What Ondřej spoke about.

14 Sep

2026

EN Speech

Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: extension of its scope to downstream goods and anti-circumvention measures - Establishing the Temporary Decarbonisation Fund - Market stability reserve for the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS): ceasing the invalidation of allowances

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Madam President, Commissioner, colleagues, surprisingly, I am not so optimistic: some improvements in ETS and CBAM go in a good direction, and Patriots will be able to support them. But just be clear: these are only very cosmetic changes targeting symptoms and not the cause of EU industry downfall. In medicinal terminology, EU industry is a critical-state, dying patient poisoned by wrong industria…

8 Jul

2026

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EU’s response and preparedness to protect people against recurring heatwaves and upcoming wildfires (debate)

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Mr President, Madam Commissioner, Mr Minister, actually, current EU climate policy is not able to protect EU citizens from heatwaves because it is primarily designed to reduce EU-based emissions faster than our EU global competitors and to close industrial jobs before having adequate sustainable replacement. This is, by the way, not at all good for the climate, but mainly this policy weakens the E…

6 Jul

2026

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Financial activities of the European Investment Bank Group – annual report 2025 (debate)

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Madam President, I am pleased to see that the EIB is in a good condition with a strong quality management system in place. The EIB also learned from several reputation-damaging cases in the past and introduced appropriate preventive measures. Also, the bank maintains an adequate level of transparency considering the need to remain competitive to private banks. On supported projects within the EU, …

17 Jun

2026

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Electrification Action Plan (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, it is realistic to increase the electrification of some industrial processes and also heat supply, but the affordable price of electricity and capacities meeting demands is a key condition. And let's be honest, the demand will grow, through AI, cars, heat pumps – it has been mentioned already. But before we have the required installed capacity in renewable and nuclear, …

20 May

2026

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Reviewing the ETS system to support European competitiveness (topical debate)

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Madam President, I'd like to address the Commissioner. Mr Commissioner, you repeatedly state that the ETS works well. But what do we see? Strategic sectors delay investments due to low investment return. The same strategic sectors shut down and move production outside the EU. The rate of promised new green jobs is negligible compared to the jobs lost in the EU. Coal and lignite power plants are, a…

19 May

2026

EN Speech

Presentation of the Fertilisers Action Plan (debate)

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So to explain the reason between green and sustainable, let's say that green is only one third of sustainable. You have also the economic pillar and you have also the socially acceptable pillar. That's your first question. To your second question. It is simple. Two plus two is four. You want to make two plus two three. That's not possible. You have some global reality and if you don't reflect it y…

19 May

2026

EN Answer

Presentation of the Fertilisers Action Plan (debate)

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If green fertilisers, for example, through green hydrogen, were already cheaper, the market would already took place to care. So you still need to remember that many fertilisers are produced through natural gas, through fossil technologies. You can work with that, you can reduce the footprint, you can also diversify the gas sources to reduce the gas price. But simply, green technologies have some …

19 May

2026

EN Speech

Presentation of the Fertilisers Action Plan (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, mineral fertilisers are vital for EU food production and autonomy. Farmers call at the same time for cheap fertilisers. So, our answer shall be to produce affordable fertilisers in Europe. The EU fertiliser industry must be therefore recognised as a strategic pillar of EU autonomy. Decarbonisation speed in the EU fertiliser sector must go hand in hand with the econom…

19 May

2026

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EU governance under pressure – institutional responses to global challenges (debate)

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Thank you for the question. Mr Orbán certainly listened to his citizens. I'll give you a counter-question. Would you like to be surrendered and surrendered to the future of the Czech Republic, so that it can be decided by those who have shattered the economy of Europe, abolished the core, opened the country to migrants? Take a look at what it looks like in some countries in Western Europe. We don'…

19 May

2026

CS Speech

EU governance under pressure – institutional responses to global challenges (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, colleagues, you are crying here that Europe is not sufficiently operational and you are blaming those states and citizens who do not agree with your bad proposals. And your solution? Abolish the right of veto. But abolishing the veto right won't solve the problem. You preach more Europe, but you do it by force, with an ideology and rules that suit only some states. This…

29 Apr

2026

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EU strategy in response to the ongoing Middle East crisis, its implications on energy prices and the availability of fertilizers (joint debate)

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Definitely. We shall increase the rate of the circular economy. And once we are ready and we have the capacities and we have enough metals, let's say, on our European continent to recycle and go without major imports, then we can cut off the fossil fuels. That's it. That is the strategy of smarter states. They also go outside fossil fuels. Just the speed is in line with the speed of self-sufficien…

29 Apr

2026

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EU strategy in response to the ongoing Middle East crisis, its implications on energy prices and the availability of fertilizers (joint debate)

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As I said, renewables will always have a share, but you need metals that are not in Europe. Okay? So you replace one dependency for another. So, the dependencies must be diversified, on the sources and also on the suppliers. I don't know what you're not getting here. It is clear.…

29 Apr

2026

EN Answer

EU strategy in response to the ongoing Middle East crisis, its implications on energy prices and the availability of fertilizers (joint debate)

