Speeches

Mr President, thank you very much. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. Europe's strategic trading partner and security provider must also be discussed with respect, in a spirit of partnership and with full responsibility for words. Also for the words that fall here. The European Commission has a lot of work to do to erase the bad impressions of the election campaign. Contempt is remembered. It is necessary to cut off from contempt in order to create an atmosphere for good conditions, for good negotiations, for good agreements. At the same time, the European Commission must probably be questioned – not by Commissioner von der Leyen – but perhaps by the European Parliament on the basis of knowledge of the Draghi report, which clearly shows what is happening to Europe's competitiveness. We have to fight for our own, but remember that everyone deserves a partnership.

Mr President, thank you very much. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. To say that Europe is at a turn is to say nothing. We have to admit unequivocally that we are standing on a precipice and the Commission is proposing to turn on the next gears in order to get to the bottom even faster. Projects without ideas, without analyses, without sources of funding, without engineers, chemists and physicists, against logic and against reason. It makes the whole world talk about it. At the climate summit, we experienced it unequivocally, that the European Union does not know what it is doing. Nobody wants to join us. I remember when we were working on the Fit for 55 package during that term of office, every time I warned my ENVI colleagues that the next document was to rifle the Chinese, because we have neither rare earth metals nor technology, that we are far behind, as all possible logical economic reports say.

Madam President, I'm sorry. Commissioner, I'm sorry. Everything we discuss is good, noble, true, honest. That's the way it is. But in order to make this a reality, the strategy must provide, firstly, for no interference in the competences of the Member States. It must indicate the sources of funding. It cannot lead to another dramatic bureaucracy. It must indicate technical and technological possibilities, because the ENVI Committee's communication contains wording that has nothing to do with physics, chemistry or engineering. In addition, we must remember that we cannot constantly multiply further documents. After all, we have not yet finished discussions in trilogues on water purity and quality, and we are already proposing further solutions. Finally, in order for there to be a chance to do anything, discuss and talk to Europeans in general, it is necessary to carefully analyse and diagnose what has been done on the basis of the previous dozens of documents.

Lack of competition, high energy prices and bureaucracy are the three deadly diseases that are killing the European Union. You have to find ways and there are three. Three documents need to be changed. Firstly, the Directive, which in 2014 changed the rules for the functioning of the ETS market. It has become a speculative, manipulative market, and in fact a financial pyramid. We also need to change the climate law. Five years ago, climate law was created and already then we knew that it did not correspond to reality. The pandemic has begun. Then came the war. The world described in the climate law simply did not exist then and does not exist. And the third way: we need to change the budget immediately, think about how to reduce green investments (which the Court of Auditors already has doubts about) so that we can prepare for war without loans, be ready to defend ourselves.

Mr President, thank you very much. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. You are aware that your plan is to increase energy prices. It's time to get rid of the algorithms, the blackmailers, the greens you pay, the lobbyists. It's time to sit down with engineers, energy engineers, chemists and physicists. It is time to return to the ETS before 2014, because at the moment it has become a bubble, a financial pyramid that speculates and manipulates. At the same time, it's time to throw ETS 2 in the trash. Citizens cannot be held responsible for your carefree ideas, for your ideology and for being held hostage by big businesses. The ECR will prepare a motion for a resolution and a debate on putting ETS 2 in the trash in the coming weeks.

Mr President, thank you very much. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. I think farmers deserve to be told the truth. The European Commission speaks directly. The European Union is in debt of over €500 billion and has not yet started paying interest on the recovery fund. Commissioner von der Leyen says unequivocally and repeatedly: There will be no separate fund for agriculture. There will be one for one country. At the same time, the Commission is determined, it encourages. The Commissioner is also writhing without answering questions. The decision was made to sign a contract with Merkosur. At the same time, a meeting was held in the AGRI Committee, where we heard that from June, agricultural products from Ukraine will flow in a full stream, an open border. You are so afraid that you don't even show the regulation. I say this in order to confront you and your country with reality. This vision does not agree with her.

Madam President, I'm sorry. The Commission's presentation is a plan to prolong the agony of the automotive industry. No dates, deadlines, documents that need to be changed tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, at the latest in a week. You are talking about money. This money is in the budget, no new money. After all, you have been talking about the same thing for many years and nothing has changed. You are talking about the need to support, strengthen supply chains. Which one? When it comes to rare earth metals, in most cases we are dependent on everything external to the European Union. Finally, you say that there is a need to support, that there is a need to help, forgetting – because this was not the case today – the ETS2, that is, the upcoming tax, the penalty for citizens who will drive combustion cars. Europeans need to be taken seriously, tasks need to be carried out and planned so that they can be carried out.

