What Luis-Vicențiu spoke about.

12

Feb

2025

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Collaboration between conservatives and far right as a threat for competitiveness in the EU (topical debate)

Mr President, dear colleagues, I understand that this is a discussion aimed at a possible collaboration between conservative forces and forces considered, labelled by you, as extremists. But these extremist forces, in fact, do nothing but represent their citizens, represent the national interest and act in this sense. For example, I, who come from Romania, entered the European Union with all my dearness, because you waved before us a principle, namely the principle of unity in diversity. Where is this principle today? Because when we came here, we had energy security, security in education, food security, security in justice. Today I find with astonishment that we no longer have security in justice or sovereignty in justice, because in Romania candidates are banned and elections are canceled without any arguments. We don't have food security either, because we're led into the idea that we have to replace meat, because, don't we, we have so many diseases over and all these things... (The President interrupted the speaker). God bless President Trump. God bless the people of Romania. God bless the people of Europe.

23

Jan

2025

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Cryptocurrencies - need for global standards (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Romania was the scene of absolutely tragic financial operations for the Romanian people in the 1990s. Ponzi schemes implemented by guys who were manipulated by secret services and politicians managed to rob the pockets of the Romanian people. Afterwards, of course, society evolved. In 2001 appeared the planes that tore down the twin blocks and, of course, began the war against terrorism. In 2008 Bitcoin appeared against the backdrop of the crisis in America, a crisis that was also transferred to Europe, of course, and then cryptocurrencies took off. Have you thought, perhaps, that this impetus of states against the citizen to block the possession of cash has favored this boom of cryptocurrencies? And now, we want to regulate. There is this MiCA regulation that regulates certain things, but it fails to differentiate between people who have bad will from the beginning and people who really want to do serious projects in cryptocurrencies.

22

Jan

2025

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Links between organised crime and smuggling of migrants in light of the recent UN reports (debate)

I wanted to make a point about emigration. You know that Romania was kept for 13 years at the door of Schengen, noting the fact by Austria, through a veto, that the migrant routes would pass through Romania, although there was no evidence in this regard, because Frontex explained as clearly as possible that the migrant routes did not pass through Romania. Because of this, Romania was punished. Now, I want to ask the MP whether Romania will be able to recover the over 100 billion losses in the transport area because of this.

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Jan

2025

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

Dear colleagues, Madam President, I wanted to start this discussion differently, but I was amazed that I was asked to take off the sweater, that it would have the flag of the United States on it. It's not the flag of the United States, it's just a sweater made by Ralph Lauren. But maybe it bothers you Ralph Lauren, that he ever dressed Mélanie? I don't know. Anyway, what I was going to tell you is something else entirely. I understand from the Commission and the Council that there are concerns about energy security and the war in Ukraine. Well, the war in Ukraine will be resolved immediately by Trump. That's what he said, isn't it? And we really trust that it will work out. So some of you will be out of work here, in Brussels or Strasbourg. Energy security in the European Union should also be the energy security of every state in the European Union. Or, in Romania, a country on the edge of the ‘Empire’, where I come from, after closing the mines and intervening with all sorts of NGOs to show us that we need to protect the environment, which has blocked the operation of some hydropower plants, we have lost energy security. Moreover, as the main exporter of gas, I see that we are fluttering gas all over Europe and, finally, when they come back to us, our citizens have to pay very high prices. How can we establish energy security in Romania and in the European Union if we behave this way? I think Trump would not behave like that with the United States, because the European Union is like the United States of America: There are several states, right? Let's treat all states the same.

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)

Dear colleague, so let me understand that it was not the Americans who voted for Trump knowingly, but Elon Musk who influenced the Americans to vote for Trump. If it wasn't for Elon Musk, it wouldn't be Trump. But doesn't that mean that you think Americans are stupid and manipulative? (The Chair interrupted the speaker)... Dear colleague, I understand that you appreciate the fact that the Americans did not vote for Trump because they thought that Trump was better than Kamala Harris. But you're saying that's only because Elon Musk knew how to manipulate Americans. Do you think Americans are so easily manipulated that they don't know which president to elect?

