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MEPs whose initial is “D” · 28 MEPs

Dainius Žalimas

• Thousands of political prisoners in Iran remain at risk.
• Around 45% of women who experienced violence did not report it to anyone.
• Attempts were made to politicize the Constitutional Court by appointing a parliamentarian from the ruling majority as a
• Last year the Lithuanian Constitutional Court legalized same-sex partnership.
• Lithuanian authorities knew about the data theft from at least April but informed the public only at the end of May.
• In Italy, 20 journalists required all-day police protection last year.

Damian Boeselager

• American venture capital funds manage around EUR 930 billion, compared to around EUR 150 billion in Europe, around six t
• The EU allocates only 50 billion euros of the European Competitiveness Fund, a seven-year industrial programme, to AI.
• Around 20% of the world's oil passes through the Strait of Hormuz.
• A 10% increase in oil prices raises euro area inflation by 0.3 percentage points.

Damien Carême

• Every year more than 3,200 Europeans die at work
• Floods, droughts and heatwaves in 2025 caused EUR 43 billion in losses for Europe
• The 1.5 degree warming threshold was exceeded for the third time in 2025

Dan Barna

• In September 2026, Anar Mammadli was sentenced to 13 years in prison.
• The Republic of Moldova received the highest rating from the European Commission for the progress made
• The approved EU growth plan for Moldova amounts to 1.9 billion (euros) and supports the modernisation of schools, hospit
• Anar Mammadli, a prominent human rights activist and government critic, spent more than two years in pre-trial detention
• More than 4,000 political prisoners are held in Russian prisons, and transnational repression also threatens European ci
• 71% of North Macedonian citizens support EU membership.
• Under the 28th regime, it is possible to establish a company in 48 hours.
• Ali Karimli, a prominent opposition leader, has been detained since November 2025 and remains in detention nine months l
• Corruption costs the European Union almost €1,000 billion (€1 trillion) every year.

Dan Jørgensen

• In the previous year, the EU produced more electricity from solar and wind combined than from fossil fuels for the first
• The EU has paid over EUR 100 billion extra for imported fossil fuels since the war in the Middle East began, without rec
• The EU deployed 89 GW of renewable energy capacity last year, enough to supply at least 89 million homes.
• House prices in Europe increased by approximately 60% on average over the last decade.
• Short-term rentals have increased in some European cities

Dan Nica

• Electricity prices in Romania have reached 251 euros/MWh, which is up to 150 euros higher than in Western European count
• Electricity is at an unprecedented price in Romania
• For two years, Russia has been bombing within hundreds of meters of the Romanian border, which is the EU and NATO border
• On the night of 28-29 May 2026, a Russian drone struck an apartment building in Galați, Romania, seriously injuring a mo
• Dacia announced its first collective redundancies in 22 years in Romania.
• Romania has the highest electricity price in Europe relative to purchasing power, two to three times higher than in othe
• Electricity prices in Romania have increased almost threefold over the last four years.
• In Romania, carbon dioxide certificates cost 80 euros per tonne, while in China the price is seven times lower.
• 440 cases of suspected energy market manipulation are under investigation under the REMIT framework, of which 20 have be
• Dozens of Russian drones have recently violated Romanian airspace and fallen on Romanian territory.

Dan-Ştefan Motreanu

• Although cancer incidence is below the EU average, mortality is higher than the EU average.
• In Romania in 2024, 46,738 people lost their lives due to cancer.
• 27 million citizens live in conditions of severe material and social deprivation
• In the European Union, cancer remains the second main cause of mortality, with over 2.7 million new cases annually and a
• The trade relationship between the European Union and the United States exceeds 1.6 trillion euros annually.
• According to the Draghi report, Europe needs approximately 800 billion euros in additional investments annually to maint

Daniel Attard

• It took three years to designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organisation.
• Tourism is a European economic force employing millions of people.
• The cost of a trailer trip between Malta and Genoa has increased by 740 dollars, or 40%.

