What Ivan Vilibor spoke about.

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May

2022

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The fight against impunity for war crimes in Ukraine (debate)

Dear Chairman, I think it is time for the Commission to ask who benefits from its policy towards Russia. Russian revenues from fossil fuel exports to the European Union doubled in the two months of the war. We're talking about March and we're talking about April. Thus, Russia received a total of 62 billion euros in these two months, of which it received 44 billion euros from the European Union cou…

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May

2022

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Minimum level of taxation for multinational groups (debate)

The world is far from economic equilibrium and equity. On the one hand, corporations led by investment funds such as Avantgard, BlackRock, State Street and others, and on the other hand, year after year, from crisis to crisis, the increasingly indebted state, indebted to the banks that own these funds again. In recent years, we have seen a large allocation of capital pouring towards the top. Corpo…

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May

2022

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Commission’s 2021 Rule of Law Report (debate)

Dear Chair, let's say a few words about the rule of law in Croatia in 2021. End of 2021. With the Commission's permission, Croatia plunged one billion kuna into the restructuring of Brodosplit contrary to all the recommendations of the State Audit, which I reported to all institutions. The EU has no comment on this. In 2021, the Croatian Minister of Health paid HRK 11.2 million for the radiation d…

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May

2022

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EU action plan for organic agriculture (debate)

Dear Chairman, instead of organic farming flourishing in Croatia, for example on the devastated Banovina, I have to paraphrase here the letter of the association Croatian karst pastures that best describes this. We are the only member state of the European Union that, orchestrated in the media, defamates its own farmers and food producers and to which the ministry refers without any understanding.…

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Apr

2022

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The situation of marginalised Roma communities in the EU (debate)

Dear Chairman, the state policy of isolation, instead of integration, prevents the inclusion of Roma in normal life. They are kept isolated in their communities, where they live a life that is unacceptable to most citizens. Roma settlements are often full of violence, garbage, abandoned animals. They are mostly uneducated and prone to excesses. Young girls are forced to marry very early. At the ag…

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Mar

2022

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Need for an urgent EU action plan to ensure food security inside and outside the EU in light of the Russian invasion of Ukraine (debate)

Dear Chairman, food problems arose long before the war in Ukraine by destroying the domestic production and agriculture of small countries with the help of their puppet governments, so that the rich countries could export their waste, surpluses and poor quality food that does not meet the standards for animal feed to the countries of the periphery of the continent. People suffer from food that you…

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Mar

2022

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Transparency and administrative standards - the treatment of public access requests based on Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 (debate)

Mr President, transparency and public access to documents is at a low level in Europe. The Corona crisis, unfortunately, showed us that very clearly. It failed with regard to the purchase agreements for COVID vaccines. Why cannot we, as MEPs, have access to the purchase agreements? First, it was in a committee: we in the ENVI Committee had a chance to see the agreements but were not allowed to sca…

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Mar

2022

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Debate with the Prime Minister of Estonia, Kaja Kallas - The EU's role in a changing world and the security situation of Europe following the Russian aggression and invasion of Ukraine (debate)

Dear President, we receive many accusations from Ukraine, including President Zelensky himself, that the West has left them stranded. For years Zelenskyy has listened to words of support and encouragement and promises to join NATO and the European Union. And now that it is under Russian attack, except for some weapons and equipment, the West does nothing because it does not want to risk World War …

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Mar

2022

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The situation in Bosnia Herzegovina (debate)

Dear Chairman, I would like to share here with you a positive story from Bosnia and Herzegovina regarding the protection of human and constitutional rights of citizens. In addition to the fact that more than a year ago the Constitutional Court of BiH declared the obligation to wear masks and the restriction of movement unconstitutional, we also have new decisions. On 23 February this year, the Con…

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Feb

2022

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Protection of workers from the risks relating to exposure to carcinogens, mutagens and reprotoxins at work (continuation of debate)

Dear Chairman, thank you colleagues, when we talk about protecting workers from carcinogens, ethylene oxide should definitely be mentioned. Last year alone, the Ministry of Agriculture withdrew 80 products in Croatia for preventive reasons, for good standards of consumer protection and health, without it having been proven that he is doing harm. However, this standard does not apply in the case of…

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Feb

2022

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Corruption and human rights (continuation of debate)

Dear Chairman, we must set the parameters properly, and the parameters are such that several large funds control a huge, if not all, part of the economy, especially the western one. Second, that one billionaire has more assets than billions of other people. We are talking about entities with unlimited resources that have increased even more in this crisis. There's been the biggest transfer of weal…

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Feb

2022

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Human rights and democracy in the world – annual report 2021 (continuation of debate)

Dear Chair, we have a report on human rights and democracy in 2021 ahead of us. It is a year of unprecedented attacks on human rights and democracy. We could even say that there was a global war against democracy. We have seen restrictions on the right to work, movement and assembly, restrictions on the right to freedom of expression, unprecedented censorship of classical media and social networks…

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Jan

2022

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Empowering European Youth: post-pandemic employment and social recovery (debate)

