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MEPs whose initial is “J” · 49 MEPs

Jaak Madison

• Members of the European Parliament earn almost EUR 15,000 per month including daily allowances.
• In the EU, over 50% of the fuel price goes to taxes, while in North America it is only 20%.
• France allocates EUR 50 billion to climate policy and EUR 50 billion to defence.
• The European Union imports about 80% of its minerals from China and from Chinese-controlled operations in Africa.
• Approximately EUR 100 billion is paid from the EU budget every year for climate policy.
• The EU economy constitutes about only 13% of the global economy.
• German taxpayers are paying approximately EUR 80 billion for climate policy but EUR 110 billion for defence this year.

Jacek Ozdoba

• Energy costs in the United States are about two times lower than in Europe.
• 100,000 Poles and Jews were brutally murdered in the Volhynia massacre.

Jadwiga Wiśniewska

• The EU household appliance sector employs over one million workers.
• Paid work in the care sector remains one of the lowest paid.
• Over 90,000 illegal migrants entered Ceuta, changing residents' lives into a nightmare.
• Already today, one in five Europeans is over 65.
• Over 53 million women perform informal care work.

Jagna Marczułajtis-Walczak

• Disability increases the risk of poverty by 61% according to European Disability Forum data
• Article 24 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities states that every child has the right to qual

Jakov Milatović

• Montenegro has been a member of NATO since 2017, which is almost 10 years as of June 2026.
• The last country joined the European Union almost 15 years ago (as of June 2026).

Jan Farský

• The EU has given Ukraine over EUR 200 billion since the war began.
• Police in Slovakia are investigating up to 70 cases where European subsidies were allegedly used for personal benefit.
• The USA makes do with 30 combat systems where Europe needs 178.

Jan-Christoph Oetjen

• More than 1,700 people have been infected with Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, and hundreds ha
• The Parliament proposal requires airlines to send pre-filled compensation claim forms within 48 hours.
• 33 million people in Sudan urgently need humanitarian assistance, of whom 16 million are children.
• Last year, the numbers [of arrivals] fell again by 26%.
• 3.5 million end-of-life vehicles are shipped outside Europe for recycling annually.
• The RSF are threatening an offensive on El-Obeid, putting 500,000 civilians at risk.
• Only 18% of air passengers who are entitled to compensation actually claim it.

Jana Nagyová

• PISA results clearly show that 15-year-old children in Europe are deteriorating in mathematics, natural sciences, and re

Jaroslav Bžoch

• According to Eurobarometer survey, more than 40% of parents feel they lack sufficient knowledge to protect children in t
• Record amounts of cocaine are entering the European Union, fuelling violence, corruption and criminal networks.
• Romania and Bulgaria joined the European Union approximately 12 years after submitting their membership applications.
• Croatia became a member of the EU 10 years after applying.
• According to WHO and UNICEF data, up to one in six children in Europe has encountered some form of cyberbullying

Jaroslav Knot

• A data breach in Lithuania involved more than 600,000 records from national registers.

Jaroslava Pokorná Jermanová

• A cyberattack on a regional hospital in the Czech Republic disabled its healthcare system for almost a year.

Jaume Asens Llodrà

• Almost 600 humanitarian workers have been killed in Gaza.
• Greece recently bought an anti-missile defence system from Israel for 3 billion dollars.
• More than 21,000 Palestinian girls and boys killed, more than 150 in Lebanon, 300 in Iran

Javi López

• The United Nations confirms that the Earth's temperature has already risen by 1.5 degrees Celsius.
• European families living in rental spend 40% of their income on housing today
• 200 million Europeans were simultaneously exposed to temperatures above 35 degrees Celsius.
• During the last ten years, house purchase prices have increased by 55%

Javier Moreno Sánchez

• The European Union provided a loan of 90,000 million euros to Ukraine.
• Trade exchange between the EU and Canada increased by 75%
• The European Union is providing a loan of 90 billion euros as a financial support measure.
• WTO members represent 93% of the world population.
• Nine EU member states have not yet ratified the CETA trade agreement.
• 166 countries representing 93% of the world population will attend the Yaoundé conference.

