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Mar

2024

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Guidelines for the 2025 Budget - Section III (debate)

Dear Chairman, we are here a few weeks ahead of the European elections, which will largely determine the future of Europe. Such a future must include, and this is why we want to confirm with these guidelines, a Europe that can support Ukraine, a Europe that can defend itself, a Europe that develops its competitiveness against some crazy economic experiments. From next year, we will significantly s…

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Feb

2024

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Multiannual financial framework for the years 2021 to 2027 - Establishing the Ukraine Facility - Establishing the Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (‘STEP’) (joint debate - multiannual financial framework revision)

Dear Chairman, colleague and colleague. The war on our continent, the growing aspirations of other global players, the unpredictability and instability of the world challenge our European long-term, economic and technological global position. With the agreement on the Multiannual Financial Framework, we are trying to strengthen European strategic autonomy, ensure strategic investments in the field…

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Jan

2024

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 14-15 December 2023 and preparation of the Special European Council meeting of 1 February 2024 - Situation in Hungary and frozen EU funds (joint debate - European Council meetings)

The opening of negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova, with favourable conclusions regarding Bosnia and Herzegovina, is a historic moment at a time when the geopolitical environment is increasingly dangerous and unpredictable. At the same time, we urgently need adequate funding to help Ukraine, but also to invest in competitiveness, in migration and asylum reform and support to the Western Balkan c…

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Jan

2024

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

Dear Chairman, Prime Minister, colleagues. The Belgian presidency concludes Europe's institutional cycle ahead of the European elections at crucial moments for our continent and for the lives of Europeans. We are about to formalise a historic agreement on migration and asylum, finally taking a responsible, civilisational and common-sense approach to one of Europe's key challenges. If we want to re…

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Nov

2023

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2024 budgetary procedure: Joint text (debate)

Year after year, the European Union faces a series of crisis situations to which European citizens expect a strong, common European response, which is at the same time increasingly difficult to achieve from the budgetary structure. Inflationary pressure is hampering not only the lives of citizens but also a number of economic sectors. The catastrophic consequences of natural disasters leave a mark…

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Oct

2023

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General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2024 - all sections (debate)

From year to year, it is becoming increasingly complex to provide adequate resources for the security of European citizens, as well as for Europe's economic and technological competitiveness. Difficult decisions, and the location of limited resources are particularly evident now in times of war and in times of pronounced strategic turmoil in the global environment. We have a responsibility to ensu…

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Oct

2023

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Establishing the Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (‘STEP’) (debate)

The Honourable Chair, Honourable Commissioner, Colleagues, we are in a time of heightened geopolitical challenges and strategic conflicts of global actors. If we want to resist this, if we want to maintain the standard of living that Europe has today in such an environment, we need to strengthen our strategic sovereignty in terms of the economy, in terms of technological competitiveness and in ter…

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Oct

2023

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Interim report on the proposal for a mid-term revision of the Multiannual Financial Framework 2021-2027 (debate)

Dear Chair, Commissioner, colleagues, the budget is always the basis for any European action, in the Member States, in our neighbourhood and beyond. At a time of tectonic changes in a fundamentally changing world, this is more obvious than ever before. We have exhausted the multiannual financial framework, we have exhausted and we do not have the tools at our disposal for any possible future crise…

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Sep

2023

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Violence and discrimination in the world of sports after the FIFA Women’s World Cup (debate)

Dear Chairwoman, every athlete, every woman deserves equality, deserves deep respect and respect. Women's sport is like men's sport, a life of work, a life of hard work, a life of great renunciation and suffering with the aim of ultimate success: Be the first, be the best, be who you are. But for women, like men, to be able to compete with each other, to be able to win fairly, they must be women, …

12

Sep

2023

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EU-Tunisia Agreement - aspects related to external migration policy (debate)

First of all, I think that when I spoke of such moralizing tones, it was part of what, unfortunately, was heard from the left. I have also noted, and we insist on this, that the full implementation of this agreement is needed with the main aim of reducing irregular migration, suppressing any criminal networks that profit from such hypocritical, cynical exploitation of those whose desire to come to…

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Sep

2023

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EU-Tunisia Agreement - aspects related to external migration policy (debate)

The cradle of Western civilization, the Mediterranean, has for years been a symbol of a structurally unsuccessful migration policy and deep deficiencies in the protection of external borders. Criminal, smuggling networks illegally introduce hundreds and hundreds of people into European territory on a daily basis, to a large extent, from Tunisia. That is why I welcome the agreement that should focu…

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Sep

2023

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European Defence Industry Reinforcement through common Procurement Act (EDIRPA) (debate)

–The Honourable Chairman, the anti-civilisation Russian aggression against Ukraine, has helped Europe understand that the issue of security, the issue of defence, cannot be taken for granted or left to chance. The Ukrainian resistance helped Europe understand that today Western civilization is fought not only with words, but above all with deeds. In such a context, fostering joint procurement shou…

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Jul

2023

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The need for EU action on search and rescue in the Mediterranean (debate)

