What Nicolae spoke about.

16 Sep

2024

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Mr. President, Mr. Geoana, Mrs. Lasconi, Mr. Ciolacu, Mr. Ciuca, on November 24, a young student will travel nine hours to go home to vote for one of you. He's a young man you don't know because you're not used to talking to young people. He's probably a 12th grader who's going to vote for you for the first time. Did you know that he'll wake up at 6 o'clock on Monday to commute to school and come …

23 Apr

2024

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Combating violence against women and domestic violence (debate)

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Mr President, I cannot, as a Romanian, sit here in the European Parliament and accept what has been said in this debate. It's unacceptable! Mr Terheș of the AUR said that the ‘so-called right to abortion [...]’ spoke of the ‘so-called right to abortion’. What, I mean, the so-called right to abortion? What about the "so-called" victims, millions, who fell victim to communism and other extremist tim…

26 Feb

2024

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Mr President, "women are afraid of getting this guy psychotic, of killing him, of rape, of beating her, of getting her drunk, of stealing her, of kidnapping her, of arguing. Girl, let me give you a live location in case of anything." This is a song by Erika Isac, who revolted half of Romania and many women listened to her, some in headphones, scared not to hear a certain Mirel. They're lyrics that…

7 Feb

2024

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This is Europe - Debate with the President of Romania, Klaus Iohannis (debate)

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Madam President, Mr President, Minister, Commissioner, today we are talking about the future of Europe and Romania and we want every peace, freedom, equality. Reality is not like that now. A lot of Romanians are still leaving the country. We don't have new hospitals and we have a poor population. Millions of young people don't know what to hope for in the future. If populism and extremism are not …

15 Jan

2024

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Mr President, family doctors in Romania are neither respected nor paid. Half of the 10 000 family doctors are over 60 years old, and still waiting for a post to be vacated, over 4 000 family doctors from Romania have gone abroad. And who can condemn them? Family doctors are on the front line, we go to them when we cough, as many of you do in this room, and when we have colds and other things, now,…

13 Dec

2023

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

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Mr President, I kept looking at those young people upstairs who came to support Europe, but it's hard to support Europe when you don't have money in your pocket, when it's humiliating that you don't have a home, that your only home is the couch in your parents' house. A young man in Romania does not have the same conditions as in the West. Credit conditions are different, interest rates are very h…

11 Dec

2023

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Madam President, in Romania, students are preparing for Christmas break, but they may be returning to some empty schools. This is because the Government's lack of respect for teachers has no limits. Tens of thousands of teachers took to the streets last summer and left only because they were promised to raise their salaries to dignified salaries by 40%. Students also demand that the man in front o…

20 Nov

2023

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Mr President, 6 700 dorm places, but 90 000 students. This is what happens in Cluj. It's like admitting to home, not college. What do young people do when they don't have room at home? I'm going to the free market, looking for a private rent. It starts somewhere around 400 euros. They're humiliated at first by the system, and then the real estate sharks take over. Have you heard of the garage made…

18 Oct

2023

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Mental health at work (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, 95% of young employees aged 18 to 30 are affected by mental health problems. That is, almost all of our children at the beginning of their careers. They go through many pressures that can lead to exhaustion and, in some cases, regrettably, suicide. In Romania, one third of Romanian employees are in burnout, but only 1% go to therapy, that is 7 people in this room. I'…

18 Oct

2023

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Fighting disinformation and dissemination of illegal content in the context of the Digital Services Act and in times of conflict (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, it used to be said that social networks democratise information, that journalists keep it all to themselves. Is that true today? Hasn't the situation returned to 180 degrees? How is it possible for a man like Elon Musk to say ‘this content is ok, this is not ok, here I leave, here I do not leave, here I give the internet, here I do not give the internet’? Especially …

17 Oct

2023

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General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2024 - all sections (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, rapporteur, first of all, I want you to do one thing for us, for the European Union, to tell Mr Kuhs, who has right now lied to us ‘that European money finances terrorism’, so to speak, and has not given a single example. I want you to defend the pride of the European Union and not let the lie travel twice around the planet until the truth puts on its shoes. Secondly, I…

16 Oct

2023

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Madam President, please allow me a point of order before I begin. Because Mr Hahn cannot speak at this session, I want to correct Mr Terheș, who is no longer here, because he always leaves. The EU does not pay for the book he showed. I know this very well as the responsible person for the budget of this year. Now please allow me to continue on the topic I prepared. It is important that we do not l…

3 Oct

2023

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Medicine shortages and strategic healthcare autonomy in the EU (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, I would first like to send a message to the Romanian Government from 782 independent pharmacies asking for their outstanding bills to be paid. Brussels, we have a big problem: Not all patients are treated the same. A doctor in Romania waits on average two years longer than a doctor in Germany to be able to prescribe the newest and best medicine on the market. I think of…

2 Oct

2023

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Madam President, how did the academic year start? How? The government has already taxed students. Students in Iasi cannot travel for free by public transport, although they have this right by law. Even those in Bucharest could not, and those in Constanta are judging for this. Night of the mind. All sorts of administrative hens. They pay the children for transportation and the state returns the mon…

14 Sep

2023

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Improving firefighters’ working conditions (debate)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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 …

12 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,…

10 May

2023

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Fighting cyberbullying of young people across the EU (debate)

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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…

8 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…

20 Apr

2023

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

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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…

20 Apr

2023

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

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

19 Apr

2023

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EU Global Health Strategy (debate)

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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…