What Alexandr spoke about.

31 May

2023

CS Speech

Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (debate)

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Mr President, I am still from the old traditional capitalist school. I think the business's job is to generate profit and not to prove to the last detail how it was achieved, or to show the loyalty of the local government and its dominant ideology. There is a lot of talk about China, but we are certainly not regulating ourselves for a successful competitiveness with China. Concept due diligence as…

18 Apr

2023

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The need for a coherent strategy for EU-China Relations (debate)

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Mr President, dear friends, China is an emerging superpower and aspiring to be the global number one. Therefore, we definitely are in a situation of need of a proper and coherent strategy. But this should not be done according to lines which we have seen the last week when President Macron went to China to pursue the economic interest of his own country and, as a reward to his host, offered a visi…

17 Apr

2023

EN Speech

Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System - Monitoring, reporting and verification of greenhouse gas emissions from maritime transport - Carbon border adjustment mechanism - Social Climate Fund - Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System for aviation (debate)

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... is that the situation has changed, that the price of the electricity is three times higher than when we have concluded the agreement here last summer. That is simply the matter of true. Secondly, yes, I have to pay three times more than a year ago. (Off-mic comments in the Chamber) That’s, you know, my token of appreciation to Peter. I said, you know, that you approach this as a really honest …

17 Apr

2023

CS Speech

Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System - Monitoring, reporting and verification of greenhouse gas emissions from maritime transport - Carbon border adjustment mechanism - Social Climate Fund - Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System for aviation (debate)

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Mr President, I would like to thank Peter Liese, who was the rapporteur for the most important dossier. . Thanks to this, we have managed to provide at least relief for the heating plants so that the central heat supply does not break down. Emergency brakes were also put in place to prevent further excessive increases in the price of allowances. But that's where the beauty ends. Unfortunately, the…

29 Mar

2023

EN Speech

Fluorinated Gases Regulation - Ozone-depleting substances (debate)

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Mr President, well, if you know, we will vote tomorrow on the revision of the Regulation on fluorinated greenhouse gases, also known as ‘F—gases’, which belongs among the greenhouse gases. Therefore, like CO2, they have come under the Commission’s scrutiny. It is, of course, right to limit the use of F—gases, because they have a high global warming potential, even greater than CO2 itself. At the s…

15 Mar

2023

EN Speech

More Europe, more jobs: we are building the competitive economy of tomorrow for the benefit of all (topical debate)

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Mr President, yes, we terribly need a more competitive economy and to generate more jobs in Europe now. But we are taking the wrong way. A typical example is the monopoly in electromobility production, which this Commission is trying to promote. We are just shooting into our leg and we are inviting China to overcome us, instead of keeping our competitive advantage in combustion engines alive. We n…

15 Feb

2023

CS Speech

A Green Deal Industrial Plan for the Net-Zero Age (continuation of debate)

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Mr President, we are piling up the error after the error. Four years after the Green Deal, the Commission is coming up with an industrial plan. You should have come four years ago, hand in hand with that. That's how it is with the industry here. Second of all. We prepared CBAM without consulting America, and now we are surprised that we have an IRU on the table. Instead of putting it together in a…

14 Feb

2023

EN Speech

CO2 emission standards for cars and vans (debate)

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No, no, no, we ask for the inclusion of the synthetic fuels and others and it was not accepted, only in the recital and in the recital it’s not legally binding, it’s just a proclamation to appease one party in the German coalition. But we wanted the inclusion of the technological neutrality, including the synthetic force, into the legislation, it was not accepted and then we had a promise that Eur…

14 Feb

2023

CS Speech

CO2 emission standards for cars and vans (debate)

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Madam President, what we have before us here is probably one of the stupidest solutions that we have discussed during this period. Nothing against electric cars. In cities, it makes sense. They are expensive, but the golden youth love them. Accelerate like a cheetah. But betting on one solution creates a monopoly. And monopoly always goes against prosperity and freedom. We will impoverish the midd…

17 Jan

2023

EN Speech

Implementation of the common foreign and security policy - annual report 2022 - Implementation of the common security and defence policy - annual report 2022 (debate)

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Mr President, well, the report which we are discussing today contains a lot of interesting recommendations but has one problem: it is a long list of the various recommendation ideas, including those which we will be discussing years ahead, like QMV reform, and meanwhile there is a war in the Ukraine, where we rightly support the Ukraine against this terrible Russian aggression but our deliveries a…

14 Dec

2022

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EU response to the US Inflation Reduction Act (debate)

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Madam President, for several years, we have been persuading the United States to make a Green Deal, too. They finally did it, and we don't like it, because they did it their own way, more capitalist, with tax deductions that lower the price, not with regulations and orders that raise the price, as is happening here. In the Czech Republic we call it: When you walk around with a jug for water for a …

13 Dec

2022

EN Speech

Prospects for the two-State solution for Israel and Palestine (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, surely we all can agree that we want a long-term and peaceful solution to the Israeli-Palestinian issue. That is beyond dispute. I guess we all want world peace and nice weather as well. I don’t want to mock it; of course, we have to do everything we can. It is clear that Israel, as the only long-term democratic, predominantly Jewish state in the Middle East, mu…

