What Anna spoke about.

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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, 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.

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2024

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

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Nov

2024

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

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.

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Oct

2024

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

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.

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Oct

2024

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

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.

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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)

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.

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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)

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.

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Sep

2024

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The severe situation of political prisoners in Belarus

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.

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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)

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.

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Jul

2024

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

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.

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Apr

2024

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Order of business

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)

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Feb

2024

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EU2040 climate target (debate)

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.

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Feb

2024

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

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.

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Feb

2024

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

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.

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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)

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.

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Dec

2023

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EU-US relations (debate)

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 interfere in the elections in the United States. Unfortunately, we very often experience such interference in elections in different countries on the part of the European Parliament or the European Commission. I am glad that from various countries, including German voices, French voices are resounding here, because this year we have heard too many bad words, and this is from the German side, which wants to limit its contribution to NATO, or we have heard the words of the French president, who distances himself from the United States or NATO. This is a warning for us, because more important are all the issues that unite us, not those that divide us. At the same time, I do not hide that we are worried in Poland, because the foreign minister will be a man who was on the lips of all Russia and was on all stripes on Russian television. When Nord Stream 2 was destroyed, he tweeted that he thanked the United States. At the same time, in Poland, we know him from vulgar, café discussions about the fact that we cooperate too strongly with the United States. I hope that the European Parliament, the European Commission will be able to watch over Radosław Sikorski, who until recently was an MEP, with us.

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Dec

2023

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

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 Ukraine, secondly, to make it a country where there will be good, clean, drinking water. And it will indicate the funds and opportunities to be able to save the environment. Without specifics, without plans, we will only have appeals. We can't win a war like this.

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Nov

2023

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

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 actions. What I've been missing over the past five years is this whole system analysis. Because it is not enough to provide data on the scale. We need information on how education works, how social welfare works, how the justice system works, why it does not work in different systems. We live in the 21st century. Women are enlightened, educated. They know their worth. I want to show an example of such an action, because here we were able to agree cross-party in Poland. There are rules already in place. There are others that, for example, ruthlessly and immediately separate the persecutor from the woman. According to these provisions, a person who engages in physical violence and poses a threat to the life or health of his household must, by decision of the police, leave the apartment without delay. He is also banned from approaching his home for 14 days, and the courts have the tools to hear the case more quickly. Indeed, the Police and Military Gendarmerie were given new powers. In addition, a person who has been subjected to violence is considered to be in particular trauma. Therefore, he needs special care, even during the interrogation. And this is what we offer to Polish women. I want it to look like this all over Europe. Here we are together. There is no division.

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Nov

2023

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Packaging and packaging waste (debate)

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 that the economy really closes down. And suddenly there are solutions that say that we will deal with plastic that no one can dispose of anymore. It is necessary to amend Articles 22, 26, as well as those articles that delegate or allow the Commission to delegated acts, in addition designed in such a way that, say, the Commission has until the end of December for such a delegated act, and from the first of January of the following year these provisions are to apply. This is not how the economy is constructed. Let's be responsible for the people, let's improve this document during the votes.

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Nov

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Union certification framework for carbon removals

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, foresters are interested, because they will perform all sorts of activities that they will do anyway, and they will get money for it. Unfortunately, if we do not link this system to the ETS, that is, we do not reduce the purchase of allowances by just buying carbon capture and removal certificates, then we will simply create ETS 3, which will absolutely function on the market without any control. That bodes badly. I hope that during the next work we will be able to work out secure documents.

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Nov

2023

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

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.

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Oct

2023

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A true geopolitical Europe now (topical debate)

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 of terrorism around the world. It must ensure energy security, so that future generations do not fall into energy poverty, and remember that when thinking about renewable energy, it cannot become dependent on the whole world, especially China. This is the report from a few weeks ago. Finally, it must ensure food security. You cannot give in to oligarchs who trade in Ukrainian grain, among other things. It is important to ensure that Europeans feel safe so that individual Member States can independently take decisions together and in line with the European Union.

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Oct

2023

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Commission Work Programme 2024 (debate)

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 would like the Commission to choose the most important ones, the ones that it is able to finish together with the European Parliament. Besides, you have to look for money. The budget lacks 65 billion euros. Without this, the implementation of any ideas will absolutely not be possible. Third, we need to think about safety. We really cannot stand before the Europeans and say that here we are in a bubble and the outside world does not concern us. As the war goes on, so it goes on. There is no way to end it. It is uneasy in Israel. And today, as we started a minute of silence – to honour the memory of the killed Swedish supporters – there is no reflection on how we will ensure the safety of Europeans. How we will deal with illegal migration. We want to make all the mistakes we made in 2014, in 2015. Security is also energy security. It has to resonate here. Energy prices have calmed down a bit, but you know that they will explode again, all the more so because the European Commission wants all shields and support for those at risk of energy poverty to disappear. This is a challenge for the European Commission and Europeans need to hear about it, because we in the elections to the European Parliament will absolutely confess it. And, of course, the Green Deal must be taken seriously. I don't know if you hear jokes about how the package Fit for 55 it is a package to make China richer, as Commissioner von der Leyen also said in her report, showing that we are just ending our independence from Russia and we are absolutely becoming dependent on China. These are the most important events, the priorities that the Commission must think about.

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Sep

2023

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Ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. Commissioner, my fellow Members! Unfortunately, this document is impossible to implement. I know, the WHO gives guidelines and we make it a legal basis. When I ask what studies these guidelines are based on, I don't get an answer. In addition, it is an institution that has been almost privatized for a long time. But it's on a different subject, on a different circumstance. It is a document that primarily wants to punish member states. I understand, the Commission does not have dramatic money, it needs that money, but it wants to punish citizens, and in addition, it puts one citizen against another, because it allows him to report. Can you imagine a senior woman who will burn wood in a fireplace and be accused under this document? Therefore, we want to take care of cleanliness, air quality, we do a lot, every member country, the European Union as well. But we must be cautious, prudent and, above all, find sources of financing for all the investments needed to implement this document. Unfortunately, in the systems of the Member States, in the systems of the European Union, this money simply does not exist.

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Sep

2023

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Towards a more disaster-resilient EU - protecting people from extreme heatwaves, floods and forest fires (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. We will not give our lives to anyone. The sufferings of those who have lost the wealth and achievements of their entire lives, we probably cannot understand, but we can act here and act in the future. Here, it is simply a need for solidarity and money to rebuild this property, to rebuild infrastructure, to make plans, including infrastructure, for the future. We also need to do a thorough analysis. I would like to remind you that in many countries there are ongoing investigations concerning, among others, fires. Here, the slogans related to climate change are not enough, because very often it is human action. We also need to reevaluate, I think, the Green Deal and the package. ‘Fit for 55’. Because, in general, we no longer have money in the system. The European Union alone is short of 65 billion euros, and money for sewage, water supply, fire protection, deconcrete of our cities and concreted streets costs a lot of money. We need farmers here and now, five years from now and ten years from now.