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24 Apr

2024

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La Hulpe declaration on the future of social Europe (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, on the one hand we see a Europe that sets trends in artificial intelligence, on the other hand we see a Europe that is unable to provide drinking water to poor European regions. The poorest European citizens, including Roma, drink water from the stream in the 21st century. We are able to develop cutting-edge technologies, but we cannot give education to poor Roma childr…

22 Apr

2024

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Mr President, the European Commission has sent a letter to the Slovak Government expressing concerns about legislative changes undermining the rule of law in Slovakia. Because of this legislation, the Commission can suspend billions of euros from the recovery plan. After this letter, Prime Minister Fico unleashed a hunt for the opposition, calling us traitors. Fico, Pellegrini and Danko forgot abo…

11 Apr

2024

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International Roma Day - Statement by the President

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Madam President, this is the first time during this mandate that we are celebrating International Roma Day in plenary. As a Roma from Slovakia, I am, of course, very pleased with this. I take this opportunity to point out that Roma children are also European children. Despite the fact that the constitutions in the member countries prohibit discrimination, despite having billions of euros or a numb…

27 Feb

2024

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Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2023 (debate)

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Mr President, hatred, human rights violations, but also corruption are threatening democracy around the world today. Corruption is the cancer of society. Despite the fact that many of us openly speak out and fight against it, it is still spreading in several parts of the world. People's trust in democracy and the rule of law is being lost in many parts of Europe, but also of the world. Hatred spre…

8 Feb

2024

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Working conditions of teachers in the EU (debate)

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Mr President, I myself have acted as a teacher and I know that the profession of teacher is not only a profession, but also a service to society. After the family, it is the teacher who fundamentally educates and shapes the children. On the one hand, society has high expectations from teachers, but on the other hand, society does not create adequate conditions for teachers to work. They should hav…

7 Feb

2024

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Need to fight the increase of antisemitism and anti-Muslim hatred (debate)

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Madam President, I am ethnic Roma. If Hitler had won the war, I wouldn't be here today. Many of you wouldn't be here today. We quickly forgot what had happened when, in the past, it was allowed to think that there was a superior race. There is no superior race, there is no inferior person. The company has become radicalised in recent years. We have to open our eyes and admit that extremists have o…

7 Feb

2024

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The fight against hate speech and disinformation: responsibility of social platforms within the Digital Services Act (topical debate)

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Madam President, today, unfortunately, we can read on the internet that all gypsies must be killed, all bourgeois must be killed, or all Jews must be killed. Unfortunately, we can find such speeches in the online space, and unfortunately we all tolerate them. It has gone so far that hatred is now spread not only through the mouths of fascists, but mainly because of social platforms, a significant …

17 Jan

2024

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Addressing urgent skills shortages and finding the right talents to boost job creation (European Year of Skills) (debate)

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Madam President, on the one hand, young people's interest in practical skills is being lost, which in practice means that they are consequently absent from the European labour market. On the other hand, let us admit that vocational education systems have been failing in Europe for a long time. In the context of new technologies, digitalisation and the green transition, this gap is widening even fu…

17 Jan

2024

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Extending the list of EU crimes to hate speech and hate crime (debate)

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Madam President, as a Roma, I myself have long been the object of hate attacks, so I know what I am talking about. While the number of hate speech and hate crimes has been increasing in recent years, the fight against these crimes has stagnated. Today we are at a historic crossroads. The spread of hatred has already been accepted by a large part of society. Nowadays, fascists, hate-spreading extre…

16 Jan

2024

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Fight against the resurgence of neo-fascism in Europe, also based on the parade that took place in Rome on 7 January (debate)

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Mr President, extremism and neo-fascism have been gaining momentum in Europe for a long time. Today, fascists are even part of many parliaments or governments. They deny the Holocaust or praise the fascist regime. We must stop confusing freedom of speech with the spread of neo-fascist ideology. Ladies and gentlemen, let us finally start treating fascists and extremists as criminals. We see fascism…

13 Dec

2023

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Planned dissolution of key anti-corruption structures in Slovakia and its implications on the Rule of Law (continuation of debate)

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Madam President, what happens after the takeover of power in Slovakia is an attack or an assassination of justice. Fico and Pellegrini have long struggled to explain corruption scandals to themselves and their people, and therefore, through the rushed amendments to the criminal code, as well as the dissolution of the key organisation investigating these corruption scandals, but also attacks on inv…

8 Nov

2023

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Madam President, concerns about threats to the rule of law in Slovakia have become a reality. After the elections, justice in my country was given a red shank. He won Fico, teamed up with Pellegrini and Danko. The government of the mafia, thieves, hoaxers and extremists has arrived. The new interior minister has begun shameful, spectacular and utterly unacceptable cleansing in the police. She bega…

