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Mar

2025

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A Vision for Agriculture and Food (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I am promoting in Romania a political strategy which I have called ‘decontaminating public discourse from ideological interference’. Romania is today a country where the truth value of an idea must be certified by the authorities or can be canceled by the decision of a force institution. By comparison, I tell you that the most harmful parasite that endangers EU …

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Mar

2025

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I raise a very strong alarm about democracy in Romania, which is in mortal danger. On December 6 last year, an unprecedented event took place in the European Union, namely the annulment of the presidential elections in Romania. On March 9 this year, the candidate who had the best chance of winning the presidential election and who won last year's first round …

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Mar

2025

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Establishing the Reform and Growth Facility for the Republic of Moldova (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the Republic of Moldova has two historic chances in its journey towards the European Union: - firstly, a complete legislative and administrative bibliography for the reforms they need to implement, translated into Romanian and tested in practice by the Bucharest authorities; - secondly, a solid partnership with Romania, which has solved operativ…

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Feb

2025

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The need to address urgent labour shortages and ensure quality jobs in the health care sector (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, today we are being hit by the effects of a profound crisis on the labour market in general, but especially in strategic areas, as is the medical system. If at the level of the European Union the subject is worrying, in Romania and in the less developed states of the European Union the phenomenon becomes downright dangerous. For decades, developed W…

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Jan

2025

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Geopolitical and economic implications for the transatlantic relations under the new Trump administration (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the inevitable has happened! The world's largest democracy has installed a president who has already begun to demolish the ideological edifice built by the radical American left and exported to the world with all its might. As a guarantor of European security and an essential trading partner for the European Union, the United States cascadingly abandons progr…

18

Dec

2024

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Need to ensure swift action and transparency on corruption allegations in the public sector to protect democratic integrity (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, corruption is not foreign to any state of the European Union and it is also present, as we know, at the top of the European Union. Public sector fraud is the most attractive type of crime and the most lucrative for cross-party and transnational mafias. The more and more diversified the state invests, the more opportunities for fraud in local or national budgets.…

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Dec

2024

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Challenges facing EU farmers and agricultural workers: improving working conditions, including their mental well-being (debate)

Mr President, colleagues, Romanians are directly interested in the solutions we will identify together, because two counties in Romania, Vaslui and Neamt, have the highest employment rate in the European Union in agriculture, forestry and fisheries, according to Eurostat data. National statistics show that, out of a total of 7 697 000 employed persons in Romania in 2023, 11.9% worked in agricultur…

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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)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, freedom of expression is not negotiable. Whatever the risks, we must take them in the name of the freedom for which many of our fellow men have given their blood. The fear of disinformation and manipulation in no way justifies the censorship that always leads to dictatorship. Censorship goes hand in hand with propaganda. Therefore, by instituting censorship, …

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Nov

2024

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Full accession of Bulgaria and Romania to the Schengen Area: the urgent need to lift controls at internal land borders (debate)

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Nov

2024

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Enhancing Europe’s civilian and defence preparedness and readiness (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the most effective weapon against external threats has been, is and always will be development. The effort to protect the territory, the population and the common values starts from the spirit of cohesion of communities and nations and is supported by the development of society. Both solidarity and development depend significantly on leaders. Unfortunately, w…

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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)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, in a social-political order inspired by Thomas Morus, the pact of the future would be an ideal programmatic document, an exposition of delightful objectives and which, according to the authors, will be carried out rigorously and without hesitation, and humanity will continue its triumphal march towards a bright future, towards perfection. But is this an objec…

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Oct

2024

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Strengthening Moldova's resilience against Russian interference ahead of the upcoming presidential elections and a constitutional referendum on EU integration (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the Republic of Moldova has taken a bold and very difficult path towards the democratic world which it has looked upon with hope for several decades. Today, the authorities from Chişinău face an assault of the pro-Russian forces that want to maintain the Republic of Moldova in the geopolitical space patronized by the Russian Federation. The media and information…

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Oct

2024

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The crisis facing the EU’s automotive industry, potential plant closures and the need to enhance competitiveness and maintain jobs in Europe (debate)

On the left side, I did not expect another approach, a totally ideologized approach, without any connection to reality. If you think that this transition from cars running on diesel, gasoline, gas, to those running on electricity, is a favorable one for mankind, favorable for industries, favorable for national economies, you are very much mistaken. It is not even possible, in fact, because we have…

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Oct

2024

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The crisis facing the EU’s automotive industry, potential plant closures and the need to enhance competitiveness and maintain jobs in Europe (debate)

Mr President, the obsession of eco-bureaucrats with saving the planet by banning the sale of cars powered by fossil fuels is a utopia, a dangerous fantasy, the terrible consequences of which are becoming more and more visible. Due to irrational and unattainable goals, the automotive industry is on the verge of bankruptcy. The ceiling imposed by the Commission on lowering the average emission limit…

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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)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, this year's floods in Romania are neither a first nor an accident. Periodically, my country is underwater because it's mismanaged. In the case of Romania, there is an urgent need for a financial intervention, but also for one from a political and administrative point of view, because a disaster such as that registered this month is no longer possible. Recent …

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Sep

2024

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State of the Energy union (debate)

Mr President, in Romania over the last five years, due to forced commitments by the European Commission, electricity generation capacities amounting to 5 500 megawatts have been arbitrarily shut down. Basically, this sector has been amputated. Nothing similar has been put in place. Last week, the European Commission asked Romania to increase the share of green energy in total energy consumption fr…

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Sep

2024

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Mr President, one of the most important challenges for the current term of office of the European Parliament is to reduce the development gaps between the countries of the Union. There can be no question of a coherent strategy for building the European project, given that the tasks and obligations of states are imperative, but opportunities and opportunities remain the privilege of advanced econom…

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Sep

2024

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Outcome of the Strategic Dialogue on the Future of EU Agriculture (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, how much longer can you tolerate the nagging wooden language, the chimeras and the lack of solutions anchored in reality? How do you think it helps hard-pressed farmers to hear that their future means ‘sustainability’ and ‘resilience’, ‘innovation and ‘competitiveness’? That is, empty words and zero effectiveness. It is not on the climate that we should blame wh…