What Katarína spoke about.

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SK Written Statement

Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (debate)

The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Report highlights the key role that sustainability and responsible business practices play in shaping a more prosperous and inclusive society. This upcoming Directive will introduce obligations for EU and non-EU companies operating within the EU as regards actual and potential human rights adverse impacts and adverse environmental impacts in the context o…

16 Sep

2026

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Stop gold-plating, relieve SMEs: Member States must implement EU legislation without adding extra bureaucracy (topical debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I am very pleased that we have this debate here today, because it is not NGOs, it is not activists, it is companies, businesses and industry that are the backbone of the European Union and that really help us achieve what we need. Today, the President of the European Commission is Ursula von der Leyen. The first thing she said was the fight against gold plati…

6 Jul

2026

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Air passenger rights (debate)

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on behalf of the PPE-DE Group. - (DE) Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we can see that at least we agree on something and so far everyone has been very positive in their speeches. But it says mainly that we are all air passengers or the vast majority of us, and so we are really making a change that is very good for citizens. I very much appreciate Mr Novakov and his report and what has been …

19 May

2026

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Presentation of the Fertilisers Action Plan (debate)

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Madam President. First of all, Commissioner, thank you very much for presenting the proposal. I appreciate very much that you have rushed and that, although you said it would be in June, you have already presented this proposal in May. This also shows how serious this situation with fertilisers is in the European Union. We need fertilisers to have food in the European Union. I like the proposal th…

30 Apr

2026

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How to secure a sustainable future for the EU livestock sector in light of the need to ensure food security, farmers’ resilience and the challenges posed by animal diseases? (debate)

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on behalf of the PPE-DE Group. - (DE) Mr President, colleagues, our breeders can also be a rescue for plant production, because it is the increased use of animal manure and slurry that can be the answer to the lack of fertilisers in the European Union. However, we cannot ask more and more of these breeders: higher standards, higher investment, faster adaptation, while allowing them to face cheap i…

29 Apr

2026

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Danger of normalising relations with Russia, including its participation in major cultural and sports events (debate)

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Thank you for accepting my card. Unfortunately, I failed to do so with my other colleagues. I'd be very interested to know that if you're all talking so much here about Russian athletes not being able to participate, do you think that... Since, for example, you are talking about neighbouring countries, let's go to Israel, which is bombing neighbouring countries, such as Lebanon. What will be the d…

29 Apr

2026

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Danger of normalising relations with Russia, including its participation in major cultural and sports events (debate)

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Madam President, colleagues, politics does not belong in sport. The dot. Today we are again listening to moralizing who is good and who is bad, who is allowed to play sports, who is allowed to create, who is allowed to be part of international life. Again I ask you: On what basis does the European Union acquire the right to decide who is excluded from the world of culture and sport? We are talking…

9 Mar

2026

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Gender pay and pension gap in the EU: state of play, challenges and the way forward, and developing guidelines for the better evaluation and fairer remuneration of work in female-dominated sectors (debate)

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9 Mar

2026

SK Question

Framework Agreement on relations between the European Parliament and the European Commission (debate)

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11 Feb

2026

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Rule of law, fundamental rights and misuse of EU funds in Slovakia: the need for an EU response (debate)

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Madam President, so we are here again with this nonsense, which some colleagues are confusing here. I'm shocked how some of you here can tell complete nonsense that isn't true at all. For example, the fact that a Polish colleague is saying here that we are taking some ground on the basis of an ethnic principle. This is repeated by other colleagues. This is the absolute nonsense introduced here by …

9 Feb

2026

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European Central Bank – annual report 2025 (debate)

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9 Feb

2026

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Amending Regulations on agricultural products as regards market rules and sectoral support measures in the wine sector and for aromatised wine products (debate)

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21 Jan

2026

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Restoring control of migration: returns, visa policy and third-country cooperation (topical debate)

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Mr President, the citizens of the European Union do not expect ideological lessons from us. They expect order, security and control. Anyone who does not have the right to remain in the European Union must simply return. Return decisions cannot be voluntary recommendations and when the European Union cannot secure returns, it loses credibility. At the same time, I reject hypocrisy. Europe needs a w…

16 Dec

2025

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Phasing out Russian natural gas imports and improving monitoring of potential energy dependencies (debate)

