Klára DOBREV

What Klára DOBREV has said (3)

• 2026-07-15 “(15:52:11 - 15:55:16): Yes. Thank you very much, dear colleagues, as this is the 1st discussion about the employment guidelines, let me, allow that in the name of the SND just to talk about some guidelines which are going to lead us during the negotiations. Because I think there is a fundamental misunderstanding now in the parliament, especially the parties on the right. They believe that the purpose of the European employment policy is to provide cheap and absolutely unprotective labor to the big business, That the purpose of European economic policy is, simply competitiveness in itself for its own sake. But that's not true. I mean, this is the way how we make the rich richer and the poor poorer. I think our European model is absolutely different. We have our European social model. We have the model where Europeans work in order to have dignity, to have security, to have hope for the future. And I think that all politicians and all political parties and our or our policies have to protect this kind of European social model, where employment policy and economic policy are the tools where competitiveness, innovation are tools and not the final goal. The final goal is the dignity, security for of European people and the hope for the future. So that's why when we talk about the employment guidelines, then, yes, the European pillar of social right should be a compass all the way along and not weakening it. And I really truly believe that Europe will not be competitive by simply weakening the social rights, the labor rights, lowering the social standards, or even treating environmental protection as a burden. That's not the way how we will be competitive. Not at all. And this kind of difference that competitiveness and social protection are opposite sides, this is, I think, a very bad road to go. Mainly because what we are talking about, it's not simply about employment policy, about economic policy. It's about our democracy. Because whether you accept it on the right or not, but European democracy depends on social progress. And if we weaken this social progress, then we'll be in really big trouble. So dear colleagues on the right, especially EPP, when you put corporate interests before people, when you simply take the Christmas wish list of big corporations and transfer them to pieces of legislation, then you are weakening the democracy. So that's why this is going to be the guiding principle of the SND. We will not allow it. Thank you very much.”
  European Semester (social dimension)
• “Dear colleagues, if you want to fight poverty, then instead of statistics, data and tables, look in the eye of poor people. That's what I did. I went to a city in Hungary and talked to an 89 year old person who lives with her her daughter and receives a little bit more than €200 as a pension every year. And she tells me, I'm so ill. I am tired, but I don't dare to die because then I leave my daughter alone. This is cruelty. And then you think that if you reduce the taxes that multinationals pay, then this elderly lady will have more money. No multinationals and big companies having to meet, satisfy fewer rules and weaker regulations. No, this is a lie. This will not help if a society supports the rich against the poverty, the poor. This is not a solution. Ours is a solution. We support the poor. Madam Commissioner of Poverty.”
  Priorities of taxation policy in the EU
• “Thank you very much for the floor. So every time we discuss these reports, every time we discuss the use of European funding, this discussion always becomes an accusation of the Orban system. But this report is one of those as well, because European funding is there to make the member countries richer. But when they don't work in the proper way, they can destroy their countries. And we can't allow that. The report contains the irregularities which draw our attention to these problems, but without statistics. We Hungarians are very well aware that over the last ten years, a fitting repair person has become, in Hungary, one of the richest men just because he is a friend of Orban. Viktor's and Orban. Viktor's family members have also become millionaires and millionaires. Billionaires. Why? Because they have been using European funds. And how have they done so well? On paper, everything has been regular. You have mentioned the checklists. Of course, the auditors come and they take and check every item on the checklist. While we can say that nothing is in order over the coming years, we need to consolidate the systems. We need to consolidate the audits, because these people have, um, have fooled us and we can't afford that over the coming years. Thank you.”
  Rule of law in Hungary