What Zbigniew spoke about.

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Oct

2023

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Corrupt large-scale sale of Schengen visas (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. This number has already fallen here many times: 268 visas for two million issued at that time. One-tenth of a mile. The Polish state reacted quickly, the services caught the culprits. Polish courts will probably convict them. It is a pity that the German state did not react in 2010 when its consulates in Africa and South America massi…

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Sep

2023

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Ukrainian grain exports after Russia’s exit from the Black Sea Grain Initiative (debate)

...that such information is covered by trade secrets and any publication of such information would have legal consequences, including damages. As an advocate of the rule of law, you should know this. And secondly, if Minister Sikorski or someone else from the Polish government published this, you would not get together, because it was your companies associated with you politically that led to the …

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Sep

2023

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Ukrainian grain exports after Russia’s exit from the Black Sea Grain Initiative (debate)

...import of cereals into the European market, does not take into account the Russian context, cultivates the Russian narrative. You are a perfect example of this. You are a representative of the Russian narrative. I'll say it again. Thanks to a political decision following Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, Ukraine gained access to the EU market without any restrictions, without any restriction…

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2023

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Ukrainian grain exports after Russia’s exit from the Black Sea Grain Initiative (debate)

Madam President, I'm sorry. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. First of all, I want to emphasize this Russian thread. If in this debate those who speak on this topic do not emphasize, saying that Russia is destabilising food markets in Europe due to Russia's aggression against Ukraine, it means that they are engaged in a Russian narrative. Mr Halicki is a classic example. He was doing a Russian narratio…

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Jul

2023

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Nature restoration (debate)

I'll say it again: we are all in favour of biodiversity, but these proposals are mandatory, administrative and, moreover, do not provide the means to implement it. The Common Agricultural Policy, in particular after 1 January this year, is doing exactly the opposite: encourages and shows additional payments for this purpose. Only then can we achieve success in this area.…

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2023

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Nature restoration (debate)

Madam President, I'm sorry. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. We are all interested in nature restoration, but the proposals contained in the regulation are unacceptable, because they harm agriculture, forest management, as well as investment processes. As far as agriculture is concerned, the protection of the environment and the protection of biodiversity are part of the common agricultural policy. Ev…

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Jun

2023

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Ensuring food security and the long-term resilience of EU agriculture (debate)

Madam President, I'm sorry. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. First the COVID-19 pandemic and now the full-scale war in Ukraine have reminded us of the importance of food security and agricultural resilience to various crises. They should be a priority on our political agenda and European food production should be a strategic sector on an equal footing with energy security. Therefore, we cannot afford …

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Jun

2023

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Competition policy - annual report 2022 (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. Commissioner, I'm sorry. I would just like to draw attention to one aspect of this report. This is what the rapporteur has said. It is about a wide stream of public aid and a deep differentiation of this aid in terms of individual Member States. Of course, I am aware that additional public aid was necessary because of the effects of COVID, now because of Russia’s…

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May

2023

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Ukrainian cereals on the European market (debate)

Madam President, I'm sorry. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. Madam Minister ! There is no doubt that problems with the export of Ukrainian grain and a kind of swing in prices on world grain markets are the consequences of Russia's aggression against Ukraine, as well as the hybrid war that Russia is waging not only with regard to energy resources, but also with regard to agricultural raw materials. A s…

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May

2023

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Impact on the 2024 EU budget of increasing European Union Recovery Instrument borrowing costs - Own resources: a new start for EU finances, a new start for Europe (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. Despite the fact that the costs of servicing the debt related to Next Generation EU have increased significantly, I believe that they should continue to be financed under the EU budget, primarily the flexibility mechanism. On the other hand, if the mid-term review is to bring something, it should generate funds to service the costs as…

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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)

Mr President, thank you very much. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. As rapporteur for the AGRI opinion on CBAM, I will focus only on this regulation. Unfortunately, the compromises do not take into account the interests of the agri-food sector. As agricultural organisations have rightly pointed out, agriculture will be punished twice as a result of this regulation: on the one hand, it will suffer the …

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Mar

2023

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European Citizens’ Initiative "Save bees and farmers! Towards a bee-friendly agriculture for a healthy environment" (debate)

Madam President, I'm sorry. Commissioner, I'm sorry. The title of this debate is appropriate to the seriousness of the problem. On the one hand, bees are estimated to account for one third of global food production and are therefore necessary in the agricultural process. On the other hand, we should also remember the fate of farmers, care for their future, because in the last ten years three milli…

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Mar

2023

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Binding annual greenhouse gas emission reductions by Member States (Effort Sharing Regulation) - Land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) - Revision of the Market Stability Reserve for the EU Emissions Trading System (debate)

