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Madam President, I'm sorry. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. The Rapid Deployment Group, the implementation, or RDC for short, should build on the existing concept of the European Union Battlegroups and on the forces themselves, on the contributions of the Member States to the Union Battlegroups. This also applies to planning scenarios. Action in a non-acceptable environment should be duly taken into account and we should remain realistic. The RDCs should be complementary to NATO forces, which will allow us to avoid duplication. And here it is worth emphasizing that NATO is and will remain the main subject of all military responses for a long time. More specifically, the following considerations should be taken into account: firstly, most Member States must prioritise NATO deterrence and defence due to the Russian military threat. Secondly, scenarios that Member States are neither physically nor politically ready to implement should be avoided. Thirdly, the proposal to create a European RDC lacks an overarching strategy combining important aspects such as governance, development cooperation, rule of law, security, defence and economic development, among others. Fourthly, the European Rapid Deployment Capacity should be an instrument at the service of policy-makers based on unanimity. Fifthly, the European rapid deployment potential should not imply an increase in funding. And sixthly, and finally, one of the priorities should be the compatibility of operations, systems and other capabilities with NATO.

Mr President, thank you very much. Ladies and Gentlemen, The matter is simple: either Europe will go the way of Australia and no one who crosses the border illegally will be able to apply for asylum, or Europe will cease to exist, Ladies and Gentlemen, if we put a sign of equality between a refugee, one who really needs help, and an illegal migrant. If we put a mark of equality between NGOs, smugglers and attack governments, as Italy is being attacked today in this chamber, and Poland was once attacked, then Europe will cease to exist. Once, as Minister of the Interior, I attended a meeting with the Minister of the Interior of Morocco. He said plainly: This is an invasion. And here you can tell uncreated stories, very sloppy, but there is no other alternative. We have to decide whether we protect the external borders or whether we open the door wide and become useful idiots of Putin. Putin, wanting to destabilize Europe on the eve of the war in Ukraine, tried to push hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants into Poland, whom he brought together with Lukashenko to Belarus. You attacked Poland then. What if Poland collapsed? What would happen if Italy collapsed today? Either we protect the external borders or the European Union will cease to exist.

Madam President, I'm sorry. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. Both the hybrid warfare in Ukraine, Putin's criminals, Lukashenko's criminals, as well as the COVID-19 pandemic have shown the world the necessity and need to increase security in the digital world. Societies use the network much more than they used to, mainly to maintain professional and personal contacts. This situation is exploited by cybercriminals, both at the level of terrorist states and criminals dealing on a daily basis with the exploitation and posing a serious threat to the internal security of individual states and their citizens, as well as internal security within the European Union itself. Cybercriminals have focused in particular on e-commerce services and e-payments, as well as on health systems. On the other hand, criminals from countries such as Russia focus their attention mainly on threats in the area of critical infrastructure. It is therefore appropriate to strengthen cyber resilience, improve the EU framework for responding to large-scale incidents, but it is also important not to duplicate structures, but to streamline those that already exist. Strengthening cybecompetence is very important, but, let me repeat, it is crucial not to duplicate the activities that are already underway, and it is therefore important to have a very good understanding of how to make the civil and defence sectors more coherent and interoperable. Here, the European Competence Centre in Bucharest should play a key role, especially in the distribution of the Cybersecurity Fund. And finally, in my opinion, the most important thing: Member States’ competences should be respected and taken into account in cybersecurity crisis management.