Javier Zarzalejos

• The bodies of 140 victims of the Ceuta incident are being buried in the Sidi Embarek Muslim cemetery because Morocco has
• In Spain, a bad regulation of rape and sexual assault that had to be rectified resulted in the early release of more tha
• Almost 70% of European citizens believe that corruption is widespread in their country.
• The regime caused the exile of one in five Venezuelans (20%)
• Almost 60% of known criminal groups use corruption as part of their activities.
• In 2025, the international Internet Watch Foundation identified 3,440 AI videos of child sexual abuse, compared to only
• 70,000 people have returned to Morocco from Ceuta.

Jean-Marc Germain

• The Parliament is creating an action capacity equivalent to 1.8% of GNP.
• On 17 February 2025, 267 employees of Tupperware Belgium were dismissed
• Events in 2023 saw the displacement of more than 120,000 Armenians
• Out-of-quota tariffs will be doubled from 25% to 50%.
• €18 billion of European funds are currently blocked to sanction the rule of law shortcomings of the Orbán government in
• The Commission wants to sign a check for 16 billion euros to Hungary under the SAFE defence programme.
• By inscribing credits increased by 50% and new European borrowings, we are creating an action capacity of 1.8% of GNP.
• The EU will reduce low-tariff steel import quotas by half.

Jean-Paul Garraud

• Nearly 100,000 hectares burned in France this summer due to wildfires.
• Turkey has received more than 10 billion euros in EU funds since 2000.
• Thousands of families had to be evacuated due to the wildfires this summer.
• Four firefighters died in France while carrying out their mission this summer.
• Spain is regularising hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants, a policy that the speaker says endangers the whole
• Nearly 1,000 police officers were injured during riots in France on Saturday and Sunday.

Jeannette Baljeu

• Millions of parcels from platforms such as Temu and Shein enter the European market every day.

Jens Geier

• Around a quarter of uranium imports used in Europe came from Russia

Jens Gieseke

• If the Council position prevails, around 60% of passengers would lose their compensation entitlement
• Over 3 million vehicles disappear from registration systems in the EU annually.
• Volkswagen is Europe's largest car manufacturer.

Jeroen Lenaers

• The European Union promised EUR 90 billion for Ukraine's defence.
• Illegal arrivals into the European Union have already been halved following a strengthened migration and returns policy.
• Portugal has recorded consecutive budget surpluses since the government took office.
• Investigations have led to the convictions of four individuals responsible for the Predator spyware scandal
• The Internet Watch Foundation identified almost 3,500 AI videos containing child sexual abuse material this year, compar
• Portugal's public debt has fallen sharply since the government took office in 2024.

Jessica Polfjärd

• Every day, 7,500 new cancer cases are discovered in the EU
• Today approximately 80 percent of ingredients for pharmaceutical manufacturing are imported from a few countries.
• In Sweden alone, 75,000 cancer diagnoses occur every year
• Cancer is today Europe's second most common cause of death

Jessika Roswall

• The heatwave is estimated to have caused 16,000 additional deaths in Germany in 2026.
• The EU bioeconomy accounts for 5% of EU GDP.
• The EU bioeconomy employs 17.1 million people.
• The EU bioeconomy generates a value of around EUR 2.7 trillion.
• The economic impact of inaction on nature restoration amounts to €180 billion in 2026.
• Under the current Multiannual Financial Framework, EUR 6.5 billion from regional funds has been allocated directly to na
• According to some sources, at least 932 executions have been reported in Iran so far in 2026.

Jessika Van Leeuwen

• The WHO predicts that antimicrobial resistance will be the number one cause of death globally by 2050.
• The European Court of Auditors found that the Commission's interventions during COVID-19 led to more complexity and less
• Nearly 660,000 hectares of land have burned across the EU in 2026.
• In 2025, Iran carried out at least 2,159 executions, the highest number since 1981.

