What Maria spoke about.

Nobody, I don't think anyone in this room is defending looting, defending violence. I will judge them. And I condemn every single politician who doesn't invest in affordable housing, good jobs, a future with this balloon, a sustainable future where a truly climate crisis, biodiversity loss, is taken seriously. These people's worries need to be heard. These people's worries need to be taken serious

Madam President, Commissioner, Council, colleagues, people are on the streets because they were promised things they never got; because they are worried. They are worried about the rent they can no longer afford, about energy bills, about whether their children will have a good school, a decent job, a future. Even these basic promises were not delivered in Europe. At the same time, the climate cri

Mr President, the European Union has given more support to the Russian fossil economy than to Ukraine. My direct question to the far right: Will Putin pay you for this work? You want to continue your dependence on fossil energy with Russia. What will Putin pay you for this work? (The President interrupted the speaker.)

Mr President, Commissioner, a single parent has to choose between a child's evening meal and his own medication. This is not an accident, this is the result of political choices. This winter, millions of European families are choosing between heating and food. This is not a coincidence, this is a political failure. In Finland, we are seeing right now where this leads to: prices are rising, the gov

Madam President, Commissioner, colleagues, across Europe, millions of workers go home every evening exhausted, anxious and burnt out. Not because they are weak, but because their work is making them sick. Almost half of European workers report severe time pressure or work overload. More than one in four say work has caused or worsened their stress, depression or anxiety. Behind these numbers are n

Dear colleagues, Commissioner, I have tended to say that the biggest risks for humankind are the climate crisis and the loss of biodiversity. But unfortunately, during my soon 20 years in politics, I have come to understand that the biggest risks for humankind are the politicians that do nothing when the house is on fire. Unfortunately, the politicians who get paid by the fossil fuel companies or

Madam President, the five biggest fossil fuel companies – TotalEnergies, BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell – together generate roughly EUR 8 trillion in revenue every year. According to the Commission's own estimate, making Europe heatwave proof would cost EUR 70 billion a year – just 7 % of these companies' revenue. These same companies have spent decades profiting from the very emissions now kil

Mr President, dear colleague, over the past four years, more than 200 000 people have died from heat in Europe. This week, temperatures are exceeding 30 °C in cities across the Continent. And work continues on construction sites and in fields regardless. I agree on your point on water, definitely. But so far, the far right, together with many right-wing parties, has said 'no' to the binding rules

Mr President, colleagues, right now we are surrounded by a mood of darkness that is difficult to put into words – maybe dystopia is not too far‑fetched. The international rules‑based order is crumbling; ecological crises are accelerating; democracies and the rule of law are being systematically dismantled. Threats are being sought out deliberately: the far right finds them in immigrants, in arts,

Mr President, dear Commissioner Kallas, colleagues, Russia’s goal is not to simply breach our airspace, it is to conquer. It is to conquer by occupying our attention, our confidence and our sense of security. This starts at an individual level, and that is why resilience also starts and begins with people. We need stronger societal preparedness: security literacy – which is similar to media litera

Thank you, my colleague, for your good speech. As you said well here, it really is about culture and cultural products, and we should, as Europeans, together respect and export them to the world and make Europe the best gaming continent in the world. We should be able to create a harmonised European approach to prevent market fragmentation and consumer protection. How do you feel, for example, tha

Madam President, Commissioner, colleagues, I love video games. I've been collecting them since I was a little girl. All the memories, the friendships, winning and losing together. And here's the thing: I can still play those games, those old console games from the 90s, but many newer ones? Gone. Not because they broke, but because a publisher decided to shut down a server, sometimes without even t

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, in the happiest country in the world, people are queuing for food, unemployment is the highest in Europe and homelessness is on the rise – this is the case in Finland. The EU is one of the richest regions in the world. So how can it be that 93 million people are at risk of poverty and social exclusion, that more than one million people, including 4

Madam President, dear colleagues, one life lost every minute. Globally, the ILO estimates that work‑related psychosocial risks are linked to 840 000 deaths a year, making psychosocial risks at work now one of the leading causes of death, disease and distress for workers worldwide. High workloads, extended hours and limited autonomy present critical challenges in every workplace, and we spend an av

Madam President, colleagues, in this report, housing is not considered primarily as a human right and as a cornerstone of dignity, but as a tool that can be used for speculation. Therefore, I would like to put forward an oral amendment at the beginning of paragraph 1, which reads as follows: 'Emphasises that speculation on housing must be eradicated as a matter of priority; underlines that adequat

I hope that the millions of people across Europe who are currently suffering from high housing costs will read this Parliament's report and find that the big problem with this report is that it says that there is a greater right to own housing than that housing is a human right for every single person. This is a huge problem, and this tells the story of the EPP in this report. I therefore also won

Madam President, dear Commissioner Jørgensen, dear colleagues, housing is a human right and we in this House have the responsibility to make sure every single person in the EU has a place to call home. The report we are going to vote on today fails to recognise this right. Some of the solutions the report proposes are exactly those that have created the current housing crisis all across Europe. In

Madam President, Commission, first of all, my condolences to all affected. As the climate crisis intensifies, extreme weather events are becoming a norm, not an exception. Droughts, wildfires, heat, flooding – while the financial cost is high, the human cost is staggering and no one is safe here. We cannot escape these effects in European workplaces either. Intense conditions cause accidents, illn

Madam President, Commissioner, colleagues, tonight, 1.3 million people in the European Union do not have a place to call home – not because they chose it, but because politics has failed to provide it. And home is a human right. Yet hundreds of thousands of fellow human beings are living in the streets of our Union – a union that preaches about human rights and equality. In its affordable housing

Mr President, Commissioner, nothing is more important than a viable planet, and it is therefore absolutely crucial that the EU's multiannual financial framework should pave the way for the gradual phasing out of all fossil fuels and environmentally harmful subsidies. This has been a clear and long-term goal of the Greens, for which we have been fighting for the last few months, including with rega

Mr President, Commissioner, colleagues, to be able to provide accessible social and health care, affordable housing, education and other services. we collect taxes. But while most people contribute towards this common good, there is one group that avoids its duty and this is the ultra-rich people. A small group of them sit on billions of euros and do not pay their fair share. If the top 0.5 % of s