Dear Chairman, the attitude towards children and young people in Europe that we have seen and see due to the COVID crisis is terrible, as if we were looking at which country will do more harm to its youngest population through bad policies, as if it were some kind of competition. Unfortunately, the damage that has been done is immeasurable. Closing into houses and apartments, leaving school behind…

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Dec

2021

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Forced labour in the Linglong factory and environmental protests in Serbia

–Dear Chair, lithium mines are planned in 20 locations in Serbia, and the key is the Jadra Valley, which has 18,000 inhabitants with prominent agriculture and confirms the sad neo-colonial reality of Europe and China. During Angela Merkel's recent visit to her EPP party colleague Vučić, he was a waiter and Serbia a buffet. Merkel says Europe is very interested in Serbian lithium. Why is Europe not…

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Nov

2021

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The EU's role in combating the COVID-19 pandemic: how to vaccinate the world (topical debate)

Madam President, when we approach medical products we always look at cost and benefit. I was personally present on 25 February this year in the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) in Brussels when the CEOs of seven big pharmaceutical companies claimed that they have 95% effectiveness, and some even more. Nine months later, we can see that this is much less and shorte…

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Nov

2021

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Common agricultural policy - support for strategic plans to be drawn up by Member States and financed by the EAGF and by the EAFRD - Common agricultural policy: financing, management and monitoring - Common agricultural policy – amendment of the CMO and other regulations (debate)

Dear Chairman, the story of the huge funds from European funds paid to farmers is constantly being published in the Croatian public, despite the fact that there is no serious production or its increase. In Croatia, unfortunately, as much as 70% of EU funds earmarked for agriculture and rural development did not go to agriculture and rural development, but went towards projects related to the publi…

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Oct

2021

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The outcome of the Western Balkans summit (continuation of debate)

–Dear Chairman, I would like to address the peoples of the so-called Western Balkan countries who will decide in a referendum on their membership of the European Union. I want to tell them to do good cost benefit analysis. There is much to be learned from the example of Crohn's Day. Unfortunately, many have been misled that Europe will solve Croatia’s problems – it will not. It can only be solved …

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Oct

2021

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 21-22 October 2021 (debate)

Dear Chair, today's debate is about the preparation of the European Council meeting, which will start soon, so it would be the turn to address the problems of fundamental rights and democracy in the Union and our citizens, not only outside the Union. I wanted to ask Mrs. von der Leyen if she might be a fan of the James Bond movie series. There's a distinctive name from the year 89, with Timothy Da…

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Oct

2021

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The Rule of law crisis in Poland and the primacy of EU law (debate)

Dear Chairman, colleague and colleague, today we have come to a critical conflict between the two ideas. One idea is Brussels, about the United States of Europe, and the other is the idea of individual member states of national sovereignty and, believe me, no one will step down. There has never been more conflict and discord in this house than it is today. Unfortunately, there is an increasing num…

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Oct

2021

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Banking Union - annual report 2020 (debate)

Dear Chairman, over the past year in Europe we have had an unprecedented increase in debt, so the ratio of government debt to GDP increased from 77.5 at the end of 2019 to 97 at the end of 2020, while in the eurozone it increased from 83.9 to a whopping 98 percent. For both of these areas, this is the highest annual increase in debt recorded, but also since data were available. In turn, Member Sta…

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Oct

2021

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Disinformation and the role of social platforms (debate)

Dear Chairman, the fundamental question that arises in social networks is the following: Are social networks a playground for corporations, individuals, owners, billionaires or are they a public good? As social networks have developed over the last 15 years and spread to all corners of the world where the Internet exists, they have at one point felt that they are powerful enough not only to monito…

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Oct

2021

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The situation in Belarus after one year of protests and their violent repression (debate)

Mr President, unfortunately, Belarus is not the only place with endangered democracy. Listening to this debate today, many people in Europe will ask themselves: where are my freedoms? What about repression against us in Europe? What about repression against the people who just want to be free from the mandatory nature of digital COVID certificates – a useless document for prevention? Protests – we…

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Sep

2021

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EU transparency in the development, purchase and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines (debate)

Mr President, problems with transparency and effectiveness, plus the fact that we have zero long—term safety data on the vaccines, are undermining the vaccination campaign. And quite rightly so! There are alternative solutions, and citizens and MEPs need to hear about them as well. A few days ago, a summit was held in the Italian Parliament, in the Italian Senate. What we saw in Rome was about 30 …

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Sep

2021

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Reversing the negative social consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic (debate)

Dear Chair, when the COVID passport was voted, what was the explanation of the European Commission? It will only be an auxiliary means of movement, it will not be a condition. And what has this aid turned into? It turned into a means of blackmail and coercion. It turned into what all of us who voted against that passport and warned that it would turn into a means of segregation, so in Slovenia you…

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Jul

2021

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Hong Kong, notably the case of Apple Daily

Dear Chairman, we have been discussing human rights in Bangladesh, Iran or Hong Kong all morning. Rightly so. However, Europe regrets that its opinion is not respected, and that there is no progress already after a number of resolutions. We would respect that opinion more if we were to mention it first in our own backyard. We don't need to look for totalitarian ideas in Bangladesh, unfortunately w…