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Madam President, this decision is terribly bad and terribly stupid for the European Union, and I think that we too should be more concerned with what our own citizens, our citizens, not the citizens or the people of Ukraine alone, want. Separating ourselves from Russian gas, which is close to us, which goes through the oven, which is more ecological than carrying tankers from the United States of …

26 Nov

2025

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EU position on the proposed plan and EU engagement towards a just and lasting peace for Ukraine (debate)

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25 Nov

2025

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Protection of minors online (debate)

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Madam President, as we sit here, most of us are already addicted to the internet, to mobile technology. As I look at you, most of you hold a mobile phone in your hands and try to be available to answer something. And while we, as adults, see what the harmful content on the Internet is, there is a much bigger problem with children. The digital world is growing faster than our rules can. And our chi…

22 Oct

2025

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Ending all energy imports from Russia to the EU and closing loopholes through third countries (debate)

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Thank you very much for the wonderful question, which was not really a question. It was the political position of Progressive Slovakia. As you can see, this has been normal for several months now. Progressive Slovakia tells us that we are all perfect here in the European Parliament, only we in Slovakia are the only bad ones. Robert Fico is the only bad guy. And we've forgotten. Viktor Orbán. Andre…

22 Oct

2025

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Ending all energy imports from Russia to the EU and closing loopholes through third countries (debate)

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Mr President, it is clear to me that you will not all applaud me, but it does not matter at all. You couldn't do it through sanctions, so you devised legislation at European level to ban imports of Russian gas, oil. And now our amazing colleagues from Progressive Slovakia have added nuclear fuel there. And this Parliament has gone so crazy that it still wants to push forward the agreement that has…

21 Oct

2025

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Recent peace agreement in the Middle East and the role of the EU (debate)

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Madam President, colleagues, we finally have peace in this territory. And even if the European Union has not been able to bring about this peace, we should be able to try, as the European Union, to be one of the guarantors that there will be peace on the territory of Israel and Palestine. I am proud that the Slovak Republic recognised Palestine as a state already in 1993 and that we also did not h…

7 Oct

2025

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Common agricultural policy (joint debate)

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Mr President, if we say that industry is the backbone of the European Union, agriculture is certainly the heart and the vascular system that really feeds everyone. That is why it is important that, also in the coming period and in this European Parliament in general, we agree that we need this system to work. I think that a number of the proposals that have come from the European Commission are go…

10 Sep

2025

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Rule of law and EU funds management in Slovakia (debate)

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Ms Strik, thank you very much for your words. I don't know how many times you have visited Slovakia or how much do you know about Slovakia, but I don't want to be disrespectful about this. But I would like to ask, you very much mentioned several times the rule of law. So can you please quote or tell me where the rule of law definition is in the European law? If you are so much sure about that, tha…

8 Sep

2025

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Investments and reforms for European competitiveness and the creation of a Capital Markets Union (debate)

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Madam President, colleagues, first of all, competitiveness is not arms. This year, we are also talking about the Draghi report, which talks about competitiveness and how to really make the European economy prosper, people should have done better. Instead, we are proposing more armaments here in the new budget, withdrawing money from agriculture, from regional policy, from social policy and from al…

10 Jul

2025

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Post-2027 Common Agricultural Policy (debate)

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Madam President, agriculture is indeed a very innovative space today. We have new technologies, we have satellite navigation and we have different things that are used in agriculture. I am very glad that many young people still want to do agriculture. My brother recently got a tractor license because he sees this as an opportunity. But in order to preserve those young people and those people in ag…

17 Jun

2025

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Situation in the Middle East (joint debate)

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Thank you, Mr President. Colleagues, this attack on Iran by Israel and all that Israel is currently doing in the region must be unequivocally condemned. And I am really sick of colleagues who even say that we should thank and be grateful for such an attack. How can anyone approve a nuclear attack? We're really so stupid, and we can't imagine what it could mean if this nuclear device really explode…

17 Jun

2025

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2023 and 2024 reports on Montenegro (debate)

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Mr President, colleagues, the accession of any country to the European Union must be fair and must be based on the same criteria. That is why I reject any discussion that we should create some new memberships for some specific countries specifically in the east of the European Union. With regard to Montenegro, Montenegro, I must say that I thank the Commissioner very much for her report. It is ind…