What Katarína spoke about.

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May

2025

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Russian energy phase-out, Nord Stream and the EU's energy sovereignty (debate)

Colleagues, I have listened so much to the whole debate, and that was such a terrible ideological ideology of hatred, and I think many of you should realize that you represent the citizens of the European Union, not the citizens of Ukraine. And that our main objective should be to make the citizens of the European Union better off, including, for example, responsible energy prices. Commissioner, I…

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Apr

2025

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 20 March 2025 (debate)

Madam President, this year we are celebrating the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, and it is this year that the European Union, which was created as a project to prevent peace, to protect peace, is debating how to give money for more weapons, and we are saying that this will be our new reality. The European Union was created as a project, originally as a coal and steel project,…

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Mar

2025

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Need to ensure democratic pluralism, strengthen integrity, transparency and anti-corruption policies in the EU (debate)

Madam President, I am listening, so here we are listening to the various things that are being said here, but I think the most important thing is to rebuild trust in both the institutions and the EU, not by other bodies, but by thoroughly investigating what has happened and that the individuals who are responsible will see justice. This also means in Pfizergate and in the text messages of the Pres…

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Mar

2025

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Action Plan for Affordable Energy (debate)

Mr President, colleagues, affordable energy is a right, not a privilege for people, and we should strive to make energy prices generally available to citizens, not only to businesses, but also to citizens. Several colleagues have spoken here about how we can compare prices in the United States and the European Union, how many times higher are prices in the European Union compared to the United Sta…

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Mar

2025

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A Vision for Agriculture and Food (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, I am very interested in how the European Commission will deal with the extension of the agreement with Ukraine to import Ukrainian products into our territory, because we know that we in Eastern Europe have had a big problem with this, and the time is coming and it is very quiet. So I would be very happy if you could possibly answer. Both Slovak farmers and farmers in t…

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Mar

2025

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Action Plan for the Automotive Industry (debate)

Madam President, colleagues, today the European Union is faced with the fundamental question of whether we will continue unrealistic green experiments or finally start listening to industry, trade unions and citizens. In Slovakia, we want a sensible, not ideological, transformation of the automotive industry. I welcome that there is at least some common sense and the Commission has put forward an …

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Feb

2025

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EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement (debate)

Madam President, there is no ideal agreement. The deal is a compromise and the art of the possible, and I think that's how you talk about farmers. I don't know where you were when we talked about Slovak and Eastern European farmers and the flooding of products from Ukraine of agricultural origin. But I think that in this case we should be pragmatic. We will help farmers by reducing burdens and poi…

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Feb

2025

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Honouring the memory of Ján Kuciak and Martina Kušnírová: advancing media freedom, strengthening the rule of law, and protecting journalists across the EU (debate)

First of all, I want to appreciate the civilisation of this debate, and I would like to say that death in the workplace of any person, or in the performance of his work or because of his work, is, of course, a great disaster. But when it comes to murder, it's even sadder. However, I would also like to stop dancing on the graves of these two people and using them for political discussion. And if we…

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Jan

2025

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The Hungarian government’s illegal espionage of EU institutions and investigative bodies (debate)

on behalf of the PPE-DE Group. - (DE) Mr President, colleagues, this, in turn, is such a meaningless debate that has something in its title that is not even true. And interestingly, we're talking about something here, pretending it exists, and there's no facts. Some two media houses or some two media outlets are saying something here, and there's no investigation, there's nothing on the table, and…

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Dec

2024

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Challenges facing EU farmers and agricultural workers: improving working conditions, including their mental well-being (debate)

Mr President, agriculture and agricultural work are certainly difficult and unpredictable. We have weather influences, we have animals, we have natural disasters. We can have bad seeds or diseases of animals or crops, and this certainly affects the work of the farmer and his result. It's hard physical work, and with all this comes, of course, various challenges. Also on the mental health of farmer…

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Nov

2024

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Rise of energy prices and fighting energy poverty (debate)

on behalf of the PPE-DE Group. - (DE) Madam President, the previous Slovak government, which was right-wing, advised people in raising the price of energy to cook with a lid, to ventilate only for a while at home, and to bake so as to bake several things at once. These were the actions of the right-wing governments. What I think we should do about rising energy prices in the European Union is cert…

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Nov

2024

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Topical debate (Rule 169) - Budapest Declaration on the New European Competitiveness Deal - A future for the farming and manufacturing sectors in the EU (topical debate)

Mr President, I would like to thank the Hungarian Presidency for having such a declaration on the sustainability of the European Union's competitiveness for the future. But it is very ambitious in my opinion, which is perhaps not bad, but this declaration gives a bit of an answer to how we will ensure that the European Union is still a global partner, a global player, that we are competitive, but …

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Oct

2024

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Seven years from the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia: lack of progress in restoring the rule of law in Malta (debate)

