What Arba spoke about.

I am living on planet earth, where humanity has developed for centuries with technology, with internet. Where technology has made us move forward as human beings. Right? And AI is the latest part of the technology. And AI is crucial to detect fraud. It's crucial to stop cyberattacks. It's crucial to stop criminality online. So, if you want to have a more safe development of AI, we need to use more

I agree with my colleague to the left over there that we need to build safe AI, and AI needs to be transparent. That's why our AI rules are giving that. AI that is doing mass surveillance is already forbidden now, in the EU. We already have rules on transparency in the AI Act now coming into force, so people know if they're talking to an AI or real human being or seeing images that are AI or real.

Madam President and dear colleagues, the development of the frontier AI models has really sparked a global debate on who is shaping the technology and who is setting the rules. It feels for me like the Greens and the Socialists are living on a completely different planet than the rest of us when they are screaming for more regulation. Because firstly, Europe has already an AI regulation – we have

Madam President, colleagues, China has more than 70 % of Gen-AI patents, while Europe only has 2 %, and we only have 5 % of the global AI computing capacity compared to China. We are all complaining here in this room about China, but we need to stop being naive: Europe needs to wake up, not only because we are dealing with the world's biggest communist regime, but also we need to wake up and do ou

Madam President, building a company in Europe today means 27 rule books. Unfortunately, many see it as 27 reasons to move to the US. So we need to make it easier for European companies to stay in Europe. We must make it easier for them to scale in Europe and not just scale the paperwork. That is the ambition that we should set for 'EU Inc.': one European company form, one rule book, one single mar

Madam President, thank you, colleagues, for a lively and important debate. The AI Act and the future of artificial intelligence is really engaging and rightly so. I noticed that some of the left parties are crying now over that Trump is putting an export ban on the latest powerful AI models. The same parties who, year after year after year, have been anti‑tech, anti‑AI, anti‑business, which means

Madam President, dear colleagues, a strong Europe starts with the single market, where a German florist can work in Sweden as easily as in Germany, where a Swedish start-up can build and scale in Poland, where that start-up can raise funding from a Spanish investor instead of leaving Europe. Europe has talent. We have the ideas and the capital, but our rules are too fragmented, and the costs of ou

Madam President, colleagues, thank you for the big support. On behalf of both co-rapporteurs, I would like to refer the file back to the IMCO and LIBE committees to start the interinstitutional negotiations pursuant to Rule 60(4).

Madam President, dear colleagues, for too long, Europe has been seen as the world's rulebook on tech, but nobody's innovation hub. Now we are changing this. We can't let our European start-ups drown in paperwork before they even get their first customers. Because Europe needs to get serious now on AI and innovation. We have the talents and we have our single market. I want a continent where start-

Madam President, dear colleagues, we are having this debate because the chatbot Grok on X has allowed users to create AI-generated sexual images of women without their consent, including the Vice-Prime Minister of my country, Sweden. There were even reports of minors being sexualised. This is clearly, clearly illegal. Sexualised content without consent, whether it is real or AI-generated, is explo

Mr President, dear colleagues, you would think that by this time that fundamental human rights are protected and respected in the European Union. But this is not the case. That is clear in this debate tonight. I want to tell you about Agnieszka from Poland that was pregnant with twins. After one foetus died, she was denied an abortion and forced to carry the dead foetus. Doctors acted only after t

Mr President, colleagues, the US and China are running ahead of us in the global AI race, and Europe's prosperity is at stake. Today, we are voting on the first AI report since adopting the AI Act, and it concerns a key sector for AI: the finance sector. Today, we are sending a clear message from the European Parliament that now is not the time for more legislation. Now is the time to make our law

Mr President, thank you very much. Saving on the stock market is not just about investing in companies. It is also about people being able to realise their dreams of a better life, about saving for their first home or for the dream trip with their family or putting a golden edge on their retirement. Since the alliance government introduced the investment savings account, ISK, in Sweden, the stock

I'm not really sure which apps you are talking about, but we have already decided in Europe that transparency is one of the key things in AI regulation – that users and consumers need to understand whether what they see on the screen is AI or a real picture. That is an important principle. But I also think that in Europe we have been focusing too much on being scared of the new technology and scar

Madam President, dear colleagues, Commissioner Virkkunen, I think it is time for Europe to focus less on other countries and more on helping European companies to grow. Because this is our market, it's our rules and it's our responsibility. Our digital policies play a key role for Europe's competitiveness. With the DSA and the DMA that we are discussing here, we are creating one set of rules acros

Mr President, thank you very much. Colleagues. European Commission. Most of us know someone who has been forced to cancel a charter trip, especially during the pandemic. For a family with children, it can be a lot of money. As a consumer, you don't always know what your rights are. However, cancellations of package tours shall not constitute cancellations of rights. Therefore, we are now making it

Mr President, thank you very much. Viktor Orbán has for years committed crimes against the rule of law, most recently through a ban on LGBTQ people's right to meet and meet. The right to live one's life openly and safely is slowly being erased in Hungary. In the midst of all this, and during a burning war, Orban has approached the dictator Putin. This is a betrayal of the Hungarian people and it i

Mr President, thank you very much. Insecurity is the biggest freedom issue of our time, and women's rights are at the heart of that struggle for freedom when one in three women in Europe has been subjected to violence, when Russian soldiers use women's bodies as part of Russian warfare. I want all the girls and young girls growing up in our Europe today to feel that we are standing up for their fu

Mr President, thank you very much. Lukashenka's dictatorship in Belarus is a disgrace to Europe. For 30 years – for 30 years – he has held on to power by committing systematic human rights abuses, by imprisoning journalists and opposition figures. He has repeatedly stolen the presidential elections, and now it is time for the EU to take a hard line, because it is Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya who is th

Mr President, colleagues, we have war in Europe and we are fighting the battle both on the ground and online. In Romania, we see the results of the Russian attacks on European countries and our elections enabled by Chinese social media platform TikTok. This must be stopped because next year we have new elections in Europe: in Germany, in Denmark, in Austria, in Poland, Portugal, Romania, Ireland,

Mr President, I would like to thank you. The Single Market has made the EU one of the largest economies in the world with less regulatory burden for consumers and businesses. It has created prosperity, growth and a stronger Europe. We need to take care of this. But the EU's freedom of movement must also apply to the labour market. Today, our citizens – those who have trained as chefs, nurses, arch

Mr President, I would like to thank you. Abortion can never be taken for granted. When the U.S. goes to the polls, women's right to their bodies is at the center. In Texas, where abortion has been banned, maternal mortality has increased by over 50% in a few years. In fact, we are in the same battle of values in Europe. In Poland and Malta, women are forced to risk their lives when they are denied

Mr President, Commissioner Vestager, thank you very much. We have put in place a historic law that sets clear requirements and rules for social media giants to stop crime online and protect the freedom of ordinary people online. At the same time as the EU's new digital law, DSA, has entered into force, we see how gang criminals in Sweden are recruiting openly on social media. On TikTok, on Snapcha

Mr President, thank you very much. In four months, 12 women have been murdered in their homes. This is what everyday life is like in Sweden, but also for many women around Europe. Women have had to pay the highest price with their freedom and their lives because the previous government has plunged with violent men and insecurity in Sweden. I am proud that we have now been given powerful tools here