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Sep

2025

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

Mr President, honourable Members, those who explain what a wonderful democracy Moldova is and how it confidently walks the bright Euro-Atlantic path never mention the name Evgenia Gutsul. Eugenia Gutsul until recently led the autonomous republic of Gagauzia, was highly critical of the Moldovan government, and is now in prison. She was sentenced to seven years on charges of receiving money from Rus…

9

Sep

2025

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Ukraine (joint debate)

Madam President, there are a few basic topics about which the proponents of Ukraine's rapid accession to the European Union say nothing. First, endemic corruption, which Ukrainians themselves say is the biggest problem in the country after the war. Recently, President Zelenskyy tried to bring the two main anti-corruption bodies under his control, which would have completely invalidated them. Secon…

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Jul

2025

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2023 and 2024 reports on North Macedonia (debate)

The Republic of North Macedonia categorically does not meet the conditions for starting negotiations for membership in the European Union. Minority rights are not respected in this country. Representatives of the Bulgarian minority are subject to judicial and extrajudicial prosecutions, and crimes against Bulgarians often go either unpunished or the punishments are symbolic. Adding to this the bra…

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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, the so-called European Media Freedom Act seems to have been copied from a dystopian novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin or George Orwell. This document is supposed to protect freedom, but its real purpose is to permanently eliminate the few remaining media freedom in Europe. It's a double-bottomed suitcase. On the surface are beautiful phrases, and beneath them is hidden the true essence, name…

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Jun

2025

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

Madam President, NATO should have been dissolved immediately after the end of the Cold War, as was the case with the Warsaw Pact. If this had happened, there would have been no war in Ukraine today and no risk of a third world war. However, instead of ending its existence, NATO has become a vampire who, in order to live, had to drink the blood of others, that is, expand into new countries. It was …

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The human cost of Russia’s war against Ukraine and the urgent need to end Russian aggression: the situation of illegally detained civilians and prisoners of war, and the continued bombing of civilians (debate)

Madam President, the main culprits for the continuation of the war in Ukraine are in Brussels. The leaders of the European Union are constantly misleading the Ukrainian people that a victory against Russia is possible, that even if the United States withdraws its support for Kiev, the European Union will provide as much, if not more, money and weapons to Zelenskyy. The other big lie that EU leader…

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May

2025

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EU support for a just, sustainable and comprehensive peace in Ukraine (debate)

Mr President, let us stop lying once and for all and tell the truth. EU leaders have never wanted peace in Ukraine, they have never wanted to help the Ukrainian people live normally. The only thing these people want to do is harm Russia. And in the name of this goal, they most cynically use Ukraine and turn Ukrainians into smoked meat. Immediately after taking office, the new US administration app…

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2025

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Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024 (A10-0010/2025 - David McAllister)

I voted against this report because it seems to have been written by people who hibernated in early 2022 and have no intention of waking up. Neither see Ukraine's losses on the battlefield, nor are they aware that the United States and Russia are negotiating to end this war. You have to be totally detached from reality to write that the European Union will help Kiev in every way, I quote "until Uk…

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2025

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Immediate risk of further repression by Lukashenka’s regime in Belarus - threats from the Investigative Committee (debate)

Colleagues, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance recently said that the greatest threat to Europe comes not from outside actors, but from the fact that it is giving up its core values. Yes, the EU is trampling on both freedom and democracy. The EU leaders constantly practice writing resolutions against Russia, China, Belarus and at the same time do not respect human rights in their own countries. In Rom…

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2025

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Safeguarding the access to democratic media, such as Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (debate)

Dear colleagues, during the Cold War, when my country Bulgaria was ruled by the Communist Party, radio stations such as Free Europe and the BBC embodied for me pluralism and democracy. They were the antidote to the radio and television totally controlled by the then Bulgarian authorities. But today, media such as Free Europe, the BBC and CNN are not a symbol of freedom, they are a tool to destroy …

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Mar

2025

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100 days of the new Commission – Delivering on defence, competitiveness, simplification and migration as our priorities (topical debate)

Dear colleagues, the only thing the European Commission has done in 100 days of existence is to intensify to the extreme the decline of Europe. The European Union is conceived as a union of peace. Turning him into a military scarecrow, burying him in debt for rearmament, as the current European Commission does, is the way to nowhere. While the new American leaders are making real efforts to stop t…

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Feb

2025

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One year after the murder of Alexei Navalny and the continued repression of the democratic opposition in Russia (debate)

Madam President, the political use by the West of the death of Alexei Navalny is terribly shameful. People who were unable or unwilling to find out who blew up Nord Stream in two years organised an investigation in just two minutes, made a trial and found the culprit for this tragic event. Without any evidence, they ruled that Putin killed the Russian opposition. Now let's see what the Russian lea…

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Feb

2025

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Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggression (debate)

