What Maria spoke about.

20 Jan

2026

EL Speech

CFSP and CSDP (Article 36 TEU) (joint debate)

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Mr President, Mrs Kaja Kallas, as High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, I would like to ask you why I have this question: How can you not speak, representing the European Union, with Russia? I really wonder why your anti-Russian rage is not a useful tool, you know, for diplomacy. And let me tell you that in this speech you made, after the six minutes you talked …

20 Jan

2026

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Situation in Venezuela following the extraction of Maduro and the need to ensure a peaceful democratic transition (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen. When Steve Bannon in 2017 saluted Nazis, when Elon Musk in 2025 saluted Nazis, when Trump said he would make Gaza a tourist resort, and with him you supported the genocide of the Palestinian people, there was no orderly reaction from Europe to international law. So when Trump entered Venezuela – because the regime you say, the Maduro regime, did not fall, it …

17 Dec

2025

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 18-19 December 2025, in particular the need to support Ukraine, transatlantic relations and the EU’s strategic autonomy (debate)

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Mr President, I would like to make it clear that every time I have intervened I do so without supporting either Putin, Zelenskyy, Trump, von der Leyen or any of them. I am interested in European citizens. They're the ones I've come here to protect and represent. The intention to use the 200 billion euros of Russian state reserves is an extremely dangerous option, and I want what I'm going to say t…

16 Dec

2025

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Presentation of the EU Cardiovascular Health Plan (debate)

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16 Dec

2025

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Presentation of the European Affordable Housing Plan (debate)

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16 Dec

2025

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EU Defence Readiness (joint debate)

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27 Nov

2025

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Development of an industry for sustainable aviation and maritime fuel in Europe (debate)

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26 Nov

2025

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Protecting citizens' right to make cash payments and ensuring financial inclusion (debate)

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23 Oct

2025

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Combating violence against women and girls, including the exploitation of motherhood (debate)

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Madam President, dear colleagues, today I will take this minute to address mainly the men in the room – not so many, unfortunately – since women know, almost to their bones, what I will talk about. How many times have you been catcalled on the street? How many times have you walked home holding your keys, almost running, drenched in fear, just to make it home? How many times have you been judged f…

9 Oct

2025

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Deliberations of the Committee on Petitions in 2024 (debate)

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Mr President, in February 2024, the Committee on Petitions examined Ms Karystianou’s petition on state crime in Tempi, which was supported by 1.5 million citizens’ signatures. However, after the examination, the petition was stuck in a simple exchange of documents between the services. And then silence. No institutional inquiry was launched, only pretentious debates in plenary, closed between grou…

7 Oct

2025

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Common agricultural policy (joint debate)

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Madam President, the Rodrigues report abolishes controls, giving rise to scandals involving the misappropriation of European funds, such as that of OPEKEPE in Greece. It leaves the gospel of the CAP intact, 80% of the subsidies going to 20% of the beneficiaries. It does not reduce the cost of the small farmer, it only reduces the obligations of the big ones. The Imart report, on the other hand, ha…

7 Oct

2025

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The EU’s role in supporting the recent peace efforts for Gaza and a two-state solution (debate)

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Madam President, the European Commission and the Council, the European Union indirectly finances the occupation by purchasing Israeli weapons and surveillance software – first and foremost Greece. Ladies and gentlemen, you have violated Article 2 of the EU-Israel Agreement. The European Commission refused me access to the documents proving your complicity, the opinion of your Legal Service. Today …

11 Sep

2025

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Summer of heatwaves in the EU: addressing the causes and providing adequate housing and health policies to address record-breaking temperatures (debate)

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Mr President, in Greece, citizens are suffering from record heatwaves. The fires erupted from wooden columns and pillars of the Public Power Corporation, which after privatisation were left without maintenance because the cost was considered high. Firefighters remain seasonal workers with incomplete logistical equipment. The mountaintops fill wind turbines within forests and Natura areas. This is …

8 Sep

2025

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Investments and reforms for European competitiveness and the creation of a Capital Markets Union (debate)

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Madam President, the Lalucq report, based on the Draghi report, acknowledges the need for investment. But instead of talking about social needs, inequalities, wages and the welfare state, the answer is more dependence on markets, more power in banks and funds. That is, "casino-capitalism" that has already collapsed is being re-served as a solution. In the North they talk about competitiveness, whi…

