What Bartosz spoke about.

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PL Written Statement

The deterioration of the situation of refugees as a consequence of the Russian aggression against Ukraine (debate)

As a pediatrician by education, I am particularly close to the situation of children, which I follow every day. I know that much has been done in the initial phase of the war to relocate children suffering from oncological diseases to Poland (and other countries neighbouring Ukraine). However, we must be aware that the number of available places in hospitals is limited and constantly decreasing. G…

17 Sep

2026

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An EU health workforce crisis plan: sustainability of healthcare systems and employment and working conditions in the healthcare sector (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. I think we should talk here about the three main problems that affect the health system and the human resources of the health systems in Europe. The first is an ageing society and increasingly narrow medical specializations. Increasingly narrower and narrower, actually silo, which de facto make it impossible to deal holistically with a senior patient. And this pr…

9 Jul

2026

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Evaluation of the Common Fisheries Policy and follow-up (debate)

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Madam President, I'm sorry. I come from Darłowo. It is such a small town on the Baltic Sea. Next to us we have Dąbki, then we have Mielno, Dźwirzyno, Kołobrzeg, Świnoujście. These are towns, cities and villages by the Polish sea and I meet people there. At each of these meetings, I meet hundreds, if not thousands, of former fishermen and their families who have had to sell or scrap their boats wit…

9 Feb

2026

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World Cancer Day (debate)

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9 Oct

2025

PL Speech

World Mental Health Day - addressing the socio-economic factors (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Ladies and Gentlemen, As parents, we know how much mental illness affects our children. We, as paediatricians, know all the more. As politicians, we also seem to be aware of this problem. Question: Are we doing something really effective about this? 80 million people in Europe need support to treat mental illness every year, costing us €600 billion. How much mone…

18 Sep

2024

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The devastating floods in Central and Eastern Europe, the loss of lives and the EU’s preparedness to act on such disasters exacerbated by climate change (debate)

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Madam President, thank you very much. If you want to see pictures of incredible human solidarity, watch pictures from the Polish city of Nysa, where hundreds, thousands of ordinary people together with firefighters, policemen, army defended their city. If you want to see the cities, which despite the crazy defense of people lost to the element, look at the pictures from Lądek Zdrój or Kłodzko. Dev…

3 Oct

2023

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Corrupt large-scale sale of Schengen visas (debate)

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And what do you think, PiS MPs have fled to the last benches? Shame on you, huh? Do you think that Europe and Poland will not see you there? Everyone sees you there. If you were afraid of protozoa, if you were afraid of worms, if you were afraid of rape, murder, and then you opened stalls with Polish viewers for money, it must be a shame! And everyone can see you. I have a question for the Commiss…

12 Sep

2023

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Ukrainian grain exports after Russia’s exit from the Black Sea Grain Initiative (debate)

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With a brief question to you: Did you know that under your government, criminals brought millions of tons of grain from Ukraine to Poland? To this day, it has not been explained who did it. How many warehouses have you built for farmers? How many ports have you converted? How much did you ensure that this Ukrainian grain, which entered Poland thanks to criminals, did not devastate the lives of Pol…

15 Jun

2023

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The water crisis in Europe (debate)

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Madam President, I'm sorry. Dear Commissioner, What happened on the Oder in Poland over the last year was the biggest ecological disaster we have seen in Poland over the last few decades. It was a dramatic sight. I live in Szczecin, a city around which we have seen thousands of kilograms, and throughout the country hundreds of tons of dead fish. Anglers, NGOs, services, all alerted the government …

19 Apr

2023

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EU Global Health Strategy (debate)

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Madam President, I'm sorry. Commissioner, thank you very much. I think that the pandemic has shown all of us, politicians and, above all, citizens, patients, that the Union can no longer be ashamed to cover its eyes and, being able to build roads and stadiums together, to run a common agricultural economy, to look calmly at how, in one part of Europe, a breast cancer patient has to die and, in ano…

17 Jan

2023

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Surge of respiratory infections and the shortage of medication in Europe (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Commissioner, I'm sorry. Cancer has been proving to us for many years and every day it continues to prove that without a common fight against cancer, a European fight against cancer, a global fight against cancer, we have no chance. This was proved by the pandemic, during which hundreds of thousands of people died. It has proven that without common action we are …

15 Sep

2022

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Ecological Disaster in the Oder River (debate)

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Madam President, I'm sorry. Dear Commissioner, What has happened on the Oder in Poland in the last few weeks is the biggest ecological catastrophe we have seen in the last few decades in Poland. It was a dramatic sight. I live in Szczecin, a city in and around which we have seen thousands of kilograms and hundreds of tonnes of dead fish across Poland. For many weeks, ordinary anglers, non-governme…

4 May

2022

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Use of the Pegasus Software by EU Member States against individuals including MEPs and the violation of fundamental rights (topical debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. There, on this radical right side, sits the team that rules Poland today. Do you know what they said when they were asked about Pegasus? That they bought it because they have to go after the terrorists. That's what they were after. The main terrorist of Poland, the head of the campaign to the European Parliament of the main opposition party. They were chasing the…

15 Feb

2022

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Strengthening Europe in the fight against cancer(debate)

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Madam President, I'm sorry. It's not just a cancer report, it's a life and death report. This is a report about our parents, about our grandparents. This is a report about our children. This is, after all, a report about ourselves. This is also a report on courage, with the question: Do we have the courage as Europe to change the situation where in one part of Europe a breast cancer patient dies a…

15 Dec

2021

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 16-17 December 2021 - The EU's response to the global resurgence of Covid-19 and the new emerging Covid variants (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Yesterday in my country, in Poland, a man was strangled every two minutes. And he suffocated. More than 660 people died in Poland yesterday. The virus knows no borders. The virus is not known in the Schengen area. What if Peter Liese says that in Germany today, in fact, without a vaccine, you can not enter anywhere. All you have to do is cross the bridge and you …

19 Oct

2021

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The Rule of law crisis in Poland and the primacy of EU law (continuation of debate)

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Mr. Prime Minister, I'm sorry. I asked you to be the last to understand, here in the heart of Europe and in front of the whole of Europe, what I have and what we have to tell you. Mr. Prime Minister, we will not allow you to rob our children in the future. We, the Poles, will not allow you to do this. We will not allow you to rob millions of Poles of their dreams. And we will not allow you, Prime …

5 Oct

2021

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EU Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority: ensuring a coordinated EU approach for future health crises and the role of the European Parliament in this (debate)

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Commissioner, I'm sorry. This is an absolutely crucial moment for Europe. Whether we, as politicians, will decide that we really want to protect the health of Europeans, or whether we will continue to hide behind the treaties and the fact that health is in the hands of the Member States. I think that COVID has really exposed, it has shown – and thousands of human deaths have shown – that Europe wa…

7 Jul

2021

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European Medicines Agency (continuation of debate)

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Ladies and Gentlemen, Friends and colleagues! Commissioner, I'm sorry. The pandemic has shown our strength, but it has also exposed our weaknesses. The European Medicines Agency must become the most effective and efficient post-pandemic authority in Europe. The European Medicines Agency must follow with full determination and knowledge the potential shortages of medicines, because if medicines are…