What Arash spoke about.

6 Jul

2026

FR Speech

Air passenger rights (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to reiterate my pride in having actively participated in this work, which has resulted in the strengthening of the rights of our fellow citizens. So the president of a famous Irish airline said that this text was absurd and that it would prevent innovation, progress and competitiveness – just that! Colleagues, we would indeed not have had to disc…

16 Jun

2026

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The role of the EU in efforts for peace and stability throughout the Middle East after the announced deal between the US and Iran (debate)

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21 May

2026

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Periodic roadworthiness tests and technical roadside inspection (Roadworthiness package) (A10-0139/2026 - Jens Gieseke) (vote)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I am speaking today on behalf of our group's shadow rapporteur, Elena Kountoura, who could not be present today. This package is an indispensable revision of our European framework, dictated by technological developments and the urgency of the challenges surrounding road safety. The final compromise does, of course, offer several improvements as regards the earl…

9 Feb

2026

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Amending Regulations on agricultural products as regards market rules and sectoral support measures in the wine sector and for aromatised wine products (debate)

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20 Jan

2026

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Air passenger rights (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, as you have seen, Parliament, on this issue, is united, was united in the vote in committee, it is united today, and we have allowed ourselves symbolically not to sit in our usual places, but to sit together here, facing the desk, to show our determination and our unity. He will be united tomorrow in the vote. And this unit is motivated because …

21 Oct

2025

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General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sections (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the eighth replenishment of the Global Fund to Fight HIV, Tuberculosis and Malaria, which will finance the 2026-2028 cycle, will be announced at the G20 meeting in South Africa. While HIV is nearing an epidemic recovery, U.S. cuts have already caused thousands of deaths. In 2022, the European Commission ranked seventh among donors, increasing its c…

10 Jul

2025

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Post-2027 Common Agricultural Policy (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, you will always find me at your side when it comes to defending an ambitious budget for the common agricultural policy, public support that applies to both pillars of the CAP – income and sustainable development – in order to guarantee a dignified income for our farmers and ensure our food sovereignty. However, this support must stop feeding injustice. Today, 80% of …

8 Jul

2025

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Situation in the Middle East (debate)

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Madam President, Chani, Noya, Carmela, Mansour, Niloufar, Mahsa, Abbad, Ahmad and so many thousands of other innocent civilian victims that I mourn all, regardless of their nationality, regardless of the identity of their executioners. Whether they died in Israel at the hands of terrorists, murdered during a food distribution in Gaza, repressed by the regime in Tehran by fighting for their freedom…

17 Jun

2025

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Latest developments on the revision of the air passenger rights and airline liability regulations (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, I would first like to underline the constructive work we are doing, together with the colleagues who have gone before me, to find, as Andrey Novakov said, the right balance between passenger rights and the health of the aviation sector, and therefore to underline the work we are doing with Andrey Novakov, Mr Ricci, Mr Marzà Ibáñez and Mr Oetjen. I say this, because i…

13 Mar

2025

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A Vision for Agriculture and Food (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, I am pleased to hear your willingness, which I believe to be sincere, to ensure that sales prices exceed production costs, to prevent the importation of products made with pesticides banned in the European Union and, above all, to introduce effective controls to ensure that our rules are applied. You will always find us in support to go in this direction. However, is th…

18 Dec

2024

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Challenges facing EU farmers and agricultural workers: improving working conditions, including their mental well-being (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, our farmers are exhausted. Every day they fight against increasingly severe climatic hazards, undergo increasingly volatile market variations and see their income subject to the interests of increasingly greedy speculators. As if that were not enough, the President of the Commission decided to leave one fine morning, secretly, behi…

27 Nov

2024

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Topical debate (Rule 169) - Budapest Declaration on the New European Competitiveness Deal - A future for the farming and manufacturing sectors in the EU (topical debate)

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Mr President, in the Budapest Declaration of 8 November last, the Heads of State of the European Union called for collective efforts, at Union and Member State level, in the agricultural sector and in particular to provide farmers with a stable and predictable framework. Following the deadly floods in Valencia, on 6 November the European Investment Bank adopted a €3 billion programme to support ag…

23 Oct

2024

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Need to strengthen rail travel and the railway sector in Europe (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the European Commission is not defending an ambitious railway policy, but a dogma. For years, it has promoted liberalisation and competition to the detriment of the public service, users and the environment. For what result? We now have only an underinvested network of limited rail capacity. Rail freight continues to decline, the trains of everyday…

16 Sep

2024

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Outcome of the Strategic Dialogue on the Future of EU Agriculture (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, our farmers are angry because climate change is here and they are the first victims of it by suffering floods, droughts and epizootic diseases. They are angry because they are being crushed by agribusiness and crisis profiteers who have been fed up with soaring prices on the back of their work. They are angry because you export our jobs and import …