What Radan spoke about.

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Jan

2023

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Revision of the European Works Councils Directive (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, colleagues, social dialogue is fundamental for the social market economy of Europe. This is not a cliché, but a mere fact. Although with quite a different scope, social bargaining is incorporated successfully into any national labour law and any national social system. Europe is becoming more and more united, especially in the face of the Russian invasion, but also in t…

18

Jan

2023

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Revelations of Uber lobbying practices in the EU (debate)

Mr President, I am afraid we are making a serious mistake in this debate. And we quite rightly, quite rightly, here express our disapproval of the practices of a particular company in lobbying and its influence on the formation of political decisions. There is no doubt that everything that has been revealed on this issue is deeply reprehensible. But we are quite wrong to transfer this problematic …

18

Jan

2023

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An EU strategy to boost industrial competitiveness, trade and quality jobs (debate)

Madam President, dear Commissioner, dear Minister, dear colleagues, I’m afraid that today we’re not brave enough in this House facing the challenges from the biggest clean-tech investment plan in the US and – I would rather say – in Western history. We are not brave enough because we dare not say that our main task today is not to discuss protectionism and certainly not to discuss nationalisation,…

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Dec

2022

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Defending democracy from foreign interference (debate)

Mr President, the Qatari scandal, which we are naturally discussing all these days, but if we go back to Brexit, and above all the Russian aggression in Ukraine, I hope, we have been taught a very simple and obvious lesson, and it is that any foreign interference in a single European country affects the entire Union, that any breach of security is a threat to any society, to any citizen of Europe.…

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Dec

2022

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Renewable Energy, Energy Performance of Buildings and Energy Efficiency Directives: amendments (REPowerEU) (continuation of debate)

Madam President, REPower is turning, I would say at last, our climate policy in the right direction, facilitating the natural market incentives of our citizens and businesses, and providing administrative stability for the family and corporate investments. But more needs to be done: first, establish and regulate new financial models and schemes allowing for vulnerable households and businesses to …

12

Dec

2022

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Towards equal rights for persons with disabilities (debate)

Madam President, it is clear to us, all those involved in this debate, that the state of integration of people with disabilities in different European countries is very different. Like their participation in the labour market, the unemployment rate, the income they receive, even their ability to grow in society, and if you want even their representation in the national parliaments or here with us …

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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)

Mr President, dear Commissioner, Minister, colleagues, let me be, as usual, very straightforward. I am deeply concerned by the ease and speed with which the Council, including my own government, approved the windfall tax. I am concerned because a windfall tax does not necessarily reduce bills, which is the theme of our debate, but rather subsidises the most unsustainable of all forms of electric g…

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Oct

2022

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Sustainable maritime fuels (FuelEU Maritime Initiative) - Deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, colleagues, first of all, I would like to welcome the report that has been proposed to us and to congratulate the rapporteur and the shadow rapporteurs on what they have achieved, I know from experience as the EPP shadow rapporteur in the Committee on the Environment, a very, very difficult compromise. Secondly, however, I am obliged to warn about the risks that I have …

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Oct

2022

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The accession of Romania and Bulgaria to the Schengen area (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, Minister, our position in this House has long been clear on the issue of the accession of Bulgaria and Romania to Schengen. The position of the European Commission has also been clear for a long time. Even clearer is the interest of Bulgarian and Romanian citizens, businesses in both countries, but also of the entire European Union that the principles of free movement a…

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Oct

2022

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European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control - Serious cross-border threats to health (debate)

Madam President, it is important that we support this agreement between the institutions on a common European health policy, on a common policy against communicable diseases. It is the only opportunity to protect our most important assets – freedom of movement and the single market – at the same time, but also to protect Union citizens from further similar health crises. Above all, the solutions a…

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Sep

2022

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EU response to the increase in energy prices in Europe (debate)

Madam President, dear colleagues, the measures that have been proposed by the Commission today and will be elaborated tomorrow, especially decoupling of gas and electricity prices and putting a cap on Russian energy imports, sound more than reasonable, at least in the short run. But these should be regarded simply as emergency interventions and considered far from sustainable solutions of the stra…

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Sep

2022

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Mr President, honourable Members, at the beginning of this year the Bulgarian Parliament, on the proposal of Democratic Bulgaria and with almost complete unanimity, accepted the raising of the threshold for value added tax and thus helped tens of thousands of Bulgarian entrepreneurs to go through the crisis times. However, this measure needs to be coordinated with the European Commission, which ha…

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Sep

2022

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Energy efficiency (recast) (debate)

Mr President, honourable Members, of course, as practically all those who have spoken in today's debate, I strongly support the high level of ambition in the field of energy efficiency. It has this peculiarity that it simultaneously achieves our environmental goals, our economic, energy, geopolitical goals with the same measures. I don't think we have such a universal policy. Above all, it has a h…