Madam President, I'm sorry. Ladies and Gentlemen, Organised crime is a serious threat to all citizens of the European Union. In one year alone, revenues from organised crime reached €139 billion. That's about 1% of the EU's GDP. Additional threats arose as a result of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. This assault represents a unique opportunity for organised crime. The war is conducive to human trafficking, online fraud, cyber-attacks, arms trafficking and theft of money intended to help refugees. Trafficking in human beings, exploitation of children and smuggling of migrants are particularly serious crimes against life and freedom. In more than half of cases, trafficking in human beings is linked to sexual exploitation, in 20% to labour exploitation and in 10% to forced crime. Some of these crimes were particularly prevalent during the COVID-19 pandemic. Migrant smuggling – we literally talked about this in this House a few dozen minutes ago. And as a lucrative business for criminal groups, it suffices to say that more than 90% of migrants pay smugglers. Only on the maritime routes to the European Union in the aforementioned 2019, smugglers earned more than 200 million euros. That's why I'll say it again: Let us not support those who actually go hand in hand with criminals who organise illegal immigration to Europe.

Mr President, thank you very much. Ladies and Gentlemen, Let's be honest and not wrapped in cotton. If we want to continue to see such devastating scenes as we were talking about here, these deaths of children, three-year-olds, two-year-olds on beaches from Greece to Spain, then let's keep going. Let us continue to encourage these unfortunate people to come to Europe. Let us create such illusions that if there is a tragedy, an NGO will always help them, that there will always be resources to provide such help. Ladies and Gentlemen, today, one more Satan has joined the causes that have pushed people for centuries in their search for a better life, such as war, hunger, misfortunes, accidents. Satan's name is Putin. It was mentioned here that the Wagners in Libya are today organizing the transfer of people to Europe. We know what happened on the eastern border of the European Union, on the Polish-Belarusian border. And today you are attacking governments that protect your citizens, and you are glorifying those who are de facto driving this illegal smuggling into Europe. If you want more of the tragedies you just talked about here, keep going.

Mr President, thank you very much. Perhaps at the beginning, you were right to point out to one of my previous speakers that the Rules of Procedure of this House do not allow photographs to be shown during speeches. Unfortunately, the Regulations also do not provide for prohibitions of unwise speech, not to say harsher, people who are affected by a kind of ojkophobia, i.e. disgust towards their own people or their own government. No one needed this law. It came out of nowhere, it could only be built at Moscow's request. This law must be revoked. These are the words of President Zourabichvili, which she addressed to her fellow citizens on March 7 via telelinks, because she was in New York at the time. Indeed, the law was withdrawn, but Moscow's influence ceased to apply in Georgia. It is a kind of chuckle of history that the country, which in 2008 was afflicted by the attack from Putin's hacks, today is actually implementing the policy of Moscow through the lips of its politicians. You can't be in Moscow with one foot, and you can't be in Europe with the other. Today we are a wall behind the people of Georgia, but we must say clearly: The country that allows de facto The murder of his former president will never take place in Europe.

Mr President, thank you very much. According to the assessment of the European Union Delegation in Tel Aviv, the threat of escalation of violence in the West Bank is growing. The sensitive period of the coming Ramadan and the overlapping Jewish holidays, together with the harsh rhetoric of the radical politicians forming the government coalition in Israel, including those responsible for various aspects of security, combined with the sense of impunity of the settlers, further increase the risk of further acts of violence. In addition, there is a very weak control of the situation in the West Bank by the Palestinian Authority authorities and a large number of ready-to-action units of small groups dispersed and beyond anyone's control, such as Hamas or the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Recently, there have been many abuses by settlers, but also Israeli services in the West Bank, among the most shocking are the events in Huwar. In the opinion of many commentators, the events in Huwar show the growing audacity of settlers, whose sense of impunity may be fueled by the awareness of the presence of their supporters in the Israeli government. I would like to remind you, Ladies and Gentlemen, of the Palestinian Christians. Easter holidays are coming. We are talking about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and we forget about Christians who have been persecuted by both extremists for centuries.

