What Kira Marie spoke about.

Madam President, thank you very much, first of all, to the rapporteur of this file. Europe needs companies that can grow, innovate and compete across borders. For too many start-ups and scale-ups, the single market still feels too fragmented, too complicated and too slow. To counteract this, I think we all agree that we must ensure harmonisation of the single market. But, in the pursuit of harmoni

Madam President, thank you very much and thanks for all the remarks and the contributions. As Jonás said, today is a day where we should congratulate each other, because this package shows that, despite political disagreements and despite national specificities, we can actually deliver on Europe's economy and resilience, together, in a broad political majority. So I will just end by congratulating

Madam President, tomorrow we are voting on the CMDI packages. It's one of the most important pieces of banking legislation that we have. Let me first start as a rapporteur by thanking the other groups for their constructive cooperation, especially Irene and Luděk, as co-rapporteurs, and especially also Gilles for having to be in the middle of three rapporteurs. I appreciate very much the cooperati

Mr President, thank you to the Commissioner and the Council and colleagues for all of their remarks. I think today's debate has made it clear that we all care deeply about Europe. We care about the direction our Union is taking. Listening to the remarks, some of you think this report is too radical. For others, it's not radical enough. For me, that's actually what strikes a good compromise. So I'm

Madam President, colleagues, let me first make sure that you all know that tomorrow's voting list, despite the fact that this report also mentioned housing, will not be as long as the vote we had today. As the rapporteur for the ECON report, I am very happy to present this year's report, and let me first start by thanking the different shadows and the political groups for their constructive work o

Madam President, the current gender pay gap in the EU is 11 %. We all know this, but we also know something else. We know that transparency works, because when pay becomes transparent, unequal pay becomes difficult to hide and discrimination also becomes harder to do. And that is why I was so proud to be the rapporteur of the EU Pay Transparency Directive and see this House strengthen women's righ

Thank you for your speech. I fully agree with you. I would like to ask you, because now we see that BusinessEurope, but also some Members of the conservative groups, are pushing for a delay in the implementation of the Pay Transparency. As a Vice-Chair of FEMM, as a feminist, and as an important voice in the EPP, I would like to ask you if you can guarantee that you will stand for this directive a

I fully agree that we need action, not words. Therefore, I would like to hear about whether you and the Danish People's Party are reconsidering your relationship with Trump and the MAGA movement, because it is your chairman who went to Mar-a-Lago. It's your party, it's your group that's Trump's closest ally in Europe, and you're the one who's going to tear down the foundation that's going to stand

Madam President, let me start by thanking the rapporteur for both the results and the good cooperation. 'Societas Europaea Unificata'. I cannot be the only one who struggles to pronounce the proposed name of the new corporate forum by the 28th Regime, but even though few under 40 ever had Latin in school, the vision is simple: making Europe the best place to establish your business and seeing it g

Madam President, colleagues, let's be honest: this is not simplification, this is deregulation and a complete dismantling of European sustainability and due diligence rules. Some have tried to paint the picture that certain negotiators have not been willing to compromise. But this picture is far from reality. I have experienced colleagues who were competent and ready to compromise on everything: o

Mr President! It will be our children and society's weakest who will pay the price for the necessary build-up and for the green transition. At least if we let Donald Trump decide what tax policy we should pursue in Europe. Trump has shown with his trade policy that he is not afraid to threaten other countries with punitive tariffs if they tax American companies in a way he does not like. He has br

Mr. President! When Trump threatens Europe, the answer is not to bow your neck. Therefore, it makes me uneasy to read in this trade agreement that the European Commission promises that our rules on sustainability and human rights must not become an obstacle to American trade. Because EU sustainability rules are set in the world to ensure that companies do not make money from forced labour, from po

Madam President! Thanks for the speech. I have been looking forward to today, and I am sure you have too, because the Danish Presidency is facing some major challenges. Deliver on a secure, competitive and green Europe. Let me start with the latter, because I have high expectations for Denmark. Especially because, over time, when there has been an environmental problem that they do not want to sol

Mr President, I would like to first thank the rapporteur for her wonderful work, and also the team of shadows. I echo that I hope the Commission will take in a lot of the ideas. And with this, I will switch to English. Mr President! In Europe, we pay two to three times more for our energy than they do in the US and China, not least because our power cables are overcrowded, outdated and poorly conn

Madam President, thank you first of all to the rapporteur for the work. When Donald Trump is targeting our diversity programmes, NGOs and US federal agencies, when he is rolling back financial and environmental legislation, we Europeans should not mimic his policies. Some in this Chamber pushed for deregulation of legislation previously agreed by a broad section of this House – legislation intende

Mr President! Dear Dan, Congratulations on the plan. It was interesting to read because we are in a very difficult time. Our President of the Commission described us this week as Europe's moment. I agree. I believe that, more than ever, citizens are looking to the European Union to solve the major challenges, and that is why we need to remind each other that the most effective way to a safe, indep

As a fellow Scandinavian, dear colleague, I would like to ask you if you recognise that a green economy is a strong economy, and that the green transition and competitiveness go hand in hand? And why EPP could support the taxonomy, the CSRD, the CSDDD as a way to fulfil our transition goals, but now want to roll it back?

Mr President! We are told that we must choose between a strong economy or a strong climate policy. But nothing could be more wrong. The green transition is a prerequisite for competitiveness, because we need to expand green energy so that both businesses and consumers get lower energy prices. We need to create a stable framework so that companies know that it is worth investing green. And we need

Thank you very much for the question, and I'm happy to see we have a proper debate in this House. I think looking at my own country, Denmark, actually gives you the answer, because Denmark is a quite highly regulated country. We've been pushing the market economy to fuel the green investments. We have strong Medicare. We have strong renewable energy sectors. I think that's showing both that green

Then we got it; The Commission's long-awaited work programme, which sets the direction for Europe in the coming years. One word goes again: Competitiveness. This is important because we need to make it easier to do business and to be present in Europe. But it is as if the Commission has overlooked the fact that we are still in the midst of a climate crisis that is booming. And year after year, we

Mr President! One would think that the super-rich believe that they live on a different planet than all of us, that the rules that apply to them do not apply to us. With their private jets and superyachts, they emit tons of CO2, and because of tax evasion they often pay much less tax than the rest of us. In fact, EU countries miss out on up to €60 billion a year. It is money that could finance mor

Mr President! When you pay your taxes, you expect others to do the same. You should be able to do that. But the reality is, unfortunately, that some companies, if only they are big and rich enough, slip by. They employ an army of tax speculators and their job is to ensure that multinational giants contribute as little to the common fund as possible. It's insanely unsolidaristic. But fortunately, t