What Sunčana spoke about.

20

Jan

2026

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Presentation of the Cybersecurity Act (debate)

Dear President, Commissioners, colleagues, when digital systems fall, schools suffer, public institutions suffer, citizens suffer, hospitals suffer, the whole system suffers. In the last year alone, ENISA has registered almost 5,000 serious cyber incidents in the European Union. This shows that threats are day-to-day, sophisticated and on the rise, and therefore, thanks to the Commissioner, for an…

18

Dec

2025

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European Democracy Shield – very large online platform algorithms, foreign interference and the spread of disinformation (debate)

18

Dec

2025

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30th anniversary of the signing of the Dayton-Paris Peace Agreement (debate)

26

Nov

2025

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EU position on the proposed plan and EU engagement towards a just and lasting peace for Ukraine (debate)

25

Nov

2025

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Protection of minors online (debate)

Thank you very much, but answer me, please, then to the question how do you mean to prevent what happens every second, say, on encrypted online platforms where at least two photos or videos of child sexual abuse are shared? One in seven children in elementary school arranged a face-to-face meeting with a person they met online. I'm sure the parents didn't say: ‘Yes, you can’. And finally, this yea…

25

Nov

2025

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Communication on the Democracy Shield (debate)

Dear Chair, Honourable Commissioner, I believe that the European Democracy Shield must be much more than an administrative measure and that it must be a geopolitical response and a backstop for the European Union, so it is of utmost importance to see how the Centre for Democratic Resilience will function. Why? Because we live in a time when democracy is no longer attacked only by cannons or weapon…

23

Oct

2025

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Combating violence against women and girls, including the exploitation of motherhood (debate)

Dear Chairwoman, colleagues, I will repeat, Croatia is among the few Member States that have already clearly defined rape as a non-consensual relationship in their criminal code and introduced criminal liability for digital violence and abuse of intimate content, thus becoming an example of good practice among EU countries. At the same time, the revised Anti-Trafficking Directive from last year ex…

23

Oct

2025

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Combating violence against women and girls, including the exploitation of motherhood (debate)

Dear Chair, I am glad that you mentioned cyberbullying and I agree with you and I hope that you will support the EPP Group initiative that we have been talking about for several years, which is the extension of the definition and that cyberbullying, in fact, becomes a criminal offence in all Member States of the European Union where it is not yet. As far as this Directive is concerned, I must say …

23

Oct

2025

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Audiovisual Media Services Directive obligations in the transatlantic dialogue (debate)

Dear President, colleague and colleague, when we talk about culture, we are not talking about trade. We talk about language, about the way we see the world, about who we are. And it is precisely our European identity in the digital space that is under threat. More than 65% of the video-on-demand market revenue in Europe is generated by three major non-European services, Netflix, Amazon Prime and D…

21

Oct

2025

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Polarisation and increased repression in Serbia, one year after the Novi Sad tragedy (debate)

It is clear that in Serbia we do not see a democratic, but a despotic narrative, a coquette as appropriate to the European Union, and on the other hand a very coquett to Russia and China. I would like to send a clear message to the citizens of Serbia: We do not change power here, we seek democratic change here and we ask that reforms be fulfilled for every country that wants to become a member of …

21

Oct

2025

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Criminal intimidation against investigative journalists in the EU: the attempted attack on Sigfrido Ranucci (debate)

Dear Chair, Honourable Commissioner, Colleagues, Sigfrido Ranucci is the target of an attempted attack precisely because he did his job: expose corruption, abuse of power and irregularities. His courage reminds us of the most important thing. Freedom of the press is not guaranteed when journalists can speak, but when they can do so without fear. We keep saying: there is no place to intimidate jour…

21

Oct

2025

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Institutional consequences of the EU enlargement negotiations (debate)

The enlargement of the European Union is not only an administrative process or a set of technical chapters, it is a political act, an expression of our vision and our responsibility, but also of the responsibility of the Member States that would like to join the European Union. At a time when borders in Europe are being redrafted, when autocracies question its values, enlargement is the answer, no…

20

Oct

2025

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The decision to impose a fine on Google: defending press and media freedom in the EU (debate)

Dear Chairman, colleague and colleague, this penalty is not an end in itself, it is a tool to reopen the market, to give media and publishers fairer access to the market. Let's look at reality, actually. Small local portals, regional newspapers, radio stations, they live and depend on the fair part of the advertising market cake. When the platform favors its own AdX and does not allow other option…

9

Oct

2025

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World Mental Health Day - addressing the socio-economic factors (debate)

Mr President, I'd like to thank my dear colleague and say: don't worry, we love you, you're not alone. Dear Chair, colleagues, I will only remind you that this year's theme of World International Health Day is access to mental health services in disasters and emergencies and that at this moment one in five people in conflict-affected areas suffers from mental health problems. However, one in five …

