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RO Written Statement

Farm to Fork Strategy (debate)

The Green Deal revolution is vital in the European Union's fight against climate change. But neither the Green Deal as a whole nor its related strategies should be settled out of the pockets of Europeans. I support the principles on which the Farm to Fork Strategy is based, but only if the diversity of agricultural systems in each Member State is taken into account. Romanian food producers are mak…

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EN Written Statement

European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund (debate)

I welcome the outcome of the negotiations on the European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund, and that we will be able to support the renewal of generations of fishermen from the Black Sea, and create the premises for a sustainable development of the fisheries and aquaculture sector in Europe, and implicitly in Romania. The regulation I voted today will help the fisheries sector to adapt the…

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Feb

2024

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Need to fight the increase of antisemitism and anti-Muslim hatred (debate)

Madam President, antisemitism is a virus that has not been wiped out in time, it has infected the value system on which the European Union is founded. He uses every breach, every event, every means to contaminate the masses. And the statements of some officials, strangely reserved in condemning the October 7 massacre, only spread the disease. But the latest explosion of anti-Semitism has already c…

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Feb

2024

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Empowering farmers and rural communities - a dialogue towards sustainable and fairly rewarded EU agriculture (debate)

Madam President, there is an interesting word in the title of today's debate: fair. I would like to ask the committee what it thinks is fair in the following example: in a single year, the value of cereal production in the EU decreased by almost 30%. What is the Commission doing? It comes with a derogation, so-called savior, which obliges farmers to double the area subject to new environmental con…

6

Feb

2024

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Water crisis and droughts in the EU as a consequence of the global climate crisis and the need for a sustainable, resilient water strategy for Europe (debate)

Mr President, we are again discussing the water crisis, although the Commission remains suspiciously superficial in its approach. Last proof: the derogation given for fallow land whereby farmers have to set up catch crops. If he had been thoroughly informed, the Commission would have found out that this could not be done. At the time of those crops, that is, in the summer, it does not rain much. I…

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Jan

2024

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Implementation of the Common Fisheries Policy and future perspectives (debate)

Mr President, in this mandate, much has been said about how harmful fishing is to the environment and far too little about the fact that he and aquaculture are not only the cleanest source of animal protein available to us, but also a powerful weapon in the fight against climate change. In order to use it effectively, however, the sector needs a proper overhaul that gives it the strength to overco…

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Sep

2023

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Improving firefighters’ working conditions (debate)

Madam President, this debate is also a tribute to people who are fearless, generous and rarely ask for anything for themselves. People on whom in the new climate reality our lives will depend, as in the pandemic it depended on health professionals. People who rekindle a sense of solidarity when the rest of us forget. This year, for example, Romanian firefighters have divided their missions between…

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Sep

2023

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Reviewing the protection status of wolves and other large carnivores in the EU (topical debate)

Madam President, a brown bear walks freely for a month on the streets of a city of two hundred thousand people. Locals call him Rambo and follow the adventures with interest until the bear is caught. It happened in August, near the capital Bucharest, where, if he wanted, Rambo could arrive in just two days' walk. Romania holds the European record for the number of bears. Their interaction with hum…

12

Sep

2023

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Ukrainian grain exports after Russia’s exit from the Black Sea Grain Initiative (debate)

Madam President, a few dates. For a year and a half, Ukraine has been losing ground in its traditional markets in Africa, the Middle East and Asia, because Ukrainian grain is being bought massively in Europe. Russia is gradually and aggressively occupying these markets, this year announcing a record grain export of 48 million tons. Meanwhile, the situation of Romanian farmers is as follows: 45% no…

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Sep

2023

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Renewable Energy Directive (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, I want to welcome the outcome of the interinstitutional negotiations, mainly because it gives flexibility to Member States in adapting the energy mix to national needs, and I refer in particular to woody biomass, which in a country with important resources of this kind, such as Romania, my country, for example, must find its place in a sustainable energy mix, aligned…

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Jul

2023

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Systematically, the European Commission tells us how important it is to ensure the Union's food security. And also systematically, the Commission makes proposals and communications that defy logic and put this security at risk. For example, in the recent 227-page supplement to the Impact Assessment of the Pesticides Regulation, the Commission dismantles all studies from academia or associations on…

15

Jun

2023

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The water crisis in Europe (debate)

Madam President, two days ago we were talking here about food security. Today we are talking about the main element that ensures this security, water. However, the European water crisis is not only driven by climate change and lack of investment, but also, at times, by the strange arithmetic of the European Commission. For example, my country, Romania, has the sixth largest utilised agricultural a…