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Thank you for the question. It's clear that there is an oil crisis once every 30 years or so. It can happen and we can manage it. Your solution is to replace one dependency for another dependency. So if you just replace oil and fossil fuels by renewables only, you will maybe lose the dependency on countries delivering fossil fuels, but you will increase the dependency on countries delivering metal…

29 Apr

2026

CS Speech

EU strategy in response to the ongoing Middle East crisis, its implications on energy prices and the availability of fertilizers (joint debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, it is naive to think that Europe will be free of fossil fuels in this century. Therefore, it is completely wrong that in any crisis it is your measure to accelerate Green Deal and building more renewables. Yes, these resources will always have a crucial role to play, but if there are too many of them, they take up a lot of space, they are not cheap, and people don't …

29 Apr

2026

CS Speech

EU strategy in response to the ongoing Middle East crisis, its implications on energy prices and the availability of fertilizers (joint debate)

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Of course, I also appreciate domestic energies, but if you just decide that there will be no oil, then there will be no asphalt. Maybe it's more about diversifying the oil from more places to make it safer and maybe the price could be lower. But simply if you don't import oil, you don't build new roads, you don't have medicines, etc. This means: How are you going to do this without the oil? You're…

29 Apr

2026

CS Question

EU strategy in response to the ongoing Middle East crisis, its implications on energy prices and the availability of fertilizers (joint debate)

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Colleague, thank you for accepting the question. If you see this Europe without oil imports, I can ask you. How do you plan to build new roads? Because you know that oil also includes oil, from which asphalt is made and you need it for new roads. So what do you want to build roads from in Slovakia?…

28 Apr

2026

EN Speech

Joint debate - Discharge 2024 (joint debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, as the shadow rapporteur for the 'other institutions', allow me to thank all those who participated in the discharge activities. They are very important. When it comes to the other institutions, many of them are doing a very good job. I would especially like to highlight and positively assess the work of the European Court of Auditors and the European Ombudsman. On the …

25 Mar

2026

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Implementation of the Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive (UWWTD) and risks to the security of supply of medicines (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, good evening. No one questions protection of the water environment, but our measures shall not contradict. And I am afraid that our global rivals must be laughing sometimes when it comes to EU actions, because look what we are doing. The critical medicines act – I would say a very good proposal – tries to get medicine production back on EU soil, and now implementing …

12 Mar

2026

CS Speech

Prevention and treatment of obesity (debate)

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Madam President, this does not happen often, but I must agree with my colleague Andriukaitis that it really makes sense to recognise obesity as a non-communicable disease of civilization. Thank you for that. It is in Europe's interest to combat population obesity, especially among children. For food, eat more local products and a varied diet, on the contrary, avoid ultra-processed product…

11 Mar

2026

EN Speech

Building Europe's clean, independent and secure energy following the 2026 North Sea Summit (debate)

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Madam President, Mr Commissioner, this is a very impressive and ambitious project. Its success could increase energy autonomy in states around the North Sea. Also, guaranteed political support is a very good signal. However, even more important is the long‑term trust of private investors of the capital and this is not guaranteed. The uncertainty remains high. Slow grid development, scale‑up issues…

10 Mar

2026

EN Speech

Presentation of the Energy Package (debate)

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The follow up is clear. Germany has invested a lot in renewables, and still they have on average 20 times, 15 times higher carbon footprint in electricity production than France with nuclear. So basically today they are the same as Czech Republic with coal and nuclear and, with nuclear, France is much better. So if you invest only in renewables, you will end up like in Germany – you will have gas …

10 Mar

2026

EN Question

Presentation of the Energy Package (debate)

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Thank you, honourable colleague, for accepting the question. I understand very well that you would like to invest in renewables as soon as possible, and of course, then have the local electricity production. Unfortunately, we also need nuclear as part of the solution and it takes some time and for this, we need the fossil fuels. Because how else can you explain that today in France currently the e…

10 Mar

2026

EN Speech

Presentation of the Energy Package (debate)

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Actually, without coal and steel, we would not be having the debate here. So maybe you could learn something from European history – it would be nice as well. And when it comes to prices, you must also understand that you need to invest a lot into the grid, because the consumer doesn't pay the cost, the price on the market – he pays the final price. So we need to find a balance between the speed o…

10 Mar

2026

EN Answer

Presentation of the Energy Package (debate)

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This is always the debate we have. So, for example, in my country there are a lot of coal sources and the grids are fully prepared for this. But because of the high ETS price, we are forced to close them earlier than is necessary. If we used them for a few years longer – like 5 to 10 years – we would not need to import so much gas. For the gas price, yes, of course, it's volatile, I agree. But we …

10 Mar

2026

EN Speech

Presentation of the Energy Package (debate)

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Mr President, Mr Commissioner, surprisingly, I will start a little bit positively. So, there are some positive elements in your speech. Your thoughts on the grids go in the good direction. I welcome the SMR point and also the idea on lowering taxes. Yes, this is the good time to lower taxes. But you will not be surprised that, since your hearing as a Commissioner candidate, there are still element…