What Jutta spoke about.

Mr President, dear colleagues, we have an urgency – an urgency to curb greenhouse gas emissions, which have already caused billions of damages and thousands of deaths this year alone; an urgency to live up to the global methane pledge that the EU co‑initiated at the COP in Glasgow; an urgency to bring gas to a tense market instead of letting it go to waste; an urgency to stand up to the lies of th

Mr President, Commissioner! Imagine running a small business selling handmade clothes and selling them through your website not only to Germany, but also to Portugal or Finland or Greece – we have a single market. So far the ideal idea. But since August, you need an authorised representative in every EU country to which you deliver something, i.e. up to 26 authorised representatives. This is not a

Yes, thank you very much. Actually, the compliance costs add up to the devastating amount of 0.6 % of production cost, but they would obviously bring much, much more gas to the market. Gas which is today wasted, flared, leaked, vented. So, if our main oil and gas producers would not be left off the hook, but would follow existing legislation, more than 40 bcm of gas could be recovered, which is ha

Madam President, dear Commissioner, in February 2026, Greece sealed a LNG contract with Aktor and DEPA Commercial. In March 2026, SEFE sealed a contract with ADNOC. In June 2026, EnBW sealed a contract with Venture Global. In July, Uniper sealed a contract with Ksi Canada. These are just a few examples that anyone can find within minutes on the internet. So much for the narrative of IOGP that no o

Yeah, I'll make it short, too. When you called me for the Nature restoration lawsIt was not about the Packaging Regulation. But I just want to say that in the negotiations it seems that none of the parties involved said: Wait, what does this mean for micro-enterprises? It goes without saying that my group would also have been prepared to set reasonable thresholds or exceptions here. Nobody thought

Mr President! Dear Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Without proper waste recycling, there is no circular economy. And anyone who places packaging on the market must take responsibility for collection and disposal. It's logical. But it is also clear: Implementation must be proportionate. Since August, a small company that sends only a few parcels across the border has had to appoint an authorise

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! A quiz question: How many resources does one minute of AI-generated video take? 200 kilowatt hours. This is the power consumption of an average family over two days. Seven litres of water, clean drinking water that is no longer available to our citizens and our agriculture. The tech companies are not only extremely hungry for data, but also extreme

Actually, the nuclear phaseout in Germany was, in 2011, carried by a super-large majority, including all democratic groups in the German Bundestag. And as we know, nuclear power plants have large difficulties delivering flexible energy. But flexibility is what you need when you have a system that is based on renewable energy. So the much better option would be to have batteries for the short term

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! Finally arrives Electrification Action Plan – an elegant way out of the crippling unanimity on tax issues that has cemented us in an antiquated tax logic; Finally, a plan that takes note of physical reality: the laws of thermodynamics, according to which combustion processes are unfortunately always inefficient – greetings to Mr. Kanev – and the

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! We Greens have always advocated the accession of new countries to the EU. However, this support is conditional and the Copenhagen criteria are non-negotiable for us. It is all the more disturbing that the Commission looks the other way when environmental law and the rule of law are called into question. Today, I would like to pay tribute to the

Mr President! Commissioner! Dear colleagues, I have bad news for you: The land mass on this planet is limited. And the land that we humans have already repurposed for our purposes is breaking the ecological boundaries that ensure our survival. This is not an individual opinion of mine, it is based on satellite images and scientific findings. But it is also clear: We need to get out of fossil fuels

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen. It's almost a bit funny. For decades we have heard from the Conservatives: "There is no need for regulatory action at all, we have a market-based instrument and that will do everything for the best." And now that free allocations can expire and the price can regulate, there are, of course, calls for softening. I've been listening to the debate for

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! Families, pensioners, small businesses: they struggle every day with rising prices at the petrol station, in the supermarket – soon perhaps even with higher VAT; if the CDU goes ahead, in the future also on the water bill. Instead of taking the polluter-pays principle seriously and adequately implementing the Urban Waste Water Directiv

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! It is clear: Our electricity supply needs to become cheaper, safer, more independent and meet our climate goals. But 15 years after Fukushima, Ms. von der Leyen comes around the corner with mini-‑ nuclear power plants that don't contribute to any of these four goals. Firstly, costs: The few projects that have been built or planned worldwide so far

Ms Vivaldini, you just said that nuclear is so disadvantaged in Europe. And my question is very simple: why and how?

Madam President, dear colleagues, dear Commissioner, there is an interesting Chinese curse which says, 'may you live in interesting times', and we are living in interesting times indeed. On the geopolitical scale, things are happening that I wouldn't have imagined even two years ago – well, let's say three years ago – whoever has read Project 2025 knew what would be coming. Therefore, I think it i

Mr President, Mr Commissioner, thank you for this very valid proposal. And I was very content to hear that nearly all the colleagues – let's say the pro‑democratic, pro‑European colleagues – are content with this proposal and are seeing the need to strengthen our grids, and, of course, get faster in implementing our common electricity union. And why is this so important? We have seen in recent yea

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! This House finally wants to end Europe’s dependence on Russian gas and oil – definitively, uncompromisingly, without loopholes. For far too long, the European Union has been blackmailed by Putin's henchmen Orbán and Fico. They have blocked sanctions and helped fill Putin's war chest. Ukrainian blood sticks to Russian oil and gas. This must end! And

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! There is a lot of simplification at the moment, i.e. simplification – the speech. Unfortunately, deregulation is often the case. deregulation – I mean. Fortunately, this legislative package is different. So far, important data that are highly relevant for our health, for the health of our citizens, but also for our soils, for our waters, for our ai

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! Our farmers are at the forefront of the fight against extreme weather, against price pressure from corporations, against barren soils and against a system in which they often barely make ends meet. And now comes Donald Trump with his tariffs. What our farmers rightly expect are solutions and not right-wing diversionary and cultural struggle debates

Madam President, Commissioner, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! Apparently, no one from the commission was once with a toddler on the beach and bought the child an ice cream. Inevitably, the child will spill. And just as inevitably, it will lick the sticky from the skin. So, where's the problem? The Commission considers that carcinogenic substances should only be banned in cosmetics if they are

Mr Buchheit, have you read the report that came out today about the cause of the blackout in Spain, namely that, unfortunately, the conventional power plants have not fulfilled their task, but have gone off the grid in view of the overvoltage, instead of keeping the voltage as it would have been required?

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! First of all, thank you to Anna and the colleagues who wrote this good report; I hope it is read and implemented. Ladies and gentlemen, this week we celebrated 40 years of the Schengen Agreement, but Europe's electricity grids are still often subject to: Please wait at the border. The transmission capacities required by EU law have been laid down b

Madam President, Commissioner, dear Thomas, ladies and gentlemen! This is the European drought map. This is what our soils look like at the beginning of May. Everything that is red here is affected by drought. The soil has already dried up in many regions. And it has already been said: Without water there is no life, no agriculture, no economy. What should our farmers reap? How can the industry co