What Radosław spoke about.

8

Mar

2022

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The deterioration of the situation of refugees as a consequence of the Russian aggression against Ukraine (debate)

Mr. Speaker, I'm sorry. The High House! International Women's Day. I would like to greet all our Lords, those in this room and those listening to us, but especially the women in Ukraine, those under bombing, those on the front and those who, taking their children with them, left Ukraine so that their husbands could fight for the freedom of their country. I also support the appeal of the First Lady…

8

Mar

2022

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Foreign interference in all democratic processes in the EU (debate)

Madam President, congratulations on International Women’s Day and congratulations to the author of this report, who anticipated that giving a free range to all kinds of aggressive activities by authoritarians will lead to something even worse. And we now have war in Europe. We have been arrogant and naive, or rather some of you in Western Europe have been arrogant and naive, because Putin has been…

17

Feb

2022

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The death penalty in Iran

Mr President, colleagues, unlike some of you in this Chamber, I actually think that, at least historically, there were cases where the death penalty was fair and just. In Poland, we had the case of Rudolf Höss, the Commander of Auschwitz, where he killed over a million people with Zyklon B. Poland brought him back to Auschwitz and, in April 1947, he was hanged. I challenge anybody to tell us that …

16

Feb

2022

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The Rule of Law and the consequences of the ECJ ruling (debate)

Madam President, I'm sorry. The High House! I will speak Polish, because I would like to be heard in Warsaw by the ruling party, which, like every defendant who loses the case, complains that the court is prejudiced, that it is innocent and in general, what it is about. And the truth is that on such a delicate subject as the reform of the justice system, you have taken to breaking the constitution…

16

Feb

2022

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EU-Russia relations, European security and Russia’s military threat against Ukraine (debate)

Madam President, we tried to integrate post-Soviet Russia into our community. We admitted Russia into the Council of Europe. We signed a partnership and cooperation agreement. We were ready to sign partnership and cooperation agreement II, which would have been an association agreement in all but name. But Mr Putin has gone the way of conquest, and that, of course, has to be countered. I welcome t…

15

Feb

2022

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Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2021 - Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2021 (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. I congratulate the report, but we are debating it on the most dramatic day in a generation. Namely, we do not know whether the president of Russia is telling the truth to the chancellor of Germany, or whether he is already heating up engines to unleash a terrible tragedy, to invade Ukraine and start a war in Europe. But one thing we already know is that this war …

14

Dec

2021

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Situation at the Ukrainian border and in Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine (debate)

Madam President, President Putin is promising not to invade Ukraine if we promise that Ukraine will never be admitted to NATO. But President Putin, we were at the same NATO summit in Bucharest in 2008 at which we, NATO, did not grant Ukraine a membership action plan, and we have actually stuck to our decision. Whereas you, President Putin, have since then, invaded Georgia, invaded Crimea, invaded …

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Nov

2021

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Situation in Belarus and at its border with the EU and the security and humanitarian consequences (debate)

The marshal! The High House! Prime Minister Morawiecki, if he had not previously violated the rules of this House, maybe he would have been here with us today. And I wanted to ask him questions. As we can see, several days after the intervention of the European Union, more planes are taking migrants back to Iraq and other places. Therefore, the question arises: why it was not possible to do what t…

11

Nov

2021

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The outcome of the EU-US Trade and Technology Council (TTC) (debate)

Mr President, as Chair of the delegation for relations between the European Union and the United States I’d like to congratulate the Commission on the setting—up and launch of the Trade and Technology Council. I believe it builds on the history of the successful Coordinating Committee from back in the 1980s and earlier, which stemmed the flow of modern technologies to what was then the Communist b…

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Oct

2021

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The Rule of law crisis in Poland and the primacy of EU law (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. The High House! Madam President, I'm sorry. Thank you very much for the clear wording of the warning to Prime Minister Morawiecki's government. I hope they listen. Mr Prime Minister, I have listened to you attentively and I agree that in a confederation, the relationship between national constitutional courts and the institutions of the Union is the subject of a …

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Oct

2021

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Pandora Papers: implications on the efforts to combat money laundering, tax evasion and avoidance (debate)

Madam President, I am livid that, at a time when businesses are failing, when whole countries are collapsing because of the pandemic, and when debt levels are rising, these unscrupulous individuals and unscrupulous companies have squirreled away tens of billions of euros in these tax havens. There is no such thing as offshore anyway. They are all onshore somewhere. This is all a fiction. These are…

5

Oct

2021

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The situation in Belarus after one year of protests and their violent repression (continuation of debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. Commissioner, I'm sorry. Ladies and Gentlemen, The voices from the right are happy to see that the European Union is standing with Poland in this crisis. I also agree with those who say that Lukashenko would not do what he does without Vladimir Putin's secret. Lukashenko had already killed: Zakharchenko, Gonchar, Krasovsky are the names of the people he murdered.…

5

Oct

2021

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The future of EU-US relations (debate)

Mr President, as chairman of the delegation for relations between the EU and the United States, I welcome the report and I endorse every word spoken by our High Representative in his introduction. With my opposite number from the United States, Jim Costa of California, we’ve issued a statement welcoming the launch of the Trade and Technology Council. It’s in that forum – trade, technology, investm…

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Sep

2021

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A new EU-China strategy (debate)

Madam President, China is, of course, a communist dictatorship with everything that concerns human rights. But its communism is native born and, under communism, China has modernised. In fact, the rise has been awesome. It contains a quarter of humanity and has an ancient culture worthy of respect. China has committed grave errors and crimes such as the Cultural Revolution. Abandoning the Deng doc…

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Sep

2021

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Direction of EU-Russia political relations (continuation of debate)

Madam President, Politkovskaya, Litvinenko, Skripal, Nemtsov, Navalny. These names speak for themselves. Just in the last few days, we have the consummation of the Union of Russia and Belarus. We have the completion of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline and we have the aggressive military exercises called the Zapad. Let’s remember that Russia was welcomed into collaboration with the West. This organisatio…

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Sep

2021

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Situation in Afghanistan (debate)

Madam President, let us have no illusions. The Taliban are religious fanatics and they have not fought us for 20 years in order now to protect a liberal way of life. No. Revenge killings, stonings, the war on women have already started. A night of barbarism is descending on Afghanistan, and it will be retrograde, bloody and long. I fear for my Afghan friends and I’m sorry that we created an illusi…

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Jul

2021

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

Madam President, I'm sorry. As one of the initiators of the Magnitsky Act, I am, of course, in favour of the resolution. I am also in favour of imposing sanctions on serious cases of corruption, of having us vote by majority in the Council so that no country can block these sanctions, and of Parliament being able to initiate and oversee sanctions. On the other hand, today's voices from the post-fa…