Speeches

Madam President, honourable Members, the proxy voting proposal offers a fair and practical solution for female Members of the European Parliament during pregnancy and after childbirth by allowing them to delegate their plenary voting rights for a limited period, ensuring they can continue their parliamentary duties. It enables female Members to continue exercising their parliamentary mandate while taking into account the specific health and logistical challenges linked to their maternity. This supports equal opportunities for women in politics without creating unnecessary complexity. We have to establish clear legal safeguards for proxy voting. The Statute for Members and Rules of Procedure must be amended. ECR supports this reasonable, balanced reform.

Ladies and Gentlemen, The European Union needs reform. He needs a change. We are losing global competition with China and the United States. And what is your answer to these challenges? More of the same, no reforms, no changes, and no vision. Polish companies, European companies are bowing to bureaucratic burdens. Your proposal: More bureaucracy. We have a lot of taxes and regulations restricting the hand of our growth and development of modern technologies. Your proposal: More European taxes. In this way, you can not smoothly enter the next decade of development. It is a lack of vision, a lack of perspective, a lack of understanding of the problems of Europeans. Poles count zlotys in their wallets, but you intend to move billions of euros from a drawer to a drawer, without checking the effectiveness of their spending. Today's proposal is a missed opportunity and it hurts me more than normal, because it happens under the auspices of a Pole.

I will answer this question by adding something from myself, maybe in this way: If you were Democrats, you wouldn't be here. cordon sanitaire. Because you don't know what a democratic debate is. You don't understand what the discourse is about. You are guided by your own ideology. You are convinced that only you have a monopoly on the right and the truth. You don't know what a discursive democracy is. You don't know what compromises are. Every vote in this room and every reaction, especially from the left and the communists, shows you how you behave. COrdon Sanitary It is not a democratic institution. You are the best example of how you don't understand democracy at all.

Madam President, I'm sorry. Ladies and Gentlemen, You do not fight for any rule of law or for any democracy, because you understand democracy only in such a way that when the left and liberals win elections, that is democracy, and when the right wins in a democratic process, there is no democracy. And that's what you're fighting for here. And that's what it's all about. Are you saying that you will teach the peoples of Europe about the rule of law? You who are colleagues of Commissioner Reynders' law-abiding colleague? You, who are colleagues of Commissioner Mogherini, who is being prosecuted by the law and the prosecutor's office? You who are responsible for Qatargate, Pfizergate, Huaweigate? You want to say that you will teach the peoples of Europe what the rule of law is? Are you saying that the Commissioner sitting here has better democratic legitimacy than the democratically elected governments of the Member States in the European Union? This is a mockery. Pericles and Cleisthenes roll over in their graves as they look at what you're doing.

Thank you very much for this question. It is fundamental. What we need to do is either remove the ruling coalition from power today, or convince the majority that instead of spending money on goals that are unprofitable, on goals that do not generate economic growth, we need to eliminate bureaucracy, eliminate unnecessary legislation and stop pursuing a policy in which the European Union turns into an open-air museum for tourists from China and the United States, when everything is produced in China and America is moving away from climate policy. Doing so is simply absurd.

Mr President, thank you very much. Ladies and Gentlemen, The Europeans! The Poles! Are you wondering why housing in Europe is so expensive and inaccessible? Why are prices in stores rising? Why don't the companies you work for or own do as well in global markets as your competitors do? The answer is in this room. Half of this room is overwhelmed by an ideological view of reality, not by any pragmatism or economic reality. The European Union is responsible for 6% of CO2 emissions2, China – for 30. And China accounts for 30% of global industrial production, but the European Union has fallen in all statistics over the last 10 years. Why is that? Because half of this room spends trillions of euros on goals that are neither economically advantageous nor profitable, or that make your lives worse every day. This is the consequence of an ideology rather than an economic one. mindset.

