What Nicolae spoke about.

31 Mar

2025

EN Speech

One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Madam President, I have a message to every European: when they spit on our European values, we do not apologise for them, we do not explain ourselves for them – instead, we pick them up and put them in an even shinier place for everyone to see. I'm so tired of us being always in a defensive mode, as if we apologise for something, as if we look for a world that isn't there anymore. For today's worl…

31 Mar

2025

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Savings and Investments Union (debate)

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You are right. We will take note that the Council was not present in the debate.

31 Mar

2025

EN Speech

Savings and Investments Union (debate)

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The next item is the debate on the Commission statement on the savings and investments union (2025/2634(RSP)).

31 Mar

2025

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Guidelines for the 2026 budget - Section III (debate)

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Thank you very much, Andrzej. We keep our fingers crossed for your report. The debate is closed.

31 Mar

2025

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Guidelines for the 2026 budget - Section III (debate)

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Now, Mr Commissioner, I invite you to respond. I would like to particularly ask you, if you heard the information in the room that was not accurate, that you address it for the members of our audience.…

31 Mar

2025

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Guidelines for the 2026 budget - Section III (debate)

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Mr Sanchez, you have misused your speaking time since we are debating the European budget. Your colleagues all follow the same rules, you have to follow them too.

31 Mar

2025

EN Speech

Guidelines for the 2026 budget - Section III (debate)

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The next item is the debate on the report by Andrzej Halicki, on behalf of the Committee on Budgets, on general guidelines for the preparation of the 2026 budget, Section III – Commission (2024/2110(BUI)) (A10-0042/2025).…

12 Mar

2025

RO Speech

Social and employment aspects of restructuring processes: the need to protect jobs and workers’ rights (debate)

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Madam President, (the beginning of the intervention was not done on the microphone) We are both Romanians and last night we heard a well-known voice in Romania, of populism, which said that the European Union does not want your diaspora at home, because Europe needs salahors. And frankly, I hate that term, salahors, because no one who works should be demeaned. Work and craft are gold bracelets. Th…

11 Mar

2025

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White paper on the future of European defence (debate)

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I will not take blue cards for the moment because we are running very much behind.

11 Mar

2025

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White paper on the future of European defence (debate)

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Excuse me, colleagues, blue cards are not an occasion for a speech in itself. Please stick to the question.

11 Mar

2025

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White paper on the future of European defence (debate)

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Mr Sinkevičius, happy Independence Day!

11 Mar

2025

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White paper on the future of European defence (debate)

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The next speaker is Petras Auštrevičius. Congratulations on the independence of your country.

10 Mar

2025

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Order of business

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Madam President, based on the rule of law and based on democracy, having such a debate would undermine the very principle of legality in the middle of an ongoing election. Let me tell you something: the proponent that came with this proposal tonight, his party leader yesterday incited 'skinning alive' those who he considers responsible for this – and this in the middle of riots that were violent. …

12 Feb

2025

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Silent crisis: the mental health of Europe’s youth (debate)

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Mr President, many of us believe that we are living in the century of artificial intelligence, of TikTok, of technology. In fact, we live in the century of loneliness and those Tech guru who say that money is everything, that cryptocurrencies, that values, billions - huge, are, for me, also an expression of their loneliness. But I am concerned about young people, who are experiencing anxiety, depr…

12 Feb

2025

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US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, the World Health Organisation and the suspension of US development and humanitarian aid (debate)

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Your group is fighting hard on migration. What do you think will happen to people who are left without means in North Africa, in the Saharan region, who are left to climate change, to war, to war of water, of resources? Where would they go? Where would they go if we don't help them where they are? If we don't help them develop where they are? Aren't you by having this argument, by bowing to King T…

11 Feb

2025

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Political crisis in Serbia (debate)

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We are opening the debate on Council and Commission statements on the political crisis in Serbia (2025/2554(RSP)) with statements by Mr Adam Szłapka from the Council.

11 Feb

2025

RO Speech

Welcome

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We are opening the debate on the political crisis in Serbia and I would like to welcome a delegation of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, which is in Parliament for the 16th meeting of the EU-Serbia Stabilisation and Association Parliamentary Committee. (The speaker uses a non-EU language) We are happy to have colleagues from Serbia here in the middle of the European Parliament. For…

11 Feb

2025

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Escalation of violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (debate)

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Thank you, Mrs. Vautmans, although I note that it is not point of orderBut I understand the feeling of debate. That concludes today's debate.

11 Feb

2025

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Escalation of violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (debate)

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The next item is the debate on the Council and Commission statements on the escalation of violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (2025/2553(RSP)).

11 Feb

2025

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Wider comprehensive EU-Middle East Strategy (debate)

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The debate is closed.

11 Feb

2025

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Wider comprehensive EU-Middle East Strategy (debate)

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I would add, as president of this sitting, that Nicolae Ceausescu was also the source of millions of crimes in Romania. But we are not having a debate on this and I give the floor to Mrs Šuica from the European Commission.…

21 Jan

2025

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Geopolitical and economic implications for the transatlantic relations under the new Trump administration (debate)

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If the translation was correct, the term you used is not allowed in this House and there will be consequences to the message you have used. It is not OK in this House of democracy. Thank you. Regardless of what we think of Mr Trump, it is not possible to use such language.…

21 Jan

2025

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Need to enforce the Digital Services Act to protect democracy on social media platforms including against foreign interference and biased algorithms (debate)

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Madam President, I listen to some recently and, quite frankly, quoting Zuckerberg, quoting Musk, in this debate is like quoting the owner of Haribo on the benefits of gummy bears! Social media has promised to connect us, but in reality, they separate us. Parents sit in one room, children in another, each living in a reality given by their screen. Algorithms decide what we see. Algorithms decide wh…

20 Jan

2025

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Ceasefire in Gaza - the urgent need to release the hostages, to end the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and to pave the way for a two-state solution (debate)

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I listened to all the comments made by the right and the extreme right in the House. To deny the existence of Palestine – because you said the two‑state solution was a fantasy – where would you like these people to go? Where would you like the millions? Maybe push them out into the sea? How is anything but a two‑state solution even reasonable in your mind? You mentioned the example of Bosnia, but …

19 Dec

2024

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Recommendation to the Council on the EU priorities for the 69th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (A10-0030/2024 - Lina Gálvez) (vote)

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Before we conclude the vote, and since this is the last voting session of the year, I would like to express my gratitude, on behalf of all of us, to Parliament's services and those who have been working hard to make the sessions possible – including our interpreters, our ushers, the staff from the canteens, all the way to the last worker at the European Parliament, and including the public that wa…