What Ivan spoke about.

27 Nov

2024

CS Speech

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)

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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…

25 Nov

2024

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

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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…

24 Oct

2024

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Abuse of new technologies to manipulate and radicalise young people through hate speech and antidemocratic discourse (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, since billionaires have taken over all the major media outlets throughout the formerly democratic world to manipulate the public, the only chances for democracy are people's governments, social networks and the Internet. Until the end of the last century, the world-dominant villains were at peace, because it was impossible to publicly resist slander and other…

10 Oct

2024

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World Mental Health Day - need for a comprehensive EU strategy on mental health (debate)

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Mr President, ladies, gentlemen and other genders, I am a psychiatrist, a former director of a psychiatric hospital and a minister of health. There have been constant reforms in the care of the mentally ill since the end of the 18th century. Almost all but the last of the reforms meant a change to better conditions for the sick. The sick gradually got from the status of wandering despairers and pr…

8 Oct

2024

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Outcome of the Summit of the Future: transforming global governance for building peace, promoting human rights and achieving the sustainable development goals (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen and other genders, the collective West must learn to see itself critically for its own benefit. He has had centuries of ruthless predatory pasts and is still abusing neocolonial methods. The calls for cooperation with the collective South therefore sound hypocritical. Stop robbing the South, which is also starting to be collective on the principles of mutual b…

17 Sep

2024

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Continued financial and military support to Ukraine by EU Member States (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I personally believe that Ukraine has been supported enough. Victoria Nuland said the United States has invested $5 billion in Ukraine. They have succeeded in transforming Ukraine into a state that professes to be Nazi war criminals. Multinational corporations have helped by buying land, real estate and industrial infrastructure that was not stolen by local olig…

23 Apr

2024

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Production and marketing of plant reproductive material - Production and marketing of forest reproductive material (joint debate - Plant and forest reproductive material)

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Mr President, the proposals concerning plant reproductive material have two general flaws. The first is to try to address a broad issue with one regulation and then to empower the Commission disproportionately to adopt delegated implementing legislation, of which we know nothing in advance. There is a risk of fragmented and unclear legislation. The second general mistake is to seek a unified solut…

12 Mar

2024

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European Media Freedom Act (debate)

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Mr President, in the proposal on the Media Services Regulation under discussion, I read that: "Independent media services play a unique role for democracy, ensuring respect for the rule of law and are an essential factor in the formation of public opinion". And that's true. But how does this compare to the introduction of censorship under the pretext of fighting disinformation that is nowhere defi…

17 Jan

2024

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Extending the list of EU crimes to hate speech and hate crime (debate)

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Madam President, I quote from the document on fundamental rights in the EU. Article 21 of the Charter prohibits any discrimination against political opinions or any other opinion. This is an example of hypocrisy. Here in the European Parliament, President Sassoli has declared a cordon sanitaire against our Identity and Democracy faction, about which he has spoken not only falsely but also hatefull…

23 Nov

2023

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International day for the elimination of violence against women (debate)

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Mr President, the European Union seems to want to be unsuccessful because it has unattainable goals. Violence can be reduced, but not eradicated. There are two causes of violence against women. On the one hand, aggression, which is mainly caused by hormones, and on the other hand, antisocial behavior and primitivism due to lack of education. Some individuals, however, are insuperable and unaffecta…

22 Nov

2023

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Latest attacks against women and women's rights defenders in Iran, and Iran's arbitrary detention of EU nationals

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Madam President, the institutions of the European Union often promote principles which they themselves actively defend. It is impossible to isolate Iran and at the same time prevent the consequences of its isolation. While Amnesty International's report describes forms of suppression of Iranian women's right to an unveiled face and personal freedom, it also criticizes France for suppressing the ve…

14 Sep

2023

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Parliamentarism, European citizenship and democracy (debate)

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Mr President, I strongly object to the ongoing efforts to eliminate the influence of the Member States on their internal affairs and to undermine democratic principles such as universal, equal and direct elections to representative bodies. This is foreign interference in elections. It is completely unacceptable that the right to vote and to stand as a candidate should be based on the mere fact of …

