Debate contributions by Bogdan RZOŃCA

Mr President, thank you very much. It is well known that wealth comes from austerity and wise legislation. That's what we're missing. We have too much regulation. Unfortunately, we have to get away from this as soon as possible. Doctrinal killing of coal, gas, nuclear energy and placing only on the green order drags European Union companies into the abyss. These companies – as we can see – are fleeing from the European Union to the United States, to China and elsewhere. This has to be stopped. Companies are value. Business people are a value of the European Union. Well, of course, energy, expensive energy also depresses and is a huge burden for functioning in the European Union. In my opinion, it is also a great mistake for the European Union to break relations with the United States. There's nothing to be offended by. You just have to rely on the best technology. And these latest technologies have, among others, the United States. We have to work together wisely.

I listened very carefully to your statement. I wanted to tell you a story in 20 seconds and I'll ask you a question at the end. It's 1944. Jasło, my city where I live, is under German occupation. Walter Gentz, the German mayor, gives the order: Displace tens of thousands of people. The second order: mint all of Jasło. The third order: steal all of Jasło's money. Everything they stole, wrote down and transported in over a thousand wagons. We know everything – we know where these things went, to which German cities. And the question: Do you think that the Germans should return these things or at least pay compensation for burning, demolishing and robbing the city of Jasło?

I listened very carefully to your speech, very emotional, and I have a short question: Do you think that the Germans have already repaired the damage they did during World War II to Poles, Jews, Roma and other nations? Are the Germans all right about this? Do you think that they could still repair the wrongs that lie dormant in the hearts of the wronged nations?

Mr President, thank you very much. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. It seems to us that this document is not brave enough for the very difficult times we are dealing with. First and foremost, we need to make spending more realistic. Save where you can. For example, gender budgeting is not the first need. Staying in the Green Deal is an economic error killing entrepreneurship, leading companies to flee the European Union to other continents. Decarbonization, such doctrinal decarbonization is also a mistake. Coal and gas have natural origins. They are a source of energy. Coal and gas power plants in the U.S. are nearly zero-emission. And wind farms, photovoltaics are becoming more and more expensive, because rare metals are becoming more and more expensive, because energy is becoming more and more expensive. And there's an endless problem with that. Own resources are also a difficult problem, because many say that it would be good to have more than 1 percent. But who wants to pay? Well, there are not too many willing to pay to the budget and to increase this size. So here's a little chatty talk. So what's proposed? Another debt. And this, in my opinion, is a monstrous mistake, a cardinal mistake of the European Union, when we say, even with noble goals, that we will incur a common debt for defence, for security. But we already know that the European Commission has broken up with the European Parliament, that it rules itself, that it does not listen to the European Parliament and can sometimes blackmail individual countries and say, and we will help these countries in case of an accident, and we will not help them. And that's what we're very afraid of. So let's give more power to the nation states in the European Union. The EU will be better and the budget will be better.

Mr President, thank you very much. The situation is very complicated in the area of health care and we are talking about extremely sensitive issues related to health saving - treatment. I don't know if we can regulate everything and we shouldn't regulate everything. Even today, in Parliament's session, we have voted on several deregulatory issues in the European Union, and that is the right direction. We should move towards deregulation in the European Union, a larger free market, not overregulation. It seems to me that, in the area of health care, the first important thing is to inform the citizens of the European Union well about what they are allowed and what they are not allowed and what they cannot obtain within the European Union as citizens when they are in other countries. This is the first information to keep them safe. At the moment, however, we have an additional problem in the European Union. When Trump introduced tariffs, also on the European Union, let us remember that a lot of medicines, a lot of medicine manufacturers from the European Union exported medicines to the United States. And here we should make sure that the manufacturers of medicines in the European Union have good or safe conditions for the production of these medicines, which are simply necessary for the inhabitants of the European Union.

Mr President, thank you very much. My question is about what you did not say, because you mentioned very important roads, very important railways, and you did not say anything about waterways. I know that the Germans have a very good experience in this matter. Would you be able to convince, help convince the environment of people and organisations that block the development of waterways in the European Union? Because I think that this is one of the cheapest transports and a very important transport during the war.

Mr President, thank you very much. Mr. Commissioner, I would like to thank you. I want to say very clearly that this proposal is better, which Mr Halicki has prepared, than in previous years. We are looking at the reality of the European economy and you can see a major change here, which we are happy about. We are glad that our ECR amendments have been taken on board, because we always say here, whoever represents the ECR, that we need to support the common agricultural policy, direct payments, young farmers, because this is our future. Small and medium-sized enterprises are included, and this is also our important position. We support the Erasmus+ fund because young people should have the opportunity to learn. And, of course, we also support everything that is happening in the area of transport and energy, this aspect is simply included here. We also support infrastructural solutions. In this case, let me remind you that for the third time we are now proposing an amendment concerning fences, fences, It used to be fences, now there are barriers at the border, but this is taken into account, it must be said, these physical barriers at the border are taken into account, so we are also pleased, because Europe must first of all be safe, so we also see this situation. Certainly, it is also important to notice housing issues, housing difficulties and reflect this in the budget. And of course, although we do not support, we do not support a common European army, it is known, but all the actions that are contained in this document, in our opinion, deserve support and I will vote in this way. So I think that simply all these provisions, also related to the defence mechanism, to what is related to civil protection, because we also have disasters in the European Union, are reflected in the budget, so this deserves our attention and support.

