What Aurelijus spoke about.

23

Oct

2024

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

Mr President, dear colleagues. The time of a safe and carefree life has come to an end. On the one hand, another Member State of the European Union is confronted on a daily basis with hybrid threats of various kinds, the main purpose of which is to create confusion, destabilise the lives of states and their citizens, and threaten the functioning of critical areas. Instrumentalised illegal migratio…

22

Oct

2024

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

Mr President, colleagues. In 2022, Russia launched a full-scale war against Ukraine, hoping for a quick victory. However, Ukraine and its people have demonstrated their will to fight for the freedom, sovereignty and European future of their state. Having failed to conquer Ukraine, Russia has very systematically sought to break it in other ways: attacking hospitals, schools, strategically and vital…

10

Oct

2024

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

Mr President, dear colleagues, we urgently need a comprehensive and proactive EU mental health strategy where the primary prevention of mental health conditions should be considered as important as the treatment of such conditions. When we are grown‑ups, there are measures to reduce risks of mental health problems by choosing a healthier lifestyle: quitting smoking, reducing alcohol consumption, i…

9

Oct

2024

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Prevention of drug-related crimes, their effect on European citizens and the need for an effective European response (debate)

Mr President, it is indeed a very important problem and an extremely important debate. It is very important to talk about drug smuggling and its prevention, about the crimes associated with it. However, I would like to draw attention to two aspects that I do not hear much about in this debate. I would like to ask what is or will be the Commission's reaction to the Member States which, despite the …

9

Oct

2024

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Ensuring sustainable, decent and affordable housing in Europe - encouraging investment, private property and public housing programmes (debate)

Mr President, dear colleagues, firstly, I would like to suggest looking to housing from the perspective of demographic winter. As highlighted by researchers, the housing market is an example of social structural factors that can inadvertently impact age at first birth. In countries where it is easier to obtain a mortgage or enter the public rental market, individuals are more able to establish the…

18

Sep

2024

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EU response to the Mpox outbreak and the need for continuous action (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, colleagues, after the COVID pandemic, we are facing significant issues related to trust. Trust in vaccines – even those that have been used safely for many years – trust in manufacturers and even trust in medical professionals. We have vaccination of children going down. We must learn from past mistakes. Therefore, in this case, we need to act precisely and to avoid unn…

17

Sep

2024

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Global measures towards social media platforms - Strengthening the role of DSA and protecting democracy and freedom in the online sphere (debate)

Mr President, it is indeed a difficult debate, and no one is arguing, perhaps here in this Chamber, that there must be no incitement to violence on social media or that we should all come up with ways to limit Russian propaganda. But some of those sitting in this room still remember what it means to live in a situation where all information is controlled, censored, and there is something that dete…

17

Sep

2024

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Continued financial and military support to Ukraine by EU Member States (debate)

Mr President, dear colleagues, Lithuania was once waiting for help. In the middle of the last century, he went out to fight in the forests and, without help, drowned into decades of occupation and massacres. Today, Ukraine is waiting for that help, and for those who say that war is the worst solution, I would suggest that we say that to Putin, who has attacked Ukraine. And he, even today, can take…