🗣 "Many EU measures could have been put forward to contain energy costs, such as gas price caps, attacks on windfall profits & common purchasing from third countries, but nothing has been done thus far."
📣 MEP @NProcaccini in #EPlenary. #EnergyCrisis
⚡️ "We're back in the dangerous triangle that we were warned about before summer. There are three sides to this triangle: energy, climate & purchasing power."
🗣️ ECR MEP @jvanovertveldt proposes solutions to crisis in #energyprices. #EPlenary #NuclearPower
"In its ambition, the @EU_Commission has forgotten about reality."
🗣 @ZdzKrasnodebski calls for a rethink of the 🇪🇺's energy & climate strategy, plus short-term measures of:
🟦 Limiting wholesale gas prices
🟦 Freezing #ETS prices
🟦 Mechanisms to limit future price spikes
📈 Energy bills need to be tamed. Citizens across the Union are facing a desperate situation.
Measures at 🇪🇺 level have to take stock of the diversity of Member States' unique circumstances.
🟥 Flexibility in their implementation, for every country, is a must. #EnergyBills
🗣 "This regulation pushes for an immediate transition to all-electricity, ignoring the fact that this means making us more dependent on #China."
📢 MEP @FidanzaCarlo on the proposed Alternative fuels infrastructure regulation. #EPlenary
🇲🇹 "We owe our deepest respects to #DaphneCaruanaGalizia & her family. We fully support media freedom and stand against all unlawful pressures exerted on journalists & the media."
🗣️ MEP @patrykjaki on the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia by the Maltese authorities. #EPlenary
🗣 "We need to fight poverty by providing high levels of education for employment and stopping it from being transferred from generation to generation."
📣 ECR MEP @e_rafalska in the #EPlenary on #PovertyEradicationDay.
Our request to add a debate and resolution on recognising Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism has been adopted by the @europarl_en.
The resolution will be voted on in the November part-session.
We thank those MEPs who supported our appeal.
👏 Congratulations on your appointment, MEP @JohanNissinen!
We're looking forward to working together to promote commonsensical policy that respects the primacy our national democracies and make Europe a safer, more secure place.
This afternoon, we're going to ask the @europarl_en, for the second time, to add a debate with a resolution on designating the Russian Federation a state sponsor of terrorism, to this week's plenary agenda.
◾️ Politically motivated, premeditated attacks against civilian targets
◾️ Spreading terror through private military networks of mercenaries, such as the Wagner Group
We need to call #Russia what it really is:
𝗔 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗺.
This week in the @europarl_en #EPlenary:
🇪🇺 @EUCouncil meeting preparations
💡 Keeping energy bills down
🛡️ Protecting critical EU infrastructure
💶 General budget of the EU for the financial year 2023
🏆 #Sakharov Prize
And much more: https://bit.ly/3D0onYk
"Unanimity in voting on foreign affairs & security issues is critical for the common perception of threats, and these threats around us are enormous.
Qualified majority voting would destroy this common understanding and solidarity rather than enhancing them," says @AnnaFotyga_PE.
RT @AnnaFotyga_PE: I am glad that the AFET committee adopted my ammendment calling to sanction those responsible for the brutal crackdown on protests in #Iran.
RT @AnnaFotyga_PE: I echo statements made by Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya at AFET meeting. I fully pledge to do everything in my power to support free democratic Belarus.
Here in Brussels we have to do our best to put relations with the Office for Democratic Belarus on a new level.
Жыве Беларусь!
RT @JSaryuszWolski: In order not to humiliate Putin
EP groups: @TheProgressives & @RenewEurope, supported by @EPPGroup,cooked up a formula of Sacharov Prize for Ukraine,avoiding mentioning name of @ZelenskyyUa, as proposed by @ecrgroup
Too strong, victorious & critical of failing eur milit&fin aid
RT @AnnaFotyga_PE: Upon my request, next week during the plenary session in Strasbourg, the European Parliament will debate 'Lukashenko regime's active role in the war against Ukraine'.
The @EU_Commission has presented its proposed 2022 #EUenlargement Package.
MEP @AnnaFotyga_PE reacts:
"Since 23 June, 10 countries have been seeking EU Membership. I welcome the very timely Enlargement Package and look forward to the next document's inclusion of 🇺🇦, 🇲🇩 & 🇬🇪."
🇪🇸 To our friends in #Spain, we wish you an excellent Día de la Hispanidad!
RT @AnnaFotyga_PE: It is the highest time to return to the provisions of #Bucharest NATO Summit 2008.
Full #NATO membership is the golden ticket for #Ukraine's & #Georgia's long term #security.
It will also serve to all of us.
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