What Fidias spoke about.

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Mar

2025

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Need to ensure democratic pluralism, strengthen integrity, transparency and anti-corruption policies in the EU (debate)

Madam President, hello friends, I'm quite proud to say that the European Parliament is very transparent. And you can all, all the people, the European citizens and everyone in the world, they can go in the website and they can find our salaries, they can find how much budget we are allowed to use, how much money we can spend, and this is very good. It builds trust and it's transparent. And it also…

11

Mar

2025

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Deteriorating situation in Gaza following the non-extension of the ceasefire (debate)

Madam President, it's time for Palestinians to have their own state. Most countries around the world support a two‑state solution for the Israel-Palestine conflict, but the biggest obstacle for this to really happen is the United States. The United States has used its veto power in the United Nations Security Council dozens of time to block resolutions to recognise a Palestinian state. Alongside t…

11

Feb

2025

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Boosting vocational education and training in times of labour market transitions (debate)

Madam President, AI will replace most jobs and we are not ready for it. Self-driving cars are replacing drivers. AI models are replacing software developers. Robots are replacing factory workers. Jobs will be disappearing, and the hard part is that we cannot really predict which ones will disappear and when. Europe needs to prepare for these big changes, and the way to do it is to fundamentally tr…

10

Feb

2025

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: the need for the European Union to contribute to resolving the humanitarian crisis of persons missing in wars and conflicts (debate)

Mr President, my uncle has been missing since the Turkish invasion of my country, Cyprus, in 1974. This had a huge impact on my family. My father was seven years old when he witnessed a suicide attempt by my grandmother because she couldn't handle it. My uncle is one of the 2 000 Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots who had disappeared, mainly during the Turkish invasion in 1974 and the intercommun…

21

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)

I will keep saying the same thing here. Please answer me not with a personal attack this time, but with an answer. Where do you draw the line on misinformation and truth? And who is judging? Thank you. I love you all!…

21

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)

My question is, where do you draw the line between disinformation and truth? And who is about to judge? Thank you. I love you!

21

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)

I'm not saying that everything is being censored. I'm just saying there are things that have been censored in the past, and it's proven in the U.S. that the government was interfering to censor stuff. So we need to have a proper discussion and understand what is censored in Europe, because this accusation from these people that own these platforms, that we institutionalise censorship, are very imp…

21

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, Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, recently accused the European Union of institutionalising censorship. Similar comments have also been made in the past by the owner of platform X, Elon Musk. Dear friends, if these accusations are true, then we will have a problem, as millions of posts being censored across Europe under the label of misinformation might be systemically unfair. Man…

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Jan

2025

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Madam President, our education system sucks. International studies, like the famous Pisa Test, show that Europe is – and our students are – struggling more than ever. In this education system, the kids and teenagers in most EU countries, including my country Cyprus, hate school and, as a consequence, they hate learning. Studies show that when you don't like something and you are forced to do it, y…

17

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)

I think you are making a mistake because X has a part of the algorithm as open source. So you can see what is actually happening. And I think this is what social media needs to look like, because we need to understand how the algorithm is working. They need to be transparent on how the algorithm is working so we, the citizens and everyone, or the coders would tell us if something was misused. So w…

17

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)

We agree on this, first of all, but also, Mr Ștefănuță said before that in the polls it was not showing the president of Romania. The polls one week before my elections were also showing me 2 % and I received 20 % of the votes. So the new methods that we have doing polls and all this stuff is kind of in the old-fashioned way and it doesn't represent the current state of all social media. So I thin…

17

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)

By the way, thank you – it's my first blue card, I'm very excited to answer it. Social media, I think like every evolution, it takes some adaption. So we need to adapt to the new current system. This is what I'm doing, adapting to the new system. But I think yes there are some problems, we need to find different tools. Labelling everything as disinformation - where do you draw the line on disinfor…

17

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)

Madam President, perhaps I'm one of the most qualified Members of the European Parliament to talk about the use of social media platforms in elections, as they were the only tool I used to get elected and be here today. Throughout the history of representative democracy, the people that were running for office were usually the ones that had access to the traditional media of their time. Now, for t…

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Nov

2024

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Condemning the illegal unilateral declaration of independence of the secessionist entity in Cyprus and all efforts to legitimise it and reaffirming the need for European solidarity - 41 years after (debate)

Mr President, my country, Cyprus, has two communities: Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots. Both communities made mistakes in the past that led us where we are now in a completely divided country. It's been 41 years since the illegal declaration of independence by the Turkish Cypriots in Northern Cyprus. I condemn this act and any attempts to legalise it, to legitimise it. After years of negotiati…

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Nov

2024

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Mr President, what Israel's government is doing in Gaza is a genocide. Since the start of the war in Gaza, 43 000 Palestinians have died, from which 16 000 were children. Not only lives have been lost, but also more than 80 % of the infrastructure, like houses and schools, have been damaged, making the Palestinians of Gaza live in really terrible conditions. Of course, we should not forget the ter…

9

Oct

2024

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2024 Annual Rule of law report (debate)

Mr President, my country Cyprus is mentioned in your 2024 Annual Rule of law report. From your assessment, Cyprus's justice system is lacking behind the European Union standard and I agree. In your assessment, you specifically refer to the case of the Auditor-General who was eventually fired by the Supreme Constitutional Court. I am here to express the anger of most Cypriots at this particular sit…

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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, perhaps I'm one of the most qualified members of the European Parliament to talk about social media platforms as I myself am a social media influencer by profession. I believe that the Digital Services Act is a positive step forwards, but I want to focus more on an important aspect of it. I strongly believe the way to fight hate speech and disinformation is definitely not censorship.…