Madam President, unfortunately, when someone dies in the course of their work, it is, of course, very sad, and it is also sad in the case of journalists, but it is also sad in the case of humanitarian workers or, for example, journalists who cover war conflicts. However, I do not like the fact that we are once again linking such a situation to some kind of rule of law and we are criticising anothe…

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Oct

2024

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U-turn on EU bureaucracy: the need to axe unnecessary burdens and reporting to unleash competitiveness and innovation (topical debate)

Mr President, first of all, I would like to ask the Commissioner to stop tapping the phone and listening to our debate, and perhaps to make some remarks. Thank you very much. We are talking here today about how to abolish bureaucracy, so maybe we could listen a little more. We have been talking about this for a very long time, I remember, we have been talking about Simplification, simplification o…

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Oct

2024

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One-minute speeches (Rule 179)

Mr President, these days we are commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Slovak National Uprising, which broke out on 29 August 1944, and the 80th anniversary of the Carpathian-Dukla operation, which was the largest mountain battle of World War II and the largest battle in Czechoslovakia. Unfortunately, today we left one of the last living partisans in Slovakia, Mr. Karol Kuna, who was 96 years o…

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Oct

2024

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Presentation of the programme of activities of the Hungarian Presidency (debate)

Madam President, I understand that this is a discussion about the priorities of the Hungarian Presidency, despite the fact that many of the speakers are speaking about their feelings and about the different facts, so they should be taken away the floor. But my question for Mr Körner is: can you explain to me, please, how is it connected the national discussion or national decisions of Hungarian Pr…

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Oct

2024

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Outcome of the Summit of the Future: transforming global governance for building peace, promoting human rights and achieving the sustainable development goals (debate)

Madam President, this summit, and indeed today's debate, is also about some global agreement, that we are building peace, human rights and sustainable development. And I believe that the United Nations has an irreplaceable role as a global mediator and also in creating a real space for discussing the future of the whole world, because all countries are represented there. I consider the end of wars…

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Oct

2024

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The crisis facing the EU’s automotive industry, potential plant closures and the need to enhance competitiveness and maintain jobs in Europe (debate)

Mr President, people buy a car because they need it, not because they have nothing to do with money. When I buy a car, the most important information about the car is the price. So affordability of cars for any type of car is the most important thing that people look at. When we talk about the current crisis in the automotive industry, we caused it ourselves. This Parliament, too, with its decisio…

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Oct

2024

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One year after the 7 October terrorist attacks by Hamas (debate)

Madam President, first of all I would like to say that I am very sorry for all the victims who died on 7 October last year. And I want to express my solidarity with their families and, of course, with the families of the people who, unfortunately, are still being held hostage. Of course, no form of terrorism must be accepted or excused, and we must all say that this is wrong. And we, as the intern…

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Sep

2024

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State of the Energy union (debate)

Commissioner, when we are talking about the Energy Union, I wonder whether that Union is real cooperation and where the European Commission was when Hungary and Slovakia were blackmailed by Ukraine and threatened to stop Ukraine from importing critical raw materials through Ukrainian territory, for which we paid. This was also mentioned by a colleague from Hungary, so I would be very interested if…

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Sep

2024

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The future of European competitiveness (debate)

Madam President, I think this report is a very good basis for further discussion, and it is a wish list that we could perhaps make a little use of, but look at how. The proposed amount of money that Mr Draghi proposes that we add to the European budget every year may not be the best idea, and the Member States will, of course, have to deal with it, but it must be taken as a good proposal. I think …

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Sep

2024

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Continued financial and military support to Ukraine by EU Member States (debate)

Madam President, the European Union is an institution designed to promote peace, not war. I will repeat this in this House all the time. We're confusing two things here. Some of you here say that you want peace, and then at the same time you say that peace means the defeat of Putin. Because these are two different things. When we talk about peace, peace means discussion, cooperation, or negotiatio…

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Sep

2024

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Outcome of the Strategic Dialogue on the Future of EU Agriculture (debate)

Madam President, we are talking about the future of agriculture. We saw farmers on the streets, and suddenly it was possible to change European legislation. So I'm glad that we really want to do something. On the other hand, we should perhaps stop importing cheap agricultural products from Ukraine and really make a real difference to European agriculture. Potrebujeme investície, potrebujeme diverz…

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Jul

2024

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The need for the EU's continuous support for Ukraine (debate)

Madam President, this first part-session is mainly about big symbols, and I am very sorry that the first debate in this new European Parliament is not about our citizens, it is not about our topics, it is not about social security, it is not about fighting poverty at all, but it is about a third country, Ukraine. But I understand that this is your decision. I am also very sorry that the debate on …

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Apr

2024

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La Hulpe declaration on the future of social Europe (debate)

Mr President, it was the Nordic social model and Sweden, which brought the social pillar to Europe, that was our model, so that we do not forget the citizens of the European Union and people throughout their lives. And I am very pleased that, even today, we are standing here at the end of the mandate of this European Parliament and we are talking about the fact that social Europe, the Europe we wa…