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May

2026

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Reviewing the ETS system to support European competitiveness (topical debate)

Madam President, declining competitiveness is, in the long term, the main problem of the European Union, which is threatened by a deep decline that has already begun. It has a long range of causes. Most of them belong to the cluster of conditions for business. In addition to the declining number of skilled workers in the necessary structure, overregulation and burden of administrative burdens, the…

19

May

2026

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Presentation of the Fertilisers Action Plan (debate)

Madam President, I understand the concern about the availability of fertilisers, which is essential for food security. Livestock fertilisers are available in insufficient quantities under pressure to reduce cattle farming. The production of artificial fertilizers depends on the price of energy, and this has been increased by anti-Russian sanctions and imports of expensive liquefied gas. This has l…

19

May

2026

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EU governance under pressure – institutional responses to global challenges (debate)

Mr President, the question has been asked: What can the EU administration do under the pressure of global challenges? How is he supposed to react? It's a sign of helplessness. If we go to the root of the problem, it is clear that in the governance structure, unless this structure changes – and it cannot change because it is encoded in the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty on the Functioning …

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Mar

2026

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

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Mar

2026

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Housing crisis in the European Union with the aim of proposing solutions for decent, sustainable and affordable housing (debate)

Madam President, the housing crisis, including the rise of homelessness, has a number of causes and points to the failure of European Union policy. Housing makes European Union priorities such as ETS2, emission allowances, the boomerang of anti-Russian sanctions, high administrative burdens, etc. The so-called European Affordable Housing Plan will not solve the problem. It defines objectives while…

11

Feb

2026

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Urgent actions to revive EU competitiveness, deepen the EU Single Market and reduce the cost of living - from the Draghi report to reality (debate)

Madam President, lagging behind the countries of the European Union is an open secret. It's nice that someone tries to analyze the problem, but if they overlook the elephant in the room, it's a futile effort. The one thing that makes the most sense is Green Deal with all its consequences. It is understood as an inviolable dogma. Green Deal He's not the only one. Another problem is the focus on unp…

19

Jan

2026

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Framework for strengthening the availability and security of supply of critical medicinal products as well as the availability of, and accessibility of, medicinal products of common interest (debate)

Madam President, the fundamental question is whether healthcare should serve citizens or corporations that abuse the information supremacy of the sick, exploit their fear, ignorance and monopoly position. Current practice shows that the interests of citizens are not at stake. The instrument of change must be a pricing policy that must not be in the hands of monopolies. The state must clearly dicta…

17

Dec

2025

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 18-19 December 2025, in particular the need to support Ukraine, transatlantic relations and the EU’s strategic autonomy (debate)

Russia is clearly an aggressor. It is questionable how long it took for the aggression to be provoked by the attacks on the Russian population in eastern Ukraine. This is absolutely unequivocal. So if you don't understand this, I don't know what else to talk about. You are preparing for war, and I am afraid you will succeed, and Eastern Europe will be the battlefield. In principle, we want to avoi…

17

Dec

2025

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 18-19 December 2025, in particular the need to support Ukraine, transatlantic relations and the EU’s strategic autonomy (debate)

I'm almost embarrassed to answer such a naive question. It is necessary to ask the question: How would Russia benefit from the continuation of the war? Would he want more territory if he had such a huge territory? Other resources when it's so rich in resources? Or would it want to achieve self-destruction by another war confrontation? These are just completely nonsensical ideas. So, on the contrar…

17

Dec

2025

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 18-19 December 2025, in particular the need to support Ukraine, transatlantic relations and the EU’s strategic autonomy (debate)

Madam President, since the Maidan coup and the establishment of the current regime, most EU institutions and governments have supported Ukraine's self-destruction. From the beginning, it was clear that Ukraine, even with the massive support of the US and the governments of the countries of the European Union, could not militarily defeat Russia. It turned out that Russia failed to break up with war…

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Dec

2025

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EU Defence Readiness (joint debate)

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Dec

2025

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Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural products (A10-0254/2025 - Gabriel Mato) (vote)

21

Oct

2025

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Stepping up funding for Ukraine’s reconstruction and defence: the use of Russian frozen assets (debate)

My dear colleague, part of the agreement was also that Ukraine would be a neutral country. This was clearly violated. I do not agree that the response to such violations should be military intervention. But on the other hand, it is necessary to ask what possibilities exist for accepting the situation so that a settlement can be reached. Nothing like that happened. All the support of European Union…

