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Jul

2026

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Coordination of social security systems (debate)

Mr President, this is my first MEP mandate, and I'm actually happy that I took this file, although there hasn't been a lot of competitiveness around this file because many people didn't believe that we will come to this end. But I'm really happy that after 10 long years we have found a compromise and we have tomorrow – I hope – the good vote. So if capital can float so freely across the European U…

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Jun

2026

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An EU future for the Western Balkans (joint debate)

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May

2026

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High time to deliver on the Single Market, providing certainty and predictability for EU businesses and quality jobs (continuation of debate)

Dear Chair, colleagues, many of you have already spoken about the serious obstacles facing our Single Market. And we know that we will not make a move until there will be good will from Member States to go in that direction, but today I would like to talk about what we can already do now, how to fight inflation that really kills individual citizens in individual Member States. We see two key culpr…

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Apr

2026

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Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034 (debate)

Dear Chairman, Commissioner, I must share with you that the debate on this budget has often sounded to me as if we were discussing a national budget, not a European one. And colleagues are confusing the notions of whether this is a national or a European budget, which is not surprising to me because the proposal that came from your side went a lot in the direction of nationalization of the budget.…

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Mar

2026

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European Citizens’ Initiative 'Ban on conversion practices in the European Union' (debate)

Madam President, dear colleagues, this was really a pleasure to listen to this debate because I hear a lot of echoing from you supporting what the citizens and activists are also requiring: to ban the conversion practices in the European Union, and I am convinced we will do it. But we should do more. In my gay life, I haven't met any LGBTQI person who became straight, but also in my gay life, I me…

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Mar

2026

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EU enlargement strategy (debate)

Dear Chairman, I will continue with the previous speaker because I want to talk about bilateral blocking of negotiations and instead, to discuss the veto, yes or no, to try to see what we can do with policies of relaxation and common sense. I remember Slovenia blocking Croatia. We ended up in an arbitral tribunal because we couldn't agree on a boundary line. And today Commissioner Kos thinks the l…

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Mar

2026

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Housing crisis in the European Union with the aim of proposing solutions for decent, sustainable and affordable housing (debate)

Madam President, millions of our fellow citizens are looking at this House with the expectation to deliver a solution on the devastating housing crisis. Today, a strange divided majority will deliver the report, which unfortunately will not provide solutions. On the contrary, it may even deepen the crisis. The housing crisis is not a natural disaster. It is the result of political choices, decades…

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Mar

2026

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Housing crisis in the European Union with the aim of proposing solutions for decent, sustainable and affordable housing (debate)

Dear colleague, you have mentioned how it's really important also to solve the crisis on the local level in the cities. And you come from Italy, with beautiful Milan and Rome, etc. But where to build more in Milan? Where to build more in Rome? Can you explain it to us? Is there still some space to give it and to build the new stock? Can you explain a little bit about that?…

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Mar

2026

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Housing crisis in the European Union with the aim of proposing solutions for decent, sustainable and affordable housing (debate)

Madam President, dear colleague, you mentioned how you warmly support this report and you also said that there is really great need to build a new stock to solve this crisis. But at the same time you are coming from the Netherlands and I am reading the data that there are 200 000 empty flats in the Netherlands, 21 000 in Amsterdam alone, and this in this report there is nothing about that. So what…

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Mar

2026

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Gender pay and pension gap in the EU: state of play, challenges and the way forward, and developing guidelines for the better evaluation and fairer remuneration of work in female-dominated sectors (debate)

Dear Chairman, the memory of Croatia is most often associated with our blue sea and beautiful beaches. You may have been lucky enough to try Pag cheese or Istrian Malvasia, and what kulen is, probably few of you know. Few of you probably know that Croatia has the poorest pensioners in the European Union. That these benefits, which I have mentioned, can only be dreamed of by many, as the EUR 5 600 …

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2026

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State violence in Minneapolis and the rule of law in the United States (topical debate)

Madam President, remember, Trump did not pick Minneapolis accidentally. Ranked the happiest city in the US with affordable housing, a high minimum wage and valuable scholarships, unleashing agents with near-total immunity to abduct and kill had one goal: to divide this community. Simply, when divided, it's easier for Trump to loot the economy, cut financing for schools and hospitals while enrichin…

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Dec

2025

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30th anniversary of the signing of the Dayton-Paris Peace Agreement (debate)

