What Cristian spoke about.

20 May

2026

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Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap (debate)

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You were mentioning in your speech that your group, S&D, is pushing for gender equality between men and women. So you are using two terms that should describe objective realities: men and women. The problem is that your group often in this debate is claiming that a man who pretends to be a woman is a woman, because according to the gender theory, gender is not an objective reality but a social con…

20 May

2026

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Recent proposals to fight poverty in the EU (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, there are 5 main reasons why there is poverty in the EU today. First: Excessive bureaucracy, which effectively destroys jobs. This excessive bureaucracy comes along with a number of phrases that change realities. On Monday, we heard in this House about green steel, and tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, you will come up with another law, with another directive, with a…

20 May

2026

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Recent proposals to fight poverty in the EU (debate)

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You and I are coming from former communist countries. Correct? You are coming from Hungary, I'm coming from Romania. What you are proposing, we already had in communism. So you are right now in Europe, where we have a free market, you know, so to speak, but what you want to do is move back to a communist kind of society where the government is taking from some and kind of distributing to the rest.…

20 May

2026

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Recent proposals to fight poverty in the EU (debate)

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Madam President, you just stated right now that the EU is not doing enough to fight poverty. I mean, if you check the schedule that we have here and the agenda, we pass so many regulations, so many directives, you guys are proposing so many resolutions, how much more does the European Commission have to do in order to fight poverty or the actual cause of this poverty in Europe, which is precisely …

19 May

2026

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Research Fund for Coal and Steel: research programme and multiannual technical and financial guidelines (A10-0130/2026 - Borys Budka)

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Mr President, I voted in favour of this report because I believe that the research fund for coal and steel can support the competitiveness of the European steel industry, innovation and the involvement of SMEs, universities and industry in concrete research projects. This fund is one of the few European instruments that directly support the development of industrial technologies, the modernisation…

19 May

2026

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Negative trade-related effects of global overcapacity on the Union steel market (A10-0012/2026 - Karin Karlsbro)

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Mr President, I voted in favour of this report because protecting the European steel industry is essential for the economy and security of the European Union. Europe must defend its strategic industry, reduce external dependencies and ensure a competitive future for European steel production and jobs. But to succeed, Europe must abandon the ideological approach that is stifling its own industry. F…

19 May

2026

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Opportunities and challenges presented by a comprehensive artificial intelligence strategy for EU trade (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, this report speaks of competitiveness and strategic autonomy in the field of artificial intelligence, but it proposes exactly the recipe that has weakened Europe: more bureaucracy, more control and more state intervention. Europe cannot win the global AI race by suffocating its own companies with even more regulation. True technological sovereignty is achieved n…

19 May

2026

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Europe's response to reduced US military deployments in Europe, particularly at its Eastern flank in the light of the latest US decisions (debate)

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Madam President, dear colleagues, the latest US decision to reduce military development and deployments in Europe, including the cancelled troop rotation to Poland and Romania, should be viewed as an opportunity, not a crisis. Since the Obama years, Washington has signalled its strategic shift away from Europe, yet most European countries fail to strengthen their own defence. It was President Trum…

19 May

2026

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Question Time with the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy - EU’s strategy to address the current crises in the Middle East

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I'm just following up about the third question about the UNRWA schools in Israel.

19 May

2026

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Question Time with the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy - EU’s strategy to address the current crises in the Middle East

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Dear Commissioner Kallas, the European Union's response to the crisis in the Middle East has too often projected hesitation, instead of leadership. Diplomacy without power, as you know, is merely empty words. So the first question that I have for you is: how is the EU engaging to help the United States and Israel defuse the situation and make sure that the Iranian people will be free again? The se…

18 May

2026

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Research Fund for Coal and Steel: research programme and multiannual technical and financial guidelines (short presentation)

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Mr President, Commissioner, the European project was not conceived as an ideological project, but as an economic one, built around coal and steel, an essential resource for the reconstruction and security of post-war Europe. The pooling of these resources under supranational authority has created the basis for European prosperity and has maintained peace on the continent for more than 80 years. Un…

18 May

2026

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Negative trade-related effects of global overcapacity on the Union steel market (debate)

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Mr President, dear Commissioner, the European economy cannot survive with slogans. And that's what we heard today from many MEPs from the Left and even from you, Commissioner. We heard today being said that we need, and I quote, 'green steel'. What does that mean? In order to produce green steel, are we going to need 'green heat' or 'green coal'? How are you going to produce this green steel? Some…

29 Apr

2026

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Discharge 2024: EU general budget – Court of Justice of the European Union (A10-0055/2026 - Pasquale Tridico)

