7
Oct
2026
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Rada Laykova
MEP · Bulgaria
Plenary speeches · European Parliament
Plenary speeches · EU Parliament
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Speeches updated
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All Contributions
33
Since July 1, 2024
Time at the Floor
0.8h
≈ 50 min
Average speech length
1:36 min
≈ 1.6 min
· Rank 139/694
Activity
Monthly speeches
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Lukas Sieper | GermanyDE | Renew Europe (Renew) | 392 |
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Sebastian Tynkkynen | FinlandFI | European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) | 354 |
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Juan Fernando López Aguilar | SpainES | Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) | 326 |
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João Oliveira | PortugalPT | The Left in the European Parliament (GUE/NGL) | 221 |
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Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis | LithuaniaLT | Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) | 209 |
5
Oct
2026
One-minute speeches on matters of political importance
Mr President, I would like to draw this House's attention to the case of Iva Mihaylova. She is a European citizen who is currently a political prisoner and hostage in the Republic of North Macedonia. Doctors say she needs treatment, and the court says no over and over again. The risk is permanent disability, and the only witness in her defense today is accused of perjury. Colleagues, this is not j…
15
Sep
2026
Hybrid attacks against the EU Member States (joint debate)
Mr President, every now and then some dubious drone makes an appearance, or a drone is conveniently found somewhere. We had that in Bulgaria, while Ursula von der Leyen was circling around, and now in Leipzig. Likewise, the so-called hybrid attacks with the drifting balloons in Belarus. No one can coherently explain what a so-called hybrid attack even means. It is just one of those EU-approved wor…
7
Jul
2026
Presentation of the Action Plan on Cybersecurity and AI (debate)
Mr President, dear colleagues, the Commission presented its action plan on cybersecurity and AI. It promises to make Europe a global leader in artificial intelligence. But leadership is not declared in a PR strategy; it is demonstrated when the technologies that matter are developed. And recently, the American company Anthropic presented Mythos, an AI model capable of identifying complex chains of…
6
Jul
2026
Financial activities of the European Investment Bank Group – annual report 2025 (debate)
Madam President, yes, the European Investment Bank has funded some sensible projects, but that is history. Today it is mutating into a state capitalist lender, a state bank, which is modelled – whether this House will admit it or not – on the Union's secret role model: China. But even Beijing invests in things that work, and the EIB does the opposite. It blindly follows the goals-driven agenda of …
16
Jun
2026
An EU future for the Western Balkans (joint debate)
16
Jun
2026
Achieving digital sovereignty and resilience for Europe, in light of recent developments affecting access to advanced AI technologies (debate)
First, I want to remind you that Europe and the European nations do not come down to the EU. And if this EU model comes to an end, then Europe will not cease to exist. We talk about sovereignty, and we talk about sovereignty in digital infrastructure, and our solution is more power to the nation state, as you know, because this is the only way that decisions can be made and implemented. The only w…
16
Jun
2026
Achieving digital sovereignty and resilience for Europe, in light of recent developments affecting access to advanced AI technologies (debate)
Mr President, three races are under way: money, intelligence and biology. The European Union has entered none of them as a builder. The European Union passed the world's first comprehensive AI act and called it 'leadership'. And the result is that American companies are building EU-only product tiers, which are slower, weaker and sometimes even absent from our market. While the EU is writing the r…
27
Apr
2026
Financial literacy and the rise of finfluencers in the context of the savings and investments union (debate)
Madam President, the EU has zero credibility to lecture anyone on financial literacy, and even less so on competitiveness, because it is one of the worst investors on the planet, wasting money, missing opportunities and surviving only because European taxpayers pay for its failures. And yet you dare to lecture them because your policies are actually destroying wealth with deindustrialisation, stat…
10
Mar
2026
European Semester for economic policy coordination 2026 - European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2026 (joint debate)
Madam President, this report contains the truth about the current economic and fiscal situation of the European Union. The truth is that we have ridiculously low, almost nonexistent economic growth, rising debt, persistent violations of the Maastricht criteria, and manipulated budget data. The problem is that such reports are completely meaningless, because when it comes to legislation, the Europe…
10
Mar
2026
Single Market: how to move from an incomplete single market to one market for one Europe (debate)
Madam President, one people, one market, one European Union. The very title of this discussion is the dream of every globalist. A single market for Europe under one Commission. But we can no longer listen to this endless propaganda, because for 30 years we have been promised grandiose goals. This, of course, requires more obedience from the states and more money. But these goals always fail, becau…
9
Feb
2026
European Central Bank – annual report 2025 (debate)
16
Dec
2025
