What Nicolae spoke about.

18 Apr

2023

EN Speech

Guidelines for the 2024 budget - Section III (debate)

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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…

17 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)

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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…

15 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)

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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?…

15 Mar

2023

RO Speech

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

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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…

13 Mar

2023

RO Speech

One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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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…

13 Mar

2023

RO Speech

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)

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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…

13 Feb

2023

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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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 …

1 Feb

2023

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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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 …

17 Jan

2023

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

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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 …

14 Dec

2022

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Upscaling the 2021-2027 Multiannual Financial Framework (debate)

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(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 …

13 Dec

2022

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The recent JHA Council decision on Schengen accession (debate)

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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…

12 Dec

2022

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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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…

23 Nov

2022

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

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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…

22 Nov

2022

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2023 budgetary procedure: joint text (debate)

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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…

18 Oct

2022

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UN Climate Change Conference 2022 in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt (COP27) (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, dear colleagues, every time we pronounce the words no one will be left behind, at least one person dies of lack of water or food. At least one family loses their life's work because the waters have swallowed up their household. At least one farmer is left without a crop after the drought has cracked the land and burned its crops. The climate crisis has already hit, and …

18 Oct

2022

EN Speech

General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2023 - all sections (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, thanks for being here today in the House of European democracy. Thanks to all the colleagues who have supported a reasonable, strong budget that responds to the European citizens. Domnule președinte, noi am plecat la război acum câțiva ani cu un arc și cu săgeți. Dar noi trăim în epoca în care suntem atacați cu drone, în care lumea a luat foc, în care avem cinci crize c…

18 Oct

2022

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General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2023 - all sections (debate)

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Madam President, I was a little nervous because I just gave a historic vote, an important vote by which Romania is closer to Schengen today. But today we are talking about the budget of the European Union, the money we have and what we will do with it. Martin Luther King, Commissioner, Madam President, my fellow shadow rapporteurs, said that "our measure is not where we are when we have comfort, w…

5 Oct

2022

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

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Madam President, today, many Romanian and Bulgarian colleagues convince you that it is worth entering Schengen, and so it is. But today is not only their day, it is the day of a united Europe. Is it not European patriotism to continue Schuman's European integration? Isn't it European patriotism to let Dacia take the cars produced in Mioveni faster to the customer in Marseille? Doesn't the French w…

3 Oct

2022

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European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control - Serious cross-border threats to health (debate)

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Commissioner, dear Véronique, how long will we be second-rate patients? What is it like to be sick and know, for example, that in Belgium you would have immediate access, and in Romania you do not even have an empty bed in the hospital? No syringes, no soap, no toilet paper! Sometimes you have to buy the medicine from the hospital, come with it from home. My Siberians want a new hospital so badly …

13 Sep

2022

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Presentation by the Council of its position on the draft general budget - 2023 financial year (debate)

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Madam President, a war for values and principles, a war for freedom is at our borders. I hope you didn’t get used to it. This war has to be won, and the EU budget should come in support of our citizens and our friends who are fighting for their freedom. Does democracy have a price ? Yes, it has. The very high bills for energy and inflation are consequences of the unjust war that Russia is leading …

12 Sep

2022

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Deforestation Regulation (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, rapporteur, in Romania, there is an old saying: “He who has a forest has gold” – it is the most precious thing we can have. Why do we continue to put our forests at risk? Why are we still assaulting nature - as in the case of Comorova forest in Constanta County, the only forest still alive on the Romanian Black Sea coast -? Luckily, there are still people who do not giv…

12 Sep

2022

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New EU Forest Strategy for 2030 – Sustainable Forest Management in Europe (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, rapporteur, today, in the summer of 2022, which was the warmest in Europe's history, we are still irresponsibly cutting down forests. So don't think I'm talking about the Third World, I'm telling you that Europe has cut 842 000 hectares of forest this year, and the Amazon has lost 900 000 hectares, which is comparable. Not to mention the old-growth forests that, once lo…

7 Jul

2022

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Recent heat wave and drought in the EU (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, dear colleagues, some people believe that money is the most important resource. But what happens when a resource like water disappears, like a river in Italy to Mr. Tajani in front of me, disappears from our planet? Water is an inexhaustible resource that cannot be quantified in its value. Europe is barely breathing. The forests, the lungs of Europe are burning before o…

8 Jun

2022

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Global threats to abortion rights: the possible overturn of abortion rights in the US by the Supreme Court (debate)

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Madam President, I’m looking around the room and there’s only five men, myself included. I’m not counting the Commission staff. And I think it is sad that only five men speak in favour of women’s rights because women’s rights are human rights. And it concerns us too. I grew up in Ceausescu’s Romania back in the eighties when abortion was banned, and I’ve heard terrifying stories, stories about wom…

7 Jun

2022

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Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System - Social Climate Fund - Carbon border adjustment mechanism - Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System for aviation - Notification under the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) (joint debate – Fit for 55 (part 1))

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Madam President, Mr Timmermans, Minister Zacharopoulou, I want to speak on behalf of millions of young people in Romania and across Europe today. It has already been three years since we spoke in this house, in the European Parliament, of the European Green Deal, three years in which, however, we have witnessed the hottest summer in Europe’s history – I mean 2021 – deadly floods and disastrous dro…