What Pekka spoke about.

23

Oct

2024

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

Madam President, dear colleagues, Russia is a dictatorship that is currently too weak to threaten us by military means. Therefore, it uses hybrid warfare against us. We have seen how the number of Russian sabotage attempts, cyberattacks and information operations has increased drastically within a year. And that is a fact: not a matter of opinion about political views. Only luck has saved us from …

22

Oct

2024

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

Mr President, dear colleagues, Russia is attacking not only the Ukrainian defence forces, it is also attacking the whole Ukrainian civil society, killing elderly women and children daily, not vice versa. And if the civil society crashes, the soldiers at the front won't fight too long either. And that's the fact. This loan helps to keep Ukraine and civil society and civil administration working, an…

18

Sep

2024

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The Hungarian “National Card” scheme and its consequences for Schengen and the area of freedom, security and justice (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, free movement of people within the EU and Schengen Area is based on trust. Trust that the Member States take care of our common security by honouring the rules and regulations that we have agreed to follow. Now, Hungary, whose leadership is doing its best to support President Putin and his war against Ukraine, is breaking this trust and is opening a door to Russ…