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11 Feb

2026

CS Speech

Urgent actions to revive EU competitiveness, deepen the EU Single Market and reduce the cost of living - from the Draghi report to reality (debate)

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Madam President, Mrs von der Leyen, Mr Šefčovič, I have listened carefully to your words and you have certainly mentioned some measures that will certainly help improve European competitiveness and self-sufficiency. But what really amazes me is that you didn't mention the high price of the emission allowance as the main reason. Do you want to improve Europe's competitiveness and self-sufficiency a…

10 Feb

2026

EN Speech

Framework for achieving climate neutrality (A10-0223/2025 - Ondřej Knotek) (vote)

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Mr President, honourable colleagues and, of course, I would like to thank the team of the shadow rapporteurs. I believe that in this file we can all learn that professional cooperation is possible no matter the different initial positions and also other starting circumstances. In December 2025, the majority of this House asked for a new climate target for 2040 to be negotiated in the trilogue, and…

20 Jan

2026

EN Speech

Pending approval of the Hungarian national plan for Security Action for Europe (SAFE) funding in light of persistent concerns around the allocation of public funding (debate)

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Madam President, advocating for Hungary's exclusion from the SAFE programme is acting against European security. And even worse is that you do it for political reasons. Brussels technocrats fear so much of sovereign governments, like the one of the Viktor Orbán, that they even do not hesitate to bend the rules, like now with the SAFE programme. And this is totally wrong. But far worse than Brussel…

19 Jan

2026

EN Speech

Framework for strengthening the availability and security of supply of critical medicinal products as well as the availability of, and accessibility of, medicinal products of common interest (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, as the shadow rapporteur on behalf of Patriots, I believe that the Critical Medicines Act addresses real challenges, and these are medicines shortages and Europe's continued dependence on third countries. For this reason, I support the Commission's proposal. When it comes to the health committee report, it reinforces key elements, notably on strategic projects and cr…

17 Dec

2025

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Implementation of the rule of law conditionality regime (debate)

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I represent some electorate. So, I represent the electorate that believes that Europe is not ready for having a swift overpower of functions by Brussels. For your comment on the values, that we become a minority and what happens ... Please ask in Duisburg, in Marxloh. There you may see what's going on with your state.…

17 Dec

2025

EN Answer

Implementation of the rule of law conditionality regime (debate)

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Thank you for this question. The Treaties do not describe a timeline. So, one day, maybe my great‑grandchildren will live in federal Europe, but Europe must be ready for this and I am afraid that today they are not ready. Europe is not ready for accepting more duties in the given time. And your second question, just remind me briefly the words, what was it about? Oh yes, the values, thank you. Whe…

17 Dec

2025

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Implementation of the rule of law conditionality regime (debate)

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Thank you very much for this question. Actually, I can confirm that when I travel across Member States of EU, I come across citizens, and there are many of them that have concerns about the democratic elements in their own, usually Western, Member States and also in the Brussels centre at the heart of the European Commission. And they are afraid about the future, that our ancestors have given to u…

17 Dec

2025

CS Speech

Implementation of the rule of law conditionality regime (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, yes, the rule of law is both a value and an objective. The rule of law is a guarantee of freedom and prosperity for citizens. Unfortunately, it is true that the rule of law is failing badly in some EU countries. What do citizens think is the biggest risk to the rule of law? Massive import of people with a foreign culture, which has worsened security and begun the cre…

16 Dec

2025

EN Speech

Presentation of the EU Cardiovascular Health Plan (debate)

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Madam President, thank you, Mr Commissioner, for presenting the Safe Hearts Plan. I believe it will be an important step in fighting cardiovascular diseases, which remain a significant burden to our healthcare systems and also the leading cause of death, not only in Europe. I also appreciate the respect for national competences in the field of health policy. Thank you very much for the emphasis on…

24 Nov

2025

DE Answer

Existence of a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is founded (debate)

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24 Nov

2025

EN Speech

Existence of a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is founded (debate)

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Mr President, dear colleagues, a harmful conglomerate of Socialists, People's Party, Liberals and Greens set our great continent on fire. Look what this conglomerate did to their own countries: they opened borders and imported people with culture incompatible with EU values, they increased regulation to such a level that businesses better leave our continent, they reduce freedom and slowly install…

12 Nov

2025

EN Speech

Framework for achieving climate neutrality (debate)

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Mr President, colleagues, thank you for your contributions. I wrote down some comments. Allow me also to reflect a little bit. To Commissioner Hoekstra, yes: move to action, of course, but it's really neat that Europe is the first and the fastest one in the world. Question mark! Mr Pellerin-Carlin, climate action is vital, of course I agree, but it must be correct action. To Ms Vrecionová, of cour…

12 Nov

2025

EN Speech

Framework for achieving climate neutrality (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, Madam – leaving! – Minister, honourable colleagues, allow me a couple of words in my capacity as the rapporteur on this file. Despite this plenary voting down the urgent procedure at the end of July this year, the very next day, the main committee, the Environment Committee coordinators, decided to impose quite a strict and tough timeline – basically, for example, givin…