Mr President, thank you very much. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. The European Union has a vibrant, diversified, innovative fertilizer sector. We also have great opportunities to produce organic and organo-mineral fertilizers. Self-sufficiency should therefore be at the heart of the Union’s fertilising policy. Not import dependency, but security of supply guaranteed by robust production in the European Union. This self-sufficiency is threatened on the one hand by increasing imports of nitrogen fertilizers, including from Russia, and on the other hand by restrictive regulations that make it very difficult for European producers to decarbonise existing installations. This cannot be underestimated. Our producers already produce more than 16 million tons of ammonia. Restrictive rules on the RED III Directive, the definition of renewable hydrogen, restrictive geographical correlation additionally threaten to lead the production of ammonia and fertilisers outside the European Union. The European Commission should urgently prepare a viable plan to facilitate the decarbonisation of ammonia production within the Union. Aware of the experiences of the pandemic and war, let us build our own, consistent, long-term strategy to ensure the food sovereignty of Europeans based on fertilizers produced in Europe, including Poland.

Thank you very much, Commissioner, for this reply, but I would nevertheless like to draw attention to a certain disproportion. Well, there is full agreement that Europe is two lungs, the eastern lung and the western lung. But does the Commission not see, by chance, that under the pretext of the criteria that we are setting today for the countries of the Western Balkans, in fact some of the countries of the old European Union, taking care of their particular national interests, are multiplying these various types of requirements only so that these two lungs do not breathe evenly, that is, at the expense of the eastern lung, we are expanding the capacities of the western lung.

Mr President, thank you very much. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. Today, the civilized world celebrates the feast of Saint Valentine, but we forget that for Christian Europe, February 14 is primarily the feast of Cyril and Methodius. Those who carried Christianity to the Western Balkans, carried Christianity to the Slavs. It was these saints who for the first time translated the Holy Scriptures into Old Church Slavonic language, established Cyrillic. Why am I mentioning this? Because today, modern Europe is wondering whether to join the European Community of the countries of the Western Balkans. And what's the alternative? If we do not join these countries, it will be like in the ninth century, when Cyril and Methodius were moving precisely towards the Slavs, that is, we will give the Western Balkans to the influence of Russia, the influence of Putin, but also the Islamic Wahhabis. Why is it so important? Because today the question arises whether the application for rapid accession to the European Union of Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia will not slow down the accession to the European Union of the Western Balkan countries. I would therefore like to ask whether the Commission recognises this problem.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to thank you very much for all the votes and for the interesting debate. We can all agree that democracy is one of the values on which the Union is founded and that all citizens have the right to participate in the democratic life of the Union on an equal and transparent basis. Here I would like to point out that the legal basis of the Treaty is clear. The Treaty requires equal access to voting under the same conditions as nationals of the Member State concerned. The aim is to remove barriers and inequalities faced by mobile citizens. I believe that updating, clarifying and strengthening the existing rules, including by imposing an obligation to proactively inform migrant citizens about their electoral rights and obligations, is fully justified. Such arrangements allow for a broad and inclusive participation in municipal elections and will support mobile Union citizens, including persons with disabilities, in exercising their right to participate in the democratic life of the European Union. I am confident that my report, despite some of the doubts mentioned at the outset, will be carefully studied and will be an important voice in the discussion that the Council needs to have. All the more so as the Council must reach a consensus and vote unanimously in favour of amending the Directive. Once again, I would like to thank all my colleagues for the opportunity to work together on the report and for the debate, and I would also like to express my special thanks to my colleagues, in particular I would like to thank Mr Marcin Drwiecki for all his help.

