What Cristian spoke about.

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EN Written Statement

The threat of war crimes, the escalating violations of international humanitarian law and the human rights situation in El-Obeid, Sudan

The resolution on the El-Obeid humanitarian catastrophe has been used by the left-wing and progressive groups in the European Parliament to attack the United Arab Emirates, instead of focusing strictly on resolving the humanitarian crisis in Sudan. This approach is even more problematic as the resolution ignores the role of actual malign actors, like Russia, Iran, and others, whose actions have co…

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RO Written Statement

Protecting citizens' right to make cash payments and ensuring financial inclusion (debate)

17 Sep

2026

EN Speech

Strengthening global health resilience in partner countries (debate)

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Madam President, I say to the Commissioner, when you put together vaccines with profits, you open the Pandora's box, and this Pandora's box was opened in Europe during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. You claim that when we talk about vaccines, we need to base our decisions on evidence. I remind you that, in this plenary, your predecessors stated that we need to approve these vaccines. I voted agains…

17 Sep

2026

RO Speech

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

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Madam President, Commissioner, as you know, medical care is a primary competence of the Member States. The role of the European Commission is to support states in delivering this healthcare, not to replace this competence. The report we are talking about here lists a number of problems that the medical system in the Member States of the European Union has. However, the solutions provided do not so…

17 Sep

2026

EN Question

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

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Since you mentioned the name of my country, Romania, I have to reply to what you said. The reason why many doctors from Romania had to leave my country is because the European Commission forced, at one point, the Romanian Government to close down on many beds in hospitals. Tens of thousands of beds were removed from hospitals, and because of that, many doctors did not have jobs, surprisingly. We s…

16 Sep

2026

RO Speech

Defence readiness and facilitating defence investments and conditions for the defence industry (Omnibus V) (A10-0273/2025 - Sven Mikser, Pierfrancesco Maran, Aura Salla)

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Madam President, I voted in favour of this report because Europe can, and must, produce for its own defence, faster and more for its own defence. But we have a problem: on the one hand, the Commissioner for Defence comes and proposes this kind of Omnibus, to amend laws to improve everything that defence production means, on the other hand, Ursula von der Leyen and other Commissioners come up with …

16 Sep

2026

EN Question

State of the Union (debate)

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You talked in your speech about, and I quote, affordable housing. The question is why the houses in Europe right now are not affordable. The policies that your group is promoting – policies that are coming from Ursula von der Leyen and her Commission – are making the prices in Europe of everything higher. So what is your solution? Affordable pricing is just a statement. What exactly is your group …

15 Sep

2026

RO Speech

Market stability reserve for the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS): ceasing the invalidation of allowances (A10-0230/2026 - Pierfrancesco Maran)

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Mr President, I voted against ETS2 or the EU’s greenhouse gas emissions trading scheme, as this measure promoted by Ursula von der Leyen is robbing Romanians and Europeans. ETS2 puts a price on carbon for heating gas and for gasoline and diesel, which will lead to another wave of price increases. The gas bill will rise, all products will be expensive because they require transport, and the daily j…

15 Sep

2026

RO Speech

Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: extension of its scope to downstream goods and anti-circumvention measures (A10-0201/2026 - Mohammed Chahim)

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Mr President, I voted categorically against CBAM, the European Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, as it is a surcharge that will further increase production costs in Europe, weakening the European economy and competitiveness, with a direct effect on the impoverishment of the population. This CBAM increases the cost of steel, cement, aluminium and fertilisers. Costs fall on the industry, on the fa…

15 Sep

2026

EN Speech

Escalation in the Middle East (debate)

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Mr President, Madam Commissioner, I was expecting from you to come here today and present all of us a solution, because there is a saying that you are either part of the solution or part of the problem, and you just presented here your opinions about certain things that are happening, but not solutions. The title of this debate is 'Escalation in the Middle East' and out of the many problems in the…

15 Sep

2026

RO Speech

Defence (joint debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, I congratulate you on what you are trying to do and promote at European Union level. For someone like Putin, however, if he sits and listens to the debates in this House on the occasion of various draft laws, he can only laugh. Because in this debate come a series of MEPs and say that we need to move and increase production on defense in Europe, but, on the other hand, …

15 Sep

2026

EN Speech

Defence (joint debate)

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Well, I know that for you and for many of you on the right side of the political aisle, it is very easy to juggle different arguments. The problem is that the European businesses have to juggle at the same time hundreds of pages of legislation that you guys are passing, and many of these companies are leaving Europe. The price of aluminium is going to go up. How are we going to build aeroplanes if…

15 Sep

2026

EN Question

Defence (joint debate)