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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 Member, the situation is as follows: I didn't say that he put the CMF, that code of financial trustee, on his materials or not, I said that there was no evidence that he had anything to do with Russia. You moved the center of interest from the thing that interests us, namely, it was financed by Russia or not, to this area that he said he did not use any lions in the campaign, but they helped the influencers. Influencers, whether they were paid or whether they did it for his sake because they liked the way he spoke, that's their problem. Our problem is to find out if there are foreign interferences in the electoral process in Romania and, so far, all the bodies that investigated this issue have not been able to give us a single proof.

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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, dear colleagues, a few details that may shed some light on you. In Romania there was this presidential election campaign that was canceled, abolished, finished and were, of course, among those who ran and other candidates, including the Prime Minister of Romania. The Prime Minister, what do you think, has more. viewand likeTikTok than the candidate who won the election itself and reached first place in the second round. So no one asked why the prime minister was not elected, although he has more than one. likeand viewTikTok's on. Maybe the Prime Minister is also fueled by Russia, right? Given the fact that absolutely no evidence was found, but people were arrested, hearings were held in Romania, they were taken off the street and so on. But no one is thinking, wait a minute, is this people, who nevertheless gave two and a half million votes for this candidate, right and are choosing accordingly? Why didn't he choose the Prime Minister of Romania to be the first if he had more likeand viewYou're on TikTok?

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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)

It's from me, Mr. Barna, Luis Lazarus. I noticed that Mr. Ştefănuță, here, remarked that there would be Russian interference. I want a clear, concise and accurate answer: Is there any evidence, the slightest evidence that the eventual sponsorship, financial support of Călin Georgescu comes from the Russian branch? Give me a concrete answer.

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

Madam President, I am a little puzzled: I noticed that the center left has the feeling that Americans are stupid, literally. Are the Americans stupid? Americans have chosen a leader. I've been to America and talked to a lot of them. I spent almost two months at the beginning of this year. And what do you think? Americans were mostly pro-Trump. What are we going to do now, not work with Trump? That would be the culmination. But something else I wanted to remark: the fact that this parliament is also two-thirds centre-left and one-third right. Do you know why? Because of the systematic manipulations that take place on mainstream media television. That's why. Otherwise, if you go down there to the normal audience looking at us, you'll find, what do you think? You'll find they're the right-wing majority. So, after all, this Parliament is also a bit fake! Really, it's fake. In reality, two-thirds should be the right and one-third should be the centre left, if we respected the will of the people and stopped manipulating so many people in European states.

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Oct

2024

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Need to strengthen rail travel and the railway sector in Europe (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Romania, as is well known, has the slowest railway, if we may say so. I got into a Eurostar and from Brussels to Paris I did an hour and 20 minutes. The same route from point A to point B in Romania can be done in 5 hours and 57 minutes. It's unbelievable, but that's the pure truth. Do you think it's everything? No, not at all. On our streets in Comarnic, in Brasov, somewhere in a resort, in a series of mountain resorts, you can do even three hours for 63 kilometers. The question is whether anyone wanted to block the construction of highways and railway infrastructure or whether Romanians have not been able to do so in 34 years. We have been in the European Union for 17 years and then, if we are in the European Union, it seems that something has happened and we have not been allowed to do so. That is to say, the motorway I was referring to earlier, at one point, a very important Prime Minister, together with a deputy who also has a press trust, went out to the press and said that ‘we wanted to build that motorway, but the head of the secret services called us’, folks, ‘and told us that we are not allowed to build that motorway, because we will go to jail’. And then there remains this question, dear colleagues: who does not allow the development of the railway sector or motorways in Romania? Can the Commission give us an answer?