Madam President, thank you very much. Commissioner, I'm sorry. Forgive this wording, but it seems to me that at the Commission they are giving you happiness pills so that you can create a reality that simply does not exist. At the climate summit in Baku, the corridors were not only talking about the Draghi report and showing how and to what misfortune the Green Deal, so ill-conceived and so innumerable, had led. But it was also said that there would be no funding, no following the European Union. Because it's not just the United States, it's China, it's India, it's Brazil saying that there is simply no such money in the system and it's a road to nowhere. In addition, neither the European Union nor the institutions that have the money generously allocated from around the world can account for what they spend, how they spend and what the results are. It is enough to look at the latest report of the Court of Auditors – yes, the one in the European Union – which accurately says that what is green is unclear. It's time to wake up. It's the last moment.

Madam President, thank you very much. Mr. Commissioner, I would like to thank you. We are all aware that the problem is and will continue to grow, but I think we should stop debating and hystericalizing that we are not reaching an agreement on global solutions. Let's show the world how to do it. Let's do it within the European Union. Alternatively, let each of these hundred countries show how precisely to take care of it. After all, we know well that we need education, we need money, we need a system, circularity, recycling, and finally such consumer responsibility, but less than producer responsibility. Because everyone does what they want, and then burdens the consumer, who has to think about how to take care of the environment. Therefore, let us also ensure the stability of the law. Let me remind you about the packaging. We have demolished a well-organized system concerning, among other things, plastic bottles. We have returned to the system from 30 years ago, to Chinese solutions and materials that we will not be able to dispose of. Let's take responsibility for ourselves.

Mr President, thank you very much. The research is unequivocal. The poor condition of the European farmer is primarily due to the Green Deal, bureaucracy, uncertainty, unachievable ambitions and goals, and a negative image in the media. European farmers bear responsibility on their shoulders for European thoughts and ideas on climate change. In addition, they learn from the media that they do not really know anything about agriculture. In addition, they live in great uncertainty, because in addition to lack of money, lack of employees or constantly forcing them to hire lawyers, accountants to get through the European bureaucracy, they hear: Why cultivate the land when you can get crops or goods from Ukraine or Mercosur? Why cultivate land when it can be turned into renewable energy? We have infected European agriculture. They need peace.

Mr President, thank you very much. Commissioner, I'm sorry. The Green Deal has been a global hoax. It arose without citizens, against people, it arose against treaties. The entire Fit for 55 package on the energy mix and taxes should be on a legal basis that moves towards unanimity. Member States have been deceived. The Green Deal was built against the economy and competitiveness. You can't enchant reality. We have a situation in which we need to stop reform and realization immediately, because we are creating unrealistic goals and ambitions that are impossible to achieve. We do not in any way expect the Commission to report every year and every month on how specific money affects these expected changes. We should meet immediately with the Environment Agency, this European agency, which already warned in December that we would not reach 55% by 2030, while the Commission wants to make us happy with the discussion that we therefore need to get 90% by 2040. Finally, outside the control of the ECJ, no one knows what happens to citizens' money, no one knows how it is spent. It's an absolute pyramid scheme. It is time to stop it, like other directives and regulations. Just so we don't get to be alone. The climate summit in Baku said unequivocally that the whole world has turned its back on us. No one wants to listen to us, because everyone is realistic and cares about their citizens.

Mr President, thank you very much. Who doesn't go to the climate summit? Commissioner von der Leyen, Chancellor of Germany, President of France. There will be no President Biden, no leaders of Brazil, India and China. Why won't they be there? Because they stopped looking at Europe as prime movers. Because they read the Draghi report and see that the result of these ambitions, too aggressively outlined, is a loss of competitiveness. We go there to ask for money, that we want even more money for the actions that we define and we want to define for the whole world, without settling accounts with Europeans, without settling accounts with the world. Let's show how we spend this money, who is the beneficiary of this money and what effects it brings. It is important to be true so that Europeans and the whole world are not deceived.

Madam President, thank you very much. The steel industry is dying. It is an industry that is responsible for the entire European economy and, ironically, for the implementation of the Green Deal. This Green Deal, which is just killing an entire industry, an entire industry. Because, after all, high prices for buying carbon allowances, because there is vain and vain hope when it comes to the border tax – all this means that there is no time for analysis, no time to make plans, no time to announce new investments in clean steel. In a moment you will not have to write a pure strategy for the industry, because it simply will not be, because there is no money. I recall the Draghi report, which says that 800 billion a year we need money to make the European economy competitive. I would like to remind you that the Court of Auditors said that the European Union is indebted to EUR 540 billion, and there is still no money to pay interest on the Recovery Fund. Today we speak with one voice and say: alarm for the European economy.

