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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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The Union’s preparedness for and response to health emergencies: the case of the MV Hondius and the hantavirus warning (debate)

Dear Chair, colleagues, what have we learned from the COVID pandemic? It seems to me very little, unfortunately. What actually happened? A horrible abuse of a situation where, above all, the media spread fear among people. Today we see in the streets especially older than ourselves wearing masks. The day of today. Therefore, we must not allow this to happen again in the name of protecting people. The new pandemic agreement brings with it many, many pitfalls. We have to be very critical of the intentions of these people, unfortunately. Just look at how the World Health Organization is funded today. More and more from private sources, not from governments, but from private money. So this is where all kinds of interests are hidden, and we saw what it looked like during COVID – shamelessly.

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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 Chairwoman, colleague and colleague, there has been a lot of talk lately about increasing competitiveness in Europe, but words are not enough. We need to look into reality and look into the eyes. The reality is that Europe is losing the economic race. The greatest talents move to America, and today the poorest state of Mississippi has the same standard as one Germany. So more expensive, we pay for energy and if we continue on this path, we will continue to sink into, I would say even, poverty. What needs to be done? It is necessary to restore common sense and trust in ordinary people. They know better what to do and how to run a business than unelected officials. So let's restore trust to the people and common sense in European politics. Otherwise, we will pay dearly for the continuation of these trends.

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Apr

2026

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Topical debate requested by a political group (PfE) (Rule 169) - Commission interference in democratic process and elections (topical debate)

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Feb

2026

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International Day of Education, fighting inequalities in access to education (debate)

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Feb

2026

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

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Jan

2026

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Drones and new systems of warfare – the EU’s need to adapt to be fit for today’s security challenges (debate)

Dear Chairman, colleague, the way of war is certainly changing rapidly and Europe needs to adapt. Here Croatia can be an example in many ways. It is important to emphasize that we have great experience in warfare due to the imposed war from Serbia during the nineties and we learned here on our own skin and use drones, already then. During the Homeland War, despite the embargo and lack of resources, improvised drones for reconnaissance and guidance of artillery were developed. These experiences played an important role in the planning of military operations, including the Storm. In a way, Croatia had a much more difficult situation than today Ukraine not only because of the imposed embargo, but also because of other circumstances. And we can't lose sight of that. We came out as winners and we need to behave like that today.

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Dec

2025

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European Democracy Shield – very large online platform algorithms, foreign interference and the spread of disinformation (debate)

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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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Nov

2025

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Digital Package (debate)

Dear Chairman, colleagues, we are again looking at another large Brussels package, this time digital, beautifully packaged, and inside full of new procedures and hidden cargoes. They present it as simple, but we know very well what it looks like in practice. Any reform that supposedly reduces bureaucracy eventually creates even more bureaucracy. We are talking about better use of data. But we know what that means, even greater state interference in the private sector and in our privacy. The government adopts the European Media Freedom Act and establishes a new media agency that will monitor the public space under the cloak of so-called transparency and wants to control political processes and fully manage the narrative. We need less regulation, and if we continue this way, we will only become users of other people's technologies, not their creators. Brussels increasingly believes in control and less in freedom.

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Oct

2025

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UN Climate Change Conference 2025 in Belém, Brazil (COP30) (debate)

By imposing the so-called green agenda, the European Union is destroying its own production and industry and trying to frighten people with the climate disaster narrative. Climate alarmism has taken hold, but common sense will eventually prevail. The European Commission is not able to protect Europe's borders or solve, for example, the migration crisis, and it thinks it can save the planet. It is absurd that Europe, which produces only 7% of the world's emissions, behaves as if the fate of the Earth depended on it. While the European Union deals with plastic caps and limiting fossil fuels, the rest of the world is ridiculing it. China, the US under Trump and other countries do not care about the green agenda and continue to grow as Europe stifles in its own bureaucracy. Just one example, the poorest state of Mississippi in America has almost surpassed one Germany. This is no longer politics, but a new religion, a green religion, which does not save the planet, but destroys Europe. Go green, go bankrupt.

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Oct

2025

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

One year after the tragedy in Novi Sad, we are having another discussion about the situation in Serbia, but there is no progress, as if we were spinning in a circle. Serbia has made no significant progress in the past year. The government continues to refuse to recognise core values. As far as Croatia is concerned, it still refuses to acknowledge the aggression of the 1990s. Serbian society seems to be trapped in old myths about Greater Serbia. They didn't give up on it, unfortunately. There is a lack of cooperation and transparency in finding missing persons. And as far as Croats in Serbia are concerned, they have no near rights, as Serbs do in Croatia. It's time to finally change that. Therefore, Croatia should behave sovereignly as a winner from the past years and better rights of Croats in that country should be protected. I'll keep pushing for it.

