What Ioan-Rareş spoke about.

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Dec

2022

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 15 December 2022 (debate)

Your Excellencies, the members of the Council have the chance to repair tomorrow the misery made to Romania by blocking the accession to Schengen. Otherwise, they'll do Chancellor Karl Nehammer a favor. Austria's chancellor risks losing his country's elections because the wave of antipathy sparked by Romania's blockade can turn into a boomerang in the January elections. Austrian companies present …

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Dec

2022

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The recent JHA Council decision on Schengen accession (debate)

Thank you for what you say, Mr Tomac, and I assure you that the Government of our country will do this because it is the most serious injustice in the last 70 years that has happened to Romania and this will be sanctioned, and Austria will bear the consequences.…

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Dec

2022

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The recent JHA Council decision on Schengen accession (debate)

Mr President, I come before you after Austria has voted against Europe. This vote humiliated Romania and holds millions of Romanians hostage. Austria's vote defies Article 2 of the Treaty on European Union, which says the rule of law is a fundamental value. Hungary has its money blocked due to breaches of the rule of law. Austria, no, not yet, although Chancellor Nehammer has a pronounced illibera…

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Nov

2022

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 20-21 October 2022 (debate)

Thank you, thank you very much. I will respond with full openness. I think that first of all they need to understand the need for investment in the areas neighbouring the eastern area, and first of all this is about the area of Romania, Poland, the Baltic countries, also Slovakia and, of course, the Republic of Moldova. And I also believe extremely seriously that the Commission should be extremely…

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Nov

2022

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 20-21 October 2022 (debate)

Madam President, Your Excellencies, I welcome the Council's desire to combat Russia's information war. In this regard, I would like to inform you that the Kremlin has activated the poisoned messages during the pandemic. For Putin, my country, Romania, is a huge stake, because he needs Eurosceptics to gain ground on the border of the European Union. Therefore, any delay in Romania's accession to Sc…

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Oct

2022

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Whitewashing of the anti-European extreme right in the EU (topical debate)

Your excellency, racist, anti-minority, anti-European and pro-Putinist discourse did not emerge from the pandemic and inflation. The pandemic and the energy bill were just the drop that filled the glass in this anti-European war. If we know how to talk to citizens, the far right will only grow in the short term. I'm worried about something else. The far right is sometimes accepted in political dia…

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Oct

2022

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Continued internal border controls in the Schengen area in light of the recent ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union (C-368/20) (debate)

Mr President, your excellency, distinguished Commissioner Ylva Johansson, the Romanians have sent me here, and they know best what it is like to stand at the Schengen door, despite the rules that would allow you to travel without restrictions. My country, Romania, has been humiliated and wronged for 11 years. Whatever decision we take, whatever topic we have on the table, the interest of the citiz…

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Oct

2022

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The accession of Romania and Bulgaria to the Schengen area (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner Schinas, Minister Bek, for 11 years, two European countries that Romanians treat with respect, systematically humiliate them, blocking their accession to Schengen. And this, although their companies have huge businesses in Romania and own a large part of the banking and insurance system. Romania has always treated its partners with respect. What more do we need to do …

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Sep

2022

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State of the Union (debate)

Madam President, Your Excellencies, I come before you as a representative of one of the countries most attached to European values and the European family. Out of solidarity and real European spirit, Romania helped Ukrainians and Syrians fleeing the war. In the name of solidarity, trucks and trains loaded with grain from Ukraine, which are about to reach the Western countries, cross Romania daily,…

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Jul

2022

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Presentation of the programme of activities of the Czech Presidency (continuation of debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Your Excellency, the Czech Republic has been a member of the European Union since May 2004 and since December 2007 a member of Schengen. Václav Havel, the great politician, said that, in general, oil should not be more important than human rights or the rights of nations. Romania has been a member of the European Union since January 2007, and four years later…

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Jun

2022

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Conclusions of the special European Council meeting of 30-31 May 2022 (debate)

Mr President, your excellencies, every package of sanctions against Russia announced by the European institutions is presented as ‘unprecedented’ and is meant to put pressure on Putin, but this antichrist resists. Every import of hydrocarbons from Russia to the countries of the European Union supplies the daily war machine of the Kremlin with 800 million euros, which must stop. It's unacceptable. …

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Apr

2022

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 24-25 March 2022: including the latest developments of the war against Ukraine and the EU sanctions against Russia and their implementation (debate)

Your Excellencies, I begin by congratulating Roberta Metsola on her courageous journey to Kiev. I'm leaning! He has laundered the honour of Parliament! At the time when the European Council presented its conclusions, we did not imagine that the Bucha massacre would take place. But the barbarity of Putin and his generals is always breaking records and paralyzing us. Well, that's exactly what we can…

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Jan

2022

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Presentation of the programme of activities of the French Presidency (debate)

Madam President, your excellency, Mr President of France, your excellency, I begin by saying loudly that Romania owes enormously to France since the 19th century, from historians Edgar Quinet and Jules Michelet, friends and supporters of Romania, to Napoleon III, without whom we would not have a dynasty. Without France, the modernity and modernization of Romania would have lasted longer. We are gr…

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Dec

2021

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The European Commission Guidelines on inclusive language (topical debate)

This debate is very important, Manfred, congratulations. Madam President, your excellences, for 500 years, every day, at 12 o'clock, in all the Catholic churches in the world ring the bells in honor of the Romanian prince Iancu de Hunedoara. This was the result of a papal bull, through which the strategy of genius was praised, which ensured the victory of Christendom against Mehmed II, the conquer…