András GYÜRK

Policy topics András GYÜRK is active on

What András GYÜRK has said (26)

• 2026-06-17 “(15:17:27 – 15:18:35): Thank you, president. European citizens continue to be burdened by high energy prices. We have to fight this phenomenon. Electrifying economy is a good solution, but the commission shouldn't set strict goals, which remind us of negative past. It should rather adapt to economic realities, innovation in the industry, energy modernization of housing, and fuel systems should be also developed. Moreover, the grid itself. Skills should also be improved in SMEs. 80% of SMEs lack workforce. We need to start training programs and education programs. We shouldn't follow the common economy of the communist past. This is not leading us anywhere. Instead, our strategy should be based on positive incentives. Thank you very much, mister Tarcio.”
  Energy (green transition)
• 2026-01-16 “Answer given by Mr Jørgensen on behalf of the European Commission 8.5.2026 Written question The EU fully respects Ukraine’s right to self-defence against Russia’s aggression in accordance with the principles of the United Nations Charter. This position is consistent with the framework of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement. The Commission condemns any potential interference against EU infrastructure, as a matter of principle. Russia continues to escalate its war of aggression against Ukraine and its attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. After four years of full-scale invasion, Russia has launched hundreds of massive attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. Russia continuously attempts to attain goals it has not been able to achieve militarily, by terrorising the civilian population. The Commission closely cooperated with the authorities of Hungary and Slovakia to monitor oil supply disruptions affecting the Druzhba pipeline during summer 2025 and in January 2026, when a Russian attack on the pipeline led to Druzhba’s complete interruption of oil flow. The Commission engaged with the two Member States affected to facilitate provision of alternative supplies. The EU and its Member States remain committed to provide Ukraine and its people with all the necessary political, financial, economic, humanitarian, military and diplomatic support, including through the EUR 90 billion Ukraine Support Loan. The loan will help to meet Ukraine’s urgent financing needs amid Russia’s ongoing war of aggression, which has now entered its fifth year.”
  EU-Ukraine relations · Agricultural trade: Ukraine imports · EU policy on screening foreign investment in strategic sectors and critical infrastructure
• 2025-11-12 “P-004505/2025 Answer given by Ms Kos on behalf of the European Commission The EU support to Ukraine is based on strong safeguards to ensure the proper use of EU funds. Any financial support provided by the EU includes dedicated anti-fraud measures and all funds are strictly monitored, with corrective action taken if issues arise. Under the Ukraine Facility 1 , Ukraine must ensure the integrity of all energy-related financial support and followup on corruption allegations in an appropriate way. The Commission is monitoring the recent developments around corruption allegations in the energy sector closely. There is no evidence to this day that EU money has been diverted to unintended purposes, in relation to the reported case. The fight against corruption is a central element for a country to join the EU. The uncovering of this case demonstrates that anti-corruption institutions in Ukraine are delivering on their mandate and building a track record of investigations. Therefore, the Commission maintains its stance that Ukraine is ready for the next step in the EU accession negotiations. The EU maintains a zero-tolerance policy on corruption and notes that the opening of accession negotiations would enable a more rigorous monitoring and effective support of the process. 1 OJ L, 2024/792, 29.2.2024; ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/792/oj.”
  EU enlargement · EU-Ukraine relations
• 2025-10-08 “E-003964/2025 Answer given by Executive Vice-President Séjourné on behalf of the European Commission Across the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) 1 , the consolidation of programmes will simplify the overall funding landscape. Smaller entities will particularly benefit from a unified structure with a single point of access. The core principle for EU programmes remains ensuring that EU funds go to the best projects across the Union. Currently, the Horizon Europe Programme 2 addresses the innovation divide by its Widening part 3 . These measures are proposed to be continued in the future. The European Competitiveness Fund 4 (ECF) aims to support all EU Member States and regions. Because the ECF aims at supporting the best projects across the EU irrespective of their geography, it does not include geographically dedicated funding envelopes. The elements of the ECF contributing to the reduction of imbalances include the project advisory and business support, e.g. through the EU4Business Network 5 present in all Member States, that will provide support on the ground across the entire EU. It also includes the Value Chain Builder that will help integrate stakeholders from different Member States with different industrial capacities. Moreover, the EU Tech frontrunners will identify and support leading technology companies in the entire EU through industry-driven consortia. ECF InvestEU 6 Instrument will be implemented by the European Investment Bank Group, international financial institutions and national promotional banks and institutions which allows to address specific financing needs across all Member States. National and Regional Partnership Plans will have a key role to play by targeting investment and reforms that strengthen innovation capacity and cohesion. 1 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:52025DC0570. 2 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:02021R0695-20240301. 3 The Widening Member States in Horizon Europe are: Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia. 4 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:52025PC0555. 5 Which will build on the Enterprise Europe Network and the European Cluster Collaboration Network. 6 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:02021R0523-20251110.”