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Oct

2025

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Promoting EU digital rules: protecting European sovereignty (debate)

Thank you for that question. My view, in principle, is that hate speech as a legal concept is almost impossible to define. We also have many examples of abuse of this concept; for example, the former German Minister of Economy Habeck, I believe from The Greens, reported over 700 cases of hate speech. These German citizens are now awaiting trial because of something they said, perhaps critical or insulting to him. So I think people in power are inclined to misuse this concept and this should be prevented.

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Oct

2025

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Promoting EU digital rules: protecting European sovereignty (debate)

Thank you for the question. I don't impose any false thesis. I am delighted with every success of Croatian start-upHowever, I cannot support that our government continues to fund the so-called. fact checkers. We need to learn lessons from the past. So, very much is being censored, still, on digital platforms and unfortunately the Government accepts the principle that it will determine to some extent what citizens are allowed to read and not allowed to read. That's not the role of government, you know. Let the citizens choose for themselves what they want to read and watch, and then they can make their own judgments.

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Oct

2025

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Promoting EU digital rules: protecting European sovereignty (debate)

Dear Chairman, colleague and colleague, the European Union is in trouble. Particularly worrying is the excessive control of social networks, where behind the story of security lies the desire for censorship and manipulation of political processes and even elections. As a sovereign state, Croatia must not be allowed to be imposed externally by rules that restrict freedom of speech, freedom of choice and other freedoms. For example, the notion of hate speech is almost impossible to define precisely. In practice, it's a speech that people at power hate. For example, in some countries, citing scripture can be hate speech. Ladies and gentlemen, Europe is turning into a bureaucratic watchdog who does not build, does not allow innovation, but actually hinders the digital future. We sink into bureaucratic chains and ideological chains.

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Sep

2025

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

Dear Chairman, colleague and colleague, when talking about Serbia, we must speak realistically, not about the wishes left in this high house. First of all, it should be said that in Serbia, politicians still nurture old myths and live in a parallel world. It is not only a question of Vucic and the change of power, a deeper catharsis of the entire society is needed, which does not recognize its responsibility, especially in the aggression against Croatia in the 1990s. That is why I will repeat once again, for the normalization of relations and for the European path, Serbia needs to acknowledge the responsibility of the 1990s and not only with words, but with concrete actions to show that it has launched a new chapter. This means the payment of war damages to all victims of the Homeland War in Croatia. We have heard a lot of words, a lot of declarations, etc., but concretely in politics only deeds, concrete deeds are valid, and therefore another message to the opposition - leave the Greater Serbian rhetoric and acknowledge your responsibility from the war of the 90s.

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Jul

2025

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2023 and 2024 reports on Bosnia and Herzegovina (debate)

Dear Chairwoman, colleagues, this year we are marking several important anniversaries. A terrible crime has already been mentioned in Srebrenica, but we also have 30 years of the Dayton Accords. I would also mention the 30th anniversary of the military operation Storm in Croatia, which not only liberated Croatia, but also enabled peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina. As far as the European aspirations of this country are concerned, I would say the following: The best guarantee that Bosnia and Herzegovina remains in the Western circle is to strengthen the Croatian people, who have been under great pressure for 30 years. On the one hand, the concept of the ‘Serbian world’ and, on the other hand, the influence of Islamic states who tirelessly invest in the country. So there is a future in Europe, however, we should be aware that within Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Croatian people are the best guarantee that it remains truly European.

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Jun

2025

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Upcoming NATO summit on 24-26 June 2025 (debate)

Dear Chairman, I would like to thank my colleagues. Peace through strength, ‘peace through strength’, must remain the principle guiding our defence policy. Croatia proved this truth during the Homeland War when it managed to liberate the country from Serbian occupation and this principle applies to all of us today. We see on the example of Ukraine that sanctions and other measures are not a solution and cannot deter the aggressor, so on the one hand it is good that European countries will now allocate more for defence. It's been a long time and we have to say hello. However, the question is how this will be financed. I have no confidence that the European Commission is able to lead this effectively. This should remain the responsibility of the national states. This is not the time for new borrowing or an increase in the European budget.

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Jun

2025

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2023 and 2024 reports on Montenegro (debate)

Dear Chairman, colleague and colleague, it is in the Croatian interest, as well as in the European interest, that Montenegro be a moderate pro-European country, but it has unfortunately been backsliding lately. The concept of the Serbian world has already been mentioned. It is the source of many troubles, it was and still is today. We also see the toxic influence of the Serbian Orthodox Church in that country. We need to talk openly about the future of this country. So far, this government has not shown the strength to face the truth of the recent past. And in the end, the message is the same as Serbia, until Montenegro demonstrates its readiness to pay compensation to the victims of the Homeland War, we cannot take its European ambitions seriously.

