What Janusz spoke about.

7 Oct

2026

EN Speech

An ambitious multiannual financial framework 2028-2034 for a strong and resilient Europe (debate)

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Madam President, the MFF in one minute, quite a challenge. The Commissioner knows that this is never business as usual. There is always something special. What is special now, apart from the centralised model in heading one, is the fact that this is the first ever wartime budget. And we have to repay a huge debt with probably new own resources. Soon we are to hear from the Council. What is the sta…

28 Apr

2026

EN Speech

Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034 (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, the MFF is a bold venture into the future, as we are programming the Union until 2034. And this is a vision with figures in our unpredictable world. And this is never business as usual – always exceptional circumstances. Now we have war back on our continent; therefore, we should equip our first‑ever Commissioner for Defence with a real budget. Now this is all about 'of…

17 Dec

2025

PL Speech

Implementation of the rule of law conditionality regime (debate)

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Madam President, I'm sorry. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. I was at the birth of legal conditionality in 2020-2021. In fact, every money in our budget is conditional, because in order to obtain this money, you have to meet certain criteria or win these competitions. Our toolbox, our instruments to defend the rule of law, because it is fresh, is quite rich. These are the so-called enabling conditions…

25 Nov

2025

PL Speech

2026 budgetary procedure: joint text (debate)

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9 Jul

2025

EN Speech

The EU’s post-2027 long-term budget: Parliament’s expectations ahead of the Commission’s proposal (debate)

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Madam President, Minister, Commissioner, in one week only, we are to see the vision of Europe post-2027. Equipped with budgetary figures that is not telling, but simple political declarations. But a week before we know practically nothing. And this is not good. We know what our priorities are across the European Union and what is the most exciting thing I am to ask is how to reconcile the mission …

6 May

2025

EN Speech

A revamped long-term budget for the Union in a changing world (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, the multiannual framework is never business as usual. There are always exceptional circumstances. When Commissioner Serafin was younger, there was a pressure close to blackmail by Prime Minister Cameron ahead of his unhappy British referendum. Then the pandemic and double funding of our budget and NextGenerationEU; therefore, we now have a problem of how to repay NextGe…

31 Mar

2025

PL Speech

Guidelines for the 2026 budget - Section III (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Mr. Commissioner, I would like to thank you. We agree on Parliament's priorities for 2026. Parliament's negotiating power should be solidly supported by a majority vote on Wednesday. This is important because Parliament has a real impact on the annual budgets of the codecision, and especially now we have huge problems to find a solid financial response to new cha…

26 Nov

2024

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2025 budgetary procedure: Joint text (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, annual budget procedure is seemingly routine, but in fact, this is never business as usual. What is unusual about 2025 is that this is the first budget based on revision of the MFF, implementing the so-called 'cascade mechanism', and the last budget of Johannes Hahn, drafted by Johannes Hahn – for me, an incarnation of the honest broker. With one minute, one issue on…

22 Oct

2024

PL Speech

General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sections (debate)

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Madam President, I'm sorry. This is Commissioner Hahn's last budget. I wanted to thank him personally, but he's not in this room anymore. He'll probably show up again, 'cause he's a regular. w the European Parliament. The 2025 budget draws attention to a completely financially secondary issue, but it has already gained political prominence in the 2025 budget, i.e. the issue of the financing of wal…

22 Oct

2024

PL Speech

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

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Mr President, thank you very much. Commissioner, thank you very much. Today we are taking another test of European unity and solidarity in the face of the aggression against Ukraine. This is not the first and not the last test, a difficult test, because it is a race against time. The American shareholder of the program has had trouble with our six-month cycle of renewing sanctions against Russia. …

13 Mar

2024

PL Speech

Guidelines for the 2025 Budget - Section III (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. The annual budgetary procedure consists of repetitive, routine steps. But it's not business as usual, especially now that we're designing budgets in an increasingly unpredictable time, in the shadow of war. National budgets will gradually be militarized. Unfortunately, for the time being, this is being transferred very gradually to th…

21 Nov

2023

PL Speech

Continuing threat to the rule of law, the independence of justice and the non-fulfilment of conditionality for EU funding in Hungary (debate)

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Madam President, I'm sorry. European money is not unconditional. Traditional conditionality is related to the use of this money in agreement with the European Commission, with a high degree of discretion in the structural funds and much greater rigour in the National Recovery Plans. But two countries have provoked rule of law conditionality. This is Hungary and, unfortunately, my country, Poland. …

21 Nov

2023

PL Speech

2024 budgetary procedure: Joint text (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. The 2024 budget is the budget with which the European Parliament goes to the elections, so it is good that it is on time. People expect an agreement from us and they pay us for it, not for protracted disputes between institutions they don't understand. Of course, we are aware that the annual conciliation concerns millions, because billions are already arranged, h…