  Cohesion and rural funding
• 2025-09-08 “E-003468/2025 Answer given by Mr Jørgensen on behalf of the European Commission Ukraine is at war. Since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia has deliberately targeted Ukraine’s civilian energy infrastructure with massive attacks. In 2024, Russia launched 13 major attacks targeting Ukraine's energy sector and the country lost 10 gigawatts of its power generation capacity, and a total of two-thirds since the start of the war. In 2025, the attacks have resulted in the need to import 4.6 bcm of natural gas in preparation for the heating season. The EU is the largest donor of energy assistance to Ukraine in face of Russia’s attacks against civilian energy infrastructure, with the main purpose to support Ukraine’s security of supply. In relation to EU guarantees to support Ukraine’s gas purchases, there are explicit stipulations to ensure non-Russian supply. While Ukraine halted direct gas imports from Russia in 2015 and began sourcing gas via reverse flows from EU countries, since the beginning of the war, the Commission has also helped Ukraine diversify its gas supply, for example by opening the participation of Ukrainian companies to AggregateEU. The EU energy policy has been consistent: the Commission is committed to end Russian weaponisation of energy through the REPowerEU framework. The co-legislators are negotiating the Commission’s proposal to close the EU market for Russian gas, for both shortterm supplies and long-term contracts. This will contribute to strengthening the EU's energy and economic security. In addition, in 2023-2025, the Commission implemented the AggregateEU platform 1 , and the Commissioner for Energy and Housing has announced 2 that in order to support diversification of supply under the best conditions, the Commission would launch a demand aggregation initiative for South-East Europe. 1 Around 180 companies registered to connect to buy and sell non-Russian gas. Over 7 matching rounds, 119 bcm of gas demand from European companies were aggregated and 191 bcm were offered by international suppliers leading to 100 bcm matched to cover European demand. 2 In a letter sent to Energy Ministers on 21 October 2025.”
  EU-Russia relations (from March 2022) · EU-Ukraine relations
• 2025-09-04 “E-003418/2025 Answer given by Mr Jørgensen on behalf of the European Commission The Commission followed closely with the authorities of Hungary and Slovakia the August 2025 oil supply disruptions affecting the Druzhba pipeline. According to the information received, there was no impact on their security of supply and no emergency stocks have been released. The Commission continuously monitors and supports the energy security of the EU and its Member States and regularly convenes the Oil Coordination Group to ensure cooperation, information exchange and solidarity among the Member States wherever necessary. The Druzhba disruptions also underscore the strategic importance of diversifying energy supplies. Hungary and Slovakia have the possibility to further reduce their dependence on Russian oil by making greater use of the Adria pipeline through Croatia. The Commission is strongly supporting Hungary’s and Slovakia’s diversification efforts and stands ready to facilitate necessary arrangements with relevant partners.”
  EU-Ukraine relations · Russia-Ukraine conflict (10th term)
• 2025-07-16 “E-002926/2025 Answer given by Ms Kos on behalf of the European Commission The Commission agrees that the extension of the EU Roam Like at Home area to the Western Balkans could bring substantial benefits to citizens. It is important to note that the Association Agreements that the EU has with Ukraine and Moldova 1 include a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area, which provide the necessary legal frameworks allowing the Parties to reciprocally open their roaming markets, which in turn enabled the EU to extend the EU Roam Like at Home area. The EU-Western Balkans Stabilisation and Association Agreements 2 lack such a legal framework. The Growth Plan for the Western Balkans 3 adopted in 2023 aims at integrating the Western Balkan partners into the EU’s single market, including the digital single market. The Commission services are working on a solution with the aim to complement the current Stabilisation and Association Agreements and to provide the necessary legal framework to extend the EU Roam Like at Home area also to the Western Balkans. 1 Ukraine, https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex%3A22014A0529%2801%29; Moldova, https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex%3A22014A0830%2801%29. 2 Albania, https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex%3A22009A0428%2802%29; Montenegro, https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex%3A22010A0429%2801%29; Serbia, https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex%3A22013A1018%2801%29; North Macedonia, https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex%3A22004A0320%2803%29; Bosnia and Herzegovina, https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex%3A22015A0630%2801%29; Kosovo, https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex%3A22016A0316%2801%29. 3 https://enlargement.ec.europa.eu/2023-communication-new-growth-plan-western-balkans_en.”
