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Jul

2026

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EU’s response and preparedness to protect people against recurring heatwaves and upcoming wildfires (debate)

8

Jul

2026

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EU’s response and preparedness to protect people against recurring heatwaves and upcoming wildfires (debate)

7

Jul

2026

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EU-Mexico (joint debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the modernisation of the EU-Mexico Global Agreement is another in a series of trade liberalisations between the EU and the other party. And, like the previous liberalization, it is primarily aimed at harming our workers. Is it really not enough that we are destroying jobs in the automotive industry through the green transition? Do we now have to…

7

Jul

2026

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Urgent measures to strengthen the competitiveness and safeguard quality jobs in the EU’s automotive sector (debate)

Madam President, colleagues, do you know when the automotive industry has ceased to be competitive? At the very moment Ursula von der Leyen and her ‘fellows’ took over the Commission’s leadership. We heard the Commissioner say to us: “We will prevent a deadly cycle, we owe it to our industry.” And then he announces that he is preparing more legislation, more regulation, that we will define a Europ…

6

Jul

2026

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Air passenger rights (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, colleagues, we are finally introducing rules for the protection of passengers in air transport, where until now passengers have been more or less at the mercy of airlines. The times when the airline abused the state of emergency measures to avoid paying compensation, when a typo in the passenger's name was penalized, when parents had to pay to sit next to their child…

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Jun

2026

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Circularity requirements for vehicle design and management of end-of-life vehicles (debate)

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Jun

2026

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Simplification of the implementation of harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Digital Omnibus on AI) (debate)

15

Jun

2026

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Time for European economic independence (debate)

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May

2026

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The Union’s preparedness for and response to health emergencies: the case of the MV Hondius and the hantavirus warning (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, 30 days. Exactly how much it took the Commission to issue the first coordinated opinion after the first person died on board MV Hondius. Thirty days, during which hundreds of European citizens travelled home without a single quarantine, without clear information, often without protection. Coordination broke down in the bud between the flag state, the port state, the ECD…

21

May

2026

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European Citizens’ Initiative ‘Stop destroying videogames’ (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, a situation where you buy a product and after some time, which you are not informed about at the time of purchase, nor can you find out, you suddenly lose access to the product, sounds catastrophic. We would hardly tolerate such a thing, and yet it is a reality in the field of video games. Most video games that require constant Internet access become complete…

18

May

2026

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Research Fund for Coal and Steel: research programme and multiannual technical and financial guidelines (short presentation)

Mr President, Mr rapporteur, thank you for exactly what you said that it was necessary to specify. We know that a lot of money has actually been wasted on various projects to support regions affected by just the nonsensical cessation of, for example, mining or insane steel measures – that is to say, the closure of steelworks. I am very happy that the conditions will be fixed, that it will be possi…

18

May

2026

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European solidarity: key to securing medicine access in a shifting geopolitical era (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, the Commission is presenting us today with an initiative for global health. It sounds noble, but let's see what's behind it. First, the money. Six billion euros. This is not new money, Commissioner, is it? These are just old funds repackaged into a new logo. In addition, in the EU, you are cutting back on health care and sending money for the war in Ukraine, and you obv…

18

May

2026

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Negative trade-related effects of global overcapacity on the Union steel market (debate)

Mr President, I am sure this is one small step. But what I am very sorry about is that the Commission does not want to go further. We all know what saving the steel industry is all about. Steel producers pay three to five times higher energy prices in the European Union. Emission allowance prices are constantly rising. You, simply in the Commission, but also here in Parliament, colleagues, are doi…

29

Apr

2026

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Danger of normalising relations with Russia, including its participation in major cultural and sports events (debate)

Mr President, it really does not stop me from wondering what stupid things we are talking about here with taxpayers' money. Important trade routes are closing. Oil and gas prices are going up, we are in danger of a shortage of fertilizers, and here it is being resolved that Russia should not accidentally be allowed into sports matches or Eurovision, so that there is no threat of normalization of r…

29

Apr

2026

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Topical debate requested by a political group (PfE) (Rule 169) - Commission interference in democratic process and elections (topical debate)

Mr President, under normal circumstances, citizens elect the government of their states, which then proposes the President of the Commission. Unfortunately, the Commission led by Ursula von der Leyen clearly does not comply with this normal situation and, on the contrary, is now trying to impose certain political candidates on the citizens of the Member States. Instead of respecting the will expre…

28

Apr

2026

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Joint debate - Discharge 2024 (joint debate)

Mr President, I am very sorry, thank you for the opportunity to speak additionally. Let me thank all my colleagues in the Committee on Public Health for the discussion, which I found quite interesting in that many of us see the mistakes in exactly the same way. However, we also need to thank the agencies for their work. In any case, what we have left and what we should find an answer to – and the …

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Mar

2026

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Implementation of the Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive (UWWTD) and risks to the security of supply of medicines (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, the extended producer responsibility scheme shifts the costs of wastewater treatment to the producers of medicines, on the basis that patients exclude medicines. This is a tax on disease, because since we live under fair capitalism, the costs will be passed on to patients. If neither producers nor patients pay for it, municipalities, as owners and found…

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Mar

2026

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Child sexual abuse online: protect children, not perpetrators (topical debate)

10

Mar

2026

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EU enlargement strategy (debate)

Mr President, the enlargement of the European Union has been a very popular topic in recent years, but honestly, does anyone really want a major enlargement? However, let us look at the relations between the countries of the Union and the candidate countries. With Serbia, as we heard here a moment ago, here some have the problem of not joining all the anti-Russian sanctions. North Macedonia is a p…

10

Mar

2026

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Presentation of the Energy Package (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, the wording on affordable and clean energy for all Europeans sounds strong, but in itself it simply does not guarantee anything at all. How many times have we heard such slogans? Packages, strategies, action plans. And what's going on? Where is the reduction in energy prices for industry and people living in the European Union? Nowhere. Where did you go with the fact th…

10

Mar

2026

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Presentation of the Energy Package (debate)

Do you agree that every country is different? We simply will not make a living in the Czech Republic, even if we have thousands of windmills and thousands of photovoltaic panels. We are an industrial country, we need a stable supply of electricity for our industry, otherwise we will have to close the last steelworks. We have already closed many engineering plants because the energy prices are disp…

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Mar

2026

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Feb

2026

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Rule of law, fundamental rights and misuse of EU funds in Slovakia: the need for an EU response (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I was really looking forward to the debate today because I thought I would learn something. Once again, I have only heard conjectures and I am ashamed of all the colleagues who used the words ‘violation of the rights of national minorities, confiscation of land on the basis of ethnicity, confiscation of property’ here today. Or did you just succumb to propaga…

10

Feb

2026

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Presentation of the action plan against cyberbullying (debate)

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Feb

2026

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Situation in Northeast Syria, the violence against civilians and the need to maintain a sustainable ceasefire (debate)