What Nicolae spoke about.

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Sep

2023

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Improving firefighters’ working conditions (debate)

Madam President, Ion Buneci, Oprea Marian, Niţeanu Gheorghe - Romanian firefighters are heroes who are often neglected, but all this summer they put out fires in Greece, in Italy. The past few years have been in Sweden. During the pandemic, they intervened by bringing in sick people and were promised a premium that many of them still did not receive today. They are exposed to unimaginable risks, b…

12

Sep

2023

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Ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe (debate)

Madam President, as we explain to Ana's grandfather the lung cancer she suffers from, although the man has never smoked, he does not have a medical history of this kind, but he lives in the most polluted city in Romania, in Bucharest. For days the inhabitants of Cluj-Napoca complained about the bad smells in the city. They come from a landfill that is non-compliant with European rules and in which…

11

Jul

2023

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Accession to the Schengen area (short presentation)

Mr. President, I also want to thank the associations, the Association for Clean Energy, Now, the Students' League, who saved Romania's image this time. I would have liked there to be more of us in the room who are not Romanians and Bulgarians. We counted, we are 15 Romanians and Bulgarians. Thank you, Seán! Thank you, Anna! Thank you, Marc, for being with us. But this shows a problem, that we stil…

10

Jul

2023

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In a few days, from Volunteers, hell descended to Earth, but old age is not a disease. Most of us get there and the state parks us on the edge of society, forgetting, stealing and hitting, as if rushing to the pit. But I'm afraid this situation is not isolated. I'm afraid it's the same for children in orphanages, for the sick in hospitals, for the elderly in other nursing homes. We can have the be…

15

Jun

2023

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The water crisis in Europe (debate)

Madam President, the droughts of 2022 have substantially reduced our crops. Winter was no better in Europe. Results: soil drought, low river flows and reduced water storage in reservoirs. Climate projections indicate that summers in southern and central Europe will become even drier and warmer over the course of our century, and the consequences will be devastating for the agricultural sector. It …

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Jun

2023

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Madam President, I want it to be noted that I am completely with my colleagues and their unprecedented protest. I think there is a need for maternity and paternity leave in this institution. But tonight I wanted to talk to you about the situation of teachers in Romania, which is serious, and Ciuca and Ciolacu consider the teachers in Romania as those cells that they put in the state apparatus. We,…

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May

2023

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Fighting cyberbullying of young people across the EU (debate)

Mr President, "Boy, you're a jerk! You're a piece of garbage! Put the noose around your neck. You deserve to be beaten! You idiot! You fool! Traitor!” This is what online bullying looks like, to which we politicians are probably immune, but our children are not. An 18-year-old teenager was found hanged, and colleagues say he was no longer coping with so much humiliation. A girl was subjected to in…

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May

2023

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Mr President, right now, 12 hectares of green space are in danger of turning into concrete in the capital of Romania, in Bucharest. With a much lower level of green space and the most polluted air in Europe, Bucharest cannot afford to lose an inch of green. Already, social and health losses in Bucharest are estimated at over 6 billion euros. The citizens of the area are outraged by what is happeni…

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Apr

2023

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IPCC report on Climate Change: a call for urgent additional action (debate)

Mr President, I want to say to the people who are watching us: Green Europe is not a fad, it is a necessity for life, but also for the economy. I have to say that although we have the Paris Agreement of 2015 and it has been eight years since then, implementation is far too slow, money is scarce and the Member States are doing their work, but they are not implementing. We promised our citizens that…

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Apr

2023

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IPCC report on Climate Change: a call for urgent additional action (debate)

Ms Ceccardi, do you accept the principle that in 1200 there was no industry around?

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Apr

2023

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EU Global Health Strategy (debate)

Madam President, the COVID—19 pandemic has exposed the fragility of our healthcare systems. There is no One Health – there is not a European health if we don’t have a universal health. We have shown that borders are useless when we are facing a pandemic. Solidarity should be our answer. Antimicrobial Resistance, AMR, is a cross-border health threat that affects countries in pandemic proportions. A…

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Apr

2023

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Guidelines for the 2024 budget - Section III (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, a little goes a long way, but it doesn’t make us a leader. So let me say what I said one year ago. As main rapporteur, I said without the MFF revision, we cannot really move Europe forward. Now, a few specific points: In the field of transport, I think we can achieve a good deal of our Green Deal objectives by increasing the funding for the European railway agencies, be…

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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, victory has many fathers, but defeat is an orphan. Today, when we vote on this big climate package, we all say, how much we've done for the environment, how much we've done for the planet. But I would like to say the same thing when we go to our capitals, to our countries where we come from. And not to run away from responsibility, not to blame the EU. I want to tell the truth. If w…