Mr President, thank you very much. We have terrible results in primary education. We have terrible results from universities. In the first 30 universities of the world there is only one university, one technical university, Munich, from Europe, from the European Union. We're losing. But this is because left-liberal trends make boys dress up as girls and girls as boys in kindergartens and schools. This is the first task of some teachers. Children are given books with naked men and women. They are simply taught hedonistic behaviors to which children have not grown up, their intellect is destroyed. We need to go back to normal developmental psychology. Many psychologists know how to teach children. And many excellent teachers know how to teach children. You just have to give them a chance, give them better wages. And wara, and from afar let's move experimenters and experiments away from the nature of children.

I listened very carefully to your speech and I know that you are familiar with it. And I have a request, not just a question, but a request, because I am looking for very retail information on the cost of building an average wind farm in Europe. How much gravel, cement, water, metal, precious metals do you need? How much does it all cost? And I can't find it anywhere. Can you tell me the source, because I would like to compare. Because you talked about the great costs and prices of gas, and I can't find, as I talk to voters, what are the costs of building a wind farm? Please let me know.

You have mentioned many companies that are dismissing people in the European Union at the moment. Why did you not mention that the government from which you come, the government of Donald Tusk, at the moment does not care about state-owned companies at all? Ten thousand redundancies announced in the Polish Post Office, several thousand redundancies in the State Treasury company PKP Cargo. Why don't you mention it, you're just talking about a private business that's slowing down? Why do you not want to admit that in Poland we have a terrible problem with the functioning of...

I wanted to ask you because I listened carefully to what you said, namely that the automotive industry should receive financial support. Please indicate to me the sources of this financial support, in a situation where there is a lack of EUR 800 billion for the security of the European Union, when there is a lack of EUR 30 billion for the repayment of the debt of the European Union after New Generation from 1 January 2028, when everyone here says that green industry needs to be supported. Please indicate to me the budgetary financial support for this industry.

I wanted to ask you because I listened very carefully to what you said. What did you mean when you said that transatlantic ties were broken? Who broke those ties? Who's breaking up? Who is responsible for breaking these transatlantic ties? And the second thing: Once we have the money, let's assume it will be. Do you allow us to buy the latest weapons technology in the United States with this money?

I have a question for the Honourable Member. I do not understand the lament that the Honourable Member presents here with his partner. For over a year you have ruled Poland - your formation with Donald Tusk. You have ruled Poland for 14 months. You have the majority, you can change the law in Poland as you want and you cannot do it. Well, why don't you tell me why? In addition, the European Union is a legal organisation – Article 5 of the Treaty on European Union makes it very clear that competences not conferred on others are national competences. So here, too, you have a majority in this Parliament, you can do whatever you want and you don't do it. So in short, I am for the natural law, I have a slightly different opinion than you, but do not complain to Kaczyński, to the Right, that you are a minority, because you are ...

You just said that we on the right don't understand everything. So I wanted to ask you a question. A few hours ago, the European Commission said that from January 1, 2028, the annual budget of the European Union will lack EUR 30 billion to repay the debt. That's my question: Are you in favour of maintaining ETS2 and maintaining the carbon tax, which is supposed to be the income of the European Union, i.e. to continue the mistake that is already a genetic mistake of this term?

Mr President, thank you very much. Madam President, thank you. On behalf of the ECR, I would like to say very clearly that this document, which Parliament has prepared, is better than the documents of previous years. As the ECR, we believe that the European Central Bank should primarily take into account the basic economic parameters of individual countries. Then his interventions will be more believable. And if there is something extraordinary, then, of course, yes, the ECB should help. The European Central Bank must be ideologically resilient, and we absolutely agree. The so-called common sense is really very, very necessary in the activities of this bank. There should be no preference for any companies, no industries. Only a clean economy and clean bank interventions in crisis areas. When it comes to the digital euro, more information, more conversations, more debates are needed, but real economic freedom is always with free resources, with live cash – and we cannot block that. We should not be afraid of the United States, we should take the best solutions from there. Then the European Union will be better too.

