What Milan spoke about.

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Nov

2022

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REPowerEU chapters in recovery and resilience plans (debate)

Mr President, colleagues, do you want to revive Europe with energy? I'll tell you what to do. First of all, the counterproductive energy sanctions against Russia must be lifted. I don't care how many billionaires you seize a yacht from. I don't care how many politicians you ban, but the idea that you are punishing Putin by impoverishing millions of European families and dismantling European indust…

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Oct

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 20-21 October 2022 (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner Šefčovič, Minister - he is not here now. On 21 July, the Council placed Mr Jozef Hambalk on the European anti-Russian sanctions list of a citizen of the Slovak Republic. Mr Hambálek has thus become the only European to be placed against the Russian list, as all other citizens on that list are, of course, citizens of the Russian Federation. On the basis of that decisio…

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Oct

2022

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Commission proposal for measures under the Rule of Law Conditionality Regulation in the case of Hungary (debate)

Dear colleague, precisely because Hungary was one of the first countries to subscribe to these European values, perhaps she has the right to decide what values are best for their own people. And perhaps you don't want to say that you know it better from Brussels than the Hungarians who live in Hungary themselves or the Poles who live in Poland. You don't mean that seriously.…

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Oct

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Commission proposal for measures under the Rule of Law Conditionality Regulation in the case of Hungary (debate)

Colleagues, do you want to withdraw EU funds from Hungary for not respecting some rule of law and European values? And I want to ask you who decided what these European values are? Did you decide it or this one, Mr Šimečka, or did the European Commission decide what European values are? You're talking about it here, but you know it's pure hypocrisy. This is a simple pretext, as colleagues from Hun…

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Sep

2022

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State of the Union (debate)

Madam President, President von der Leyen, you just said that the European Union must eradicate corruption from its own ranks. So I ask you, in the spirit of this, why do you not want to publish your communication with the Director of Pfizer for the purchase of vaccines for EUR 30 billion? Why are you hiding it from the public and why are you currently hiding it from the auditors? Because this is t…

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Jul

2022

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The relations of the Russian government and diplomatic network with parties of extremist, populist, anti-European and certain other European political parties in the context of the war (debate)

Madam President, colleagues, I find the debate on how the Russian Government is supposed to support extremists in Europe somewhat cynical. First of all, for you, an extremist is slowly anyone who has their own opinion, if this does not agree with the prescribed opinion. It is enough for a person to say that he does not want a third world war with the Russian Federation or he does not want an energ…

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Jun

2022

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The Commission's proposal for "Attracting skills and talent to the EU", particularly the Talent Partnerships with North African countries (topical debate)

Mr President, I agree that young talents should be sought and that smart young people should be supported. But why are you dragging those Africans back here? Why? Where are all the rocket engineers and doctors who came in as part of that illegal immigration? Where are they? They are abusing the social system. They came to steal, to rape and, in many cases, to murder. Because of them, many European…

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May

2022

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The REPowerEU Plan: European solidarity and energy security in face of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, including the recent cuts of gas supply to Poland and Bulgaria (debate)

Mr President, many of you are saying here that Europe must immediately disconnect itself from Russian gas because, by buying Russian gas, we are supposedly financing the Russian war. I ask you what nonsense this is. What is nonsense, after all, by buying gas, we primarily provide our European, for me Slovak, industry, which would not last a day without gas. That's just a fact. Should we stop buyin…

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Apr

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Cooperation and similarities between the Putin regime and extreme right and separatist movements in Europe (topical debate)

Madam President, I feel that for the European Union, every citizen with a different view is slowly becoming an extremist. Ten years ago, the word extremist didn't even exist properly in politics, and today, under the government of intolerant liberals, everyone is being called an extremist. I remember a few years ago when not me, but the serious Western media labeled the Ukrainian right sector and …

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Mar

2022

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Need for an urgent EU action plan to ensure food security inside and outside the EU in light of the Russian invasion of Ukraine (debate)

Thank you, Mrs. Sojdrová, for the blue card. As far as those sanctions are concerned, of course, no one doubts that they should be directed against the Russian Federation. It's natural and that's the purpose. But it is also clear from the reactions of Slovak farmers, industrialists and traders in general that many of these sanctions are more damaging to Europe, to the European Union, to European i…

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Mar

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Need for an urgent EU action plan to ensure food security inside and outside the EU in light of the Russian invasion of Ukraine (debate)

Madam President, when I see the impact that some of those sanctions are starting to have on the European economy, how some of the basic raw materials are starting to be lacking, how the factories are ceasing to produce, the big automakers are closing down, how the prices of energy and food are rocketing, I must ask you whether the aim of those anti-Russian sanctions is to punish the Russian Federa…

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2022

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Rising energy prices and market manipulation on the gas market (debate)

Mr President, the current overcharge that people are feeling is nothing compared to the overcharge tornado that is rolling on us. We see it in advance on the stock market. The price of gas has risen tenfold in recent years. The price of wheat has risen from EUR 150 per tonne to EUR 400 per tonne. All prices continue to skyrocket. Do you want to import gas and oil from Russia? All right. What alter…

