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Feb

2025

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Commission Work Programme 2025 (debate)

My colleague, unlike you, I do not have to pay for any trips from Bahrain, where I claim to be an MEP and negotiate something there. I'm not meeting with the Russian MPs. But I'm glad you asked. Breton, Bank of America cooling-off periodBarroso, Goldman Sachs, Neelie Kroes, even a convicted lobbyist who was a clear lobbyist for Uber, are former commissioners. And I am simply asking the Commissione…

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Feb

2025

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Commission Work Programme 2025 (debate)

Madam President, Mr Vice-President, after Donald Trump froze the funds flowing through USAID to other states, we have seen a number of political non-profits and supposedly independent media complain about a sudden lack of money. Clearly, under the guise of international aid, a foreign power has financed us with sometimes subversive political agitators and activists. In the interests of the transpa…

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Feb

2025

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US AI chip export restrictions: a challenge to European AI development and economic resilience (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, almost a month ago, the United States announced restrictions on the export of advanced AI chips to most Member States, including, for example, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Greece and Luxembourg. Ten other Member States are not concerned by these restrictions, i.e. the EU Member States have been divided into two categories, despite the existence of the European Union…

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Feb

2025

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Boosting vocational education and training in times of labour market transitions (debate)

Madam President, after decades of blatant neglect of vocational training in Europe, we are finding that we lack a skilled workforce not only for the industry we are destroying. I hope that this debate will really serve to change the approach of the European Union and its Member States to education, with particular reference to vocational schools, which have always been overlooked or looked up to b…

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Jan

2025

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Cryptocurrencies - need for global standards (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, cryptocurrencies carry a promise of innovation, but also a number of risks. Millions of people see them as an opportunity, but unfortunately there are also many who have already lost their lifetime savings due to fraud and unclear rules. And this requires great caution from states and their institutions. Cryptocurrencies cannot be rejected a pri…

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Dec

2024

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Preparation of the European Council of 19-20 December 2024 (debate)

Madam President, few people can see such a detachment from reality as in the European institutions. That the Czech prime minister began to delude, who now promises us that his radically incompetent government will catch up with German wages, even though until now wages have actually stagnated or dropped, we all laugh at that in the Czech Republic. But when I read, at the invitation of the European…

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Dec

2024

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Misinformation and disinformation on social media platforms, such as TikTok, and related risks to the integrity of elections in Europe (debate)

Do you still think that Russian missiles killed two innocent people in Poland? That was your tweet and the clear misinformation that you yourself used. So when we're talking about this information and you're testing us for this misinformation, just remember that sometimes it's just that the truth comes out later. You caused fear and panic in the Czech Republic with your tweet. You never apologized…

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Dec

2024

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Misinformation and disinformation on social media platforms, such as TikTok, and related risks to the integrity of elections in Europe (debate)

Thank you for this question and thank you for the explanation I can give to the Constitutional Court. The Constitutional Court did not cancel the elections the first time, only after the intervention of the United States of America had to happen to cancel them. And I understand that because Romania has the largest military base. In addition, the Constitutional Court overturned the ruling, saying i…

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Dec

2024

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Misinformation and disinformation on social media platforms, such as TikTok, and related risks to the integrity of elections in Europe (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I am frankly appalled that we have a situation where a court in Romania, as a Member State of the European Union, cancels the results of democratic elections and instead you are dealing with so-called disinformation on the TikTok platform. For years, we've been hearing talk about threats to democracy. Tomorrow we will vote on the establishment of a special commi…

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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)

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Nov

2024

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Mr President, we have heard from the new President of the Commission since the beginning of our mandates that the main thing is to arm, to invest more in armaments, to buy arms and ammunition together, and to remove existing restrictions on the armies of the Member States. This is now being parroted by some Commissioners-designate, such as Mr Kubilius. Healthcare, education, workers' rights, salar…

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Nov

2024

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UN Climate Change Conference 2024 in Baku, Azerbaijan (COP29) (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, according to the organisers, COP29 is supposed to be the moment of truth for the Paris Agreement. I believe that at that point there was already an election in the United States of America. At COP29 this time, virtually none of the major polluters arrived. Moreover, it is highly likely that the United States will withdraw from the Paris Treaty again in January. …

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Oct

2024

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Foreign interference and hybrid attacks: the need to strengthen EU resilience and internal security (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I confess that I do not understand very well the need to talk here about defence against foreign interference. After all, the European Union is indeed a world champion in foreign interference. Look at all the resolutions that have been passed here on Moldova, where we are pouring money just to support the administration of the current head of state. Look at a…

