Debate contributions by Anna ZALEWSKA

Mr President, thank you very much. Mr. Commissioner, I would like to thank you. Ladies and Gentlemen, I am from Poland, from Lower Silesia and Opole, an area overwhelmed by catastrophe. There's a lot of water coming through right now. In some places people clean up, discover the enormity of the tragedy, in others they are still waiting for the passage of this great water. It is my duty to be with them and fight for all their money, because they will need money today, in a week, in five and in ten years. I'm also talking about farmers. I know and I thank you for the fact that there are such mechanisms that direct payments in areas that have been flooded will continue to be paid. On the other hand, farmers in the south of Poland have really lost the opportunity to continue harvesting beets, breeders have lost feed, animals have lost their lives, therefore they really need help, admonishing themselves whether additional money will be created. We already know that there is no money in the account from the Solidarity Fund this year. For the next year, only more than one billion euros are planned for all countries. We need the support of the Committee on Agriculture to deliberately point out money to farmers.

Madam President, thank you very much. Ladies and Gentlemen, Another resolution, important, hopefully, going to prisons to give hope that the word will become an act and that the time will come when they will be released. It gives hope that they will live to see not only freedom and democracy in Belarus, but above all that they will live to see that they will not be in prison. More words, but few deeds. We have a lot of tools and instruments as the European Union to talk about further actions, about further sanctions, about further isolations, so that Lukashenko is not credible in any way. I recall the hysteria of the European Commission when we closed the border, when we defended the Polish-Belarusian border, because the European Commission allowed Lukashenka and Putin to wage a hybrid war. These are not the things that people in prison need. Let's do it for them. Let's exchange words for actions.

Mr President, thank you very much. Ladies and Gentlemen, I am from Lower Silesia and Opole region. To say ‘drama’ is to say nothing. It's an all-encompassing trauma. People are worried about what will happen today, tomorrow, next week, five years from now. They don't have any money. They need a lot of money, tens of billions of dollars. And in the European Union's budget for 2025, there is only one billion euros from the Solidarity Fund. We need to change this urgently. We also need to change climate policy, because I am talking to people who are not cut off from the world. In these worst areas, this is the result of the fight of environmentalists, who unleashed hell there at every tank, at every polder. Therefore, we need to change climate policy, because this is precisely adaptation to climate change. I would like to remind everyone that there is a regulation on nature restoration, where this type of investment is prohibited, and most of the built ones are ordered to be demolished. We will not adapt to climate change and we will not guarantee the safety of people.

Madam President, thank you very much. Commissioner, you were not telling the truth. You say it is good and it will be even better. No, I don't. It's bad, it's gonna get worse. The European Union is in an economic crisis and this is not only the result of the pandemic and the war, but also the ideological ideas of the European Commission, which, without any calculations, decides on indicators, percentages and ambitions. You are talking about a 90% reduction in emissions by 2040. Even though the European Environment Agency informs you that the 2030 targets are impossible to achieve, the cost of living for citizens, Europeans, is increasing. You don't deserve to be president, and after the court's verdict, you should resign today and resign.