What Rovana spoke about.

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EN Written Statement

EU contribution to transforming global food systems to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (debate)

On 23 September 2021, UN Secretary—General António Guterres will convene a Food Systems Summit as part of the Decade of Action to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. The Summit will awaken the world to the fact that we must all work together to transform the way the world produces, consumes and thinks about food, interconnecting all 17 SDGs, focusing on those relating to era…

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RO Written Statement

Sixth Assessment Report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (debate)

I welcome the experts' contribution to the development of AR6. Regarding the section ‘Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability’, the report shows: Up to 3.6 billion people live in environments highly vulnerable to climate change, and current types of unsustainable development increase the exposure of ecosystems and people to climate risks. One in three people are exposed to deadl…

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Mar

2024

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Return of Romanian national treasure illegally appropriated by Russia (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner Ferreira, Romania's treasury illegally detained by Russia is a dispute not very well known at international level, although Romania has consistently striven over the past hundred years to resolve the situation through bilateral diplomatic channels. Bringing the subject to the plenary session of the European Parliament and thus to the agenda of the Union is a political…

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Mar

2024

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Artificial Intelligence Act (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, dear colleagues, tomorrow’s AI act’s adoption is pivotal for European policymaking as it guarantees our rights and fosters innovation. As the TRAN Committee, we prioritise the safety and privacy of public transport users, as well as flexibility for small- and medium-sized enterprises. Therefore, we warmly welcome the establishment of stringent conditions for the further…

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Feb

2024

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Multiannual financial framework for the years 2021 to 2027 - Establishing the Ukraine Facility - Establishing the Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (‘STEP’) (joint debate - multiannual financial framework revision)

Mr President, Commissioner, Council, colleagues, as REGI rapporteur for an opinion with shared competence on the STEP file, I am very happy we achieved all our important issues in the negotiations with the Commission and the Council, obtaining the cap of 20 % of the allocation for financing step objectives from the ERDF and the Cohesion Fund. We obtained the addition on preserving the focus on sma…

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Dec

2023

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EU strategy to assist young people facing the housing and cost of living crisis (topical debate)

Mr President, dear all, dear Commissioner, with the rising energy prices, increased inflation and a struggling economy, it’s a difficult time for everyone. For those of us on lower incomes, including many social housing residents, this amount is nothing less than a cost of living crisis. According to the latest data available from 2020, almost 28 % of young people in the EU have been affected by o…

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Dec

2023

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 14-15 December 2023 (debate)

Madam President, Vice-President Šefčovič, Minister, dear colleagues, the European Council is the main political forum of European leaders. Beyond the agenda elements already agreed, topics of direct and immediate interest to the citizens of our countries should also be discussed at this level. Firstly, the difficulties we face at the level of expert meetings; for example, the JHA should find polit…

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Nov

2023

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30 years of Copenhagen criteria - giving further impetus to EU enlargement policy (debate)

Madam Vice-President, Madam Secretary of State, dear colleagues, the enlargement of the European Union is not only about the admission of new Member States, about the acquis communautaire or about the Copenhagen criteria. Enlargement of the European Union is about reaching the potential of the European Union, it is about our positioning on the world map at a time of great tensions and strategic co…

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Oct

2023

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 26-27 October 2023 (debate)

Mr President, dear Vice-President Šefčovič, Minister, dear colleagues, in these difficult, sad and challenging times, only working together can we develop a dynamic, competitive and strong Europe. Therefore, a timely agreement on all the components of the MFF revision is necessary to respond more effectively to evolving needs, address funding gaps, and increase flexibility and crisis responsivenes…

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Oct

2023

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Establishing the Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (‘STEP’) (debate)

Madam President, as REGI rapporteur, I would like to underline that our committee expresses its support for the STEP objectives, notably to steer investments in deep, digital, clean and bio-technology by using cohesion policy funds. However, our position is to limit the use of these funds to a maximum of 20% of the allocation. This is deemed necessary in order not to undermine other cohesion polic…

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Oct

2023

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Interim report on the proposal for a mid-term revision of the Multiannual Financial Framework 2021-2027 (debate)

Madam President, the current Multiannual Financial Framework was adopted under completely different context: before the pandemic, before the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine and all the other challenges to our Union that followed. To continue addressing the challenges of today and tomorrow, a timely agreement on all the components of the MFF revision is absolutely necessary to respond mor…

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Oct

2023

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Intelligent Road Transport Systems (debate)

Madam President, dear Commissioner, dear colleagues, thank you for this debate, thank you for your comments and thank you for your support. I would like to tell you that all together we succeeded to provide an easily readable and commonly understood data shared by the national access points, with an appropriate user interface, securing communication between vehicles and infrastructure, which guara…

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Oct

2023

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Intelligent Road Transport Systems (debate)

