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Mar

2025

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Action Plan for Affordable Energy (debate)

Mr President, dear colleagues, Commissioner, I naively thought that the aim of the affordable energy action plan was to provide affordable energy. But I tell you something: this plan will achieve no substantial energy cost reductions, because you, the European Commission, repeat the same failures as in the past. You are obsessed by an energy mix based on renewables. You blindly push forward the el…

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Mar

2025

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Clean Industrial Deal (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, on your proposal Clean Industrial Deal – not trying to save the industry, but trying to save you Green Deal and climate objectives. Goals that may have made sense in 2019, but today we know they are unrealistic. Unrealistic climate targets, but also unrealistic technological ambitions, the most expensive greenhouse gas charges in the world, are the causes of the exis…

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Mar

2025

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Presentation of the proposal on Critical Medicines Act (CMA) (debate)

Mr President, Mr Commissioner, the Critical Medicines Act is an extremely important file. The world is in a de- globalisation phase. Dependencies reduction and self-sufficiency have become a logical trend. This for sure includes medicines, their availability and affordability simply matter. Therefore, we welcome the ambition to maintain a list of critical medicines for which European research and …

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Feb

2025

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US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, the World Health Organisation and the suspension of US development and humanitarian aid (debate)

Madam President, every reasonable person is able to adjust their goals and strategies. The world has changed, but not the EU energy and climate policy. The goal was EU prosperity, worldwide follow up and global emissions reductions. But we see the opposite: the EU economy is struggling and global emissions are growing. The Green Deal – at least its climate part – is dead. If we insist on its imple…

12

Feb

2025

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Collaboration between conservatives and far right as a threat for competitiveness in the EU (topical debate)

Mr President, colleagues, so the cooperation of Patriots, Conservatives and Sovereignists threatens Europe's competitiveness? Do you find it strange that factions in the European Parliament are collaborating with a similar programme? Can you accept a different view at all? Maybe parties with a different opinion than yours wouldn't have to run at all. Well, that would be great. You could continue a…

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Dec

2024

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Preparation of the European Council of 19-20 December 2024 (debate)

(Start of speech off mic) ... thank the Hungarian Presidency for a professional, proactive and innovative approach. Now, in the beginning of the new mandate, I would wish to Mr Costa to have a strong European Council, because we need a strong voice of Member States. The EU is a project of Member States and only a strong European Council will defend EU future and will overpower the EU Commission's …

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Dec

2024

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Misinformation and disinformation on social media platforms, such as TikTok, and related risks to the integrity of elections in Europe (debate)

Mr President, censorship is not the way to protect elections. Social media is a tool, not a cause. Censorship is not the solution. Then why are you trying to do it? I'll tell you. Thanks to social networks, people can collectively share what they really think. And that's not what your power cartel of traditional politicians, Brussels officials, and some nonprofits and the media want. You are doing…

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Nov

2024

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Recommendation on smoke- and aerosol-free environments (debate)

Mr President, Madam Commissioner, this is indeed an interesting topic consisting of different elements that need to be put in balance. First, we want to protect citizens from the effect of second‑hand smoke and aerosols and achieve the 2040 goal for a tobacco‑free generation. Second, we do not want to excessively interfere in the lives of Europeans with any ambitions to regulate their lives. Third…

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Nov

2024

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Outcome of COP 29 and challenges for international climate policy (debate)

(Start of speech off mic) ... is that your policies, policies of climate activists, as you are, are not leading to saving the climate. You are lying to people about that if they will be ambitious, that there will be no floods and so on and so on. But that's not true. You have no data, you have no science base, you have no impact assessments: you are just lying. So you are the root cause.…

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Nov

2024

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Outcome of COP 29 and challenges for international climate policy (debate)

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Nov

2024

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UN Climate Change Conference 2024 in Baku, Azerbaijan (COP29) (debate)

Mr President, Minister, Commissioner, the European response to climate change so far has not been effective. It is not helping to protect the climate, it is causing major damage to the European economy and it is reducing the opportunity for Europeans to adapt to climate change. The so-called Fit for 55 European climate package is not only distrusted by investors, but above all by a significant par…

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Oct

2024

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U-turn on EU bureaucracy: the need to axe unnecessary burdens and reporting to unleash competitiveness and innovation (topical debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, for how long are we going to pretend that the system is under control? I have a feeling that for years the Commission didn't listen to companies, and if the Commission listened, then only to the voices they like. The EU has become a regulatory monster; high quantity and lower quality. To be honest, also the European Parliament has its contribution to this fact. We shall…

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Oct

2024

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Statement by the President

Madam President, colleagues, on Monday evening, six political groups concluded and co-signed the joint motion for a resolution on the Medical Devices Regulation. This was tabled yesterday into the EP system. The Europeans could have enjoyed for one day being more important than the political dispute. However, yesterday it happened that some political groups decided to remove the name of our politi…