Ladies and Gentlemen, The Treaty provides any citizen of the Union who has made use of the possibility, for example, to reside, work, study or conduct research in a Member State of which he is not a national, with the right to participate in municipal elections in a Member State. A directive detailing this right needs to be updated, which is why the Commission has proposed amendments. I have assessed and appraised positively the changes proposed by the Commission. For this reason, in my proposal for a report, I have focused only on certain modifications. At this point, I would like to thank all the collaborating shadow rapporteurs for their many important amendments and for their constructive work on the report. First of all, I would like to mention the facilitations for persons with disabilities. I am referring to the implementation and use of assistive technologies, such as Braille, large print, sound information or sign language communication. A particularly important issue is also the obligation for Member States to designate competent authorities that will proactively inform Union citizens about the conditions and details, the rules for registration as a voter or candidate. It is also important, in my view, to provide clear, concrete and comparable data. By obliging the Commission to establish common indicators, further evaluations of the application of the Directive will be able to better answer the question of the efficiency and quality of the functioning of its provisions. During the preparation of the report, it was crucial for me to ensure that the new rules ensure, to the maximum extent possible, the equality of all Union citizens in accordance with the Treaty legal basis. At the same time, I ensured that these changes did not require additional expenditure from Member States’ budgets. I also hoped to remain within the scope of the recast of the Directive as proposed by the Commission. However, several changes have been made in the opposite direction, which do not allow me to support the final text of the report. One of them is the obligation to translate most of the information related to the elections. Reports prepared by the Commission on the application of the Directive did not show that this was an element causing obstacles to the exercise of their rights by citizens. These changes will represent a significant administrative and financial burden for municipalities. Nor can I be satisfied with the desire to remove the derogation currently in force under the Directive, which has been used by several Member States for years. I am referring to the possibility for Member States to stipulate that only their nationals may be elected to certain posts. Countries such as Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and Slovenia would have to make substantial changes to the rules to allow everyone to hold certain traditional offices on their territory, such as the mayor. On the one hand, the final report contains many important elements that clearly improve the conditions for the exercise of citizens' rights, but on the other hand, they have been burdened with several elements that are unacceptable from my point of view. Therefore, I will not be able to support him.

Mr President, thank you very much. Poland welcomes the efforts of the Commission and the European External Action Service to develop a comprehensive European Union connectivity strategy, resulting in the Global Gateway. The Global Gateway is not just a strategy for the provision of development aid by the European Union. It is a comprehensive offer for the implementation of strategic infrastructure investments in five key areas: digitalisation, transport, energy and climate, health and education. This is a new approach, requiring a wide range of competences beyond development aid. The implementation of this strategy requires a different range of knowledge, mainly related to the planning, preparation, financing and implementation of infrastructure investments and constant, close cooperation with the private sector. And here it should be emphasized how important and important it is to cooperate with small and medium-sized entrepreneurs. At the same time, the Global Gateway can be the key to the global promotion of the Union’s strategic interests. Therefore, it is a basic tool of foreign policy and building the position of the European Union and influencing the directions of socio-economic development in the world. With regard to the key elements of the Global Gateway strategy, Poland draws attention in particular to the need to prioritise, within the framework of the implementation of the Global Gateway, the European Union's immediate neighbourhood, i.e. the Eastern Partnership, the Western Balkans, Central Asia and the Southern Neighbourhood, as areas of particular importance from the point of view of the Union's strategic interests. The Economic and Investment Plans for these regions should be the flagship initiatives of the Global Gateway. The Three Seas Initiative together with the Investment Fund can play an important role in achieving the objectives in this area, in particular the Eastern Partnership and the Western Balkans.

the response to the speech signalled by the blue card. Every death is a tragedy, every death, even in this case. Every death should be treated with respect. But it should also be made clear that there are a lot of fake news, lies. The public could hear such a stinking story about poor Yusuf, who supposedly sailed Bug for six days, leaving only at night to warm himself. Bug is such a river, very cold at this time of year. And he sailed this river for 6 days, and then went to the shore to warm himself, because he was terrorized by the Polish Border Guard. This is a good opportunity to bow down on my behalf to the Polish guards who defend the security not only of Poland, but of the entire European Union against the unfortunate people brought by Putin and Lukashenka with Putin's money and Lukashenka's money.

