What Gheorghe spoke about.

6 Oct

2026

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The state of play of advancing EU-Africa trade and investment relations (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the European Union is already investing in the economic relationship with Africa, and African states taken together are our fourth trading partner. But, dear colleagues, the investment value of the European Union is far below what it invests in Africa, China or the US, and we have an obligation to increase the value that the European Union provides for invest…

17 Sep

2026

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An EU health workforce crisis plan: sustainability of healthcare systems and employment and working conditions in the healthcare sector (debate)

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15 Sep

2026

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Presentation of the Fair Labour Mobility Package (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I have read the testimony of a young woman who works every summer in tourism in another state. He wants to go to college to have a better life. The young woman said (and I want everyone to listen): “They hire us because we are cheaper.” Behind these words are tens or hundreds of thousands of Europeans. Some are banned from pay, penalized, housed in…

7 Jul

2026

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2025 Commission report on Moldova (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, today we are not just deciding on the European path of the Republic of Moldova. We also decide how credible the European Union is when a people assumes our values and has the courage to defend them. The Republic of Moldova does not ask for favors. It comes with reforms, sacrifices and democratic choice reaffirmed by its citizens. It comes with dign…

18 Jun

2026

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Circularity requirements for vehicle design and management of end-of-life vehicles (debate)

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17 Jun

2026

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The resilience of the European transport sector and the need to ensure the supply of essential goods amid ongoing geopolitical instability (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, dear colleagues, resilience in transport is for all of us a supreme test of European sovereignty. When air routes are disrupted and fuel supplies become uncertain, what is at stake is Europe's ability to function as a true unit and with independence in times of crisis. The crisis we are experiencing is not due to Europe, but Europe has a duty to manage this crisis for t…

28 Apr

2026

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Joint debate - Discharge 2024 (joint debate)

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Mr President, dear colleagues, as rapporteur for the opinion of the TRAN Committee, I support the granting of discharge and send a clear message: budgetary performance must go hand in hand with efficiency and European added value. I saw a solid budget execution in transport, strong investments through the Connecting Europe Facility and progress for the cross-border transport network, then military…

12 Mar

2026

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Activities of the European Ombudsman – annual report 2024 (debate)

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Madam President, dear colleagues, citizens' trust in the European institutions depends not only on the decisions we take, but also on how those decisions are prepared, explained and implemented. Transparency, accountability and good administration are essential for the credibility of the European Union. That is why I would like to welcome the presentation of the 2024 Annual Report of the …

21 Oct

2025

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General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sections (debate)

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Madam President, dear colleagues, as rapporteur from the Committee on Transport and Tourism for the 2026 budget, I am interested in transport capacity and increased logistical capacity for the better functioning of the internal market, but also for the support of poor and peripheral regions. At the same time, I am interested in European security and I appreciate the fact that the European Commissi…

17 Jun

2025

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Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience Facility (debate)

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Madam President, dear colleagues, I welcome this important report and congratulate my fellow rapporteurs on their professionalism and balance. It was a joint effort that shows that we can build development support together in Europe in times of crisis. The Recovery and Resilience Facility was and is intended to be a success story, but it is precisely to protect success that we need realism. As a p…

6 May

2025

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Discharge 2023 (joint debate)

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Mr President, dear colleagues, the discharge process is not a mere formality. This is how we reaffirm the fundamental principle of our Union: responsibility towards citizens and public money. We have a duty to ensure that every euro in the European budget is built transparently, legally and with real impact. In particular, we need to focus on investment in military transport and mobility infrastru…

11 Feb

2025

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Boosting vocational education and training in times of labour market transitions (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, dear colleagues, the European Union is experiencing a period of accelerated economic transition, marked by digitalisation, automation and the green transition. These changes are not only challenges, and they are many and real, but also opportunities. So if we invest smartly in education and training, we can have an increase in skills in our society. What do we propos…

22 Oct

2024

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General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sections (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, dear colleagues, first of all I want to say that we have worked very well with the rapporteurs. We have a common thinking in the European Parliament and I am glad that the Committee on Transport can say that we have achieved our objectives. We were interested in discussing mobility a lot in the last part, both in terms of urban mobility and in terms of transport, road a…