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Jun

2023

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Ensuring food security and the long-term resilience of EU agriculture (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, we cannot demand the same level of ambitions, but to endlessly fuel a two-speed Europe, where farmers had and still have different starting points. We cannot use the word solidarity in every debate in plenary, but we ignore the rights and requirements of farmers in Member States such as Romania, my country, and Poland, your country, Commissioner, when they, the farme…

12

Jun

2023

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Madam President, the pandemic and the war in Ukraine seemed to have put solidarity back on the European and global agenda. But I note that in the case of the European Union it was only a phase, because, although externally it shows solidarity towards partners, inside it continues to be crushed by attitudes that prove the opposite, such as: the Commission's inability to unlock the money due to East…

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May

2023

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Prohibiting chick and duckling killing in EU law (debate)

Madam President, Mr Vice-President, it is astounding to me that, while humanity in general, and Europeans in particular, have reached such a high level of development and sophistication in all respects of life, we are only here now debating the question of the barbarism underlying the killing of day-old chicks in breeders. We, who talk about rights and sentient beings and create increasingly harsh…

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May

2023

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Towards a strong and sustainable EU algae sector (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, I welcome the communication on the algae sector and the timetable proposed by the Commission for its development. Perhaps we should have had this debate many years ago, so that today we can already see the concrete results. With a war on the EU's border, a real threat to food security and a race to decarbonise, algae exploitation has become a real and immediate necessit…

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May

2023

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Protecting and restoring marine ecosystems for sustainable and resilient fisheries - Agreement of the IGC on Marine Biodiversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (High Seas Treaty) (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, as you can see, as it is conceived, the strategy to protect and restore the marine ecosystem raises a lot of concern in some Member States, Romania included, because the Commission is telling us that the recommendations in the action plan could become legislation, and for my country this could mean the end of fishing. Due to the war, the amount of fish harvested in the …

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May

2023

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Ukrainian cereals on the European market (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, I appreciate the Commission's measures, which allow Eastern European farmers affected by massive imports of Ukrainian grain to take a month's breath. Of course, it would have been even better if the strategy had been designed from the outset so as not to unbalance the single market and to help both Ukrainian producers and producers in Romania, Poland, Bulgaria, the C…

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May

2023

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The role of farmers as enablers of the green transition and a resilient agricultural sector (continuation of debate)

Mr President, in 2019, the President of the Commission was announcing the new Green Deal. Aim of the strategy: noble, the objectives: Including farmers. Four years later, however, we see a weakened European agricultural sector. Under the cumulative impact of conditions and events, farmers find that they have to bear much of the burden of transformation and that, although weakened and constantly lo…

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May

2023

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Schools scheme for fruit, vegetables, milk and dairy products (short presentation)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, as rapporteur, I am addressing today in the plenary of the European Parliament not only the 76 million pupils of the European Union, their families and teachers, but above all the authorities in the Union, to whom I am asking for even more attention and more responsibility in spending the budget of almost one and a half billion euros allocated to o…

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Mar

2023

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Mr President, if the representatives of the Commission have followed the recent news about the turbulence in the European agricultural sector, I hope they understand that it is time to decide. Do they still want European food and strong farmers, or do they want to eliminate both to put on our menu imported food that violates most of the rules set by Brussels in the last 60 years? The cacophony of …

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Mar

2023

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European Citizens’ Initiative "Save bees and farmers! Towards a bee-friendly agriculture for a healthy environment" (debate)

Mr President, I welcome this citizens' initiative and the over one million signatories alarmed by the disappearance of pollinators, and I think it is the perfect time to talk about the incoherence of the European executive. For example, it proposes nature restoration legislation to combat the decline of pollinators, even as it prepares the ratification, at all costs, of the largest trade agreement…

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Mar

2023

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The challenges facing the Republic of Moldova (debate)

Mr. President, the situation in the Republic of Moldova is worrying. I saw the mark of evil recently, when I was in Chisinau, and I see it more and more often on the news. Our partner urgently needs substantial support from Brussels. The seed of conflict is sown in Moldova according to the well-known pattern: destabilizing actions are increasing, pro-Russian groups are reactivating, the scenes in …

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Feb

2023

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Availability of fertilisers in the EU (debate)

Mr President, we have reached the moment of balance and we realize that we have made a mistake, creating a dangerous dependence on only a few fertiliser producers. Today we do not have much choice to get out of the crisis quickly, because we have sanctioned the producers on which we rely exclusively, Russia and Belarus, and we are in the hands of others, who have intentionally reduced their export…

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Jan

2023

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Small-scale fisheries situation in the EU and future perspectives (debate)

Madam President, traditional fishing in the Black Sea is also threatened with extinction. On the Romanian coast, as in the Danube Delta, only a few fishermen still use ancient techniques today, trying to keep this activity alive and ensure the livelihood of their families and communities. But this way of survival in perfect harmony with the environment is becoming more and more complicated. It is …