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EN Written Statement

Natural disasters during the summer 2021 - Impacts of natural disasters in Europe due to climate change (debate)

The summer of 2021 was full of disasters, with floods and fires all over Europe. But sometimes fires are not just fires, they are arsons. Sometimes floods are not just floods, they are consequences of landslides provoked by illegal deforestation. And these we call green crime! Such disasters lead not only to economic damages, but also to deaths. This year there was a cyclone in Romania, with devas…

25 Apr

2024

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Pre-enlargement reforms and policy reviews (debate)

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Madam President, the place of the Republic of Moldova is in the European Union. Moldovans are already Europeans. Moldovans are already in Europe, only we are behind in giving them their right to be here, European citizens with good papers. But in order for that to happen, we have to do more, we have to help them. Because Putin, on the other side, invests billions and billions, of euros, of rubles.…

25 Apr

2024

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Interinstitutional Body for Ethical Standards (debate)

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Madam President, there are suitcases of money walking around in the halls of Parliament, but we are talking about ethics. We have MEPs here in this House who have been caught red-handed with huge sums of money. But we are talking about standards. We have MEPs caught spying for China, for Russia, for money, together with their employees, and we are talking about institutions. No one will believe us…

24 Apr

2024

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The sixth Anti-Money Laundering Directive - Anti-Money Laundering Regulation - Establishing the Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (joint debate - Anti-money laundering)

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Mr President, most corruption crimes also involve money laundering and a simple Google search of ‘corrupt politicians in Romania’, we will find super-famous names, former prime ministers, ministers, but even MEPs. Just as famous files: the Zambaccian file, the Microsoft file or the Gala Bute file, in which even a parliamentarian who sat here in this Parliament was convicted of corruption. But what…

23 Apr

2024

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Amending Directive 2011/36/EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims (A9-0285/2023 - Malin Björk, Eugenia Rodríguez Palop)

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Mr President, 63% of victims of human trafficking are women and girls. Trafficking in human beings means abuse, it means violence and can even lead to murder. But if in anno Domini 2024, there are people who publicly declare that the victim is to blame, that a woman is abused or can be abused because she asks for it or simply because she is beautiful, it means that we have a huge problem in our so…

23 Apr

2024

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The use of Russian frozen assets to support Ukraine’s victory and reconstruction (debate)

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Madam President, the Council is thinking, the Council is talking, but nothing is happening, practically. The Americans have already taken the money of Putin and the criminals around him. In the meantime, what's going on with us? More than two years after the war and more than 30 years after the Romanian revolution, there are politicians who, with maximum courage in front of the cameras, say: ‘I am…

23 Apr

2024

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Conclusions of the recent European Council meetings, in particular on a new European Competitiveness deal and the EU strategic agenda 2024-2029 (debate)

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Madam President, we look with admiration at America, we look with concern at China and we talk about the competitiveness of the European Union and we want to be more competitive, of course. But what do we deliver? We deliver speeches here, very nice, very nice words. But think about what it would be like if America had internal borders. What if in America a truck that leaves New York and wants to …

14 Mar

2024

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Return of Romanian national treasure illegally appropriated by Russia (debate)

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Madam President, throughout history, Russia has always stolen from Romanians. He stole our territories, Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, he stole our cultural heritage, our treasure, and he stole our money. The value of the gold that the Russians simply stole, is somewhere at least 5 billion euros now. Now the question is, what do we do, let them keep stealing? Are we still sitting on the money o…

13 Mar

2024

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Guidelines for the 2025 Budget - Section III (debate)

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Mr President, we need more money in our budget for our farmers, for our carriers, for the people who pay their taxes and need our help. We complain all the time that we don't have enough money in the budget to help them. Let's see, why don't we have enough money in the budget to help them? Because we're not going to take the money from the big fraudsters, the criminals who make millions and millio…

12 Mar

2024

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Question Time with Commissioners - Preparedness of EU governments to combat foreign interference, including from Russia

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Madam President, Putin is investing billions and billions of euros, of rubles, in politicians here in the European Union; very often, in politicians here, in this room in the European Parliament. I have asked, and many of my colleagues have agreed, that we change the rules of this parliament so that Putin's trumpets can no longer be carried out here, so that we can cut off their microphones and, v…

28 Feb

2024

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The murder of Alexei Navalny and the need for EU action in support of political prisoners and oppressed civil society in Russia (debate)

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Mr. President, Putin is a serial killer and in a civilized world, serial killers have to stay in jail, not at the buttons. Putin also has accomplices. Unfortunately, we see them here too, through the European Parliament, we see them through the parliaments of our countries, they are accomplices who do its job and in exchange for this barter, they receive resources, they receive money directly. A l…

8 Feb

2024

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Working conditions of teachers in the EU (debate)

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Mr. President, we always say that education is the solution. Dear colleagues, we say that we are under Putin's hybrid war that is firing fake news at us in the European Union. Is it true, and how do we defend ourselves against fake news? With education. As we always say, education is the most important thing, that we need educated people who understand and are no longer easy to manipulate with fak…

6 Feb

2024

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Russiagate: allegations of Russian interference in the democratic processes of the European Union (debate)

