What Kim spoke about.

Madam President, colleagues, Commissioner, If a phone charger explodes in your house, we never call it 'innovative'. We call it cheap, dangerous junk, and we hold the manufacturer liable for damages. So why do we let Silicon Valley get away with it? Chatbots nudging teenagers towards suicide. AI models driving people towards psychosis. Tech bros hacking their rivals and calling it 'testing'. The p

Madam President, President von der Leyen, in an increasingly unstable world where tech bros are spreading fear and chaos, the people and businesses of Europe are longing for stable leadership. On AI, if Europe is racing, I want to know where we are going. Will our approach on AI protect people? Will it make us more or less dependent on foreign companies? And will you ensure the race does not just

Madam President, colleagues, social media algorithms are turning the mere existence of refugees, queers, migrants, religious minorities and women into 'rage bait'. Political actors who want to erode our democracies are using it: we saw it 10 years ago around Brexit, we saw it a year ago in Romania, we saw it recently in Ceuta, and we saw it last week in Saxony-Anhalt. Today, Parliament agrees on w

Madam President, adolescents spend, on average, 4.5 hours a day on screens, and during the weekend, that number rises to a staggering 6.1 hours a day – 6.1 hours in which they could have spent time with their friends, discovered the real world and developed real life skills. Unfortunately, I can't say I'm surprised about these numbers: even refreshing a page, so swiping down and waiting for new in

Madam President, the best case scenario for our citizens, our safety and the world would have been not reopening the AI Act and making sure the law would have been implemented swiftly, especially looking at the rapid development of new models. Unfortunately, the Commission fell for the pressure from tech-lobbyist-in-chief Donald Trump. But the Greens wouldn't be the Greens if we didn't seize the o

Madam President, if it is true what Anthropic claims – Mythos being able to detect all cyber security vulnerabilities – then it could pose a major risk if this AI system falls into the wrong hands. Even if half is true, it opens the door to major cyberattacks at scale. Think of banks being hacked, our transport systems being disrupted, and hospitals blacking out. And if we understand the experts c

Madam President, dear colleagues, I would like to make a point of order pursuant to Rule 40. Yesterday, it was the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexphobia and Transphobia. One day earlier, after a performance at Brussels Pride, three artists were attacked and abused by a mob of children around 14 years of age. My heart and solidarity is with Sherine Falasteen, Diva Beirut an

Madam President, colleagues, no child or woman should ever have to go through what Coco had to go through. Let her suffering not be in vain. And today, everyone here from left to right will commit to stopping online harassment, but last night we could have banned all nudifier AI tools and tools to generate child abuse in Europe, and then the Christian Democrats, Conservatives and PfEs stalled nego

Madam President, dear colleagues, dear Commissioner, dear activists, I'm a happily married lesbian. I am not sick and I do not need to be cured. Sure, some in this House will judge, although I do not know why you would waste your energy on hate, especially as a political strategy. But stop allowing harm to my community. Today I want to speak on behalf of Benoît. When Benoît came out to his parents

Madam President, I would like to do a point of order. The previous statement clearly violates Rule 10 of the Rules of Procedure, which requires Members to conduct themselves with mutual respect and uphold the dignity of Parliament, as well as Rule 10(4), which prohibits discrimination in line with Article 21 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. Trans women are women. Thank y

Madam President, Commissioner, our European single market is often portrayed as just a set of rules, but that's far from the truth. Our single market is made up of European companies, big and small, who work every day to ensure Europe keeps going. I'm looking forward to the One Market roadmap, but let's be honest here: we can't deregulate our way to competitiveness and a stronger single market. We

Mr President, bullying is a problem of all ages, but nowadays everyone has a potential weapon for cyber-harassment in their pockets. It's the first thing people have in their hands when they get up, and the last thing they see before they go to bed. And we increasingly see people online being harassed, especially if you stand out, especially if you're a woman, especially if you are a woman with a

Madam President, at only 14 years old, Roos became a victim of sextortion via Snapchat. A stranger had made fake naked images of her and if she didn't pay, he threatened he would ruin her life. This type of deepfake technology is an enormous danger for the safety of everyone, and especially harms women and young girls. Now, with Grok integrated in social media and many other deep new tools topping

Mr President, rapporteur, shadow rapporteurs, Commissioner, if you thought only Uber drivers are managed by an app, you are mistaken. Algorithmic management has spread across the entire labour market. In Amazon warehouses, every movement is dictated by algorithms. Call-centre workers receive real-time feedback on their emotions, and office workers have their keystrokes tracked. The European Commis

Mr President, last week, champagne was popped in big tech's headquarters – their business model, based on stealing people's deeply personal information to train AI, will finally be legal in the EU. And while chatbots are emotionally abusing people and even recommending children to take their own lives, our Commission decides to weaken our AI laws. Honestly, Vice-President, I am really disappointed

Madam President, rapporteur and fellow shadows, Commissioners, colleagues, this is a historic vote. A broad majority in this Parliament says 'enough is enough'! We need to ban the addictive, personalised recommender systems based on clicks and interaction for children. And Parliament repeats: we need to ban harmful, addictive design for everyone. We will no longer tolerate that big tech companies

Mr President, in this geopolitical reality, Europe cannot afford to be naïve. The way Big Tech's recommender systems work is the perfect handshake between tech-capitalism, foreign actors and the far right. Anti-democratic actors form global alliances. They spread disinformation, outrage and fear to drive us apart, and Big Tech's polarising algorithms spread these messages like a virus to make us f

Mr President, Trump threatened tariffs if we did not repeal our European tech laws. A week later, there was a billion-dollar fine from Europe for Google. This is the strong answer I want to see in this unstable geopolitical time: stand up against that tech-broligarchy that thinks it can make up the world. Because Google almost has a monopoly on the entire online advertising system. They sell ads b

Mr President, Commissioner, colleagues, it's pretty clear that the Trump administration and his tech-bro cheer squad aren't fans of our digital rulebook. But before the Commission listens to the tech lobby and decides to chainsaw Europe's AI and privacy rules, let's do a little fact check. AI to detect diseases and discover new medicines? Perfectly allowed under European tech rules and not covered

Madam President, did you know that Chancellor Merz went to Canada this summer to shoot polar bear cubs? No? Good – because that means the Kremlin's latest disinformation campaign did not reach you. Why would Russia spread such a ridiculous story, you might ask? Well, it's easier to sway an election than to win a war. So undermining democratic European leaders is part of their playbook. I'm happy t

Mr President, to keep Europe going, we are spending more than EUR 2 trillion per year through public procurement – that's a two and twelve zeros. Right now, public authorities don't feel like they have any other option than going for the cheapest one. Therefore, it is very positive that Parliament calls to move away from the lowest price and start using all this European money in a strategic way t

Madam President, dear colleagues, Commissioner, Budapest Pride was a historic moment. Not only for the opposition movement against Orbán, it was a victory for those Hungarians in the LGBTIQ community who, after years, finally felt at home in their country and even felt hope that one day, maybe they have a beautiful future there. But despite the goosebumps and tears of joy during the Pride, the rea

Mr President, dear colleagues, Commissioner, when I went to my first Pride, it finally struck me. I was not alone. I deserved to be loved. And the people I belong to know how to organise a damn good protest. I hope that in 2025, in a European Union, we would have reached a moment where human rights of LGBTQI+ plus people and the fundamental freedoms, such as the freedom of assembly, are non-negoti