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2023

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Mr President, Commissioner, today I want to address a subject relating to Serbia, a state aspiring to join the European Union, but when Romania took this path, it made respect for this status conditional on granting rights to national minorities. The Romanian minority is extremely numerous in this country, but fundamental rights are still restricted. Here, too, I would like to pay tribute to the v…

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2023

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The establishment of a tribunal on the crime of aggression against Ukraine (RC-B9-0063/2023, B9-0063/2023, B9-0064/2023, B9-0068/2023, B9-0069/2023, B9-0072/2023)

Madam President, Commissioner, Russia's war of aggression violates any rule of international law, destroying the hard-won peace on the European continent, and those who destroy peace must be severely punished. If the instruments of the International Criminal Court are not enough to ensure that justice is done, having no jurisdiction over the crime of aggression, then we need a new instrument, a sp…

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2023

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Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter - annual report 2022 (A9-0298/2022 - Isabel Wiseler-Lima)

Madam President, I follow with great interest every year the Report on Human Rights and Democracy in the World. As a member of the Subcommittee on Human Rights, I have a responsibility to follow up on violations of individuals' fundamental rights. And here I want to bring to attention a situation that we know very little, namely the situation of the citizens of the Republic of Moldova in the area …

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2023

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30th Anniversary of the Single Market (B9-0004/2023)

Madam President, Commissioner, I believe that this is an important moment, an important achievement for the European Union, and I am starting from the four freedoms that define the single market - the free movement of persons, the free movement of goods, services and capital. And, of course, there are objectives that place the Union on an extremely solid footing for future generations, but I draw …

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Jan

2023

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Revelations of Uber lobbying practices in the EU (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I think this topic is very topical, because when we hear about clandestine meetings with politicians, incitement to violence, destruction of evidence, anti-competitive acts and much more, things that we have noticed and we have been able to discover with astonishment in thousands of documents published in Uber's files, it shows how vulnerable our s…

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Jan

2023

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

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I think this topic is very topical, because we see that with technological advances, those who live by promoting hate speech, those who deny the evidence, those who misinform are making extremely effective use of these tools. That is why, Commissioner Johansson, I believe that it is essential for the European Commission to come up with a series of …

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Jan

2023

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Implementation of the common foreign and security policy - annual report 2022 - Implementation of the common security and defence policy - annual report 2022 (debate)

Mr President, Mr Vice-President, a year ago, on 15 February, more precisely, we were debating in this room the annual report on foreign policy for 2021. Nine days later, Mr. Borrell, Russia is attacking Ukraine. The whole fate of Europe has changed after this diabolical conflict triggered by Putin, I felt it on my own skin. In my home, three Ukrainian women and six children have lived for almost f…

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Jan

2023

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Mr President, we are celebrating 30 years of the single market. But what defines the single market? These are the four fundamental freedoms of the European Union: freedom of movement, freedom of goods, free movement of capital and services. However, we observe how two of these fundamental rights are restricted to Romanians, because, although since June 2010 the European Commission has been asking …

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Dec

2022

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Defending democracy from foreign interference (debate)

. Mr President, Commissioner, it is no longer a secret for anyone when we talk about disinformation, about corruption, about the attempt by some state actors to actively engage in political campaigns in Europe. All this has been happening for a long time and obviously this debate and the improvement of legislation is also welcome. But until we create effective tools to combat Russia and other stat…

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Dec

2022

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Action plan to boost long-distance and cross-border passenger rail (A9-0242/2022 - Annalisa Tardino)

Madam President, I come from a country where rail transport is underdeveloped even though it has great potential. Therefore, I specifically wanted to express my full support here today for the implementation of the Action Plan to boost long-distance rail passenger transport across borders. I consider this transport extremely important and, above all, convenient. I myself always prefer rail transpo…

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Dec

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A long-term vision for the EU's rural areas (A9-0269/2022 - Isabel Carvalhais)

Madam President, as mentioned in the report, more than 30% of the population of the European Union lives in rural areas. I come from a country where almost 50% of the population lives in rural areas. Unjustly, however, their degree of development is far from satisfactory. Rural people are the engine of the agricultural sector and should have equal access to services and equal opportunities. I ther…

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Towards equal rights for persons with disabilities (A9-0284/2022 - Anne-Sophie Pelletier)

Madam President, there are approximately 87 million people in Europe who have some form of disability. Of these, too many children with disabilities are left behind. Stigmatisation, lack of access to inclusive education, lack of appropriate care services push children with disabilities to the margins of society without giving them a chance to realise their potential in life. Compared to children w…

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2022

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The recent JHA Council decision on Schengen accession (debate)

Mr President, I am addressing Commissioner Johansson directly. Unfortunately, the JHA Council annulled two important Treaty articles that allow us to dream that we have the same rights as other citizens of the European Union, namely the freedom of movement of European citizens and the free movement of goods, which are set out in the Treaty. Commissioner, I call on the Commission to defend the Trea…

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2022

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The recent JHA Council decision on Schengen accession (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, Mr Bogdan, you said that it was a vote against Europe and you asked for the Commission to be referred to the Court of Justice of the European Union. You are a political leader in Romania. Ask the Government of Romania, which is a privileged applicant in this situation, to complain to the Court of Justice of the European Union about this abuse, because the Council of the…

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2022

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Question Time (Commission) - “Protection of strategic infrastructure from China's influence”

The second question concerns Cyber security, if you are satisfied with how Member States implement all the recommendations you make?

