What Carmen spoke about.

20

Jan

2022

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Protection of animals during transport - Protection of animals during transport (Recommendation) (debate)

Madam President, a committee that started as a discussion about the shortcomings of outdated legislation has unnaturally become a heated debate on the ban on the transport of live animals in the European Union. The fact that a balanced compromise has been achieved is a result that many would not have expected in the 18 months of work. That was all it took to come to the conclusion that the farmer …

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Nov

2021

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International ports’ congestions and increased transport costs affecting the EU (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, the crisis in the world's ports, which could have been anticipated to some extent, has triggered a historic economic tsunami, and this devastating wave has hit the territory of the European Union already shaken by the effects of the pandemic. We all see the consequence: Shelves are filling harder, factories have massive delays in deliveries due to microchips that arrive…

23

Nov

2021

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Common agricultural policy - support for strategic plans to be drawn up by Member States and financed by the EAGF and by the EAFRD - Common agricultural policy: financing, management and monitoring - Common agricultural policy – amendment of the CMO and other regulations (debate)

Mr President, it is clear that few in the European Parliament are enthusiastic today about this new common agricultural policy. Some because they consider it too green, others because they anticipate the challenges that millions of farmers and hundreds of millions of consumers will face. But I think that after three years of basically downplaying their voice, we've come to the point where we final…

10

Nov

2021

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Mr President, our citizens have recently learned that a new danger awaits them: Possible collapse of power grids. In Eastern Europe, very vulnerable to the prospect of a prolonged blackout, the warning created agitation and even panic. Many began to make supplies and buy generators. Such an event, we are told, could occur in the near future, perhaps even this winter in some states, and specialists…

6

Oct

2021

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European solutions to the rise of energy prices for businesses and consumers: the role of energy efficiency and renewable energy and the need to tackle energy poverty (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, my country is now experiencing the ‘perfect storm’. The health and energy crises have triggered a political crisis and, more seriously, an unprecedented social crisis. Overnight, millions of Romanians received energy bills of 10-20 and in some cases hallucinatory 100 times higher. Many will end up in the inhumane situation of choosing between fo…

5

Oct

2021

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The situation in Belarus after one year of protests and their violent repression (debate)

Mr President, for over a year we have been counting the deaths, political prisoners, tortured, disappeared and exiled from Europe's last dictatorship, and the sanctions against Belarus are running with little effect: The independent press has disappeared, human rights are deteriorating, Europe is the target of a hybrid threat, and under Putin's pulpit, Lukashenko is preparing his new constitution,…

15

Sep

2021

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EU contribution to transforming global food systems to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, we are talking about how the Union's strategies and its farmers could become a model for the wider world. It's just that, after we imposed strict rules on them, we left them to fend for themselves in the pandemic, when we were on the brink of the food crisis, we do so now, when they are struggling to put on the table the same cheap, sustainably produced food, under the …