What Matej spoke about.

17

Dec

2024

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Toppling of the Syrian regime, its geopolitical implications and the humanitarian situation in the region (debate)

Mr President, Madam Commissioner, no dictator is eternal. A dictator who killed and gassed his own people ran away like a big coward. This is the true face of dictators, they take care only of themselves and they destroy the country. Islamists are clearly taking over Syria – the experience of Afghanistan teaches that we should never, ever trust the words of the Islamists. We will judge them by the…

26

Nov

2024

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Full accession of Bulgaria and Romania to the Schengen Area: the urgent need to lift controls at internal land borders (debate)

26

Nov

2024

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Reinforcing EU’s unwavering support to Ukraine against Russia’s war of aggression and the increasing military cooperation between North Korea and Russia (debate)

14

Nov

2024

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Enhancing Europe’s civilian and defence preparedness and readiness (debate)

Madam President! I come from a family where three different generations have fought in different wars in the past. My great-grandfather fought in the First World War. My grandfather fought in World War II and my father is a veteran of the Slovenian War of Independence. I am the fourth generation that in some way seemed to be bypassed by war in one way or another. But it is precisely the Russian in…

13

Nov

2024

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Mr President! This week in Slovenia we are celebrating Slovenian Food Week and bees are key. Bees are the main ones in the formation of, say, this food and their product, honey, is something incredible. It is an exceptional medicinal food that contains vitamins C, B and E, contains minerals that accelerate metabolism and, last but not least, it also contains substances that destroy harmful bacteri…

13

Nov

2024

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Fight against money laundering and terrorist financing: listing Russia as a high-risk third country in the EU (debate)

Mr President! We are talking about the obvious thing to put Russia on the list of high-risk countries engaged in money laundering and terrorist financing. Let us remember only the Wagner Group, how uncompromisingly the Russian authorities financed the operation of this group in Africa. What kind of things did they do? Let me give you an example from Slovenia. Funding so-called illegals, Russian se…

13

Nov

2024

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Deplorable escalation of violence around the football match in the Netherlands and the unacceptable attacks against Israeli football fans (debate)

Mr President, a bomb in the White House, a mine in the Vatican, the death of Mao Zedong and the earthquake in Paris could not have echoed through the consciousness of every man in the world like the operation in Munich. It was not the first time that Jews were attacked, and those who use sport as a weapon, as a terrorist act, must be made very clear to them that they are ordinary cowards. This sho…

24

Oct

2024

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Abuse of new technologies to manipulate and radicalise young people through hate speech and antidemocratic discourse (debate)

Madam President! Dear colleagues! Fifteen years ago, social networks seemed to be the future, to be a key tool for promoting democracy. And fifteen years later, it seems that social networks are primarily tools for spreading hatred and intolerance. What has happened so dramatically in these 15 years that one good tool has turned into a bad one? Algorithms. Algorithms are those that incite hatred, …

23

Oct

2024

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Managing migration in an effective and holistic way through fostering returns (debate)

Madam President! If we want to put illegal migration in some manageable context, then it is clear that we need to fundamentally change our message that whoever enters the European Union illegally will be returned to their own homeland. Only in this way will the unstoppable flow stop. If we really put in place mechanisms to effectively repatriate all those who come to the European Union illegally. …

22

Oct

2024

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Establishing the Ukraine Loan Cooperation Mechanism and providing exceptional macro-financial assistance to Ukraine (debate)

Mr. President! I consider Ukraine's victory to be crucial because of the message that it is not possible to change borders in Europe in the twenty-first century in a violent way. Of course, this war will come to an end, and once it is over, we will have a long and long work to do to rebuild Ukraine. And at this point, of course, I find it important and reasonable for an aggressor to pay for his ac…

8

Oct

2024

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The crisis facing the EU’s automotive industry, potential plant closures and the need to enhance competitiveness and maintain jobs in Europe (debate)

Dear President, Dear Commissioner, There is no need for new bans in the European car industry. First and foremost, we need new innovations. Above all, the European car industry does not need a new self-punishment. The European ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel vehicles after 2035 was simply a mistake. Big mistake! That's madness! Europe was a technological superpower in the field of classic…

7

Oct

2024

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Madam President. Migration is a problem in many areas. And today I would like to touch on the so-called Australian model. We will be able to turn things around in the European Union if we give a clear message that it is simply not possible to enter the European Union illegally. And if you come, you'll just be strictly back. If Australia is doing this, I see no reason why the European Union should …

7

Oct

2024

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The reintroduction of internal border controls in a number of Member States and its impact on the Schengen Area (debate)

Mr President. Dear colleagues! Let us admit that Schengen is dead, that it is in some way falling apart. And it is this Schengen, which is the greatest asset of the European Union. One thing that we all love so much and which has also benefited so much the economic development of many European countries. And this Schengen is collapsing before our eyes for the simple reason that we do not regulate …

17

Sep

2024

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State of the Energy union (debate)

Mr President! Honourable Commissioner, Members of Parliament! Good day! The green transition was definitely the phrase of the previous mandate. In a way, an ideology developed where we did everything, of course, slogans were key to reducing CO2 releases. Like I said, key slogans were more important than the data and facts themselves. And, for example, the German case is very telling, where they st…