Mr President, thank you very much. Commissioner, I'm sorry. Ladies and Gentlemen, Strengthening the protection of the external borders of the European Union should be a priority. In view of the situation in which illegal migration is treated as an instrument of political pressure and constitutes one of the threats to the security of the European Union (see, for example, the situation that took place at the Polish-Belarusian border), greater emphasis should be placed on preventing illegal crossing of the Union's borders, and not only on checks and registration of persons crossing those borders. It is important to avoid any solutions that incentivise migrant smuggling and irregular migration. The concepts of mandatory relocation, return sponsorship or SAR mechanisms are counterproductive and can result in attracting irregular migrants and their smugglers to the European Union instead of discharging migratory pressure. Favoring people arriving in the European Union following search and rescue operations and creating permanent solidarity mechanisms related to this subcategory of irregular migrants is an action expressis verbis with the result that we encourage unfortunate people from third countries to come here. And in fact, we're making money for illegal criminal groups that prey on these unfortunate ones. (The speaker agreed to hear a blue card speech)

Madam President, I'm sorry. Commissioner, I'm sorry. I think there is no one in this room who can say that we should not fight both right-wing and left-wing extremism. Any extremism is a bad thing. However, I would like to draw your attention to another danger. Well, under the guise of this alleged fight against right-wing extremism, one tries to attribute this term, so vague, to right-wing extremism to conservative parties. I have before me a report from the LIBE Committee. We discussed it in July. It attempts to attribute this right-wing extremism to my party, Law and Justice. The Radio Maryja radio station is indicated here, as well as a note! – Solidarity, the solidarity that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall, as a manifestation of right-wing extremism. Such a political commentary: Both Nazism and Fascism have leftist roots and connotations, so this is your problem, dear Left, not the Conservatives' problem. I was Minister of the Interior, I fought together with the police, with the secret services, every manifestation of extremism. And I was astonished to hear, when we celebrated the 100th anniversary of Polish independence, how more than 300,000 Polish citizens under the white-red flags were also referred to as fascists in this chamber. Come to your senses! Conservatism has nothing to do with the madness of left-wing extremism. That was fascism or Nazism.

Madam President, I'm sorry. Ladies and Gentlemen, Also in this debate there are some bizarre allegations against my country, Poland. And I would like to point out that this report, which we are discussing, does not point at any point to irregularities in the spending of EU funds by Poland. On the contrary, Poland is at the forefront of countries - as my honourable previous speaker, Mr Czarnecki, rightly pointed out - in the forefront of countries that spend EU funds transparently, as well as in the forefront of countries that fight and point out possible irregularities in their spending. That is why I would like to ask: Why did Poland still not receive funds from the NRRP? Why are you trying to scare Poland and Poles with the suspension of funding under the next budget perspective? We still hear some nonsense about the alleged violation of the rule of law in Poland. And what does the rule of law look like at the heart of European democracies, here in the European Parliament? Each day brings devastating information. Those on the left side of the room who are so eager to attack Poland have the most behind the collar. I would like to ask: Who funded the reports against my country? Is it Morocco? Is it Kuwait? I don't think so. Perhaps, the open question is Russia, Russia, which consistently tries to destroy the image of Poland in the eyes of European citizens. Poland is a state governed by the rule of law, and EU funds that belong to Poland are spent in a transparent manner.

Madam President, I'm sorry. Ladies and Gentlemen, Please allow such a historical retrospective: Lenin once used the term ‘poleznyje idioti’. In the 1970s, the term ‘useful idiots’ was often used to refer to those who pursued policies in the West that were in favour of the Russian Communists, Brezhnev. Excuse me, but sometimes when I listen to some representatives of the European Parliament, of course, please do not treat this as a direct personal attack, but sometimes I get the impression that there is really no shortage of these "polesque idiots". Saying that maybe it's Poland, Ukraine, maybe the United States. Referring here to the entry of a man who already wrote on Twitter that his hands are falling. Building a theory around such an entry that it was not Russia that was behind this attack, but perhaps someone else, asking such questions – for me, this is my opinion, I get the impression that, as I have already said, these ‘useful idiots’ are really not lacking. What are the facts? According to cyber security experts, the attacks did not start when the war in Ukraine began. Cyberspace, as well as critical infrastructure, has been the target of Russian attacks for many years. Security analysts have shown that since the formation of the international coalition supporting Ukraine, Russia has intensified its attacks against countries supporting Ukrainians. Attempts to break into 128 organizations in 42 countries have been shown, in 29 cases effective. Those are the facts.

