What Nicolae spoke about.

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Oct

2022

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

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

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

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)

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)

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…

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Oct

2022

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

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 …

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Sep

2022

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

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)

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)

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)

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…

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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)

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))

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…

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May

2022

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Mr. President, there are superheroes and there are heroes among us. During the pandemic, they were doctors, nurses, farmers, essential workers. Today, the heroes are the volunteers who help the refugees in Ukraine. They do what national authorities could never have done on their own. In Romania, however, the Government has not provided any financial support to the associations that do this work. W…

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Apr

2022

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Guidelines for the 2023 budget – Section III (debate)

Madam President, I say to my colleagues: we are excited to vote again, presently. It’s been something that have we missed in this Parliament. But I ask you, colleagues, to give me 30 seconds also in respect of the victims of the Ukraine war, because we are talking here about the budget and we’ve been talking for the past two hours about what we can do for these victims and for the people who cross…

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Apr

2022

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Guidelines for the 2023 budget – Section III (debate)

Mr MEP, first of all, are you ready to give up your salary yourself, as you ask the Commissioner to do so? And then, how do you feel when you see the images that come from Bucha, you who are defending a regime that, right now, is killing?…

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Apr

2022

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Guidelines for the 2023 budget – Section III (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, 2022, 2023 are special years in the history of the European Union. When Winston Churchill was directed, for example, to cut the budget of culture in the middle of World War II, he said: But then, what are we fighting for? And I think we're at a similar exact moment today. On the one hand, we're fighting a war, yes, we're fighting a war. On the other hand, we must def…

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Mar

2022

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The situation of journalists and human rights defenders in Mexico

Madam President, I might be the only non—Spanish—speaking author of this resolution, but that’s important because this is a European issue, defending the rule of law and defending journalists across the world. Exposing high—level corruption led to the death of Mexican journalist Roberto Toledo. Criticising local authorities for their relationship with Mexican organised crime got media worker José …

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Mar

2022

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General Union Environment Action Programme to 2030 (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, I wonder why we should think that one crisis eliminates another and why not two crises at once are worse. I believe that we have several crises at once and that in a world invaded by tragedies we must focus on how we can save ourselves from the rubble. We cannot delay the management of the crises we face, we cannot stop efforts to reduce emissions, pollution, protect…

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Mar

2022

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The deterioration of the situation of refugees as a consequence of the Russian aggression against Ukraine (debate)

Today, on their birthday, women in Ukraine do not receive flowers. I'm getting blood, suffering and tears. Today, they also receive separation from their husbands, husbands, sons, children. This is the greatest human tragedy since World War II, an exodus of women and children. What can we do for them? They need to go to hospital, they need to have papers, they need to go to school and they even ne…

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Mar

2022

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Madam President, I want to speak tonight for some friends – for Maria, for Sasha, for Veronika, for Katia and for their mother. This is a family of refugees from Ukraine, whom I met yesterday and with whom I told a lot. These Ukrainians, these people left on February 24th, in the morning, hearing the bombs, thinking it was an earthquake, and they said: I wish it was an earthquake. Well, these peop…

15

Feb

2022

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Strengthening Europe in the fight against cancer(debate)

Madam President, roads of humility. This is how a cancer patient feels at the hardest time of his life: unworthy, humiliated. You got money, get in the front. You don't have the money, you wait and maybe you're not when it's finally your turn to schedule. I come from Romania, the country where when the doctor says: ‘You have cancer’, a serious clock starts ticking quickly, swallowing minutes and s…

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Feb

2022

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Madam President, I want to send you a message from 400 ethnic Hungarian citizens in Transylvania. I am Romanian MP, but I am also Transylvanian, I am also European. They say: "We want fair elections in the Hungarian elections, in which more Hungarians in Romania can vote. We oppose all forms of influencing the voting process and against electoral fraud. Hate campaigns over the last decade have aff…

14

Dec

2021

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Cooperation on the fight against organised crime in the Western Balkans (debate)

Mr President, these are not ‘far away places about which we know nothing’, as Chamberlain once said. They are family; they are part of our destiny; their security is our security. Look at what is happening near Ukraine’s border. A build—up of fighting vehicles and armoured units is taking place as we speak. So by bringing the Western Balkans – our nearest and most diverse neighbour – closer, we ac…

13

Dec

2021

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Health technology assessment (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, long illness is certain death, say the Romanians. But sometimes the disease of some Europeans is far too long. That's because we have different rules for new medical technologies and new drugs. How is it that in Romania patients' access to the latest medicines can be longer and by 240 days (i.e. by 8 months)? Thousands of people die in 8 months and it is not allowed …

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Nov

2021

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The EU's role in combating the COVID-19 pandemic: how to vaccinate the world (topical debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, long illness is certain death, as the Romanians say. The long illness now is not only the virus, it is also disinformation. High vaccination overturns mortality, that's the ratio. Unfortunately, the countries with the highest mortality are also the countries with the highest disinformation. We see it here too, in our European home, that it is intolerable how politici…

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Nov

2021

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2022 budgetary procedure: joint text (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, an extra half a billion euros to the budget of the European Union – that is all we achieved, as Parliament, in 2022. The European Parliament was united, which made us stronger, so I want to thank Karlo, Johan, Henrike, Damian, everyone who made a strong team this year. In fact, these are investments, not money falling from the sky. Every euro, for example, going to the …