What Traian spoke about.

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Mar

2024

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

Madam President, Commissioner, even though I had the feeling that you were wrong, the subject was not Ukraine, but Romania's treasure. In the last hundred years, Russia has deprived Romanians of three dear things and these are: freedom, by imposing a regime of communist dictatorship after the Second World War, the Romanian treasury stored in Moscow for storage and return and never returned and the…

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Feb

2023

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Preparation of the EU-Ukraine Summit (debate)

Madam President, Ukraine's civilian and military critical infrastructure is daily hit by air-launched missiles, ships, from land-based sites, severely affecting the population and capacity of the Ukrainian army. In order to give Ukraine opportunities to defend its national territory, it is necessary to provide the Ukrainian army with the means to neutralize military logistics, air bases, ships and…

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Oct

2022

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Countering the anti-European and anti-Ukrainian propaganda of Putin’s European cronies (topical debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, surely Russian propaganda is extremely effective. On the other hand, we must note that lately the fight against this false propaganda has become more and more powerful in the Member States of the European Union and it is done even by many politicians and simple people, politicians not of first rank, but who are involved, and simple citizens, young people, NGOs. I think …

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Oct

2022

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Russia’s escalation of its war of aggression against Ukraine (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, Europe is going through a major security crisis and a major energy crisis. Why did we get here? Because in exchange for Russian gas, crude oil and coal we accepted the situation in Transnistria, the Grozny massacre, the annexation of Ossetia and Abkhazia provinces in Georgia, the annexation of Crimea. We have limited ourselves to sanctions with no effect for Russia. Mor…

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May

2022

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State of play of the EU-Moldova cooperation (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, the place of the Republic of Moldova is in the European Union. The impeccable response given by Chisinau in the context of the crisis in Ukraine, including the reception of refugees, is a clear proof that we share the same values and principles. The Republic of Moldova has demonstrated through attitude and action that it is a more European state than even some Member St…

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Feb

2022

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EU-Russia relations, European security and Russia’s military threat against Ukraine (debate)

Madam President, High Representative, Commissioner, the Kremlin's claim to negotiate with NATO and the US a new security architecture in Europe by establishing areas of influence during the USSR shows Russia's denial of the sovereign right of independent states to decide for themselves their alliance systems and how to ensure their security. The long list of excessive concessions and compromises m…

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Jan

2022

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Situation in Kazakhstan

Mr President, Commissioner, since taking office in 2019, President Tokaev has tried to open the country to democracy by initiating a series of reforms. Initially, the demonstrations were massive but peaceful, their trigger being the explosive increase in fuel prices, amid the accumulated dissatisfaction of the population, both in terms of living standards and respect for fundamental rights. Subseq…

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Dec

2021

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Situation at the Ukrainian border and in Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine (debate)

Madam President, Moscow calls for security guarantees from the US and NATO that the North Atlantic Alliance will not expand to the east, as independent and sovereign states, Ukraine and Georgia, so wish. The statement by Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov is enlightening, I quote: "The lack of progress in the political-diplomatic resolution of this issue will make our response military and tec…

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Oct

2021

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Climate, Energy and Environmental State aid guidelines (“CEEAG”) (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, Foreign Minister, in order to speed up the transition to the green economy, the Commission is proposing 14 areas that can benefit from State aid. It is commendable, but the impact on competition and trade change will be major, because states do not have the same potential to provide state aid to their own economies in order to guarantee a just transition. I ask the Comm…

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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, we are witnessing an increase in energy prices caused by market instability. Why did we get here? The answer must be sought in our own decisions, objectives and proposals transmitted to the market, industry and the public, without an analysis of the effects, such as: emission allowances are traded on a free but speculative market, which the Commission refuses to regu…

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Oct

2021

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The future of EU-US relations (debate)

Mr President, Mr High Representative, the report and the resolution that we are going to adopt create the conditions for a true strategic partnership for the 21st century between the Union and the United States, generating a strong integration of the economies on both sides of the Atlantic. Within this partnership, the European Union has the obligation to increase its contribution to NATO's defenc…

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Sep

2021

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Direction of EU-Russia political relations (debate)

Mr President, I agree with the need for cooperation with Russia, highlighted in the report. But until we cooperate, we must note that Russia has forcibly occupied the territories of three states associated with the European Union. Russia is conducting virulent disinformation campaigns in all Eastern Partnership countries, but also in EU Member States. From the territory of Russia, cyber attacks ar…

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Sep

2021

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Situation in Afghanistan (debate)

Madam President, High Representative, many are looking for the culprits for the failure of Western countries in Afghanistan. We all have to face this failure. One important thing is to understand to learn for the future that democracy and Western values are not easy to export anywhere in the world. Afghanistan belongs to Islam and Islamic culture is not a culture of democracy. The Arab Spring show…

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Sep

2021

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Presentation of the Fit for 55 package after the publication of the IPCC report (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, "carbon must have its price, because nature can no longer pay the price," said Ursula von der Leyen. A correct but incomplete statement. The big problem is how much of the carbon price can be borne by vulnerable categories of citizens. As part of the package Fit for 55, through the reform of the emission allowance system and the application of the new measures in the bu…