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Jul

2022

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Objection pursuant to Rule 111(3): Amending the Taxonomy Climate Delegated Act and the Taxonomy Disclosures Delegated Act (debate)

Mr President, to save time. I will not discuss nuclear. Furthermore, I think nuclear has a place in the future of our energy, but definitely has no place in this package with gas. So what about gas? There are certainly some gas projects that we could consider sustainable, namely those who are leading to less dependence on foreign suppliers. But we do not see those in this delegated act. What we se…

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Jul

2022

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Objection pursuant to Rule 111(3): Amending the Taxonomy Climate Delegated Act and the Taxonomy Disclosures Delegated Act (debate)

Mr President, colleague Tóth, you referred to electricity prices, which is really the most pressing issue at the moment. But the delegated act, in its part about gas, is all about gas-generation electricity. And isn’t it exactly electricity produced from gas that led us where we are with electricity prices? I think it’s the main driver of the peak of electricity prices at the end of the previous y…

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Jun

2022

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Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System - Social Climate Fund - Carbon border adjustment mechanism - Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System for aviation - Notification under the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) (joint debate – Fit for 55 (part 1))

Mr President, Mr Vice-President, Mrs Minister, tomorrow is going to be our most difficult vote and perhaps not just on the Green Deal. Why is it the hardest? We have a consensus on reducing our dependence on fossil fuel imports. We have a consensus to reduce emissions, we have a consensus to step up investment in new technologies, but at the same time we have neither a consensus nor, I would say, …

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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, Commissioner, colleagues, I am afraid that I must start by saying that it was a wrong decision to link the debate on Repower EU to the debate on stopping gas for Bulgaria and Poland. Repower EU is a bold and good initiative, but it is medium-term, it does not provide immediate solutions. Conversely, the suspension of gas for Bulgaria and Poland is an aggressive, crude measure by the …

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May

2022

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Question Time (Commission) Europe’s Energy Autonomy: The strategic importance of renewables and energy interconnections and efficiency

My additional question would be on the countermeasures. I do not, Madam Commissioner, really agree that when you have Gazprom on the table, it is a purely commercial dispute. When you have Gazprom acting, especially acting by cutting off the contract-based gas supply of two NATO and European Union countries, it’s obviously purely political. And therefore, my question was mainly what political coun…

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May

2022

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Question Time (Commission) Europe’s Energy Autonomy: The strategic importance of renewables and energy interconnections and efficiency

Madam President, dear Commissioners, I refer to today’s topic with regard to the crisis that we have in Bulgaria and Poland due to the cutting off of Russian gas. So, most naturally in this situation, my question is oriented twofold. One is the direction of concrete measures of European solidarity towards our two countries in this crisis period. Since there is already certain initiatives on behalf…

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Apr

2022

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

Madam President, colleagues, the link between Vladimir Putin's regime and radical populist movements, I would not even call them left-wing or right-wing, does not deserve it, but within the European Union it has long been indisputable, let alone clearly proven, only in the current debate. But the question is for us. The question is what do we do about who we are – are we analysts, are we journalis…

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Apr

2022

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Trans-European energy infrastructure (debate)

Madam President, I think we need a certain degree of moderation and common sense in this debate. And I am listening to the debate for a full hour now. And I’m afraid I heard too many reasonable, clever, but far too extreme opinions. Of course we need more renewables, of course we need smarter grids, and of course we need it as fast as we can. But cutting off the Kremlin butcher’s gas supply, we ne…

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Apr

2022

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Revision of the Market Stability Reserve for the EU Emissions Trading System (debate)

Madam President, Mr Vice-President, colleagues. I am afraid that I will not agree with the general opinion in this debate and I believe that this report is in the wrong direction. And he's also very old. The text itself takes into account pre-energy crisis phenomena from the autumn of 2021 and well before Putin's aggression in Ukraine. The purpose of the market reserve is to make it possible both …

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Mar

2022

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The Power of the EU – Joint European Action for more affordable, secure and sustainable energy (debate)

Madam President, REpowerEU would have been an outstanding plan back in 2014, when war was predictable, but we failed to act. Now it is too little, too late. Now we need a plan by the hour and not by the decades. What we need is to impose a full energy embargo on Russian oil and gas in order to stop financing Putin’s aggression. But we need also to be ready for Putin’s regime to cut off our supply.…

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Mar

2022

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General Union Environment Action Programme to 2030 (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, colleagues, you know, I was 10 years old when the carelessness of the communist dictatorship in the Kremlin blew up the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and resulted in thousands of casualties across Europe. In the following years, the protests against the communist dictatorship in Bulgaria were mainly with environmental and environmental causes. In this sense, freedom,…

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Mar

2022

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Batteries and waste batteries (debate)

Member of the Commission. - Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, our main, if not the only, priority right now is the energy independence of the European Union. And this is not a priority for the coming weeks or months, and after 20 years of wrong policy in this regard, we should be aware of it as a priority for at least the next 20. And if, in the short term, ensuring our energy independence is…