8

Oct

2025

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Promoting EU digital rules: protecting European sovereignty (debate)

Colleague Bartulica, I hope you do not seriously think that there is no opportunity and chance for the rise of digital companies in Croatia. If you did not follow, yesterday the Golden Kunas were awarded, the highest recognitions, and that is exactly start-up companies operating in the digital space. They were great in their speeches and praised Croatia. And don't be worried. The Croatian governme…

7

Oct

2025

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Common agricultural policy (joint debate)

Dear Chair, Commissioner, colleagues, I would say that food, together with energy and defence, is becoming part of the wider security mosaic of the European Union. So I'm not at all happy to relativize such an important topic, from sausages to hamburgers. I appeal first of all to the Commissioner, as many of my predecessors have said, to keep us in good financial terms when it comes to agricultura…

11

Sep

2025

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A new vision for the European Universities alliances (debate)

Dear Chairman, European Universities alliances are one of the most successful achievements of recent decades. Since 2019, Erasmus+ has brought together 65 alliances and more than 570 higher education institutions across Europe. It is integration in practice, joint studies, inter-university campuses and mobility without borders. In August, Eurostat reported that 8.4% of higher education students in…

10

Sep

2025

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Need for a strong European Democracy Shield to enhance democracy, protect the EU from foreign interference and hybrid threats, and protect electoral processes in the EU (debate)

To date, the EUvsDisinfo platform has documented nearly 20,000 cases of disinformation campaigns targeting our elections, our media and our healthcare systems. Every day we are exposed to five new disinformation. I am afraid that some colleagues who spoke here in Parliament today are contributing to this disinformation. It is alarming and we must agree that the call for a European democratic shiel…

9

Sep

2025

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Wave of violence and continuous use of force against protesters in Serbia (debate)

Dear Chairman, Honourable Commissioner, Colleagues, what we see in Serbia today is definitely not democracy. These are protests suppressed by force, these are students called enemies of the state, these are pressurized media and truth silenced. Such behavior of the authorities is not a dialogue, it is a logic of fear, I would say, a postmodern autocrat. And that's why we have to say clearly: this …

9

Sep

2025

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Devastating wildfires in Southern Europe: the need to strengthen EU aid to restore the massive loss of forests and enhancing EU preparedness (debate)

First of all, let me thank all firefighters, pilots and civil protection personnel for their outstanding contribution. I certainly agree, colleague and colleague, that we must show solidarity first. However, we forgot to mention something during this whole discussion, and in the past five years, unfortunately, in the floods and fires we have lost three thousand human lives. These are the lives, fa…

9

Sep

2025

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Devastating wildfires in Southern Europe: the need to strengthen EU aid to restore the massive loss of forests and enhancing EU preparedness (debate)

Colleague Šarec, you mentioned Montenegro. Thank you so much for being there. I would like to remind you that the Republic of Croatia has helped Montenegro, that the Republic of Croatia is one of the great examples at the EU level of how to invest in prevention, how to invest in the protection system, primarily civil protection. 634 million euros has been invested by the Republic of Croatia. So, I…

8

Sep

2025

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Public procurement (debate)

Dear Chairman, dear colleagues, Commissioner, if we don't change anything, we risk keeping public money trapped in slow and closed systems. The reform must simplify procedures, open the door to SMEs and I therefore agree with this proposal to ensure greater transparency and only in this way will we turn public procurement into a strategic tool that encourages competition, innovation and sustainabi…

9

Jul

2025

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EU Preparedness Union in light of the upcoming wildfire and droughts season (debate)

Dear Chairwoman, colleagues, we are talking about a common European response to the increasingly devastating and frequent climate challenges, and forest fires are certainly one of the most serious. In 2023, Europe lost more than 500,000 hectares of forest, and another extremely warm season is ahead of us. The RescEU fleet, which had 28 planes and four helicopters last year, will play a key role in…

8

Jul

2025

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2023 and 2024 reports on Bosnia and Herzegovina (debate)

The Honourable Chair, the Honourable Commissioner, I would like to thank my colleague first of all for this report. Thirty years since the Srebrenica crime. Thirty years since the Dayton Agreement and thirty years since the magnificent ‘Storm’, a storm of peace. It is in this context that we must therefore accept that Bosnia and Herzegovina's European path is the only guarantee of the country's la…

8

Jul

2025

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State of play of implementation of the European Media Freedom Act in the Member States (debate)

Dear Chairman, Honourable Commissioner, colleague and colleague, so today we are actually standing, I would say, in front of a moment of truth for European democracy. The European Media Freedom Act is not only a law, it is also a tool for authoritarian regimes. Free media is not an ornament of the political system. And if the left or the far right or the far left are not satisfied, if we are somew…