17 Sep

2024

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State of the Energy union (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, the Draghi report has shown us how vulnerable we are in terms of energy. This is why we need solidarity, but also a global strategy. In the face of the energy crisis generated by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, it is imperative to work together, to support each other, especially between the states to the west and east of the European Union. Romania, a country on the bo…

27 Feb

2024

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Driving licences (debate)

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Madam President, dear colleagues, the parliamentary mission is to find solutions, not complicated, but simple, to the problems facing society. A major problem for the European Union is the lack of professional truck and bus drivers, with an estimated shortage of half a million employees. Only in my country, Romania, the deficit is over 30,000 people, that's also because many of the professional dr…

5 Feb

2024

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Measures for a high level of public sector interoperability across the Union (Interoperable Europe Act) (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, dear colleagues, as rapporteur on behalf of the EPP, I welcome the result that I have reached with my fellow rapporteurs on this regulation. This is another important step towards achieving a European digital space, but also towards strengthening European leadership in this area. We all want modern, future-proof, efficient and low-cost administrations for everything in …

3 Oct

2023

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Recent developments in the Serbia-Kosovo dialogue, including the situation in the northern municipalities in Kosovo (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Europe cannot and does not want us in the Balkans, and nowhere else, to have conflicts like in Pakistan, as we see in Nagorno-Karabakh or Kyrgyzstan. The reality, as I see it, is that without concrete and decisive action by the European Union, the violence in that region will last for years. This conflict in the region benefits Putin. He wants ther…

3 Oct

2023

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Corrupt large-scale sale of Schengen visas (debate)

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Mr President, Mr Vice-President, ladies and gentlemen, the recent revelations and the visa scandal for bribery money granted by some consulates in Poland show us two things. The first is that the Schengen area must be modernised, supported with confidence by all the countries of the European Union, and violations must be sanctioned. The Polish government will, of course, have to respond clearly to…

11 Jul

2023

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Accession to the Schengen area (short presentation)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I have the honour to present the motion for a resolution on Romania's and Bulgaria's access to the Schengen area, adopted unanimously by the Committee on Petitions. The excellent collaboration between rapporteur Dolors Montserrat and all shadow rapporteurs resulted in a bold and firm text. Ladies and gentlemen, unfortunately, for over 12 years, Romania and Bulga…

18 Apr

2023

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Energy storage (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, dear colleagues, there is probably no greater priority at this time at European Union level than ensuring full and common energy independence from the Russian Federation. I would like to stress that this independence will either be common or it will not be at all. As long as some states, for whatever reason and whatever reason, whether large or small, choose to exten…

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, Commissioner, dear colleagues, I would like to bring two ideas to your attention today: ideas that I think we have a duty to worry about every day. The first is based on the basic principle of the European Union with regard to the free movement of persons and goods. In the movement of goods, we have seen that we have not done everything, today massively polluting the borders of count…

14 Mar

2023

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European Semester for economic policy coordination 2023 - European Semester for economic policy coordination: Employment and social priorities for 2023 (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, dear colleagues, I would like to point out a few points which, in my opinion, need to be addressed urgently and which are in line with the dozens of discussions that we have had lately with European citizens in Romania and elsewhere. People expect concrete results from the European Union to help them live better. But today we have a pandemic that affected them, we ha…

13 Mar

2023

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Energy performance of buildings (recast) (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, dear colleagues, when it comes to energy efficiency in new buildings, we can say that we have a positive direction, we are changing design standards and we can have good energy efficiency. Moreover, we can even think of a design of what the energy independence of these buildings means. When we talk about the energy efficiency of old buildings, I can tell you, from my…

14 Feb

2023

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Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence: EU accession (continuation of debate)

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Mr President, dear colleagues, I speak to you as the father of a wonderful daughter, who, like your daughters, I wish to live in a world where she is respected as a man, where she is treated equally and where she is never discriminated against for the kind she was born with and where she does not fall victim to violence of any kind. In this spirit and with these thoughts I say it firmly: The Commi…

14 Dec

2022

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Defending democracy from foreign interference (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Russia's action against European democracies cannot happen without support from within. Russia finances politicians, journalists, NGOs and parties in the European Union. It is a fact that the fight against nuclear energy, for example, has had the effect of increasing our dependence on Russian gas. Moscow's voice is constantly and aggressively heard…