What Ladislav spoke about.

17

Jan

2023

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Question Time (Commission) - Food price inflation in Europe

Dear Chairman, Honourable Commissioner, the market has its own clear principles of action that policy is difficult to stop. If we have a surplus of some product, its price drops. If we have a shortfall, its price rises. So the rise in food prices we are talking about now is certainly due to reduced food production, primarily in the European Union, because of high environmental standards, which are…

14

Dec

2022

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Defending the European Union against the abuse of national vetoes (debate)

So, dear colleague, would you defend the European Union from the member states? So the European Union is made up of member states, without member states there is no European Union. Your colleague also said in the introduction that the European Parliament is the only democratically elected body. So what about the Council? So there are representatives of legally elected, democratically elected natio…

13

Dec

2022

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This is Europe - Debate with the Prime Minister of Slovenia, Robert Golob (debate)

Honourable Chairman, Honourable Prime Minister. Croatia and Slovenia are neighboring and very friendly countries. I hope that the Slovenians will be cheering for Croatia tonight in the semi-finals of the World Cup. But I have a few questions. The first is related to a topic that you did not touch upon in your introductory presentation, which is the issue of security and the rule of law in the cont…

12

Dec

2022

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Action plan to boost long-distance and cross-border passenger rail (short presentation)

Dear Chair, Honourable Ladies and Gentlemen, this report shows that the European Union can be very useful when dealing with concrete issues and cross-border cooperation, rather than imposing an ideology on all Member States. Unfortunately, we will now only talk about these useful topics for about twenty minutes, and then we will again lament for hours on topics that do not fall within the competen…

12

Dec

2022

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A long-term vision for the EU's rural areas (debate)

Dear Chairman, Honourable Ladies and Gentlemen, I support this report as it goes in the right direction. In fact, in the European Union, we have three over the age of sixty-five for one farmer under the age of 40. So the village is dying out. Between 2003 and 2016, the number of farms decreased by 32%. But when the village is well connected and infrastructurally equipped and when people can live w…

24

Nov

2022

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Establishing the Digital Decade Policy Programme 2030 (debate)

Dear Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, have you tested yourself? Have you tried to see how many minutes you can take and listen to the speaker at an official meeting or even a private meeting without reaching for your smartphone to see something very important that has just arrived. So we're all losing our attention. We're all looking for an attraction. We've all become addicted in some way. And so,…

22

Nov

2022

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New EU strategy for enlargement (debate)

Dear Chairman, Dear colleagues, I highly appreciate the efforts of my colleague Picula on this important issue and I certainly support the enlargement of the European Union. However, I do not agree with the proposed reform, which would allow decisions on enlargement to be made by qualified majority, not by consensus, because in this way some of the Croatian neighbours, such as Serbia, could enter …

22

Nov

2022

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Gender balance among non-executive directors of companies listed on stock exchanges (debate)

Dear Chairman, Honourable Ladies and Gentlemen, if you are very good at your job and progress and a higher salary is received by another person who works worse than you, you will say it is not fair. However, some politicians in this Parliament want to impose on businessmen exactly such a dishonest behavior. Instead of the only criterion for promotion being the quality of employees, this directive …

22

Nov

2022

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Gender balance among non-executive directors of companies listed on stock exchanges (debate)

Dear colleague, you said the ‘numbers are important’. So since you consider gender something as the same importance as sex, I suppose that you think that also certain numbers of LGBTQ people should be CEOs there. And also, since we don’t want to be racist, also certain numbers of different skin colours should be in these committees. So my question is: do you intend to implement quotas also and to …

21

Nov

2022

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Situation of human rights in the context of the FIFA world cup in Qatar (debate)

The Honourable Chairman, the Honourable Ladies and Gentlemen, for twelve years it is known that Qatar will host the football championship. For 12 years, you've known what the human rights situation is like. For 12 years, you were able to investigate whether there was any corruption in FIFA. For 12 years, you had the opportunity for your so much-loved cancellation culture and - nothing. And now the…

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Oct

2022

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Dear Chairman, Honourable Ladies and Gentlemen, elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina were held fifteen days ago, and not all votes have yet been counted. It seems that some members of the polling boards voted instead of voters who did not go to the polls, and one even signed himself several times instead of the voters he voted for. In addition, Željko Komšić, who was elected Croatian representative…

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Oct

2022

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Question Time (Commission) Tackling depopulation through cohesion policy instrument

–Dear Commissioner, during the international recognition of the Republic of Croatia, Germany proved to be not only a partner but also a friendly country to Croatia. However, in the past ten years, the Republic of Croatia has donated 18 billion euros to Germany. Namely, Croatia spent so much on the education of young people who mostly went to Germany immediately after graduation and now contribute …

4

Oct

2022

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Situation of Roma people living in settlements in the EU (debate)

–The Honourable Chair, Honourable Ladies and Gentlemen, when any group of people, including Roma people, receives significantly more social assistance from the budget than they pay into the budget with their work, then this situation causes the animosity of other citizens, so the discrimination does not decrease, but increases. Indeed, today in a shortage of labour, a person who can work and does …

