What Jerzy spoke about.

25 Apr

2024

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Framework of measures for strengthening Europe’s net-zero technology products manufacturing ecosystem (Net Zero Industry Act) (debate)

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Mr President, dear Commissioner, dear friends, it is a very emotional moment for me: my last speech at the plenary session. So let me change to my mother tongue. Cieszę się, że ta debata jest na kluczowy dla Unii temat, w sprawie przemysłu neutralnego emisyjnie, czyli jak rozwijać u nas – w Unii, w Polsce – konkurencyjny i przyjazny dla środowiska przemysł, który będzie tworzyć miejsca pracy, ale …

24 Apr

2024

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Formal sitting - 20th Anniversary of the 2004 EU Enlargement

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Madam President, I'm sorry. Ladies and Gentlemen Prime Ministers! Friends and colleagues! The Great Enlargement 20 years ago was a de facto European unification. The countries of our part of the continent, which were cut off from Europe against their will, have again become a full part of it. When I was young, it seemed unrealistic, and it became a fact. As a result, you have to dream and stay wit…

11 Apr

2024

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Internal markets for renewable gas, natural gas and hydrogen (recast) - Common rules for the internal markets for renewable gas, natural gas and hydrogen (recast) - Union’s electricity market design: Regulation - Union’s electricity market design: Directive (joint debate – Reform of the energy and electricity markets)

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Mr President, thank you very much. I would like to thank you for the debate. She was great. She was very useful to us. I would like to thank the rapporteurs Geier and González for their great work. To all co-rapporteurs also, our advisors, assistants. It was a great job for two years. We now have a green light for hydrogen and biomethane, which is also very important. And we have a red light for g…

11 Apr

2024

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Internal markets for renewable gas, natural gas and hydrogen (recast) - Common rules for the internal markets for renewable gas, natural gas and hydrogen (recast) - Union’s electricity market design: Regulation - Union’s electricity market design: Directive (joint debate – Reform of the energy and electricity markets)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. This is a special day. Following the Paris Agreement in 2015 and our March 2007 3x20 package, we are moving towards an energy transition, towards a market with only two energy carriers: it will have electricity from renewable sources and from the atom and hydrogen. Since 2019, this is our European Green Deal. At this session, we are f…

8 Nov

2023

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State of the Energy Union (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. This is a good time to take stock of how the Energy Union works, because we set it up nine years ago and for five years now we have a regulation on the governance of the Energy Union. And we all rather agree that this helped us to overcome the crisis a year ago and also gave many additional advantages and achievements that we would not have had without the Energy…

13 Sep

2023

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Framework for ensuring a secure and sustainable supply of critical raw materials (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. Everything is based on budget anyway. That is why it is very important that you are in this debate, because we have a critical raw materials problem that is important for the transformation of any economic activity. I wanted to draw attention to coking coal, which raises many objections, because it has the name of coal, but really it …

10 Jul

2023

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Industrial Emissions Directive - Industrial Emissions Portal - Deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure - Sustainable maritime fuels (FuelEU Maritime Initiative) - Energy efficiency (recast) (joint debate - Fit for 55 and Industrial Emissions)

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Madam President, Commissioner! I'll do two things. Industrial emissions are a difficult, very difficult solution. I congratulate the rapporteurs for having managed to complete them. I think it is necessary to improve this solution in some way during our vote and to go in the direction of helping industry to redirect investment more strongly towards the green transition and to establish the indicat…

8 May

2023

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Methane emissions reduction in the energy sector (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Commissioner, I'm sorry. I will join those voices that were before, praising the compromise. But let me add that we are voting tomorrow, exactly on the 73rd anniversary of the Schuman Plan, the first result of which was the creation of the Coal and Steel Community. Today we are going in a different direction. It's a different phase. We are moving out of fossil fu…

18 Apr

2023

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Energy storage (debate)

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Thank you very much, Mr President! Above all, I would like to thank the Commissioner for her plans for energy storage. This is absolutely crucial for our entire energy and industrial transition. Security of energy supply, security and storage are always connected. Last year we did a big thing: thanks to the urgency procedure, we have adopted a storage regulation for natural gas. We saved ourselves…

17 Apr

2023

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Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System - Monitoring, reporting and verification of greenhouse gas emissions from maritime transport - Carbon border adjustment mechanism - Social Climate Fund - Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System for aviation (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. First of all, I wanted to congratulate my colleagues, the rapporteurs of this package, because we really managed to strike a balance. The environment and climate are of course the most important, but equally crucial are: economic development, jobs and protection of the poorest consumers. A just transition is absolutely crucial. I will…

13 Dec

2022

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Renewable Energy, Energy Performance of Buildings and Energy Efficiency Directives: amendments (REPowerEU) (continuation of debate)

