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Nov

2025

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Mr. President, would you advise your son or daughter to become a policeman? From the rush of the car with a driver or from the comfort of the offices, some MEPs and MPs do not see the risk that lawmakers are exposed to every day in order to defend them, but they feel it in the street. Right here in Brussels a few days ago, a recognized criminal drove his car full into a police crew, and this sprin…

12

Nov

2025

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Protecting EU consumers against the practices of certain e-commerce platforms: the case of child-like sex dolls, weapons and other illegal products and material (debate)

Madam President, our children must be protected at all costs! I am a mother and believe me, there is no legislative issue more important to me than the safety of children, and if we are talking about this, it is vital to also consider prevention, not just catching and criminally holding predators after they have already committed a crime. Prevention also involves stopping the stimulation of devian…

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Oct

2025

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Breast cancer: the importance of screening (debate)

Madam President, my country, Romania, is facing a painful reality today: the highest cancer mortality rate in the entire European Union. Every year, nearly 60% of people diagnosed with cancer lose their lives. Breast and cervical cancer remain the leading causes of death among women in Romania. More than 80% of cases are detected in advanced stages, when the chances of survival decrease dramatical…

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Oct

2025

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Europe’s automotive future – reversing the ban on the sale of combustion cars in the EU (topical debate)

Mr President, are you surprised that in just three months we have come to vote on three no-confidence motions against Ursula von der Leyen, initiated by different political groups? One of the main criticisms of the Commission in these motions concerns the infamous Green Deal and its destructive effects on the European economy and industry. Today we are analyzing the situation of the automotive ind…

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Oct

2025

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Common agricultural policy (joint debate)

Madam President, my country, Romania, contributes to the food security of the European Union side by side with the other EU countries, but with an enormous handicap: with a Romanian farmer overwhelmed by inflation, severely affected by the sale of Ukrainian grain on the black market, indebted to the highest interest rates in Europe and with a subsidy much, much lower than that of his colleagues in…

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Sep

2025

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China’s unjustified decision to impose duties on imports of pork products from the EU and the need to support European farmers and workers (debate)

Mr President, European farmers are not just producers of meat, milk or cereals. They are the ones who bring villages to life, preserve traditions and ensure that every family in Europe has healthy food on the table at affordable prices. They work in the cold, in the heat, in times of uncertainty, for 450 million European consumers and for their fundamental right to food. We cannot remain indiffere…

10

Sep

2025

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After 10 years, time to end mass migration now - protect our women and children (topical debate)

Mr President, this is a message for all moralists who are teaching us about generosity, accusing us of being extremists because we do not open Europe's arms wide to migrants. We are elected by European citizens from EU Member States. We have a mission to prioritize their interests, the interests of those who have chosen us. This means putting first their right to occupy existing jobs, their safety…

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Jul

2025

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Lessons from Budapest Pride: the urgent need for an EU wide anti-discrimination law and defending fundamental rights against right-wing attacks (topical debate)

Madam President, positive discrimination is still discrimination, but against the majority for defending the minority. Why do minors have to see semi-naked people on the street, dressed in dog suits, muzzle and leash, or in all sorts of provocative clothing, in order for the LGBTQIA+ minority to feel respected? Why should we expose minors to a parade that often expresses sexually explicit behavior…

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Jun

2025

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

Madam President, the crisis in North Korea, the confrontation in Taiwan, the India-Pakistan conflict, the Iran-Israel war, the war in Ukraine, these are just some of the 28 outbreaks of instability that are boiling around the globe today. Therefore, the upcoming NATO summit must look at the geopolitical map of the world in its complexity and with the specificity of each region. Therefore, any solu…

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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, as a mother, I believe that nothing is more important than the safety of children and their harmonious development, free from worries and dangers. On the other hand, as a criminal lawyer, I know very well the scale of the crime phenomenon, the drama and the lasting emotional impact on victims of sexual violence. I therefore call for zero tolerance for material that in any way enco…

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May

2025

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Democratic legitimacy and the Commission’s continued authorisation of genetically modified organisms despite Parliament’s objections (debate)

Madam President, by her apparent generosity. The European Commission is unveiling legislation that no longer fits the weather and times, allowing GM plants to be imported into animal feed. Today, while we are discussing in plenary, whether we want to accept it or not, despite the European ban, genetically modified plants are already in the feed of animals and, implicitly, of humans, without being …

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May

2025

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Malta's Golden Passport scheme circumventing EU sanctions against Russia (debate)

Mr President, it is the sovereign right of each Member State to decide who can become its citizen, and this right must not be undermined by a broad interpretation of the Union Treaties. Golden visa investment programmes can be a legal and legitimate instrument for raising capital and economic development. Let us not forget that other Member States have similar schemes, but we see again the double …