Madam President, dear Commissioner, dear colleagues, in the not so distant future, we can imagine that highly automated vehicles will share public space with various drones, but also vehicles with low automation levels. In such a world, traffic will be a challenge. These vehicles will need to be aware of each other’s position, direction and speed. They will need to trust each other in order to avo…

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Sep

2023

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State of the Union (debate)

Madam President, dear President von der Leyen, first I welcome your recognition that Romania and Bulgaria are part of Schengen. Let us say that today is the day for a commitment to Romania and Bulgaria in Schengen by the end of this mandate. (Applause) Second, you mentioned the important role of the European regions. Therefore, it is crucial to have a strong cohesion policy, strong cohesion fundin…

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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, Commissioner, of course we are talking about the need to finance the European Union budget sustainably, which requires a diversified and extensive set of own resources, because our needs are also very large, from securing energy supplies to ensuring that people have enough food, from countering the effects of the war on the border with the European Union to ensuring the strategic aut…

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Mar

2023

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Fluorinated Gases Regulation - Ozone-depleting substances (debate)

Mr President, dear Vice-President Timmermans, dear colleagues, first of all, allow me to congratulate Ms Polfjärd for the report and also the cooperation during the negotiations. I would also like to thank our staff. Well, in the ozone-depleting substances field, more than 2 000 small- and medium-sized enterprises operate at EU level and it is important to strengthen the Commission proposal with t…

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Dec

2022

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The recent JHA Council decision on Schengen accession (debate)

Mr President, I, too, would like to thank the Commissioner and the entire European Commission for their support for accession to the Schengen Area for Romania and Bulgaria, of course. I want to thank the Czech Presidency for its support and willingness to keep the European project united. But last week's behaviour by Austria's chancellor and her interior minister is an attack on the European proje…

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Dec

2022

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A need for a dedicated budget to turn the Child Guarantee into reality - an urgency in times of energy and food crisis (debate)

Mr President, dear Commissioner, Minister, the war in Ukraine and its consequences in Europe increased even further the need to support children in situations of poverty in Europe. Energy prices, food prices, all of those are affecting many children in Europe. Therefore, Europe must react. ESF+ is based on national pre-allocated financial envelopes. Such envelopes can only be increased by modifyin…

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Oct

2022

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The accession of Romania and Bulgaria to the Schengen area (debate)

Madam President, Mr Vice-President, Minister Bek, we have not infrequently heard that Romania, together with Bulgaria, meets the technical criteria for accession to the Schengen area. We have been meeting the technical criteria for 11 years and this has been repeatedly confirmed by both the European Parliament and the European Commission. Romania continues to consistently implement and adapt to de…

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Oct

2022

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Question Time (Commission) Tackling depopulation through cohesion policy instrument

Thank you, President. Dear Commissioner, I would like to thank you for the work you’ve done, you do, and you will do. And for the answer, of course, I know how many efforts are made. There is no question, but I would like to stress that we need to make sure that the demographic realities, such as depopulation, do not lead to polarisation, and that internal cohesion in the EU is not put under strai…

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Oct

2022

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Question Time (Commission) Tackling depopulation through cohesion policy instrument

Commissioner, I am thankful for the commitment shown by you and the Commission on the depopulation issue, in particular, the inclusion in the 2022 Work Programme of the initiative on brain drain. I was leading the work within my political group to adopt a policy paper to find some of the answers to these challenges. One conclusion was that cooperation with citizens, civil society, small and medium…

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Sep

2022

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State of the Union (debate)

Madam President, President Von der Leyen, we welcome the concrete proposals that you have made today, but we need to act together immediately. In the field of energy, for example, the measures you have proposed, the Socialist Group has been asking for them for several months. Madam President, you cannot ask people to reduce consumption if we let the TTP market continue to speculate. Therefore, if …

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Jun

2022

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Implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, I begin by congratulating the rapporteurs. It is a very good report, because, basically, the Resilience and Recovery Facility, a key instrument for investments and reforms, is the message of solidarity of the European Union to help citizens, but also companies, to mitigate the negative impact of the health crisis, but also everything that means the crisis that happen…

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Jun

2022

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Implementation and delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals (debate)

Mr President, dear Commissioner, it’s my turn now to congratulate the co-rapporteurs. We worked very well together in order to obtain a good result as a report, taking into account that this will represent the new mandate for the high-level political forum next month. Well, there are there are only eight years left to implement the SDGs until 2030 and we are facing increasing challenges. The SDGs’…

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2022

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 23-24 June 2022, including the meeting with Western Balkan leaders on 23 June - Candidate status of Ukraine, the Republic of Moldova and Georgia (debate)

Ukraine deserves to be granted candidate status, because Ukraine is going through a terrible war and we need to show solidarity with the Ukrainian people. The Republic of Moldova is equally exposed, and both states have done their lessons, so I hope that in the Council, in the coming days, this will happen, that they will be granted candidate status, and also that I congratulate the Commission on …