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Madam President, I'm sorry. I congratulate the rapporteur on a good report and very well done. I also congratulate the European Commission and President Timmermans, because this project, the REPowerEU plan, was the best possible response to the deep crisis that exists. Let us remember that one of the main causes of our crisis was too little renewable energy, not too much. We were also dependent on…

23 Nov

2022

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A truly interconnected Energy Single Market to keep bills down and companies competitive (topical debate)

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Madam President, I'm sorry. Commissioner, I'm sorry. Exactly ten years ago, the European Commission presented a communication on the launch of the internal energy market. I was the rapporteur on this at the time. We adopted the report by a large majority. We called on EU countries to urgently implement the market, including through investments in infrastructure, especially cross-border connections…

13 Sep

2022

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Renewable Energy Directive (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Commissioner, I'm sorry. The development of renewable energy is the most important task for environmental and climate protection, lowering the price of energy, but above all for our security. We need to replace fossil fuels from Russia with something, which is why the 45% target is absolutely justified. But it is important to remove all barriers to the developmen…

5 Jul

2022

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Objection pursuant to Rule 111(3): Amending the Taxonomy Climate Delegated Act and the Taxonomy Disclosures Delegated Act (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. The Commission sets the highest environmental standards for new investments in nuclear and gas. Such gas investments will have to switch to hydrogen or green gas by 2035, and Member States must set a date for the exit from coal. These are good proposals, in line with our European Deal. It is also difficult to accuse the Commission and the European Parliament of f…

23 Jun

2022

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Gas storage (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Thank you, Vice-President of the Commission, for a well-prepared text. I wanted to tell you that today is 23 June – that is exactly three months after the Commission put this regulation on the table, which is a record. I wanted to congratulate and thank my colleagues in the negotiating team, because the negotiations were truly an example of solidarity and coopera…

7 Jun

2022

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Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System - Social Climate Fund - Carbon border adjustment mechanism - Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System for aviation - Notification under the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) (joint debate – Fit for 55 (part 1))

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Thank you very much, Mr President, for being here with us. Ready for 55. We certainly need to protect the environment and the climate, we certainly need to emerge from the post-pandemic recession and we need to protect ourselves against imports of raw materials from Russia. These are the three main objectives of the package. But we also want the Fit for 55 package to give growth to our economy, to…

19 May

2022

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The REPowerEU Plan: European solidarity and energy security in face of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, including the recent cuts of gas supply to Poland and Bulgaria (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Thank you, Commissioner, for the RepowerEU proposal. But today we are also talking about Poland and Bulgaria. Both countries, let's be honest, can feel safe today, completely different than they did in 2006 and 2009. Why is this so? Because we have a common energy market, we have a regulation on the security of gas supply and energy solidarity has been raised to …

3 May

2022

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Question Time (Commission) Europe’s Energy Autonomy: The strategic importance of renewables and energy interconnections and efficiency

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Madam President, I would like to thank the Commissioner for being with us. You are probably completely tired after two hours of heavy discussion, but it’s a very important discussion. Let me say, last month we voted in this House almost unanimously a full ban of Russian fossil fuels. And now the main responsibility in this House is the security of gas supply for our citizens, for our small and med…

7 Apr

2022

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Gas storage (C9-0126/2022 - Cristian-Silviu Buşoi) (vote)

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Madam President, as coordinator of the European Parliament’s negotiating team on the gas storage proposal, and on behalf of all colleagues from the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE), I would like to request to refer this file back to the ITRE Committee for negotiations.…

5 Apr

2022

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Trans-European energy infrastructure (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. I thank the rapporteur, Prof. Krasnodębski, and the other rapporteurs. This report must be accepted as the result of a compromise and is absolutely acceptable for today. Let's remember: Green hydrogen awaits us. That's the most important thing. Renewable energy, the European Green Deal are our goals. But today we also have another goal - a dramatic one that we di…

24 Mar

2022

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The Power of the EU – Joint European Action for more affordable, secure and sustainable energy (debate)

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Madam President, I'm sorry. Mr President, thank you very much. We are accelerating the energy transition to deprive Putin's war machine of EU money for any fuel. I support the ambitious goal of reducing gas imports this year by two-thirds, and perhaps more. We need to diversify supplies and financially support investments such as liquefied gas terminals, collectors. The Commission should do everyt…

14 Feb

2022

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A European strategy for offshore renewable energy (debate)

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Madam President, I'm sorry. I also thank the Commissioner for speaking on behalf of the Commission, but first of all I congratulate my colleague Morten Petersen for a very good report on a truly crucial issue for the European Union for two reasons. Firstly, we have the following objectives: 55% by 2030 and climate neutrality by 2050 together with energy security. The wind is our own energy resourc…