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Oct

2022

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Striving for a sustainable and competitive EU aquaculture: the way forward (debate)

Dear President, when it comes to fish farming in ponds and farms in the sea, the European Union meets only 30 percent of its needs with its own production. I support this report as it is moving towards an increase in this production and I am glad that all my amendments have been accepted by the Committee. Some MPs also came to the committee, who did not know exactly whether the purpose of the pond…

14

Sep

2022

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Nicaragua, in particular the arrest of the bishop Rolando Álvarez

Dear Chairman, I would like to recall that everything started with a wonderful speech about equality, racial equality, gender equality, which was often pronounced by the President of Nicaragua Ortega. And we hear this speech often here in Parliament. This speech sounds very nice, and what the realization of this idea looks like, we see now in Nicaragua, where President Ortega arrested Bishop Alvar…

14

Sep

2022

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Situation of fundamental rights in the EU in 2020 and 2021 (debate)

The European Union demonstrates its credibility in defending human rights and vis-à-vis third countries with which it has partner relations such as Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan launched a war on Nagorno-Karabakh in 2020, and after a hard-won peace these days, it is grossly violating that ceasefire. This time they attacked Armenia itself. Civilian infrastructure was also targeted, with 49 civilians and s…

14

Sep

2022

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Existence of a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is founded (debate)

Dear Chairman, Dear colleagues, what do we have in this report, what specifically is Hungary to blame for? We have one judgment of the European Court of Justice in 2016 against Hungary, but at that time we have hundreds of judgments of that court that sided with citizens against other states. Why don't you accuse these other countries too? We also have the opinion of the Venice Commission, which i…

14

Sep

2022

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Existence of a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is founded (debate)

So, here in the vicinity is the European Court of Human Rights. You very much praise this report. We have heard a lot of demagogy, and of the concrete things that Hungary is guilty of, we have only heard from the Commissioner about two processes that are just going on against Hungary. So I don't see the European Court of Human Rights condemning Hungary that way so you would like to condemn it. So …

12

Sep

2022

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Energy efficiency (recast) (debate)

Dear Chairman, Dear colleagues, at a time when our citizens are starting to get huge energy bills, when the European economy is suffering because of these high prices, when many European countries are still filling the Russian coffers by buying their gas or at least would like it, therefore, at this moment the reduction of greenhouse gases is not and should not be the first goal, but the safe supp…

5

Jul

2022

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2021 Report on Bosnia and Herzegovina (debate)

Dear Chairman, Dear colleagues, I would like to know if you are aware of what you are doing. Are you aware that you are trying to extinguish the fire with gasoline? You want to solve the problem of Serbian nationalism and Russian influence by imposing the so-called civic, and in fact Bosniak unitarism, in which Serbs feel threatened and because of which they strengthen their separatism. So you're …

4

Jul

2022

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Adoption by Croatia of the euro on 1 January 2023 (debate)

Dear Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, it is obvious that Croatia will adopt the euro. However, the introduction of the euro did not bring much good to Portugal, Greece or Italy. In Croatia, we could delay this introduction as did Poland, Sweden or Hungary, countries that are developing very well with their currencies. So smart countries work together with other European countries, but they themselv…

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Jul

2022

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US Supreme Court decision to overturn abortion rights in the United States and the need to safeguard abortion rights and Women’s health in the EU (debate)

Dear Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, Idi Amin, a dictator from Uganda, once said: ‘I guarantee freedom of speech, but I do not guarantee freedom after speech’. In other words, that dictator told his citizens that they could say what they thought, but that if he didn't like it, then he would put them in jail. So some of our colleagues who call themselves liberals and in principle advocate freedom o…

22

Jun

2022

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 23-24 June 2022, including the meeting with Western Balkan leaders on 23 June - Candidate status of Ukraine, the Republic of Moldova and Georgia (debate)

Dear Chairman, Dear colleagues, I do not share much with German Prime Minister Scholz, but I fully support the two messages he delivered to Serbian Prime Minister Vučić ten days ago. He told him that if Serbia wants to join the European Union, it must recognise Kosovo and move away from Russia. So, Serbia can no longer sit on two chairs. Serbia must move away from Russia's aggressor policy and mus…

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Jun

2022

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Global threats to abortion rights: the possible overturn of abortion rights in the US by the Supreme Court (debate)

You mentioned democracy, which comes from two words: demos and baptism. So the people rule. You really think the European people have to decide the Americans. How do you interpret the word democracy? Do you think that, say, Australians should make laws in Europe, or do you think it is the European peoples who should democratically make laws in Europe, American in America, and Australian in Austral…

8

Jun

2022

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Global threats to abortion rights: the possible overturn of abortion rights in the US by the Supreme Court (debate)

In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Roe v. Wade and then abortion promoters had the same narrative as today: ‘My body, my choice.’ That same year, my mother was to give birth to my sister, but it was only at birth that she learned that she was carrying twins, so I had two sisters. My dad was a doctor. Mom had the best medical care, but then they couldn't even diagnose the twins. In contrast, …