and figures, the key political decisions on the essence of what Europe is today will actually be …

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Apr

2025

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 20 March 2025 (debate)

The past few years have been marred by postmodern illusions. Peace and security in Europe are no longer taken for granted, and free trade is no longer seen as a magic wand for liberal democracy. Real politics, sometimes brutal, is just beginning to write new rules. At the same time, history teaches us that protectionism has never led any nation to prosperity because tariffs harm everyone. Today, t…

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Mar

2025

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Guidelines for the 2026 budget - Section III (debate)

Mr President, dear Commissioner Serafin, dear colleagues, the annual budget for the next year is one of the final budgets in the multiannual financial framework. With limited fiscal space, it is necessary, therefore, to set clear priorities. Among them, in the face of the deep growing geopolitical threats, must be the need to strengthen European defence and security policies, stronger investments …

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Mar

2025

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Secessionist threats in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the recent escalation (debate)

Dear Chairman, there is no other country closer to the Croatian people than Bosnia and Herzegovina. Therefore, it hurts to see that three decades from Dayton, three decades from Srebrenica, three decades from the joint victory over the Greater Serbia criminal project of BiH is in the deepest political and security crisis. Those who play irresponsibly with fragile peace today, now and with the begi…

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Mar

2025

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Presentation of the proposal on a new common approach on returns (debate)

Almost half a million people each year get a decision to leave European territory, but only one in five actually does. Tolerating such a completely dysfunctional and grotesque model rightly undermines Europeans' trust in the system, attracts irregular migration, and the tragic attacks of men who did not have the right to be in Europe also highlight the dire security consequences of such rotten pol…

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Mar

2025

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Establishing the Reform and Growth Facility for the Republic of Moldova (debate)

Dear Chair, Commissioner Kos, colleagues, this week we have the opportunity to approve the establishment of the Reform and Growth Facility for Moldova, an important step in the Europeanisation and modernisation of the country. This fund, worth almost 1.9 billion euros, will encourage Moldova to implement the necessary reforms, strengthen institutions and accelerate integration into European, econo…

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Feb

2025

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Commission Work Programme 2025 (debate)

Dear Chair, Commissioner, colleagues, this Parliament is not the same as it was before the elections. Circumstances are far from those five years ago. The world is far more dangerous, economically insecure and politically unstable. Therefore, the Commission cannot proceed with the old established forms either. It's time for determination, it's time for new dynamics in work and tangible results. Th…

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Jan

2025

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Addressing EU demographic challenges: towards the implementation of the 2023 Demography Toolbox (debate)

The difficult demographic winter is one of the key European issues and, unfortunately, has long been one of the most neglected. I warned of the demographic decline, and to be honest about it, of the geographically uneven demographic decline – for years. It was difficult to put this topic on the agenda, even here in the European Parliament, and that is why it is good that we have this open debate t…

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Jan

2025

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 19 December 2024 (debate)

The Honourable President, the Honourable President of the Council, the President of the Parliament, the Commissioner, the eyes of the world this week, understandably, are focused on Washington and the inauguration of the new old President Trump. The political moment, the signals we see, must make us fully aware. If we do not snap, Europe will continue to sink into the labyrinth of its own growing …

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Dec

2024

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Preparation of the EU-Western Balkans Summit (debate)

The Honourable Chair, Colleagues, South-Eastern Europe is without any doubt an area of key strategic importance for the European Union, as well as an area of enormous untapped potential. The global turmoil and escalation of the conflict further underline the geopolitical importance of the region. The European Union is by far the key and largest trading partner for the six countries of the so-calle…

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Dec

2024

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Preparation of the European Council of 19-20 December 2024 (debate)

Dear Chairwoman, colleagues, in a never faster global transformation, when events that once took decades to take place in weeks, we are at the beginning of a new chapter. The first meeting of the European Council comes with the new President and with the new European Commission. In just a few weeks, the criminal Assad regime in Syria has fallen, the war in Ukraine has entered a new, even more dang…

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Nov

2024

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Presentation by the President-elect of the Commission of the College of Commissioners and its programme (debate)

