What Michael spoke about.

Mr President, colleagues, Commissioner, today, the United Nations tells us that the world is going to a temperature rise of 2.8 °C. What does it mean? It means that about one third of the populated territory of this planet will face extensive wet-bulbs: temperatures above 35 °C with humidity above 90 %. This is a situation where your body simply collapses because it cannot cool itself anymore, and

Madam President, We humans are the only species that spends billions on what kills them. We pay €400 billion annually for the purchase of climate-damaging coal, oil and gas. And what do we get from it? The Rhine lay fallow in the summer; 6 000 square kilometres have been burned down, an area as large as Luxembourg; EUR 180 billion of economic damage. Not to mention the more than 35,000 heat-relate

I think the rivers didn't dry up because of some politicians that thought it would be a good idea, but because of the climate crisis. So I think you should stay here in the reality. But what I think is interesting, if you look at Europe, then you see that the places where you have the highest renewable share is where you have the lowest energy prices. And I think this is what we all should underst

I can tell you, for instance, that California, Canada and China, have emission trading systems. But what I would like to understand from you is why are the prices in Romania, for instance, so high? Why are the electricity prices so high? And do you know what? It is precisely because there is a difference between Europe and China and the US. Europe is importing all of its energy – fossil energy tha

Thank you very much. What I think is that we see an amazing rise of the sales of electric cars in Europe, much better than expected: 40 % growth rates. And in this very moment, to cut down on our legislation, it just doesn't make sense. I mean, the market is much further than the right part of this House. So, there's the first mistake: we are acting against the market. The second is we want to be

Madam President, Commissioner! The internal combustion engine – that was a great and good engineering skill and that is something that automotive workers can be proud of. But honestly – the internal combustion engine, that was once. The fact that Volkswagen and Bosch and many jobs are being cut is due to the fact that when we switch to E‑Mobility, we are not fast enough for the others to take the

Mr President, Commissioner, dear colleagues, is the European Union trapped in a toxic relationship? You know the pattern: you give and you give, and you get nothing back. You become insecure, vulnerable, dependent on the other person's mood. And let's be honest, that's exactly the relationship we Europeans have with oil and gas, dependent on the whims of autocrats like Putin and the mood swings of

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! Imagine losing a billion euros every day and your only plan is to embrace the internal combustion engine even more firmly: Welcome to Europe's China policy. Because that is exactly what is happening – every day we buy more in China than we do in China for one billion euros; So while I'm talking here, the next billion is already on its way. All t

Madam President, Commissioner, when my daughter bumps into the wardrobe, she tells the wardrobe off very loudly. And the right side of the House is doing exactly the same thing. They are blaming the Emission Trading System for their own failed, fossil-driven policies. But frankly, my daughter is two years old, so she has an excuse. Do you know what is actually driving energy prices up? Do you know

Mr President, Commissioner! If it pops anywhere in the world, we'll pay the bill here. We noticed this four years ago when Putin plunged us into the gas crisis. And we notice that today. There is an important difference between Trump and us in Europe: Trump's gas buddies earn stupid and stupid every day. And we in Europe pay the price. We don't have oil, we don't have gas. We have fa

You know, I am very much in favour of a truly European energy system because this is exactly what brings prices down. We know that if we do, for instance, a central grid planning, we save more than EUR 500 billion and I think this is what makes us strong. Working together in Europe – this is what makes us strong. Let me tell you just one thing: as a Green, I like the market. There is no insurance

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Millions of Europeans are afraid of electricity bills. It's not a coincidence, it's a business model. It is the result of our dependence on oil and gas. And the FDP may have perished, but I want to save Christian Lindner's sentence: Renewable energies are freedom energies. They protect us from dependence on Putin, on Trump, on wars. The cheapest, the best energy

Dear colleague Wechsler! You have just said that you welcome the package from the Commission. I welcome it too. But the Commission says the electricity tax must go down for E‑ cars and heat pumps. The Commission says it must be made easier to build solar systems on rooftops. The Commission says that we need cheaper grid charges for energy sharing. The Federal Government is not doing these three th

Madam President, Madam Minister, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! We need to stop being naive. China is at the same level in all technologies as we are, or further. China is the largest exporter not only of raw materials and electronic equipment, but also of cars and machinery. China is not the Cashcow Europe, but every sector, every large company in Europe must fear that competitors from China

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! Let's be honest: China is the largest new car market in the world, and it electrifies at a rapid pace. European manufacturers are losing market share every day. The numbers from August: BMW minus 13 percent, Audi minus 9 percent and Mercedes-Benz minus 20 percent. That is the core of the problem. Our industry is not weakening because we were too

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! We discussed the relationship with China here this morning, and the situation is really frightening. Recently, a boss from a leading electrolyser manufacturer called me. We have the best technologies, but against subsidies from China, they simply don't stand a chance. He told me if we didn't do anything now, he'd have to shut up. Then he has to put

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! Yesterday we decided to stop importing gas from Russia, but we must not just switch to dirty gas from Trump now. We need to seize the opportunities of sun and wind here on our continent. This requires a strengthening of the electricity grids, but also a strengthening of each individual household, because we can all benefit from the energy transi

Mr President, Commissioner, Minister, ladies and gentlemen! Last year, Vladimir Putin received €22 billion from Europeans for gas and oil. And in the same year, Ukraine received €18 billion in military aid from Europeans. The financing of the butcher Putin, the dependency, Nord Stream: This must end once and for all! And now the European Commission is proposing something very courageous: Fossil im