17 Oct

2023

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Water scarcity and structural investments in access to water in the EU (debate)

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Mr President, 78 years have passed since the end of the Second World War, when, thanks to the European Community, we built a rich and proud Union, thanks to which we can talk here today about artificial intelligence or the green transition. On the other hand, there are still millions of Europeans who do not have access to drinking water, despite existing legislation defining water as a fundamental…

14 Sep

2023

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Segregation and discrimination of Roma children in education (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, despite the fact that the constitutions of the Member States of the Union prohibit discrimination, despite the fact that we have billions of euros, as well as a number of strategies to tackle the Roma issue, we still have millions of European children who are discriminated against in Europe. This is confirmed by data, reports and even court decisions. Being born a Ro…

11 Sep

2023

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Mr President, in a few days' time, Slovakia is awaiting key parliamentary elections that will decide whether Slovakia will continue to be a democratic country or whether it will be stolen from us by Mafias from the Smer, who, together with fascists from the Republic, want to make Slovakia an island of dictatorship and fascism in the heart of Europe. From the metals to the war in Ukraine, inflation…

9 May

2023

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Start of the European Year of skills (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, I am pleased that, after a year of youth, we have a European Year of Skills. It is also an excellent opportunity to realise that there is still a huge mass of people in Europe to whom education systems have given no practical experience, no practical skill. I want to appreciate that we have managed to draw attention precisely to the skills without which we can hardly…

8 May

2023

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Mr President, the risk of fascists coming back to power in Europe is growing. Today they are part of many parliaments, but soon they may also be part of some of the European governments. Therefore, it is essential that we set a mirror for the fascists and constantly proclaim the truth. The Holocaust happened. Nazism is evil. Fascism is terrorism. Let us also beware of politicians who today admit t…

20 Apr

2023

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

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on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group. - (DE) Madam President, Commissioner, there are huge differences between Member States in the granting of aid to undertakings through a de minimis state aid subsidy scheme. Although this aid amounts to relatively small amounts of a maximum of EUR 200 000, the possibilities offered to Member States to benefit from this support vary for each enterprise over a period…

17 Apr

2023

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Mr President, anti-European political parties are growing in strength and can win today in many countries. The crises we have been through, but also the long-term corruption that we overlook, are adding to the forces that want to dismantle democracy both in the Member States and here in Europe. How do citizens who today are struggling with high energy and food prices have confidence in democracy a…

15 Mar

2023

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Combating discrimination in the EU - the long-awaited horizontal anti-discrimination directive (debate)

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Mr President, the issue of discrimination affects many in Europe. Today I will fight again for the Roma children. Despite having good legislation and even the money we send to member countries, tens of thousands of children from Roma families without sufficient qualifications, without being ready for the labour market, produce education systems in some member countries every year. On the one hand,…

13 Mar

2023

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Mr President. Ladies and gentlemen, society has become radicalised in recent years. It's not just radical comments on Facebook. Unfortunately, it is also many politicians who tell citizens of a different opinion that they are cattle, devils or dissidents, shouting: "Let's go to them!" and they think they are Democrats. No politician has the right to slander citizens for having different views. In …

13 Mar

2023

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Activities of the European Ombudsman - annual report 2021 (debate)

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Madam President. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, delusions, disinformation and lies have started to affect our lives in a significant way. Many of them are now in good health and some are no longer with us. Also in my country, many were able to believe that in a bottle of clear liquid with a vaccine, doctors give a microchip. However, it is not only the people who believed in this error who should be…

13 Feb

2023

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Madam President, once again I urge you not to get your name dirty and get rid of the Smer party, which makes you ashamed. Exclude the party he chairs from your faction. Just a few days ago, Fico threatened police officers investigating directional corruption cases that if he composes a future government, he would make arrangements with them. Since you do not mind the fact that the Smer party disho…

1 Feb

2023

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Mr President, despite the disengagement of the police, the nominees of the former Smer governments and their messengers are still protected in Slovakia. The Attorney General uses Section 363 without shame to cancel the prosecution, especially when friends, family, nominees, sponsors, co-partners of former prime ministers Fico and Pellegrini are charged. He even used this loophole in the law to ove…

18 Jan

2023

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

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Mr President. The truth is that after all the crises that have affected Europe, people are finding it harder to live in Europe. Some have lost their jobs, some have lost their health, or even some of their loved ones. After all, we are now facing a war in Ukraine, an enormous increase in energy and food prices. This desperate state is a breeding ground for those who, while having no solutions, hav…