What Cristian spoke about.

7 Jul

2025

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Madam President, Romania is today threatened by the European Commission with drastic cuts to vital European funds on the grounds of an excessive budget deficit. This excessive deficit, however, is no surprise. It has accumulated in good years, as Romanian governments after 2022 have been tacitly supported by the European Commission. In the 2024-2025 election years, the Commission chose to remain s…

19 Jun

2025

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Clean Industrial Deal (B10-0277/2025)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I abstained on the vote on the resolution Clean Industrial Deal because, although it contains some seemingly good ideas, it does not address the real cause of rising energy prices in the EU. Under misleading slogans such as ‘green energy’, ‘renewable’ or ‘decarbonisation’, there are ideological policies that have made Europe the most expensive energy region i…

19 Jun

2025

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Institutional and political implications of the EU enlargement process and global challenges (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the European project was visionary, initiated by practising Christian leaders after the Second World War. They dreamed of a community of sovereign states united by the free movement of goods, persons, services and capital, a union that would bring peace through the prosperity of all, and they succeeded. From six founding Western European states, this community, …

17 Jun

2025

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Strengthening rural areas in the EU through cohesion policy (A10-0092/2025 - Denis Nesci)

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Mr President, I strongly support the report on strengthening rural areas in the European Union through cohesion policy, because these regions deserve a proper plan for sustainable and balanced development. It is essential to support rural people and agriculture by reducing regional disparities, combating depopulation, ensuring food security, increasing resilience to natural disasters and promoting…

17 Jun

2025

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Combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child sexual abuse material and replacing Council Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA (recast) (A10-0097/2025 - Jeroen Lenaers)

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Mr President, the report on the proposal for a directive to combat child sexual abuse addresses an extremely serious and urgent problem. Unfortunately, however, the text has been compromised by the infiltration of ideological elements such as gender ideology, which have nothing to do with the legal purpose of this endeavour. Sexual abuse, exploitation of minors and production of child pornography …

17 Jun

2025

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2023 and 2024 reports on Moldova (debate)

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Mr President, dear colleagues, the integration of the Republic of Moldova into the European Union is a partial reparation of the historical injustice committed by Stalin and Hitler through the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, which in 1940 led to the annexation by the USSR of Bessarabia, which was part of Romania. This Soviet occupation brought profound suffering to the Romanian population in Bessarabia: …

16 Jun

2025

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in order to reduce the price of electricity, it is imperative to abandon the current system that sets the price of energy on the basis of the marginal price, which requires that the most expensive type of energy dictates the price of the entire market. This model has become inefficient and unfair, especially at a time when the share of cheaper renewable energy i…

21 May

2025

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Mr President, I was the first voice in the European Parliament that, since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, has drawn attention to the abusive nature of what Ursula von der Leyen is doing. Under the pretext of fighting the COVID-19 virus, we have actually witnessed the largest corruption in the history of the European Union, with catastrophic effects on people’s health and lives. Billions of…

6 May

2025

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2023 and 2024 reports on Serbia (debate)

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Mr President, dear colleagues, I will vote against the report on Serbia, because it does not reflect in a balanced way the reality on the ground and the specific challenges that this country is facing. Serbia obviously needs to continue reforms and align with EU standards, but the report omits real progress and risks damaging trust between the EU and Serbia. Belgrade has taken concrete steps in di…

6 May

2025

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Discharge 2023 (joint debate)

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Madam President, dear colleagues, the 2023 discharge report for the Court of Justice of the European Union, for which I served as the leading rapporteur, highlights both the court's notable achievements and the areas where further progress is needed. Together with my colleagues from all political groups, we made this report more comprehensive. For that, I thank them. The report notes progress on t…

6 May

2025

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Discharge 2023 (joint debate)

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Mr President, dear colleagues, the report on the 2023 discharge of the Court of Justice of the European Union, for which I was lead rapporteur, highlights both the Court's achievements and the issues where further improvements are still needed, as well as some fundamental challenges. On this occasion, I thank my colleagues from all political groups for the contributions they have made to make this…

5 May

2025

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3 Apr

2025

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Establishment of a European Day of the Righteous (debate)

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Mr President, dear colleagues, we must pay tribute to those who, in times of terror and oppression, had the courage to resist dictatorship and fight for freedom, dignity and truth, risking their own lives. Motivated, most often by the Christian faith, to help one's neighbor, we find examples of people who have risked their lives for others all over Europe. Romania underwent two dictatorships in th…

12 Feb

2025

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Collaboration between conservatives and far right as a threat for competitiveness in the EU (topical debate)

