What Luis-Vicențiu spoke about.

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2026

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2025 Commission report on Moldova (debate)

Mr President, dear colleagues, I will not join the choir of praisers of this issue with the accession of Moldova and Ukraine to the European Union, because I knew that these candidate countries always have to comply with some criteria. And the criterion of corruption, which is among the first, is not respected at all. As you know, Moldova probably doesn't have a prime minister anymore. He just qui…

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Jul

2026

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2025 Commission report on Ukraine (debate)

Madam President, dear colleagues, I knew that when a country joined the European Union, it had to meet some criteria and think logically, without any collateral problems: Does Ukraine meet these criteria? Does Ukraine respect the rights of minorities? I've heard from all my colleagues that they don't. I can tell you about the Romanian minority, and it is the second minority in Ukraine, after the R…

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Jun

2026

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Russia’s unacceptable provocative actions and drone incursions into Romania, the Baltic states and Finland (debate)

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May

2026

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EU governance under pressure – institutional responses to global challenges (debate)

Mr President, dear colleagues, I think it is quite possible that this discussion will remain in the history of the debates in the European Parliament, because I see that in the germ here we are finally dealing with the unveiling of your plans. I have long said that we want to federalise Europe and give up the principle of ‘Unity in diversity’, otherwise how can federalisation be if we do not give …

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May

2026

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Mr President, dear colleagues, as you know, we are facing an extremely serious political crisis in Romania and this political crisis has come as badly as possible, precisely at the moment when we had to fulfil the last milestones of the NRRPs, milestones which, if we do not meet them, mean that we will lose about EUR 10 billion. From my sources, it looks like we've already lost about 5 billion. No…

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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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Presentation of the action plan against cyberbullying (debate)

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Feb

2026

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Jan

2026

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Presentation of the Digital Networks Act (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, in 2013 I was the owner of a television channel that was shut down by the president at the time, because I was an inconvenient guy. How did he manage to shut it down? Very simple: blocked my access to the cable networks. This was possible because the Romanian secret services controlled these cable networks. Later, my Facebook, YouTube accounts became some of …

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2025

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The situation of Christian communities and religious minorities in Nigeria and the Middle East, and Europe’s responsibility to protect them and guarantee freedom of conscience (topical debate)

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Nov

2025

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we are always told that Europe is like a family. Indeed, Europe is a family and was founded on Christian principles, but for some time things seem to have gone awry. Or is it just us? Let's look at the following fresco that a storyteller would give us: a family - man, woman, father, mother, children, girls, boys. They are guided by goals, by goals, they are beau…

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Oct

2025

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, is peace a constant preparation for war? Or, as the Latin said, if you want peace, do you have to prepare for war? I'm asking this for my country, for Romania, because for some time now, we've been buying weapons. We give the money, but instead we receive either a receipt drawer, or we receive Patriot systems that we give to Ukraine, or, of course, we take ta…

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Oct

2025

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The decision to impose a fine on Google: defending press and media freedom in the EU (debate)

Mr President, dear colleagues, a bunch of unelected bureaucrats are doing everything to preserve their power and then, first and foremost, they are destroying freedom of expression. This could translate into the title of the discussion we have here today. But we are actually talking about a fine that Google is taking from the European Commission, of 3 billion, for advertising. Well, if he's wrong,…

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Oct

2025

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Promoting EU digital rules: protecting European sovereignty (debate)

Madam President, dear colleagues, Europe's sovereignty - there is no such sovereignty of Europe, there is only one sovereignty of each state that makes up the European Union, which is a little different from Europe. In this context, I would like to ask you the following question: if the sovereignty of a single state is affected, is not the sovereignty of Europe also affected by your logic? Further…

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Oct

2025

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Common agricultural policy (joint debate)

Mr President, if we have blocked exports, as happened in Romania, if, instead of treating diseases, we have slaughtered hundreds of thousands of animals, if we have seen diseases where they have not even been, if we have let unapproved products invade our markets, the European Union, which have not complied with the same rules as our farmers and have led to dumping prices, if we have abused farmer…

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2025

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, today I will talk to you about the presumption of innocence. Suppose there is a country where prosecutors, not having enough evidence when they prepare the files, leak them into the press so that the press will first judge the defendants, and not the courts. And if there were a president in that country, who, in turn, would take these files and go out with th…

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Sep

2025

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State of the Union (debate)

I take the opportunity that it was about autocracy and I would like to ask Mr. Siegfried Muresan if he does not draw a parallel between the autocracies in the East and the way Mrs. Ursula, here, governs Europe through the Commission. Because I understand from Politico and the other European newspapers that you, Mrs Metsola, have sued the Commission for relying on Article 122 to pass the SAFE packa…

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Sep

2025

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Strengthening Moldova’s resilience against Russian hybrid threats and malign interference (debate)

Mr President, I have heard very carefully the speech of President Maia Sandu, President of the pseudo-Republic of Moldova. "Pseudo" because, as Mr Tomac said, yes, indeed, according to all international treaties, in fact, Moldova belongs to Romania, right? But in 1940, two crazy dictators executed a territorial kidnapping and took it. The irony is that after the fall of the Eastern Bloc, although …

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Jul

2025

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EU-US trade negotiations (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, maybe we have a wrong approach problem and maybe, I know, the European Commission is confusing the negotiations with the United States and President Trump with the negotiations it usually has with some country in the European Union. And what do I mean? President Trump came to the leadership of the United States and found the United States with a debt of 37 trill…

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Jul

2025

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State of play of implementation of the European Media Freedom Act in the Member States (debate)

Mr President, I understand that this regulation, 1083, is a regulation aimed at the freedom and protection of the press and journalists. We want journalists to be protected. Yes, we agree to be free, but what do we do that actually doesn't happen? Look what happened in our country, in Romania. Candidates were banned and the election was cancelled. Was that about democracy? You say that freedom of …

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Jun

2025

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Institutional and political implications of the EU enlargement process and global challenges (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, dear colleagues, yesterday priests were beaten in Chernivtsi, Ukraine, Orthodox priests of the Romanian community. Last year, Metropolitan Longhin Jar was beaten and dragged through fictitious trials for years. The Romanian minority has always been oppressed in Ukraine. I don't understand now, do these states that are going to join the European Union have to respect the…

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Jun

2025

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Mr. President, dear colleagues, as you know, Romania has finally elected its President. After a series of violations of the Constitution that involved both the liquidation of some candidates and the effective annulment of the elections, we finally have a president who for about a month has been unable to find a prime minister. Since half of the Romanian people feel that you, Brussels and Strasbour…

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Jun

2025

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Strengthening rural areas in the EU through cohesion policy (debate)

Madam President, I would start this speech by asking something that seems extremely fundamental to me. Do we here in this House, whenever we speak, really shape the realities? Because I have the feeling, as a member of the two committees, for transport and tourism and for agriculture and rural development, that for a year or so since I've been speaking in these committees, I haven't solved anythin…

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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, Commissioner Apostolos Tzitzikostas, it is good to see you again. I would ask you a few questions, but I'm afraid you won't answer me that this is what we always do at the Commission. Now, though, I want to tell you a few things. It is interesting that we have always reminded that Romania has not been developed in all these years, for 17 years since it has been in the European Union,…

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Mar

2025

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Need to ensure democratic pluralism, strengthen integrity, transparency and anti-corruption policies in the EU (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, I have retained two important ideas from your speech, namely that representative democracy is based only on free elections and that citizens must be informed - indeed it is their right - from a plurality of sources. What if I told you that exactly in Romania, the country where I come from, these two fundamental principles are not respected at all!? Because, as you pr…