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Madam President, we have trumpets here in the European Parliament, and they are Putin's trumpets spewing only false propaganda, of course. We also have cans here in the European Parliament, which, when broken, only bring out dirty interests, also of Putin and the Kremlin. How long do we keep looking at them without doing anything? How much longer do we stay without making any rules about how to re…

17 Jan

2024

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Situation of fundamental rights in the EU in 2022 and 2023 (debate)

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Madam President, we are talking about fundamental rights in the European Union, but we have citizens whose rights are being violated right now. In Romania, a civic activist was picked up from her home by violent police for a Facebook post. In Romania, protesters who want to legitimately express their problems and demand legitimate and peaceful solutions from the authorities are systematically prev…

17 Jan

2024

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Improving the socio-economic situation of farmers and rural areas, ensuring fair incomes, food security as well as a just transition (debate)

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Madam President, there are protests now in Romania, by farmers, there are protests all over the European Union, and people are right. People can't and don't want to suffer any more quietly. I'm doing very well! What are they told? The government tells them there is no money. That's a huge lie! How could there be no money? There's a lot of money. There are billions and billions leaving the European…

14 Dec

2023

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Improving the strategic approach to the enforcement of EU Law (debate)

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Mr President, the Commission is the guardian of the Treaties. What does that mean? It means that the Commission must ensure that all countries and institutions in the European Union apply the same, but above all apply European law. However, what do we do when the Commission itself, which has this role, does not apply European law? What do we do when the Commission itself does not apply a resolutio…

23 Nov

2023

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Young researchers (debate)

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Madam President, before we become researchers, our young people are pupils and students; and they need at least a laptop, at least a tablet, and then they need a reasonable home to live in and a rent. Right now I can't afford most of them, none of them, not in any way from the allowance, let alone the scholarships. The money we spend here is a lot. We like to sign billions on paper. But they don't…

23 Nov

2023

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International day for the elimination of violence against women (debate)

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Mr President, let us acknowledge the truth: half of Europeans are second-class citizens at the moment. Half of Europeans are paid less for the same work, half of Europeans are harassed on a daily basis, half of Europeans are harassed, abused and even killed, with no great consequences for criminals. There are Europeans who go to school, work, pay taxes and raise their children. They are our daught…

21 Nov

2023

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2024 budgetary procedure: Joint text (debate)

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Mr President, there are colleagues around here in the room, who find it very difficult to share the billions in the rooms here in Parliament. The same colleagues think it's even more difficult not to forget who the money really is. I'll remind you whose money it is. The money belongs to the citizens. The money belongs to Romanians, Italians, Czechs and all other European citizens. This money is ma…

18 Oct

2023

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Presentation of the Court of Auditors' annual report 2022 (debate)

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Mr President, Mr President of the European auditors, I congratulate you first of all on the work you have done, but I notice that you have scared my colleagues a little, that I look around here and there is not a lot of people in the room. What I'm telling you is don't take it personally, because I know someone else who has the same effect. He's freaking out coworkers around here. It is Mrs. Europ…

17 Oct

2023

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Schengen area: digitalisation of the visa procedure - Schengen area: amending the Visa Sticker Regulation (Joint debate – Schengen area)

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Madam President, we can make and break the Schengen visa system, it will still not work. It won't work for a very simple reason and I'll tell you it's no secret. As long as we ask Romanians and Bulgarians, the peoples who are on the border of the European Union to guard the border of the Union, but at the same time we tell them to ‘guard it only after you stand in line at customs’, nothing will wo…

16 Oct

2023

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Establishing the Ukraine Facility (debate)

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Mr President, for some time now I have been hearing, including here in Brussels and Strasbourg, that the European Union has tired of helping Ukraine. It's a good thing the Ukrainians aren't tired of fighting. It's a good thing the Ukrainians didn't get tired of dying on our borders. It's a good thing they didn't get tired of stopping Russia's missiles until they reached Romania, Poland, Estonia. I…

5 Oct

2023

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Taking stock of Moldova's path to the EU (B9-0407/2023, RC-B9-0408/2023, B9-0408/2023, B9-0410/2023, B9-0411/2023, B9-0417/2023, B9-0420/2023)

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Mr President, I have voted and will always vote in favour of supporting Chisinau on its European path. But I want it to be very clear, so that the people here in Parliament can understand it. We're not doing anyone any favors. This is the right of Moldovans, because Moldova is a European country, because Moldova is under Putin's attack and because Moldova keeps the border of the European Union, be…

5 Oct

2023

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Poor sanitary conditions, low levels of security and lack of parking places in rest areas for truck drivers (debate)

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Mr President, truckers, truckers, drivers, all European citizens, despised or ignored in the European Union, although food, medicines, all the products we need are delivered by them! We leave them to the thieves in unsafe parking lots, we abandon them in endless queues in customs, we make them bear all the disadvantages of their work on their own. Drivers leave their families by day and cross Euro…

3 Oct

2023

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Corrupt large-scale sale of Schengen visas (debate)

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Mr President, let us say some things about our Union, so that even some colleagues here in Parliament can understand it. A Union in which some are more equal than others violates European values and a Union in which Romania and Bulgaria are left outside Schengen does not respect the Treaties. A union with second-class citizens is discrimination. A multi-speed Union gives the most speed to extremis…