What Radan spoke about.

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Mar

2022

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Madam President, honourable Members, a week ago in this House, we rallied around a resolution on maximum severe sanctions, including the suspension of imports of oil and natural gas, to appease the aggressor, to help with whatever we can stop the war and the suffering of the Ukrainian people. This is not a utopia, this is a possible solution, but if we carefully rethink the philosophy of the green…

22

Nov

2021

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Introduction of a European social security pass for improving the digital enforcement of social security rights and fair mobility (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, millions of European Union citizens are constantly travelling, changing jobs and conditions to support themselves and feed their families. Very often they work simultaneously in different countries, with different employers, for different working hours. Very often they combine work as self-employed or as owners of micro-companies with work as employees in commercial com…

10

Nov

2021

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The escalating humanitarian crisis on the EU-Belarusian border, in particular in Poland (debate)

Mr President, what we see today is the true face of the Putin dictatorship and the true face of his friendship with Mr Erdoğan, whose puppet in this situation – only a puppet – is Mr Lukashenko. And I hope that the self-proclaimed European patriots and the guardians of Christian values see the true face of their idol Mr Putin today, because I see the name of Lukashenko mentioned, I hear the name o…

6

Oct

2021

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The state of play on the submitted RRF recovery plans awaiting approval (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, the poorest country in Europe, my country, Bulgaria, which has also suffered the most from COVID-19, has not yet submitted its recovery and resilience plan. Three successive governments and three parliaments, blocked by election panic, even refuse to clearly inform citizens what is the reason for this delay, to explain where the problem with decarbonisation measures …

5

Oct

2021

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EU Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority: ensuring a coordinated EU approach for future health crises and the role of the European Parliament in this (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, colleagues, open borders, free movement and free trade are our strength and the foundation of our well-being, but they also pose serious health risks, which we have all seen in the current pandemic. But these risks were present before. It is enough to track the movement of hepatitis cases, the awakening of tuberculosis, new unknown viruses and bacteria, or the ever-i…

4

Oct

2021

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The protection of persons with disabilities through petitions: lessons learnt (debate)

Mr President, as rapporteur of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs opinion on this very important report, I will use the opportunity to very briefly present the most important among our long list of suggestions. If I am to put it in one sentence, it would be: make lifelong education accessible and affordable, open the labour market, and provide for independent living. Most people with d…

14

Sep

2021

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EU Blue Card Directive (debate)

Mr President, we should welcome and support this long—awaited legislation, and I thank all the teams that made it possible. It is paramount for the EU to become, once again, the most attractive labour market in the world. We want to sustain and develop our social model. We want to build the first carbon—neutral economy in the world and to become leaders in new technology and green innovation. Huma…

13

Sep

2021

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Fair working conditions, rights and social protection for platform workers - New forms of employment linked to digital development (debate)

Mr President, I do generally support the idea of this report, and yet I see risks that I would like to share with you, especially vis-à-vis the legislative work that we will have at the end of this year and the beginning of the next. Of course, we are all committed to improving working conditions. We are all looking forward to quality employment and fair incomes on our continent. We share the same…

13

Sep

2021

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

Mr President, Commissioner, colleagues, in this general debate on European health policy, the main political topic is how far the competences of the nation state extend and where those of the Union begin. Does the subsidiarity principle allow the European institutions to engage in health issues in individual Member States? The general procurement of vaccines, despite the initial delay, was an unde…