Speeches

Mr President, you have spoken here of prohibitions, of rights, you have also spoken here of dictatorship. You have spoken here of going back in time, and we in the ex-communist countries are tired of dictatorship. We have signed the Treaty of Accession to the European Union as independent and sovereign countries, and we will never allow the European Union to trample on us with its double measure, in which the powerful countries of the European Union mock us, the smaller and medium-sized countries, which were part of that communist front and from which you take all your resources. It is unacceptable how you behave with Orbán! It is unacceptable how you behave with Russian citizens, Belarusians, and so on, who have no fault because you argue with Putin's government, after which, in years and years, you will kiss and share world politics again! It is unacceptable that you are going directly into dictatorship!

You speak of these citizens of Belarus and Russia as if they had ever been declared persona non grata in Europe or undesirable citizens. So far I see that you are confusing the government with everything that the citizens of these states mean. I want to ask you: you are not interested in border security when Ukrainians, who are not stopped at all and are able to step, drink behind the wheel - as is the case in Romania - and kill people on the streets, and are not controlled by any of their transports, this does not interest you when it comes to Europe's security ...

You were talking about respect for the State of Israel and respect for the territory. In 1946, all of the land that Israel now occupies belonged to Palestine. In 1947, half of Palestine's territory became Israel because of the United Nations plan. Between 1949 and 1967, more than 80% of Palestine's territory became Israel. In 2012, 10 % or less of the territory of Palestine remains. So, who are we defending and whose territory are we defending? (The Chair interrupted the speaker) Yes, I said the question.

Mr President, we have a big problem with energy and I think the truth should be told with regard to Romanian citizens. In Romania, the government, citing the obligations imposed by the European Commission, has banned wood heating with stoves since the year. He also banned gas-fired apartment plants in a few years, although Romania, attention, has the most resources in the European Union, resources that at this time no longer belong to Romania, but to various powers in the European Union or the United States of America. We helped Ukraine and provided free energy. Ukraine does not respect any rules on carbon emissions, nor the other four continents, let's be serious, so I do not know how you will be able to have renewable energy when the other four continents do not give a damn about it. So it is a policy in the wind that only destroys the economy of all European countries, and now we import from Ukraine energy produced from coal from Ukraine, so we should think about tradition, history and respect the citizens of the European Union with all the tradition and with what they know best to do.

Mr. Nica, we're both from Romania. However, indeed, we have terrible floods now and so many dead and so many injured people, dead animals. We are in a situation where the European Union must help us. I would like to ask you why Romanians are not given now, in this situation, aid as they were given to Ukrainians, because for Ukrainians Romania paid free rents, paid all their purchases, paid absolutely nothing, free school, everything they needed, including free fuel, free cars. Their children received 800 euros per month, while Romanian children received 50 euros per month as an allowance. Why isn't it done the same way?

Mr President, we have heard you here talking about ISIS and terrorists, but I think we should remember who set them up and who funded them. The United States of America and NATO, NATO which you consider the army of the European Union. If NATO did not attack the states, because it is no longer a defensive organization, but an offensive one, then we would not have migration either. Unfortunately, migration was also encouraged by Angela Merkel, Macron and Ursula von der Leyen, but we also need to talk about migration from Ukraine, because in Romania we were invaded by Ukrainians, and by 2022 all of Europe was talking about Ukraine as a terrorist state, with drugs, prostitution and all the related problems. You should know that in Romania were killed people by Ukrainian racketeers who received 500 euros to kill a man. These are facts that have been going on in Romania for over 20 years and no one is talking about them. So stop financing terrorism and you won't have any more migration.

Madam President, as Senator of Romania, a position I have held since 2020 in the Romanian Parliament, in February 2022 I made my first international memoir, ‘Neutrality for Romania – Bucharest Peace’. I sent it to all the embassies involved, including the European Parliament, the European Commission, located in Bucharest. The only part that wanted to talk about peace, amazingly, was the Russian Federation, at which point, together with other parliamentarians, we discussed with them: Peace is not made by sending weapons. You have destroyed Russia. All roads are destroyed, Romanians are impoverished, helping Ukrainians non-stop. I don't know if you know, but in Ukraine Romanians don't have the right to speak Romanian. We have over a million Romanians there. They were mistreated, out of 220 schools there are only eight in Romanian, where Romanian is not spoken. They are forbidden to speak, to pray. So please, for peace, make peace negotiations, do not send weapons with which you kill people.