9 Nov

2023

PL Speech

System of own resources of the European Union (debate)

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Madam President, I'm sorry. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. I am a living memory of previous attempts to introduce new own resources for the European Union. Commissioner Hahn is witnessing that these attempts were not successful. What has been done since then? Simplify VAT and introduce a tax on untreated plastic. This is not a very efficient source of budget power. In addition, it requires compensat…

3 Oct

2023

PL Speech

Interim report on the proposal for a mid-term revision of the Multiannual Financial Framework 2021-2027 (debate)

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Madam President, I'm sorry. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. The multiannual financial framework, as the name suggests, has a multi-annual horizon. And this is their value, because it is predictable, investment money – which is generally lacking in national and local budgets – which makes it possible to finance investments that are long-term in nature. This is particularly important for countries such…

8 May

2023

PL Speech

Impact on the 2024 EU budget of increasing European Union Recovery Instrument borrowing costs - Own resources: a new start for EU finances, a new start for Europe (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. The budget of the European Union stands out from the budgets of national states and Member States with its long-term predictability. This is a huge advantage, because it makes this budget an instrument for financing long-term investments, primarily in the broadly understood infrastructure, which for a country like Poland is of great v…

18 Apr

2023

PL Speech

Guidelines for the 2024 budget - Section III (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Right in time delivery of yourself. I'm sorry for disappearing, but we're discussing it at the same time. guidelines in my group, i.e. the EPP group. I choose from this debate those voices that make it clear that if we have new initiatives, especially legislative ones, they should be financed by fresh money, and not by the typical in recent years Muddling Trough.…

18 Apr

2023

PL Speech

Guidelines for the 2024 budget - Section III (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Commissioner, thank you very much. The 2024 budget is the budget with which Parliament will go for the European elections, so it must contain an answer to the problems and fears of the people of Europe. This is the second wartime budget, which also generates costly commitments, but is limited by the ceilings of the current financial perspective, which was agreed …

22 Nov

2022

PL Speech

2023 budgetary procedure: joint text (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Budget agreements are always good news in these turbulent times, amid so much uncertainty. This is the wartime budget. Macro-Financial Assistance does not have direct budgetary implications, but there are elements of assistance to Ukraine in this budget, primarily in the neighbourhood policy. This is an inflation time budget, which exacerbates ongoing projects. T…

18 Oct

2022

PL Speech

General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2023 - all sections (debate)

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Madam President, I'm sorry. The 2023 budget is the first budget of wartime in the pacifist by its very nature of the European Union, the last budget of the 2014-2020 perspective that I have been drafting, and the last year for contracting national recovery plans. It may come as a surprise that, in such extraordinary circumstances, the Council's budget line is , i.e. cuts, in part contradicting the…

6 Jul

2022

PL Speech

Financial activities of the European Investment Bank – annual report 2021 - Control of the financial activities of the European Investment Bank – annual report 2020 (debate)

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Commissioner, I'm sorry. Mr. President, I'm sorry. In the EIB's operations, there is an indelible tension between the quasi-public mission and the normal pursuit of maximising the financial result. And in both reports that we are discussing, these specific commitments of the EIB as our private bank, which at the moment is facing the new rules voted today as a bank for the digitisation of small and…

7 Jun

2022

PL Speech

The rule of law and the potential approval of the Polish national Recovery Plan (RRF) (debate)

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Madam President, I'm sorry. Poland has been a front country for three months. Russian missiles are falling several kilometers from our eastern border. Poles have opened their homes and hearts to millions of refugees. The Commission sees this and has taken a decision widely discussed in Poland – it has approved the National Recovery Plan. Aware that the conditions set – the disciplinary chamber or …

5 Apr

2022

PL Speech

Guidelines for the 2023 budget – Section III (debate)

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Madam President, I'm sorry. Commissioner, thank you very much. Today we are closing the first phase of work on the 2023 budget. It is never, there are always extraordinary circumstances, now there are more than ever before. 2023 will be the last year of the current financial perspective with full freedom for Member States to spend their money. But it should also be the year of the launch of the Pa…

15 Dec

2021

PL Speech

State of play of the RRF (Recovery and Resilience Facility) (debate)

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Madam President, I'm sorry. Ladies and Gentlemen, Commissioner! The Recovery and Resilience Facility is an extraordinary testimony of European solidarity to meet extraordinary challenges. The European Commission is borrowing to get this money into the economy as quickly as possible. Therefore, it is pleased that this money is flowing to most European countries, including Spain, which were affected…

23 Nov

2021

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2022 budgetary procedure: joint text (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. The budget agreement is good news for a pandemic-ridden Europe. The conciliation procedure did not deviate from the routine of previous years – the dramatic split on Friday, the agreement on the last day of the conciliation, i.e. on Monday. This is business as usual. What's new is the content of this budget. Admittedly, advances from …