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Mar

2025

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Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggression (RC-B10-0156/2025, B10-0156/2025, B10-0158/2025, B10-0159/2025, B10-0161/2025, B10-0163/2025, B10-0165/2025, B10-0166/2025, B10-0168/2025) (vote)

Mr President, according to Rule 264, on behalf of the ECR Group, I would like to propose the postponement of the resolution on Ukraine. This resolution doesn't take into account what happened yesterday evening. The agreement between the US and Ukraine seems to be the good news we were waiting for. For the first time, a cease‑fire is possible, and it's what Ukraine wants. I'm afraid that a resoluti…

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Mar

2025

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European Council meetings and European security (joint debate)

So thank you, President. The European Council represents a step in the journey back to reality, which we welcome. Yes, we would have liked greater clarity on the sources of financing for the plan, on long-term planning and on its integration within the overall framework of the Atlantic Alliance. Considering rearmed EU retaliation against Trump and the USA is a tragic mistake, just as it would be t…

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2025

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European Council meetings and European security (joint debate)

Madam President, now I deserve an extra minute because of the discomfort you cause me.

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Feb

2025

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One year after the murder of Alexei Navalny and the continued repression of the democratic opposition in Russia (debate)

Madam President, 'I will spend the rest of my life in prison and die here. There will be no one to say goodbye to.' These were the final words of Alexei Navalny, spoken from a prison in the Arctic Circle where he had been confined. Sadly, he was right. Those words appear in a book that encapsulates Navalny's choice with a simple yet powerful title: Patriot. His wife Yulia said that 'sharing his st…

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Feb

2025

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Commission Work Programme 2025 (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner Šefčovič, the Commission's work programme includes topics on which we fully agree: the relaunch of competitiveness, the need for simplification, the focus on security, which I imagine is closely linked to the fight against illegal immigration. I am struck, but not surprised, by the fact that, with regard to simplification, the first package of pr…

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Jan

2025

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 19 December 2024 (debate)

Madam President, President von der Leyen, President Costa, ladies and gentlemen, the European Council has addressed a number of decisive issues. I want to focus on one in particular: European governments are finally realising the urgency of taking concrete measures to combat illegal immigration. The most effective response – it is now clear to everyone, let’s say almost everyone – is to tackle the…

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Jan

2025

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Need to enforce the Digital Services Act to protect democracy on social media platforms including against foreign interference and biased algorithms (debate)

Madam President, Madam Vice-President Virkkunen, thank you for your presence, ladies and gentlemen, frankly this debate comes at a suspicious time. The fact that the Left wanted it above all, and the words I have heard now from my Socialist colleague, fuel this suspicion. My suspicion is that the loss of political dominance on social platforms is driving the left crazy at every latitude. When you …

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Dec

2024

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Restoring the EU’s competitive edge – the need for an impact assessment on the Green Deal policies (topical debate)

Mr President, Commissioner Ribera, ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you in advance: Those of you who are allergic to reality will risk an anaphylactic shock by listening to my words. Decarbonisation at the price of deindustrialisation is Europe's most tragic mistake in decades. And I do not doubt the good faith of many of you but, as an old popular adage says, "the road to hell is paved with good…

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Nov

2024

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Presentation by the President-elect of the Commission of the College of Commissioners and its programme (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the ECR has its own political identity. We are a group that fights for the preservation of the values that founded Europe. We are men and women firm in our convictions but also measured in the way we expose them. We maintain a certain British style, if you will allow me, despite the fact that England left the European Union and with it the Tories who founded …

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Nov

2024

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1000 days of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine (debate)

Madam President, a thousand days ago, what was disguised as a major Russian military exercise on the border with Ukraine turned out to be a full-scale invasion. The first in Europe after years of peace. A failed invasion, as this very moment of commemoration reminds us. Failed thanks to the strenuous defence of Ukrainian men and women. Failed thanks to the courage and determination of the Ukrainia…

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Nov

2024

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EU-US relations in light of the outcome of the US presidential elections (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the outcome of the American elections will not change the relationship between the European Union and the United States of America. We have a bond of culture, history, blood and dreams that cannot be scratched by anything or anyone. The US elections will not damage relations with the European Union, but they have burst the "Brussels bubble". We are not used t…

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Oct

2024

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Managing migration in an effective and holistic way through fostering returns (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, two messages came loud and clear from all the peoples of Europe five months ago: No more "green madness" eco-chic No more illegal immigration. We, who really believe in the word democracy, without having to write it in the name of the party or parliamentary group, think that the will of the people should not be betrayed. So far, the line has been followed in …

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Oct

2024

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Order of business

Madam President, colleagues, first of all, there is a mistake in the title and in the meaning of the debate proposed by the Greens. The Italian court ruling mentioned by the colleagues deals with something else. It does not call into question the Italy-Albania agreement. Any international agreement, of course, cannot be judged by a civil code. So next time, please colleagues, collect more accurate…

