What Rasmus spoke about.

Thank you so much for your reply. I just have to admit that I think that, until now, what we could see coming out of the procedures, we don't think you strike the right balance. But what I would like to ask more about is what you are actually doing to ensure that we are ending up with an evidence-based approach. Will you, for example, include the tools for financial analysis of our behavioural eco

Commissioner Ribera, I know you care a lot about fair competition and fair prices for our consumers, but I do have some questions looking on the review of the Merger Guidelines when it comes to this. Your own study, for example, from 2024, says that, on the evolution of competition in the EU, markets had become more concentrated, accompanied by increasing corporate profits and higher prices for co

Mr President, We Greens would first of all like to thank the rapporteurs for the good work they have done on the compromises. We believe that Parliament is setting the right priorities. We focus on young people, on health, on nature conservation, but also, for example, on humanitarian aid. The world is on fire, and Member States in particular are less and less willing to do anything for humanitari

Mr President! In the Gaza Strip, more than 2 million people continue to suffer from poor access to water, electricity and basic services; More than 1 million people live in tents. And we also have many other crises in this world, such as in Sudan, where we have almost 20 million people suffering from famine. In total, there are over 230 million people - you have to imagine that! – depending on hum

Madam President, Play online casino games on a rainy Sunday or tap the games of the evening just before the World Cup. Both the gambling industry and sports betting are booming and the industry is making almost €50 billion in profits in the European Union every year. That is why it makes perfect sense to talk about whether, in difficult times, this industry, which is very financially strong and ve

Mr Colleague, first of all, I would like to point out to you that I am a member of the Green Group here in the European Parliament. There is no commissioner in CollegeI'm a member of my party family, so I don't know who you're talking to. And secondly, I would like to say that it is not the number of regulations that counts, but the quality of regulation. And I just made it clear, for example, tha

Madam President, pensioners who need to collect deposit bottles in order to make ends meet; single mothers who can no longer pay their bills at the supermarket checkout; Students who suffer from high rents in our cities; or homeless persons who have already fallen through all grids and safety nets: Poverty has many different faces in Europe. I think we should be ashamed that we can afford it on su

Mr President! In the budget debate, we should be honest: Many of us in the European Union are not doing well. They have concerns about your workplace, they have mental health problems, or they can no longer afford their rent or electricity costs. And the budget will also be measured by whether we succeed in providing answers for these people. That is why we Greens have been very shocked to see the

Mr President! The 2027 budget cannot move mountains. It will probably be the last budget in the current multiannual financial framework, and I expressly share what Mr Körner has just said. We should try to set common priorities here as a Parliament and not allow ourselves to be divided – not even in tomorrow's vote. We have already set an important priority in this report, and I am very happy abou

Madam President, Paulina and Jonas have a problem. For many months, they have been desperately trying to find an apartment in their hometown, Hamburg, in the city where they work and study. For more than half a year, tens of enquiries have been sent and mass visits – who does not know it – have taken place. Most of the time there was no feedback. Paulina and Jonas are not just any people, but exam

Mr President! Who doesn't know? Games of the favorite club, which are now streamed on four to five different streaming portals, and the temptations to search for free streams on the Internet, so that you do not have to complete a fourth in addition to the third streaming subscription. Amazon, Sky, DAZN, Magenta, and more recently Netflix – providers are increasing and the fees for these streaming

Madam President, With a pea budget, the EU cannot stand against Trump, China and Russia, because the EU budget is about the same size as the budget of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. And that alone shows how incapable of action the EU is when we talk about fiscal policy. And I was a little surprised, I must say quite honestly, that Ursula von der Leyen did not even speak a single second in he

Mr President! We Greens are satisfied with the budget negotiations: Plus EUR 10 million more for the nature conservation programme LIFE, plus €20 million more for the Horizon research programme and over €30 million more for humanitarian aid. These priorities can be seen. And, above all, during the budgetary negotiations, we have once again seen what happens when the European forces hold together h

Mr President! The EU does not live or die here in Parliament, in Council rooms or in the office of the President of the Commission, but on the ground with the people, in the regions. That is why it is good and right that the EU Commission has moved here in Parliament after pressure from the big four budgetary groups and wants to introduce a regional check, for example, or even a minimum quota of 1

Mr President! The 2026 budget is a good time to compare – to compare how serious we really are about making improvements for the people of the European Union. We Greens are fighting for social improvements for all people. We are fighting to make Erasmus accessible to more young people, including from low-income parents’ homes. We are fighting for more money to be spent on social housing, for rents

Mr President! A small group of tech billionaires want to control the world with their technology – more powerful than any state, more important than any company and richer than everyone else. They managed to buy US policy and made Donald Trump great. Their next step is the European Union, and Donald Trump stands firmly by their side. Dealing with the tech industry is one of the key issues for our

Mr President! Football belongs to the fans, not the investors. At least it should be. But the reality is different: Football has become the investment and toy of the super-rich. More than 180 European clubs are part of non-transparent multi-club ownership structures such as Red Bull or City. Oil sheikhs from Saudi Arabia and Qatar buy clubs, titles and thus also political influence. While a few ma

Mr President! Over €90 billion – this is how many profits Meta, Amazon, Alphabet and Microsoft have made in the last three months alone. They shift the profits in such a way that they actually pay no taxes anywhere and certainly not in Europe. While small businesses in the EU pay honest taxes, tech billionaires trick where they can. No one in the population likes this, and many MEPs here in the Ho

Madam President, A year after former Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi presented his report on competitiveness, it shows how tedious it is to implement his recommendations. To be honest: Not much has happened yet, and the Commission's proposals have so far been very limited in terms of its concrete recommendations. His recommendations were actually very clear: We need to invest significantly mor

Madam President, The world is flying apart, and that's why it's right to strengthen the EU now. And whether there are really deeds behind the many Sunday speeches, we will see this in the multiannual financial framework in the coming months. However, Europe will only become stronger if we ensure social peace on our continent, and this means that we need a strong pillar in the EU budget. Over 30% o

Madam President! Thank you for the question, and I would just like to refer to what our vice-president of our group just said in his introductory speech to our group. I think it will be important in the next few months to get an EU budget in place, where we have room both for the green transition and for social issues, but of course also with a strengthened commitment to security policy, which tak