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Mar

2023

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Strengthening the EU Defence in the context of the war in Ukraine: speeding up production and deliveries to Ukraine of weapons and ammunitions (debate)

I think you are Irish, if my memory serves me well, but you might have been Chamberlain in the 1930s proclaiming peace, a peace that is so elusive that it led to the biggest catastrophe of the Second World War because actions were not taken when the time was right. How did the extreme left in this house become equal to the extreme right of other days?…

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Mar

2023

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Strengthening the EU Defence in the context of the war in Ukraine: speeding up production and deliveries to Ukraine of weapons and ammunitions (debate)

Mrs. Yoncheva, what an irony to mention Nichts neues im Westen, and not to say that there were soldiers, three soldiers in a rifle, in World War I. Mr. Wallace, what an irony to care about the poor of the world, the poor of the South, and to support Putin in this house and to say that Ukrainians don't need help. Member States with stockpiles of weapons, what do you hold them for? What day do you k…

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Mar

2023

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Mr President, I had a speech prepared on a completely different subject, but I witnessed tonight what we see in this house happening far too often: the far right shaking hands with the far left and witnessing the help given to Putin's Russia. Mr Terhesh, Europe is not a prison, where Navalny lives is a prison. Mr. Wallace said that it is not Putin who is the aggressor, but Ukraine. How is it possi…

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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, Mr Timmermans, this is the first time that a Romanian Member of Parliament has spoken as a European Green, but it is not the first time that a Romanian Member of Parliament has spoken about the climate change that he believes in and that we need to have an answer to. The climate crisis is here, but any crisis can also be an opportunity, an opportunity for progress. We only need to…

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Feb

2023

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Madam President, dear colleagues, Moldova and Ukraine are two organs attacked by the same disease. Of Putin's cancer. But Moldova and Ukraine are also the last shields that separate us from the Putin maniac. Today, Moldovan President Maia Sandu spoke about Russia's foiled plan. In a coup d'état, the Kremlin would change the political order in the country. The Russians planned to blackmail Moldova …

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Feb

2023

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Mr. President, who's lying: The Chancellor of Austria or the European Commission? Romania is walked from gate to gate, with a file with a rail, for the entry into Schengen. I can't stand by and hear all the political statements, I can't hear Nehammer campaigning politically in Austria for something that is rightfully ours. We are in the European Parliament. We cannot pretend that we do not see an …

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Jan

2023

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Surge of respiratory infections and the shortage of medication in Europe (debate)

Mr President, Mrs Kyriakides, it is 2023 and it is as if we are going back to where we started. Influenza and respiratory virus cases have exploded all over Europe. Basic medicines are missing from pharmacies and hospitals. Haven't we learned anything from the tough months of the pandemic? In Romania, in the middle of the cold season, drugs such as antibiotics, antivirals, anti-inflammatory drugs …

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Dec

2022

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Upscaling the 2021-2027 Multiannual Financial Framework (debate)

(the beginning of the intervention was not done on the microphone) ... crises of European citizens. We can come up with all kinds of legislation, proposals, but if we don't put the money to make them, it's useless. People expect results, not words. And we know what the structural problems are, said Mr. Siegfried Muresan. These are microscopic reserves. We have interest costs in the European Union …

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Dec

2022

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The recent JHA Council decision on Schengen accession (debate)

Mr President, I regret that in this room we are almost only Romanians and Bulgarians. Apart from Mrs Düpont, to whom I also thank Mr Mandl, for a few seconds, we too often forget to be Europeans, to be united, to be in solidarity. The Austrian government believes that Austrians do not trust Romanians, but Romanian doctors treat Austrians. Romanians build houses for Austrians, Austrians do business…

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Dec

2022

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Madam President, Romanians were promised eight new regional hospitals, which then turned into three. Today, zero will be funded by the NRRPs, because the authorities have not done their job. The government, in reality, does not want to build any new hospitals from the NRRP, but only to patch up existing hospitals. The Siberians have been completely forgotten. We have a county hospital project, but…

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Nov

2022

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Protection of livestock farming and large carnivores in Europe (debate)

Mr President, "Warning, URS!" - this is how wild animals are protected nowadays, but this is how people are also protected. An SMS does not solve the problem at all, namely the fact that wild animals remain year after year without habitat due to illegal and aggressive logging. Forests are their home, their habitat, and it is lost year after year. But the struggle between the wild animal and man mu…

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Nov

2022

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2023 budgetary procedure: joint text (debate)

Mr. President, Commissioner Hahn, Minister Bek, right now a mother is lighting the oven to cook the children only once this week, so as not to consume gas, which has become so expensive. Right now, a student in Sibiu is abandoning the plan to study in France, because 500 euros are no longer 500 euros, but 420 euros due to inflation, and rents have increased enormously. Right now, extremists are pr…