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EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT · SITTING

Klára Dobrev

Member of the European Parliament · S&D · HU

IN THEIR OWN WORDS

Mr President, dear colleagues, do you know what is the biggest lie nowadays in Europe? The biggest lie is that you can achieve and have decent wealth, you just have to work hard enough. That's a lie. That's not true anymore.

PLENARY SITTING OF 2026-05-20 · READ THE VERBATIM REPORT

On the contrary, the market left alone is creating this kind of injustice. So our goal is to solve the poverty problem. Our goal is to help people. So the EU cannot be a single market solely. The EU has to be a social Europe where social justice and the fight against poverty is a fundament of every single policy that we have.

PLENARY SITTING OF 2026-05-20 · READ THE VERBATIM REPORT

So you are right now in Europe, where we have a free market, you know, so to speak, but what you want to do is move back to a communist kind of society where the government is taking from some and kind of distributing to the rest.

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What we see in the last 30 years is that there is a new elite growing out all over not only Europe, in the United States as well, big companies, multinationals, tech companies having fortune like nobody had in history before, and seeing people, millions of people struggling with everyday life. So what we need is justice.

PLENARY SITTING OF 2026-05-20 · READ THE VERBATIM REPORT

Ha Önök azt hiszik, hogy ha a nagyvállalatoktól, a multiktól majd elvesszük azt a lehetőséget, kevesebb szabályt kell majd betartaniuk munkavédelemben, környezetvédelemben, és akkor ennek az asszonynak jobb lesz a sorsa: tudják, hogy ez hazugság.

PLENARY SITTING OF 2026-02-11 · READ THE VERBATIM REPORT

Emlékeznek még rá? Évekkel ezelőtt azt mondták nekünk, hogy az Önök célja az az, hogy egy olyan gazdaságot építsenek, amely az embereket szolgálja. Hát amit most csinálnak, az éppen az embereket teszi a gazdagok szolgálójává. Mi a baloldalon ezt nem fogjuk engedni. 4-0096-0000

PLENARY SITTING OF 2026-01-22 · READ THE VERBATIM REPORT

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  1. What we see in the last 30 years is that there is a new elite growing out all over not only Europe, in the United States as well, big companies, multinationals, tech companies having fortune like nobody had in history before, and seeing people, millions of people struggling with everyday life. So what we need is justice. And communism was not justice. But this what is happening today in the world is not justice either. So we Europeans have to show that we are on the side of the people. Economy that works for people, let's do it! 3-0304-0000

    PLENARY SITTING OF 2026-05-20 · READ THE VERBATIM REPORT

  2. So you are right now in Europe, where we have a free market, you know, so to speak, but what you want to do is move back to a communist kind of society where the government is taking from some and kind of distributing to the rest. The problem is, what are you going to do when you don't have any other wealth to take from nobody to distribute it to some? 3-0303-0000 Klára Dobrev (S&D), blue-card answer. – You are absolutely mistaken and I'm not going backwards, I'm going forwards. I'm looking for a society where social justice is an everyday experience.

    PLENARY SITTING OF 2026-05-20 · READ THE VERBATIM REPORT

  3. On the contrary, the market left alone is creating this kind of injustice. So our goal is to solve the poverty problem. Our goal is to help people. So the EU cannot be a single market solely. The EU has to be a social Europe where social justice and the fight against poverty is a fundament of every single policy that we have. That's social democracy for me. (The speaker agreed to take a blue-card question) 3-0302-0000 Cristian Terheş (ECR), blue-card question. – You and I are coming from former communist countries. Correct? You are coming from Hungary, I'm coming from Romania. What you are proposing, we already had in communism.

    PLENARY SITTING OF 2026-05-20 · READ THE VERBATIM REPORT

  4. Mr President, dear colleagues, do you know what is the biggest lie nowadays in Europe? The biggest lie is that you can achieve and have decent wealth, you just have to work hard enough. That's a lie. That's not true anymore. Today, what we know as the so-called trickle-down effect – that you have to support the big ones, the strong ones, the rich ones, and then their wealth will trickle down to the everyday people – that's not true anymore. That was the biggest illusion of neoliberalism and the conservative parties. As I see on the right and the EPP, they still live in this illusion. But, friends, that's not true anymore. Decent wealth is not created by hard work, but by wealth itself. So poverty is a reality for hard-working European citizens every day in Europe. And the market will not solve it.

    PLENARY SITTING OF 2026-05-20 · READ THE VERBATIM REPORT

  5. Ha Önök azt hiszik, hogy ha a nagyvállalatoktól, a multiktól majd elvesszük azt a lehetőséget, kevesebb szabályt kell majd betartaniuk munkavédelemben, környezetvédelemben, és akkor ennek az asszonynak jobb lesz a sorsa: tudják, hogy ez hazugság. Erős állam, amely a szegények oldalára áll, a gazdagokkal szemben, a gyengék oldalára áll az erősekkel szemben. Ez a baloldal programja, ez a megoldás a szegénység ellen. 3-0435-0000

    PLENARY SITTING OF 2026-02-11 · READ THE VERBATIM REPORT

  6. Emlékeznek még rá? Évekkel ezelőtt azt mondták nekünk, hogy az Önök célja az az, hogy egy olyan gazdaságot építsenek, amely az embereket szolgálja. Hát amit most csinálnak, az éppen az embereket teszi a gazdagok szolgálójává. Mi a baloldalon ezt nem fogjuk engedni. 4-0096-0000

    PLENARY SITTING OF 2026-01-22 · READ THE VERBATIM REPORT

  7. Úgyhogy feltehetjük a kérdést: de sikerült? És az a válaszom, hogy nem. Totális kudarc, totális kudarc. 15 évvel ezelőtt Magyarország Kelet-Közép-Európa egyik legmenőbb országa volt. Ma Európa legszegényebb országává váltunk, és ennek mind ez a jobboldali gazdaság- és társadalompolitika az oka. Éppen ezért én azt javasolnám az Európai Parlamentnek, hogy a holnapi napon kövessék a baloldal útját, a baloldal javaslatait: tisztességes fizetések, nyugdíjak, lakásépítés, egészségügy, oktatás. Ezek teszik versenyképessé az európai embereket. A nagyvállalatok helyett álljunk az emberek oldalára! 2-0331-0000

    PLENARY SITTING OF 2025-09-09 · READ THE VERBATIM REPORT

  8. Ez országom Európa Tanácsból történő kilépését jelentené azonnal, amely egy hatalmas lépés az Európai Unió elhagyása felé. De nem fogjuk hagyni, Európa erősebb, és így Magyarország is erősebb lesz Orbán nélkül. 2-0448-0000

    PLENARY SITTING OF 2025-03-11 · READ THE VERBATIM REPORT