What Sergey spoke about.

8 Jul

2026

EN Speech

Future of EU support for Russian democratic forces, anti-war actors and repressed civil society (debate)

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Madam President, dear colleagues, for too long, the EU's Russia policy has been reactive: sanctions after aggression, statements after repression, emergency support after arrests. This is not enough. This is not strategic. We need a real EU strategy on Russia with two pillars: deterrence against the current regime and the 'de-Putinisation' of the Russia of the future. This should be a European sec…

8 Jul

2026

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2025 Commission report on Ukraine (A10-0172/2026 - Michael Gahler) (vote)

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Mr President, I would like to draw your attention to some of the chants that were uttered here from that side of the Chamber, when somebody dared to stand in opposition to one of the oral amendments. People – colleagues – were called Nazis just because they dared to have a different position on something, which is very sensitive, but we do not share the style of calling each other Nazis. Some of t…

7 Jul

2026

EN Answer

2025 Commission report on Ukraine (debate)

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Colleague, I don't need lessons from you on how to support Ukraine. I and my party have been supporting Ukraine and Maidan since 2014 and since the occupation in Crimea. We were against Nord Stream 2 as one of the few parties. I was for arms sales long before anyone in Poland was talking about arms sales to Ukraine. So I don't need lessons on that. What I do understand is the grievances of the Pol…

7 Jul

2026

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2025 Commission report on Ukraine (debate)

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So the extraordinary thing, as opposed to those people who are living here in peace, is that they are getting bombs on their heads while they are preparing for membership, while they are doing their homework, while they're doing reforms, while they're doing anti-corruption reforms. Yes, not everything is perfect. But before you make accusations like those against those who are fighting against bom…

7 Jul

2026

EN Speech

2025 Commission report on Ukraine (debate)

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Mr President, colleagues, Ms Bryłka was standing here and saying Ukraine is not paying the cost. Ukraine is not paying the cost? Ukraine is doing an extraordinary thing – and this is what this report is about. Ukraine is mastering both: on the one hand ... (Addressing other Members) Can you please stop talking over there? What's going on there? I would like to have new speaking time here. I'm sorr…

7 Jul

2026

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2025 Commission report on Ukraine (debate)

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Thanks for accepting the blue card, as opposed to many others. How do you react to what the Kremlin is saying? The Kremlin is saying that your president and you yourself have finally seen the light and everything that the Kremlin has been saying all along – that these are Nazis in Kyiv, that now you have recognised it and you agree with the Kremlin.…

7 Jul

2026

EN Answer

Presentation of the Action Plan on Cybersecurity and AI (debate)

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I'm sure they will not say no because they realise better than us that their future, both in terms of cybersecurity but also of security and also access to the frontier models, will be in our own capabilities. This is precisely what the Executive Vice‑President has said. Our cybersecurity is our sovereignty, and our sovereignty is our capabilities. These companies, from Siemens to whatever the Fre…

7 Jul

2026

EN Speech

Presentation of the Action Plan on Cybersecurity and AI (debate)

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It's not my first year and it's not my first month. I've been talking to experts. I've been talking to businesses for years, since I was one of the negotiators for the AI Act and the Data Act and many other things. If you talk to people from Mistral, if you talk to people from Aleph Alpha, when Aleph Alpha was still alive, we were consulting with them and they're all saying this is not our biggest…

7 Jul

2026

EN Answer

Presentation of the Action Plan on Cybersecurity and AI (debate)

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I would like to address one specific issue that you mentioned – the copyright directive. First of all, in the AI Act, we invested a lot in order to make it possible for training purposes to use our copyright. And we have a data mining exemption. We have an opportunity to use that and to use data for AI training. So I don't think that this is the biggest challenge for frontier models to be based he…

7 Jul

2026

EN Speech

Presentation of the Action Plan on Cybersecurity and AI (debate)

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Mr President, Madam Vice‑President, thank you so much for this action plan. And yet, OpenAI and Anthropic raise USD 122 billion and USD 30 billion, Mistral raises EUR 3 billion. OpenAI offers the American Government a 5 % stake, in Europe, we have no clear timeline for gigafactories. Washington cuts off access to Fable and Mythos, and the Commission to this day has no access to these models. This …

17 Jun

2026

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Deteriorating situation of political prisoners in Belarus, in particular the case of Aliaksandra Pulinovich

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Madam President, dear colleagues, we just discussed something about youth programmes in this Parliament, about coding and AI, about climate protests. And here we go, a totally different world. Aliaksandra Pulinovich, 16, just for protesting against the war. Her youth is her sentence. Her world is a prison. This is not only a Belarusian human rights case – this is about Moscow bombing Ukraine, and …

16 Jun

2026

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Achieving digital sovereignty and resilience for Europe, in light of recent developments affecting access to advanced AI technologies (debate)

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Mr President, dear colleagues, dear Vice-President, I think many don't understand that what we saw just a couple of days ago is serious, it was the first time that the 'kill switch' was used. If needed, the United States can switch off 90% of the world from its frontier models. And frontier models are no mere business models, they are war models and defence models, and this must be clear to everyo…

15 Jun

2026

DE Speech

Simplification of the implementation of harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Digital Omnibus on AI) (debate)