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Mar

2022

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Foreign interference in all democratic processes in the EU (debate)

Madam President, the war in Ukraine is frightening and must end as soon as possible. What really scares me even more, however, is the wave of aggressive war politics or rhetoric that has taken over the whole of Europe. And this applies not only to the liberal media, but also to many liberal politicians, some of whom are sitting here, honourable gentlemen and ladies, who are also calling for censor…

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Mar

2022

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Russian aggression against Ukraine (debate)

Mr President, before I speak on Ukraine, let me ask you a few perhaps difficult but honest questions. Where were the international sanctions when the United States killed 200,000 civilians in Iraq because of the fictional pretext of weapons of mass destruction? Where were the condemning resolutions when the US, again in violation of international law, bombed Yugoslavia, Libya or Syria? Where was E…

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Feb

2022

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The Rule of Law and the consequences of the ECJ ruling (debate)

Madam President, the European Court of Justice has today approved that the European Union can punish Hungary, Poland and other states for not respecting so-called European values and the rule of law. Hungary, for example, has passed a so-called Orbán law that bans pedophiles from entering schools. You know what, congratulations. You have brought the Bolshevik principle that law is the will of the …

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Feb

2022

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

Mr President, dear progressive anti-Russian cockroaches, you have been talking for months about how Russia wants to attack Ukraine. For several months now, liberal media have been writing articles about how Russia is some demon who wants to threaten them all over Europe. A few days ago, U.S. President Biden published a senile prophecy that the Russian Federation was supposed to invade Ukraine toda…

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Jan

2022

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Situation in Kazakhstan

Mr President. After the unrest in Ukraine and Belarus, we are witnessing another attempt to destabilise another post-socialist country, this time Kazakhstan. Mainstream media first reported that the protesters in Kazakhstan were just ordinary people who were bothered by the 10-cent increase in energy and gas prices. U.S. President Biden even warned the Kazakh government and the Russian Federation …

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Dec

2021

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 16-17 December 2021 - The EU's response to the global resurgence of Covid-19 and the new emerging Covid variants (debate)

Mr President, after two years of lockdowns, bans, masks, Covid passports and vaccines, the situation across Europe is worse than ever. I think it is quite obvious that these restrictions and measures are no longer a virus and that they will not pull us out of the epidemic. Perhaps 20% of those restrictions are really aimed at fighting the epidemic, but the remaining 80% are politics, the impositio…

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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, from what I am listening here, it is absolutely freezing. Do you really want a war with Russia? That is exactly what this conflicting policy is all about. You are asking the Russian Federation to withdraw its own army from its own borders. Tell me where to go. They are in their own territory. The U.S. military is 8,000 miles away from Washington, so please tell me who's provoking …

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2021

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Condemning police violence against Romani people in the EU (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, colleagues, police violence in Europe is not just about the Roma. Soldiers and police across Europe are increasingly being used to suppress human rights and to impose all those totalitarian measures. Governments in both Europe and Slovakia are using police and force forces to push lockdowns so that people can't protest, to push bans so that people can't criticize the…

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Nov

2021

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Common agricultural policy - support for strategic plans to be drawn up by Member States and financed by the EAGF and by the EAFRD - Common agricultural policy: financing, management and monitoring - Common agricultural policy – amendment of the CMO and other regulations (debate)

Mr President, it has recently been voted here that Europeans should eat more insects instead of meat, because meat/cattle is said to produce greenhouse gases that cause the planet to warm. This was approved as part of the Farm to Fork European food strategy, and as part of it, the European Commission has already approved some two types of caterpillars or locusts that people should eat. Unfortunate…

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2021

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The Rule of law crisis in Poland and the primacy of EU law (debate)

Madam President of the European Commission, Prime Minister Morawiecki of Poland, I have only one minute, and that is why I will say this quite frankly and politically incorrectly. Message to Liberals: Please stop bullying Central Europe for intentional failures and mistakes! Whatever those Hungarians and Poles do, you will always find some reason why you want to punish them, why you want to insult…

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Oct

2021

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European Union Agency for Asylum (continuation of debate)

Mr President! Well, we've got it here. The European Union is going to set up another agency. This time, 500 other officials to take care of how immigrants are cared for. The Regulation literally states that, in particular in the context of the expected future Resettlement Framework Regulation. This new European Asylum Agency is to monitor the implementation of asylum procedures in European countri…

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Implementation report on the EU Trust Funds and the Facility for Refugees in Turkey (continuation of debate)

Madam President, since 2016, the European Union has sent EUR 6 billion to Turkey. Friends, that is EUR 100 million per month, at a time when European citizens have to moderate themselves when they have to struggle with a lack of money because of the COVID restrictions. We all expected that sending money to Turkey would end. Especially when the geopolitical situation in Syria has improved, and espe…

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Sep

2021

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Direction of EU-Russia political relations (debate)

Mr President. European sanctions against the Russian Federation have been in place for seven years. I want to ask you all straight here. What have these sanctions really solved? What did they really help with? Apart from harming European companies, apart from leading to an increase in energy prices, they solved absolutely nothing. Mr President, Commissioner, who is not here, colleagues, honourable…