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8 Oct

2026

PL Speech

UN Convention on the Rights of Older Persons (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Ladies and Gentlemen, I think there is no doubt in this room that the Convention on the Rights of the Elderly is needed. But we all know that it will be insufficient, because the needs are here and now, and the convention are declarations, slogans that will not grant any rights. We in Poland, for example, today have a situation in which the health system is – we …

7 Jul

2026

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EU-Mexico (joint debate)

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Madam President, I'm sorry. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. Haven't you learned to learn from history? What happened in cooperation with China should show in which direction to go. Many years ago, exactly the same hopes were placed in trade with China as today with Mercosur, with India, now with Mexico. It didn't do any good. Today we have times in which we should build resilience, independence, beca…

6 Jul

2026

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Mr President, thank you very much. We now have an unprecedented situation in Poland: some EPP politicians block the activities and operation of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office. We've got the defendant, we've got the suspect, we've got the person charged with bribery. Firstly, bribery, which concerns European funds. And unfortunately, with this majority, with the participation of the EPP, P…

15 Jun

2026

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Simplification of the implementation of harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Digital Omnibus on AI) (debate)

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Ladies and Gentlemen, today we are talking about artificial intelligence and we are talking about simplifications in this regard, but also about the risks that arise from artificial intelligence. But there are also extremely serious problems, I don't even know if they are more important. That is why I would like to ask you, but also all of you, have you heard about Leszek Kraskowski? This is a jou…

18 May

2026

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Mr President, thank you very much. Here in the European Parliament, I would like to ask you if you have heard about the defamation of journalists, entering private homes, entering TV stations under the pretext of denunciations, often anonymous? Didn't you hear that? It's just not talked about in the mainstream. And in Poland we are dealing with, you could say, a mass scale of this type of situatio…

27 Apr

2026

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Ladies and Gentlemen, When we were convinced that all the rules for the adoption and conclusion of the agreement with the Mercosur countries had been broken and that nothing worse could happen, we hear that there were further irregularities, namely the distribution of the quota, which will be available to South American producers, was placed at the disposal of the South American countries: Brazil …

9 Feb

2026

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7 Oct

2025

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Common agricultural policy (joint debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. $11 billion. Commissioner, do you know this number? This is, Ladies and Gentlemen, the number for which every year for several years, for three years exactly, Brazil imports from Russia all possible goods. This has increased, ladies and gentlemen, by several thousand percent. Brazil is the largest importer of fertilizers from Russia worldwide. Attention, ladies a…

9 Sep

2025

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Cohesion policy (joint debate)

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Madam President, I'm sorry. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. There should be a big black coffin in front of us. Today we are discussing budget proposals for the next perspective with cohesion policy being halved, by 50%. This is clinical death, this is catastrophe. And I have no grievances against Commissioner Fitto here, because, horribly, this budget was prepared by a Pole, Piotr Serafin. But, ladie…

10 Jul

2025

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Post-2027 Common Agricultural Policy (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner! All the voices that came before me were voices of fear, voices of doubt. Today it turns out that you, as a Commissioner, can be the one who will allow or lead to everything that the previous Commissioner blocked, that is, to the limitation of the common agricultural policy, to the agreement with Mercosur, to the liberalisation of trade with Ukraine. Do you want to go…

16 Jun

2025

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Strengthening rural areas in the EU through cohesion policy (debate)

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Madam President, I'm sorry. Sustainable development of the whole of Europe and of all countries is an absolute priority. I congratulate the report because it really makes a diagnosis that is quite obvious to us, that is, depopulation, underinvestment, lack of quality public services – that is what we know every day. Ladies and Gentlemen, in the era of such diagnoses, the question should be how muc…

13 Mar

2025

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A Vision for Agriculture and Food (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. A month ago, President von der Leyen declared that the Common Agricultural Policy would be abolished. It will be combined with other programs. She signed an agreement, negotiations with Mercosur, and we have a clear tendency to cut funds for agriculture. And I would expect the Commissioner in charge of agriculture to come out today an…

10 Feb

2025

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Yesterday, Chancellor Olaf Scholz admitted in a debate with Friedrich Merz that he was simply breaking the law, that is, sending immigrants back, transporting them from his own country to his neighbours, including Poland. In 2024, it was already several thousand people. This is a clear and obvious violation of the rules, including European ones. This is why I am calling for a response from the Eur…

23 Jan

2025

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Cryptocurrencies - need for global standards (debate)

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Adjust, overregulate and kill. This is the regulation and this is what the European Union does in many respects. That was the case with farmers, that was the case with farmers. And now we are approaching blockchain and cryptocurrencies in exactly the same way. Soon it will turn out that the whole world is profiting from it, the whole world is developing, and we do not treat it as an opportunity, w…

18 Dec

2024

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

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The reason for this is that we have submitted our request, which has not been passed either. So our proposal had a chance to get more support, because we have a bigger group, and he didn't get support either. We wanted to talk about Mercosur here today.…

18 Dec

2024

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

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Mr President, thank you very much. Ladies and Gentlemen, Mental Health of Farmers. I thought I wouldn't live to see times like this. You can't talk about a deal with Mercosur today, but a debate about mental health is possible. I will tell you why farmers today are concerned and mentally ill. Because there's a deal with Mercosur, 700 pages. The Commission even hides this from farmers. I managed to…

27 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)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Ladies and Gentlemen, The fact that things are going badly in agriculture and industry, we all know. After the Draghi report, almost everyone adds the words "the need for competitiveness", "let's take care of competitiveness" to the problems. This is the only shock that hasn't led to the right conclusions. Let's call things by their first name: climate policy and…

23 Oct

2024

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The important role of cities and regions in the EU – for a green, social and prosperous local development (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Mr. Commissioner, I would like to thank you. Ladies and Gentlemen, There is no doubt in this Chamber that regions, but also cities, are a very important element, the strength of the European Union, the strength of individual regions. They absorb funds, spend them and know things locally best. This principle of subsidiarity, which indicates that the smallest matte…

9 Oct

2024

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Ensuring sustainable, decent and affordable housing in Europe - encouraging investment, private property and public housing programmes (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Ladies and Gentlemen, Yesterday we discussed the problems, the gigantic problems of the automotive market. At the previous meeting there were debates on the problems of agriculture, and earlier there was also a debate on the chemical industry, etc., etc. Every sector of the economy has exactly the same problems. Show me any industry that says today: It's great, w…

8 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)

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Mr President, Commissioner Dombrovkis, but also Mr EPP: You have been pushing for the Green Deal policy for years and today we have consequences. Another industry has a problem. And we will meet at each subsequent session and all industries will come here one by one as victims of the Green Deal. Why, as long as we competed with traditional diesel cars, was there no problem with Chinese competition…

18 Sep

2024

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The devastating floods in Central and Eastern Europe, the loss of lives and the EU’s preparedness to act on such disasters exacerbated by climate change (debate)

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Madam President, thank you very much. Ladies and Gentlemen, We have here the wonderful, ardent speeches of my previous speakers. So what does that mean, ladies and gentlemen? Today, the European Parliament should call on the Commission to present a concrete plan: how much, for whom, at what time, what measures will be taken? There is no such thing, and these people expect it. And for that, ladies …

16 Sep

2024

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

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Mr President, thank you very much. Ladies and Gentlemen, When a wave of protests swept through the European Union, across Europe, a few months ago, we all hoped that this strategic dialogue would bring the expected results, that it would be a turning back from the path of the Green Deal. Unfortunately, that's not gonna happen. Most agricultural organisations, for example from Poland, are opposed t…