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Oct

2024

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Tackling the steel crisis: boosting competitive and sustainable European steel and maintaining quality jobs (debate)

Madam President, Madam Commissioner, I have an essential question: do you want to have steel in Europe? I think we have heard in this debate many reasons to say 'yes', but to save the steel in Europe we must act now. One point: to create a demand market for high‑tech and low‑carbon and green steel would, of course, help. But it is not in the short term. To revise the (sorry for the stupid proposal…

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Oct

2024

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Urgent need for a ceasefire in Lebanon and for safeguarding the UNIFIL mission in light of the recent attacks (debate)

Madam colleague, you should be careful when people are talking, or go back to school, because I didn't say anything like that at all. Israel protected Israel. It's UNIFIL's problem that they were not careful, because close to their stations and positions, there were terrorists, so maybe they have not been doing the correct work. That's it. Please do not say things that I have not mentioned.…

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Oct

2024

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Urgent need for a ceasefire in Lebanon and for safeguarding the UNIFIL mission in light of the recent attacks (debate)

Madam President, we shall not mix cause and consequence, and in this debate you are focusing too much on the consequence. So let's be honest: one of the root causes is simply that UNIFIL failed to help to protect the people of Lebanon from Hezbollah. UNIFIL even failed to protect our closest neighbourhood from the presence of those terrorists, which is what we are debating today. And also, to be h…

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Oct

2024

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World Mental Health Day - need for a comprehensive EU strategy on mental health (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, I am very pleased that mental health is receiving more and more attention, not only in political debates, but also in public debates. It is indeed a growing problem, affecting the entire population and also affecting the youth, our children. The appropriate care is very small or not appropriate. Waiting periods – it takes a long time to find a child psychologist in some…

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Oct

2024

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Facing fake news, populism and disinformation in the EU - the importance of public broadcasting, media pluralism and independent journalism (debate)

Madam President, what kind of debate is this again? Disinformation, populism and public media? What, like three in one? I do not question the need to counter disinformation, especially when it is directed against citizens' interests from abroad. It makes sense to talk about that. But why are you bringing populism into this? After all, you call populists people who, unlike you, are not afraid to te…

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Sep

2024

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The Hungarian “National Card” scheme and its consequences for Schengen and the area of freedom, security and justice (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, Minister, I would like to thank the Commission, Council and the Hungarian Government, because we have heard that the dialogue is going on, step by step, we believe, to a successful end. And maybe at this stage, this plenary should finish the debate. Because we can ask: 'Tell us in 14 days, in one month what is going on'. But this House requires deeper debate. Okay, w…

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Sep

2024

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State of the Energy union (debate)

Mr President, welcome, Madam Commissioner. You looked quite satisfied during the presentation of your thesis and I am not fully in agreement. You look satisfied maybe because you have a little bit forgotten to speak about the competitiveness and the energy prices. And I tell you a small secret. They are maybe lower than during the peak in the energy crisis, but they are still high. Not only for ci…

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Apr

2024

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The attack on climate and nature: far right and conservative attempts to destroy the Green Deal and prevent investment in our future (topical debate)

Mr President, colleagues, please stop being angry and accept the fact that people and companies across Europe simply want to adjust the Green Deal. The original agreement was to respond effectively to climate change, but also to maintain competitiveness and some social and regional justice. And also to allow Member States to do what they can to make climate policy their own. And that would work. B…

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Feb

2024

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Regaining our competitive edge - a prosperous EU in a fragmented global economy (topical debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, Minister, European industry is stagnating and the rest of the world is producing cheaper and at our expense and with more emissions. As a result, Europe is losing competitiveness and global greenhouse gas emissions are not falling. And that's wrong, this can't be! Emission permits are the most expensive in the world. The European emission allowance is indeed the most ex…

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Feb

2024

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EU2040 climate target (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, in the autumn, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen promised in Prague that you would listen to industry and people. So we logically expected that you would no longer consider new climate ambitious targets and bureaucracy, and vice versa, that you would correct the adopted climate package, that you would, for example, cap the price of an emission allowance, or that…

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Jan

2024

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Ozone depleting substances - Fluorinated gases regulation (joint debate - Gas emissions)

Mr President, Commissioner, colleagues, for ozone-depleting substances I think we have reached a very good deal. We will protect more the ozone layer, which is perfect, and I would like to thank the rapporteur, Jessica Polfjärd. On fluorinated gases, I would also like to start by thanking the rapporteur, Bas Eickhout. We are known from time to time to have different positions, but Bas has always r…

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Oct

2023

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Urban wastewater treatment (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I heard a few years ago that water is a rare matter of course and that is actually a beautiful statement. And we definitely need to protect the water, and we want the water to return to the environment clean. That is why we support this proposal as such, there are a lot of good provisions. At the same time, however, we must be aware that all the objectives conta…