Mr President, thank you very much. I wanted to speak to pay tribute to 21-year-old Mateusz Sitek. A Polish soldier, a 21-year-old soldier, was killed by bandits on the Polish-Belarusian border. Killed, murdered. And I want to say this here, because when we Poles defended the border of the European Union, when Putin and Lukashenko pushed refugees into Poland by conducting a hybrid war, you had a great time here in the European Parliament on the false film of a Polish director who ridiculed the Polish police, Polish soldiers, all those who defended the border of the European Union. You must be ashamed of it. I will always remind you of this, because today, of course, this debate is important, I am glad that the Commissioner has taken this position and not that position, but we have called for this money at the border, for this security in previous years, and it has failed. And yesterday you applauded Donald Tusk, who here in Brussels said: What the Polish government of Law and Justice is doing is ugly propaganda. And we were simply defending the border of the European Union. (President took the floor)

Mr President, thank you very much. This is a very important debate, but it is a pity that we spend so little time in the European Parliament in general talking in support of traditional families. It is also a pity that much is being said here in Parliament, but also in the European institutions, simply about the promotion of abortion. It's all very inconsistent what we're doing. I think that in five years we will be talking about the same thing again and there will be no real help for mothers, for children. For example, when we want and should talk about relief for mothers giving birth, for single mothers, for traditional families, business, for example, turns its back on such a problem. Businesses see only their own interests. So, unfortunately, demographic policy will be a very weak point in the European Union's policy, which I very much regret. If individual countries do not solve this problem, I do not see such situations in this room and in the budget, in which I have been working for 6 years in the Committee on Budgets, I simply do not see the possibility of supporting, unfortunately, the demographic problems of the European Union.

Madam President, thank you very much. I will take this opportunity to listen to this very interesting debate to thank the Polish Commissioner for Agriculture, Janusz Wojciechowski, for what he has done on animal welfare. His successes in this area are undisputed and I hope that every Commissioner will have similar successes and develop these issues of animal welfare and carbon farming. We have already achieved a lot of good in this area and we should talk about it even more. Today, for example, Polish small farms using eco-schemes, leading the so-called carbon farming, are very successful, for example in meat exports. And you don't need huge farms producing food by force. It is precisely in these small farms, which have been valued by Commissioner Wojciechowski, that there are very good traces of high-quality food production in Europe. And that's what I thank him for.

You have mentioned Putin's name many times in your speech. It is good that we are talking today about TikTok's bad influence on decisions in general. And what were you doing when there was an agreement between Putin, Russia and Germany on Nord Stream? When this agreement was concluded in 2005, it was then that the war against Ukraine began. Where were you with your political team at the time? I wanted to ask you if you really think that only TikTok disturbs... (The Chair took the floor)

Madam President, thank you very much. The ombudsman! Mr. Commissioner, I would like to thank you. In 2023, the work of the European Ombudsman, Emily O'Reilly, was extremely important. As in previous years, especially in the context of transparency and accountability of the EU institutions. In the past year, the Ombudsman has conducted inquiries into decision-making, environmental legislation and third-party influence, which was of particular importance following the Qatargate scandal. I believe that this activity has contributed to raising awareness of the transparency of the European Union, especially on issues such as the exchange of messages between the President of the European Commission and Pfizer on the issue of vaccines or the lack of transparency in environmental legislation. What Mrs. O'Reilly did was necessary, and we want your successor to build that trust as well. May this successor have as much strength as you have in overcoming numerous difficulties, because this function and your work must simply bring positive effects for the European Union.

Mr President, thank you very much. This is a really important debate, an important problem. I totally agree that we need to talk about this. Plastic has not always existed, the explosion of popularity of plastic occurred somewhere in the 50s of the last century and since then plastic has taken various forms and is used in our social, private, industrial life on various scales. And on an ever-increasing scale. And today it has become a global invention and a global problem. Therefore, on the basis of this discussion on plastic, I wonder whether we will be discussing the problems with the disposal of photovoltaic batteries, photovoltaic panels, car batteries, the entire industry, so lauded today, related to electromobility, with the same heat in this plenary room. This will also be a problem and we will have to introduce a tax one day. Just as today there is a tax on plastics, there will be a tax on electromobility.

I listened very much to your speech. You always take an unambiguous position, so I know who I ask about energy, about energy prices. I would therefore like to ask you about what Business Europe, a European think tank, wrote, which said that if the European Union pursues its climate goals unhindered, if we all support these goals, then in 2050 the price of energy in the European Union will be 3 times more expensive than in the United States. What consequences do you think this could have? In 2050, energy is three times more expensive in the European Union than in the United States.

Madam President, thank you very much. We are crying here today that Russia is attacking, that China is attacking. For two decades, the European Parliament, the European Union, worked with Putin, providing him with money, buying cheap hydrocarbons. Now, in recent years, the European Union has been cooperating with China. European Union countries provide money to China, because 97% of photovoltaic panels are purchased in China. And these countries have money and they laugh at the European Union and mock it because they know that it is getting weaker. This discussion is very important, absolutely very important also for Poland, because, among others, the Baltic Pipe pipeline runs through the Baltic Sea. It is very important from the point of view of Poland's energy security. So when we talk about security at a meeting of the Committee on Budgets and we make proposals to strengthen the European Union's budget for security, then the left, then the socialists, then the liberals say no, we don't give more money, we don't need more money for security. So let's not cry, let's do it. Let us create safe situations for every country of the European Union and for the Baltic Sea.

I listened very carefully to your speech. You mentioned President Trump twice in your speech. You represent the largest group in the European Parliament, the EPP. Then I ask: What advice will you give to your group on how to build a relationship with President Trump? Because, of course, we are an important organization as the European Union, but the United States also plays its part. So, what is your group's and your position on defense relations with America?