What Juozas spoke about.

13 Feb

2023

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EU funding allocated to NGOs incriminated in the recent corruption revelations and the protection of EU financial interests (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner. We were all really shocked by the Qatargate scandal, but we must all agree here that we are ready to fight corruption and build resilience to corruption. However, we cannot go the easiest way to channel responsibility for the whole corruption scandal to non-governmental organisations. Non-governmental organisations must declare their income. However, we must understand …

13 Feb

2023

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Electoral rights of mobile Union citizens in European Parliament elections - Electoral rights of mobile Union citizens in municipal elections (debate)

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Mr President, honourable Commissioner. It has already been said here that, in fact, one of Europe's main and greatest achievements and rights is for its citizens to move freely throughout the territory of the European Union, for young people to receive education, for others to work and for some to receive medical treatment. But also one of the fundamental rights of the people of Europe is the righ…

2 Feb

2023

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Preparation of the EU-Ukraine Summit (debate)

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Mr President, honourable Commissioner, you have rightly said that the future of Ukraine lies in Europe. But today in Ukraine, the future of Europe is decided, and therefore we can achieve peace only if all the troops of the aggressor Putin leave the land of Ukraine and the integrity of the territory of Ukraine is restored. This requires the meeting we are talking about to ensure that all sanctions…

1 Feb

2023

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Situation in Afghanistan (debate)

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Mr President, honourable Commissioner. I have visited Afghanistan several times and I have seen how caring and talented Afghan women and girls are. And today, it seems to me, we need to be very clear, we need to put pressure on the regime so that it cannot use the financial resources that it currently uses. The drug business was mentioned here. I think that if we were to reduce the use of drugs he…

17 Jan

2023

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The establishment of a tribunal on the crime of aggression against Ukraine (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, colleagues. As history shows, the aggressor and his associates who committed war crimes are punished. This is illustrated by the Nuremberg Tribunal after the Second World War and the Milošević Court in The Hague after the Yugoslav war. Currently, the whole world is watching with horror Putin's aggression in Ukraine from Bucha to Dnipro. Kremlin forces are committing all…

17 Jan

2023

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The EU’s response to the appalling attack against civilians in Dnipro : strengthening sanctions against the Putin regime and military support to Ukraine (debate)

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Mr President, honourable Commissioner, honourable representative of the Council. Indeed, the message from Dnipro is very clear to us: the Putin regime is brutally beating civilians with minions. In Lithuania, we remember the thirteenth of January 32 years ago, when our men and women were killed by the Soviet regime. Now, 32 years later, Putin's regime is killing civilians in Ukraine. Many of us ha…

15 Dec

2022

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Major interpellations (debate)

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Madam President, dear Commissioner, dear colleagues, I agree with the Commission that Europe has to do more to protect its critical infrastructure. Unfortunately, for too long, European Union countries were naive to believe that business interests alone will protect its valuable assets. Russian war in Ukraine showed that in time of the war, criminal regimes are ready to attack the critical infrast…

15 Dec

2022

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The humanitarian situation in Ukraine due to Russia’s attacks against critical infrastructure and civilian areas (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, dear colleagues, unfortunately, we see again that currently Russia is ruled by criminal regime, ready to use any form of violence against any target in order to reach its imperialistic goals. It is a crime against humanity to target civilian objects and to try to freeze millions Ukrainians by that. These criminal genocide attacks and all those who ordered it and impleme…

14 Dec

2022

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Upscaling the 2021-2027 Multiannual Financial Framework (debate)

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. – Thank you, President. Commissioner, dear colleagues. First of all, I would like to welcome Parliament's initiative to revise the multiannual financial framework. The events of recent years have changed our world and it makes sense to adjust the decisions we have made in the past. It is particularly important to ensure food security and European autonomy in this area. Putin’s Russia’s war again…

13 Dec

2022

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Annual implementing report on the EU association agreement with Georgia (debate)

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Mr President, honourable Member of the Commission. In fact, it was said: Georgia is an important partner for us and the Georgian people have repeatedly stated that they are choosing the European path. However, as the Commissioner said, the threshold for Georgia has been raised high and we look forward to Georgia's implementation of the 12 recommendations made. We can state that Georgia is making s…

12 Dec

2022

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Action plan to boost long-distance and cross-border passenger rail (short presentation)

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Madam President, Commissioner, rapporteur. In fact, we have just talked about the importance of aviation, but rail is just as important, or can even replace it, in many cases with more environmentally friendly means of transport and enable Europeans to travel from one part of the European Union to another. I want to place great emphasis on that environmental aspect, safety and modernity, digitalis…

12 Dec

2022

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Addressing persistent challenges in the aviation sector and the impacts on passengers, workers, capacity and safety (debate)

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Mr President, honourable Commissioner. In fact, sustainable mobility is essential to protect both the possibility of movement itself in the European Union and to protect our nature without polluting the environment. However, it is also important to allow European citizens to move freely and to ensure that they can do so on time and have the opportunity to move around in our free space. But I also …

