What Gordan spoke about.

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Apr

2025

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Topical debate (Rule 169) - Social Europe: making life affordable, protecting jobs, wages and health for all

Dear President, legal certainty, the rule of law and social Europe, where you do not go bankrupt because you go to college or because you get sick and where you have a salary for a dignified life, have made our Europe and our continent one of the most attractive places to live, but now all of this is somehow in danger. The announcement of the imposition of tariffs tonight by the US administration …

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Apr

2025

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Improving the implementation of cohesion policy through the mid-term review to achieve a robust cohesion policy post 2027 (debate)

Very good question. Because it's much easier to spend it on defence than to spend it on housing. The second thing is that I'm worried about who will control the spending in defence when on the national level, the Member States will say, but we have our security laws which are protecting us from disclosing the information on spending in defence. So, I see that for Member States it's much easier to …

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Apr

2025

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Improving the implementation of cohesion policy through the mid-term review to achieve a robust cohesion policy post 2027 (debate)

Madam President, Mr Commissioner, I think one of my first speeches in this House was calling for the reform of cohesion policy, but not in my dream – or call it nightmare – I couldn't imagine that we will get such a comprehensive and, I will say, radical proposal how to change the cohesion policy, which I can partially agree with. However, we will need more time to study more in depth what was wri…

12

Mar

2025

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Secessionist threats in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the recent escalation (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, I guess it will be much more pleasure to you and to us that tonight we speak about agriculture of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the food of Bosnia and Herzegovina. But instead, I will speak about something else. Dear Chairman, this year we will mark 30 years since the establishment of peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina by the Dayton Agreement. Unfortunately, after 30 years th…

12

Mar

2025

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Union of Skills: striving for more and better opportunities to study, train or work in the EU and to bring our talents back home (debate)

Dear Chairman, thank you, Mr. Sokol, but of course, you've confused the crucibles again. I wasn't talking about not needing an army, I was talking about finally discussing people and when it turns a little bit differently, when people start investing more in people, when people start getting quality citizenship education, when they start worrying about each other, then there is a lot less conflict…

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Mar

2025

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Union of Skills: striving for more and better opportunities to study, train or work in the EU and to bring our talents back home (debate)

Mr President, Madam Commissioner, the importance and the beauty of this debate is that we are finally talking again about the people. After one and a half days of talking about defence and regulation, now we are going back to talking about the people. But maybe there is one trap that we can get into, and this is that we also talk about work and competitiveness, because skills are not only about th…

12

Feb

2025

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Commission Work Programme 2025 (debate)

Madam President, Mr Commissioner, I woke up early this morning just to go through the document because I didn't want that my speech to be based on the leaked draft document that was circulating around European media. I have to say I was quite surprised this morning when I saw that something is missing. Something that was in the leaked document is not in the final document, and this is the European…

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Feb

2025

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Political crisis in Serbia (debate)

The Honourable Chair, Commissioner Kos, President of the European Commission Von der Leyen visited in October 2024. Serbia on the occasion of the adoption of the growth plan. At a press conference with President Vucic, she said this: Serbia is one of the most advanced countries in the accession process. You have committed to reform, in particular on the foundations of the rule of law and democracy…

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Dec

2024

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Preparation of the EU-Western Balkans Summit (debate)

Dear Chairman, I wish I could speak Montenegrin or Serbian here today, but then there will be no translation. I would like to speak Bosnian, but immediately someone will rebel that it is not a language. I would like to speak better Macedonian or understand Albanian, but I know that people living in the Western Balkans will hear and understand me in Croatian, and my message is: The moment when the …

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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)

Dear Chair, Dear Commissioner, I regret to share with you the latest experience from my country of Croatia, where only the finals of the presidential campaign are underway. So, after Romania and in Croatia, we follow a whole series of fake news placements about a candidate. The method has already been seen. Anonymous profiles on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and X regularly place false information. …

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Dec

2024

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Regional Emergency Support: RESTORE (debate)

Dear Chair, Dear Vice-President, The Green Group will, of course, support this RESTORE proposal, but we also want to make it clear that it can no longer do so. We cannot one day, which will happen tomorrow, vote against a resolution related to deforestation in the forest, and then at the same time demand that the money for compensation for damage from disasters be dragged out of cohesion. We need …