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Oct

2025

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Stepping up funding for Ukraine’s reconstruction and defence: the use of Russian frozen assets (debate)

Madam President, Ukraine was supposed to be a neutral country under an international agreement, its neutrality was respected by Russia. After the color coup on Maidan, the new government rejected neutrality, and NATO sought to adopt it, and NATO military facilities in Ukraine began to be built. After the Russian intervention, the Minsk agreements and the Istanbul agreements were ignored. Ukraine i…

9

Sep

2025

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Ukraine (joint debate)

Madam President, security is indivisible. The condition of peace is the provision of security guarantees for all. A party to the conflict whose security guarantees will not be assured will necessarily feel threatened and act accordingly. Such a situation is a guarantee of the continuation of the conflict. I'm afraid that's exactly the point. Peace, which only one side recognizes as just, is not pe…

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May

2025

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Improving mental health at work (debate)

Mr President, I am a psychiatrist, I worked in a research institute, where there was also a department of industrial psychiatry. It doesn't exist anymore. Other is the issue in industrial enterprises, other in administration. Today, the reduced mental resilience of younger generations plays an important role. Much depends on the personality structure of the workers. The most important risk factors…

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May

2025

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80 years after the end of World War II - freedom, democracy and security as the heritage of Europe (debate)

Mr President, I read online that, under the pressure of the Soviet occupation of Germany in April 1945, a prominent Austrian painter committed suicide. This is a funny exaggeration, as history is being rewritten in the European Union today. It's worse than it was in socialist countries 40 years ago. At that time, the liberation of 10% of the territory of Czechoslovakia by the U.S. Army with 300 ca…

12

Mar

2025

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Adoption of the proposal for a Parenthood Regulation (debate)

Excuse me, I am convinced that what I have said here has a real basis, for I have become acquainted with the fact that there really is a way to acquire children through surrogacy. There are such offers and this system is actually applied.…

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Mar

2025

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Adoption of the proposal for a Parenthood Regulation (debate)

Mr President, the proposal for a regulation on parenthood, which requires all Member States to recognise parenthood on equal terms, does not respect differences in national traditions and the will of communities. It notes that children’s rights arising from parenthood are to be protected regardless of the legal relationship between the parents and the way in which the child was conceived. Children…

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Feb

2025

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

Mr President, the issue is the threat of cooperation between conservatives and the far right to the competitiveness of the European Union. The world doesn't follow the labels you give out. Not only the threat, but the real cause of the inability to compete is the majority of this Parliament and the European Commission, which have pushed Green Deal and anti-Russian sanctions. These have led to an i…

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Jan

2025

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Addressing EU demographic challenges: towards the implementation of the 2023 Demography Toolbox (debate)

Mr President, population decline is a symptom of the collapse of society. Society has dissolved into individuals who do not have a sense of belonging and responsibility to any community, nor to the wider family, nor to the community, nor to the nation, nor to the state that they consider to be their own. They do not feel that they should contribute to the common good. The young generation, who are…

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Dec

2024

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Restoring the EU’s competitive edge – the need for an impact assessment on the Green Deal policies (topical debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the irresponsible and unintelligent interference in the economies of the countries of the European Union has caused the current decline. Nonsensical interventions in education have led to a deterioration in the training of citizens for professions and a deterioration in the level of education in technical fields. The number of competitive graduates in technical …

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Dec

2024

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Preparation of the EU-Western Balkans Summit (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the naive citizens of the Western Balkan countries believe in the advent of prosperity by joining the European Union. They will be severely disappointed. They have had and will continue to have to meet a number of conditions that do not benefit them. They are expected to relinquish their sovereignty, comply with regulations and implement directives without re…

27

Nov

2024

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Topical debate (Rule 169) - Budapest Declaration on the New European Competitiveness Deal - A future for the farming and manufacturing sectors in the EU (topical debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the future of agriculture in the European Union is very bleak. Small farms are rapidly disappearing and large businesses are being hampered. Villages are disappearing. The European Union is dominated by transnational trading chains, which benefit from importing agricultural commodities halfway around the globe, at dumped prices and of dubious origin. Buy-in pric…

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Nov

2024

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International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, no statements or announcements of international days will limit violence in society. It will help to cultivate people by appropriate upbringing and punishment against those who have failed to be brought up. Talking about elimination is either naive or hypocritical. Violence cannot be eradicated. Unfortunately, violence will increase as people become more sociall…