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29 Apr

2026

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Discharge 2024: EU general budget – Commission (A10-0085/2026 - Daniel Freund)

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Mr President, I voted against the European Commission's discharge report because the European Parliament must not give a blank cheque to an institution in which fraud, abuse, corruption and the lack of transparency have become the norm. The European Court of Auditors had reported serious risks of fraud, corruption and conflict of interest that have influenced the allocation of billions of euros by…

29 Apr

2026

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The need to combat antisemitism and protect Jewish life in Europe, following the recent attacks against the Jewish community in the Netherlands and Belgium (debate)

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Madam President, the brutal attacks on Jewish communities in other lands and Belgium are not isolated tragedies. They are the direct consequence of years of failed education and policies, uncontrolled migration, cultural relativism and passivity in the face of hatred and antisemitic actions. Antisemitism adapts to every era. It may begin as mockery or vandalism, but it always ends in violence and …

28 Apr

2026

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Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU (A10-0047/2026 - Evin Incir, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus)

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Madam President, I voted against the report promoting European legislation on consent-based rape. Although the premise is correct, the lack of consent being a constitutive element of the rape offence, the provisions of the report are deeply problematic and ideological. The inclusion of consent in the definition of rape is welcome, and a number of countries, including Romania, are already doing so.…

28 Apr

2026

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Supporting democratic resilience in Armenia (debate)

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Madam President, with this resolution on Armenia, we must send a clear and balanced message: the European Parliament is supporting peace, stability and reconciliation in the South Caucasus. The future of the region depends on the sustainable peace process between Armenia and Azerbaijan, and the normalisation of relations between Armenia and Türkiye. The European Union must remain a credible partne…

28 Apr

2026

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The Commission’s 2025 Rule of Law report (debate)

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Mr President, Parliament's report on the rule of law is deeply ideological and excessively extends the concept of the rule of law to new socio-economic and cultural areas, such as the alleged right to housing, diluting the legal meaning of the term. The report then seeks to standardise concepts such as the recognition of same-sex marriages, disregarding the constitutional identity of the Member St…

28 Apr

2026

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Situation of fundamental rights in the European Union in 2024 and 2025 (debate)

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Mr President, the report on the situation of fundamental rights in the EU 2024 and 2025, drawn up by a communist-left MEP, is a neo-Marxist ideological manifesto that undermines the national sovereignty and European values that underpinned the European project. The document mentions, for example, 32 times LGBTQI+, as if this were the biggest and most pressing problem of European citizens and socie…

28 Apr

2026

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Enforcement of the Digital Markets Act (debate)

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Mr President, DMA (Digital Markets Act) creates more problems than it solves for the European economy. Digital sovereignty, which you've been talking about here, means having, firstly, technology and, secondly, tech companies that allow you to claim that sovereignty. Since this was implemented DMAHow many tech firms have grown in Europe and how many new ones have come to Europe? On the contrary, d…

28 Apr

2026

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Enforcement of the Digital Markets Act (debate)

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You were mentioning that through this Digital Markets Act, the European market was open, the digital market was open for more businesses. How many tech companies came into the European market? How many new tech companies were able to take off in the European market? Do you have any studies to see how much it is costing the European companies to implement all the provisions from the DMA?…

28 Apr

2026

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Joint debate - Discharge 2024 (joint debate)

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Mr President, dear colleagues, I urge you to vote against the discharge of the European Economic and Social Committee so we can look in CONT into the recently uncovered fraud, abuse and conflict of interest allegations involving the EESC Secretary‑General, Isabelle Le Galo Flores. The European media is already talking about this for the past two days. We received recently a letter from a group of …

28 Apr

2026

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Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034 (debate)

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Mr President, dear colleagues, the new proposal on the Multiannual Financial Framework raises an extremely serious problem for the future of the European Union ‑ turning European funds into a political-ideological instrument, through the so-called rule of law conditionality. No one disputes the importance of the rule of law. However, the lack of clear, transparent and objective evaluation criteria…

27 Apr

2026

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Madam President, the Georgian Christian nation suffered in March 2026 a profound and painful loss: the passing of its spiritual leader, His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II, the Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia. In an era of trials and spiritual drought, he became the living embodiment of faith, courage and paternal love. Becoming Patriarch in 1977, during Soviet darkness, he furiously revived th…

27 Apr

2026

RO Speech

Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2024 (debate)

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(the beginning of the intervention was not done on the microphone)... fraud or corruption – abuse of power and lack of transparency. If we talk about the fraud of European funds, we cannot ignore the huge fraud caused by the European Commission, both as a result of the abuse of power and the lack of transparency. An example: in 2021, the European Commission signed contracts to procure 4.6 billion …