Dear Chairwoman, colleagues, tragic scenes from the Mediterranean that we are witnessing remind us once again that in the absence of a comprehensive system and agreement on migration and asylum, Europe is left largely to the will of smugglers of people gambling on human destinies. The recent visit to Lampedusa, together with other colleagues from the Civil Liberties Committee, has made it fully aw…

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Jul

2023

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2022 Report on Bosnia and Herzegovina (debate)

Dear Chairman, horrific mass executions, the genocide of Srebrenica was the culmination of the crimes of the Greater Serbian Milosevic regime in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in Croatia. Such a policy was defeated primarily militarily, with the courage of the Croatian Army, the Croatian Defence Council in cooperation with the Bosniak forces that managed to save Bihać from the Srebrenica scenario. Thi…

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Jul

2023

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European Chips Act (debate)

The new technological era in which we live is a geopolitical ruthless era in which no one waits for anyone and in which nothing is free. In a tectonically changing world, where global players compete for the best possible position, Europe must also secure its place with this legislation. We can and must be faster in technological transformation, where chips are an indispensable component. In this …

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Jun

2023

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Surrogacy in the EU - risks of exploitation and commercialisation (topical debate)

Dear Chairwoman, colleagues, starting a family, creating a new life and desire for parenthood are one of the fundamental, most intimate, but also the most sensitive areas of human life. We have also heard in this discussion attempts to justify commercially contracting pregnancy, commercially contracting childbirth with some supposedly noble goals. Unfortunately, regardless of possible noble goals …

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Jun

2023

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 29-30 June 2023, in particular in the light of recent steps towards concluding the Migration Pact (debate)

Dear Chairman, colleagues, the continuous increase in illegal crossings, the inconceivable numbers of immigrants and smugglers and the increasing migratory pressure on the Mediterranean, on the area where it was created, where Western civilization was created, once again rings alarm, once again points to the alarming situation at our common external borders. Europe still has no control. Europe sti…

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Jun

2023

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Artificial Intelligence Act (debate)

Dear Vice-President, Commissioner, colleague and colleague. As the central technology of the industrial revolution, artificial intelligence is changing our society at an incomprehensible speed and there will be no human activity that will remain intact. Like all tools, it can be used for both good and evil, for better medical diagnosis, higher quality of life, higher productivity, less uniform wor…

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May

2023

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Externalising asylum applications and making funding to third countries conditional on the implementation of return agreements (topical debate)

Dear Chair, colleagues and colleagues. Today, Europe is under increasing migratory pressure, especially from the Member States at the external border, including my country Croatia. Asylum - the international right to protection - is being dramatically abused across Europe and this is a fact. That's why we all have an obligation together and here, in the European Parliament, in other European insti…

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Apr

2023

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The need for European solidarity in saving lives in the Mediterranean, in particular in Italy (debate)

Dear Chairman, dear colleagues, the Mediterranean as the cradle of Western civilization, our civilization, as well as the directions we are witnessing in the immediate vicinity of the Croatian border are under strong migratory pressure. This reminds me a lot of the migration crisis of 2015. Clearly, along with determination at the borders, solidarity towards those most in need of protection is als…

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Apr

2023

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Guidelines for the 2024 budget - Section III (debate)

Mr President, dear Commissioner, colleagues, year after year, Europe has been facing events that put our preparedness, readiness and resilience to the hardest tests. Year after year with the budget, with the budgetary procedure, we once again have an important task to set out Europe’s priorities and determine how much funding we wish to allocate in order to achieve them. The focus is not only on t…

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Mar

2023

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Cross-border adoptions from third countries (debate)

Dear President, Honourable Commissioners, colleagues, children, family formation, parenting, but also the desire for parenthood are some of the most sensitive areas of human life, and the adoption of children is probably the noblest act of an adult human being. Unfortunately, what can be an act of fulfillment for someone else, primarily a human trafficker, can be an opportunity to gain benefits, a…

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Mar

2023

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This is Europe - Debate with the President of Lithuania, Gitanas Nausėda (debate)

Dear Chairman, thank you very much. Presidents, colleagues, along with the Baltic neighbours Lithuania, but also Ukraine, and Croatia, my country, throughout its history fought against repression, fought for freedom, preserving its identity, preserving its language and preserving its culture. All this until our freedom was taken for granted and many disputed it above all, stronger and larger neigh…

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Feb

2023

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EUCO conclusions: the need for the speedy finalisation of the Road Map (debate)

Dear Chairwoman, colleagues, the area of the Mediterranean where European Western civilization was born is again, along connected land routes, under the most intense pressure of unregulated, irregular migration. Even the most naive is clear today that dramatic figures show that existing European migration and asylum policies have failed. They didn't deliver the ordered system. We therefore need a …

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Feb

2023

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Preparation of the Special European Council meeting of February, in particular the need to develop sustainable solutions in the area of asylum and migration (debate)

Unfortunately, the situation at Europe's borders is starting to be dramatically reminiscent of the major migration crisis in 2015. Thousands and thousands of unknown people are apparently illegally entering the territory of the European Union. It is terribly scandalous to hear, on the other side of the left and here in the European Parliament, a passionate advocacy for non-compliance with our Euro…