Daniel Buda

• In April 2026, global nitrogen-based fertiliser prices were 40% above the December 2025 level.
• In recent years, house prices have risen by almost 50% and rents by 20%
• Between 2014 and 2024, livestock numbers in the European Union fell by approximately 12%.
• Millions of tonnes of grain have been transported through the Port of Constanța and on the Danube as part of the solidar
• A Russian drone struck a home in Galați, injuring a mother and her child.
• Today, almost half of young people in the EU live with their parents
• The number of construction permits has fallen significantly

Daniel Freund

• Slovakia dismantled the Special Prosecutor for Anti-Corruption and the National Crime Agency
• The Open Skies Agreement with Qatar grants Qatar Airways access to 49 airports in the EU while European airlines receive
• The European Parliament has refused to grant discharge to the Council for well over a decade.
• Marine Le Pen was convicted in the biggest corruption scandal that this Parliament has ever seen.
• EUR 18 billion of EU funds are frozen because of corruption and attacks on the rule of law.
• The European Public Prosecutor's Office and the European Anti-Fraud Office together receive less than 0.1% of the EU bud
• Senior positions at DG NEAR were not filled for years, including the director responsible for Ukraine during Russia's fu
• Hungary is the most corrupt country in the European Union.
• The European Public Prosecutor is investigating the theft, misuse and diversion of EUR 4.3 million from European taxpaye
• Hungary would receive the third largest envelope of SAFE funds.
• Between EUR 4 and 5 billion of EU budget funds are wasted or misspent every year

Danilo Della Valle

• There are hundreds of thousands of victims fighting in the Russia-Ukraine war.
• Support for Ukraine has cost European taxpayers over €200 billion so far.
• One in seven minors in Italy is deprived of the future (lives in absolute poverty).
• On 5 June 2026, a Ukrainian marine drone struck an oil tanker in the port of Constanța, causing extensive damage but no
• Over 5.7 million people in Italy live in absolute poverty, representing almost 10% of the population.
• Venezuela possesses the largest oil reserves on Earth.
• There are 2.6 million workers in Italy who, despite having a contract, are considered poor.
• 75,000 confirmed deaths have been recorded in the Gaza conflict.
• The EU has promised EUR 90 billion to Zelenskyy.
• The US embargo on Cuba has been going on for 66 years.

Danuše Nerudová

• Energy taxes account for about a quarter of the price households pay.
• Afghan women are the only women in the world banned from secondary education.
• One in four LGBTIQ+ people in the European Union have experienced conversion practices

Dario Nardella

• Only 19 of the 27 EU member states report femicide data in a coherent way.
• In 2024, the EU imported 2 million tonnes of ammonia.
• In 2024, the EU imported nearly 6 million tonnes of urea.
• The United States government decided to allocate an extraordinary plan of 8 billion dollars, while European farmers' ala
• 28 elected mayors have been removed from office in Turkey.
• 86% of homicides of women in Italy are committed by a partner or a family member.
• The killing of a 45-year-old woman near Florence was the 34th femicide recorded in Italy.

Dario Tamburrano

• In Italy, in just 12 years, ETS 1 has generated 18 billion euros, of which only 1.5 billion was spent on renewables and
• Solar photovoltaic panels have a lifespan of 25 years.
• The Italian government reduced the allocated funding measure from EUR 2.2 billion to EUR 795 million, against requests f

Dariusz Joński

• There are more than 50 different types of conflicts and wars worldwide today.
• Energy production from wind and solar now exceeds production from other sources.
• The EU's trade deficit with China is approximately 1 billion euros per day.
• Poland currently has the cheapest fuel prices in all of Europe
• The EU raises tariffs twofold on imported steel.
• Industrial electricity prices are 20 eurocents per kWh in Europe, compared with 7.5 eurocents per kWh in China.
• China causes the loss of 500 European jobs every day.
• 81% of Canadians support closer ties with the European Union.
• Politicians exposed citizens to losses of hundreds of millions of zloty in a cryptocurrency scandal.
• Nearly 12 million small packages arrive in Europe from China every day.
• Politicians exposed up to 30,000 citizens to losses of hundreds of millions of zloty in a cryptocurrency scandal.
• Over 90% of the most advanced chips are produced in Taiwan.
• Poland is the second-largest producer of household appliances in the world.

