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MEPs whose initial is “V” · 20 MEPs

Valdis Dombrovskis

• The Commission accompanied referral decisions with a request for financial sanctions in 20 cases.
• The Commission will enforce the single market rulebook through 11 single market focus areas for enforcement.
• In the current stock of legislation, the Commission has de-prioritised some 30% of delegated and implementing acts.
• The European Commission's assessment projects a total administrative burden reduction of EUR 15 billion for all companie
• In the European Union, 3.9% of the workforce is engaged in compliance-related activities, while only 1.7% works in resea
• Around 25% of children in the EU are at risk of poverty or social exclusion.
• The European Social Fund Plus has mobilized €9.6 billion for the European Child Guarantee.

Valentina Palmisano

• Currently 60% of the European population is estimated to be overweight or affected by obesity.
• Today one in four European children lives overweight.
• Today up to 80% of active pharmaceutical ingredients come from third countries

Valérie Deloge

• EU negotiations with Australia provide for the entry of more than 30,000 tonnes of beef and as many tonnes of lamb on av
• There are not one or two [free trade agreements], but nearly 40.
• With Mercosur, the European Union has already accepted the entry of 100,000 tonnes of beef.
• With Australia, the EU adds 24,000 tonnes of beef and 20,000 tonnes of sheep meat.
• In France in 2025, everyday medicines (paracetamol, amoxicillin, psychotropics, etc.) were in short supply or out of sto
• Elsewhere in Europe, shortages of antibiotics, cancer drugs or insulin are multiplying.
• The price of non-road diesel (GNR) in France has risen from 95 cents to more than two euros per liter, an increase of mo
• In ten years, the EU lost 8% of cows, 16% of goats and sheep

Valérie Devaux

• CNN recently revealed thousands of videos of unconscious, drugged, assaulted women circulate freely on the internet.
• Gisèle Pelicot was a victim of chemical submission.

Valérie Hayer

• Internal barriers cause the loss of EUR 500 billion in growth each year.
• Each year, EUR 300 billion of European savings are invested outside the European Union, particularly in the United State
• A loan of EUR 90 billion was approved this week for Ukraine.
• Greenland is covered by the EU mutual assistance clause (Article 42.7 TEU).
• Each year, the European Union spends more than 400 billion euros on the importation of fossil fuels.
• The Rassemblement National (RN) received a loan of 9 million euros granted by a Russian bank in 2014.
• Romanian presidential elections were cancelled in 2024 due to Russian interference.
• European households have 10 trillion euros of savings sitting in low-yield bank deposits.
• The 27 different regulatory systems in the European Union are equivalent to an internal tariff of 110% on services.

Vasile Dîncu

• Last year, a network was dismantled in Spain that had 22 million illegal users from around the world.

Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová

• The word 'corruption' appears in the Commission's Rule of Law Report more than 70 times.
• Slovakia fell 14 places in the corruption perception ranking.
• One in six teenagers experiences online bullying
• The creation and spread of 23,000 AI-generated images of undressed and sexualised children occurred on a major platform.

Vicent Marzà Ibáñez

• In Cuba, 11,000 children are waiting for surgery in hospitals without electricity for 20 hours a day.

Victor Negrescu

• House prices at European level have risen on average by 50% from 2010 to the present
• Currently 14% of the EU budget is allocated to education and mobility.

Viktória Ferenc

• The public health product tax introduced in 2011 moderated the consumption of sugary, salty and fatty foods, especially
• Daily physical education is compulsory in schools, which contributes to the decrease in obesity and cardiovascular risks
• Despite one million signatures, the Commission decided not to take legislative steps.
• Hungary ranks third in the European Union in corporate pharmaceutical R&D expenditure as a percentage of GDP.

Vilija Blinkevičiūtė

• About 90 million EU citizens live in poverty, and 16 million working people live at the poverty line, and this number is
• More than 16 million working people in Europe live in poverty because they do not receive sufficient wages

Ville Niinistö

• Households producing their own solar energy can save up to EUR 260 to EUR 550 per year.

Villy Søvndal

• The sacrifice is far over one million young Russian men who have either disappeared, been killed, or been disabled.
• 77% of Canadians support strengthening trade with the EU
• There are 10 countries in line to become members of the EU.
• 1.7 million people are living in tents among ruins and garbage in Gaza.

Virgil-Daniel Popescu

• The Romanian Black Sea shelf has a huge wind energy potential of over 70 GW.
• In Romania, over 300,000 prosumers with an installed capacity of over 2 GW were connected in the last 4 years.
• Romania has installed more than two gigawatts of prosumer capacity since the end of 2021, exceeding the capacity of its

Virginie Joron

• On February 26, the Commission established its Democratic Resilience Centre
• Since 2010, US wealth has jumped by 34% and that of the European Union by barely 21%
• 320 employees of the Dumarey factory have just learned that their workplace will close in 2026
• The EU has liabilities exceeding EUR 300 billion.
• The Court of Auditors has issued unfavorable opinions on the legality and regularity of EU expenditure for six years.
• Hundreds of millions of euros in agricultural subsidies were diverted to politicians in Greece.
• Pfizer received a fine of EUR 2 billion in the United States.
• By November 2025, OpenAI had already exceeded 14 billion dollars in investments.
• In 2024, China filed nearly 50% of patents, the United States 16%, and Europe 5.4%.

Virginijus Sinkevičius

• The war in Iran is pushing oil prices towards USD 100 per barrel.
• Estonia ranks 3rd in the world in media freedom rankings.
• Current EU law provides compensation to passengers after three hours of flight delay
• In 2024, the European Investment Bank invested more than 68 billion EUR, of which almost 450 million EUR was invested in
• Almost 450 million EUR of EIB funds was invested in Lithuania.
• EIB funds reached over 1,500 Lithuanian companies.
• The EU ETS is responsible for less than 10% of the electricity price.
• Over 300 billion euros of the European Union's GDP is not captured annually due to the underutilization of the single ma

Vlad Vasile-Voiculescu

• Romanian patients are often among the last in the EU to benefit from innovative treatments.

Vladimir Prebilič

• The EU and India together represent almost a quarter of the world's population
• EU-India bilateral trade exceeds EUR 120 billion annually

Volker Schnurrbusch

• Air passenger numbers in the EU are rising
• The European Union imports the majority of seafood consumed in the EU.

Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis

• Only eight of the 27 EU Member States have implemented nationwide bans on conversion practices.
• According to Article 1 of the EU Treaty, only Member States confer competences on Union institutions.
• According to Article 12 of the EU Treaty, the European Parliament must cooperate with the Lithuanian Parliament before a
• In the 2025 Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index, Lithuania ranks 14th out of 180 countries, and its over
• Lithuania's overall score in the World Press Freedom Index increased.
• 516 out of 578 public procurements were implemented through non-public tender (negotiated) procedures.
• Lithuania has two large factories producing ammonium and phosphates.