Mr President, thank you very much. Today we are talking about the housing crisis, yesterday we are talking about the automotive crisis, the refugee crisis and the security crisis. This is what the outgoing Commission leaves behind. But we want President von der Leyen to continue to lead us into the abyss. I have bad news for you, tragic news for Europeans, especially young people: Housing and housing prices are exploding. The following documents are responsible for this: the Energy Efficiency Directive, the Ecodesign Regulation, the Construction Products Regulation or the Carbon Sequestration Certification Regulation. This will make the apartment not only a luxury good, but an unattainable good. And what does the Commission propose? If someone does not comply with these documents, they will pay taxes on how their apartment is, among other things, heated. The situation is dramatic. Therefore, these documents must be thrown in the trash.

Mr President, Commissioner, I would like to thank you for your support. To be honest, your speech put me in the chair. I thought you were joking, because here you are coming to the European Parliament for a debate about the automotive crisis and saying that this topic is not there. You don't see factories closing down, workers being laid off. You do not see that electric batteries are full of carbon footprints, that they consist of elements not available in Europe, that we are absolutely dependent on China, and in fact the Chinese have put the automotive economy on their shoulders. So I ask, where is the common sense? Because Europeans demand concrete solutions. You know very well that every document in the package Fit for Fifty Five He was very happy to be received in China, actually written under China in order to conquer European markets. Well, what do we say? Well, just like the Commissioner, that is, we are also going to the COP to Azerbaijan, to Baku, with even more green turbocharging. Everyone will laugh at us. I call for repentance for the good of Europeans.

Mr President, thank you very much. Mr. Commissioner, I would like to thank you. Ladies and Gentlemen, I am from Poland, from Lower Silesia and Opole, an area overwhelmed by catastrophe. There's a lot of water coming through right now. In some places people clean up, discover the enormity of the tragedy, in others they are still waiting for the passage of this great water. It is my duty to be with them and fight for all their money, because they will need money today, in a week, in five and in ten years. I'm also talking about farmers. I know and I thank you for the fact that there are such mechanisms that direct payments in areas that have been flooded will continue to be paid. On the other hand, farmers in the south of Poland have really lost the opportunity to continue harvesting beets, breeders have lost feed, animals have lost their lives, therefore they really need help, admonishing themselves whether additional money will be created. We already know that there is no money in the account from the Solidarity Fund this year. For the next year, only more than one billion euros are planned for all countries. We need the support of the Committee on Agriculture to deliberately point out money to farmers.

Madam President, thank you very much. Ladies and Gentlemen, Another resolution, important, hopefully, going to prisons to give hope that the word will become an act and that the time will come when they will be released. It gives hope that they will live to see not only freedom and democracy in Belarus, but above all that they will live to see that they will not be in prison. More words, but few deeds. We have a lot of tools and instruments as the European Union to talk about further actions, about further sanctions, about further isolations, so that Lukashenko is not credible in any way. I recall the hysteria of the European Commission when we closed the border, when we defended the Polish-Belarusian border, because the European Commission allowed Lukashenka and Putin to wage a hybrid war. These are not the things that people in prison need. Let's do it for them. Let's exchange words for actions.

Mr President, thank you very much. Ladies and Gentlemen, I am from Lower Silesia and Opole region. To say ‘drama’ is to say nothing. It's an all-encompassing trauma. People are worried about what will happen today, tomorrow, next week, five years from now. They don't have any money. They need a lot of money, tens of billions of dollars. And in the European Union's budget for 2025, there is only one billion euros from the Solidarity Fund. We need to change this urgently. We also need to change climate policy, because I am talking to people who are not cut off from the world. In these worst areas, this is the result of the fight of environmentalists, who unleashed hell there at every tank, at every polder. Therefore, we need to change climate policy, because this is precisely adaptation to climate change. I would like to remind everyone that there is a regulation on nature restoration, where this type of investment is prohibited, and most of the built ones are ordered to be demolished. We will not adapt to climate change and we will not guarantee the safety of people.