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2022

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Question Time (Commission) - “Protection of strategic infrastructure from China's influence”

The Covid crisis has exposed some of the vulnerabilities of our economic cooperation with China. These vulnerabilities, however, increased with the outbreak of war in Europe, a war triggered by Russia, which blackmailed Europe and, obviously, directly attacked some of our critical infrastructure. In addition to the tools you have mentioned so far, which you recommend to the Member States, such as …

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2022

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A need for a dedicated budget to turn the Child Guarantee into reality - an urgency in times of energy and food crisis (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the pandemic, the energy crisis, the security crisis, the refugee crisis have confronted us with a new reality, and obviously this instrument is an extremely important one, because it gives us the chance to help children in vulnerable areas more, and any serious analysis we look at shows us how policies for children's well-being and development can…

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Dec

2022

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the free movement of persons and goods are fundamental freedoms of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. Although Romania has signed the accession to the European Union since 2005, these freedoms are still denied to it. Although Romania fulfils the conditions for accession to the Schengen area, which has been repeatedly confirmed since 2011, th…

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2022

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The European Year of Youth 2022 Legacy (B9-0512/2022)

Mr President, I supported this resolution, this Year of European Youth is already coming to an end. The future of young people in Europe was also discussed in this plenary, in the Conference on the Future of Europe, but I believe that we are doing too little for the transition from school to work and we need much stronger tools to be able to support the young people who today are deeply affected b…

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New EU strategy for enlargement (A9-0251/2022 - Tonino Picula)

Mr President, I believe that the security crisis has brought us new challenges and the European Union has always overcome all the obstacles it has had with two major decisions: on the one hand enlargement, on the other hand more integration. The states affected by the Russian aggression received the same response, they were invited to join the European Union. However, in order to help Ukraine and …

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Recognising the Russian Federation as a state sponsor of terrorism (RC-B9-0482/2022, B9-0482/2022, B9-0483/2022, B9-0485/2022, B9-0486/2022, B9-0487/2022)

Mr President, I am one of the initiators of this resolution and I find it extremely important to remember the message that we received immediately from Moscow, as soon as this resolution was adopted by a large majority. But it amazes me that we have almost 100 colleagues who do not understand that Russia is a state that supports forms of expression through acts of terrorism. 22,000 civilians were …

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Amending Council Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2020/2093 of 17 December 2020 laying down the multiannual financial framework for the years 2021 to 2027 - Amending Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2018/1046 as regards the establishment of a diversified funding strategy as a general borrowing method - 'Macro-Financial Assistance+' instrument for providing support to Ukraine for 2023 (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, at this very moment we are noticing how the website of the European Parliament is no longer working. Just hours after we voted on this resolution declaring Russia a state sponsor of terrorism. I do not believe in coincidences, I hope so, but it is extremely serious if we do not understand that what Putin is doing today, if we do not stop him at the right time and do not…

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2022

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Question Time (VPC/HR) - The impact on third countries of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine in relation to the “Black Sea Grain Initiative” agreement

Mr High Representative, 6.5 million tonnes of grain passed through Romania, taken from Ukraine and transferred further. Just a few days ago, a new border crossing point was inaugurated on the north of the country, in relation to Ukraine, in order to be able to help them even more. But the question I raise is the following. The Russian Federation is conducting an extremely aggressive disinformation…

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Nov

2022

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Full application of the provisions of the Schengen acquis in Croatia (A9-0264/2022 - Paulo Rangel)

Madam President, I think it is a historic vote, it is an extremely important vote for Croatia. I gave it with all my conviction, because I very much want Croatia, Romania and Bulgaria to achieve this goal of a step of deeper integration into the European Union this year. The European Union has always overcome its problems related to internal crises when it took courageous decisions, either through…

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2022

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REPowerEU chapters in recovery and resilience plans (A9-0260/2022 - Eider Gardiazabal Rubial, Siegfried Mureşan, Dragoş Pîslaru)

Madam President, the national recovery and resilience plans, created in response to the coronavirus pandemic and the consequences that this pandemic has produced, have produced positive consequences among Member States. But it was not only the health crisis that hit the European Union. We have the security crisis triggered by the Russian Federation and we also have an energy crisis that was also t…