What Markéta spoke about.

15 Sep

2026

CS Speech

Hybrid attacks against the EU Member States (joint debate)

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Mr President, at Leipzig airport, a Russian drone crashed into the wing of a Ukrainian cargo plane. He was carrying explosives and didn't explode just because the detonator failed. I'll say it again. Europe was not protected by our defence, but by a breakdown. We in the Czech Republic know this scenario. In 2014, ammunition depots in Vrbětice exploded and two people died. Russian military intellig…

7 Jul

2026

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Presentation of the Action Plan on Cybersecurity and AI (debate)

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Mr President, colleagues, Commissioner, for months, some of us have been warning that Europe was sleepwalking into a new dependency, and restrictions on Mythos, Fable and now GPT-5.6 proved the point better than any speech here. Everything here in this new action plan is guidelines, blueprints and pilots. It is a necessary start to this problem, yes. But where is the joint procurement as a collect…

7 Jul

2026

EN Speech

Welcome

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Madam President, I would like to make a point of order referred to in Rule 202(1), specifically under Rule 73 and Rule 60(2). Unfortunately, you, as the President, did not abide by the Rules, and you asked the Council to revive 'Chat control 1.0' when the plenary voted to reject it. You should have asked the Commission to withdraw it in accordance with Rule 60(2). We now have to vote again on an u…

17 Jun

2026

EN Speech

Preparation of the European Council (joint debate)

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Mr President, let us be honest about who we are dealing with. When China wants its leverage, it weaponised rare earths, choking the supply of materials that our industries, our defence and our green transition depend on. When we moved to reform our cybersecurity, Beijing threatened our businesses. The pattern is always the same – cooperation is offered when we are useful and pressure is applied th…

15 Jun

2026

EN Answer

Simplification of the implementation of harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Digital Omnibus on AI) (debate)

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Well, there wasn't a question that I could hear. The only question I've heard – if I've heard about Leszek Kraskowski – I didn't. I'm sorry.

15 Jun

2026

EN Speech

Simplification of the implementation of harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Digital Omnibus on AI) (debate)

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Madam President, 'put her in a bikini. Now strip her down and add blood.' This is how quickly prompts to AI nudifying apps are escalating from sexualised deepfakes to violent images and videos showing women bruised, restrained and degraded. As we speak, AI generates thousands of fake nudes of women and children without their consent that are spreading through online spaces at extreme speed. This y…

21 May

2026

CS Question

European Citizens’ Initiative ‘Stop destroying videogames’ (debate)

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I'll ask in Czech. I understand that you're a conservative, but that's why you're protecting private property. If you buy something, such as a house, you own it at that moment. Why don't you respect the same thing with video games?…

21 May

2026

EN Speech

European Citizens’ Initiative ‘Stop destroying videogames’ (debate)

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Madam President, dear colleagues, nearly 1.3 million Europeans signed the 'Stop destroying video games' initiative. They deserve our serious engagement, and they deserve it in good faith. Let me be clear about what this initiative asks. When a company ends support for a game that people have already bought and paid for, it must leave that game in a working state, rather than reaching into our devi…

19 May

2026

EN Speech

EU cybersecurity and preparedness in view of advanced AI systems (debate)

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Madam President, dear colleagues, the danger of what we have learned from Mythos research and the Glasswing arrangement is that AI-assisted cyber operations may compress months of expert vulnerability research into days. For us Europeans, the new risk is not only technical; it is a strategic dependency. If the most capable defensive models and early warnings sit mainly with non-EU partners and the…

29 Apr

2026

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The need for targeted criminal provisions and platforms’ responsibility to effectively address cyberbullying and online harassment (debate)

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Madam President, dear colleagues, mostly from EPP, as you initiated this resolution, if you truly want to tackle cyberbullying, let me give you one piece of advice. Call your fellow party member, Ursula von der Leyen, and tell her to enforce the DSA properly. Tell her that we need to have social media with safety by design, where our safety comes before profit, and where our values are reflected i…

28 Apr

2026

EN Speech

Supporting democratic resilience in Armenia (debate)

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Madam President, dear colleagues, Armenia is on the front line. What we saw in Georgia, what we witness in Moldova – the disinformation, the cyber attacks, the hybrid pressure – is now being tested in Yerevan. This is not a coincidence, this is a playbook. Foreign interference does not only target elections, it targets trust. It targets the belief that your vote matters, that your choice and voice…

25 Mar

2026

EN Speech

Order of business

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Madam President, dear colleagues, just last plenary, this Parliament firmly rejected Chat Control 1.0, demanding no mass scanning, strict limitation of scope and full protection of encryption. Last Monday, when the Council refused to negotiate on the scope, the trilogue ended without an agreement. Yet today, we are being asked to reopen that decision. The EPP now considers our position too ambitio…

11 Mar

2026

EN Speech

Case of Elene Khoshtaria and political prisoners under the Georgian Dream regime

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Mr President, dear colleagues, the arrest and detention of Droa party leader Elene Khoshtaria mark another troubling step in Georgia's democracy downfall. Elene was detained for writing protest messages against the ruling party and now she is facing years in prison if prosecuted. She is, again, one of many others who are part of politically motivated processes in intensifying repression of any pro…

