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Oct

2023

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 26-27 October 2023 (debate)

Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, of course there will be a lot of issues in the Council at the end of this month, in about a week's time. But immigration and the need for rapid progress on the immigration pact have received the most attention here, also through the Commissioner's words. It was also good to hear numbers, very few of us sometimes hear numbers and specific data. Last year, 420,000…

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Oct

2023

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The despicable terrorist attacks by Hamas against Israel, Israel’s right to defend itself in line with humanitarian and international law and the humanitarian situation in Gaza (debate)

Mr President, first of all, I think there is no possible way to justify this kind of barbaric terrorist attacks against the State of Israel. And anyone who tries to justify that are not better at all than those terrorists. It is not possible to justify. The second question, also from my side, is in the last four years Mr Borell has been in several states in the neighbourhood in the Middle East, bu…

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Oct

2023

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Effectiveness of the EU sanctions on Russia (debate)

Dear Mr President, First of all, the purpose of the sanctions, the purpose of the sanctions from the very beginning, was to weaken the Russian war machine, to milk it out of the money, and that an ordinary citizen of Russia would also feel how painful it is to start occupation and war against his neighboring country and to kill children and women there. Unfortunately, today's fact is that we are b…

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Oct

2023

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Decent Housing for All (topical debate)

Dear Mr President, Yes, it is absolutely, ladies and gentlemen, an important issue, and without any humor, no joke, because, according to the figures, for example, 285,000 homeless people were officially registered in Germany last year, of whom nearly 90,000 people live on the streets, 30,000 in Spain, and this is a completely serious problem. Which is a fact, as the previous speaker also said, th…

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Oct

2023

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Need for a speedy adoption of the asylum and migration package (debate)

That’s actually very good that you are pointing about the facts, because very often we are hearing here about the false claims that most of them are just young women and kids. That’s not the fact. I was last week meeting with a Red Cross organisation in Lampedusa. We are asking the facts and please tell me honestly who they are. Just do you have the numbers? How many have arrived? 64 000 people th…

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Oct

2023

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Need for a speedy adoption of the asylum and migration package (debate)

Mr President, dear colleagues, dear Commissioner, dear Minister, and I am just spending 10 seconds to just announce for the President that it’s very polite, of course, for the leftists to laugh about the murders and the killings which are going on in Sweden. Because you don’t care about that. You are selfish, overpaid bureaucrats who have tried to force your migration policy in the last 40 years a…

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Sep

2023

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State of the Union (debate)

Dear President von der Leyen, ladies and gentlemen, Let's talk in Estonian. When you responded to the first round of speakers and gave a very emotional example of children who must continue to grow up in Europe in 2050 in a clean environment, you stressed the dignity of the green transition, which in itself is very true; I fully agree that children need to be cared for, they need to be worried abo…

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Jul

2023

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

Madam President, dear colleagues, dear Ms Johansson. First of all, we have heard several times how we are very sorry for the victims in June when there was a shipwreck in the Mediterranean sea. And of course, we are sorry for the human lives. There is no doubt about that. But we have to be also very clear that if you go to the sea with a very weak boat, then there is a very high risk that you will…

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Jul

2023

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Nature restoration (debate)

Well, that’s not for question. We all know that all the money has to be paid by taxpayers. So it has to be from our own pocket – of course, not from our pockets, because most of us don’t have to care about money – but ordinary people have to pay a higher price for the food, they have to pay a higher price for the travelling, a higher price for the fuel, for travelling to work in the morning. So it…

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Jul

2023

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Nature restoration (debate)

Dear Mr President, First of all, I am not sure how many people in this hall have read this regulation from beginning to end, because the statements made in the debate are largely emotional: who is for, who is against, who wants to save the planet. A planet where less than 4 percent of the CO2 mass in the atmosphere is man-made, yet we save the planet. I have read this regulation several times and …

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Jun

2023

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Humanitarian and environmental consequences of the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam - Sustainable reconstruction and integration of Ukraine into the Euro-Atlantic community (debate)

Mr President, good morning everyone, first of all, I absolutely agree with both of the speakers, with Mr Vice-President of the Commission and Ms Roswall, that we have to continue with the support to Ukraine. There is no doubt about that. Where I’m a bit more concerned is about with the hope only for the sanctions because sanctions can be effective in the long term but we have never won any war wit…

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Jun

2023

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Foreign interference in all democratic processes in the European Union, including disinformation - Election integrity and resilience build-up towards European elections 2024 (debate)

Madam President, first of all I think the foreign interference for the elections in the EU is not very important topic because we have just now 10 colleagues here in the room. So probably it’s not the best question what you want to discuss. Secondly I think it’s really worrying how some countries in the world are trying to interfere in elections in Europe or in the US, but at the same time when we…

