13
Sep
2023
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State of the Union (debate)
Madam President, Madam President of the Commission, Your speech had a lot of ambitious accents, which, of course, should be in such speeches. But we know that people believe in works, and there are works that have been done well, for example, on overcoming last winter's energy crisis, on how to support Ukraine politically and financially. There is also a good commitment in today's speech to step up the fight against human smuggling crime or to welcome Ukraine to the European Union without convening a Convention or amending the treaties of the European Union for a long time. But in your speech, Madam President, there was no word about military capacity in Europe, which is far behind our transatlantic partners, and this is certainly seen by Ukrainians and also by the citizens of Eastern Europe who live next to the aggressor. Citizens also see what is happening in the context of global change and geopolitically important parties. It is of the utmost importance to maintain all maximum cooperation with our global Western partners. And that would, in my opinion, be a more important message to security at the end of the speech than a call to think big. And in other words, actually say "Let's make Europe great again!". I think the accents could have been better.