11 Mar

2026

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Child sexual abuse online: protect children, not perpetrators (topical debate)

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Mr President, dear colleagues, George Orwell once warned us about a world where surveillance becomes normal. At least for now, we can still treat this book as a warning, not as a manual. There was always a better way: law enforcement focusing on real suspects, on targeted investigations and on bringing criminals to justice. Parliament today chose this way. Thank you, colleagues, but mainly thank y…

21 Jan

2026

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Conviction and imminent sentencing of Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong

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Madam President, dear colleagues, Jimmy Lai is being punished for exercising his freedom of speech. He practised journalism. He engaged with the international community. And this is not an exception. This is the true face of the Chinese Communist Party. Jimmy Lai has been detained for years. He is 78 years old and now faces the possibility of life imprisonment for exercising rights that are explic…

20 Jan

2026

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Presentation of the Cybersecurity Act (debate)

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Madam President, dear colleagues, Commissioner who controls our digital future and under which values? Who controls our critical infrastructure and our sensitive technology in peacetime and in conflict? Cybersecurity today is inseparable from sovereignty. Europe's hospitals, energy grids, public administrations and democratic institutions depend on digital systems. If those systems rely on opaque …

20 Jan

2026

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Tackling AI deepfakes and sexual exploitation on social media by making full use of the EU’s digital rules (debate)

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Madam President, imagine waking up to discover your body stripped and shared online for the pleasure of strangers. Imagine it is your 12-year-old daughter who wakes up to her AI-generated nudes displayed for the whole vast world to see. No consent, no dignity, just violence. This is what men do, through Musk's tool, Grok, to children and women. This tool should have never existed. But instead of r…

18 Dec

2025

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European Democracy Shield – very large online platform algorithms, foreign interference and the spread of disinformation (debate)

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Mr President, dear colleagues, Commissioner, our entire internet economy is dominated by US and Chinese monopolistic platforms. These platforms breach our privacy rules regularly, and the fines that we impose on them are irrelevant and embolden them to only ignore our rules further. TikTok, X and Meta have cornered the market of our digital attention. They are manipulating our elections for money …

16 Dec

2025

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Phasing out Russian natural gas imports and improving monitoring of potential energy dependencies (debate)

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Madam President, dear colleagues, Commissioner, when my homeland reached independence from Russian fossil fuels, they still paid Putin for it, with the argument that it's cheaper. I was baffled by this. Phasing out Russian gas is not just energy policy. Europe is at war – this is a security decision. Russia will now lose almost EUR 1 billion every month because of Parliament's negotiation. There i…

26 Nov

2025

CS Speech

EU position on the proposed plan and EU engagement towards a just and lasting peace for Ukraine (debate)

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25 Nov

2025

EN Speech

Digital Package (debate)

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Mr President, dear colleagues, did you know that not only ChatGPT, but also Facebook, X and LinkedIn have all, at some point, trained their AI models on your personal data without your consent? And guess what? This is exactly what the Commission intends to make a general rule with its digital omnibus. You may have noticed that none of these companies are European: it is a sell-out of our values to…

25 Nov

2025

EN Speech

Effective use of the EU trade and industrial policy to tackle China’s export restrictions (debate)

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Madam President, dear colleagues, China's strategy has shifted 180 degrees. From biding their time and hiding strength, China is now in a full-on global trade war. We are collateral damage, and we are also seen by Beijing as weak, divided and expendable. Otherwise, the recent rare-earth restrictions would not hit EU companies and force our Commissioner to ask for fast-track licenses in the way the…

22 Oct

2025

EN Speech

Ending all energy imports from Russia to the EU and closing loopholes through third countries (debate)

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Mr President, dear colleagues, every euro that still flows to Moscow through energy trade is a euro funding Russia's war machine. We have heard today from the far right so much about funding the war – these flows are funding the war, and funding it we are. In 2024, the EU still imported almost EUR 22 billion worth of fossil fuels from Russia – more than the aid paid to Ukraine in the same period. …

20 Oct

2025

EN Speech

The decision to impose a fine on Google: defending press and media freedom in the EU (debate)

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Mr President, dear colleagues, after four long years of investigation into Google's surveillance empire – sorry, they call it advertising – the Commission finally acted: a fine of EUR 3 billion for Google for suffocating European competitors and abusing its dominance. But, let's be real, EUR 3 billion for Google is nothing. The company made around USD 1.3 trillion in ad revenue during those years.…

10 Sep

2025

EN Speech

Implementation of EU-US trade deal and the prospect of wider EU trade agreements (debate)

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Mr President, colleagues, the Commission promised to President Trump more than EUR 1 trillion in purchases and investments into the US without any binding nature, any way to measure them, and without even distinguishing them from plans already in place. What happened on 27 July was presented to the public as necessary damage control and to me, as an MEP, as a hidden win for European industry becau…