What Andrey spoke about.

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BG Written Statement

An intellectual property action plan to support the EU’s recovery and resilience (short presentation)

The report we are looking at is extremely important when it comes to the EU's economic recovery and resilience, but this report is not just about that. I recall that I am the author of an opinion of the Committee on Culture and Education, in which I tried to contribute to a more holistic approach to intellectual property rights. As an artist with many years of experience, I am well aware of the pr…

13 Mar

2024

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Creation of a European initiative for an annual designation of European capitals for children (debate)

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Madam President, I know what this initiative will bring and what will happen in these capitals. This has already been done in Bulgaria, the name of the Assembly is ‘Banner of Peace’. They gathered there from all over the world. It's for brainwashing purposes. So I know these totalitarian practices because I'm not very small. What worries me is that children have to make decisions. Already made by …

12 Mar

2024

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European Media Freedom Act (debate)

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on behalf of the ECR Group. - Mr President, I would just like to put one sentence in the beginning: the job of journalists is not to control governments, but to inform citizens. We are constantly talking about independent journalism. I can tell you that there are no fully independent journalists, and there have never been. Each media has its own editorial policy and if the journalist does not agre…

29 Feb

2024

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Deepening EU integration in view of future enlargement (A9-0015/2024 - Petras Auštrevičius, Pedro Silva Pereira)

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Member of the Commission. - Mr President, I would very much like to know, fellow Members, why you are using enlargement policy today as a tool to push unwanted and ill-considered ideas about Europe. The European Union was not created to serve French foreign policy. If we had to follow Macron and his unreasonable ideas, we would have long been at war with Russia. It's not just unreasonable. This is…

29 Feb

2024

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European Digital Identity framework (A9-0038/2023 - Romana Jerković)

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on behalf of the ALDE Group. - Mr President, I voted categorically against this agreement. I have never seen a more obvious attempt to recreate George Orwell’s 1984. How is it possible that, after two years of negotiations between the Council and Parliament, the end result exposes our citizens to such an open threat of leaks, surveillance and control? We still cannot protect our data. Health data …

6 Feb

2024

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EU2040 climate target (debate)

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Mr President, when I hear the phrase 'climate targets', I am convinced that some people in the European Union think that they are the masters of the planet, when in fact we are only part of biodiversity. We can't control the weather. Cataclysms have always occurred periodically, and they are not the result of human activity. Are we to blame for hurricanes, tsunamis or volcanic eruptions? We can't …

18 Jan

2024

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Situation in Hungary and frozen EU funds (B9-0086/2024)

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Madam President, I also voted categorically against this resolution, because it is an attempt to carry out a coup in a sovereign country with the help of European money. Hungarian citizens have the right to access these funds, as do the French, for example. By blocking them for political reasons, you blackmail them and tell them ‘do what we like, not what you want’. Blocking Erasmus+, for example …

18 Jan

2024

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Extending the list of EU crimes to hate speech and hate crime (A9-0377/2023 - Maite Pagazaurtundúa)

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Madam President, I strongly voted against this request to extend the list of crimes committed at EU level to hate speech and hate crime. The very idea of this report is, in my opinion, unnatural. What we are talking about cannot qualify as hate speech only if it is directed at certain minorities or protected groups of people. This is not equality. I personally do not have any pretensions, I can sa…

18 Jan

2024

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Recent EU-Audits identifying that Uruguayan and Argentinian meat from horses with unreliable sworn declarations and unknown drug history is entering the EU (debate)

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Madam President, I would like you not to wonder why our farmers are protesting all over Europe. This approach by the European Union has ruined European livestock farming. You have imposed extremely strict rules and standards on our manufacturers, which have raised costs enormously. In this case, it is not fair, perhaps, to protect low-quality imports from abroad. From Uruguay comes cheap meat, stu…

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, this is an attempt to criminalise the personal opinion of people who disagree with the Bolshevik ideology of the government. Here specific identities are protected and any attempt to criticize them is defined as hatred and fascism. Because it's much easier to throw your opponents in jail. Why is hate speech only when it is directed at minorities or homosexuals? Is there no hatred …

13 Dec

2023

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EU strategy to assist young people facing the housing and cost of living crisis (topical debate)

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Mr President, I find this debate extremely ironic, because this crisis was created by the so-called Green Deal and the attempts to destroy the European economy. The problem will not be solved by building new social housing. Cheap housing is available in the countryside as much as you want, but young people don't want to go there simply because they don't have any perspective. Young people don't wa…

12 Dec

2023

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European Health Data Space (debate)

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Madam President, we are living in the age of information, but in fact we are also living in a time of lack of awareness. This text, thank God, is a big step in the right direction and covers serious gaps in health systems. Here it is important to build on the measures already in place to exchange information on rare diseases, which I particularly want to talk about. We will be able to collect and …

23 Nov

2023

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Revised pollinators initiative - a new deal for pollinators (B9-0463/2023)