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Oct

2024

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Tackling the steel crisis: boosting competitive and sustainable European steel and maintaining quality jobs (debate)

Madam President, colleagues, two weeks ago, we were dealing with the automotive industry here. Today we are dealing with the steel industry, which is strategic for the entire European Union. And why are we dealing with him? Not because of cheap imports. This is only part of the problem, because here this Parliament has passed legislation that is desperately damaging the steel industry, and has bee…

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Oct

2024

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A stronger Europe for safer products to better protect consumers and tackle unfair competition: boosting EU oversight in e-commerce and imports (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, toys for toddlers that break easily into small pieces that are at risk of inhalation, gas alarms that do not work or toys and cosmetics containing dangerous chemicals - in short, products that endanger consumers and are prohibited from being manufactured and sold in the European Union. But until now, e-shops have been able to skirt our rules and manufacturers fr…

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Oct

2024

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World Mental Health Day - need for a comprehensive EU strategy on mental health (debate)

Mr President, colleagues, the year has come to an end, and once again we have a debate on World Mental Health Day. Again, it's full of optimistic plans and challenges, what needs to be done. I'm afraid, like every year, there won't be much of it. How is it possible to deliver on these ambitious plans when we are constantly reducing the amount of European funding spent on health? For the last time,…

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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)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we have heard a lot here today. The automotive crisis, Euro 6 reform, reform of internal combustion engines and CO2, both AFIR and Euro 7. Colleagues, it was not only the Socialists, the Greens and the Left who approved of this. These were the European right-wing politicians who, together with the Commission, tried to make these regulations apply here. We were a…

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Oct

2024

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Escalation of violence in the Middle East and the situation in Lebanon (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, it has been exactly one year since the flags of a regime that has occupied the territory of Palestine for decades were hoisted at the European Parliament, without anyone asking us Members. Since then, we have witnessed disgusting war crimes in the war Israel is waging primarily against Palestinian civilians, and Israeli attacks on the territories of Syria, Ir…

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Sep

2024

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The devastating floods in Central and Eastern Europe, the loss of lives and the EU’s preparedness to act on such disasters exacerbated by climate change (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, what has happened in my country in recent days is a disaster. The floods have hit us and our citizens very hard and continue to suffocate the already impoverished country by the government of the current liberal-right government. People have died and the country has suffered massive infrastructure damage in the tens of billions. We will need all the help we c…

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Apr

2024

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Pre-enlargement reforms and policy reviews (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, it is twenty years since the biggest enlargement of the European Union in history by ten countries, including the Czech Republic. And today we can hear calls from the Commission for further enlargement and for the reforms needed for this enlargement, which is the word for depriving Member States of their powers. There is no need for enlargement, and there is no need …

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Apr

2024

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Union code relating to medicinal products for human use - Union procedures for the authorisation and supervision of medicinal products for human use and rules governing the European Medicines Agency (joint debate - Pharmaceutical package)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the most problematic part is the patent protection period, where we went up to seven and a half years. Combined with bonuses even up to eight and a half. There is no rational reason for this. What's the point of an overpriced patent-protected drug that no one can afford? On the contrary, I am very pleased that my amendment introducing the possib…

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Mar

2024

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Artificial Intelligence Act (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, I would like the next President or President of the European Commission not to be once again a figure driven by a fierce desire to be first in something and to go down in history, whether it is good regulation or bad regulation. But if she becomes once again a person like the current President, then I firmly hope that the next European Parliament will not be forced to r…

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Feb

2024

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Data collection and sharing relating to short-term accommodation rental services (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, especially the rapporteur, thank you very much for your work, because I think it is largely the result of your commitment that we have the text together today. I am glad that, after years of being ignored by the European Union in the area of housing, tomorrow we will vote on a proposal for a regulation by regulating at least what data online short-term rental platfor…

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Feb

2024

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Working conditions of teachers in the EU (debate)

Mr President, thank you to the Commissioner for answering this important question. Nevertheless, I would like to describe the situation of teachers in the Czech Republic, because it is alarming. Teachers' salaries are not dignified, despite the government's pre-election promises to raise them to 150% of the average salary. However, after the election of the teacher, the government threw overboard.…

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Jan

2024

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Mr President, let me inform you about the situation at the Liberty Ostrava smelter, which has been out of operation since December. The steel producer directly employs six thousand people and indirectly provides work for tens of thousands. The company is devoured by financial problems caused by the implementation of the nonsensical Green Deal, expensive energy and the competition resulting from th…