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21 May

2026

EN Speech

Decision of the Azerbaijani Parliament on suspending cooperation with the European Parliament (debate)

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Madam President, dear colleagues, as Co-President of the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly, I want to address the recent decision of the Milli Majlis of Azerbaijan. And let me be clear from the very outset: I deeply regret this decision. I believe it is a mistake – not only in relation to the European Parliament, but also in relation to Azerbaijan's own strategic interests. Parliamentary dialogue is…

19 May

2026

EN Speech

Opportunities and challenges presented by a comprehensive artificial intelligence strategy for EU trade (debate)

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Mr President, colleagues, while we debate an AI strategy for EU trade, a trilogue is underway on the EU-US trade deal. And while this report calls for our sovereignty to be upheld, the deal risks coercing us. The Trump administration already threatened to raise new tariffs should the Commission push ahead with the tech sovereignty package, and the Commission withdrew – for the third time. This we …

19 May

2026

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EU cybersecurity and preparedness in view of advanced AI systems (debate)

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I'm sure you would be happy if I said yes, but I think we have other capabilities – the capabilities in renewable that are underused and underutilised now. Especially now, during the Iran crisis, I wonder why so many are not addressing the obvious: that we missed an opportunity to invest more into renewables: sun and wind, but also thermal and water. Then we would not be as vulnerable as we are no…

19 May

2026

EN Speech

EU cybersecurity and preparedness in view of advanced AI systems (debate)

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Madam President, both the Commission and the Council are missing the point. And the point is: a new arms race has begun – not with tanks, not with missiles, with algorithms. If real, Mythos is an algorithm of mass destruction, and it is unfolding now. The line between civilian innovation and instrument of war is disappearing before our eyes. The same AI system that helps you to have algorithms to …

29 Apr

2026

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The need for targeted criminal provisions and platforms’ responsibility to effectively address cyberbullying and online harassment (debate)

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Madam President, 18 % of all children. 1 in 6 children are victims of cyberbullying. And this is not normal. It cannot, it may not become the new generational normalcy. We cannot accept this. How do we fix it? Well, not with quick fixes, but with structural solutions. What's the difference? Age verification or social media bans are quick fixes. They are not going into the real solution. And the re…

28 Apr

2026

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Supporting democratic resilience in Armenia (debate)

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Madam President, every time I meet Nikol Pashinyan, the courageous Prime Minister of Armenia, he emphasises an essential point: the pro-European reforms are not for someone else, they are for Armenians. And indeed it is important to remind the voters also in these June elections that democracy is not for someone else, these elections are not for someone else, and the peace deal is not for someone …

28 Apr

2026

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Ensuring accountability and justice in response to Russia’s continued attacks against the civilian population in Ukraine (debate)

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Madam President, Russia is not just destroying Ukrainian cities – Russia is testing whether justice is alive. While the right wing is going to Moscow to negotiate, as we just heard, every abducted Ukrainian child, every deported Ukrainian prisoner, every tortured Ukrainian civilian is asking us, the EU, one simple question: do crimes still have consequences? Our answer must be very clear: yes they…

24 Feb

2026

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Four years of Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine and European contributions to a just peace and sustained security for Ukraine (debate)

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Madam President, four years sounds like an abstract number here in Brussels, but in Ukraine it's counted by mornings and shelters, nights in the cold and empty chairs – chairs at kitchen tables that will forever remain vacant. I looked into the eyes of what Russia calls collateral: a geography teacher who teaches her students the world from a basement, who draws Europe on a wall by candlelight, wh…

11 Feb

2026

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State violence in Minneapolis and the rule of law in the United States (topical debate)

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Madam President, to the people of Minneapolis, to the families of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, to every American who believes that power must answer to law: Europe weeps with you, Europe sees you and Europe stands with you. I would like to apologise to you for the fascists here from among ourselves who don't understand that nothing – no policy – is worth the life of a human being. That is what it i…

10 Feb

2026

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European response to the attacks on the Ukrainian energy system causing a humanitarian crisis (debate)

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Mr President, Putin loves to tell stories about Hitler's crimes, about the Leningrad blockade, when Nazis starved and froze to death a whole city. I will tell the story about Baba Zhenya. She was a Holocaust survivor. She survived Hitler. Putin froze her to death in her own apartment in Kyiv this winter. The old woman escaped the Holocaust, but she couldn't escape a genocide ⁠–⁠ Putin's genocide. …

20 Jan

2026

DE Speech

CFSP and CSDP (Article 36 TEU) (joint debate)

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Mr President! Ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen! First of all, I would like to thank David McAllister and all my colleagues very much for their joint work on this report. Thank you very much! He brings a simple but uncomfortable truth to the point. Reality has changed fundamentally, and not to the benefit of Europe. Russia is waging a brutal war in Ukraine. International law is being syst…

20 Jan

2026

EN Speech

Situation in Venezuela following the extraction of Maduro and the need to ensure a peaceful democratic transition (debate)

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Madam President, colleagues, this moment in Venezuela is not just about one abduction, it's not about one regime, and it's not about one country. It is a test for the rules that protect all of us. Yes, the capture of Maduro may feel right today. And, honestly, my heart rejoiced with many Venezuelans when I heard the news. But feelings do not build order. Rules do. If international law becomes opti…