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MEPs whose initial is “V” · 20 MEPs

Valdis Dombrovskis

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

Valentina Palmisano

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

Valérie Deloge

• With Mercosur, the European Union has already accepted the entry of 100,000 tonnes of beef.
• 17 million Europeans live year-round in the EU's outermost regions.
• EU negotiations with Australia provide for the entry of more than 30,000 tonnes of beef and as many tonnes of lamb on av
• Elsewhere in Europe, shortages of antibiotics, cancer drugs or insulin are multiplying.
• With Australia, the EU adds 24,000 tonnes of beef and 20,000 tonnes of sheep meat.
• The 2026 EU budget allocates more than €13 billion to European public administration.
• In ten years, the EU lost 8% of cows, 16% of goats and sheep
• A European study estimates that farmers spend an average of €1,200 per year on administrative tasks related to the CAP.
• There are not one or two [free trade agreements], but nearly 40.
• 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 France in 2025, everyday medicines (paracetamol, amoxicillin, psychotropics, etc.) were in short supply or out of sto
• The European Commission acknowledges that transport costs in outermost regions can be up to 300% higher.

Valérie Devaux

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

Valérie Hayer

• Each year, the European Union spends more than 400 billion euros on the importation of fossil fuels.
• The 27 different regulatory systems in the European Union are equivalent to an internal tariff of 110% on services.
• Internal barriers cause the loss of EUR 500 billion in growth each year.
• European households have 10 trillion euros of savings sitting in low-yield bank deposits.
• Romanian presidential elections were cancelled in 2024 due to Russian interference.
• The Rassemblement National (RN) received a loan of 9 million euros granted by a Russian bank in 2014.
• The European Union's trade deficit with China amounted to €360 billion in 2025.
• Greenland is covered by the EU mutual assistance clause (Article 42.7 TEU).
• A loan of EUR 90 billion was approved this week for Ukraine.
• Each year, EUR 300 billion of European savings are invested outside the European Union, particularly in the United State

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.
• 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.
• Slovakia fell 14 places in the corruption perception ranking.

Vicent Marzà Ibáñez

• In Cuba, 11,000 children are waiting for surgery in hospitals without electricity for 20 hours a day.
• On 6 July 2026, there are 3 million passengers travelling in European airspace.

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.
• According to PISA results, more than half of Romanian 15-year-olds do not reach the minimum proficiency level in mathema

Viktória Ferenc

• Despite one million signatures, the Commission decided not to take legislative steps.
• More than 100 Transcarpathian Hungarian men have become victims of the war in Ukraine.
• The public health product tax introduced in 2011 moderated the consumption of sugary, salty and fatty foods, especially
• In the first eight months of 2026, more civilians were killed or injured in Ukraine than during the whole of 2025.
• Europe is responsible for only 6% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
• Hungary ranks third in the European Union in corporate pharmaceutical R&D expenditure as a percentage of GDP.
• At least 17,000 civilians have been killed in Ukraine since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion.
• More than 100 Hungarian-speaking soldiers serving in the Ukrainian armed forces have been killed defending Ukraine.
• In Ukraine, thousands of soldiers and civilians have been killed since the start of the war, including nearly 700 childr
• Daily physical education is compulsory in schools, which contributes to the decrease in obesity and cardiovascular risks

Vilija Blinkevičiūtė

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

Ville Niinistö

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

Villy Søvndal

• 77% of Canadians support strengthening trade with the EU
• More than 70,000 people are confirmed dead in Gaza.
• The sacrifice is far over one million young Russian men who have either disappeared, been killed, or been disabled.
• 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

• In Romania, over 300,000 prosumers with an installed capacity of over 2 GW were connected in the last 4 years.
• The Romanian Black Sea shelf has a huge wind energy potential of over 70 GW.
• 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
• Hundreds of millions of euros in agricultural subsidies were diverted to politicians in Greece.
• Since 2010, US wealth has jumped by 34% and that of the European Union by barely 21%
• Pfizer received a fine of EUR 2 billion in the United States.
• 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.
• The European Commission has obliged Europeans to buy American chips and 750 billion US dollars of American liquefied nat
• France has requested approval to finance six EPR2 nuclear reactors and is still waiting for the green light from Brussel
• Public procurement in Europe amounts to EUR 2,500 billion.
• Germany requested support for the construction of 12 gigawatts of gas-fired power plants and Brussels validated the mech
• 320 employees of the Dumarey factory have just learned that their workplace will close in 2026
• In 2024, China filed nearly 50% of patents, the United States 16%, and Europe 5.4%.
• By November 2025, OpenAI had already exceeded 14 billion dollars in investments.

Virginijus Sinkevičius

• Ukraine has a defence funding gap of €23 billion.
• Over 300 billion euros of the European Union's GDP is not captured annually due to the underutilization of the single ma
• Battery electric cars account for one in five new cars sold in the EU this year.
• The EU ETS is responsible for less than 10% of the electricity price.
• The war in Iran is pushing oil prices towards USD 100 per barrel.
• In 2024, the European Investment Bank invested more than 68 billion EUR, of which almost 450 million EUR was invested in
• Europe's automotive sector accounts for more than 13 million jobs.
• Current EU law provides compensation to passengers after three hours of flight delay
• At its peak, 88% of Lithuania's electricity was generated by the Ignalina nuclear power plant, more than twenty years ag
• EIB funds reached over 1,500 Lithuanian companies.
• Almost 450 million EUR of EIB funds was invested in Lithuania.
• Estonia ranks 3rd in the world in media freedom rankings.
• In eight days, drones hit five civilian ships in EU waters, three of which sank, and more than 20 sailors are dead or mi

Vlad Vasile-Voiculescu

• Erasmus began in 1987 with only 3,200 students.
• One in three doctors and one in four nurses in the European Union are over 55 years old.
• Romanian patients are often among the last in the EU to benefit from innovative treatments.
• More than 25,000 doctors and more than 50,000 nurses from Romania are working in other EU countries.
• Over 40 years, more than 18 million Europeans have benefited from the Erasmus programme.

Vladimir Prebilič

• EU-India bilateral trade exceeds EUR 120 billion annually
• SMEs provide 70% of jobs in the European Union.
• SMEs account for 99% of all enterprises in Europe.
• The EU and India together represent almost a quarter of the world's population

Volker Schnurrbusch

• Islands are home to 17 million EU citizens
• Air passenger numbers in the EU are rising
• The European Union imports the majority of seafood consumed in the EU.
• The German Farmers' Association estimates losses of €1-2 billion for voluntary biodiversity measures on just 5-10% of ag

Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis

• Fragmented, non-coordinated defence spending by EU member states costs around EUR 18-57 billion per year.
• Statistics show that one in three doctors experiences stress, tension and many problems.
• Lithuania has two large factories producing ammonium and phosphates.
• Only eight of the 27 EU Member States have implemented nationwide bans on conversion practices.
• Only one of the six EU accession negotiation clusters for Ukraine had been opened by July 2026.
• 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
• One in four medical workers also experiences enormous pressure.
• 516 out of 578 public procurements were implemented through non-public tender (negotiated) procedures.
• According to Article 1 of the EU Treaty, only Member States confer competences on Union institutions.
• Lithuania's overall score in the World Press Freedom Index increased.