Madam President, I'm sorry. Ladies and Gentlemen, I too, like my colleague, Mr Adam Bielan, would like to express my support, my support for President Saakashvili's close relatives present here. Poland and Georgia are countries that have a long-standing, very close cooperation, which is why Georgia is Poland’s priority partner in the South Caucasus region. We are unwavering in our support for Georgia's sovereignty and territorial integrity within its internationally recognised borders, as we also underline during our chairmanship of the OSCE. We also reaffirm our unwavering support for Georgia's Euro-Atlantic aspirations. Poland remains committed to its open-door policy with regard to Georgia's future full membership of the European Union and NATO. Nie ma alternatywy, zwłaszcza że naród gruziński zdecydowanie popiera ten kierunek. But it is necessary to say clearly: Georgia will never join the European Union if it treats politicians so inhumanely and brutally. And here today there should be words of special support and support for the seriously ill President Saakashvili, who today is denied humanitarian human rights by the Georgian authorities to be treated. Heavy metals were found in the President's body. This is more like Putin's standards than a democratic rule of law.

Mr President, thank you very much. Commissioner, I'm sorry. We are all concerned about the recent wave of tensions in the occupied Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem. This year is already one of the deadliest for Palestinians in the West Bank in more than a decade. They experience violence from the Israeli security forces, but also from the settlers. At the same time, all terrorist attacks in Israel must be condemned. These attacks are carried out by Islamic terrorists and emphasize that terrorism remains one of the most important threats to the security of the Middle East as well as Europe. Ladies and Gentlemen, in a few days we will be celebrating Christmas, so it is impossible not to mention here the Palestinians who have remained faithful to their faith for centuries in Bethlehem, in Nazareth, and today are experiencing persecution from both Israel and their Islamic kinsmen. I think that, especially in these days, the European Parliament should voice its support for Palestinian Christians in Israel.

Commissioner, I'm sorry. Thank you very much, but on a specific example, I am a resident of Szczecin, a former sailor. My colleagues from the port give a concrete example. At the moment, there is an attempt to take over, on the basis of the legislation in force in Poland, because you are 100% right, in that it is the Member States that must take care of their security first and foremost. Poland is doing very well with this. The Ministry of Defence has repeatedly refused to purchase sensitive parts of the Tri-City, Gdańsk or Gdynia ports, but on a specific example: Today in the Szczecin port there is an attempt to take over not property, not land, but an operational company dealing with transhipments important from the point of view of energy security, cargoes. And now this company is to be taken over by a German company. The port authorities say something like this: we have a problem. The relevant institutions in Poland say we have a problem, because in a moment the European Commission, if we refuse to sell this part of the shares, the European Commission may question it as acting against competition, against the free movement of funds within the European Union.

Mr President, thank you very much. Commissioner, I'm sorry. It was already discussed how much controversy was caused by the visit of the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to China, as well as the decision to make shares available to the Chinese company Cosco in a new project of the Hamburg port, which is to consist in the construction of a new section of the container port. Today, German media report that Cosco's activities in Hamburg are just the beginning. There is credible information that China has long discussed with the Hamburg Port Authority the possibility of German involvement in cooperation with China in the Mediterranean and Baltic basins. According to the document of the Federal Ministry of Economy and Technology, it was also agreed to look for the possibility of jointly acquiring shares in container terminals in Polish ports. Why am I talking about this? I would like to ask if the European Commission is looking at this type of action because we are in the European Union and we all agree that China's takeover of strategic infrastructure is a threat to our security and to our sovereignty. But under the guise of cooperation between Chinese companies and partners in the European Union, such as this example, will there not be an attempt to enter our ports through the back door?