  EU-Ukraine relations · EU relations with Western Balkans
• 2025-07-07 “E-002760/2025 Answer given by Ms Zaharieva on behalf of the European Commission The purpose of the Choose Europe initiative is to retain researchers in Europe by providing them strong support, as well as to attract top talent to the EU. Funding under this initiative comes from Horizon Europe - the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation 1 , namely through the European Research Council (ERC) and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) components over the years 2025-2027. As the initiative is entirely financed through redeployments within Horizon Europe, it does not require new appropriations and is consistent with the Financial Regulation 2 and current programme framework. Measures under the Choose Europe initiative include making available an additional EUR 1 million top-up for ERC grantees who relocate to the EU. Also, a new seven-year ERC ‘super grant’ is being prepared, to provide a longer-term perspective for top researchers in the EU. Under MSCA, a ‘Choose Europe for Science’ pilot was recently launched, providing longer career perspectives to early stage scientists who wish to stay in, or relocate to, Europe. Both the ERC and MSCA apply rigorous, excellence-based and transparent evaluation criteria, are open to researchers globally and maintain the same standards for all applicants, regardless of nationality. Grants can only be provided to researchers who work in the EU or in Horizon Europe associated countries. Measures under Council Implementing Decision (EU) 2022/2506 on the protection of the Union budget against breaches of the principles of the rule of law must be respected, and the Commission remains open to constructive engagement with the affected Member State. 1 Regulation (EU) 2021/695 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 April 2021 establishing Horizon Europe – the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, laying down its rules for participation and dissemination, and repealing Regulations (EU) No 1290/2013 and (EU) No 1291/2013 (Text with EEA relevance). 2 Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2024/2509 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 September 2024 on the financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union (recast).”
  Governance of academic priorities within the EU · Research priorities within the EU
• 2025-01-14 “E-000111/2025 Answer given by Mr Jørgensen on behalf of the European Commission The Commission is committed to bring down energy prices for households and businesses to support the energy transition and EU’s competitiveness. As part of the Clean Industrial Deal 1 , the Commission adopted an Action Plan for affordable Energy 2 outlining key actions to lower energy costs for European consumers, including by ensuring well-functioning and transparent gas markets. Mandatory filling targets in the Gas Storage Regulation (EU) 2022/1032 3 have increased transparency and predictability of market participants’ behaviour, contributing to market stability, especially during the 2022-2023 energy crisis 4 . Although the situation has improved, the gas market remains tight and competition for global liquified natural gas has increased. This is why the Commission has proposed to extend this regulation by 2 years 5 . At the same time, understanding the need for greater flexibility, the Commission issued a Recommendation 6 to support Member States on how to identify and apply flexibility existing within the existing legislative framework to better coordinate and smartly design their storage filling policies ahead of winter 2025/2026. The Commission on the other hand will consider actual market conditions when deciding on enforcement of the storage filling targets. The Commission is carefully monitoring the internal energy market and has a good overview of the situation in individual Member States, including the effects the war against Ukraine may have on their security of supply. Analysis shows that the impact of the end of Russian gas transit via Ukraine on gas prices has been limited. To address specific challenges, the Commission has established a High-Level Working Group with Slovakia, and is going to launch one with Hungary. 1 The Clean Industrial Deal: A Joint roadmap for competitiveness and decarbonisation COM(2025) 85 final. 2 Action Plan for Affordable Energy: Unlocking the true value of our Energy Union to secure affordable, efficient and clean energy for all Europeans COM(2025) 79 final. 3 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2022/1032/oj/eng 4 Report from the Commission on solidarity and certain aspects concerning gas storage based on Regulation (EU) 2017/1938 of the European Parliament and of the Council COM(2025) 98 final. 5 Proposal for Regulation of the European Parliament and the Council amending Regulation (EU) 2017/1938 as regards the role of gas storage for securing gas supplies ahead of the winter season. 6 Commission Recommendation on the implementation of the gas storage filling targets in 2025 COM(2025) 1481 final.”