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Madam President, I voted for this resolution because I support all the measures that protect bees and all other pollinators. There has been much talk in recent days about food security in Europe. I don't know if you understand that without bees there will be no food. No matter what pesticides you throw and in what quantities on the harvest, there will be no food. Pollinators, and bees in particula…

22 Nov

2023

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This is Europe - Debate with the Prime Minister of Bulgaria, Nikolay Denkov (debate)

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Madam President, Academician Denkov, Mrs Gabriel, Commissioner, I was thinking about talking about culture and education, but as things are going, I am going to talk about Schengen, I am Vice-Chair of the Committee on Culture and Education. I just want to say to the people who think that Bulgaria should not enter Schengen that all illegal migrant channels are financed by the following countries if…

18 Oct

2023

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Fighting disinformation and dissemination of illegal content in the context of the Digital Services Act and in times of conflict (debate)

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,. – Mr President, we live in a time when we are in an extremely polluted information environment, let alone infected. We live in a time when the information environment is worse than Covid. I think one of the problems is the extremely low level of journalism worldwide. There are numerous examples of this. And very often after the publication of some information, the media neither apologizes for t…

18 Oct

2023

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A true geopolitical Europe now (topical debate)

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Madam President, many MEPs say that we need even more and stricter measures against Russia. They clearly do not see that, after all the measures and sanctions, Russia continues the war, and it is the citizens of the European Union who are the most harmed. The truth is that foreign policy is one of the components that has led the European Union to a severe economic crisis. If peace was so important…

15 Jun

2023

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The water crisis in Europe (debate)

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Madam President, I will try to be very specific. Personally, I don't see any problems in legal logging. People need wood. However, I see a huge problem in the utopian enthusiasm of the Greens, because they do not take into account the opinion of experts. Where species are cut, the same species of trees must be restored. I am strongly opposed to the change of the species fund. You cannot plant tree…

14 Jun

2023

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Make Europe the place to invest (debate)

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Madam President, when we talk about investment, it is key to see what we are offering. So at the moment in the European Union we propose the following: the most expensive labor force, the highest taxes, the highest price of energy, the heaviest bureaucracy with monstrous green restrictions and, of course, we offer an absolute shortage of raw materials. That's a pretty tempting offer for any invest…

20 Oct

2022

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Growing hate crimes against LGBTIQ people across Europe in light of the recent homophobic murder in Slovakia (B9-0476/2022, B9-0477/2022)

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Member of the Commission. - Mr President, I also voted strongly. My colleague Dzhambazki said a lot of the things that I wanted to say, and I am categorically against this resolution, because this thing is absolute hypocrisy and some kind of total ideology of Bolshevism, according to my understanding. Thousands of people, hundreds of thousands unfortunately, are killed every year for all sorts of …

19 Oct

2022

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EU-Western Balkans relations in light of the new enlargement package (continuation of debate)

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Member of the Commission. - Madam President, I will be very blunt. I find the European Union's approach to the Western Balkans absolutely illogical, confused and directly malicious for the European Union. Contrary to the proclaimed intentions, there is absolute chaos in the Western Balkans at the moment, because there is no consistent application of the imposed requirements. It's like you're doing…

18 Oct

2022

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General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2023 - all sections (debate)

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Mr President, to my regret, I am increasingly convinced that the European Union aims to create a society of uneducated and low-cultural people who can easily succumb to manipulation and lies. Otherwise, I cannot explain the fact that the Commission is proposing a budget for Creative Europe and Erasmus+, which is 20% less in the next two years than in the previous two years. Culture and education h…

6 Oct

2022

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

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Mr President, in your approach to maintaining a high level of preparedness and responsiveness, there is something totally wrong, and this is obvious to anyone who does not consider every issue from the perspective of some new kind of European Soviet Union. You call it a federation. Undoubtedly, there is a need for a quick reaction. The answer, however, is not to centralise everything in the hands …

5 Oct

2022

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

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Madam President, I will try to be as short as possible. The fact that Bulgaria and Romania have not yet been admitted to Schengen can only be determined in a single way. This is a shame and a disgrace to the European Union and its double standards. I will probably repeat what my colleagues said. How many times should our technical readiness and political will be confirmed? More than ten years ago,…

7 Jul

2022

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Protection of the EU’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2020 (A9-0175/2022 - Katalin Cseh)

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Member of the Commission. - Mr President, this report seemed to me to make some sense at first. In the final text, however, a very strange part began to appear in which everything is related to the rule of law and this is another attempt to crush countries that do not think exactly the way the Commission thinks. However, remember that we are a Union of Sovereign States. So the term "rule of law" h…

7 Jul

2022

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Sustainable aviation fuels (ReFuelEU Aviation Initiative) (A9-0199/2022 - Søren Gade)

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Member of the Commission. - Mr President, I therefore think that this project is generally not bad, especially in its original version, because there have been some changes that I personally am very concerned about. Whatever is done with airplane fuels, the green colleagues on the right, I would call them the Taliban, continue to blame the aviation sector for the deforestation of South America, of…