22 Oct

2025

EN Speech

UN Climate Change Conference 2025 in Belém, Brazil (COP30) (debate)

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Madam President, honourable colleagues, the COP is an excellent opportunity to share good and bad practices. And as EU is responsible for hardly 7 % of global emissions, the Patriots for Europe agree that we shall help the largest emitters of greenhouse gases to reduce their emissions. I was thinking that the best way, maybe, is perhaps to advise them what they should do if they wanted to fail in …

22 Oct

2025

EN Speech

The need for a united support to Ukraine and for a just and durable peace concluded on Ukraine's terms, with Europeans and without surrendering to Vladimir Putin's conditions ahead of the foreseen Budapest summit (debate)

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Mr President, many of you, colleagues, accent the need for united support of Ukraine, and I generally agree, but I believe it is much more important to provide smart support of Ukraine. Last week, the ITRE Committee voted for the ban of Russian oil, oil products and natural gas from Russia, starting January 2026. But products derived from natural gas are allowed, for example, fertilisers. So buyin…

22 Oct

2025

EN Speech

Presentation of the Court of Auditors' annual report 2024 (debate)

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Mr President, dear representatives of ECA, many thanks for the report. The expenditures from the EU 2024 budget on the heading of natural resources and environment were almost EUR 65 billion, which represents almost one third of the total expenditures. I would like to have two questions. Has the Court identified cases where the Climate Pact investments did not deliver measurable environmental bene…

21 Oct

2025

CS Speech

Institutional consequences of the EU enlargement negotiations (debate)

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Mr President, that is the madness you are demonstrating. Once again, you want to weaken the Member States and strengthen Brussels. Making acceptance of, for example, the Balkan states conditional on the abolition of the right of veto is pure desperation. Abolition of the right of veto means surrendering to the majority, and often to Brussels technocrats, often completely out of touch with reality.…

20 Oct

2025

EN Speech

Chemicals (joint debate)

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Mr President, honourable colleagues, the European chemical industry and chemicals play a key role for EU citizens and the EU economy. Therefore, one would expect that EU policies will have ambitions to boost the EU-based chemical industry. Unfortunately, the opposite is true: the EU chemical industry is suffering and without substantial changes in course of last year's energy, climate and industri…

9 Oct

2025

EN Speech

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

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Mr President, Madam Commissioner, on World Mental Health Day, we are reminded that mental health is not just a medical issue – it is also a social and economic one. To accent topics of the mental health and well-being of young people, we reaffirm our commitment to strengthen national healthcare systems through reducing inequalities and through advancing towards complex health coverage. We further …

8 Jul

2025

CS Speech

Need for the EU to scale up clean technologies (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, you are repeating the same mistakes, setting unrealistic goals. You try to force expensive and sometimes unreliable clean technologies on people as the only option, and you don't care at all that a large part of the public isn't interested in them. Instead of listening to the public, you'd rather regulate, raise prices, or ban them. And I will tell you something, Commis…

21 May

2025

EN Speech

Russian energy phase-out, Nord Stream and the EU's energy sovereignty (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, colleagues, the debate is so far missing a key element, which is what needs to be done to reduce the economic impact on citizens and businesses in case the EU leaders decide to stop Russian gas imports. Commissioner, two actions are missing in your plan recently published. What is needed is the removal of unrealistic requirements in the EU Methane Emission Regulation to…

5 May

2025

EN Speech

Control of the financial activities of the European Investment Bank – annual report 2023 (debate)

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Mr President, thank you Vice-President Fitto, Vice-President de Groot, thank you colleagues for the debate – the debate shows the high importance of the European Investment Bank, and also it shows the high level of expectation that the members in this House have of the institution, of the bank, about the role of the bank in achieving its goals and addressing risks, not only for you as such, but al…

5 May

2025

EN Speech

Control of the financial activities of the European Investment Bank – annual report 2023 (debate)

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Mr President, good afternoon colleagues, Vice-President Fitto and Vice-President of the EIB de Groot. Despite the fact that the main scope of the report is dedicated to the financial activities of the bank in 2023, we considered, on top of this scope, other useful elements to better understand the EIB's operational model, internal system and also strategy in current vibrant times. Why? Because the…

3 Apr

2025

CS Speech

European Action Plan on Rare Diseases (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, although they are called rare, these diseases affect 30 million Europeans and we know of more than 6 000 rare diseases. It is therefore clear that this area requires closer cooperation between Member States, but also instruments on a pan-European scale – cross-border care, secondary use of data, modern funding methods for more expensive transformative therapies, simplif…

2 Apr

2025

EN Speech

Recent legislative changes in Hungary and their impact on fundamental rights (debate)

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Madam President, dear colleagues, I have the feeling that this is another unnecessary debate. I believe that the elected representation has the right to update legislation in place. And of course, every piece of legislation can be challenged at Constitutional Court. Concerning this case, some of you blame Hungarian policymakers for targeting minorities. In my understanding, the aim of the discusse…