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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)

Madam President, dear Commissioner, dear lady from Sweden, first of all, I remember very well: it was 2020 in September in the LIBE Committee, where our Commissioner, Ms Ylva Johansson, were introducing the migration pact. She stated very clearly that we need migration pact because we need the legalised ways to come to Europe from the third countries, especially from Africa and Middle East, becaus…

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May

2023

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The role of farmers as enablers of the green transition and a resilient agricultural sector (continuation of debate)

Yes, the subject. I think I just have one minute to 90 seconds here. Just two very short things. First of all, I know that the Green Deal is like a religion for all the European Commission and the European Parliament and all the EU citizens, and everybody is just eating and sleeping every day just for the Green Deal, but just a small question for the Commissioner, who is a very lovely lady, about …

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May

2023

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The role of farmers as enablers of the green transition and a resilient agricultural sector (continuation of debate)

Yes they are, but rules have to be sensible so that you can really follow them. If you can’t follow the rules, if you can’t control the rules, they are not sensible rules. That’s the difference.

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May

2023

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The role of farmers as enablers of the green transition and a resilient agricultural sector (continuation of debate)

Mr President, we have seen several times some messages and signs from t—shirts from the left wing, and you can’t really ban t—shirts.

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Apr

2023

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Children forcibly deported from Ukraine and the ICC arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin (debate)

Mr President, good morning, dear colleagues, first of all, we have to check on the facts when we’re talking about the kids who are forcibly deported to Russia. There are numbers between 16 000, at least, to 300 000 of the kids who are forced to be deported to Russia. So it’s a terribly huge amount of kids. And the main reason why they are being deported to Russia is to make them Russians, in the n…

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Apr

2023

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The need for a coherent strategy for EU-China Relations (debate)

Mr President, first of all, we have to understand what it means to have a common foreign policy towards China? In China there is one capital, in the US there is one capital, and we have 27 capitals. So when we have some kind of common line, who is setting up the common line and common policy when we are talking about climate policy, when we’re talking about trade policy, about defence, about the m…

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Mar

2023

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 23-24 March 2023 (debate)

Madam President, well, at least we have about ten times more people on the balcony there than we have in the chamber, so it’s a really interesting debate. First of all, when Ms von der Leyen was speaking about the influence of China, if somebody’s surprised that we have to rely now on the raw materials that are controlled by the Chinese, well, welcome on Earth. Of course we are relying on China if…

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Mar

2023

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

Madam President, President Nausėda of Lithuania, first of all I am more than happy to be here as from one from the Baltic States, from Estonia. And I really appreciate your several statements that Latvia and Lithuania have been together in history and the good and also in the bad times If we just remind the history, it was pretty easy for Russia — they called it the Soviet Union at the time but i…

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Mar

2023

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The functioning of the EEAS and a stronger EU in the world (debate)

Mr President, Mr Timmermans, dear colleagues, I know very well that Mr Paet was on the same flight with me tonight, and he arrived to Frankfurt. After that, I have no idea what happened to him. He went to a train. I came by car. So you see that you don’t take the train. The idea of the majority voting has been around for years in the EU. It’s very easy for the MEPs and for the representatives from…

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Feb

2023

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One year of Russia’s invasion and war of aggression against Ukraine (debate)

Madam President, first of all, when I heard from our representative that it was a wake—up call what Russia did one year ago, I was really surprised: were we really born yesterday? I think the war started already nine years ago, in 2014. And it is no surprise that Russia has ambitions to go back in history to the Soviet Union times; they very clearly stated that in December 2021, when they asked im…

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Jan

2023

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

Madam President, thank you very much. Prime Minister of Sweden! The Swedish Presidency in the first half of the year is really very important, especially given that Sweden has finally got a reasonable right-wing government. Congratulations! Sweden is an example in the saddest form of how uncontrolled immigration can harm the lives of future generations, our children and grandchildren, and this is …

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Dec

2022

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Defending the European Union against the abuse of national vetoes (debate)

Mr President, I think the previous speaker exactly showed how this Parliament is ridiculous and full of hypocrisy. The bad guys are all in Hungary and Poland. But if it is the Netherlands and Austria, they are good guys because they have good faith. It doesn’t matter that they just blocked for 11 years the basic right to free movement. But they are good guys. And that is the problem here in this H…

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Dec

2022

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 15 December 2022 (debate)

Mr President, I wouldn’t say this very often, but I couldn’t agree more with Mr Verhofstadt, he was absolutely right that we need sanctions against Iran and we need to deliver more and more and in a faster way weapons to Ukraine to win the war. That’s the only solution for peace and we all want to have peace, definitely. Unfortunately, the President of the Commission has left – probably because th…