Mr President, thank you very much. Mr. Prime Minister, I'm sorry. I would like to thank you for your words to us in this House. It is extremely important that representatives of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe be present and heard in the debate on the future of Europe in the European Parliament. Too often, unfortunately, you could feel and hear from the representatives of the so-called old Union that countries such as Slovenia, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, or finally my country, Poland, are countries that are allowed less, because supposedly our democracies are immature. In contrast to the supposedly mature democracies of countries such as Germany, France and the Netherlands. The consequences of such a policy are shown today by the war in Ukraine. They did not listen to the voices coming from Poland, Lithuania, Latvia or other countries that experienced the benefits of Russia in their history, be it tsarist Russia, Bolshevik Russia or Putin's Russia in recent years. And fortunately, today from the mouths of representatives of the EU institutions you can also hear - badly, that we did not listen to Poland. Mr. Prime Minister, there were some points in your speech that I completely agree with. I am thinking, for example, of the presence of the Western Balkan countries in the European Union. It is obvious that if they turned their backs on Bosnia and Herzegovina, the country will sooner or later be in the sphere of influence of Russia and even Saudi Wahhabis. But allow me to remain skeptical of some of your theses here. As I live, I am not given the belief that vegetarianism or a new secular religion with regard to climate issues is the way to the universal happiness of humanity. Unfortunately, on the occasion of your speech, some of my previous speakers resounded with hypocritical words. You are from our political family, you are law-abiding and worthy of full support. If you are outside this family, you are a threat to the rule of law and democracy. And you know that it is darkest under the lighthouse, as shown by the recent affair with the Vice-President of the European Parliament.

Mr President, thank you very much. Commissioner, I'm sorry. Ladies and Gentlemen, What we are witnessing today in Ukraine is the barbarism of Putin's spawners, who, unable to defeat Ukrainian soldiers on the battlefield, resorted to attacks on civilian objects and, above all, on critical infrastructure, which has resulted in practical attacks on most of Ukraine's major cities. All this should make us realize that today, in the face of this Russian satrap, no state in Europe is safe. Last week, as a result of these barbaric missile attacks, about which the Commissioner spoke, I would like to thank you very much for these words, because they were true words, showing in a real light what Ukrainians are experiencing today - also in Poland, in a Member State of the European Union, two of my compatriots died because a rocket fell on the territory of Poland. I think it is a good time for all those of you, especially here on the left, who are attacking Poland, attacking Poland as a front country, a loyal country of the European Union, to remember. For example, we remember all these foolish attacks when we protected Poland from a hybrid attack by Lukashenko and Putin, when they tried to transport the so-called tourists to Poland as unfortunate refugees brought by Lukashenko. How many of these tourists could be potential terrorists, Putin's agents, Lukashenko's agents, who, as we witnessed, as the Commissioner said, did not hesitate to blow up the Nord Stream gas pipeline? Keep that in mind. It is worth listening to Poland.

Mr President, thank you very much. Not only declarations, not only words, but concrete, concrete help are very important. I would like to refer here to Poland, my country, which is in the forefront both in terms of this humanitarian aid, this aid in terms of the protection of cultural goods, as well as what we are discussing today, i.e. aid for Ukrainian science. We in Poland have proposed special statutory solutions, including a number of facilitations for students and scientists, regarding the continuation of education and conducting research in Poland. A citizen of Ukraine who entered Poland legally after 24 February this year from Ukraine and declared that he worked as an academic teacher at a university on the territory of Ukraine and has the required professional title, academic degree, degree in art or professor's title and the appropriate qualifications to occupy a given position, may be employed at the university as an academic teacher without conducting a competition. We have also launched a nationwide information portal for people from Ukraine. The main goal of the portal is to improve the process of searching for information about study and employment opportunities in Polish universities and research institutions in Poland for candidates from Ukraine. The portal is addressed to current and future students, PhD students and employees of universities and research institutes of Ukraine. The portal helps to find, among others, the offer of studies in the mode of recruitment for the full cycle of studies, as well as continuation of previously started studies at one of the Ukrainian universities, doctoral schools. There is also a proposal for other cooperation: internships, scholarships and job offers in institutions of the Polish higher education and science system. Many of these examples. Ukrainian science needs help.