What Fabio spoke about.

Madam President, Our companies are under pressure, but not because of national taxation, but because energy prices are too high, because our infrastructure is squandered and because large US tech companies in particular often pay less than 1% tax on their profits in Europe, while our SMEs pay up to 30% in the internal market. I have my doubts as to whether this problem will be addressed by the fac

Madam President, Under pressure from Donald Trump, FIFA withdrew a red card against a US ‑ footballer. But this stupidity, which destroys this great sport, exists not only in football, but also in politics. We have seen it in this House in dealing with Donald Trump's blackmail with punitive tariffs and waving through the tariff agreement. We experienced it when German Chancellor Friedrich Merz han

Mr President! We have responded to Russia’s war in violation of international law with sanctions that have increased our dependence on Donald Trump’s dirty fracking gas; The wars of the United States and Israel, which violated international law, were only silenced by the leaders of the EU. And now we let the US drive us into an economic war with China. When my country – Germany – had large export

Madam President, Artificial intelligence has many potentials, especially the potential to dumb us down: The algorithms of tech billionaires increasingly control our thinking, our feeling and also politics; They turn children into digital zombies. In the US, the bubble in artificial intelligence threatens to burst because of the lack of capacity to operate and cool computer farms in the face of hig

Mr President! The European Union suffers from Stockholm syndrome and a complete misunderstanding of reality. Donald Trump is blackmailing us with punitive tariffs. We accept 15 percent on European goods, offer it 0 percent on U.S. goods. He overwhelms us with punitive tariffs – 50 percent on aluminium and steel – and, thanks to him, we also fill the order books with weapons and purchases of

Madam President, I am referring to Rule 167 of the Rules of Procedure. I would like to address the situation in Iran, where we see an unprovoked and illegal war that has nothing to do with the liberation of the Iranian people. We have witnessed acid rain over Tehran. We have witnessed the destruction of water supplies. It's a grave breach of international order. We have witnessed the killing of in

Madam President, Europe's people and economy are exhausted. Exhausted by insufficient public investment and broken infrastructure, exhausted by inflation and insufficient real wages, driven by high energy prices, and exhausted by bureaucratic burdens and reporting obligations. But it does not mean cutting red tape by attacking the workers who have built wealth in Europe. It is therefore absurd for

Madam President, I refer to Rule 167 of the Rules of Procedure. We have now heard that US President Donald Trump wants to impose punitive tariffs on various European countries in connection with his demands to sell Greenland. But it is not enough if we all get up here and clap anointingly, but we have to approach the pain points of the USA and discuss here, for example, why US medium-range missile

Madam President, I refer to Rule 167 of the Rules of Procedure. Even though Christmas, the Feast of Love, is just around the corner, I can't spare you a point. The Brussels capital has recently been shaken again by a scandal involving the misuse of EU funds. Federica Mogherini, the former High Representative for Foreign Affairs, was briefly arrested. And I find it surprising that this House has no

Madam President, A few days ago, the head of Denmark's military intelligence made it clear that there is still no reliable information on the authorship of drone flights. Surely we shouldn't be naive. A few months ago, however, I asked the European Council what knowledge they had and, according to the answer, they had not even dealt with it at the political level. Now a new sow is being driven thr

Madam President, I refer to Rule 167 of the Rules of Procedure. The German Attorney General is currently investigating a suspected state terrorist attack on Germany’s energy infrastructure – Nord Stream. We may have different views in this House on the need to also source gas from Russia. Personally, I believe that we should not depend solely on Donald Trump and expensive US fracking gas. If, howe

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen! Mrs. von der Leyen's deal is a surrender and has the lifespan of a one-day fly: 15 percent on European goods to the U.S., 0 percent on U.S. exports to Europe, and after a few days it was said: 50 percent on our steel and aluminium sector. This is an economic blow, and the EU Commission has just maneuvered itself into a completely one-sided dependence on the US.

Madam President, I refer to Rule 144 of the Rules of Procedure: Parliamentary right to question. We know that many MEPs have the problem that the European Commission answers parliamentary questions completely inadequately or late. In my case, on 14 March of this year, I made a request concerning Ms Ursula von der Leyen's contacts with the defence industry. This question has not been answered for m

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, The European Investment Bank could play an important role in transforming industry and boosting public investment. For example, increasing the capital of the European Investment Bank does not count towards the European debt brakes. Instead, we are now hearing a new sound here in the European Parliament: More needs to be done to invest in armaments. However, we a

Madam President, I refer to Rule 131 of the Rules of Procedure. Non-attached Members were not given the right to speak today in this important debate on Ms von der Leyen. I would just like to point out that, unlike Mrs von der Leyen, we were elected by the citizens of Europe. Mrs von der Leyen has never faced a direct choice. I would also like to point out once again that it was a very large coali

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. Online shopping and the use of smartphones are increasingly crowding out government cash. However, government cash is also protection against the market power of digital oligopolists and also against negative interest rates at private banks. Visa, for example, makes a profit of 0.50 euros for each euro credit card fee; This is modern piracy. And yes, it's also a

Madam President, A few days ago, a European court sentenced the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, for the second time in the Pfizer affair and found that the President of the Commission has repeatedly violated European law by not making her SMS, which she sent to the head of Pfizer at the time, available to the public and citizens in Europe. And it has even announced that

Now, the question of morality depends on which instrument is suitable to end the war in Ukraine as soon as possible. And if we do more harm to ourselves economically than impair Putin's ability to wage war, that is simply not a sensible policy. Of course, we did not start sanctioning the US after the Iraq war because we would have shot ourselves in the knee. That is why it is not a moral question,

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, US President Donald Trump is trying to blackmail us with punitive tariffs. He wants us to buy more of his dirty fracking gas. And he wants to slow down the decline of U.S. industry. But we in Europe, we are only economically able to defend ourselves to a limited extent, because we have had a recession for three years, for example, in Germany, Europe's largest ec

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, For three years now, a senseless and avoidable war has been waged in Ukraine, in which far too many people have already died and which essentially revolved around the NATO perspective of Ukraine. The war is illegal, but many high-ranking US security experts have also said it was a great foolishness to move ever closer to the gates of a nuclear power. 800 billion

Madam President, I refer to Rule 167 of the Rules of Procedure on matters of particular interest – a colleague has already mentioned it: We have witnessed the worst atrocities in Syria against the Alevi minority in recent days. And the European External Action Service He has issued a really grotesque press statement in which he has implicitly attributed responsibility for these atrocities to pro-A