Presentation of the European Affordable Housing Plan (debate)
22
Oct
2025
Presentation of the Court of Auditors' annual report 2024 (debate)
Mr President, the European Court of Auditors' 2024 report reveals deep and recurrent abuses in European financial programmes. I must stress here that this is, in fact, one of the few still reliable institutions of the European Union. What does her report show? It shows systematic problems, failed competitiveness strategies, including in artificial intelligence, opaque, ineffective, inadequate eval…
21
Oct
2025
Stepping up funding for Ukraine’s reconstruction and defence: the use of Russian frozen assets (debate)
Madam President, today's discussion has shown nothing less than a huge fraud against European taxpayers. Under the guise of mobilising Russian assets, a scheme is proposed in which bonds worth 140 billion euros are issued and funds are sent to Ukraine. But there is one basic fact: You can't secure debt with assets you don't own. And even experts admitted that the ownership of these assets will not…
7
Oct
2025
Time to complete a fully integrated Single Market: Europe’s key to growth and future prosperity (debate)
Madam President, the Free Market, it was created to help trade, but now Brussels is using it to force Bulgaria to adopt the euro. With your economic policy, you have brought France to bankruptcy, Germany to recession, and Italy to stagnation. You have never been able to understand that Europe is not a single country, but a continent made up of sovereign nations with different financial and economi…
10
Sep
2025
Taxation of large digital platforms in the light of international developments (debate)
Mr President, today we are discussing the taxation of large digital platforms. But actually, no one in this Chamber addressed the elephant in the room: why does the EU so desperately need new fiscal resources? The answer is very simple: the common NextGenerationEU debt. Yes, this is in fact forbidden by the Treaties, and Brussels assumed that low interest rates would go on forever, which was wrong…
8
Jul
2025
Bulgaria's adoption of the euro on 1 January 2026 (A10-0113/2025 - Eva Maydell) (vote)
Mr President, we move to adjourn the vote on the Maydell report until the Advisory Committee has made its ruling based on Rule 206(4). There is an active investigation into a serious conflict of interest because the rapporteur is from the same party that governs Bulgaria, the very government she is expected to evaluate impartially. This report asks one thing: have the convergence criteria been met…
18
Jun
2025
Digital Markets, Digital Euro, Digital Identities: economical stimuli or trends toward dystopia (topical debate)
Mr President, dear colleagues, today we are discussing the very nature of money. The proposal to introduce the digital euro is framed as the inevitable next step in our digital evolution. But we must ask: at what cost does this come? Whether technology becomes a blessing or a curse depends both on those in power and on the rationality of the population. Because any rational citizen recognises the …
17
Jun
2025
Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience Facility (debate)
Madam President, dear colleagues and dear European taxpayers, the Recovery and Resilience Fund is nothing more than a covert budget bailout of some Member States on the basis of massive EU-level debt under the NextGenerationEU programme. This absurd financing model is devoid of any cost analysis and the allocation of the funds is non-transparent and inconsistent. We have complex procedures to obta…
7
May
2025
Competition policy – annual report 2024 (debate)
Madam President, I want to raise awareness with the issues I have with this report. First, the EU itself is among the prime reasons for the defects of competitiveness in the EU, and its regulation and energy policy are a complete mess. That's what's intentionally ignored by the Draghi report, in order to demand even more EU for problems which were created by too much EU. Second, the report on the …
12
Mar
2025
Frozen Russian assets (debate)
Mr President, the right to property is a fundamental pillar of Western civilization. Even just discussing confiscation of Russian assets undermines this principle and sends an extremely dangerous signal, and it is your property in the European Union is not protected, we can take it away at any time. We are talking about improving capital markets, while at the same time testing mechanisms for grabb…
10
Mar
2025
One-minute speeches on matters of political importance
Madam President, this House very often talks about European democracy and European values. But let me tell you what European values and European democracy are in my country Bulgaria. For 16 days now, political prisoners have been held in Bulgaria - young people, students with no criminal past, no files and no conviction. Why? Because they have expressed their civic position, their most democratic …
10
Feb
2025
European Central Bank – annual report 2024 (debate)
Mr President, the term inflation originates from price inflation or monetary inflation, the latter referring to an increase in the money supply. Price inflation inevitably follows monetary inflation. Yet, this report does not mention monetary inflation, not even once. Instead, it falsely attributes price increases solely to external factors, such as energy markets and the war in Ukraine. But infla…
22
Jan
2025
Addressing EU demographic challenges: towards the implementation of the 2023 Demography Toolbox (debate)
There is often talk of a demographic crisis, but it is actually an ethnodemographic one. In addition to birth problems in Europe, the ethnic composition of the population is changing, with the continent becoming increasingly Muslim. This is not only a demographic but also a religious problem, because the roots of Europe are in Christianity and Christian civilization. Migration is often presented a…