What Vlad-Marius spoke about.

9

May

2023

RO Speech

Watch

Empowering consumers for the green transition (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner Reynders, dear colleagues, first of all, I congratulate the rapporteur and welcome this report, which is about giving consumers the power of choice to contribute to a green transition. Consumers need, first and foremost, clear, accurate and easily accessible information. We all need products with a longer durability, which we can easily repair when necessary, but we m…

8

May

2023

RO Speech

Watch

One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Mr President, in recent years, democracy and liberal values in the European Union have been under constant attack by nationalist parties, strongly supported by Russia and Putin. We see more and more events in which extreme nationalism incites the population to hatred, to disunity and uses any subject to support conspiracy theories. The fact that the European Union is delaying the decisions require…

20

Apr

2023

EN Speech

Watch

EU Action Plan against Trafficking in Cultural Goods (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, dear colleagues, there are two important issues when we deal with this trafficking of the cultural goods. First is the cross-border character in most of the cases, and then the expertise needed to solve these cases. An efficient approach implies cooperation at the European level, but also at international level. We need to have more than tools like modern, interconnecte…

20

Apr

2023

RO Speech

Watch

Cohesion dimension of EU state aid and de minimis rules (debate)

Vice-President, Commissioner Schmit, ladies and gentlemen, it is natural that Member States want to support their economy, both in normal situations and, above all, after a very difficult period, with all these successive crises that we are experiencing. But this aid to companies in rich regions risks leaving less developed regions even further behind. Cohesion funds, used as a degraded solution a…

19

Apr

2023

RO Speech

Watch

EU Global Health Strategy (debate)

Madam President, dear colleagues, the pandemic has shown us that health can no longer be treated as a regional or national problem. Nor can it be treated as a problem only of a large political entity, because health and, above all, pandemics do not take into account borders. The European Union was a major factor in finding solutions at the beginning of the pandemic and then in securing the necessa…

18

Apr

2023

EN Speech

Watch

Energy storage (debate)

Madam President, Madam Commissioner, dear colleagues, when we want to change the patterns, we need to be fully open to innovative ideas to encourage and support them. The European energy system proved to be vulnerable, even though you have done great job, Commissioner, last winter. We are vulnerable to the fluctuation of the oil and gas market and not only to those. The sector has seen a lot of in…

17

Apr

2023

RO Speech

Watch

One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Mr. President, Christ has risen! - we greet ourselves, Orthodox Christians, Greek Catholics, neo-Protestants, in Bright Week - dear colleagues, Commissioner, after all the crises we have been through and are still going through in recent years, the European economy needs our support. I am talking about the European economy as a whole, but also about each region, with its specificities. Of course, …

29

Mar

2023

RO Speech

Watch

One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, in every plenary session we talk about human rights, about the fact that we must get involved in reducing inequality and guaranteeing the rights of all citizens, wherever they are. It is good to take care of universal values and fight for them, but first we must ensure that human rights are respected in our home, in the European Union, and at this …

29

Mar

2023

DE Speech

Watch

General Product Safety Regulation (debate)

Mr President, rapporteur Dita Charanzová, Vice-President Timmermans! The technological development of the last 20 years, the advances in research have made a revision of the product safety legislation absolutely necessary. I support innovation and new technologies. But we need to emphasize that all manufacturers need to focus on two aspects: the benefits of a product, but also the risks it entails…

15

Mar

2023

RO Speech

Watch

More Europe, more jobs: we are building the competitive economy of tomorrow for the benefit of all (topical debate)

Mr President, Commissioner Schmit, Minister Roswall, we are at a crossroads for the European economy and for world politics. Climate change, the pandemic, the war in Ukraine, all these successive crises show us that it is very important to change the direction of development on our continent, to support the autonomy of the European Union and to invest massively in innovation. We need to support th…

14

Mar

2023

RO Speech

Watch

The challenges facing the Republic of Moldova (debate)

Mr President, dear colleagues, we are facing a tense situation in the Republic of Moldova, right on the borders of the European Union, Commissioner, where attempts are being made to destabilise the country shortly after the Moldovans have chosen a European democratic path, and the European Union has offered Moldova the status of candidate country. Modern means, such as the Internet and freedom of …

13

Mar

2023

RO Speech

Watch

One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Mr President, First Vice-President Timmermans, we are promoting democratic values here in the European Parliament and in the other European institutions. We promote fairness and equality among the citizens of the European Union. And that's exactly what we have to do. But we cannot talk about fairness and equality if not all citizens of the Union have equal rights, and we, Romanians and Bulgarians,…

13

Mar

2023

RO Speech

Watch

Binding annual greenhouse gas emission reductions by Member States (Effort Sharing Regulation) - Land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) - Revision of the Market Stability Reserve for the EU Emissions Trading System (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, this legislative package must offer the possibility of adapting each country, each region individually, because only by taking into account the regional specificities will we be able to have the desired effects. Of course we want a less polluting European economy and we voted for most of us The Green Deal in 2019, but we still want a strong economy. Our ambitions of …

