What Vilis spoke about.

10

Sep

2025

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Implementation of EU-US trade deal and the prospect of wider EU trade agreements (debate)

Mr President, colleagues. Our factories are in danger, our farmers are left alone, and we will pay the price for an agreement that was secretly concluded. Ursula von der Leyen calls the deal between the European Union and America a success, but in fact it is a compromise without justice and a transfer of Europe without a mandate. It is now more profitable for entrepreneurs to open factories in the…

11

Mar

2025

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White paper on the future of European defence (debate)

Dear Chair, Over the last five years, Europe has taken care of mosses and mosquitoes, but people have not forgotten why. Europe is economically lagging behind and has become weak without a strategic vision. Even when Russia invaded Ukraine three years ago, our leaders still did not understand or did not want to understand the situation we were in. Only now that the Americans have shown our weaknes…

23

Oct

2024

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U-turn on EU bureaucracy: the need to axe unnecessary burdens and reporting to unleash competitiveness and innovation (topical debate)

Mr President, Colleagues! Europe has been stolen. This has been done by European bureaucrats who, through various regulations, determine how we live, how we work for the economy, what to sow and mow farmers, what machines to produce, how many illegal immigrants we should receive. We Members, in fact, cannot influence anything. Everything is determined and created by European bureaucrats. We are he…

8

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)

Dear Chair, Colleagues! Two years ago, my region, Northern Europe, was a big event. All the media wrote about it. Swedish company Northvolt inaugurated a battery production plant for electric cars. In addition, it was said that tens of billions of euros have already been contracted for battery production. BMV, Volkswagen and Volvo. A few weeks ago, it was said much quieter that the same Swedish co…