What Ivan Vilibor spoke about.

18

Apr

2023

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Institutional relations between the EU and the Council of Europe (A9-0056/2023 - Loránt Vincze)

Dear Chair, I cannot support this report because it improperly regulates relations between the two organisations. One organisation is the European Union, the other is the Council of Europe. We are now here in Strasbourg, in the European Parliament, just a few metres across the Council of Europe building, a few hundred metres away is the building of the European Court of Human Rights. And it is pre…

18

Apr

2023

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Social Climate Fund (A9-0157/2022 - David Casa, Esther de Lange)

Dear Chairman, I cannot support such a policy. And while with one hand the Commission is giving money through the climate fund to save the environment and households, with the other hand it is destroying the environment and households. I will give you an example in our Croatia where JASPERS and DG REGI, i.e. Commission bodies, send dozens and even hundreds of millions of euros to create waste disp…

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Apr

2023

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The need for a coherent strategy for EU-China Relations (debate)

Dear Chairman, thank you colleagues. We are now witnessing the creation of a multipolar world. He's inevitable. Let's talk about the vision of the future. This is not just about China, which is being discussed here today, but India, Latin America, Indonesia, Africa and others. The time of a strong West is forever passing, and this is mostly due to the political elites in the West. Elites who are a…

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Mar

2023

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The EU Guidelines on Human Rights Defenders (A9-0034/2023 - Hannah Neumann)

Dear Chairman, today we talked about standards for the protection of human rights. Why do we still have so many human rights issues in 2023? This is due to double standards. The rules applicable to some, do not apply to others. One can hear calls for regime change, we have seen cases of undermining individual governments, subversions, even invasions of these countries. And such things, of course, …

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Mar

2023

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Advancing the 2022 Bridgetown Agenda (debate)

The global financial infrastructure needs a radical transformation and the Bridgetown initiative is not a big enough step towards that goal. These days we see the collapse of major Western banks. The financial system as it comes from the West, which is based on debt doctrine and endless borrowing, which is based on the fact that the real economy is subordinated to financial markets, instead of the…

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Mar

2023

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Combating organised crime in the EU (debate)

Dear Chairman, in Croatia the people say all states have a mafia, but in Croatia the mafia has taken over our state. She realized that there were more profitable things than rackets and smugglers, she connected with politics. What else is it than organized crime when you put your operatives in state institutions and public enterprises, when you systematically rob everything? When you steal your hi…

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Feb

2023

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European Central Bank - annual report 2022 (A9-0022/2023 - Rasmus Andresen)

A long time ago, a gap was created between the real economy and the financial economy. The European Central Bank, its main job is to maintain price stability, i.e. to set itself the goal of inflation being below two percent annually. The average inflation for last year in Europe is about ten percent. Some countries such as Lithuania also accounted for 20 percent. Of course, that's just what's on p…

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Feb

2023

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One year of Russia’s invasion and war of aggression against Ukraine (RC-B9-0123/2023, B9-0123/2023, B9-0126/2023, B9-0131/2023, B9-0132/2023, B9-0134/2023, B9-0139/2023)

Dear Chairman, I closely follow the events in Ukraine, I also followed what Mr. Zalužni said in an interview with The Economist, which the Polish President said on the last day. If we are purely military, strategically looking at the situation of the Ukrainian army, this situation is very, very bad. So, if the West is already thinking of winning, it must send serious military aid. But he doesn't s…

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Feb

2023

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European Central Bank - annual report 2022 (debate)

Dear Chair, today we have here at the hearing, Ms. Lagarde has come to us to ask for support for her 2022 report. Many times today Thomas Jefferson is quoted here as the high price of freedom and so on. There's another Jefferson I'd like to call. I think it's worth more to the west. So, if private banks are allowed to control the money show, eventually the people who built the continent will appea…

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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)

Dear Chairman, my Croatia is a country of spirit voters. Electoral lists are unregulated, often voted by the dead or those who have emigrated, and there are many more voters than there are inhabitants. When I first ran, there were a dozen voters registered at my address, most of whom I never knew or had anything to do with that address. In Croatia, the voter is not signed anywhere, so there is no …

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Feb

2023

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Need for urgent update of the EU list of high-risk third countries for anti-money laundering and terrorist financing purposes (debate)

Dear Chairman, when we talk about risky third countries for laundering and hiding money, we must remember that this money should first be stolen, that is, it should be illegally acquired somewhere. We're talking about money that isn't stolen in Jamaica or Barbados. We're talking about money being stolen right here in Europe. What to do when for years you have been warning the authorities that hund…

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Jan

2023

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Protection of the EU’s financial interests - combating fraud - annual report 2021 (debate)

When it comes to protecting the financial interests of the European Union, the Honourable Chair should emphasise that it is an organisation made up of people, above all people. Therefore, the financial interest of the EU must be that of its inhabitants. Croatia is a member of the EU, and our country is failing, people are displacing themselves, and in stores they are mostly selling expensive and l…

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Jan

2023

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Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter - annual report 2022 (debate)