Madam President, I'm sorry. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. The main objections I want to make to this package are, first of all, that it is based largely on ideology and, unfortunately, substantive considerations have fallen into the background. We are undermining the competitiveness of the European economy, of European agriculture, and yet the European Union is only responsible for 7% of global CO2…

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Feb

2023

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Availability of fertilisers in the EU (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. Friends and colleagues! It should be recalled at the outset that the crisis on the fertilizer market was caused by Gazprom's conscious policy on the gas market, which was also exacerbated later by Russia's aggression against Ukraine. Despite the sharp, even two or threefold increase in the prices of agricultural and other fertilizers,…

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Feb

2023

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REPowerEU chapters in recovery and resilience plans (debate)

Madam President, I'm sorry. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. Unfortunately, it was only Russia's aggression against Ukraine that showed how harmful the policy of making EU countries dependent on Russian energy resources was carried out by Germany and, consequently, by the European Commission. It is therefore good that, following Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, the REPowerEU programme was presente…

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Jan

2023

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Protection of the EU’s financial interests - combating fraud - annual report 2021 (debate)

Madam President, I'm sorry. Commissioner, I'm sorry. Despite the fact that Poland has not joined the European Public Prosecutor's Office or prepared an anti-fraud strategy, it turns out that we are the leader in reporting such irregularities to the European institutions. As it was already said, as much as 17% of all applications come from Poland, which means that Polish institutions fighting corru…

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Dec

2022

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Upscaling the 2021-2027 Multiannual Financial Framework (debate)

Madam President, I'm sorry. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. The current financial framework was set up long before the COVID-19 outbreak and its consequences, long before the war in Ukraine, long before elevated inflation or the destabilisation of energy commodity markets, with all its negative consequences. There is therefore no doubt that they need to be revised under these new conditions. Moreover…

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Dec

2022

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A long-term vision for the EU's rural areas (debate)

Madam President, I'm sorry. Commissioner, I'm sorry. First of all, I would like to thank the rapporteur and my fellow shadow rapporteurs for their excellent cooperation in the spirit of compromise and similarly understood interests of rural areas and villages. This is why this report has no amendments and will be adopted by a large majority in this House. As a representative of the ECR Group, it w…

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Nov

2022

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System of own resources of the European Union (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. In accordance with Article 311 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, these new tax burdens should be fairly shared between Member States. This is not the case for these new resources. We have hard data on the fee for unprocessed plastic. In the case of my country, Poland, this is a burden amounting to 8% of the total…

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Nov

2022

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Borrowing strategy to finance NextGenerationEU (debate)

Madam President, I'm sorry. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. The concept of NextGenerationEU was conceived at a time when we were dealing with cheap money. This era of cheap money is over forever. As a result, service costs are also rising significantly. The Commissioner is probably aware of this. It is good that the Commission has prepared a fundraising strategy, that it uses various instruments, ‘gr…

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2022

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REPowerEU chapters in recovery and resilience plans (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. I am pleased that we are talking about a programme that is diverting the European Union and its Member States from Russian raw materials. For years, the policy of dependence on Russian raw materials was carried out by Germany, and consequently the European Commission supported it. It is good that this problem has finally been recognis…

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2022

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Global food security as follow-up to the G20 Agriculture Ministers meeting (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. Commissioner, I'm sorry. Mr. Secretary of State! There is no doubt that due to the COVID pandemic, as well as Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, the world is in a state of global food security crisis. If 40% of wheat imports to Africa came from two countries, namely Russia and Ukraine, if 50% of the World Food Programme's grain demand came from Ukraine, then Ru…

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Oct

2022

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General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2023 - all sections (debate)

Madam President, I'm sorry. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. Mr. Secretary of State! I want to raise three issues with this budget. The first is, in my opinion, an insufficient level of payment. Well, we are implementing the last year of payments related to the previous financial perspective, and payments in this budget have been designed very conservatively. Moreover, this correction letter reduced t…

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2022

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The urgent need for an EU strategy on fertilisers to ensure food security in Europe (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. The market for energy raw materials, in particular gas, was destabilised in the autumn of last year, well before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Gas prices have already increased tenfold. Almost immediately, this obviously translated into the prices of artificial fertilizers, because the cost of gas is, depending on the type of fertiliz…

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2022

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New EU Forest Strategy for 2030 – Sustainable Forest Management in Europe (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. The fundamental objection I wished to make to this strategy (which, moreover, has been raised in this Chamber) is the breach of the principle of subsidiarity, i.e. the preparation of a forestry strategy in a situation where the competence in this area lies with the Member States. Secondly, the strategy, like many other strategies rece…