24 Nov

2022

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Revision of the Medical Devices Regulation – how to ensure the availability of medical devices (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, in fact, if we want to provide good help to our patients, we must have three things: professionals, tools and patient confidence. Today we are talking about the tools we can use to treat patients. I would like to call on the Commission not to lower the quality requirements, but to reduce the bureaucracy that is currently weighing on our medical device manufacturers and …

23 Nov

2022

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The continuing repression of the democratic opposition and civil society in Belarus

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Mr President, honourable Commissioner, honourable colleagues. The criminal Lukashenka regime in Belarus continues to intensify its repression against any criticism of the authorities. There are more than a thousand four hundred political prisoners in the country, more than a thousand four hundred people in prison just because they wanted to express their opinion and were not afraid to do so. The E…

22 Nov

2022

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Resilience of critical entities (debate)

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Mr President, honourable Commissioner, in fact, I join my colleagues in congratulating them that such a document has been tabled and I hope it will be adopted. But colleagues also mentioned how dangerous such critical infrastructure attacks are for the European Union, how many such attacks have occurred, German cases and others. But we also see Putin using attacks on infrastructure to wage war aga…

10 Nov

2022

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Racial justice, non-discrimination and anti-racism in the EU (debate)

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Mr President, honourable Commissioner. Racism is a shame. I welcome the Commission's willingness to continue its work on the elimination of racial discrimination. The European continent that survived the Holocaust cannot allow any discrimination based on gender, orientation, skin colour or nationality. Now Europe is also suffering from Putin's brutal military aggression, but in addition to the mil…

9 Nov

2022

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

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Thank you, Mr President, honourable Vice-Presidents of the Commission, I really agree with the statement that we must overcome the war in Ukraine caused by Putin's Russia and the consequences of the deaths of Ukrainians, who are losing their lives, and of Europeans, who are suffering from the increase in energy prices and food prices. In fact, some have spoken here about the need to agree on negot…

20 Oct

2022

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European support to the Ukrainian research community (debate)

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Thank you, Mr President, honourable Commissioner, I would like to congratulate you on this initiative and on your support for Ukrainian scientists. And I think that here colleagues have set out the facts about what Ukrainian science is suffering for, what scientists are suffering for, how infrastructure is being destroyed and what help is needed both now and in the future to rebuild Ukraine after …

19 Oct

2022

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Lukashenka regime's active role in the war against Ukraine (debate)

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Mr President, honourable Commissioner, honourable colleagues, the Lukashenka regime continues to actively support Russia's war against Ukraine. He receives Russian armed forces on the territory of Belarus, begins the mobilisation of Belarusians and provides weapons to Russia from his storage facilities. Lukashenko has once again shown that his only goal is the preservation of the regime. Due to th…

18 Oct

2022

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Recognising the Russian Federation as a state sponsor of terrorism (debate)

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Mr President, honourable Commissioner, in fact, we have been arguing for some time about what to call Putin's Russia, when it supported terrorism in different regions of the world, but there comes a time when some actions overwhelm the cup. And here are all those who were in Bucha, those who were in other parts of Ukraine, those who saw reports from Ukraine, many mass graves being unearthed, and t…

18 Oct

2022

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Setting up a comprehensive framework for missing children and missing persons at risk (debate)

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Thank you, Commissioner, for your attention to the children, especially the disappearance of the children. You gave us beautiful numbers. How many of these missing children are there, and that they often disappear from the families of migrants or war refugees. My colleague mentioned a new influx of them, namely children of Ukrainian refugees, but also children abducted by Ukrainians from occupied …

18 Oct

2022

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Impact of Russian invasion of Ukraine on migration flows to the EU (debate)

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Dear Commissioner. First of all, I would like to thank you for your attention and concern for the war refugees from Ukraine since the beginning of the war, for the activation of the Temporary Protection Directive, for the material assistance provided and for the current initiative for allocating part of the funds to non-governmental organisations and local authorities. I would also like to thank a…

18 Oct

2022

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Mental health (debate)

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Honourable Commissioner, I really want to thank you for your report and your attention to mental health. As a doctor, I can say that, in fact, mental health determines not only the state of mental health, but also the physical health of people. The pandemic, war, tensions have shown that mental health attention is actually not enough. That is why we need to unite our efforts so that not only the M…

18 Oct

2022

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Keep the bills down: social and economic consequences of the war in Ukraine and the introduction of a windfall tax (debate)

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Mr President, honourable Commissioner, I agree with the statements made by colleagues that we really need to limit the excesses in this situation as a matter of urgency. These include introducing taxes, capping gas prices, especially for electricity generation, and distributing the revenues fairly between small and medium-sized businesses and poorer European, European families. However, I want to …

6 Oct

2022

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COVID-19 – Sustaining EU preparedness and response: looking ahead (debate)

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President, honourable Commissioner. As we have heard, the covid does not shrink, although perhaps the virus changes its shape. We responded by setting up HERA, a specific authority that could issue recommendations and warnings on the direction of the pandemic. I would like to ask you whether HERA itself is fully formed and we can expect it to work at full capacity, and we will be able to have very…