What Gabriele spoke about.

Madam President, Colleagues, I invite you to look up at the ceiling with me. There are many who think that qualified professionals fall from the ceiling, from the sky. But that is not so, but I come from a country, where vocational education and training, the dual education actually has a good place. But we are noticing in the crisis and transformation that companies are training less and investin

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. Do you see the single mother standing at the supermarket checkout counting her money and giving up her food in the evening so that the children are all fed up? The child who can't go on a school trip because the parents don't have the money? Or the 90-year-old woman in the nursing home, whom I met last week, who worked her whole life as a saleswoman – a small sa

(Start of speech with microphone switched off) ... a preliminary remark to me as a German citizen. In our Basic Law, our Constitution, we read: property is obligated. Its use should at the same time serve the well-being of the general public. For some it is already communism or others who speak of freedom and mean lawlessness. And we know from every Western who serves lawlessness. I want to bring

Madam President, Vice-President of the Commission, ladies and gentlemen! Estelle Ceulemans and the shadow rapporteurs presented an excellent report: State of the art, what there is in Europe in the international organizations on this absolutely important issue. And it has been said here: This affects almost every second employee. Therefore: With this proposal, which the Commission hopes to take up

My answer will be very brief. There are many reasons why Romanian doctors leave their countries and come to western European ones. And we have programmes in western countries to attract these people. We even have organisations that live only on this. We have to stop it if we want to have a sustainable strategy in Europe, and we want to make sure that every Romanian has the same right and access to

Mr President! Commissioner! Colleagues! Europe has made health a commodity where profits and shareholders count more than patients or employees. It is good that the report stresses that this is about basic services of general interest. It stinks so many citizens that this is not sufficiently guaranteed for their family, their friends, for themselves. The report highlights working conditions, staff

Mr President! Ladies and gentlemen, Madam Executive Vice-President, dear Roxana. I would like to start with a really big praise, thanks and recognition for the work, for this package, because today it is good news for the more than 14 million employees who are mobile within the EU that we say we want to ensure fair conditions. And after the good result on Regulation (EC) No 883/2004, which has alr

Madam President, In any case, it is clear that the workers did not cause this crisis. Commissioner Séjourné said that – we are also dealing here with massive management errors, which we cannot conceal here, and at the same time with a lack of innovative capacity. And if we want to get there, we have to accelerate with the industrial accelerator. We need a made in Europe, And we need it relatively

Mr President! Thank you very much for the broad support here in the house; You can see that. I would like to say again to the Polish colleague that we have new forms of pluriactivity, that people are active in more than two Member States – and we need good solutions so that this does not spiral down. In fact, we deliver here for mobile workers, 14 million people – who trust that the right to free

Mr President, Commissioner Dombrovskis, ladies and gentlemen! The Toten Hosen sing in their song ‘Die 7 ist alles für mir’ (The 7 is everything for me) about the number that she can no longer let go of. I have been a rapporteur for seven years and we have been negotiating with countless Council presidencies in the EP negotiating team since 2019; For three years others have done this before us. Tha

It is interesting that the Trump friends of all people are now screaming at energy prices, where it is the policy that has led us to have the last tightening, for example. Especially for people in poverty, for example, it is important that they can live in houses that are also energetically renovated, that this is not only reserved for the rich, because it helps those who have little money to actu

Madam President, Ms Executive Vice-President of the Commission Mînzatu! Colleagues! It is not enough to talk about poverty. What we are talking about in a poverty strategy is to guarantee everyone a life of dignity. You said it with the poverty targets. We have concrete targets for 2030, and when we look at the balance sheet, we see: We're not on track. That's why I don't think it's a good idea to

I have described this: We're dealing with sitting out in the Council. That is why it is really the responsibility of the Council, including the Heads of State and Government, to take responsibility for the fact that Europe is not in a position to act at the moment, that it is playing such a weak role. We have been advocating for a long time that they finally take up the proposals and at least disc

Mr President! Erich Kästner once said: There is nothing good unless you do it. And I believe citizens feel that the EU is currently very weak in the world vis-à-vis Trump, Putin and others. But they also feel that Europe would actually have the strength, that it would actually have the opportunity for strength and more capacity to act. But, and that's a big but, it lacks courage. And unfortunately

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, For many workers, today’s World Day for Safety and Health at Work is not an abstract topic – it is everyday life. It's about the delivery driver who has the pressure of the algorithms in his back, the caregiver at the end of a long shift or the roofer who stands on the ladder. In 2023, we still had more than 3,300 deaths in the European Union, who lost their

I said we don't have the word in German. But it means that we really set funds, that they are really reserved only for social spending, for investing in people in the next budget, linked to the social goals we have in Europe, and that we cannot then say: “Oh, the farmers may need a little more here – or others. Let's see how much we really have in the end.", that we really reserve these funds for

Mr President! We are not just talking about money here, but it has also become quite clear that we are talking about the future of Europe. Where do we want to invest? Where is the future? Where does the money come from? I am glad that the report does not play city against country, as has just been said, but shows that the European Social Fund has in fact always been an essential pillar of the soci

Madam President, Everyone acknowledges that we are dealing with market failures here, that we have a patient who is almost in a coma – the vitals are terrible. But who should act and how? That is the question here. The right here wants more market, more of the medicine that broke the patient, and of course less. Green Deal. At the same time, they complain about high energy prices due to the war –

Mr President, Madam Vice-President! Yesterday, hundreds of workers, trade unionists and trade unionists stood in front of this house and drew attention to the situation. They talked to us and there were colleagues from many groups. They have shown us that these forms of exploitation along very long chains are not an isolated case, but that it is everyday life in the fields, in construction, in tra

Madam President, Madam Vice-President! Poverty reduction – as we have known since poverty started – is a mammoth task. I wonder if the right would rejoice if Europe ignored this problem; You get the impression here. We have 20 million children in Europe who expect us to support Europe in finding solutions. I would like to say once again to those who say, yes, people should work: One in ten employe

As I said, there is a lack of investment in Europe. There is a lack of strategically putting certain sectors together much better. We still have major gaps in our single market, which we need to deepen, in the area of energy and capital markets union. But what is it that fails? It fails because of certain Member States and their national interests. Decisions, if we want to be more competitive, are

Madam President, Competitiveness, the experts know, means optimizing infrastructure, education, promoting innovation, looking at the competition. Draghi tried this in his report because he said: If we want to keep up with China, with the US, we need European players and we need 750 to 800 billion in investments annually. What has come out of it so far? Investment – nothing. And he proposed a coord

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Madam Executive Vice-President! In fact, some people think that the Pillar of Social Rights is over – is over, and they are more inclined towards the demolition pear. I am very happy, Commissioner and Vice-President, that the Commission sees things differently. It is very important to me because we see that the number of billionaires and millionaires is incre