What Róża spoke about.

23 Nov

2022

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

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Mr President, after those very clear words of Commissioner Lenarčič – thank you very much for them – I would like to address those who want to introduce changes in the Habitats Directive or its annexes. The amendments are not justified from both a conservative and a legal point of view. The Habitat Directive does not envisage any rule or automatic mechanism according to which as soon as a species …

23 Nov

2022

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The need for a European solution on asylum and migration including search and rescue (debate)

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Mr President, not a long time ago, someone who moved on our continent from country to country was a migrant, a stranger. But even someone who moved, say, from Hessen to Bavaria and had a different accent, wore different clothes, ate Handkäse mit Musik and not white sausage with sweet mustard, was a migrant, was a stranger. This has changed. Today, migrants we call those who come on our continent f…

5 Oct

2022

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Countering the anti-European and anti-Ukrainian propaganda of Putin’s European cronies (topical debate)

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Mr President, it’s good that at last we are starting to treat this aspect of the war completely seriously. It’s encouraging to see the determination of Minister Bek and of Commissioner Schinas and the activities presented, but we need them not as words – we really need them as facts. I would like to quote the numbers evoked here already by Guy Verhofstadt. Out of 6 676 names identified by the Nava…

5 Oct

2022

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Russia’s escalation of its war of aggression against Ukraine (debate)

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Mr President, colleagues, Putin, in fact, is what we witness in this very room. We were never as united as during this debate. And this unity from one debate to another is more and more visible. Even Alexandr Vondra was positive this time. There are, of course, some shameful exceptions, but they are not even worth mentioning them. The determination of our leaders to support Ukraine is also more cl…

4 Oct

2022

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Radio Equipment Directive: common charger for electronic devices (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, dear colleagues, one could say, ‘One charger? Big deal!’, but this one will positively mark our everyday life. Because big projects like the common market consist of small bricks, sometimes very important bricks. And this one common charger is one such important element of our common market. As we all know, it was not easy. It took some time. I also campaigned for th…

15 Sep

2022

PL Speech

Ecological Disaster in the Oder River (debate)

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Madam President, I'm sorry. Dear Commissioner, You mentioned those 200 tons of dead fish in the Oder. Imagine that. That's about the weight of the Statue of Liberty. So many dead fish have been caught from the Oder by those who clean, work and count it. Two months have passed, and we still do not have information about what really happened, who these perpetrators are, what they are and what will b…

12 Sep

2022

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Surveillance and predator spyware systems in Greece (debate)

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The striking thing to me is the way how our colleagues from the ruling Greek party, from the EPP, argue and how similar it is to the arguments of the Polish ruling party, from the ECR, when such things occur, namely that we act against the country. I wanted to ask if you are stricken by it: that we act against Greece, that we want to destabilise Greece – exactly the same arguments as I hear from p…

12 Sep

2022

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Surveillance and predator spyware systems in Greece (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. The testimonies of Greek journalists who were spied on with Predator are remarkably similar to what happened in Poland with Pegasus. Parallels are obvious: spying on journalists, politicians, including the head of the opposition party's election campaign, prosecutors initiating inconvenient proceedings for the government. It's all alike. The difference is that hi…

7 Jun

2022

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The rule of law and the potential approval of the Polish national Recovery Plan (RRF) (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. The fact that there are such turbulent debates about Poland in the European Parliament shows how important our country is to you, dear colleagues. The fact that we demanded a meeting with the President after she was in Warsaw and signed the National Recovery Plan together with Prime Minister Morawiecki shows that compliance with the law throughout the European Un…

5 May

2022

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Building of a wall on the Polish – Belarus border in the Białowieża primeval forest (debate)

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Madam President, I could just sign everything that was said, including with what you ... I agree fully with what you said, Commissioner, only, as Robert Biedroń has just mentioned, why wait? All the points, all the breaches were committed. You know about it very well. You knew before the wall was being built that it was coming and then nothing was undertaken. Then the situation is really dramatic.…

4 May

2022

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Use of the Pegasus Software by EU Member States against individuals including MEPs and the violation of fundamental rights (topical debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Failure to respond to crimes is participation in these crimes. And all indications are that the privacy of the citizens of the European Union has been destroyed. Human rights have been violated in this way. That is why we, Renew Europe Poland 2050, reacted immediately. And it is very good that we have received such broad support in the European Parliament and tha…

7 Apr

2022

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Right to repair (debate)

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Madam President, I'm sorry. Commissioner, I'm sorry. That's bad news. I have three juicers at home, because two have some minor defects that either cannot be fixed or are not worth it. And so we are constantly forced to buy new devices. On average, a European produces almost 16 kilograms of e-waste per year, and we have been demanding a well-functioning right to repair for a long time. What is the…

6 Apr

2022

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Cooperation and similarities between the Putin regime and extreme right and separatist movements in Europe (topical debate)