Dear President, Dear President of the Commission, colleagues, Europe does not have time for lamentations, Europe does not have time to waste. To ensure peace, prosperity and prosperity, it will have to be stronger and more dynamic than today. We have a duty to make and implement difficult decisions, especially around our budget. Greater and smarter investments in defence and security, including bo…

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Nov

2024

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2025 budgetary procedure: Joint text (debate)

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Nov

2024

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Enhancing Europe’s civilian and defence preparedness and readiness (debate)

Dear Chair, Europe is not ready mentally, let alone in terms of real capacity for the new reality of an increasingly dangerous world. Global rivals, and sometimes our partners, view us more and more with a dose of ridicule as a sluggish, weakened force lost in pointless bureaucratic games. And these guidelines, as well as the reports of Draghi and Letta, point us to the root changes and the focus …

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Oct

2024

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Strengthening the security of Europe’s external borders: need for a comprehensive approach and enhanced Frontex support (debate)

Dear President, Dear Commissioner, colleagues, much of Europe's credibility on the issue of migration will depend on our ability to give our, European, Croatian people a stronger sense of security around our common goal of ensuring safe borders, for which, above all, it is certainly necessary to increase capacity at the European level, at the national level, but also better coordination between Me…

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Oct

2024

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Presentation of the programme of activities of the Hungarian Presidency (debate)

Dear President, while the third winter of war is approaching in the immediate vicinity of Hungary, it is clear to everyone more seriously that this is not the time for rhetorical-ideological competitions and politicization, but for sober consideration of geopolitical circumstances, taking responsibility and actions. Whoever thinks that peace can be secured by indulgence and concealment aids antici…

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Oct

2024

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Preparation of the European Council of 17-18 October 2024 (debate)

Dear Chair, Commissioner, colleagues, Europe has less and less time each day to reverse dramatically bad trends, especially in three key areas where it needs to wake up urgently. Above all, we need more economic development, more production, more innovation, more investment, as opposed to anti-development policies of growing up or deindustrialization. We need more competitiveness in accessing capi…

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Sep

2024

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Organised crime, a major threat to the internal security of the European Union and European citizens (topical debate)

Dear Chair, colleagues, respected police officers, Europe is one of the best and safest places to live in the world. If we want it to remain that way for future generations, we need to take the serious threats to our internal security posed by organised crime as seriously as possible. According to a Europol report this year, over 800 criminal networks involving more than 25 000 members have been i…

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Sep

2024

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Global measures towards social media platforms - Strengthening the role of DSA and protecting democracy and freedom in the online sphere (debate)

Dear Chair, Dear Commissioners, colleagues, the new digital tools have fundamentally changed our daily lives. While online platforms bring extraordinary opportunities to improve our lives, economies and even democracies, they also bring new dangers. The Digital Services Act is one of the most significant attempts to bring order and modernise European policy in the digital world. With this, we stri…

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Sep

2024

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Need to prevent security threats like the Solingen attack through addressing illegal migration and effective return (debate)

Dear Chair, European solidarity towards refugees and asylum seekers stems from the consistent application of our fundamental values. Too often, however, the inefficiencies and chaos associated with our European migration and asylum system, and we see integration, are becoming our growing weakness. That is why we have a political and human duty to take such Islamist terrorist attacks seriously, not…

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Apr

2024

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Screening of third country nationals at the external borders - European Criminal Records Information System - Third Country Nationals - Common procedure for international protection in the Union - Establishing a return border procedure, and amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1148 - Asylum and migration management - Addressing situations of crisis and force majeure - Establishment of 'Eurodac' for the comparison of fingerprints for the effective application of Regulation (EU) No 604/2013, for identifying an illegally staying third-country national or stateless person and on requests for the comparison with Eurodac data by Member States' law enforcement authorities and Europol for law enforcement purposes (recast) - Union Resettlement Framework - Standards for the qualification of third-country nationals or stateless persons as beneficiaries of international protection - Standards for the reception of applicants for international protection (recast) (joint debate - Migration and Asylum package)

Two months ahead of the European elections, after eight chaotic years of wandering and thousands of lives lost, we are facing key decisions. Mass illegal crossings of thousands and thousands of unknown people, often instrumentalized in geopolitical games, have for too long brought disorder and suffering, chaos and security threats to both Croatia and Europe. What we have defended from the beginnin…