All Contributions (3)
Medicine shortages and strategic healthcare autonomy in the EU (debate)
Date:
03.10.2023 12:32
| Language: LT
Mr President, President-in-Office, dear colleagues. I'm a little bit different. I have tabled a resolution on the wider application of alternative medicine. With all due respect, I look at the specialists of traditional medicine and believe that they do what is sometimes impossible. But from my own country's perspective, I see that the government is doing everything possible to keep traditional medical institutions increasingly isolated from their patients. And for a sick person, going to the doctor becomes not a procedure of recovery and rest, but a real feat and the acquisition of a new, maybe even a disease. So I remind you that alternative medicine does not reject the patient, but accepts him. In this medicine, only natural substances or means for treatment are used. Its application motivates people to become more and more involved in improving their health, in a healthy lifestyle. Take care of yourself and take care of yourself. Take greater responsibility for your health. Wherever such a methodology is used, very good results have been achieved. I therefore call on Parliament and the Commission not to put this idea (words you cannot hear) in the drawers.
A truly interconnected Energy Single Market to keep bills down and companies competitive (topical debate)
Date:
23.11.2022 12:05
| Language: LT
Dear Presidency, dear colleagues, before the extraordinary meeting of energy leaders, I would like to draw the attention of my colleagues. We are very late. We have recently celebrated seventy years of parliamentarism in the European Union. Therefore, this topic is not new, because for another twenty years I have tabled a resolution earlier, from the national rostrum and so on. We need to make the European Union's energy system unified as a matter of urgency. No matter what source it comes from. First, it would ensure energy security, independence and resilience from influence. Second, it would significantly lower prices. Estimates show that if only electricity grids were interconnected into one system, the European Union would save €40 billion a year. There would be more to the current prices. Thirdly, there is a need to speed up permitting and grid connection for renewable energy projects, simplify procedures and cut red tape. I call on the Commission, the leaders and Parliament as a whole to ensure a centralised, even, to say the least, exclusive federal regime, to gain control over this matter and to spare no money for it.
Preparation of the European Council meeting of 20-21 October 2022 (debate)
Date:
19.10.2022 07:53
| Language: LT
Madam President, President of the Commission, colleagues, Europe is facing an unprecedented energy crisis. In the 21st century, the importance of energy can be equated with air, because all aspects of human life are controlled by energy. Therefore, there is no need to moan, and measures need to be taken as soon as possible. Therefore, I immediately go to the proposals. Energy supply is easily monopolized. The profits of some energy companies do not increase by a percentage, but sometimes. It also seems absurd and socially unfair when energy prices were relatively low compared to the present time, green energy was subsidised with taxpayers' money, and now the same taxpayers have to charge them profits, paying double or even triple the cost price. We must also talk about real solidarity between the countries of the European Union and even America. That is, the cost of extracting energy sources such as coal, gas, oil and its products has not increased. The sun's rays or wind did not fade, so it should not be sold several times more expensive. I call on the European Commission and the Council to create a regulation that strictly regulates the activities of energy-related companies and does not exceed 15 or 20 percent of their profits. The conditions of liberalisation also need to be reviewed, as it is clear which companies in the films are buying fuchsia and then raising prices unjustifiably.