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Madam President, like many of us in this Chamber, I also grew up behind the Iron Curtain. Most of my youth I spent struggling against a political system – call it communist or socialist – that used more or less the same practices as Putin practices in Russia: terror, fear, lies, election fraud, corruption, instrumentalisation of the judiciary and the like. Add to this constant anti—capitalist, ant…

5 Apr

2022

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EU Protection of children and young people fleeing the war against Ukraine (debate)

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Mr President, it’s good that such a vast majority present in this room agrees. I host three children and minors from eastern Ukraine for over a month now. They are accompanied. They go to Polish schools and kindergarten. They are in our warm and safe home and still, the three-year-old Arturczyk tells me with wide open eyes ‘Why are they shooting at my daddy? You know, bad people, evil people are s…

8 Mar

2022

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Rising energy prices and market manipulation on the gas market (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Ladies and Gentlemen! We're worried about gas prices, and there's a terrible war going on right next to us. Putin's murder of Ukrainians takes place to a large extent with our money and the situation is really dramatic. Heroic Ukrainians often pay the highest price. We must help them with all available methods, because they are also fighting for our values and on…

8 Mar

2022

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

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Mr President, when I was leaving for Strasbourg, I left at home, with my mother and with my husband, 11 Ukrainian refugees, mothers and children. They speak Russian. They are from eastern Ukraine and they are bombarded by Russians. They are traumatised. They are tired. They believe that they can return home, or to what was their home, in a few weeks – and yet there are more and more and more refug…

16 Feb

2022

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The Rule of Law and the consequences of the ECJ ruling (debate)

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Madam President, as the money from the recovery fund is not flowing to the Polish Government, suddenly they have started drafting proposals that claim to solve the situation. Frankly speaking, those proposals are worth nothing, but they claim to fulfil the Court of Justice’s rulings. They don’t! But at least they seem to understand that this issue is serious. After today’s ruling, all depends on t…

19 Jan

2022

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Situation in Kazakhstan

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Thank you very much, Mr President, and I congratulate you very much on your choice. Mr President, maybe I will switch into English. This is not my lengthy speech. This is a list of political prisoners in Kazakhstan – of human rights defenders persecuted for political reasons. There are numerous of names. This list is much longer today after the crackdown on the peaceful demonstrations that recentl…

19 Jan

2022

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Digital Services Act (continuation of debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Madam Vice-President, I'm sorry. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. Christel! The Digital Services Act is about taking away the power of digital giants over our data. But it is not about giving this power to authoritarian governments and institutions dependent on them. That is why we are setting the rules of the game for content moderation – and I can hear clearly in t…

16 Dec

2021

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An EU ban on the use of wild animals in circuses (debate)

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Madam President, I'm sorry. So far, only three European countries have completely banned the use of animals in circuses: Bravo to Malta, Cyprus and Greece! But there are also such strange categories as the prohibition of the use of dangerous animals, which does not apply to non-hazardous animals, and thus camels and llamas, for example, can be tired because they do not have sharp fangs or terrible…

15 Dec

2021

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The proposed Council decision on provisional emergency measures for the external border with Belarus based on article 78(3) TFEU (continuation of debate)

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Madam President, I have the impression that you cannot imagine the situation at the border when you speak about it, when you speak about the ambitions, etc. I never thought that it is our ambition to let people die of cold, hunger or anxiety in a cold forest. I never thought that we could just watch and wish each other a merry Christmas when people who come to our borders for help are sent back, h…

15 Dec

2021

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Plans to undermine further fundamental rights in Poland, in particular regarding the standards of the European Convention of Human Rights and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (debate)

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Madam President, I'm sorry. When this inhumane verdict, which we are talking about here, was passed, one of the judges of the Constitutional Court, Prof. Leon Kieres, gave a dissenting opinion. I would like to quote some of his basic thoughts to show once again that this pseudo-judgment of this pseudo-tribunal is incompatible with the Polish Constitution. The Constitution does not provide for the …

24 Nov

2021

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Outcome of the COP26 in Glasgow (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. I listened to all 61 people who performed before me, and many of them are still waiting for this one minute. And behind me is the chairman with that terrible hammer, so this whole situation is pretty stressful. We are talking about life and death. So I would like to address only those who complain that the COP in Glasgow did not have an ambitious enough outcome, …

23 Nov

2021

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Situation in Belarus and at its border with the EU and the security and humanitarian consequences (debate)

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Madam President, I'm sorry. Many of us focus exclusively on the humanitarian drama on the Belarusian-Polish or Belarusian-EU border. This conflict at the border is very good for Lukashenko, because it distracts attention from the crimes he commits against the citizens of Belarus. And there are more political prisoners in Belarus today than in Russia, and no European leader at any meeting can silen…

10 Nov

2021

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The escalating humanitarian crisis on the EU-Belarusian border, in particular in Poland (debate)

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Madam President, I'm sorry. I will only speak Polish at the beginning and I switch to English, ladies and gentlemen, because our Polish eastern border is the border of the whole European Union and what is happening there – I agree with everyone whose opinion is that, and I share that opinion – is a matter for the whole European Union. And only together with the European Union can we solve this pro…