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Dec

2025

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Presentation of the European Affordable Housing Plan (debate)

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Oct

2025

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 23 October 2025 (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, Madam Minister, I will not call it historic, but an unusually important European Council meeting is taking place tomorrow. For the first time ever, the Member States will discuss affordable and, I also hope, social housing. And this is good news. We have seen what the leaders will put focus on tomorrow, first discussing and then calling on the Commission to present t…

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Oct

2025

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Polarisation and increased repression in Serbia, one year after the Novi Sad tragedy (debate)

Dear President, Dear Commissioner, on the eve of the anniversary of the tragedy of Novi Sad, I would like once again to express my condolences to the families of the victims, who to this day have no answers to the causes of the tragedy and no adequate compensation. Justice must reach them as soon as possible. This tragedy has put Serbia on its feet. The protests mobilized an incredible amount of y…

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Oct

2025

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Intergenerational fairness in Europe on the occasion of the International Day of Older Persons (debate)

Since the beginning of this term of office, we are today discussing for the first time the situation of older people in the Union, people who have worked and built our European Union every day throughout their lives. Without their contribution, the Union would not be such an attractive place to live today. And what do we offer them in return? Almost nothing or too little. We hide behind the phrase…

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Sep

2025

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Wave of violence and continuous use of force against protesters in Serbia (debate)

Dear Chair, it is close to a year since that historic press conference of Commission President von der Leyen with Vucic when she said that he is a great fighter for the rule of law. Now, it's been 11 months and things have changed drastically, by 180 degrees. They have changed thanks to the citizens of Serbia who took to the street and thank them once again for changing the atmosphere in this parl…

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Sep

2025

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Cohesion policy (joint debate)

I'm interested in how you talk about political blackmail in cohesion funds from your majority perspective in Hungary, where you have completely politically marginalized any opposition politicians? For example, how many European funds have you allowed to go to the city of Budapest? You don't let that money go just because someone from another party is at the head of that city. And then I don't unde…

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Sep

2025

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Cohesion policy (joint debate)

Dear Chair, Commissioner Fitto, I am very pleased that through this first report to be adopted by Parliament on housing, we have clearly identified the problems of the housing crisis. First, speculative investment and leaving housing policy to private capital. He can't do it like that anymore. The second is the lack of investment in affordable and social housing, the mobilisation of empty dwelling…

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Jul

2025

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2023 and 2024 reports on North Macedonia (debate)

Dear Chairman, I took the floor only because I heard again a lot of bilateral misunderstandings between North Macedonia, Greece and Bulgaria and I remembered the episode that my country, Croatia, went through when joining the European Union when Slovenia blocked Croatia. Today, here, Commissioner Kos is from Slovenia and I am from Croatia, I think we can both go for some non-alcoholic drink and ha…

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Jul

2025

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2023 and 2024 reports on Bosnia and Herzegovina (debate)

Dear Chairman, and now something different from my predecessor. I welcome this report, which clearly identifies the problems BiH continues to face on its path towards the European Union. Every time I visit Bosnia and Herzegovina, in addition to exceptional hospitality, I hear the stories of people who want only peace, security and a better life. And that's why I understand that most citizens want …

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Jun

2025

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Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience Facility (debate)

Dear Chairman, colleague Glavak, I think you are mixing pears and apples, because you have to correct me if the information that the Government of the Republic of Croatia has invested five million euros to a private individual to build a Hilton hotel on the island is incorrect. Is this information wrong and is it a lie? I think it's accurate and easily verifiable and yes, that's not how the RRF sh…

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Jun

2025

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Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience Facility (debate)

The Recovery and Resilience Fund (RRF) is an important mechanism for the European Union to respond to the challenge of the COVID-19 outbreak. The good news is that a borrowing decision has been made to invest the money in recovery and avoid a new economic crisis. A lesson has been learned from the past when austerity measures were forced instead of borrowing and investment measures. But today we h…

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May

2025

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2023 and 2024 reports on Serbia (debate)

The Honourable Chairman, the Honourable Commissioner, to the Rapporteur, reading this report on Serbia, there is no doubt that from the country of champions and constructive dialogue, as it was until recently, Serbia is stuck in a dead end as far as EU integration is concerned. Arbitrary expulsion of EU and Serbian nationals, serious corruption problems, deterioration of media freedom, pressure on…

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May

2025

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Ninth report on economic and social cohesion (debate)