  Energy (green transition)
• 2024-09-13 “P-001709/2024 Answer given by Ms Simson on behalf of the European Commission The Commission promotes market integration and interconnectivity in the region through the trans-European network framework, the process to establish a list of Projects of Common and Mutual Interest (PCI/PMI) and the work of the Central and South-Eastern Europe Energy Connectivity (CESEC) High-Level group 1 . Several of the region’s PCIs were financially supported from the Connecting Europe Facility in the past 2 , increasing interconnectivity. The existing PCI list contains several projects in the region, such as the interconnector between Hungary and Romania. A new PCI/PMI selection process started in September 2024. The Commission welcomes projects that will address inter alia a closer integration of the Southeast European region with the other regions in Europe. While the Commission continues to monitor the situation, it appears that the high prices result from a structural shortage of flexibility in the electricity system of the region in times when it is needed to meet peak demand. The reform of the electricity market design sets out rules addressing these situations 3 . It aims to make electricity bills more independent from shortterm prices and to provide greater incentives for non-fossil flexibility such as demand response and storage. Union legislation also enables Member States to protect vulnerable consumers with regulated prices at retail level, subject to specific conditions 4 . 1 https://energy.ec.europa.eu/topics/infrastructure/high-level-groups/central-and-south-eastern-europe-energyconnectivity_en 2 https://cinea.ec.europa.eu/programmes/connecting-europe-facility_en 3 Regulation (EU) 2024/1747 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 June 2024 amending Regulations (EU) 2019/942 and (EU) 2019/943 as regards improving the Union’s electricity market design (OJ L, 2024/1747). 4 Directive (EU) 2019/944 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 June 2019 on common rules for the internal market for electricity and amending Directive 2012/27/EU (OJ 2019, L 158).”
  Energy (green transition)
• “And thank you very much for the floor, Commissioner. This proposal is one of the most harmful initiatives in the 20 years. Hungary has joined the European Union. This will have very dire consequences to Hungary, because only one of the oil pipelines could continue working, and all the gas pipelines would be closed. Sanctioning the energy supply would lead to increased energy prices in Europe. We can see that The decrease in supply will lead to an increase in prices. The utility prices. Could increase significantly by 500,000 forints per year for Hungarian households. That is unacceptable because this is an interference into domestic policy in Hungary.”
  EU approach to energy security (home-made vs import sources)
• “Thank you, Madam Chair. Let me speak in Hungarian. First of all, I'd like to join what my Polish colleague told you about, uh. Um, she, uh, welcome the fact that, uh, Polish, uh, cosmonaut is today in space. And I'd like to let the European Parliament, uh, know as a Hungarian patriot that, uh, yesterday, after 45 years, the second ever Hungarian cosmonaut, uh, was launched to space, uh, which means that nothing is impossible. And we Hungarians are all very proud of him. And the performance of this program, uh, the, um, telecommunications potential of space activities, uh, is arising and therefore it is very timely and topical that the European Commission is working on a telecommunications package. I'd like to ask you how you are going to reduce bureaucratic burdens in that package. And secondly, political decision makers and industry actors should better cooperate. We all agree on that. How is this package going to enhance cooperation between member states and industry actors? Thank you.”
  5G
• “Thank you chair. First of all, I would like to thank the rapporteur for the draft report and for her work on this file. In my opinion, this draft takes a good step towards building on the three pillars on which I believe all political groups can agree. Namely, electricity demand is going to grow significantly in the coming years and decades. We need grid development to deliver electricity to customers, and that we need to do this in an affordable, cost efficient way. I think we can all agree on it. However, there are some elements in the draft which my group does not share and some aspects which we believe are missing despite of their importance. We will be tabling amendments on both categories, the essence of which I would like to assess in the following five points. First, we firmly believe that the rollout of grids needs to be based not on an ideology or a political agenda, but rather on the evolution of demand and the needs of consumers in that maintaining and enhancing competitiveness. Second, we disagree with those provisions of the draft, which are advocating for the introduction of a centralised EU level planning, especially for medium and low voltage projects.”
