What Elżbieta spoke about.

7 Mar

2022

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Role of culture, education, media and sport in the fight against racism (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. In the report on the role of culture, education, media and sport in the fight against racism, we find many misrepresentations. It calls for a frank debate on the history of racism in Europe and its systemic nature. Racism is to be rooted in the societies of European countries. These are the thesis that create new dangerous stereotypes. One does not want to rememb…

19 Jan

2022

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Political crisis in Sudan

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Madam President, I'm sorry. Following the overthrow of President Omar al-Bashir's 30-year dictatorship in 2019, maintaining military-civilian cooperation was a major challenge for political stability in Sudan. Last year, the political struggle intensified and in October the military carried out a coup d'état. Traditional disputes between the politically dominant Arab North and the marginalized, et…

16 Dec

2021

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Forced labour in the Linglong factory and environmental protests in Serbia

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Mr President, thank you very much. In recent years, China has developed cooperation with the Balkan candidate countries, taking advantage of their investment needs. Serbia in particular responded positively to the Chinese proposals. Beijing, in turn, appears to be treating Serbia as part of a global Belt and Road initiative, a logistics project aimed at creating a contemporary equivalent of the Si…

14 Dec

2021

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European Year of Youth 2022 (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. The proposed act to make 2022 the European Year of Youth seems like a valuable initiative, but today's ideologisation of the Commission and the European Parliament raises questions. Will the traditional values of our civilization be present in the proposed programs: Christian, national or family values that positively educate a young person's personality, or will…

18 Oct

2021

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The situation of artists and the cultural recovery in the EU (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Due to COVID-19, the governments of the EU Member States have taken a number of decisions that have triggered a crisis in many areas of social and economic life. They also had a big impact on broadly understood cultural activities and the situation of artists and cultural workers. The biggest influence on the location of artists was the closure of cultural instit…

7 Oct

2021

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Human rights situation in Myanmar, including the situation of religious and ethnic groups

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Mr President, thank you very much. It has been half a century since, after the coup, the military authorities established the Burmese path to socialism. And so Burma, now officially Myanmar, once a thriving land of golden pagodas has turned into a state of anarchy and violence. It is true that the last decade has been marked by democratisation, but this was erased in February this year by a milita…

6 Oct

2021

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The Council's lack of will to move the European cross-border mechanism forward (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Ladies and Gentlemen, In the Cohesion Policy legislative package, the European Commission proposed a new mechanism to address legal and administrative obstacles in a cross-border context. This tool, as established at Union level, would allow the rules of one Member State to be applied in a neighbouring country with the consent of the competent authorities. Studie…

16 Sep

2021

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The situation in Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya

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Madam President, I'm sorry. The Kakuma camp in Kenya hosts almost 200,000 refugees, mostly from Sudan, but also from Congo, Somalia, Uganda and Burundi. The team created by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees presented a road map to the Kenyan government, including alternatively the voluntary return of refugees to their homes in conditions that ensure safety and dignity, trips to thi…

16 Sep

2021

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Government crackdown on protests and citizens in Cuba

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Madam President, I'm sorry. Following the brutal suppression of the largest anti-government demonstrations in half a century on July 11, the Cuban Communist regime used numerous repressions against the population, including mass arrests and sham lawsuits aimed at intimidating and forcing Cubans to remain silent. Independent Cuban media report that the regime in Havana ordered the temporary release…

16 Sep

2021

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United States sanctions and the Rule of law (continuation of debate)

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Madam President, I'm sorry. The United States has imposed anti-corruption sanctions on Bulgarian oligarchs, and where is the European Commission's response to the lack of rule of law in Bulgaria? German weekly Der Spiegel points out that the Commission has been doing little for years on corruption in Bulgaria. The weekly notes that recently, EU debates on the rule of law have focused on Poland and…

14 Sep

2021

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Brexit Adjustment Reserve - Draft amending budget No 1/2021: Brexit Adjustment Reserve (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. The new Brexit Adjustment Reserve, worth more than €5 billion, will support people, businesses and countries affected by the UK's withdrawal from the EU. At the end of 2020, the post-Brexit transition period ended, and with it the free movement of people, goods, services and capital between the EU and the UK. At the same time, unavoidable disruptions in economic,…

8 Jul

2021

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The death penalty in Saudi Arabia, notably the cases of Mustafa Hashem al-Darwish and Abdullah al-Howaiti

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Mr President, thank you very much. In Europe, the abolition of the death penalty has been evolutionary. This was the result of a gradual change in legal doctrine. The main penalty is not prohibited under generally applicable international law. In the current debate, we ask ourselves: Are we to unequivocally oppose its use in all circumstances, or does it exceed the limits of tolerance for the most…

6 Jul

2021

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Situation in Tigray, Ethiopia (continuation of debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. The parliamentary elections in Ethiopia were to be the first free elections in the history of the country and bring peace. Meanwhile, in Tigray, a province in northern Ethiopia, the war continues and a gigantic humanitarian catastrophe is taking place. The civil war has been going on since November 2020, when the Ethiopian government sent federal troops to fight …

6 Jul

2021

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EU global human rights sanctions regime (EU Magnitsky Act) (debate)

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Madam President, I'm sorry. The establishment in December 2020 of the European Union's Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime, inspired by the so-called Global Magnitski Act in the US, should be welcomed. It significantly expands the Union’s sanctioning instruments and allows it to respond to serious human rights violations. It is supposed to improve the efficiency of their implementation. This is t…