What Gheorghe spoke about.

18

Jun

2025

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Digital Markets, Digital Euro, Digital Identities: economical stimuli or trends toward dystopia (topical debate)

Mr President, digitalisation has promised progress and innovation, but it can bring dependency and captivity. In addition, at the current pace of regulation, we risk replacing private corporate domination. Big Tech with an institutional one. Whoever controls the digital holds the truth, decides for us and against us what is politically correct truth or forbidden truth and what is disinformation or…

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Jun

2025

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Combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child sexual abuse material and replacing Council Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA (recast) (debate)

Madam President, the internet has become dangerous because it misinforms socio-psychologically, targeting children who do not yet have fully formed discernment. Especially under the impact of artificial intelligence, social networks and digital platforms cause deformation of children's normal behavior. Until the age of 16, the child can not marry, can not work legally, nor validly sign legal acts.…

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May

2025

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The fine against TikTok and the need to strengthen the protection of citizens’ rights on social media platforms (debate)

Madam President, the Irish Data Protection Authority fined TikTok EUR 530 million on the grounds that user data is sent to the Chinese Communist authorities and the platform is not transparent enough. However, all online platforms collect personal data without our consent, in a non-transparent manner, which they turn into predictive products and targeted advertisements. They all declare in a sligh…

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May

2025

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Discharge 2023 (joint debate)

Mr President, the European Commission is wasting our money on the pretext of European solidarity. The ReArm Europe programme, with a colossal value of €150 billion, is built on a fundamentally flawed and abusive legal basis. Article 122 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, aimed at real crises and disasters and not at disproportionate military ambitions, is still used by the Com…

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Apr

2025

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Presentation of the New European Internal Security Strategy (debate)

Mr President, we are talking here about security, but the White Paper for European Defence is not just about security, it is about transforming our economy and our political system into a state capitalism that puts military industry at its core. It is not an economic adjustment. It's actually building a war economy, and a war economy is not a market economy, it's not a democracy. A war economy mea…

11

Mar

2025

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White paper on the future of European defence (debate)

Mr President, financial security and stability are being put to the test now, after the ineffective struggle with the financial crisis and the pandemic and the failure of the irrational climate ambitions of the European Union's bureaucracy. The prolongation of the war finds both the Union and the Member States economically weakened, weakened and politically vulnerable. The European Union's militar…

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Mar

2025

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Order of business

Madam President, within three months, Romania has achieved the record of banning two candidates, cancelling a round of elections and arresting a candidate without evidence. The judicial system is now a political weapon usable against anyone. Both competitors who won the first round of the 24 November 2024 elections, both of which, including Lasconi, were denied the second round, consider the annul…

12

Feb

2025

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Competitiveness Compass (debate)

Mr President, the new Soviet five-year plan is called the Competitiveness Compass. With the same obtuse bureaucrats, with the same pseudo-scientific theories, with the same weaknesses, the European Commission hopes to convince in the trade war with China and the United States and save the European economy from bankruptcy. Green Deal It's a weakness, as Donald Tusk said. The poor development of the…

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Jan

2025

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Need for actions to address the continued oppression and fake elections in Belarus (debate)

Mr President, rightly so, the political regimes in Venezuela, Russia and China, of course, and Belarus, are to be condemned. They are condemned because they are totalitarian. We consider the heads of these states eternal dictators in power. We reward dissidents who oppose them. But in the EU dissidents are stamped extremists and kept away from decision-making processes through the health cordon. I…

21

Jan

2025

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Need to enforce the Digital Services Act to protect democracy on social media platforms including against foreign interference and biased algorithms (debate)

I'm not a TikTok fan at all. If it were up to me, it could be banned in Europe tomorrow, but pay close attention to what I'm telling you now: One on hand, there is no evidence of interference by a state actor through TikTok, there are only briefing notes from the secret services. This is not evidence, according to civil procedure, anywhere in the world. The second issue, that funding on TikTok of …

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Jan

2025

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Need to enforce the Digital Services Act to protect democracy on social media platforms including against foreign interference and biased algorithms (debate)

Mrs President, recently, in an interview, Thierry Breton claimed that the annulment of the Romanian elections was the result of the application of the Digital Services Regulation, saying: "We did it in Romania, we have to do it in Germany too, if necessary". I mean, cancel the election if it doesn't go according to plan. The DSA is therefore only apparently for the protection of consumers and hone…

17

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)

Mr President, by a decision unprecedented in history, the presidential elections in Romania were annulled on the basis of intelligence briefings, on the basis of assumptions, not proven facts. There has been talk of interference by unnamed state actors. We don't know who it is, what it's about. The power system believes that voters can be manipulated through TikTok to vote for a candidate as if th…

27

Nov

2024

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Promoting a favourable framework for venture capital financing and safe foreign direct investments in the EU (debate)

Madam President, China is a Trojan horse built on dumping, subsidies that disregard free market rules and cheap products. An EU-China agreement could turn from a successful European market into an aggressive manipulation of the EU single market. For many European companies, competing with Chinese prices and volumes of goods means not only financial losses, but even bankruptcy. The EU-China Investm…

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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)

Madam President, in this very House, Mrs von der Leyen made a statement in July, uttering a cliché: "we will leave no one behind". Primarily, this would mean that the European Union should take care, first and foremost, of the citizens of the European Union who live on the verge of poverty. In 2019, there were 100 million poor Europeans and 102 million in 2023. Of these people who were left behind…

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Nov

2024

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EU-US relations in light of the outcome of the US presidential elections (debate)

Madam President, the US elections have proven that reality is above ideology. So as not to fall further into the pit that the current bureaucratic establishment is so enthusiastically digging for it, the European Union should learn something from this. The European Green Deal is an ideology parallel to reality and insensitive to the specificities of each Member State. It violates the principle of …

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Oct

2024

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General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sections (debate)

Madam President, the Council remains committed to supporting the Ukrainian people, but is allocating money from the 2025 budget for the continuation of the war in Ukraine. Not for peace, but for defense. There is no guarantee that this mechanism can be functional and that Ukraine's debts will be paid out of the money confiscated from Russia. In a long-term perspective, in which the war will end an…

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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)

Madam President, the situation of the Romanian automotive industry can be described quite well by a Romanian saying: ‘the tailor has no clothes, the shoemaker has no shoes’. Romania is the sixth country, the largest in our area, the sixth country in Europe in terms of the number of cars produced each year. This amounts to more than 513 000 units, to be delivered at 2023 level. Unfortunately, Roman…

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Sep

2024

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The historic CJEU ruling on the Apple state aid case and its consequences (debate)

Mr President, the problem in the Apple case is not only that this company has received illegal State aid from Ireland, which is confirmed by the Court of Justice of the European Union. The real problem is that the double standard of friendly taxation vis-à-vis large companies has so far been tolerated. Thus, we see how some Member States are free to favour tax competition, which, of course, is not…

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Sep

2024

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EU response to the Mpox outbreak and the need for continuous action (debate)

Mr President, according to the risk analysis carried out by the European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention on 17 September 2024, the overall risk of monkey pox for the population in the European Union is assessed as low, i.e. the probability and impact are very low. It's also proof that we have a huge empty hall. So the interest in debating this topic is huge. There is not a single additio…

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Sep

2024

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The future of European competitiveness (debate)

Madam President, Mr Draghi was the head of the European Central Bank, he said at the time that he would save the euro at all costs, and through his programme of quantitative easing it has managed to save the euro by reducing its purchasing power by tens of percent and amplifying Member States' budget deficits to astronomical proportions. Now, Mr Draghi proposes to save the competitiveness of the E…