Joachim Stanisław Brudziński

• In the cohesion policy area the Court of Auditors estimated the error rate at 6.6%, while the Commission reported only 2
• The European Court of Auditors' 2025 opinion reports an error rate of 3.8%, again above the 2% materiality threshold
• Ten EU member states currently have a fertility rate below 1.30.
• The fertility rate in the European Union fell between 2021 and 2024 in 26 of 27 member states, reaching 1.34 in 2024, be
• In 1990 not a single member state had a fertility rate below 1.30.
• In 13 audited amendments to Recovery and Resilience plans, milestone requirements were modified after payment requests h

Joachim Streit

• Rural regions make up 83% of the EU territory.
• Women-founded companies receive only one to two percent of risk capital.
• One-third of companies in the EU are founded by women.
• There are 720 Members of the European Parliament
• The European Investment Bank holds a triple-A credit rating, which is crucial for financing itself at favourable conditi

Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus

• One million girls in Afghanistan are out of school.
• Only 1 in 5 raped women contacted a doctor or social services.
• World Aquatics restored Russia's full membership rights
• Since 2010, house prices have risen by 60% and rents by almost 30%
• During the year, the number of AI-generated videos depicting child sexual abuse increased by over 26,000.
• Every night 1.3 million people in Europe, including 400,000 vulnerable children, sleep on the streets or in temporary sh
• Only 1 in 7 women reports rape to the police.
• On 18 May 2026, military exercises involving nuclear weapons took place in Belarus.
• According to a study by the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom, Turkey accounts for 89% of arrests and detentio
• 1 in 3 women in the European Union has experienced physical or sexual violence.
• In Turkey, hundreds of women have been murdered, in addition to the many opposition politicians targeted.
• A platform teaching how to rape women operates on the internet with 60 million views monthly.

Johan Danielsson

• Rents and housing prices have increased faster than incomes
• Over 200,000 Europeans die from diseases contracted because of their work.
• 90% of Sweden's imports and exports travel by sea at some point.
• The construction sector accounts for more than 40% of all posted workers in the EU.
• At least 23 sailors have been reported missing or dead in the Black Sea in recent days.
• Over 3,000 people lose their lives in workplace accidents every year.
• 174 workers were identified as potential victims of human trafficking at one and the same construction site in the port

Johan Van Overtveldt

• Algorithmic trading represents two thirds of overall trading volumes
• China's market share in solar panel production fluctuates between 80% and 90%.
• Non-bank financial institutions currently account for almost a third of outstanding credit volumes
• China represents three-quarters (75%) of the global market for new wind turbines.

Jonas Sjöstedt

• Up to 1,000,000 Uighurs have been in forced labor camps in Xinjiang province
• OLAF recently concluded systematic misuse of EU funds in Hungary, specifically concerning the agricultural fund.
• The European Union is being overtaken by other regions both in renewable electricity and in electric vehicles.
• The Swedish Democrats' aid foundation received 25 million kronor in the most recent allocation.
• The ID group embezzled at least 4.3 million euros of taxpayers' money.
• In 2023 the special prosecutor's office was abolished in the country.

Jonás Fernández

• According to the Global Retail Investor Outlook, social media is the main place where Generation Z obtains information a
• Five people died in the Cerredo mine in Asturias last summer.
• The miners of Mina Miura have 12 unpaid monthly paychecks.
• According to the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank, Europeans impose shadow tariffs on themselve
• Shadow tariffs from internal market barriers amount to around 40-60% for goods and more than 100% for services, accordin

Jordan Bardella

• France is the second-largest economy in Europe.
• Greenland, a territory four times larger than France
• The euro has recently appreciated against the dollar beyond the symbolic threshold of 1.20.
• The Common Agricultural Policy budget was claimed to have been extended by 45 billion euros.
• Inflation is slowing in several Member States, particularly in France.
• The price of petrol in France is approaching 2.50 euros per litre.
• Australia's agricultural surface is thirteen times that of France, which is the second-largest economy in Europe.
• 58 French paratroopers were killed in Lebanon in 1983 in the Drakkar attack.

