What Emma spoke about.

Mr President, this will be the fifth time I'm going to the global climate conferences, but somehow it feels like this is the first time the presidency has set a clear goal: a global electrification target – 35 % by 2035. So what are we waiting for? Now we have the focus. We know what the presidency wants. So where are the EU leaders? What are we waiting for? This is like, really, a no-brainer. An

Madam President, this is a EUR 50 bill. If I were to stack this amount of money on top of each other, by the end of my speech, it would have reached the height of me. This is the underfunding gap. EUR 420 billion each year! If it continues stacking, in nine minutes, it would have reached the ceiling of this beautiful building. That is how much we are underinvesting it, and it tells us we are not s

Thank you so much, colleagues. I would hereby propose that this file be referred back to the committee for interinstitutional negotiations in accordance with Rule 60(4) in the Parliament's Rules of Procedure.

Mr President, colleagues, we are addicted to fossil fuels. Almost 70 % of Europe's energy is still fossil. If we're going to get rid of that dependency, we need to change. The clothes we're wearing, our transport, the food we eat, the processes that industry is using, what we consume – we have fossil fuels everywhere, and we need a broad transition within our industry. In order to do so, our indus

Mr President, guys, we need to talk. Our relationship with the Baltic Sea, it doesn't work. It's abusive. We do crisis plans, we see experts and scientists – the Baltic Sea map was almost like couples therapy. But as soon as October arrives and it's time for quotas, it's like we forgot everything that we had worked so hard on for the rest of the year. As soon as we see a small breathing space in t

Madam President, it feels like I am living in two different realities: one where we have had the most extreme summers in Europe, where Parisians have literally been boiling and cooking eggs on their rooftops, where Europe has had massive wildfires, where 35 000 Europeans have died prematurely, where we have had massive wildfires across the continent, and where scientists say that we have already s

Mr President, the common fisheries policy stems back for more than 55 years and is, together with the common agricultural policy and the internal market, one of the core policies of our Union, and that is why this discussion is so important today. For Renew Europe, our priority is on policies that deliver for fisheries, for the marine environment and for the coastal communities that depend on both

Mr President, thank you very much. Biofiber in clothing and fabric, strong glulam beams, stylish building materials, green chemicals, cleaning agents, lubricants, biobased paints and adhesives, bioplastics, sustainable packaging, biogas, biofuels, electricity and heat. The list can be long. I often stand in this pulpit and say that we in Europe must break our dependence on fossil energy sources, i

Mr President, it is 'Pride Month', and I'm getting seriously tired with the LGBT+ minority. You are demanding, loud, unhappy, feeling sorry for yourself. I am normally very supportive of minorities, but with you guys, I'm having some serious issues. Because at some point you need to understand that love is love. And don't let your hate out on the trans, the drag, the gay, and the queer community.

Andrea, we share the same passion for electrification, I have no doubt. But the latest analysis from ACER is really showing that the German electricity market is not functioning well. The preferred design of the market would be to split Germany into five pricing zones, so that we have proper pricing, reflecting the actual situation in each of the different parts of Germany. Why is this not happeni

Mr President, I don't understand what we are waiting for. Of course, we need to electrify. That's what's needed for jobs, economy, climate. And of course, we need an electrification target. Otherwise, Europe completely lags behind globally. But I have to address something very important: If we are to electrify the system completely, the system needs to work. And right now, the German electricity m

Madam President, what is even happening here? Every day since the start of the war in Iran, Europe has been paying an extra half a billion euros for fossil fuels. Every day. For nothing. That's EUR 3.5 billion this week alone to the fossil fuel industry. For nothing. They're robbing us. Without the emissions trading scheme, we would have been in a much worse situation. Reports show that without th

Fertiliser prices went up because the Hormuz Strait was closed, and we are dependent on oil and gas and this Hormuz Strait to produce the fertilisers. That is why the prices went up. The ETS price went down during this time. This is why we have this crisis. Why don't you want to take us out of these dangerous dependencies? I don't understand that.

So here we go again. I still don't understand. We have fertilisers that are dependent on oil and gas. Oil and gas prices go up. Fertiliser prices go up. And what do you want to do? Continue using fertilisers from oil and gas! How will that solve Europe's fertiliser problem? How will that make fertiliser cheaper for our farmers? We need green policies. We need the Green Deal to transition to the su

Madam President, thank you very much. Sun, earth and water. Yes, many people think that's all it takes to produce food and food. But nutrition is needed in the form of fertilizer, and it's getting really expensive now. Our farmers deserve better than their lives, livelihoods and future being decided by dictatorships or populists. We are still too dependent on imported fossil-based fertiliser. Russ

But isn't the bigger picture more important here – that we send a signal to the Commission that the Baltic Sea is in desperate need of action? This report is the first time ever the Parliament is taking such a stance. Isn't it more important that we send this strong signal together, united, even though we disagree on the content? Yes or no? Will you vote in favour of this report? The Baltic Sea ne

The aim of this report is to send a strong signal to the Commission that we need to review the Baltic Sea map. Because it is obviously not working for the Baltic Sea. The Left Group, in the Fisheries Committee, did not support this report in the fall, because of the seals and cormorants that you mention. I agree that you do not have to like everything that is in the report. Everything is not for e

Mr President, thank you very much. Hey, now it's a month left until midsummer and who wants to celebrate Swedish summer without herring? I don't think anyone. But the situation in the Baltic Sea is still acute. Eutrophication, overfishing and a collapsing fish stock. It's clear. The current Baltic Sea Management Plan is not working and the Baltic Sea is an EU issue. It is only here that we can do

Mr President, it is not a political message.

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Mr President, right now, we are living some really hard‑earned lessons. For decades, we built our economy based on fossil fuels when we should have known better. We should have known better when Russia invaded Crimea and cut the gas flows. We should have known better, changed our tax system and phased out oil instead of hoping for Iran to keep the Hormuz Strait open. We should have known better th

Mr President, I agree with President Macron. The energy transition is too slow, the pathway towards new mines is too slow, reducing dependency on fossil fuels is too slow, building Europe's competitiveness is too slow. And one of the reasons is because of the lack of predictability that we are creating in this House. The political uncertainty is actually influencing our businesses. But second of a

Mr President, colleagues, we are facing a very serious situation. The war in Iran is sending shockwaves into our energy system, causing prices to soar, and we need to be prepared. The petroleum populism isn't working. Our best way to prepare is finally phasing out fossil fuels for real. But we are not delivering. Renewable energy is taxed the same way as fossil energy in this Union. Biofuels have

But what your side of the House, this part of the House, needs to understand is it's the dependency on coal, oil and gas that led us here. That's why we are in the situation where we are today. That's why the prices are skyrocketing. Coal will not be a nice teddy bear you can go to whenever you have a problem. It is the actual problem. Coal, oil and gas are the main cause of the energy price probl

So do I understand you correctly that we are in a situation where the oil and gas prices are skyrocketing because of the war in Iran, the situation in the Middle East, and what you want to do is take all of the climate policies that are to take us out of these dependencies on fossil fuel, remove them, and then continue using oil, gas and coal? How will that lower energy prices for European consume