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May

2025

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80 years after the end of World War II - freedom, democracy and security as the heritage of Europe (debate)

Dear Chairman, colleague and colleague, totalitarian ideologies destroyed Europe during the twentieth century. The end of World War II brought Croatia a new captivity. The new evil has replaced the other. This was followed by mass murder, the looting of private property and the expulsion of innocent people. What are the lessons today? Unfortunately, Croatia has not succeeded in prosecuting any communist crimes. That is why today we remember the victim of this totalitarian regime. The people will not be reconciled until the truth is known. There are over 700 mass graves in Slovenia alone. So I will continue to do everything to give Croatia a decent place – a museum for the victims of communism. Young generations deserve the truth and should persevere in it. History is not the same for everyone in Europe.

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May

2025

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2023 and 2024 reports on Serbia (debate)

Dear Chairman, colleague and colleague, this report fairly objectively illustrates the situation in Serbia. We all know that this is not a country of liberal democracy of the European type. She is still trapped by her national myths and nothing changes. As far as Croatia is concerned, there is no normalization. Again, there is no normalization until Serbia acknowledges its responsibility for the aggression of the 1990s and agrees to pay war damages to the victims. This is the minimum it can make as a sign of reconciliation. And the message at the end to the students: it is good for you to stand up for European values, and that means reconciliation with Croatia and recognition of guilt for everything that was done to our people in the 1990s. These are the same European values. So there is no trust without recognizing the truth, and the truth can sometimes be bitter, but without it there is no progress.

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Apr

2025

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European oceans pact (debate)

Dear Chair, Commissioner Kadis, colleagues, in principle, the Ocean Pact can look good on paper. So, nothing is controversial in the goals, but in the implementation we have a lot of problems. We see this in the European Union. So, let me repeat once again the fact that we import over 70% of the fish we consume. So we didn't strike the right balance. Our competitors don't follow the same rules. We have a problem with unfair competition. On the other hand, on the internal level we have the thinking by some groups that fish can experience pain, stress, fear and the like. What about the fishermen? What are they experiencing? I would say that the opposite is true, they should be the center of attention, not the suffering of the fish.

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Mar

2025

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100 days of the new Commission – Delivering on defence, competitiveness, simplification and migration as our priorities (topical debate)

Dear Chairman, colleagues, the same people who brought Europe into this situation today, the vulnerable situation, certainly not the ones who can save Europe, we need urgent change. When it comes to competitiveness, we listen to big statements and wait for new studies, but I have a simple suggestion. Europe should set up its DOGE, the European Unit for the Efficiency of Governments. Following the model of the Trump administration, we see how tax money of our taxpayers can be saved. The European Union has actually assembled an extraordinary propaganda network of NGOs and lenient journalists paid by our taxpayers, often working against the wishes of our citizens. In the end, 800 billion new euros for defence is not the way, especially if we are going through joint procurement, we have seen from Covid in which direction it leads.

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Feb

2025

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Preparedness for a new trade era: multilateral cooperation or tariffs (debate)

Dear Chairman, colleague and colleague, U.S. President Trump is not the biggest problem for Europe. And before his return to power, Europe's share of the world economy has been declining - for years. Why is this happening? There's more than one reason. One of them is certainly hyperregulation in Brussels. It is impossible to continue in this way. Then I would say that if Europe does not urgently abandon the green agenda, we run the risk of becoming irrelevant. It has been stifling industry for years and it is simply impossible to regulate relations in our countries in this way. As a sign that things are not working well, I will only mention the fact that Europe imports over 70% of the fish our people consume. Seventy percent. So, we are not able to even nearly accomplish what we need for everyday life. Europe urgently needs change. We can't go on like this, and these tales of declarations of action certainly don't cover the reality.

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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)

With the purchase of Twitter and the creation of the X platform, Elon Musk has taken the level of freedom of speech to a new level. While the EU wants to restrict freedom of speech through its acts and determine what is true for all of us. Today, users on X are those who create content and news that are checked in real time and that are relevant. I hear that the European Federation of Journalists has announced that it will stop publishing on X. Well for them, the left-wing activists who play journalists are masked anyway. The so-called fact-checkers they are an extended arm in the member states. They determine what will be said, how, when and who will, on top of that, what is true and what is not. To the extent that Mr. Zuckerberg recently had to apologise. And at the end of the precedent, the annulment of the elections in Romania, shows to what extent it all leads. It is not just censorship that is sufficient, it is also necessary, when necessary, to cancel the elections.