19 Apr

2023

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The crackdown on the right to education and education rights activists in Afghanistan, including the case of Matiullah Wesa

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Mr President, women in Afghanistan do not have the opportunity to participate in social life and to attain higher education. Tomorrow we will vote on a resolution. Robert Wood, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, recently said: “The Taliban cannot expect to become a legitimate member of the international community without respecting the rights of all people in Afghanistan, especially the hu…

17 Apr

2023

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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, before dealing with the consequences, it is always advisable to examine the assumptions. In the event that global climate change is affected, it is first and foremost important to consider whether the goal is achievable. For reasons of time, I will mention only one of the long series of assumptions that must give rise to doubts in a critical assessment. Can any measures limited exclu…

13 Mar

2023

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Binding annual greenhouse gas emission reductions by Member States (Effort Sharing Regulation) - Land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) - Revision of the Market Stability Reserve for the EU Emissions Trading System (debate)

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(beginning of performance outside the microphone)... changes are happening. They have been happening for centuries, of which we have documentary evidence, millions of years, without industry, transport and agriculture, without human existence. They will occur even if man disappears as a species. Pretending that the main cause of climate change is human activity is completely unsustainable. In the …

13 Dec

2022

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Renewable Energy, Energy Performance of Buildings and Energy Efficiency Directives: amendments (REPowerEU) (continuation of debate)

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Madam President, the proposed amendment to the three directives is unilaterally aimed at promoting exclusively solar and wind power plants, i.e. intermittent energy sources. In essence, the Commission puts biogas plants at a disadvantage. Today's technologies make it possible to produce heat and electricity from biogas and, after pre-treatment, also use it to drive agricultural machinery. Nowadays…

18 Oct

2022

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Mental health (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, I am a psychiatrist, a former Minister of Health and a director of a psychiatric hospital. I have long been involved in the organization of mental health care. Unfortunately, I have to say that in this area the European Union is following a completely wrong path. The so-called reforms that began in the United States and the United Kingdom sixty years ago have led to the…

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, it is true that Russia's war of aggression in Ukraine is escalating, but that is the end of the truth. The official narrative continues with lies designed to hide the reality. Lying always leads us to wrong conclusions. I am not an official of the European Commission or of any foreign ministry to repeat official lies. I don't care what they say in Russia or elsewhere. Almost all medi…

19 Jan

2022

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Digital Services Act (continuation of debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I have lived half my life in so-called real socialism. There was real censorship, suppression and prosecution of people who expressed other than approved opinions. Officially, the system called itself socialist democracy. There was a joke that there was as much difference between democracy and socialist democracy as there was between a jacket and a straitjacket.…

23 Nov

2021

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Common agricultural policy - support for strategic plans to be drawn up by Member States and financed by the EAGF and by the EAFRD - Common agricultural policy: financing, management and monitoring - Common agricultural policy – amendment of the CMO and other regulations (debate)

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Madam President, this so-called common agricultural policy is common only in the sense that it brings about common regulations. It is not common in the sense that it acknowledges the common interests of the people of the European Union. It will harm farmers by further restricting their activities and cannot be supported, even though the worst that has been proposed ultimately did not pass through …

15 Sep

2021

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EU contribution to transforming global food systems to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (debate)

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Madam President, on the important topic of transforming the world's food systems, I have not found any relevant project from the European Parliament or the European Commission. I have also not heard any suggestions from the Commissioner or anyone else. There is a growing imbalance on the planet between countries that can feed their populations and those that cannot. The problem cannot be solved wi…

7 Jul

2021

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European Medicines Agency (continuation of debate)

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Madam President, we are witnessing an attempt, which will be successful, to use the European Commission's own failures to strengthen its power in the interests, in particular, of multinational pharmaceutical companies. At the same time, the contracts under which a gigantic trade in vaccine purchases by the European Commission has been carried out have not yet been published, although both the Euro…

6 Jul

2021

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

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Madam President, hypocrisy is one of the most disgusting forms of lies. Decision-making without clear rules and by double standards is a reprehensible practice, but the first provision of the motion for a resolution explains that sanctions concern regimes against which the European Union has introduced restrictive measures. In other words, it does not concern those regimes against which the Europe…