  EU energy infrastructure integration
• “Thank you very much, president. The use of energy is more and more, and therefore competition is going to depend on price, which is going to be cheaper and it has to be transported as well in a reliable grid. And we are in a drawback situation because we have to pay three, 2 or 3 times more than our competition. And the Commission has admitted that the grid is very important. Uh, we welcome the digitalization of the system and the speeding up proposals. However, we are concerned about the fact that when it comes to national authorities, uh, there are other powers which are going to be reduced. And we know that we have to pay a very important price for that. When it comes to direct, uh, impact, the effectiveness is not that important. And this is quite spectacular, especially in the summer. Uh, when? Because we need more pipelines. Uh, and, uh, we need more solutions, especially at the border line with Austria and Hungary, so that the investments could be done. Uh, it is our common goal to have cheaper energy. And therefore, we patriots are ready to work for all these objectives. Thank you.”
  EU energy infrastructure integration
• “Thank you very much, Mr. Vice President. The European automobile industry is in a mess. Since Mr. von der Leyen took over the commission, it He became president of the commission. The automobile industry has been doing worse and worse, and that this industry is very important for the European economy. It's also important for investments in Hungary and indeed throughout Europe. The existence of a lot of the survival of a lot of families depends on whether we can sufficiently protect the automobile industry in Europe. Industry is far too expensive for the automobile industry. We need to change that immediately. We need more flexibility. We must reduce bureaucracy. This is what the automobile industry is calling on us to do, and we must do it. But we particularly need more, better leadership in Europe. That's what the Patriots think.”
  Overall simplification of regulation in the EU
• “Thank you. President. European economy is in crisis. The most important reason for that is the increase in energy prices. Our companies pay four times more for gas and three times more for electricity than their global competitors. The plan. The Commission's plan, however, will deepen this crisis. It will lead to further price increases. This would bring difficulties to European economies and undermine our competitiveness. The implementation of this plan would result in a 2 to 3 fold increase in utility bills in Hungary. It would also undermine security of supply. It would make The running of the nuclear power plant in Paktia. Almost impossible. It would lead to loss of jobs fall in the production of electricity in Hungary. This is Brussels offer to Hungary. We say yes to energy security and therefore we say no to the Commission's plan.”
  EU approach to electricity market and prices
• “(16:32:49 – 16:35:28): Thank you very much indeed, commissioner. There were two political issues at stake here since March 26. There are measures in place to protect citizens against inflated energy prices due to the crisis in The Middle East, and we are now being called upon to remove this measure entirely. Where do we stand now? What's going to happen next? Secondly, in the directive, the electricity directive, there are a number of rules in place, and the commission has decided that the steps taken by the Hungarian government to reduce prices have been unacceptable. Can you confirm that we will have to move towards a revision of these rules? Is this a prerequisite in order to obtain access to the different energy funds from the EU?”
  EU approach to electricity market and prices
• “Thank you president. In the next, in the years to come, there will be a major challenge to adapt In increase of electricity use and to to renewable sources of energy dependent on the weather. Therefore, for the competitiveness of the EU economy, we need an efficient, well-planned restructure of the grid. This report in front of us is not aiming at this. Instead, it is a one sided reform to the green ideology which is well known. It is only focusing on renewables in adaptation. But these ideas in practice led to chaos, darkness and major economic losses. Secondly, the grid in the grid planning. National authorities are weakened and EU authorities are given new powers. We know the price for this from practice. The countries in the Iberian. Disaster show where this leads. Thirdly, the report disregards the conventional power plants and thousands of employees and their important role in the stability of the of the network. Without nuclear and coal power plants, we do not have sufficient energy, and without gas power plants, there is no safety of of power. We, the Patriots realize this and therefore we submitted a major reform package. It is not too late for you to support this.”
  EU energy infrastructure integration
• “Thank you very much. We need more flexible arrangements for these sector. 300,000 people have lost their jobs in this sector in the last five years. That means 300,000 families. The Commission president and the majority in Parliament seemed to have an anti industry policy. And in Hungary as well. We see these same interests oriented against the automotive industry pursuing an anti-patriotic policy. We patriot support the jobs. That's our policy for the Patriots.”
  EU policy on forced redundancies
• “We'd rather suggest, based on the principles of subsidiarity and pragmatism, to reinforce collaboration between member states and maintain system operators responsibilities. Third, we will propose to upgrade the synchronization between capacity development and power infrastructure planning, as well as to improve the involvement of system operators in the various processes, including, among others, legislation, regulation, connection requests and network costs. Fourth, we are advocating for a cautious approach with regard to reopening legislation and funding tools. We consider the proposals in the draft report valuable. However, we underline that the necessary consultations and impact assessments need to be completed. And finally, fifth, we firmly believe that the physical and cyber resilience of grids must be up to the current challenges The EU grid and component manufacturing sector needs, support and steps are needed to ensure the necessary skills and workforce for the completion of these ambitious projects. So these are the five areas we are going to focus at in our amendments. And I'd like to say once again, thank you and thank you for the consideration. And I'm looking forward to working on the report with all of you.”