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Thank you so much for taking my blue card. Finally, somebody has the courage to face the debate. You were mentioning that, and I quote, we need to produce more in Europe, end quote. The problem is that your group and the other groups on the wrong side of the aisle are promoting the other projects that we just voted on today: higher taxes, CBAM, ETS2. All of those are increasing the costs of produc…

15 Sep

2026

EN Speech

Hybrid attacks against the EU Member States (joint debate)

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Mr President, dear colleagues, dear Commissioner, the most sophisticated form of malign interference is not forcing people to act, but making them believe that the decision they are making is entirely their own. This is, in essence, what the reflexive control does. It is a concept developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. It shapes the information environment in a society through an adver…

15 Sep

2026

RO Answer

Findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield (debate)

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Indeed, the questions raised by Mrs. Sosoaca are extremely serious and require answers in the Romanian society, both from the Romanian state institutions and from the European Commission. And because we are talking about the European Commission, we have a Commissioner here. What did you discuss, Commissioner, with the current dismissed Prime Minister of Romania regarding the suspension of the Euro…

15 Sep

2026

RO Speech

Findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield (debate)

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Madam President, dear colleagues, the report of the Special Committee on the European Shield for Democracy could have been a reference report made professionally and balanced, but it is not. The report has many good parts, but overall it is highly ideological and ignores very serious issues, such as reflexive control and the cognitive war already waged by Russia against Europe. Under the pretext o…

14 Sep

2026

RO Speech

One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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14 Sep

2026

EN Speech

Government crackdown on the LGBTIQ+ Community in Türkiye: Türkiye’s compliance with its international commitments on non-discrimination (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, I expected to hear from you references to international law when you defended these people that were abused by Erdoğan's regime. But the whole argument that we are hearing here is about LGBTQI+ – I just want to make sure that I say all these acronyms. (In response to comments from a Member) I'll get to that. If you really want to pressure the Turkish Government, make…

14 Sep

2026

RO Speech

Establishing the Union Customs Code and the European Union Customs Authority (debate)

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14 Sep

2026

EN Speech

Public Procurement Act (debate)

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Madam President, I think that the European Commission, before lecturing us on the Public Procurement Act, should lead by example. In 2020‑2021, the current President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, signed contracts with different pharmaceutical companies worth EUR 71 billion to purchase, and I quote, '4.6 billion doses of vaccines for the Europeans'. We are 450 million people in …

14 Sep

2026

EN Speech

Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: extension of its scope to downstream goods and anti-circumvention measures - Establishing the Temporary Decarbonisation Fund - Market stability reserve for the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS): ceasing the invalidation of allowances

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Madam President, Mr Commissioner, this Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism is a way to actually promote a social engineering scheme that Ursula von der Leyen mentioned in this plenary in 2019. She said, and I quote, 'Carbon emissions must have a price that will change our behaviour'. So I am asking you what kind of behaviour do you want to change in Europe? Because clearly what you guys are proposi…

14 Sep

2026

EN Speech

Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: extension of its scope to downstream goods and anti-circumvention measures - Establishing the Temporary Decarbonisation Fund - Market stability reserve for the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS): ceasing the invalidation of allowances

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This is exactly the reason why the price of energy in Romania is higher, because a lot of insane politicians in Romania believe exactly what you are saying: that we should destroy our coal power plants, close down hydroelectric power plants and move on renewables. The problem is this: what do you do if there's no sun, if there's no wind and if there's no water? This is the reason why the Romanians…

14 Sep

2026

EN Question

Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: extension of its scope to downstream goods and anti-circumvention measures - Establishing the Temporary Decarbonisation Fund - Market stability reserve for the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS): ceasing the invalidation of allowances

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You claim that the conservatives are wrong we we say that CBAM or ETS are jamming and destroying our economy. But please, explain to us: who else in the world – and in their right mind – is applying schemes that they claim are working in the EU? Show me one country – not many countries – another country outside of the EU that applied something they are claiming is being applied in the EU which is …

9 Jul

2026

RO Speech

Feasibility of a 28th tax regime and its potential to support EU competitiveness (A10-0167/2026 - Ľudovít Ódor)

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Mr President, I voted against the report on the feasibility of the 28th tax regime, because I do not believe that the European Union needs yet another tax regime overlapping the tax systems of the Member States. Under the guise of simplification for businesses, this report paves the way for ever-increasing tax centralisation, which will not make the European economy more competitive. The reality i…

9 Jul

2026

RO Speech

An updated regulatory framework for wool (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, wool is one of Europe's oldest and most sustainable natural resources. Instead of being harnessed as a resource with significant economic and ecological potential, however, wool has been considered agricultural waste in Europe for 17 years, which is an aberration. If we keep talking about the circular economy, wool is the best example of a product to be processed in suc…