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12

Nov

2025

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The first European Annual Asylum and Migration report and the setting up of the Annual Solidarity Pool (debate)

Madam President, across Europe, there is a constitutional principle that, in a sovereign state, it is up to the people of the state to admit into its territory. In Europe, there is hardly a week without violent attacks. Member States are obliged to defend their citizens and nothing in European law should limit, challenge or charge for this obligation. Unfortunately, the migration pact does just th…

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Oct

2025

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Situation in Belarus, five years after the fraudulent presidential elections (debate)

Madam President, dear colleagues, would you rather be a Belarusian or a Ukrainian? Belarus has cheap energies, oil and gas, their industry doesn't fail, their farmers don't strike, they export fertilisers around the world, they have a decent public health system and they are not short on critical medicines. They are hindered only by sanctions, which harm us as well as them, and we should abolish t…

22

Oct

2025

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Situation in Belarus, five years after the fraudulent presidential elections (debate)

Honourable colleague, I would like to ask one question. Belarus is not a member country of the European Union. What, in your opinion, is our right to judge who is leading the country? And what is our right to intervene into their domestic matters and to decide who is their legitimate president and who is not?…

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Oct

2025

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Madam President, the Czech Parliament has decided to punish for political convictions. According to the amendment to the Criminal Code, the spread of ideas of communism is to be punishable, support for the communist movement is to be punishable, the use of communist symbols is to be punishable. All of this has been under a five-year prison sentence since January. Several countries, good partners o…

8

Oct

2025

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Promoting EU digital rules: protecting European sovereignty (debate)

Thank you, Ms Bosse, it's my pleasure to communicate with you. The Czech Republic is not one of them, at least, because there are much bigger and stronger entities, but they are only tools. And how we deal with the tools is the issue of our political culture. Of course, we need to protect against hate speech and things coming from abroad. But the worst things we are doing for ourselves. This is my…

8

Oct

2025

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Promoting EU digital rules: protecting European sovereignty (debate)

Mr President, today's theme is 'Protection of European Sovereignty'. This title is a bit misleading. Sovereignty is a conceptual emblem of states. Europe, even in the sense of the European Union, is not a state, therefore it does not have sovereignty. It has only conferred powers which can be revoked at any time by the States. Member States have sovereignty, which must be protected. Unfortunately,…

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Sep

2025

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Need for a strong European Democracy Shield to enhance democracy, protect the EU from foreign interference and hybrid threats, and protect electoral processes in the EU (debate)

Madam President, many speeches by the European Commission show that we really need to protect democracy. Sixty percent of citizens do not want Ursula von der Leyen. Are six out of ten European Union citizens Russian agents or fools under the influence of hybrid threats, as it sounded today? No, they want someone who will not lead the European Union to decline. Will this unpopular politician resign…

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Sep

2025

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China’s unjustified decision to impose duties on imports of pork products from the EU and the need to support European farmers and workers (debate)

Mr President, I would like to ask the Commissioner politely why you did not take Mr Šefčovič and Mr Síkela from Global Gateway And you didn't accompany Slovak Prime Minister Fico to Beijing last week? Trade diplomacy in the next century will require mutual respect. If you had come to China, a key trading partner, to wish you an anniversary, you would have solved pork or electric cars or even criti…

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Jul

2025

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2023 and 2024 reports on Georgia (debate)

Madam President, on Georgia, I would like to call for moderation and respect. Georgia experienced the collapse and disintegration of the welfare state after the collapse of the Soviet Union. After the Color Revolution under Saakashvili, they were given dictatorship and war. Today, under the Georgian dream, they have economic growth, a regenerating health system, investment from China and, last but…

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Jul

2025

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Preparation for the 2025 EU–China Summit - Tackling China's critical raw materials export restrictions

Dear colleague, I would like to ask for a clarification. You speak against communists, but I'm not aware of communists liquidating the steel industry, liquidating the car industry, liquidating the pharmaceutical industry. From 1949, we in Czech Republic were able to manufacture our own antibiotics, penicillin. Now we are unable. So why are you speaking against communists when the problem is somewh…

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Jun

2025

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Upcoming NATO summit on 24-26 June 2025 (debate)

Madam President, in the light of current events, let us recall what NATO is not. First of all, the alliance agreement is not a charity. The purpose of membership is to reduce security risks for members, not increase them. The admission of a new member implies, for each Member State, the acceptance of a military commitment to defend it. If it is judged that NATO enlargement will only increase the r…

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Jun

2025

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The Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law report (debate)

Madam President, the rule of law and the transparency of finances are important objectives of the Union. However, their surveillance must not be misused for political attacks. This is what happened during the recent mission of the Committee on Budgetary Control to Slovakia. This mission was proposed and led by a colleague Zdechovský, an MEP of the outgoing Czech government hostile to the Slovak go…