  EU energy infrastructure integration
• “Thank you, Mr. President. Mr. Commissioner. High energy prices have become a painful reality. Everyday reality for most European citizens. One out of four families had difficulties paying their energy bills last year. This is the result of a failed Brussels energy policy. Having faced reality now, even the commission admits that current energy prices are not sustainable. But this action plan is not a real solution to the problem. First of all, it doesn't revise energy prices and the current sanctions policy. It also does not aim to change the climate action, which also adds to high energy prices. And this would put an end to cap price caps in some member states, such as in Hungary. If we want to push down energy prices. We need more than action plans from the commission. We need brave action. We need a common sense. This is what we patriots stand for. Thank you.”
  EU approach to electricity market and prices
• “Thank you. President. The European economy is in a grave situation. The Budapest Declaration takes account of this and provides a direction to act for Brussels. The Competitiveness Compact unfortunately, does not show towards this direction. Instead of of building down bureaucracy as a revolution, we are centralizing again which releases dozens of new regulations. What we need is not a Brussels planned economy, but rather a strong member States to foster competitiveness instead of breaking down the prices of the energy. We propose. New climate proposals. The gas prices hiked by 30% and the Commission doesn't do anything. Smes want to have decreased bureaucracy, but only parts of these plans are implemented in this compass. This is not enough. This is insufficient. We have to return to the Budapest Declaration and we should act for the sake of the citizens. That is what we patriots want.”
  Overall simplification of regulation in the EU
• “Thank you very much for the floor, Madam Chair. Dear colleagues. Energy intensive industries like chemical, the chemical industries, steel industry used to be the success stories of Europe in the past decades. But now, because of the catastrophic sanctions and the green policies that are not sufficiently solid based, are in a very difficult situation now. So we need to take steps. However, this plan will not help the European industries. These documents still It tries to achieve the climate targets and it's very expensive. And it does not stand for the 7 million US citizens who work in the threatened industries. We need to take a u turn and change our direction. We patriots stand for companies and we will protect people working in industry, in these industries.”
  Energy (green transition)
• “Thank you very much for the floor. Full access to internet is a prerequisite to being competitive and to have good living standards. However, as the role of internet increases, we need to discuss the rules governing it and we need a global discussion to do that. This is what the Internet Governance Forum is for during this process. We need to take into consideration some challenges. The discussions on internet governance need to be based on mutual respect And the freedom of expression cannot be restricted on the internet by politicians either. It is important so that we can provide all every citizen with the advantages that internet can provide. This is what our discussion needs to work for. **Nicolae ȘTEFĂNUȚĂ @Chair: The floor goes to Mr. Tobias Buczynski.”
  Disinformation & online freedoms
• “Thank you very much, Madam Chair. There was one minute when the Iberian Peninsula had a problem with electricity, and the millions of people were left without electricity. We can draw some preliminary conclusions. First of all, it has been proved that the one sided transformation of the energy systems is a dead end street. We have to rely on traditional power stations as well. A green energy policy leads to chaos and darkness, literally. Energy supply is a physical issue. It's not an ideological question. We have to face reality, and we need to focus on the stability of our energy grids. Compliance with Brussels requirements has a high price tag attached to it. These countries observed the commission's recommendations and they got into trouble as a result.”
  Energy (green transition)
• “Thank you, Chair. The Connecting Europe facility is a good initiative. Therefore, it is welcome that the European Commission wishes to significantly increase its financial envelope. However, the draft report does not unfortunately match the opportunity provided by the increased budget. I'd like to highlight 2 aspects. First, we are developing energy infrastructure primarily with the aims of improving security of supply and reducing energy prices. All energy sources are needed to achieve these 2 goals, so financial support should not be limited to renewable energy. A technology neutral approach is needed both in the report as a whole and in the various provisions as well. Second, the instrument must be adapted to the energy supply challenges of individual member states. This is particularly true for landlocked countries in Central Europe, including Hungary. I therefore propose in my amendment that 3% of the instrument be allocated primarily to diversification projects in the oil and gas infrastructure that are essential for these countries. Along these priorities, VPatriots have submitted a number of amendments. Please take them into consideration. Thank you.”
  Energy transition (state support)