What Niclas spoke about.

As I said before, I think we should all leave our trenches and talk about how we spend money most meaningfully. That is the only question. It's not just about the amount, it's really about the question: Where are things best to achieve? I am quite sure that, if you cite the Chancellor not only in a nutshell, but also in the fact that he is very much committed to a modernised budget, to more compet

So where I come from, people are very peaceful. And they also know how seafaring works, for example, and that you do not accidentally destroy an undersea cable, but that it is a targeted attack and a targeted attack on us. And people also understand this when confronted with the truth. And that is why I believe that if we simply stick to the facts and say, ‘We are not attacking anyone, we are not

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen! I live in Kiel on the Baltic Sea, and the Baltic Sea is the main operational area of the Russian shadow fleet. This is not only a security and economic threat, but also an ecological threat to us in an already very sensitive ecosystem. We don't have to wait for attacks. We experienced it. There have been attacks on submarine cables – lifelines in the Baltic Sea

Mr President! Ladies and Gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, My colleagues! If you live on the Baltic Sea like me, you can't help but worry. The Baltic Sea is in critical condition. Fish stocks are under pressure. The coastal communities are fighting for their future. And confidence in the long-term development of the region needs to be maintained as a matter of urgency. That is why – yes, we need ur

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen! I'm not sure if I'm right here, I wanted to speak on the 2024 discharge. I just had the impression that this is about completely different points. Incidentally, this is not a simple report, but the discharge – a royal right of this Parliament, which we are following. I only have 60 seconds, so I want to use the time to address the really im

Mr President, dear Commissioner, the Minister, who already had to leave, said status quo is not an option. And that is true, we all agree: more of the same is not the answer, we do agree. But we should not make the same mistakes that we already made, and during the RRF we made a lot of mistakes and we witnessed a lot of mistakes. I know that you are eager to say that the MFF is not the RRF 2.0. Th

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen. I am, of course, particularly pleased – and warmly welcome him – about Tony Murphy, but also about Jan Gregor and everyone else from the European Court of Auditors, because we have worked excellently together over the past months. I would like to thank you very much for that. I think you have provided a good template for our work with the 2024 annu

You have basically already given the answer yourself: because it is about people and because we have standards that should apply to everyone; this applies to the audit area, this applies to the audit. And if we have the rules for everyone, then this is not only fair, but it also serves the goal. We want to achieve something, for example with agricultural policy, with cohesion policy; It is in the

Madam President, Let me say in advance: I accept the blue card that comes right away, that's fine. The Committee on Budgetary Control and its mission have been mentioned on several occasions. We were in Slovakia. You may not have read the report at all, but it is quite balanced. I believe that the position of the Slovak authorities is reproduced there quite correctly. Nor do we go into the current

Mr President! Well, who would have thought that there should be a new case of misappropriation and misuse of funds. Of all those who often complain about the - let's say - waste of taxpayers' money at European level. First of all, I would like to thank the administration of our Parliament, which has meticulously and persistently and over a long period of time collected interesting things that read

Madam President, Thank you for the debate. I would particularly like to thank you for the preparatory work, the months of preparatory work, because we have prepared all the reports over many hearings and many meetings. Personally, I would also like to thank the shadow rapporteurs in my report. You may not believe it if you have followed the debate today, but we have worked very constructively toge

Mr President, Commissioner, dear colleagues, I would especially like to welcome Tony Murphy, President of the Court of Auditors, because the Court of Auditors has really been a source of inspiration and information for this report. Let me just start by seizing the opportunity to stress that the Commission's discharge is a really important issue for us as the Parliament. It is not like any other re

Mr President! A heartfelt thank you also to the rapporteur for the hard work: It's not easy to get the different points under one roof. I believe that this has been well done, and we must now also look ahead in a united way. I would also like to thank you for the fact that many of the points from budgetary control and also from our audit have been included in the report. This is very, very importa

I have heard once again in this debate that it is a question of cancelling funds for the NGOs. Can you give me a name for the current EPP Group from a colleague who has called for the funding in the LIFE programme for NGOs to be reduced or cancelled? A name?

Madam President, Commissioner! Personally, I find it really hard to listen to this debate because there are so many phantom discussions going on here that I am slowly getting upset. It would be nice if perhaps the Social Democrats would also send someone who has already dealt with the subject and, for example, has looked past the Committee on Budgetary Control. Maybe you write this down so that it

Mr President, first of all, I would like to express my gratitude to Tony Murphy and Jan Gregor and everyone else involved at the Court of Auditors for their independent, high quality work in preparing the annual report. Considerable resources are dedicated to this report, and I can assure you that, in this House, it is well used as an invaluable source of information on the way the Commission has

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen! Thank you for the debate. The many interventions have shown me that there are very broad wishes from the technical committees, from the colleagues, and I think we have also noticed that the complicated nature of our budget means that we have very limited the necessary flexibility. The debate also touched on the future MFF. I believe that we must work together

Mr President, Minister of State, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! The multiannual financial framework is a very tight corset – a too tight corset. This always causes us problems with our annual budgets. Although the multiannual financial framework is such a tight corset, we do not manage to act in a truly forward-looking manner. Let me take the example of the revision of the multiannual financi

Madam President, Secretary of State, dear Commissioner, dear colleagues, the challenges of the budget have been sufficiently described. You heard about it. Still, I would like to highlight some issues that are important for the European Parliament and for heading seven. As the rapporteur for the 2023 budget, I have strongly advocated for cybersecurity. And there was a tough discussion then, I reme