What Vasile spoke about.

17

Dec

2024

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Misinformation and disinformation on social media platforms, such as TikTok, and related risks to the integrity of elections in Europe (debate)

Mr President, democracy operates on the basis of rules and responsibility, otherwise it is chaos. Therefore, I believe that the discussion about TikTok and networks is not only a Romanian business, as it tends to become, but it is a problem of the entire European Union. I would like to say one thing, it is true that TikTok oversimplifies and polarizes political communication, but let's not just bl…

26

Nov

2024

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Full accession of Bulgaria and Romania to the Schengen Area: the urgent need to lift controls at internal land borders (debate)

8

Oct

2024

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Strengthening Moldova's resilience against Russian interference ahead of the upcoming presidential elections and a constitutional referendum on EU integration (debate)

Mr President, dear colleagues, in 1940, the Republic of Moldova came under Russian occupation, as did Latvia, Estonia or Lithuania. Today's vulnerabilities of this country are the consequence of this history and of this unfortunate geostrategic position. But today Moldova is on the front line of the war with Russia, along with Ukraine, and we are still behind the front. Social problems, migration,…

18

Sep

2024

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The devastating floods in Central and Eastern Europe, the loss of lives and the EU’s preparedness to act on such disasters exacerbated by climate change (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, it is a coincidence that when I first entered this room, 18 years ago, at the microphone and at this tribune, it was the Commissioner of that time, Michel Barnier, who proposed a European civil protection and response force. He also proposed a Civilian Security Council, based on an idea of having 5,000 people containing this force. That didn't happen. We have improved o…

17

Sep

2024

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Continued financial and military support to Ukraine by EU Member States (debate)

Mr President, Mr Vice-President, Commissioner, it is a good thing that continuity, that both the old Parliament, and the new European Parliament, and the old Commission, and the new Commission will support Ukraine. We may indeed have lost competitiveness, as the Draghi report tells us, but we must not lose our values and for the European social model, solidarity is the most important value. Romani…