Jorge Buxadé Villalba

• France suffered at least €1.2 billion in economic losses in a few days.
• The port of Algeciras is losing traffic compared to that of Tangier.
• China produces more than 90% of the world's electric batteries.
• In 1990, Europe accounted for 28% of global GDP, and China accounted for less than 2%.
• In Spain, one senior official has been convicted and four senior officials have been prosecuted for corruption, specific
• Three million people have entered Spain in the last five years
• The European Investment Bank allocated €365 million to strengthen the resilience and security of Morocco's road and rail
• 104,000 workers have been laid off in the European automotive sector over the last two years.
• Agricultural and livestock farms and the fishing fleet have been reduced by half since 1990
• 15,000 irregular migrants are still in Ceuta after the mass border crossing.
• More than 1,400 girls were systematically raped by foreigners in Rotherham
• The Spanish government has regularized hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants.
• In Spain, real wages have been stagnant since 1994 (thirty years)
• No less than 50% of perpetrators were foreigners
• The EU has a trade deficit of $460 billion.
• In Spain, 5,400 rapes were reported last year: fifteen per day
• Turkey has occupied part of Cyprus since 1974.

Jorge Martín Frías

• On 7 October 2023, a terrorist organisation killed more than 1,200 people in Israel, the largest massacre of Jews since
• The European Union has sanctioned the entire entourage of Ortega except Ortega himself.
• The dictatorship in Cuba has lasted more than 65 years.
• There are still 473 political prisoners in Venezuela who have not benefited from the amnesty

José Cepeda

• ENISA, the EU Agency for Cybersecurity, has a budget of 341 million euros over seven years.
• Russian decoy or observation drones such as the Gerbera cost USD 10,000.
• Russian kamikaze drones such as the Shahed or Geran-2 cost practically USD 50,000.

Jozef Síkela

• EU-Canada bilateral trade in goods and services rose 80% under CETA's provisional application, from EUR 72.1 billion in
• The European Union mobilised over EUR 6 billion between 2021 and 2025 to build global health resilience.
• A poll from early September found that 81% of Canadians support closer integration with the EU, including easier trade,
• The European Union and the World Health Organization are supporting stronger health systems in 115 countries across Afri
• The European Union provided over EUR 200 million for immediate humanitarian aid, surveillance and research funding in re
• Through the Global Gateway strategy, the European Union mobilised more than EUR 2 billion for regional manufacturing of
• In July 2026 the European Commission released an additional €10 million in humanitarian aid to Cuba, bringing total EU h

João Cotrim De Figueiredo

• Ukraine did not guarantee the 70 billion euros in funding that had been requested.
• Trade in services with the rest of the world grows faster than intra-EU trade in services.
• The EU has 450 million inhabitants and a GDP of EUR 18 trillion
• Since 2020, EU trade in services with the rest of the world has grown faster than intra-EU trade
• There are EUR 10 trillion in savings idle in European bank accounts
• Ten trillion euros sit idle in European bank accounts.
• The European Union has a trade deficit of 360 billion euros with China.

