What Ladislav spoke about.

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Mar

2024

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Inclusion of the right to abortion in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (debate)

Mr President, so colleagues, you deny and you don’t want to say when the life begins. If you want to put abortion as a fundamental right, then this would be the most important right, and you know this. So by this you would deny the basic right to life, and you don’t want to have what colleague Matić said: he didn’t even want to discuss when the life begins. So he is blind, and you are blind to the…

14

Mar

2024

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Inclusion of the right to abortion in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (debate)

Dear Chairman, Dear colleagues, all human and civil rights enjoyed throughout the civilized world are limited by the rights and freedoms of others. Absolute freedom that would go to the detriment of someone else does not exist. And so does the women's right to choose. A woman must have the right to decide her life, but as long as these decisions do not harm the life of the conceived child. Or do y…

13

Mar

2024

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Cohesion policy 2014-2020 – implementation and outcomes in the Member States (debate)

The Honourable Chair, Honourable colleagues, cohesion policy is increasingly under attack, as many in the developed members feel that they are somehow supporting the less developed ones. This presents itself with some kind of solidarity as if the more developed have no use for it. Let me break that myth. First, more developed members place their products on the single market to a greater extent th…

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Mar

2024

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EU climate risk assessment, taking urgent action to improve security and resilience in Europe (debate)

The Honourable Chair, Honourable colleagues, it is clear to everyone that climate change can have negative consequences for people and the way of life in Europe. But what do we do? The first thing that every man and every society naturally does is adapt. That is why common sense requires more investment in innovation, so that we can advance technologically so much that we can maintain our existing…

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Mar

2024

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Energy performance of buildings (recast) (debate)

Dear Chairman, Dear colleagues, this could have been a great report because people are motivated by high energy prices to look for more energy-efficient solutions for their houses and buildings. If this report focused on this, it could also have achieved greenhouse gas reductions. But this report is confusing priorities. And it forces only the reduction of greenhouse gases, to the extent that it s…

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Mar

2024

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Order of business

Madam President, dear colleagues, of course I condemn every violence against LGBT people and I hope that all of us condemn every kind of violence. Still, we have a discussion about LGBT people every month, and in the same time for a few times we had proposals to debate persecuted Christians. So hundreds of people were killed just because they were Christian, and you have always voted against these…

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Feb

2024

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Strengthening European Defence in a volatile geopolitical landscape - Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2023 - Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2023 (joint debate - European security and defence)

Dear Chairman, Dear French liberals, do not blame the United States for the poor military state of European states because they have always called on you to increase the military budget, and your left-liberal governments have cut that budget. The representative of the socialists says that the European Union should be a moral beacon, and this Parliament very much accepts this role, and then we expl…

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Feb

2024

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Geographical Indications for wine, spirit drinks and agricultural products (debate)

Dear Chairman, dear colleagues, Croatian wine prošek, under this name, has existed since the sixteenth century. There was no single market at the time, nor was there a desire to benefit from the similarity of the name of another product. It does not exist today, because prošek, as a dark, sweet dessert wine, differs significantly from other products of similar names. I support this report because …

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Feb

2024

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Recent attacks on Christmas Eve in Plateau State in Nigeria

Dear Chairman, Dear colleagues, how do we react when we hear the news that Muslims in Nigeria killed 160 people just because they are Christians, as it is now at Christmas? Are we going to say - ah, it's somewhere far away in some exotic state, we can't influence it? Or are we just gonna put ourselves up for a moment, try to put ourselves in the skin of these people who have been killed by childre…

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Feb

2024

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The fight against hate speech and disinformation: responsibility of social platforms within the Digital Services Act (topical debate)

Dear Chairman, Dear colleagues, Facebook, Google, Amazon and all other social platforms should have the same terms and conditions as all other media and should ensure the same rights to all users. Therefore, it should not happen that some users block or limit accounts because they oppose community rights without doing so to others who post similar content. So, this is what we should be dealing wit…

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Feb

2024

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Empowering farmers and rural communities - a dialogue towards sustainable and fairly rewarded EU agriculture (debate)

Dear Chairman, Dear colleagues, we, from this part of the political spectrum, have been saying for years that your approach to agriculture is disastrous for both farmers and society as a whole. Now the water has come to the throat, and you do not want to admit that you have been wrong, that you have made the wrong decisions and do not want to change direction. Peasants are on the roads all over Eu…

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Feb

2024

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Further repression against the democratic forces in Venezuela: attacks on presidential candidate Maria Corina Machado (debate)

The president of Venezuela, Maduro, is a communist. It calls for equality and workers' rights, as well as for all communists. But workers from these countries flee to other countries where there is no equality of all workers, but on the contrary, there is freedom of the market, and communists do not like freedoms. President Maduro does not even allow his main rival, Mrs. Machado, to run. Communist…

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Jan

2024

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Implementation of the Common Fisheries Policy and future perspectives (debate)

Dear Chair, Dear colleagues, I support this report as it restores the focus on the much-needed balance between the three main pillars of the Common Fisheries Policy, namely the provision of food, the protection of fish stocks and the socio-economic needs of fishermen. Among other things, the report, according to the principle of subsidiarity, calls for greater respect for local authorities and in …