Dear Chairman, Europe swears by the protection of human rights and human dignity. We want to be the champions of freedom and democracy in the world, we want to look down and judge others, but we are not capable of cleaning our own house. For the past two years, we have had the opportunity to witness major human rights violations in the EU, and most MEPs were not brave to even write about it. When …

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Jan

2023

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Shipments of waste (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner Sinkevičius, as I have warned the Commission and JASPERS on many occasions, waste management in Croatia is still done in a very bad way. Bad projects are still approved and they endanger the environment and destroy local communities that host them, since their operational costs are very high. In the latest case of the Šagulje waste management centre, JASPERS even allowed…

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Dec

2022

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Defending democracy from foreign interference (debate)

Dear Chairman, defending democracy from foreign interference is today's topic, has been discussed many times and has always been a festival of hypocrisy. It served the most for the settlement of the Brussels establishment with dissenting voices within the Parliament, the member states, but also outside the countries of the Union. As soon as someone thinks differently and does not think as he shoul…

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Nov

2022

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Amending Council Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2020/2093 of 17 December 2020 laying down the multiannual financial framework for the years 2021 to 2027 - Amending Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2018/1046 as regards the establishment of a diversified funding strategy as a general borrowing method - 'Macro-Financial Assistance+' instrument for providing support to Ukraine for 2023 (debate)

At the outset, I will call once again for a ceasefire and the conclusion of peace in Ukraine. My interest is that of Croatian citizens and I am interested in where this assistance that goes to the Government of Zelenskyy ends. Even before this war, many funds went there, but according to the findings of the Court of Auditors, we do not know exactly what they were spent on. This year, 2022. The Wes…

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Nov

2022

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Digital finance: Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) - Digital Finance: Amending Directive regarding Digital Operational Resilience requirements (debate)

Dear Chairman, when cryptocurrencies appeared, people flocked because they felt that they could be free there from the conventional financial system, which is essentially centralized, debt and unfair. Digital assets and digital money can now go in one of two directions: or as tools of liberation or enslavement. We can live in a world where capital can be easily accessed, where small businesses and…

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Oct

2022

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Outcome of the first meeting of the European Political Community (debate)

The Honourable Chairman, at the meeting of leaders of European countries from Iceland to Azerbaijan in Prague, discussed, among other things, energy and energy independence. The Croatian Prime Minister went there only a few days after it turned out that he made the decision to shut down our refinery in Sisak and export oil from Croatia. It has pushed our Croatian colonial position, so although we …

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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)

Dear Chairman, the budgets of the citizens are attacked on at least three sides: inflation that dates back to before the war, rising energy prices and eventually the collapse of the economy, which will reduce employment and income for many. Here in France, unions have called for a general strike since 18 October. We were in Brussels last week. Every now and then, someone protests around the Parlia…

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Oct

2022

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The situation of human rights in Haiti in particular related to gang violence

Dear Chairman, colleagues, at the beginning I will only state that, unfortunately, this resolution on Haiti does not have a translation into Croatian, so that at least in the language we are equal. Today, the European Parliament talks about human rights in Haiti, Myanmar and Ethiopia. Croatia was hit by two earthquakes in 2020. Two and a half years have passed since the Zagreb earthquake and almos…

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Sep

2022

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Implementation of the Updated New Industrial Strategy for Europe: aligning spending to policy (debate)

Dear Chairman, the civilization as we know it has risen from the 18th century by an industrial revolution and is based on fossil fuels and electricity. In the past, 90% of people worked in agriculture, and 90 people needed to produce food so that 100 people would have to eat. Today it's the other way around. Today, about 10% of our workforce is working in agriculture. In order for a farmer to prod…

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Sep

2022

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

Dear Chairman, the EU's response to the energy crisis shows that the authorities do not understand what awaits us. The only way to solve the crisis is to find enough cheap energy on which the current economy originated. You can't be a developed country, not waste energy. Limiting prices will not help because no one will produce or sell a product without losing it. Already this leads to the removal…

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Jul

2022

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Better regulation: joining forces to make better laws (debate)

Dear Chairman, better laws, what is the meaning of laws and standards if they are not implemented? Let's go, say, to environmental protection in Croatia, to waste management. There are standards of how quality projects are done in Europe, for example, a red book or a yellow book and others. Why are bad projects approved in peripheral countries such as Croatia? Such projects shall be approved by th…

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Jul

2022

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Protection of the EU’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2020 (debate)

Dear Chairman, thank you, financial frauds related to EU funds in Croatia are a daily occurrence. One of the most reckless examples of robbery and unintended wear and tear is the Competence Centre for Advanced Mobility. It is a research and development project whose beneficiary is the DIV Group and seven other partners, including several faculties. That's $205 million in 2020. 2023 and the source …

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Jun

2022

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This is Europe - Debate with the Prime Minister of Croatia, Andrej Plenković (debate)

Dear President, Dear Mr Plenković, the recession in Croatia has reached its highest level. That's fine. This is the policy you are pursuing with your finally condemned organization quite legitimately because the citizens of our Croatia have chosen it. Most of the parties in our Croatian Parliament have raised their hands for sanctions against Russia. So, you had the support of your party and oppos…