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Oct

2024

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The rise of religious intolerance in Europe (debate)

Madam President, I note that we talk a lot, dear colleagues, about religious intolerance, but we forget to talk about state attacks on religion. I come from an Orthodox-majority country, Romania, and we have all witnessed helplessly how the Orthodox religion and our ancestral traditions were shattered during the pandemic. We saw our dead buried naked, in plastic bags and with formal jobs. I have seen all these years how different NGOs make all sorts of events and blaspheme the Orthodox religion. I saw what happened at the Olympics in Paris. I am very proud to be Orthodox, I am very proud to be Romanian and now I will go to an extraordinary procession to Saint Parascheva, in Iasi, where over 2 million people will gather, dear colleagues. I would like to ask where else is this happening in the West, where churches have been transformed into museums and bars or concert halls?

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Oct

2024

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Madam President, I would like to draw your attention to situations that pass us by and we do not see them. There has been talk of terrorism for 20 years, but this problem has not been solved. However, the states turned against us, the citizens, and forbade us to hold cash in considerable quantities or to make cash operations, to do them only through the bank. Then we talk about fake news and the fact that we might restrict the right to opinion in the future. Moreover, our colleague, here, does not have the right to run, folks, for the presidency of Romania. It's unbelievable! Another colleague said that after winning the elections, the party is going to be made illegal. Where are we headed? Are we going to go, by restricting all these rights, to a concentration camp which we will call a pretentious ‘15-minute city’, where we will no longer have any right, either to be elected, to have the opportunity to express ourselves in one way or another, or to own cash?

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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)

Mr. Vice President, I just heard someone from the Left or the Greens, I think, say that we have a problem with not respecting the Nature Restoration LawIn fact, we have interfered with nature, and that is precisely why we now have these floods. My opinion is that precisely because I did not intervene on nature, namely by making infrastructure works and embankments, this is precisely why these things happen and I noticed that you share this opinion. Basically, I know that you, along with the people at...

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Sep

2024

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Global measures towards social media platforms - Strengthening the role of DSA and protecting democracy and freedom in the online sphere (debate)

Mr President, dear colleagues, from our point of view, things are very simple. Basically, I find that through this DSA and other warnings, resolutions and documents, the European Commission is trying to transform itself into a kind of truth police. Let us not, dear friends, turn these opinions into truths. This is a matter of semantics. One is opinion, the other is truth. If you want to moderate something, you can simply say that this is an opinion and this is a truth. Stop mixing concepts so you can take away your right to censor truths. And then I ask: Who are these fact-checkers who are talked about so much that they can determine what is truth and what is not? There are some people who come from areas maybe right or center, and the right is always said to be extreme. Why is the extreme right, because its representatives love their country? Is it wrong to love your country? It's not something extreme. Is it wrong to tell some truths? Is it wrong to have opinions?

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Sep

2024

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

Mr President, dear colleagues, I understand that this report is going to answer some questions, to give some solutions. How can we give farmers better prospects, support agriculture, seize opportunities related to technological innovation and lead this European agriculture towards a bright future? Unfortunately, I find that the report did not answer any questions and I will argue, trying to tell you a few things that are happening in my country, in Romania. You know very well that this cyclone caused floods in Romania as well. We also have floods there in a few regions and of course yes, in the same regions we had floods ten years ago. Why is this happening? Maybe because we didn't do any dam, maybe because we didn't do any infrastructure work, maybe because some in Romania are trying to say that they want to respect The Nature Restoration Law Does that mean we don't have to change nature anymore? But if we don't change it, what about agriculture? This is related to agriculture, but to animal husbandry? In Romania, as is well known, the swine fever is nine years old and I see here Mr. Buda, the vice president of the commission, who explained to us that he announced the commission nine years ago and the commission said that he has everything under control. It has nothing under control, which is why Romania is still red on the map and we were forced to import 85% of the pork. So, under these conditions, where is agriculture going and where is livestock farming going?