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Mr President, dear colleagues, there is not a collaboration between conservatives – if you mean the ECR Group and others on the right who are not in power in the EU – that threatens the bloc's competitiveness. Instead, it is the irrational regulations pushed by the Left, Greens, Socialists and Renew and sometimes even EPP that are currently undermining Europe's economic growth. Absurd policies bas…

11 Feb

2025

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Wider comprehensive EU-Middle East Strategy (debate)

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Mr President, dear colleagues, two major topics must be at the centre of the EU Middle East strategy. First, stop rewarding the bad behaviour: the European Union allocates hundreds of millions of euros to the Palestinian Authority, which continues to implement the 'pay-for-slay' programme, based on which families of terrorists who have killed or injured Israeli citizens get a pension. As long as i…

17 Dec

2024

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Misinformation and disinformation on social media platforms, such as TikTok, and related risks to the integrity of elections in Europe (debate)

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Mr President, colleagues, before talking about the cancellation of the presidential elections in Romania, I think it would be appropriate for all those who speak on this topic to read the decision of the Constitutional Court of Romania, because what we heard during this debate is absolutely hallucinating. I have heard some say that it is imperative to censor the TikTok platform in Europe and other…

16 Dec

2024

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the agreement with Mercosur, as agreed by Ursula von der Leyen, is a threat both to Romanian and European farmers and to our food security and the health of Europeans. On the one hand, the absurd Green Deal policies, which call for reducing farmland and limiting carbon emissions, are already driving up the price of agricultural products and food, leading to the …

16 Dec

2024

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Activities of the European Ombudsman – annual report 2023 (debate)

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Madam President, dear colleagues, Emily O'Reilly deserves and must be praised in the European Parliament for carrying out her duties in favour of the citizens of the European Union. I was one of those who supported her election in 2019 as Ombudsman, and her work during her five years in office was an example of independence, professionalism and determination that the next Ombudsman must follow. On…

8 Oct

2024

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Strengthening Moldova's resilience against Russian interference ahead of the upcoming presidential elections and a constitutional referendum on EU integration (debate)

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Mr. President, dear colleagues, the existence of the Republic of Moldova is the result of the Hitler-Stalinist Ribbentrop-Molotov pact, based on which countries in Europe were divided between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. In 1940, Bessarabia, which was part of Romania, was annexed by Soviet Russia, becoming the Soviet Socialist Republic of Moldova. In 1991, after the dissolution of the Soviet…

23 Apr

2024

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Combating violence against women and domestic violence (debate)

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Well, let me reply to you in English. It is not me saying that when we talk about mankind, we talk about men and women. It is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that states that. So go ahead and change that. Furthermore, if you claim that a man who pretends to be a woman is a woman and a man can get pregnant, please explain to the whole world how biologically that is possible. Furthermore, …

23 Apr

2024

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Combating violence against women and domestic violence (debate)

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Mr President, dear colleagues, combating violence against women is an extremely serious matter, and because it involves matters of law enforcement, it is imperative that deadlines be expressly defined. Combating violence against women. I have listened very carefully to what has been said in this House about women. Unfortunately, this clear, objective, ontological reality, different from a man, has…

22 Apr

2024

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Mr President, dear colleagues, under five years of Ursula von der Leyen's mandate, the European Union has become from an area of freedom, one of tyranny, from an area of prosperity, one of poverty. In this plenary, Ursula von der Leyen said in 2019 that the European project is founded on Greek philosophy and Roman law, avoiding mentioning Judeo-Christian values as well. It was the Judeo-Christian …

14 Mar

2024

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Return of Romanian national treasure illegally appropriated by Russia (debate)

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Madam President, I call for the immediate and unconditional return of Romania's treasury illegally seized by Russia for over a hundred years, together with compensation and up-to-date interest, for the fact that the Romanian nation has not been able to enjoy and use for its own benefit this treasury that rightfully belongs to it. In 1916 and 1917, when more than half of Romania was occupied during…

8 Feb

2024

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Working conditions of teachers in the EU (debate)

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Mr President, dear colleagues, this debate about teachers is welcome, because school, teachers and students must be put back in the right place in European society. The school must teach students not only how to read, write and reckon, but also how to be good and righteous people in society and how to love their country. Perennial moral values develop by learning the humanities, such as classical …

7 Feb

2024

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This is Europe - Debate with the President of Romania, Klaus Iohannis (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, President, dear colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, the ‘This is Europe’ debates held in the European Parliament are a great opportunity for European political leaders to express their vision about the current and future course of Europe. I congratulate, therefore, the Romanian President, Klaus Iohannis, for sharing his vision about Europe and emphasising the importanc…