Mr President, thank you very much. Ladies and Gentlemen, Unfortunately: nonsense, nonsense and more nonsense. This budget is not an innovation budget. It is a budget of bureaucracy, bound hands and lack of prospects. Under your rule, the European Union has been shrinking economically for years and losing global competition. Let's look at the statistics. Industrial production in 2024: China +5.5%, USA almost +2%, European Union -0.7%. What is the global share of industrial production in 2010 between the US, China and the EU? 18% each. Today, when we talk, China has 30%, the US 17% and the EU 15%. This is an absolute regression in the times of your rule. You are sitting in your glass towers, separated from the citizens of the European Union, with no idea or competence how to conduct the affairs of this continent. This budget, like you, is detached from reality.

Madam President, dear Members, this reform addresses a clear need: ensuring that female Members who are pregnant or have recently given birth can continue fulfilling their parliamentary duties without compromising their health or family. By introducing a temporary and narrowly defined system of proxy voting, it offers a practical solution that recognises the realities of maternity, while preserving institutional integrity. Importantly, it maintains the core principle of personal and individual voting, introducing only a limited exception justified by health and family circumstances. This measure represents sensible modernisation, improving working conditions and work-life balance for elected representatives, while respecting national constitutional traditions and the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality. It also advances equal opportunities for women in politics in a practical, non-ideological way, removing barriers without adding unnecessary complexity. The ECR supports it.

Madam President, I'm sorry. Ladies and Gentlemen, It's just unbelievable. You go on about the same thing: Green Deal, Climate Policy. People who do the same thing all the time and count on a different result are manifested in madness. And it is necessary to say clearly and categorically: Enough is enough! This policy you are pursuing is billions of euros pumped into corporations, pumped into think tanks that are linked to you. These are billions of euros that are wasted at any time. The Chinese and Americans are developing artificial intelligence, developing innovation, developing the economy. And where are you leading us? You lead us to the open-air museum, which will be visited by tourists from China and the United States. It's time to say this: Enough of this crazy, insane politics! Europe is awakening and you will be held accountable for this waste.

Madam President, honourable Members, today all of us have a chance to make an important decision. Do we want to strengthen the competitiveness of the European economy, or do we prefer to remain on the all-bureaucratic path? Omnibus 1 needs to be amended and we are proposing to continue working on it. We must demonstrate our respect for the democratic process and our commitment to a pro-business approach. Therefore, I urge you to vote against the Committee on Legal Affairs motion for interinstitutional negotiations. Let us continue our work on this matter in a plenary here.

Dear President, Ladies and Gentlemen, Yes, it is true: Putin is the enemy of Poland, he is the enemy of freedom, he is the enemy of Europe. But Putin did not come out of nowhere, ladies and gentlemen, and the truth is important. You have been fattening Putin with money for years, in particular Germany, the Schröder government and the Merkel government. When Putin invaded Georgia, you gave him money. When he took Crimea, you gave him money. When he threatened Poland with a nuclear attack, you gave him money. And when we warned him that he was a threat, you called us Russian onuks. There are people in this room who today challenge others from the proputinists, and they are from a party that hugged Putin and reset. I am ashamed that today you have waged a Polish-Polish war, instead of talking about our security. Ladies and Gentlemen, Poland needs unity. Poland needs arms. And the armaments began with the Law and Justice government in 2016. And you are to continue them for our security, Ladies and Gentlemen.

Mr President, thank you very much. Ladies and Gentlemen, The European Union is clearly insane. Ladies and Gentlemen, you think that you are able to save the whole world. The European Union is responsible for 6% of CO2 emissions2, China for 30%. And in the name of that, the left in this building wants to destroy European industry, European entrepreneurs, to break our economy. This is absolute madness. You're obsessed with climate. This is your new vision of reality - instead of God climateism, instead of economy Chinese cars. Europeans are supposed to wear Chinese clothes. There should be no industry here. There should be no economy here. We are to depend on the food of Mercosur and we are to depend on the grace of the Russian armed forces. It's just absolutely unthinkable. And we, as representatives of Law and Justice, and we, as the European right, will not allow Europe, in the name of an insane ideology, to become an open-air museum, to which the Chinese and Americans come to visit castles, because there is no industry and there is no modern technology.

