What Andreas spoke about.

Mr President! Dear Commissioner, dear disciples! Since August, the heart of the European Union − the internal market − dies a little bit more every day. This is because the Packaging Regulation – PPWR – has entered into force and it introduces a new obligation for small mail order companies, including all mail order companies, regardless of size, that if parcels are to be sent abroad to the EU ‑,

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, If you take the wrong exit over and over again, you will not reach your destination. More than 100 000 jobs have already been lost in the automotive industry; And that was just the beginning. By the way, this is a huge challenge not only in Germany, but throughout Europe. This is a direct consequence of the ban on combustion, which was adopted by a majority h

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, When energy becomes priceless, wealth deviates – not loudly, but with very quiet location decisions to our detriment. The problem is not climate protection, but double regulation. On the one hand, we have prohibitions, high standards, a technology infatuation of individuals, and on the other hand, we have the technology-open instrument. ETS. My criticism of E

Dear Mr President, Dear colleagues! The European Union's economy is under pressure: It's about jobs, it's about the existence of hundreds of thousands of citizens. One reason for these existential fears is wrong decisions at European level in recent years, and by that I do not mean climate protection, which is not the problem, but the way in which climate protection is operated. We have too much p

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen! Imagine a dangerous curve. 50 km/h speed limit. One drives through at 150 km/h and builds an accident. It makes no sense at all to lower and tighten the speed limit from 50 km/h to 30 km/h, but if someone breaks a law, then the law does not have to be made stricter, but the law must be better controlled. But that's exactly what happened with medical devices. All

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen! The European Union is humanity’s largest peace project, the world’s largest single market and – through common standards and shared management of emergencies – a real added value for people. But in some areas, Commissioner, we are lagging behind, for example in creating a genuine internal energy market. Yes, we are making progress on renewable energy and indepen

This is exactly what we have been fighting for for a long time. If there are possibilities that we can achieve balance sheet carbon neutrality – that is, if synthetic fuels are used, the compilation of which requires CO2 from the air; After that, when it comes to combustion, CO2 is released again, but that is zero on the balance sheet – then I am convinced, and my party is also convinced, that we

Dear Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, The automotive industry is changing and on its way to carbon neutrality, and that's expensive. The Von der Leyen Commission's proposal was therefore completely out of place; It would have meant that there was no money for the transformation. Especially nonsensical, because cars would have become more expensive and the fleet renewal would have come to a stan

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner. After solid comes off. This is a wisdom that not only has craftsmen or, as in my case, a surgeon, but that is something that is also true in politics. If you screw on a screw and make it tighter and tighter, it will hold more and more until it stops holding anything. The same goes for legislation. If someone breaks the law, it all too often does no

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Classical genetic engineering and the new, highly selective breeding methods are not the same. You can achieve exactly the same with these new breeding methods as with classical breeding, only that it is much faster. This is the great advantage of creating resistance to drought, waterlogging or mould, and it is very timely. However, we cannot exploit the pote

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! I still work four hours a week in a small hospital in the Albklinik on the Swabian Alb as a doctor. I always have the challenge that patients come to me who have fallen, for example, in Italy while skiing, now show up with me with some injury and I do not know exactly what they have. Therefore, it is sometimes necessary to carry out double exami

Dear Sarah Wiener, I believe that we really need to act in a uniform European way at this point. It is of no use if we then again have different situations in the Member States. I even believe that we have to go the other way from a principled approach. We need a reversal of the burden of proof. Where plant protection products endanger something, where the purpose of protection is compromised, I a

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, A real reduction strategy – yes, blanket bans – no. In view of the multiple crises in the world, secure food production in the EU is more important than ever. And no, it is not an alternative for us to impose more and more obligations on our farmers and to reduce our yield; We need to buy more on the global market. With all the sincere love for biodiversity,

Dear Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Do you need Euro 7? Of course, making cars better and cleaner is important. The only problem is that the automotive sector is already on its way to decarbonisation – and the costs are incredibly high. Well, if Euro 7 becomes too strict and too expensive, then first of all the resources of the industry are missing in this transformation process. Second, Euro

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen. You'll be surprised if I say this: We don't need a bit of Europe everywhere, but we need a strong Europe in the right places. And the right places are exactly where it comes to the supply of vital things, for example with medication, or where it comes to the strategic orientation of things. And we need not be surprised, because in the past we have

Madam President, Commissioner! Rising energy prices are putting many citizens in existential need. Jobs are threatened. The European Union cannot and must not remain silent here, but must act. At last Friday's Energy Ministers' Conference, there were some proposals, some better, some worse. For example, the revenue ceilings on inframarginal power generation are okay, but it is important that it is

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, A clear yes to climate neutrality by 2050. But prescribing certain technologies or banning others is the wrong way to go. We need technology openness. Let's take advantage of the innovation potential that exists in Europe. And measuring only CO2 in an exhaust is too little, that's jumped too short. We need a life cycle assessment; we need one well-to-wheelapproa

Mr President! Ladies and Gentlemen! Not everything the EU did in relation to the COVID-19 crisis was perfect. I also know this through my profession as a doctor, where I was last on the road as a vaccination doctor the day before yesterday or Monday. I am not criticising the EU here because I do not want joint procurement, but on the contrary: We need to get better here. We need more joint procure

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, The rise in energy prices in Europe means the loss of jobs. And certainly, the pricing of CO2 is important for climate protection, emissions trading (ETS) is important. And yet there are things we can do. Here are five suggestions: First, more grid expansion, more smart grids, more intelligent control, Power on Demand, so that the consumption can be adapted t

Dear Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Germany, too, has repeatedly benefited from the European Solidarity Fund in recent years – I would like to say this clearly in the direction of the critics of Europe here in this area. This summer, Europe not only experienced several fire disasters, but also a severe flood disaster. In one of the most severely affected areas of the flood disaster, in the Ah