What René spoke about.

Mr President, you are raising a really important point. Mr Sieper has already pointed out my own scientific background. In the European scientific landscape, cooperation is crucial, without thought blocks and without borders. Cooperation with Chinese scientists takes place at our universities. We don't have to be naive here either. Intellectual property that is being developed here must not be sto

The advantage of these questions is actually to clear up misunderstandings here. I haven't heard in this debate or anywhere else that anyone Trumpism would parrot, but we define our European position out of its own autonomy and strength. What is wrong with naming human rights violations? They clearly exist. What's wrong with cooperating with China if we want to fight climate change? And what is wr

First of all, Mr Sieper, I welcome the commitment to progressive constitutional patriotism, which I fully share, both with regard to the Basic Law and the European Treaties. On the other hand, I am firmly convinced that the German and French Governments have the strength to enforce this and to implement it, because otherwise they would not have made these proposals at all.

Mr Sieper, it is always a great pleasure to accept your blue card. I also belong to the left part of the house. My answer is clear: The power is there. The question is: Is the strength there for that too? Of course! Europe's strength has always been its ability to innovate. We have smart minds at universities. We need to give these smart minds the opportunity to evolve and compete. And yes, that a

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen. The key question we need to answer with regard to our relationship with China is: Does Europe have the strength to shape these relations on its own? To do this, we need to cooperate with China, where we have overlapping interests, for example in the fight against climate change. This includes clearly identifying human rights violations in Xinjiang, Hong Kong

Madam President, Dear President of the Commission, Dear colleagues! The European formula for success is quite simple. It reads as follows: Single market, single market, single market. And what our single market needs is investment and unitary law. Freedom is needed and protection at European level is needed. Mrs. von der Leyen, the buses have failed. They are piecemeal and do not solve the problem

Mr. Colleague, we see a common game here, and the game is: Let us ask another question to distract from what is actually here – to distract from the fact that Russia has attacked Ukraine in violation of international law; distract from the fact that Russia wants to weaken us in Europe with its hybrid warfare; To distract from the fact that others from within Europe must weaken in order for us to b

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! EU Inc. is an important proposal for our internal market, and here I am with Mr Niedermayer of the Christian Democrats. We must dare to have a more internal market. If we dare to have a more internal market, that means, on the one hand, more liberalisation, but at the same time, European standards of protection. We really do not need dumping com

Madam President, Vice-President of the Commission, ladies and gentlemen! We need more internal market. We pay 44% of de facto internal tariffs because our internal market is still at the limits of 27 different legal systems. While we can only ever complain about Trump's customs madness, it is in our own hands to create more internal market. With the proposal of an EU-GmbH – some also call it all-A

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! Reducing bureaucracy? – Yes. Lean and comprehensible EU rules? – Yes. Democracy and anti-parliamentarism? – Clearly no! In the case of the correct and necessary reduction of bureaucracy, all fuses are now burned through with some. One speaks of annual limits on legal acts – as we know from the asylum debates – of independent bodies that should b

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! Mr Voss and Mr Kyuchyuk have made it clear what this is about: It is common ground that the Hague Convention on the Recognition of Judgments beyond the borders of the European Union constitutes a genuine simplification for businesses and citizens, creates legal certainty and predictability of investments. It is also clear that we welcome the access

Madam President, Mr President, honourable Commission, ladies and gentlemen! First of all, the best wishes for recovery to the colleague, who just had to be carried out here. Mr President, I am proud to be a European. In a world that is getting darker and darker and in which the Bullis are resurrected from their sinking, we are the torchbearer of hope. We no longer have to explain to anyone on the

Madam President, Mr Commissioner, dear colleagues, thanks a lot for the debate and let me turn to some of the remarks made during the debate on the report. I believe the core contribution was the one by Pascal Canfin who said, rightly, we have a problem in growth and scaling up, not a problem of innovation. That is precisely the point why we need this 28th Regime in order to remain competitive. Th

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! The 28th For some, the regime stands for their dreams of finally overcoming the fragmentation in the internal market, of ending the uncertainties of national transposition of directives and of building new barriers on the basis of this transposition, the so-called "regime". Gold plating. For the others, it stands for their nightmares of a Europe

Madam President, Commissioner! Dear colleagues! $7 billion – that's how much Meta earns each year from having high-risk ads. scams on its platforms – $7 billion to put consumers on the cross. In the area of financial services, people lose their lifelong savings, which they have put aside for old age, because they scams fallen victim. And it happens even to people who work for financial service pro

Madam President, Dear colleagues! We are facing what is probably the most important European Council since its inception. And this has something to do with the fact that when we talk about Russian assets, it's not just a matter of fact, but rather whether Ukraine still gets air to breathe or whether it has arrived at the end of the flagpole and has to submit to an American-Russian dictatorial peac

Mr President, Madam Vice-President, ladies and gentlemen! As much as I welcome the Google decision itself, it raises many questions that I ask myself. Namely: Why was Big tech once again imposes only a fine that it can pay from the post office, instead of ordering a partial dismantling, as the Commission threatened in 2023? Why was this fine so low? Is it true that the decision was withheld by the

Madam President, Madam President of the Commission, ladies and gentlemen! The kneeling of Scotland has painfully shown us that it is not our strongest strength, but our weakest weakness that defines our position in the world. I don't want to blame you, Mrs. von der Leyen, for this: You have to play with the cards you get. But I ask you to do everything you can to prevent us from being pushed aroun

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, At the age of 17, I took part in a student exchange with German, Jewish and Arab youth from Israel. My friends said at the time: We want something like your EU – two states, united in diversity. Nearly 30 years later, the dream has burst. Hamas has committed the largest mass murder of Jewish people since the Holocaust. In Gaza, we are experiencing man-made hu