David Casa

• Nine years after Daphne Caruana Galizia's assassination in Malta, the main recommendations of the public inquiry have st
• This sector contributes more than 10% of Malta's GDP.

David Cormand

• On the Rassemblement National lists, 200 candidates were identified as members of radical organizations or having commit
• We evaluate it at 1.27% of gross national income, excluding NextGenerationEU repayments
• In France, there has been one death per year for 50 years attributable to the far-right.
• Suspect expenses of the former National Rally group in the European Parliament amounted to 4.3 million euros.
• In Lyon, 100 violent acts were committed by the far-right over 15 years.
• The parliamentary assistants affair involved between 3 and 5 million euros.

David Mcallister

• More than 700 political prisoners are held captive by the Cuban regime.
• EU accession negotiations with Türkiye have been at a standstill for the past eight years (since approximately 2018).

Davor Ivo Stier

• Trade increased by 63% since CETA has been in application
• The official number of disappeared persons in Mexico was 130,000 at the time of the EuroLat visit, and that number conti
• There are nearly 1,400 political prisoners in Cuba.
• The European Union imported over 300 billion euros worth of gas and oil.
• Half of the energy consumed in Europe goes to heating and cooling.
• The seventh tanker has arrived at Omišalj since the Druzhba pipeline stopped operating
• Iran has the highest number of executions per capita in the world.
• The number of reported fraud cases has risen to 1364.
• President Castro made a decision on January 10
• About 50% of Europe's energy needs are accounted for by heating and cooling.
• The price per square meter has increased by 55% in the last ten years
• 35 years ago, in March '91, the first victim of the Homeland War fell - Josip Jović

Delara Burkhardt

• Of 1.5 million people who had to leave their homes.
• Wind and solar electricity generation costs about 4 cents per kilowatt-hour, while nuclear costs range from 14 to 50 cen
• Wind and solar energy are already the cheapest energy sources available today in the European Union.
• Low water levels in the Rhine caused macroeconomic costs of €3-4 billion.
• Wind and solar energy cost approximately 4 euro cents per kilowatt-hour, while nuclear energy costs between 14 and 50 eu
• We are speaking of 2,500 dead since March.

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

• Russia is the richest country in resources in Europe and ranks in the top three in the world
• Thousands of children committed suicide in Romania during the state of emergency.
• Between 45,000 and 50,000 Romanians die annually from cancer
• Over half of Romania's population has emigrated abroad
• Romania holds 25% of the hydrographic network of the European Union.
• Over 70% of Romanians live in poverty, with 30% of them in absolute poverty
• I have filed over 1,600 criminal complaints against the leadership of Romania
• There are court decisions in Romania where a judge considered that a 9-year-old girl was not raped but had discernment a
• 80% of Bulgarians did not want the euro currency
• Romania has the largest production of oil and gas in the European Union
• Contracts worth tens of billions of dollars were signed with Russia at the St. Petersburg forum.
• At the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum a week before 15 June 2026, the US delegation was the largest.
• 65,000 Romanians died in Romania during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Romania had over 25% of water reserves in the European network
• Moldova closed over 15 television stations over the course of two or three years.

Diana Riba I Giner

• Energy prices in the European Union rose by 19% in the last year.
• Regional trains in Catalonia are used daily by almost 500,000 people.
• The United States has punished Cuba and its population with an economic blockade since 1958.
• An online academy dedicated to teaching men to rape accumulated 80 million visits in a single month.
• Housing prices in the European Union increased by 60% over the last ten years.
• Food prices in the European Union increased by 40% over the last five years.