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Jan

2024

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Gender aspects of the rising cost of living and the impact of the energy crisis (debate)

Dear Chair, colleagues, today we are discussing the gender aspects of rising living costs and the energy crisis. So you've divided society into groups into men and women. And now what? Will you introduce one electricity price for men, another for women, or considering that you claim that there are multiple genders maybe a third for bisexuals and a fourth for transsexuals? Will you introduce specia…

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Jan

2024

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Geothermal energy (debate)

Dear Chairman, ladies and gentlemen, very rarely do we have such a good report on the agenda. Geothermal energy can significantly contribute to the heating and cooling of some areas, agriculture, aquaculture and, of course, the energy security of European countries. Cooperation within the European Union in the field of research, data exchange and technological development is also useful and welcom…

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Jan

2024

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Situation in Serbia following elections (debate)

Dear Chairman, colleagues, there were obviously major irregularities in the elections in Serbia, from buying votes, subsequently inserting ballots into the ballot boxes and pressure on voters, to bringing voters by bus from other parts of Serbia to Belgrade, where local elections were held. Thus, in some houses in Belgrade, of about fifty square meters, more than thirty voters were registered who,…

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Jan

2024

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Transparency and accountability of non-governmental organisations funded from the EU budget (debate)

Dear Chairman, Dear colleagues. First of all, it is completely illogical for associations to call the majority of their budgets full of governments NGOs. Secondly, we cannot call associations that have only a few members as representatives of citizens. Third, I would understand that we are giving another 10,000 to the association that has collected, say, 10,000 euros from membership fees and donat…

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Dec

2023

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Jurisdiction, applicable law, recognition of decisions and acceptance of authentic instruments in matters of parenthood and creation of a European Certificate of Parenthood (debate)

Dear Mr Geuking, you said now that this report has nothing to do with surrogacy and nothing to do with LGBT rights, and you support this report together with S&D, together with Renew, together with The Left, together with the Greens; they all spoke about LGBT rights and some of them, for example, the second speaker from the S&D, spoke and claimed that there was surrogacy in this report. Can you ma…

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Dec

2023

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Jurisdiction, applicable law, recognition of decisions and acceptance of authentic instruments in matters of parenthood and creation of a European Certificate of Parenthood (debate)

The Honourable Chairman, Honourable colleagues, this report should in fact not be called the ‘European Certificate of Parenthood’, but the ‘Insidious and perfidious imposition of a system of inverted values on states whose peoples do not wish to do so’. You are using the European Union to impose same-sex parenting and surrogacy on states that do not want it, and you are doing so in a step-by-step …

12

Dec

2023

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EU-US relations (debate)

Dear Chairman, experience has shown that it is much easier to establish partnership relations with the US and Western countries with which, in addition to economic interests, we share some fundamental values such as freedom and democracy. We need to develop relationships with others as well. But the situation in which the European Union develops relations with Russia, and then asks the US to defen…

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Dec

2023

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European Economic Security Strategy (debate)

Dear Chairman, a joke says that a man drove a car on the highway and heard news on the radio that a madman was driving in the wrong direction. His reaction was: ‘Not one, everyone's driving in the wrong direction!’ E, that's how European Union policy sometimes looks to me. We drive in the wrong direction, and we blame everyone else. The European Union has fully subordinated its economy to the Gree…

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Nov

2023

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Threat to rule of law as a consequence of the governmental agreement in Spain (debate)

Dear Chairman, I think Spanish socialists should take care of what kind of image they create of Spain in front of other European nations. What we see is Prime Minister Sanchez, who has apparently spoken against the Amnesty Law for years, saying that the law is unconstitutional, and now he is implementing it. We have seen all the polls that have said that most socialist voters are against amnesty a…

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Nov

2023

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Humanitarian situation in Gaza, the need for the release of hostages and for an immediate humanitarian truce leading to a ceasefire and the prospects for peace and security in the Middle East (debate)

Dear Chairman, Dear colleagues, you say that Israel kills civilians and use this as an argument to condemn Israel. It is clear, therefore, that any news of a civilian being killed harms Israel and benefits Hamas. And from this it is clear why Hamas does not let civilians leave, but uses them as a living shield. You're looking for a truce. In this truce, of course, Hamas will not sit with its arms …

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Nov

2023

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Proposals of the European Parliament for the amendment of the Treaties (debate)

Dear Chairman, dear colleagues, Croatia barely left Yugoslavia, and the centralized federation in which the Serbs had all the power. And we paid with blood for that exit, we paid with blood for that freedom and that sovereignty. We entered the European Union because it is a community of equal and sovereign nation states. We want to work together, but we insist on this equality. We do not want to b…

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Oct

2023

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Generational renewal in the EU farms of the future (debate)

Dear Chairman, Dear colleagues, we have already talked about demographic problems in agriculture. In the European Union, one farmer under the age of 40 comes from three farmers over the age of 65. If we want to motivate young people to engage in agriculture, we need to create the conditions for them to live well from it. Unfortunately, according to studies by the European Commission itself as part…