João Oliveira

• The cost of living is increasing in several EU countries
• Cohesion, agriculture and fisheries represented 65% of the budget in the current multiannual financial framework
• More than 93 million citizens live, in their current situation, pushed into poverty in the European Union
• A few months ago, the Judiciary Police dismantled an armed militia that was preparing to create a far-right party.
• 1,200,000 forcibly displaced persons in Lebanon as a consequence of Israeli aggression
• In the European Union, 21% of the population, more than 93 million people, are affected by poverty, including more than
• Portugal transposed the Istanbul Convention (Council of Europe Convention No. 210) and adapted its penal law without wai
• Israel and the United States carried out bombings in June 2025
• Germany and Italy together account for more than 50% of EU steel production.
• Israel has killed more than 2,000 Lebanese.
• Portugal abolished the death penalty in 1867, being one of the first countries in the world to do so
• Portugal already has a special online gambling tax at a rate of 25% on the gross revenue of licensed operators.
• EUR 90 billion from the European Union budget has been allocated to finance the war in Ukraine
• More than 1,200,000 displaced persons in Lebanon
• The European Central Bank raised interest rates.
• With the Commission proposal, cohesion, agriculture and fisheries represent only 45% of the budget
• For 48 years, the fascist Portuguese regime persecuted, imprisoned, tortured and murdered communists and other democrats
• The European Central Bank has decided to increase interest rates.
• Price increases resulting from the US war against Iran have cost citizens €90 billion in higher prices.
• EU lending to finance the war in Ukraine amounted to EUR 18 billion in 2024 and EUR 90 billion in 2025.

Juan Carlos Girauta Vidal

• Lanza had already left a policeman tetraplegic in 2007.
• Two out of three SMEs identify regulatory complexity as an obstacle to their growth.
• In 2017, left-wing squatter Rodrigo Lanza murdered Víctor Laínez in Zaragoza, Spain.
• The European Commission estimates the annual recurring cost of administrative processes at €150 billion.

Juan Fernando López Aguilar

• Cultural creation accounts for 7% of European GDP.
• The Canary Islands receives 18 million tourists per year
• There are eight candidate countries on the EU enlargement waiting list, or nine if Turkey is included
• Nine states are on the waiting list for European Union enlargement.
• The petition that motivated this request before the European Parliament has collected 1,200,000 signatures.
• The European Union has adopted 21 packages of sanctions against Russia.
• The European Union is the region of the world most affected by global warming.
• The European Parliament has the last word on international agreements according to Article 218 of the Treaty on the Func
• Public procurement accounts for 15% of the European Union's GDP.
• There are ten states on the EU accession waiting list.
• United States has accused International Criminal Court officials and judges.
• The Union for the Mediterranean, created in 2008 out of the 1995 Barcelona Process, brought together the then 28 EU memb
• The 2025 law suppressed the Whistleblower Protection Office in Slovakia.
• Viktor Orbán has been leading the Government of Hungary for sixteen years.
• The 2024 reform of the Penal Code eliminated the Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office in Slovakia.
• The wine sector employs three million people and accounts for almost 1% of GDP.
• Thousands of people went missing in Cyprus after its northern part was invaded by Turkey in 1974, and their families sti
• Alexander Lukashenko has been in power for 35 years in a ruthless dictatorship in Belarus.
• €2,000 million (€2 billion) were invested in police station and security-centre infrastructure in the Campo de Gibraltar
• Difficulty in accessing housing has become the biggest factor of inequality in the European Union
• The European Parliament approved increasing the POSEI budget allocation to 7,300 million euros, above the 4,500 million
• Five EU member states do not recognize Kosovo's statehood.
• Russian drones have violated the airspace of five EU member states: Romania, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania.
• The European Union is the world's largest donor of development aid and humanitarian aid.
• Spain's Interior Ministry increased the number of police and Guardia Civil officers by 17,000 — 4,000 of them in Andalus
• The European Union has adopted twenty packages of sanctions.
• 1.5 million people fled Afghanistan when the Taliban returned to power in 2021.
• The European Parliament has enacted a Pact on Migration and Asylum consisting of eight binding rules, European Regulatio
• The European Parliament has approved 21 sanction packages against Russia after the war of aggression against Ukraine.
• The United States is the first trading partner of the European Union
• Article 21 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights prohibits discrimination, and Article 4 prohibits torture and inhuman or
• The SAFE instrument will inject no less than 16.5 billion euros.
• The Ceuta border crisis caused 140 deaths, a toll deplored by the Spanish authorities.