The Internet is the largest circulation of information, access to information and knowledge in the history of civilization, and it must remain free. And that's why we need to focus on how to defend and nurture that freedom. We see various threats, such as the fragmentation of the Internet, as attempts by various types of dictators, bureaucracies, officials, advocates of political correctness are trying to enter into what is the domain of freedom. Freedom has always been a victim of dictatorships and various revolutions in history. Therefore, participation in the IGF, in a forum that is undoubtedly the subject of an exchange of information and views - very interesting - should continue. But we, as Europeans, must be aware that in all sorts of discussions, in the IGF, the European Union is also a laughing stock, because other nations investing in artificial intelligence, in cutting-edge technologies, look at us as leaders - leaders of bureaucracy and regulation, who are destroying their development opportunities, as the Draghi report is all about. That is why we face great challenges and I dare to say that the issue of Internet freedom will be one of the most important in the future. But there are also people in this room who do not stand up for the freedom of the Internet at all.

Dear President, This is another debate on the same issue and no solutions can be seen. This Parliament and the European Commission are unable to provide solutions that meet the expectations of Europeans. The Dragi report makes it clear: We are losing competition with China, we are losing competition with the United States, we are not competitive, we have virtually no capital or economic advantages. We have lost them all under the rule of the European Commission. Today it is important to ask honestly why this is happening. Why, despite numerous arguments and explanations, do you not want to understand where the problem lies - in the bureaucracy, in the overregulation of the socialism prevailing here? Because you, the Left, are the source of this problem. You are dragging our continent, our companies, our entrepreneurs and our homelands to the bottom. If this continues, the Chinese and Americans will come here for holidays to watch the open-air museum under the name of Europe.

Dear President, This debate shows that the esteemed bureaucracy and the esteemed majority in this House flew into space without the help of Elon Musk's rocket. What are we discussing? In 2005, China's nominal GDP was $2.3 trillion, while that of the European Union was 13 trillion. We were five times richer than China. And this year? This year, for the first time, China's nominal GDP will be higher than that of the European Union. We owe it to your absurd, nonsensical economic policies that you have been pursuing for years. We owe it to Ursula von der Leyen. We owe it to the Green Deal. We owe it to the bureaucracy. We owe it to the socialism that prevails in this House. And because you have made the European Union an open-air museum – a continent that was one of the richest and strongest 100 years ago, 50 years ago – Ursula von der Leyen deserves to be resigned, as we expect this week.

First of all, it seems you don't understand the Treaties of the European Union. First of all, you should read not only the first and the second but all the Articles, and understand the spirit of these Treaties. Second of all, I feel bound to the spirit of European civilisation, which was built upon Rome, Athens and Jerusalem – what you, the leftists, don't understand at all.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the leftists and the Eurocrats have been making a circus out of this Chamber for years over Hungary. You found yourself a scapegoat because you don't like the Hungarian election results. You represent neocolonial contempt for people with different views. You seem to think that you have some sort of mandate to lecture the nations of Europe on what they are allowed to do and what they are not. Let me inform you: you have neither such a right nor any legitimate authority. It is unbearable to watch the arrogant tirades against the Hungarian people, who have a tradition of liberty as long-standing as that of England or of Poland. When Hungary was independent, freedom flourished there, as old as the Golden Bull of the 13th century. Leftist ideologues, leave Hungary alone!

Dear Mr President, The wind of change and danger is sweeping through the world. There is a war on the doorstep of the European Union. We are all witnessing a technological revolution taking place before our very eyes. Draghi's report showed that the European Union's economy needs profound changes, and these changes must start with the debureaucratisation and deregulation that should take place. And we undoubtedly see an interesting and interesting discussion around these issues in the European Union. The guidelines for the 2026 budget and what the rapporteur has presented deserve our attention, because it shows changes, but at the same time it also has many drawbacks that are worth mentioning. There is no radical departure from the stupid policy of the Green Deal, which destroys our economy and makes us not competitive with the Union, with the United States and China. This requires deeper reflection and deeper corrections than those proposed and moving in a better direction than in previous years.