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May

2025

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Mr President, honourable colleagues, last time in Strasbourg, Valérie Hayer of Renew decided to attack Members who honoured millions of victims of Nazism by placing flowers at the grave of an unknown private. She used a speech in plenary that could not be answered. That's why I'm doing it now. We are solely accountable to our constituents for our political views, not Mrs Hayer or the Renew faction…

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May

2025

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80 years after the end of World War II - freedom, democracy and security as the heritage of Europe (debate)

Madam President, honourable colleagues, millions of Allied soldiers have given their lives for the victory over Nazism. Unfortunately, we forget those who have made the most sacrifices. I am ashamed of my colleagues who claim that only the Americans liberated Czechoslovakia. Would you tell the mothers of the Soviet fallen in the liberation of our country? Would you tell the impoverished prisoners …

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Apr

2025

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European Action Plan on Rare Diseases (debate)

Mr President, honourable colleagues, Commissioner, the problem of patients with rare diseases is the availability and reimbursement of treatment. The so-called Transparency Directive was intended to guarantee that the reimbursement of medicines would be decided by States in a fair process according to criteria known in advance, with the possibility of judicial review. The Czech Republic has formal…

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Mar

2025

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Democracy and human rights in Thailand, notably the lese-majesty law and the deportation of Uyghur refugees

Mr President, dear colleagues, I had an opportunity to be a part of a European Parliament mission to Thailand, and we tried to build friendly relations, which we need because we are in danger of trade wars and Thailand is and can be a valuable partner to the European Union. Firstly, I see it as wrong to 'strongly condemn' somebody who should be our partner – and 'strongly condemn' is the wording o…

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Mar

2025

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Presentation of the proposal on Critical Medicines Act (CMA) (debate)

Madam President, the shortage of essential medicines is a failure of the Union's economic policy. We used to be self-sufficient in manufacturing, we even had state medical supplies that had those warehouses when we talked about supplies. We are now dependent on the import of active ingredients from Asia, the interruption of which would be fatal. That is why I pragmatically call on those responsibl…

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Mar

2025

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European Council meetings and European security (joint debate)

Good morning, Mr Niedermayer. I hope you will respond to my question. Do you really think it would be a good idea to transfer deciding about war and peace from Prague – or other capitals of sovereign nations – to Brussels, and let Brussels institutions decide if our sons will go to war? Because this is a necessary aspect of the common European defence you propose.…

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Feb

2025

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Further deterioration of the political situation in Georgia (RC-B10-0106/2025)

Madam President, honourable voters, I have four reasons why I voted against the resolution on Georgia today. The first reason is that the European Parliament should address Europe's difficulties, not resolutions on foreign countries. It's disrespectful and useless. They have their problems, we have enough of our own. The second reason, the criticism of the Georgian elections, is misinformation. Ne…

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Feb

2025

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US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, the World Health Organisation and the suspension of US development and humanitarian aid (debate)

Madam President, today's topic reminds us that international treaties can be withdrawn and that even the best ideas can be destroyed by stupid activism. Thirty years ago, there was a demonstration in my homeland for nature conservation. Today, after the abduction of Gretami's ecology, you'll be spitting in beer for the climate agenda, or you'll be asked: When are you going to cancel like Donald Tr…

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Feb

2025

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Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggression (debate)

Mr President, dear colleagues, the interest of Ukraine or of Ukrainian people is not necessarily the same to interests of Zelenskyy regime, and the interest of Zelenskyy regime is not identical with the interests of central European states, as seen on the gas debate. Thanks to the new Trump administration, we know for certain that the United States sponsored, by billions of dollars, the media, the…

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Jan

2025

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Uniting Europe against actors hostile to the EU: time to strengthen our security and defence (topical debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, after the election of Donald Trump, let's face it: Europe's security will be harmed if we sponsor American armourers and wage foreign wars. The Czech Republic has paid hundreds of billions for American F-35 fighters, which the world has not seen, because they will be delivered to us maybe in five, maybe in ten years, and in the meantime they will be even more…

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Jan

2025

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Need to enforce the Digital Services Act to protect democracy on social media platforms including against foreign interference and biased algorithms (debate)

Madam President, my colleague, I will speak Czech, we are Czechs. If foreign interference bothers you, it is not the right tool to introduce the equivalent of American interference. Foreign Agents Registration Act So that everyone who speaks for foreign interests has to declare that they are paid from abroad? We don't mind. We don't have foreign money behind us, even at the best audit, but it woul…

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Dec

2024

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

Madam President, dear Commission and Rado - partly absent - you support the colour revolution in Georgia and you are pouring billions into Ukraine, but you are failing desperately in economic policy, which is your main task. Citizens don't care what you send to Zelensky, citizens care that automakers are going bust. The European Union was supposed to be the strongest economic unit in the world, bu…

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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)

Mrs. MEP started again with misinformation, because I am not a communist, even though the communists are our esteemed coalition partners. In international affairs, I am of the opinion that we are moving from a unipolar world to a multipolar world and should be concerned with European affairs, not meddling in matters between non-member states.…