10 Jul

2025

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Post-2027 Common Agricultural Policy (debate)

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Madam President, the CAP is strangling small farmers, turning subsidies into a trap. Instead of supporting production and self-sufficiency, it produces dependencies and dead ends. Today, farmers are abandoning their land because of European Union policy. That's not enough for you. You also bring the Mercosur agreement. In Greece, CAP money became a vote-buying tool. A government gang squandered th…

9 Jul

2025

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EU Preparedness Union in light of the upcoming wildfire and droughts season (debate)

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Madam President, are you talking about a Preparedness Union? What kind of readiness? When does the European Union itself finance the disaster? The AntiNero programme is being implemented in Greece without an environmental permit, violating European directives, destroying Natura areas and forests with supposedly fire-fighting works that amount to systematic deforestation. It does not prevent fires.…

8 Jul

2025

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2023 and 2024 reports on North Macedonia (debate)

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Madam President, the Prespes Agreement is an invalid agreement, a tool of geopolitical interests and irredentism. A product of coercion and political manipulation dictated by the Trump administration to the then Tsipras government and imposed without democratic legitimacy, with the purchase of MPs and blackmail, both in Greece and in the neighboring country. It is based on a false history, which t…

8 Jul

2025

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2023 and 2024 reports on Albania (debate)

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Madam President, the report on Albania conceals the grim reality experienced by the Hellenism of Northern Epirus. Areas are trampled, Albanian settlers settle, houses are demolished, as in Himara and Vlora, supposedly in the name of tourism development, with state cover and at the expense of legal owners. The Greek minority is shrinking demographically not only due to immigration, but also due to …

8 Jul

2025

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

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Madam President, China is not a trading partner. He's a commercial competitor. First, European industries and multinationals massively relocated their production to China to exploit cheap labor and raw materials. Then, China built shipping fleets, bought ports such as that of Piraeus, in total participates in 10 European ports, established a regime of labour exploitation with contractors and limit…

7 Jul

2025

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Financial activities of the European Investment Bank – annual report 2024 (debate)

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Mr President, the report shows that the European Investment Bank does not serve the real needs of citizens, but the interests of big business and strong economies. Small and medium-sized enterprises, farmers and the self-employed find their doors permanently closed. The Bank talks about support for small and medium-sized enterprises, but the funds go through commercial banks that choose their larg…

18 Jun

2025

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Electricity grids: the backbone of the EU energy system (debate)

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Madam President, behind the green transition lies an industry that sweeps mountains, forests and villages to set up private wind and photovoltaic parks, serving their profit – no public plan, no limitation on the number of permits, completely unregulated. In Greece, ridges are uprooted in Natura areas, forests are uprooted and roads are opened for wind turbines that serve neither energy self-suffi…

17 Jun

2025

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Situation in the Middle East (joint debate)

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Mr President, Mrs Kallas, the trade war is intensifying. There is a plan: a trade corridor from Taiwan to Europe, through the Middle East, Iran, Israel, Gaza – to reach the beach and bypass China’s silk road. People pay for it with blood. Gaza is being bombed, children are dying of starvation. Blockade is a war crime and you do nothing to lift it. Rima Hassan, our colleague, was abducted in intern…

17 Jun

2025

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EU framework conditions for competitive, efficient and sustainable public transport services at all levels (debate)

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Mr President, Mr Tzitzikostas, public transport in a country like Greece, which has privatised everything, is a good target. But we are talking here about competitive and sustainable transport, while the main thing is the safety of passengers and workers. Of course, you can see that the EPP blockade did not work and the four MEPs who are independent were finally able to manage to talk about Tempi …

17 Jun

2025

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

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Madam President, Commissioner, in Greece the rule of law is not simply undermined; It has essentially been abolished. The Mitsotakis government controls the judiciary by appointing the leadership of the highest courts, while openly intervening and covering up cases such as the state crime in Tempi – even with police interventions at the scene of the crime, to remove evidence and responsibilities. …

22 May

2025

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Deliberations of the Committee on Petitions in 2023 (debate)

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Mr President, the Committee on Petitions is the main institutional forum through which European citizens express their concerns, concerns and problems. Our role is clear: defend and promote their rights without discounts. It is disappointing that a right-wing coalition within the committee is acting to close petitions that bother right-wing governments. It is also disappointing that the majority o…