Mr President, nearly all Members of the European Parliament agree that we have to rapidly change the direction of the EU. The Commission and the bureaucracy it created generate time spent on idleness and overcoming obstacles, which were invented in the mind of the leftists. Because of that reckless attitude, we, the Europeans are in huge danger. EU is losing the international race. China and US are growing faster, more stable and more innovative. Many nations are mocking the EU with such excessive bureaucracy. Our continent has become a sick man of the world. We urgently need to deregulate our economy, we have to break the chains that hinder our growth. The Commission is proposing the Omnibus package. It is a step in the right direction, but it's a very small step. It's not enough. The Omnibus initiative is shallow. You are trying to avoid making – Madam is absent, of course – you are trying to avoid making hard decisions. We need new deregulations with which we shout: cut, cut, cut and, once again, cut. We have to throw a lot of directives into trash where they belong. There is a lot of work ahead of us to get rid of the unnecessary burdens from our economy. The Omnibus proposal needs to be amended and extended.

Madam President, thank you very much. Ladies and Gentlemen, Vladimir Putin had a choice between peace and war, and he chose war. He chose to murder the innocent. He chose acts of aggression and hostility towards his neighbors. He clearly announced that he wanted to restore the power of the Russian Empire, threatening Finland, the Baltic States, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and all the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. We Poles know very little about the cruelty and tyranny of Russia. We are not against Russia as such, we are against Putin's Russia. We could talk to Politkovskaya Russia. The need to strengthen the eastern border of the European Union is indisputable to us. And as Poles, regardless of our political views, we share a deep conviction that the European Union must move from words to dynamic actions and expenditures in order to be able, as the eastern flank of NATO and the European Union, to defend all the others.

Madam President, thank you very much. Prime Minister, what a speech! Not a single specific. Every day the lives of Europeans are getting worse, and you come to Strasbourg and you are not able to give a single concrete thing, a single strategy, a single vision. You talk about the spirit of Europe. You're a preacher, because you're certainly not Montesquieu. There are no ideals. There's no vision. There's no strategy. Donald Tusk in all his glory. You were right when you wrote 'one Donald is more than enough'. Go away, Mr Tusk!

Mr President, thank you very much. Ladies and Gentlemen, The issue we are discussing here today is fundamental because Russia is an immanent threat to security and peace in Europe. Vladimir Putin clearly and categorically stated that he wants to restore the power of the Soviet Union and Russia within the widest possible borders. This means that it intends to conquer not only Ukraine, but also other countries, the Baltic states. It threatens Finland. It threatens Poland. We know from Russia's military doctrine that they intend to treat all tools of politics as tools of war, including the Baltic Sea basin will be used in every possible way to implement Russian geopolitical thought. And we, as Europe, should stand together, in solidarity and firmly against Russian politics. We, as Poles, in particular the late Professor Lech Kaczyński, have been talking about this for a very long time, but we have been neglected in this Chamber and in other European institutions. We hope that the time for reflection has come and that Europe will stand together against Russian imperialism.

Madam President, I'm sorry. Ladies and Gentlemen, It is you, the deputies of the left, and you, the bureaucrats, who are destroying freedom of speech, which is the foundation of European civilization. Today you have the nerve to stand here and tell me that Elon Musk is a fascist. A man who has established unlimited, unlimited freedom of speech on his platform, and you do not see the illogicality of his speech. You are introducing censorship because freedom of speech, which is unlimited, does not need any control. Controlled freedom is not freedom. Verification, community standards are the criteria for propaganda. These are the criteria of censorship and you do not see it. You are afraid of the truth, you are afraid of freedom, but above all you are afraid that the peoples of Europe will write and say what they think. Because then it will undermine the foundation of your false bureaucracy and your power that you are defending here. Because you are not defending freedom in any sense.

You are partly right, inasmuch as every company is made up of both employees and employers. But it is not true that we should only emphasise the role of workers, because if we do this, we will lead to a situation in which there will be no enterprises and we will end up like the Soviet Union. The wealth of nations comes from work, as Adam Smith wrote. The wealth of nations comes from entrepreneurship, and workers are to be paid a decent wage for the work they do.