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Dec

2024

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Activities of the European Ombudsman – annual report 2023 (debate)

Dear Chairwoman, Dear Ombudswoman, we have before us a report on the work of your office for 2023. This is also the last report you submit here in the European Parliament. For this reason, on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group, I would like to thank you for your long-standing commitment to the protection of human rights, the protection of the rule of law and the strengthening of the transparency of th…

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Nov

2024

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Presentation by the President-elect of the Commission of the College of Commissioners and its programme (debate)

Dear President, Dear President of the European Commission, in July this year you received the support of this House mostly from pro-European groups. Today we have a decision on the composition of the new Commission and it is more than clear that things have changed a lot. Today, those who do not believe in the idea of a democratic and strong Europe will also vote for this Commission. The voice wil…

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Oct

2024

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The important role of cities and regions in the EU – for a green, social and prosperous local development (debate)

On Monday, more than 90 mayors of major European cities adopted a declaration urging, among other things, us in the European Parliament to work together to deliver concrete results for citizens by 2029. Today, 75% of the EU population lives in urban areas. The implementation of the vast majority of laws we adopt here ends up on the mayor's shoulders, and the voices of cities and regions often rema…

9

Oct

2024

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Ensuring sustainable, decent and affordable housing in Europe - encouraging investment, private property and public housing programmes (debate)

Five years ago, the magic word in this Parliament, but also in Brussels circles, was demography and we all talked about how demography is a key problem. She got her commissioner, but when we look at it after five years, not much has moved. And now it frightens me that housing, which has finally become the subject of all the topics of this Parliament, does not come to life, does not live through th…

9

Oct

2024

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Recent devastating floods in Bosnia and Herzegovina (debate)

Dear Chair, at the outset, in front of the Greens-EFA group, I would like to express my condolences to the families and friends of the victims of the floods in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with the hope that the search for the missing will yield results as soon as possible. This tragedy, which occurred just a few weeks after the devastating floods in Central and Eastern Europe, is another painful remin…

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Oct

2024

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Outcome of the Summit of the Future: transforming global governance for building peace, promoting human rights and achieving the sustainable development goals (debate)

Honourable Chair, Honourable Commissioner, I think this pact must be a kind of opportunity for us as the European Union to reflect what happened to us that we lost our capacity for peacemaking. Today, peacemaking is not something that the European Union is recognised for. Viktor Orbán is promoting himself as some kind of peacemaker, and the European Union was a peacemaking organization, and that i…

18

Sep

2024

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The devastating floods in Central and Eastern Europe, the loss of lives and the EU’s preparedness to act on such disasters exacerbated by climate change (debate)

On Monday, in this chamber, we discussed the future of European politics and many of you from the center to the far right fired very toxic arrows, manipulative arrows, according to the idea of the green transition and the need to fight climate change. Today, however, there are slightly different tones in this hemicycle, with the exception of some eccentrics, conspiracy theorists, and spreadrs of f…

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Sep

2024

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War in the Gaza Strip and the situation in the Middle-East (debate)

Dear Chair, colleagues, a lot has been said in the last 11 months, after October 7, 2023. Many of you here today have condemned this utterly unacceptable behavior by Israel. International courts have called for a ceasefire, for the release of the hostages. The result of all this is silence, that is, non-action by Israel with a clear message, we just don't care, we don't care, and the question is w…

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Sep

2024

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War in the Gaza Strip and the situation in the Middle-East (debate)

Dear Chairman, it is interesting to me that with your great support to the Israeli Government, how do you explain the fact that then tens, hundreds of thousands of Israelis are demonstrating against the decision of that very government that you have now tried to defend here? So here she is not criticized by outsiders, but the people who live in Israel are on the road every day and are very opposed…

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Sep

2024

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The future of European competitiveness (debate)

Dear Chairman, when I read Draghi's report, it is not possible that I could not remember in 2012 when my country Croatia joined the European Union and when there was actually a lot of pressure on Croatia not to actually invest, to give up investments, not to save shipyards. And I remember that at that time we were forced to close a few shipyards because it was worth a totally different paradigm. H…