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Oct

2024

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Presentation of the programme of activities of the Hungarian Presidency (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Mr Orbán, we share several objectives of your programme. I only say a couple for reasons of time. The peoples of the European Union are experiencing a chilling demographic winter season, which must be addressed by caring more and better for the primary cell of any political community: the family. Immigration cannot be the solution to declining birth rates. On…

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Sep

2024

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The future of European competitiveness (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, it is right to talk about competitiveness in this House today. It's late. I thank President Draghi for his valuable analytical contribution. I only regret that it comes later, indeed, because of the mistakes made during a political season, last year, dominated by the red and green lefts. For years we have asked to use common sense in pursuing a fair and share…

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Jul

2024

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Statement by the candidate for President of the Commission (debate)

Madam President, Madam President von der Leyen, ladies and gentlemen, I want to immediately disappoint those who expect an indication of vote from the ECR: Our parliamentary group is made up of parties that do not renounce their national prerogatives and each will speak out on the basis of its own national interest. We are conservative because we defend the values that have shaped Europe, as well …

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2024

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Formal sitting - 20th Anniversary of the 2004 EU Enlargement

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, for us European conservatives, Europe has never been a set of offices and rules, but a historical and cultural concept. That is why what happened twenty years ago was not a simple enlargement but a reunification. It was the day when, as hoped for years before by John Paul II, our continent was able to breathe again with two lungs: Western and Eastern. This re…

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2024

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Order of business

Madam President, I am one of the MEPs invited to attend the National Conservatism Conference last week in Brussels. Along with me and my colleagues were heads of governments, ministers, journalists, Christian and Jewish religious representatives. As you may know, three mayors of the municipalities of Brussels had decided a few days before to ban its holding because of the risk of violence by the e…

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Apr

2024

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Screening of third country nationals at the external borders - European Criminal Records Information System - Third Country Nationals - Common procedure for international protection in the Union - Establishing a return border procedure, and amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1148 - Asylum and migration management - Addressing situations of crisis and force majeure - Establishment of 'Eurodac' for the comparison of fingerprints for the effective application of Regulation (EU) No 604/2013, for identifying an illegally staying third-country national or stateless person and on requests for the comparison with Eurodac data by Member States' law enforcement authorities and Europol for law enforcement purposes (recast) - Union Resettlement Framework - Standards for the qualification of third-country nationals or stateless persons as beneficiaries of international protection - Standards for the reception of applicants for international protection (recast) (joint debate - Migration and Asylum package)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I challenge everyone in this House to say that the European Union has acted well on the issue of migration in recent years. On the one hand, the too many deaths at sea, the big business of human trafficking, the political immigration battle of the NGO ships, praised and rewarded in this House, despite being the link with the smugglers. On the other hand, the los…

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Mar

2024

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This is Europe - Debate with the Prime Minister of Finland, Petteri Orpo (debate)

Madam President, Prime Minister Orpo, it is a great pleasure to welcome you on behalf of the European Conservatives. Viewed from here, your victory in the elections in Finland was more important than you can imagine; You have defeated the rising star of the European socialists, one of the greatest exponents of madness. eurogreen, an icon of the global progressive agenda, and they will never forgiv…

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Feb

2024

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Formal sitting - Address by Yulia Navalnaya

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I have spoken many times in this House, yet I never feel the weight of words more than today because of the emotion that runs through us all, because of the meaning of history that we seem to be able to grasp at this moment. I listened to Ms. Navalnaja's words, trying to maintain a respectful detachment so as not to be influenced by emotion. But it was diffic…

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2024

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Strengthening European Defence in a volatile geopolitical landscape - Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2023 - Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2023 (joint debate - European security and defence)

Madam President, Mr von der Leyen, ladies and gentlemen, this debate comes at the end of the parliamentary term and with great delay. In the last five years in this House we have talked much more about electric scooters and butterflies than about geopolitics and military defence. The idea of the red and green left to make Europe a herbivorous superpower has entirely occupied the agenda of the Euro…

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Feb

2024

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Empowering farmers and rural communities - a dialogue towards sustainable and fairly rewarded EU agriculture (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, I am sorry that Timmermans, who has run away, is not in his place. For years we have asked you to listen to us, we have fought you, even though we do not have the numbers to stop the red-green majority that gave birth to this crazy programme called . Every four months you slammed into our faces a law against farmers, ranchers and fishermen. You tol…

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Jan

2024

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 14-15 December 2023 and preparation of the Special European Council meeting of 1 February 2024 - Situation in Hungary and frozen EU funds (joint debate - European Council meetings)

Madam President, Madam President von der Leyen, ladies and gentlemen, the outcome of the last European Council is, in our view, in the dark. We are pleased with the work that has been done on enlargement to the Western Balkans and on the start of negotiations for the entry of Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova. Among other things, the proposal to use frozen funds to Russia to finance the reconstruction of …

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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)

(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, this empty Chamber, deserted by the same Members who wanted this debate, explains how much more important it is for anti-fascists in the living room to find a place in the restaurant than in their stalls here in Parliament. On the other hand, their goal was to defame Italy and the goal was achieved; It is regrettable that the Italian left, which is still un…