14

Feb

2023

EN Speech

Watch

CO2 emission standards for cars and vans (debate)

Mr President, the automotive industry is still one of the top industries of the European Union. The European cars were and still are, something to be proud of. With more than 14 million new workers involved in this industry and more than 2.5 direct employees in the EU, this sector needs all our attention. We need to go green. Our planet and our health need to be a priority. There is no doubt about…

13

Feb

2023

RO Speech

Watch

One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, we have a European strategy to fight cancer, we have plans and programmes to help patients and survivors of this terrible disease, but we still have major differences from one country to another and even from one region to another in the way patients are treated. A patient in Romania, in my country, has much less chance of survival than a patien…

2

Feb

2023

RO Speech

Watch

Preparation of the EU-Ukraine Summit (RC-B9-0092/2023, B9-0092/2023, B9-0093/2023, B9-0094/2023, B9-0095/2023, B9-0096/2023)

Mr President, I voted, dear colleagues, on this resolution, because Ukraine needs our help. The tragic situation in which millions of Ukrainians find themselves can spill over to any of our countries, to the countries of Eastern Europe. Ukrainians need to know that we, the European Union and this Parliament, stand by them and will help them in every way we can. Russia's expansionist tendencies bel…

2

Feb

2023

FR Speech

Watch

Transparency and targeting of political advertising (A9-0009/2023 - Sandro Gozi)

Mr President, we are talking about transparency and the targeting of political advertising, and this is a very important topic because it has consequences for the democratic process and the future of the European Union. This file imposes a series of restrictions on political parties, in particular as regards electoral processes, in order to reduce the ‘popularisation’ of society to which the onlin…

1

Feb

2023

RO Speech

Watch

One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, the right to opinion and free expression are some of the most important democratic rights in the European Union. The right to opinion, however, is not the right to disinformation, nor the right to present personal opinions as absolute truths. It is not the right of extremists to promote hatred, to lie to people. Online communication has made it muc…

18

Jan

2023

RO Speech

Watch

Terrorist threats posed by far-right extremist networks defying the democratic constitutional order (debate)

Madam President, Madam Minister, Commissioner Johansson, extremism on any side of the political spectrum is and has been dangerous to society. And now, in these times, all the more so as extremist propaganda has access to modern, globalized means of communication. Last year, using communication channels and online social networks, right-wing extremists horrified the entire world, attacking the Cap…

16

Jan

2023

RO Speech

Watch

One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Mr President, electricity is one of the essential products that cannot be missing from our lives today, whether we are talking about private or professional life. The price of this energy is felt in all the products and services we need. The current crisis caused by Russia has led to far too high increases in energy prices, and people who work hard have become unable to afford a decent life. Howev…

16

Jan

2023

RO Speech

Watch

30th Anniversary of the Single Market (debate)

Mr President, Mrs Executive Vice-President, Mrs Minister, the European single market is undoubtedly one of the greatest projects and successes of the European Union. A market of around 450 million consumers applying harmonised rules in almost all areas is our greatest asset, European citizens. Free movement makes trade in goods much easier, but we must move on to the completion of this great proje…

15

Dec

2022

RO Speech

Watch

Upscaling the 2021-2027 Multiannual Financial Framework (A9-0281/2022 - Jan Olbrycht, Margarida Marques)

Madam President, the multiannual financial plan needs more flexibility in order for the European Union to be prepared for possible crises. And we see, and we feel how many crises have hit us in these years. These last three years have shown us that, in certain situations, urgent action is needed at European level, financing instruments that can be used quickly to minimise the negative impact on ci…

15

Dec

2022

RO Speech

Watch

90 years after Holodomor: Recognising the mass killing through starvation as genocide (RC-B9-0559/2022, B9-0559/2022, B9-0560/2022, B9-0561/2022, B9-0564/2022, B9-0566/2022)

Madam President, we must recognise and know our history in order not to repeat it. It is difficult for many of us to imagine how you can wish for the destruction of an entire people. The holodomor was real. Millions of Ukrainians died while their wheat was exported by the Soviet regime. The 1932-1933 famine, artificially created, was actually a weapon in Moscow's hands to pursue its collectivizati…

13

Dec

2022

EN Speech

Watch

The recent JHA Council decision on Schengen accession (debate)

Mr Mandl, you explained to us that technically we can’t change this procedure, and you explained to us that the migration wave is increasing. But is this migration wave not also going through Croatia? We don’t have anything against Croatia, but when we see the numbers, Croatia also has also an increase in migration – not only Romania or Bulgaria.…

13

Dec

2022

RO Speech

Watch

The recent JHA Council decision on Schengen accession (debate)

Mr President, Minister Balaš, Commissioner Johansson, I, too, thank you for all the unconditional support you have shown me in recent months, and especially last week. In the JHA Council, where last week Romania and Bulgaria received an unfair and humiliating veto for joining the Schengen area, although we have met all the criteria for more than ten years. Romanians and Bulgarians are kept at the …