Madam President, thank you very much. Commissioner, you were not telling the truth. You say it is good and it will be even better. No, I don't. It's bad, it's gonna get worse. The European Union is in an economic crisis and this is not only the result of the pandemic and the war, but also the ideological ideas of the European Commission, which, without any calculations, decides on indicators, percentages and ambitions. You are talking about a 90% reduction in emissions by 2040. Even though the European Environment Agency informs you that the 2030 targets are impossible to achieve, the cost of living for citizens, Europeans, is increasing. You don't deserve to be president, and after the court's verdict, you should resign today and resign.

Madam President, I'm sorry. I will not repeat what the proposal is about, but for many reasons we should make such a decision. First of all, we are running out of mandate, this democratic mandate to decide on the lives of citizens, on taxes, on what documents look like. All the more so because everything indicates that the majority in the new European Parliament will have a different attitude towards the Green Deal – at least it will approach it with a distance, and certainly it will not spoil Europeans. Therefore, we no longer have the mandate to take such decisions. Secondly, these are documents that deceive farmers. On the one hand, we cannot say that we want dialogue with them, that we are analyzing, that we know how to improve all this, that we want less bureaucracy, and then we accept documents that are more bureaucratic, that are burdened with penalties directly for farmers, not only for Member States, and finally that they are an attack on farmers' property. This applies to these two documents. That I will not mention the absolute legal chaos, which will only cause corruption and will expose farmers to this type of practice. Let's look the farmers in the eye. Let's take... (The Chair took the floor)

Mr President, thank you very much. Come on, committee! Friends and colleagues! I do not know if my colleagues do not notice that they speak a completely different language than Europeans. Farmers are reminding you of this and they have just started and will be leading this reminder until the elections on June 9. And I think it's time for another majority to take care of the lives of Europeans. The Environment Agency plus the Scientific Council said we couldn't make it from 55 to 2030. And what does he say? Let's break the thermometer, have member states punished, let's tax agriculture, let's tax food, let's unfreeze the energy tax directive so that energy prices rise from 300 to 500 percent, let's switch to smaller cars, of course electric, although they are Chinese throughout the European Union, let's replace large apartments with smaller ones. This is the report, this is the Scientific Council. And what does the Commission say? I can't see, I can't hear, 90% against the Europeans.

Madam President, I'm sorry. Commissioner, I'm sorry. Friends and colleagues! I think that in a few months we will be investigating who is behind these solutions, which global companies are just doing their own business. I would like to remind you that the area of genomic techniques is constantly controversial and unfortunately for years we have been receiving conflicting legal interpretations and different assessments from the point of view of bioethics and food safety. The European Parliament is promoting the renaming of genomic techniques to breeding techniques in order to avoid associations with first generation GMO plants. But this camouflage is an abuse. Targeted mutagenesis and cisgenesis are also genetic modifications of the body. Therefore, please do not soap people's eyes and do not suggest that several years of using these techniques in the United States determines the safety of crops for the human body. Such research, especially in the direction of potential cancerogenicity, requires the perspective of several decades and we should be very careful. I propose to ask scientists, experts and not to succumb to the lobbying of global companies that just want to make money.

Madam President, I'm sorry. Mr President, thank you very much. Ladies and Gentlemen, Commissioner Von der Leyen read, put aside her theatrical concern for farmers and left. The farmers are not finished. Farmers are starting. They are starting to protest against the Green Deal, for which a majority in the European Parliament and in the Commission is responsible, the EPP – contrary to the words of President Weber – socialists, Renew, the greens, sometimes the left joins them. Difficult times ahead of us. It is necessary to stop these documents, which are currently being processed and are hitting agriculture. And also verify those that have been adopted. And at the same time take care of the Polish-Ukrainian border, where there is a flood of products of great oligarchs. I understand that the European Commission and the European Council are hostages to these great oligarchs. The European Commission says to farmers: A good farmer is one who does not sow, plow, grow, and give his land for renewable energy, for wind farms, for photovoltaic farms, so that someone else earns than a farmer.

Madam President, I'm sorry. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. When I hear the voices of the EPP, the Greens, Renew and the Socialists, I am truly astonished. You have all raised your hands in favour of the Fit for 55 package. Every document, every directive, every regulation has hit agriculture differently. Therefore, the first thing: Hit your breasts, go to your farmers and talk about these decisions. In a few weeks' time, we will be voting on increasing ambition to cut carbon emissions by 90% by 2040. At every meeting of the Environment Commission, we hear that agriculture is most responsible for climate change. I guarantee you that you will vote for these changes. Commissioner, I know that the Polish government is raising this issue and wants to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 90%. And I also want to ask what the Commissioner for Trade will do with duty-free trade on the Polish-Ukrainian border. Polish farmers announced a protest on January 24.