Juan Ignacio Zoido Álvarez

• In the last two years, four police officers were assassinated in Spain, and one police officer was killed in Portugal in
• Ukraine is capable of producing up to five million drones per year.
• The European Union currently reaches only 10% of Ukraine's drone production capacity.
• On 30 July, 80,000 people entered European territory from Morocco into the Spanish city of Ceuta.
• Five million jobs in Europe are at stake in the EU-US trade agreement.
• In 2021, 8,000 people were sent from Belarus towards the borders of Poland, Finland and the Baltic states.
• More than 70% of casualties in the Ukraine war have been caused by drones according to numerous analysts.
• In one year, Russia violated the airspace of about ten European countries.
• At least 15,000 immigrants were still in Ceuta a month and a half after the crossings.
• About 80,000 immigrants entered Ceuta, a city of 80,000 inhabitants.
• Around 80,000 people stormed the border in Ceuta in barely one hour.

Judita Laššáková

• In 2012, demonstrators were sprayed with water cannons.

Julie Rechagneux

• 2 million files from the French Office of Immigration were found for sale on the dark web.
• There are nearly 3 million requests for social housing in France
• In several sectors of the European Union, posted work has exerted downward pressure on wages and fuelled social competit
• France is currently the second most affected country in the world by data breaches.
• Data of 43 million people were stolen from France Travail (the French employment agency).
• The national bank accounts file of the DGFiP was accessed for sixteen days.

Julien Leonardelli

• Spain has surpassed France in high-speed rail network length, and Poland is catching up; both countries are now building
• Europe will lack nearly 4 million healthcare workers by 2030.

Julien Sanchez

• The European Parliament plans to spend 500 million euros on works in a building in Brussels.
• Billions of euros do not enter EU coffers every year because of fraud and under-declaration.
• The estimated error rate in EU expenditure is 3.8%, and reaches 6.6% for the Cohesion, Resilience and Values heading
• In the case of the Recovery and Resilience Facility, we only have access to the top 100 beneficiaries.
• For the seventh consecutive year, the European Court of Auditors issued an adverse opinion on the regularity of EU expen

Jussi Saramo

• The largest expenditure item in the EU budget is subsidies to agricultural land owners.
• The United States federal budget is over 23% of GDP.
• The European Union budget is only just over 1% of EU GDP.

Jutta Paulus

• Albanian citizens have been protesting for 17 days to protect the future Natura 2000 area Vjosa-Narta.
• According to the International Energy Agency, cutting methane emissions and controlling flaring could free up to 2 billi
• Unlike all other sectors, aviation emissions are only rising.
• One minute of AI-generated video consumes as much electricity as an average household uses in two days, plus seven litre
• Long-haul flights, which are excluded from the ETS, account for almost 200 Mt CO2.
• 200 million euros of tax money is proposed to be spent on small modular reactor development.
• Two-thirds of European aviation emissions are not priced.

Jörgen Warborn

• The Commission's goal is to achieve EUR 37.5 billion in cost reductions for European businesses.
• The United Kingdom is the European Union's second-largest trading partner.
• 66% of businesses say that the regulatory burden affects their investments and acts as an obstacle to investment
• No administrative burden has been added from Brussels since the 'one in, one out' principle started in 2022.
• The Commission introduced the "one in, one out" principle in 2022.

Jüri Ratas

• In Estonia, approximately 22% of people must cope with income below 60% of the European average
• In today's Europe, over 14% of people live at risk of poverty
• In Estonia, over 99% of public services are available digitally.
• During the month, electricity prices fluctuated from minus 7 euros to 441 euros per MWh.
• Over 80% of Europeans find that income inequality is too large
• Prices in Finland and Sweden were up to 1.5 times lower than in Estonia at the same time.
• The world's richest tenth controls about 75% of all wealth, while the poorest half of humanity must share less than a te
• The average electricity price in Estonia rose by 70% to 154 euros per MWh in January.
• Global steel production capacity exceeds demand by hundreds of millions of tonnes.
• Electricity demand in Estonia grew by nearly one-fifth (20%) in January.