What Anna spoke about.

22 Jan

2025

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Failure of the negotiations in Busan for a UN plastic treaty and the urgent need to tackle plastic pollution at international and Union level (debate)

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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 prec…

18 Dec

2024

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Challenges facing EU farmers and agricultural workers: improving working conditions, including their mental well-being (debate)

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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 …

18 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)

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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 enchan…

26 Nov

2024

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Outcome of COP 29 and challenges for international climate policy (debate)

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13 Nov

2024

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UN Climate Change Conference 2024 in Baku, Azerbaijan (COP29) (debate)

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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 outl…

23 Oct

2024

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Tackling the steel crisis: boosting competitive and sustainable European steel and maintaining quality jobs (debate)

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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…

9 Oct

2024

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Ensuring sustainable, decent and affordable housing in Europe - encouraging investment, private property and public housing programmes (debate)

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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 hous…

8 Oct

2024

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The crisis facing the EU’s automotive industry, potential plant closures and the need to enhance competitiveness and maintain jobs in Europe (debate)

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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 carb…

19 Sep

2024

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Droughts and extreme weather events as a threat to local communities and EU agriculture in times of climate change (debate)

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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 …

18 Sep

2024

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The severe situation of political prisoners in Belarus

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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 d…

18 Sep

2024

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The devastating floods in Central and Eastern Europe, the loss of lives and the EU’s preparedness to act on such disasters exacerbated by climate change (debate)

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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 on…

18 Jul

2024

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Statement by the candidate for President of the Commission (debate)

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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, perc…

10 Apr

2024

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Order of business

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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 towa…

6 Feb

2024

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EU2040 climate target (debate)

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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…

6 Feb

2024

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Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed (debate)

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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 …

6 Feb

2024

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Conclusions of the European Council meetings, in particular the special European Council meeting of 1 February 2024 (debate)

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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 P…

17 Jan

2024

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Improving the socio-economic situation of farmers and rural areas, ensuring fair incomes, food security as well as a just transition (debate)

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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.…

12 Dec

2023

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EU-US relations (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Oh, High Commissioner! Friends and colleagues! Important words have just been said that we should care about a strong United States, a strong European Union, because then there will be a strong alliance and partnership. I thank you for this report and for this discussion. I try not to hear that unfortunately there are voices that are announcing attempts to interf…

12 Dec

2023

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Environmental consequences of the Russian aggression against Ukraine and the need for accountability (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Russia is waging a total, totalitarian war against Ukraine and Europe – murdering people, destroying the economy, leaving the land burned. Mines, mines, destroys waterworks, destroys industrial plants. It's all cruel. The European Union gives evidence of concern, but it must have a plan. How, firstly, to win the war, secondly, to find money, thirdly, to mine Ukra…

23 Nov

2023

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

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Mr President, thank you very much. Friends and colleagues! Yes, we are indeed meeting for the fifth time to cry out, to appeal, to recall statistics, to talk about violence. But we owe it to our colleagues, mothers and sisters to be in their offices every day – and not just on the occasion of an international holiday – together with their governments and with pressure on the government, on their a…

21 Nov

2023

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Packaging and packaging waste (debate)

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Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. You know very well that I like you very much and respect you, but I have to start with a difficult proposal. It seems to me that you should investigate in the Commission who brought this project, because clearly someone wants to earn something here, because this project is really throwing away dozens of years of work, education, investment, searching for solutions, so …

20 Nov

2023

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Union certification framework for carbon removals

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Mr President, thank you very much. Nice to see you here. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. Absorption, carbon capture is very important. It's good that you have to pay for it, encourage it to just happen. Unfortunately, this document does not meet these needs, because it builds a system in an absolute legal vacuum. Roughly we say that somehow it will be that the market will determine that farmers, fore…

9 Nov

2023

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Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) (A9-0311/2023 - Anna Zalewska) (vote)

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Madam President, I'm sorry. Friends and colleagues! Thanking the shadow rapporteurs, advisers and assistants for their very intensive and very efficient work, I would like to request a referral back to the committee responsible, in accordance with Rule 54(2). 4 to negotiate.…

18 Oct

2023

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A true geopolitical Europe now (topical debate)

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Madam President, I'm sorry. Europe will be strong globally when it is no longer weak internally, when it respects the treaties, when it respects member countries, when it respects Europeans. After all, it must remember that we must take care of border security, stop wading into an absurd immigration pact, which will cause us to have even more terrorism precisely in the European Union, taking care …

17 Oct

2023

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Commission Work Programme 2024 (debate)

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Madam President, I'm sorry. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. We actually have six months of work ahead of us. Therefore, what the European Commission should deal with is primarily the verification of documents. It is impossible to boast that there are more and more of them, there will be more and more, because this is a guarantee of absolute chaos and very superficial treatment of documents. So I woul…