What Tomislav spoke about.

11 Mar

2025

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Presentation of the proposal on Critical Medicines Act (CMA) (debate)

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I'm glad that you support the overall concept and the direction of the Critical Medicines Act, the same as myself, but there is one thing that I think is really missing and that is the provisions on stockpiling. We remember from the last big crisis that we had a problem that some big Member States essentially kept everything that they could for themselves at the time where some other Member States…

11 Mar

2025

HR Speech

Presentation of the proposal on Critical Medicines Act (CMA) (debate)

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Dear Chair, Commissioner, colleagues, the pharmaceutical industry is one of the most strategic economic sectors for the European Union. Any shortage of medicines poses a health, but also existential, security threat to Europe. Unfortunately, the European Union is becoming increasingly dependent on imports of medicines from third countries, and it is the recent pandemic that has best shown how vuln…

12 Feb

2025

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Silent crisis: the mental health of Europe’s youth (debate)

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Dear Chair, Commissioner, colleagues, the mental health crisis of young people has long become a pressing problem we are facing in the European Union. The World Health Organization estimates that one in seven young people between the ages of 10 and 19 suffers from some form of mental disorder, accounting for 13 percent of all health problems in this age group. Even more tragic is the fact that sui…

12 Feb

2025

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US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, the World Health Organisation and the suspension of US development and humanitarian aid (debate)

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Dear Chairwoman, Commissioners, Colleagues and colleagues, the basic principles of public health that are applied all over the world today have been set by the Croatian physician, Dr. Andrija Štampar. The press made an unquestionable contribution to the creation of an international health organisation, knowing that health threats transcend national borders and that working together we can better p…

12 Feb

2025

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Commission Work Programme 2025 (debate)

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The Commission Work Programme 2025 is a strategic document whose implementation must result in a strong shift in European Union policy, making our continent more competitive, secure and resilient. For too long, we have been forced to compromise with irrational green policies, which in practice have led us to accelerate the EU’s deindustrialisation, protecting the environment yes, but in an intelli…

11 Feb

2025

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Political crisis in Serbia (debate)

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Dear Chairman, Commissioner, colleague and colleague, Serbia is an autocratic state in which Aleksandar Vučić and his party manage almost all segments of society. The media is under complete control of the government and political freedoms are extremely limited. Serbia's foreign policy relies on drawing concessions from both Russia and the West, i.e. sitting on two chairs. In parallel, Vučić is pu…

11 Feb

2025

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The need to address urgent labour shortages and ensure quality jobs in the health care sector (debate)

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The European Union is facing a challenge that threatens the fundamental pillars of our health systems. In fact, an estimated 1.2 million doctors, nurses and midwives are missing in the EU. In addition, according to estimates by the World Health Organization, by 2030. The EU could lose as many as four million health workers. These data clearly indicate the existence of a structural problem that req…

10 Feb

2025

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Escalation of gang violence in Sweden and strengthening the fight against organised crime (debate)

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Dear Chairman, Sweden, once known for its security, has been facing an alarming increase in violence and crime in recent years. Explosions, shootings and killings have become commonplace on the streets of Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö. Of particular concern is the increase in the number of young people who are perpetrators of serious crimes. The number of perpetrators of serious and fatal crimes…

21 Jan

2025

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Geopolitical and economic implications for the transatlantic relations under the new Trump administration (debate)

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Immediately after taking the oath of office, Donald Trump announced a radical change in US energy policy with the words ‘Drill, baby, drill’. This means that if we don't change something, the green ideology, which wants to deindustrialise the EU, will lead to us falling further behind in our competitiveness with the US and China. This is why we need a strong shift to make the EU as autonomous and …

21 Jan

2025

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Need to enforce the Digital Services Act to protect democracy on social media platforms including against foreign interference and biased algorithms (debate)

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There are two sexes and this is something that is completely clear. If someone has always spoken against gender ideology, against the distortion of science in this sense, it has always been me and it is no secret and I think that we should go back to some normal things, that we should go back to some kind of foundation of biology, and that everything else is usually ideologizing that comes largely…

21 Jan

2025

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Need to enforce the Digital Services Act to protect democracy on social media platforms including against foreign interference and biased algorithms (debate)

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Dear President, Commissioner, colleague and colleague, the Digital Services Act must be applied impartially. This means that if the rules are broken, the powerful tycoons behind the U.S. government should also be punished, regardless of the pressure that might come from Washington. Otherwise, we're nothing more than ordinary vases. Likewise, it means to act in a way that treats everything equally,…

18 Dec

2024

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Challenges facing EU farmers and agricultural workers: improving working conditions, including their mental well-being (debate)

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Dear Chair, Commissioners, colleagues, Eurostat data for 2020 show that the risk of an accident at work in the agricultural sector is 18% higher than in other sectors. On the other hand, the suicide rate among farmers is 20% higher than the average. Difficult physical work, market fluctuations and unpredictable weather conditions, and to this I would add unreasonable, extremely ideologically color…

18 Dec

2024

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Preparation of the EU-Western Balkans Summit (debate)