23 Nov

2022

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A post-2020 Global biodiversity framework and the UN Convention on Biological Diversity COP15 (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, COP 15 in Montreal is an important negotiation. We all want to protect nature and biodiversity. We all care about the future of forests, clean water and soil protection. There is only one planet, and the world must work together on this, and Europe must lead by example. But I warn the European Union not to repeat the mistake it made at COP 27. Please, let us not…

23 Nov

2022

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A truly interconnected Energy Single Market to keep bills down and companies competitive (topical debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, yes, a lot of good has been said here. The Czech Presidency is working day and night, the third Extraordinary Energy Council, so that there is at least some short relief. Okay, the European Commission is supporting the interconnectors, but the main problem is the gas price here and now. And of course, yes, you've come up with the ceiling, finally, since we've…

18 Oct

2022

EN Speech

Keep the bills down: social and economic consequences of the war in Ukraine and the introduction of a windfall tax (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I’ve told this over and over again. We can’t fight two wars, advance against Putin and carbon, it’s above our weight. Yes, we must contain Putin at any price. Yes, we must support Ukraine. Yes, we must be independent of Russia supplies. Yes, we are capping the prices and introducing the windfall tax. But it’s not enough to keep social stability and prices under …

6 Oct

2022

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The urgent need for an EU strategy on fertilisers to ensure food security in Europe (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we are in a situation where the issue of food security is more topical than ever. The growing world population, the war in Ukraine, is bringing about a sharp rise in the prices of food, gas, and thus fertilizers. The price of gas is 40 % of the variable cost of production of fertilizers. We import 60% of industrial fertilizers into Europe from Russia and Belarus…

5 Oct

2022

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Countering the anti-European and anti-Ukrainian propaganda of Putin’s European cronies (topical debate)

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Mr President, yes, Russian propaganda is in full swing. And the more numerous Putin's fifth column, the stronger it is. We must defend ourselves, but the solution cannot be just bans and our crying. We must also touch our consciences. The list of cronies here goes across from left to right. Yes, who got us more into Putin's noose? Angela Merkel and her Energiewende, Gerhard Schröder, Dutch politic…

5 Oct

2022

EN Speech

Russia’s escalation of its war of aggression against Ukraine (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, today I will be positive because we have a quality resolution ahead of us, which contains all important elements – our reminders that Russia bears the full responsibility for the war, our reiteration of the full support for Ukraine, including our call to increase the massive military assistance, and also calling to explore the possibility for lend-lease military…

13 Sep

2022

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EU response to the increase in energy prices in Europe (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen. I just read this, today’s leaked Commission proposal. It’s a late step in the right direction, but it does not fix the whole problem of gas prices. And mostly it deals only with the consequences, not with the root causes of the problem. And the root causes are in the negative synergy of Putin’s war, of the German Energiewende, which produce this instabilities…

5 Jul

2022

EN Speech

Objection pursuant to Rule 111(3): Amending the Taxonomy Climate Delegated Act and the Taxonomy Disclosures Delegated Act (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, tomorrow’s vote on taxonomy is crucial. Firstly, it is vitally important for the Green Deal. Some Member States cannot meet Paris targets without nuclear energy because their geographical conditions do not allow full—scale use of renewables. Secondly, taxonomy is vital for the future investment to deliver stable electricity for reasonable prices to our citizens.…

22 Jun

2022

EN Speech

Voting time

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Madam President, two weeks ago in Strasbourg, we failed, but decided to mandate a solution to the ENVI Committee. The ENVI Committee, by vote, decided that every political group would have the right to table their amendments. And then in the meantime, some kind of a back room deal of the three major parties here changed this, without the committee. So we, the ECR Group, were ready to look for comm…

22 Jun

2022

EN Speech

Voting time

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Madam President, (start of speech off mic) and democracy sometimes is longer, it’s not the speediest, but it’s the best way to live together. So we are protesting against, and it’s in the controversy to what has been agreed at ENVI.…

7 Jun

2022

CS Speech

Binding annual greenhouse gas emission reductions by Member States (Effort Sharing Regulation) - Land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) - CO2 emission standards for cars and vans (joint debate – Fit for 55 (part 2))

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Mr President, Jan Huitema's report on cars is wrong, and unless it changes in at least two respects, we must oppose it. First, tightening the 2025-2027 targets even further is absurd. It will force people to buy electric cars that will be expensive and have an exhaust in a neighboring coal-fired power plant. Less emissions? No way. Second, the total ban on internal combustion engines in 2035 is a …

7 Jun

2022

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Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System - Social Climate Fund - Carbon border adjustment mechanism - Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System for aviation - Notification under the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) (joint debate – Fit for 55 (part 1))

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I think that tomorrow we will have perhaps the most important vote in five years, a vote that will affect the lives of every inhabitant in the European Union, a vote that will further increase the cost of energy for housing, heating, lighting and the cost of transport and food. All this in the name of saving the planet in a situation where the share of CO2 em…

6 Jun

2022

EN Speech

The EEAS’s Climate Change and Defence Roadmap (debate)

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Mr President, when I was young and growing up in communist Czechoslovakia, everything had to be explained by a class fight. Now it looks like everything has to be explained with the fight against climate change. But, frankly, I think the conviction of some of our colleagues here – that the most important mission of our armed forces is to fight climate change and the most important goal of them is …