Dick Erixon

• EU borrowing increased eightfold over five years, reaching €739 billion at the beginning of 2026.
• The Global Gateway has spent 300 billion euros since 2021.
• EU borrowing has increased eightfold in just five years, according to the European Court of Auditors
• The European Union's aid budget has grown many times over during these 25 years.
• EU debt can exceed 900 billion euros in 2027.
• Sweden quadrupled its development aid budget over 25 years.
• According to the European Court of Auditors' 2014 analysis, ending the move from Strasbourg to Brussels could lead to an
• A one-time saving of about 820 million euros would be achieved if the buildings in Strasbourg were successfully sold
• The cancellation of plenary sessions in Strasbourg during the COVID pandemic contributed to savings of over 26 million e
• The battery factory Northvolt in northern Sweden received nearly one billion euros from the EIB, but went bankrupt in Ma

Diego Solier

• EUR 110 million were allocated from Europe in 2024 to improve this railway line
• Spain is maintaining the closure of nuclear power plants starting with Almaraz I for 2027.

Dimitris Tsiodras

• In April 2026, nitrogen fertilizers cost 70% more compared to 2024.
• The European Union imports approximately 90% of the natural gas it consumes.
• 2025 was the worst season of forest fires in Europe, with more than 1,000,000 hectares destroyed.
• June 2026 was the hottest June ever recorded in several European countries.
• The European wine sector contributes approximately EUR 130 billion to European GDP.
• In 2025, liquefied natural gas (LNG) accounted for 45% of the EU's total gas imports.
• The European wine sector supports over 3 million jobs.
• More than 353,000 Pontic Greeks were killed by Turks between 1914 and 1923.
• Greece managed to be among the 12 member states with progress on all recommendations from the previous year

Dirk Gotink

• More than 70% of low-value goods imported into the EU are not produced in accordance with EU rules.
• In 2026 the volume of low-value goods imported from China into the EU is four times higher than in 2022.
• Low-value goods imported from China into the EU average 16 million items per day in 2026.
• The ICC is investigating the abduction of 20,000 children.
• Ceconomy owns approximately 1,000 shops in Europe.
• More than 90% of low-value goods imported into the EU come from China.

Dolors Montserrat

• Spain has been operating without an approved budget for three years.
• More than 100 people died and more than 80,000 irregular migrants crossed into Ceuta.
• There were 60 million affected persons, thousands of people trapped in trains, and ten deaths.
• Spain is the fourth largest economy in the European Union.
• Irregular entries into the European Union are at their lowest level since 2021, with Spain as the exception.
• More than 12,000 irregular migrants are still present on the streets of Ceuta.
• There were 60 million affected persons, thousands of people trapped in trains, and ten deaths.
• 470 political prisoners remain imprisoned

Dubravka Šuica

• The Sudanese city of El-Obeid shelters some 500,000 people.
• Rural areas cover 80% of Europe's territory, while only one third of the European population lives in rural areas and tw
• The Mediterranean region has a renewable energy potential of 2,300 GW, more than twice the EU's current installed capaci
• An attack on Kawel village in Plateau State, Nigeria, killed 21 people.
• Pakistan is the largest beneficiary worldwide of the EU's Generalised Scheme of Preferences Plus (GSP+) trade preference
• More than 100,000 people in El-Obeid have already been displaced at least once in 2026.
• Irregular migration to the EU fell by 35% this year, following a 55% reduction over the previous two years.
• The European Union's package programme supporting the Palestinian Authority amounts to €1.6 billion.
• Only a small share of biodiesel consumed in the EU is produced from soybeans, and the vast majority of the soybeans used
• The Startup4MED initiative has a budget of EUR 80 million to support SMEs and start-ups in the Mediterranean region and
• The T-MED Trans-Mediterranean Renewable Energy and Clean-Tech Initiative provides EUR 5 billion in guarantees intended t
• The Mediterranean Pact has started delivering tangible benefits through 21 initiatives.