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Mr President, