What Ivan Vilibor spoke about.

9 Nov

2023

HR Speech

Effectiveness of the EU sanctions on Russia (RC-B9-0453/2023, B9-0453/2023, B9-0454/2023, B9-0455/2023, B9-0456/2023, B9-0457/2023)

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Dear Chairman, I vote against another resolution on sanctions, sanctions have failed, we are destroying only ourselves and no one else. This reminds me of a time of prohibition when alcohol was banned in the US, and yet everyone drank it; So we can read: Russian LNG imports have increased by 40% since the invasion of Ukraine. Thus, Spain and Belgium became the second and third importing country of…

9 Nov

2023

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Outcome of the EU-US summit (debate)

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Namely, when NATO was founded, British officer Montgomery himself said that the idea of NATO was to keep the Germans on their knees, the Russians outside Europe, and the Americans inside. Similar is the logic of all other organizations that were established at the time, such as the Council of Europe or the European Economic Community, forerunner of the EU. The situation is the same today, after 70…

19 Oct

2023

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Generational renewal in the EU farms of the future (A9-0283/2023 - Isabel Carvalhais)

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Dear Chair, colleague, this report on generational renewal of future farms in the EU is actually a single complainer where he complains that every second farmer is retired with one foot. And now it is called for, therefore, the adoption of some kind of consistent and long-term strategy to solve this problem by the national states, so let's see where these problems are? 58% of farmers are at least …

19 Oct

2023

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The despicable terrorist attacks by Hamas against Israel, Israel’s right to defend itself in line with humanitarian and international law and the humanitarian situation in Gaza (RC-B9-0436/2023, B9-0436/2023, B9-0438/2023, B9-0442/2023, B9-0444/2023, B9-0445/2023, B9-0447/2023, B9-0448/2023)

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The only coherent model for the problem in Israel and Palestine is the two-state model. When they ask me when there will finally be peace, my answer is never, my colleagues, never. Why? So look at the politicians in Israel, look at Palestine. Who dominates Palestine? Hamas, which is radical, does not recognize Israel and wants the Israeli people to disappear. And who dominates Israeli politics, wh…

18 Oct

2023

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A true geopolitical Europe now (topical debate)

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Dear Chairman, geopolitics is largely shaped by migration movements. The policy of this institution is to settle migrants across Europe, to the detriment of the citizens of Europe. It is the media's policy to hide the problems facing the countries with the highest numbers of migrants today, such as Sweden, Belgium or Germany. Sweden has become from the safest country, as we could hear, a country, …

17 Oct

2023

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Question Time with Commissioners - European measures to prevent and to fight the rise of organised crime

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Dear Chairman, we in Croatia have major problems with organized crime. He is at all levels, including the political level. Our ruling party has been convicted by final judgment, I repeat, it has been convicted by the Supreme Court of the Republic of Croatia that it is a criminal organisation. We are talking about organized crime. Because they organized a systematic robbery of everything - public c…

17 Oct

2023

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General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2024 - all sections (debate)

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Dear Chairman, what is this budget for? After you have impoverished the member states by the imposed common health, agricultural and monetary policies, you are now giving alms in the form of aid, money that never, ever comes into the hands of the citizens, which you give to the governments of the states regularly and proven corrupt. In Croatia, it is the HDZ government. And you are not interested …

5 Oct

2023

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The new European strategy for a better internet for kids (BIK+) (B9-0386/2023)

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Dear Chairman, we are talking about a better internet for children, and what about a safer internet? According to experts, 49,000 children in Croatia have mental health problems, that is, they have some of the mental disorders due to excessive use of mobile phones, but also other devices. There is also a risk of digital dementia. It is a series of symptoms that affect the reduction of cognitive fu…

5 Oct

2023

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Urban wastewater treatment (A9-0276/2023 - Nils Torvalds)

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Dear Chairman, in vain a number of directives when the implementation of environmental and water protection policy is a disaster in practice. In Croatia, we have a water purifier in Sisak, a city of 40,000 inhabitants, which has a capacity of 60,000 equivalent inhabitants and now wants to expand to 80,000. The project is inadequate and will not be able to be maintained and rehabilitated one day. I…

4 Oct

2023

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Need for a speedy adoption of the asylum and migration package (debate)

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Dear Chairman, colleagues, the cause of migration are centuries of exploitation of African and Asian countries by European colonizers who took resources for their industry. That used to be. Recently, however, we have a debt enslavement, and so the American economist and Nobel laureate, the chief economist of the World Bank, Joseph Stiglitz, says that he is sorry that they pursued such policies tow…

3 Oct

2023

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European Media Freedom Act (debate)

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Dear Chair, the European Media Freedom Act speaks enough about what kind of document it is, what it says it will be carried out in cooperation with fact checking organisations. In Croatia, media freedom is at very low levels. Public companies controlled by the Croatian government pay extensive advertising to numerous media, newspapers and portals to write in favor of the government, a highly corru…

14 Sep

2023

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Parliamentarism, European citizenship and democracy (debate)

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Dear Chairman, colleagues, I will vote against the report on parliamentarism, and now I will tell you why I will vote like that. What is written here is arrogant and against the interests of Croatia. Part G reads as follows: whereas the persistence of unanimity in the Council has become de facto Obstacle to the progress of the European agenda by allowing one Member State government to block decisi…

12 Jul

2023

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Recommendations for reform of the European Parliament’s rules on transparency, integrity, accountability and anti-corruption (debate)

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The Honourable Chairman, a direct cause for this report on transparency and integrity is, of course, the situation with the bags of money that came from Qatar and ended up with the MPs. We in Croatia and the Croatian Parliament have much better standards for detecting and combating corruption among MPs than they are here in the European Parliament. This tool is called an asset declaration. True, t…

12 Jul

2023

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Putting the European economy at the service of the middle class (debate)

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Dear Chairman, if you want to strengthen the middle class that you have almost destroyed by creating laws that go in the hands of corporations, then it is necessary to encourage craftsmanship and small entrepreneurship, to promote the idea that people are not employees, but owners of small businesses, that they create their lives in the market independent of the corporations that eat and grind eve…

15 Jun

2023

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Lessons learnt from the Pandora Papers and other revelations (A9-0095/2023 - Niels Fuglsang)

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Dear Vice President, the story of Pandora Papers is not the first such story. We had Panama papers before and various others. It's about how dispersed our world is and what is the difference between rich and poor, between elites and ordinary citizens. It's about tax avoidance. So people carry money from the countries where they made it offshore to some other countries. In this particular case, it …

15 Jun

2023

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Sustainable reconstruction and integration of Ukraine into the Euro-Atlantic community (RC-B9-0270/2023, B9-0270/2023, B9-0274/2023, B9-0275/2023, B9-0277/2023, B9-0278/2023, B9-0281/2023)

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Dear Vice President, pushing Ukraine into NATO is exactly what started this conflict. That is, it is not just membership that matters, but the infrastructure that comes with that membership. My policy has been the same since the beginning. I'm against war-hungry statements coming, unfortunately, from the west. In Ukraine, peace must be achieved and one can go either to diplomatic talks, to peace o…

14 Jun

2023

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Extension of the mandate of the EPPO with regard to the criminal offence of violation of Union restrictive measures (debate)

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Dear Chairman, I am against the trend of shifting powers from member states to the Union and of mixing Brussels into anything and everything. Only 22 of the 27 Member States have joined the European Public Prosecutor’s Office and its mandate is limited to crimes affecting the Union’s financial interests. The sad truth is that there are countries that are slow to deal with corruption, whose judicia…

1 Jun

2023

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Foreign interference in all democratic processes in the European Union, including disinformation - Election integrity and resilience build-up towards European elections 2024 (debate)

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Dear Chair, Report on foreign interference in all democratic processes in the European Union. Of course, to the authors of this document, let us not deceive ourselves, not all external interference is disturbed, but only inappropriate external interference. As always, the idea of this document is to deal with those parties and governments who don't think Brussels tells them they should think and d…

10 May

2023

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Discharge 2021: European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO) (A9-0079/2023 - Mikuláš Peksa)

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(beginning of speech outside the microphone range)... the public prosecutor, is an institution that came very late and with very modest resources. These resources grow over time, but that's nowhere near enough to punish all the crime we see. Especially in Croatia, a highly corrupt country. Here is just one example: three billion kunas given for the development of innovation - only a small part is …

10 May

2023

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Discharge 2021: Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union (A9-0104/2023 - Olivier Chastel)

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As far as translations are concerned, the Honourable Chair always says that Croatian is the official language of the European Union. Multilingualism is also a fundamental principle of the European Union. It's actually a dead letter on paper. I have already counted ten examples, addressing the public, that this does not work and where it does not work. From plenary, committee, amendments and so on.…

10 May

2023

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Discharge 2021: European Medicines Agency (A9-0106/2023 - Katalin Cseh)

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Dear Chairman, when we talk about the European Medicines Agency, it should be said that almost all the money comes from the pharmaceutical industry. That was 67 percent in 2007 to reach 89 percent in 2017 and then even worse. The second thing is the way they work. They operate in a similar way to the US DEA and CDC. This was explained by Professor Harvey Risch, an epidemiologist at Yale University…

10 May

2023

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Update of the anti-corruption legislative framework (debate)

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Dear Chair, today we are talking about updating the anti-corruption legislative framework. My Croatia is crammed with corruption. That's what I've talked about many times here. The fight against corruption, of course, begins with will. Honestly willing to deal with corruption. It starts with attitude. With a view to: We will not allow it to be stolen and we will do everything to stop it at any cos…

9 May

2023

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Discharge 2021 (continuation of debate)

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Dear Chairman, today we are talking about the budget discharge. First, in spring 2020, you responded to COVID with counterproductive and non-scientific lockdown. You destroyed entire sectors of the economy and caused an unprecedented economic crisis, you invested the budgets of the state, citizens and businesses, and then to cover at least some of these holes in the summer of 2020, you put forward…

20 Apr

2023

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Information accompanying transfers of funds and certain crypto-assets (recast) (A9-0081/2022 - Ernest Urtasun, Assita Kanko)

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Dear Chairman, thank you. I explain here why I voted against the Regulation on information accompanying transfers of funds and certain crypto-assets. The European Parliament plans to launch a digital euro and digital identity within four months. All transactions will be monitored and recorded and potentially punishable. It is important to mention that crypto-payments in this Regulation will be rep…

19 Apr

2023

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Digital euro (debate)

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Dear Chairman, Dear colleagues, today's theme is the digital euro. When we talk about the digital euro, I say cash, cash, cash. Cash is a guarantee of freedom. The position I come from here is to preserve the freedoms, both personal and economic, of the Croatian citizens I represent. In the world, unfortunately, there are powerful globalization and corporate groups that from Davos boast of penetra…