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Apr

2025

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Delivering on the EU Roma Strategy and the fight against discrimination in the EU (debate)

Mr President, the Roma are the largest ethnic minority in the EU, with around 12 million citizens, of whom more than one million live in Romania. Despite the EU Roma strategic plan and national support programmes, they continue to face the same serious problems: extreme marginalisation, poor socio-economic conditions, discrimination, violence, unemployment, poverty, poor housing and poor health st…

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Apr

2025

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The importance of trans-European transport infrastructure in times of stalling economic growth and major threats to Europe’s security (debate)

Mr President, the development of transport infrastructure within the EU is one of the best strategic directions that we can pursue both from an economic or military perspective and in terms of the cohesion of the European project. Unfortunately, in Romania, due to profoundly incompetent governments, we have long delays with the implementation of projects included in the TEN-T network, both on the …

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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

Mr President, dear colleagues, how can we talk about social Europe and making life accessible to all if the level of exposure to poverty in the Union is above 21%, i.e. the risk of poverty reaches more than one in five of our citizens. The situation is even worse when we talk about Romania, where one in three citizens is at risk of poverty, which unfortunately reaches the highest level in the EU. …

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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, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the Commission is talking about a skills union and bringing talent home. We agree. We at Gold have been talking a lot about the need to repatriate the diaspora. But where was this concern of EU bureaucrats 20 years ago, when millions of Romanians and Eastern Europeans were forced to leave because their own economies were suffocated by the policies …

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Feb

2025

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Need for targeted support to EU regions bordering Russia, Belarus and Ukraine (debate)

Madam President, since the beginning of the conflict, 5.2 million Ukrainian refugees have arrived or passed through Romania. We opened our arms wide and received them, we gave them housing and humanitarian aid, schools for children and then jobs for adults. Ukrainian grain transited through Romania even at the cost of serious road damage. We helped with a lot of money, even with the donation of th…

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Feb

2025

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Boosting vocational education and training in times of labour market transitions (debate)

Mr President, looking to the future, education and training will continue to be key pillars of excellence. Romania condemned its future when it closed its arts and crafts schools. Vocational education is the basis of education in all the advanced states of the world, while in our country the project of educated Romania was to produce university diplomas on a conveyor belt, to enrich private school…

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Jan

2025

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Addressing EU demographic challenges: towards the implementation of the 2023 Demography Toolbox (debate)

This is not hate speech, this is a pragmatic issue. Do we put the European citizen first or not? We are in a European institution and we are elected by Europeans to represent the interests of the member countries of the European Union. This means prioritising the interest of the European citizen. Let me remind you of one thing about my country: Romania has given many migrants who left the country …

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Jan

2025

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Addressing EU demographic challenges: towards the implementation of the 2023 Demography Toolbox (debate)

Mr President, the fact that the European Union has a big demographic problem is nothing new. Studies, reports, policy lines, strategic agendas: all demonstrate that the birth rate is declining and that we cannot and do not believe that we must fill the gap of European citizens with migrants from non-EU countries. In order to solve the demographic problem, we need to take two directions: firstly, t…

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Jan

2025

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The Hungarian government’s illegal espionage of EU institutions and investigative bodies (debate)

Mr President, I am a firm supporter of the presumption of innocence, but if the revelations prove to be true, I would like to ask: What do you call yourself when the European institutions come to control a firm of your son-in-law and you have the internal secret services track those officials and illegally access their phones to sabotage their investigation? First of all, you call yourself corrupt…

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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)

Mr President, Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights enshrines freedom of expression. Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right includes freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas, without interference by public authorities and regardless of frontiers. The only permissible limitations to this essential right of the human being concern …

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Dec

2024

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Regional Emergency Support: RESTORE (debate)

Madam President, many European countries, including Romania, have been affected this year by natural disasters and money is rapidly needed for the reconstruction of homes and infrastructure, as well as for social and health support. I welcome the fact that this is one of the few times that such a fast-track procedure has been chosen, and I am pleased that I have been able to contribute to this acc…

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Nov

2024

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Strengthening children’s rights in the EU - 35th anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (debate)

Madam President, the UN Convention, the most important act ever signed by the states of the world to protect the rights of children, states, among other things, a fundamental thing to which I would like to refer. Governments must provide money or other forms of support to help children in vulnerable families. Thirty-five years after the signing of this convention, we still have terribly poor child…

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Nov

2024

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Stepping up the fight against and the prevention of the recruitment of minors for criminal acts (debate)

Mr President, the future of humanity cannot exist without children. It is for them that we live, for them that we fight every day, including here in the European Parliament, to build a safer and better world. Their innocence is complemented by a corresponding fragility. They can easily become victims of criminals eager to use them. Recent reports show that 40% of young people involved in criminal …