Mr President, normal people have been repeating for a long time that the war in Ukraine can only be brought to an end through peace negotiations. To this very reasonable thesis, the American Democratic Party, its blonds in the European Union and the politicians, journalists and analysts bought by USAID responded with the slogan: “War to the full victory of Zelenskyy!” The good thing is that after …

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Jan

2025

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 19 December 2024 (debate)

Madam President, honourable Members, in recent years the European Union has been writing the most shameful pages in its history. From a union of strong and independent states, he has become a little puppy, a poodle of globalist forces. The constant imposition of the principle of anti-selection within this Union has led to the fact that the vast majority of EU leaders are people with no qualities a…

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Jan

2025

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Further deterioration of the political situation in Georgia (debate)

Member of the Commission. - Mr President, honourable Members, the main division in today's world is between the forces that want individual nations to solve the issues that matter to them on their own and the forces that demand the total intervention of supranational institutions in the lives of states. In Georgia, we see exactly this opposition. The good thing is that the current power in Tbilisi…

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Dec

2024

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11th year of the occupation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol by the Russian Federation and the deteriorating human rights situation in occupied Crimea, notably the cases of Iryna Danylovych, Tofik Abdulhaziiev and Amet Suleymanov

Calling the truth "Russian propaganda" is a rather cliché that I have often heard in the European Parliament. I have one piece of advice for you: the next time you speak, think with your own head and not with the intellectual semi-finished products that bring you down from Brussels or Washington. Yes, this is easier, it is more difficult to think with your own head, but at least once try to be ind…

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Dec

2024

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11th year of the occupation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol by the Russian Federation and the deteriorating human rights situation in occupied Crimea, notably the cases of Iryna Danylovych, Tofik Abdulhaziiev and Amet Suleymanov

Mr President, only a historically unsaved ignorant person can claim that Crimea belongs to Ukraine. Crimea has always been Russian since the time when Empress Catherine the Great included it within the boundaries of the Russian Empire in 1783, to this day. Even in the years when Nikita Khrushchev gave Crimea to the Ukrainian SSR, most of the people there felt Russian. And quite naturally, after th…

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Dec

2024

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Russia’s disinformation and historical falsification to justify its war of aggression against Ukraine (debate)

on behalf of the ALDE Group. - Madam President, disinformation about the war in Ukraine is enormous, and it comes mainly from Western power centres, including this European Parliament. The denunciation of Western lies goes through the clear utterance of the following facts. For the first time an independent Ukrainian state was established only in 1991, and since then the collective West has done e…

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Dec

2024

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Toppling of the Syrian regime, its geopolitical implications and the humanitarian situation in the region (debate)

Mr President, honourable Members, I do not know if you have noticed, but the State of Syria has died. In its place there is a boiling cauldron, where militant jihadists, Kurds, Druze and all sorts of agents of foreign interests are bubbling. This explosive mixture was mixed by the United States, Turkey, Israel, Great Britain. In general, every time a civilized state decides to fix uncivilized stat…

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Nov

2024

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Reinforcing EU’s unwavering support to Ukraine against Russia’s war of aggression and the increasing military cooperation between North Korea and Russia (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)

Honourable Members, the election of Donald Trump as US President gives Europe a unique chance to once again become an important geopolitical factor. At the moment, the European Union is unfortunately a mere subcontractor of the decisions taken by the United States' ruling Democratic Party. The people at the head of the European Union listen to the guidance of their American superiors and rush to c…

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Oct

2024

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Foreign interference and hybrid attacks: the need to strengthen EU resilience and internal security (debate)

Mr President, all the European institutions have been fighting disinformation for years. Any event or process that EU officials don't like is explained by some sort of hybrid attack that came from Russia, China, Iran. Again, according to the EU leaders, it is the Russians who are to blame for Brexit, as well as for the fact that a number of nationally responsible parties win the elections in Europ…

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Oct

2024

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Protection of European journalists reporting on Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine (debate)

Dear colleagues, the very title of this discussion is wrong, because all journalists should be protected, not just European ones. Unfortunately, in this area too, we are faced with blatant double standards. When a journalist supporting Ukraine is hurt, all the world's media talk about it, but when the same thing happens to a journalist critical of Kiev, the case is completely neglected. How many o…

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Oct

2024

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International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (debate)

Dear colleagues, for a long time the powerful of the day explained that when globalization finally wins, when all state borders and all state obstacles to business are removed, we will become rich and happy. We were told that when a millionaire becomes a billionaire, it will also make us, ordinary people, rich. Because according to the postulates of the so-called "trickle down economy" or permeati…

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Oct

2024

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Ensuring sustainable, decent and affordable housing in Europe - encouraging investment, private property and public housing programmes (debate)

Mr President, we have understood that Ursula von der Leyen and her European Commission will do their utmost to give European citizens the opportunity to have their own homes. This, of course, is a laudable intention, which, however, has a very big drawback. Such promises are hypocritical and false. European citizens will only be able to buy homes when they have enough money to do so. However, it i…