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Dear Chairman, in the process of enlargement of the country of Southeast Europe should be assessed individually and on the basis of merit, i.e. according to the ability to adopt European values. Unfortunately, the biggest obstacle to enlargement remains Serbian hegemonic politics, and it is particularly dramatic in Montenegro, which is increasingly influenced by Belgrade, one of Russia's allies. I…

17 Dec

2024

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Toppling of the Syrian regime, its geopolitical implications and the humanitarian situation in the region (debate)

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The Syrian regime has collapsed faster than anyone expected. However, the mere fact that someone fought against Assad does not mean that someone is a democrat, an inclusive and protector of human rights. The strongest group to take power in Damascus is the HTS, which can primarily be described as extremely Islamist, led by a man who has spent five years in prison for terrorism. If we add to that t…

27 Nov

2024

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Recommendation on smoke- and aerosol-free environments (debate)

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Dear Chair, Health prevention is one of the most important tools in preserving the health of citizens and reducing the burden on health systems. According to the World Health Organization, 80% of all heart attacks and strokes are preventable. In addition, between 30 and 50% of cancer cases are also preventable. These data clearly demonstrate the importance of prevention for human health. That is w…

26 Nov

2024

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Continued escalation in the Middle East: the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the West Bank, UNRWA’s essential role in the region, the need to release all hostages and the recent ICC arrest warrants (debate)

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13 Nov

2024

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EU-US relations in light of the outcome of the US presidential elections (debate)

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Dear Chairman, Donald Trump has won and that's a great thing. His victory shows that it is high time for Europe to find itself again. In a world that is becoming increasingly unstable, the global order is undergoing tectonic changes. It is illusory to expect someone else to take care of us and, as a small child, to drag us by the hand. Europe must first and foremost start looking at its own intere…

24 Oct

2024

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Closing the EU skills gap: supporting people in the digital and green transitions to ensure inclusive growth and competitiveness in line with the Draghi report (debate)

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Dear Chair, Member States are increasingly confronted with the problem of labour shortages, and 54% of entrepreneurs point out that there is an urgent need to address this problem. Draghi's report rightly noted that the causes of labour shortages are the mismatch of education systems with the needs of the labour market, the declining number of the working population, but also poor working conditio…

10 Oct

2024

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World Mental Health Day - need for a comprehensive EU strategy on mental health (debate)

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According to a Eurobarometer survey, 46% of EU citizens have experienced an emotional or psychosocial problem such as feeling depressed or anxious over the past year, and 89% of Europeans believe that promoting mental health is as important as promoting physical health. However, mental health care is still a taboo topic in many environments, one that is not publicly talked about and that provokes …

9 Oct

2024

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Urgent need to revise the Medical Devices Regulation (debate)

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Dear Chair, Commissioners, colleagues, the Medical Devices Regulation adopted in 2017, according to which all medical devices, e.g. ECG devices or stethoscopes, must be re-certified through notified bodies, and this applies to products already on the market. Brexit made things even more complicated as many of the notified bodies were located in the UK. As a result, the imaginary system is now not …

9 Oct

2024

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Ensuring sustainable, decent and affordable housing in Europe - encouraging investment, private property and public housing programmes (debate)

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Dear Chairman, adequate and affordable housing, unfortunately, today has become a luxury, especially for young people who want to start a family and start an independent life. Rents are too high and the creditworthiness to buy real estate is unattainable for many. According to Eurostat data, between 2010 and 2024, house purchase prices and rents increased by as much as 49% and 24% respectively in …

18 Sep

2024

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EU response to the Mpox outbreak and the need for continuous action (debate)

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Dear Chair, Vice-President, Commissioners, colleagues, the World Health Organization has declared the latest outbreak a public health emergency after a new strain of monkeypox virus, first identified in the Democratic Republic of Congo, began to spread to other neighbouring countries. Sweden reported the first imported case of the disease caused by a new variant of the virus on 15 August this year…

17 Sep

2024

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War in the Gaza Strip and the situation in the Middle-East (debate)

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Dear Chair, colleagues, we are approaching the anniversary of the horrific terrorist attack in which the terrorist organization Hamas mercilessly killed more than a thousand people, mostly civilians, and kidnapped over 200 hostages. It was the deadliest attack to directly target the Jewish people since World War II. In its January resolution, the European Parliament took a clear position on the si…

17 Sep

2024

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State of the Energy union (debate)

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In this mandate, the European Commission has tried to strike a balance between achieving energy security and often irrational and harmful, extreme green policies. The share of Russian gas in EU imports thus decreased from 45% in 2021 to 18% in 2024 and wind became the second largest source of electricity, behind nuclear. Yet, as the Draghi Report rightly notes, European companies continue to pay m…

17 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)

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The creation of a Digital Single Market, and in particular one that guarantees consumer safety online, is not an easy task. That is why with the adoption of the DSA, we have not only adopted rules on the removal of illegal content from the Internet, but we have gone a step further. To protect the most vulnerable among us, children and minors, we have banned targeted advertising to them. Furthermor…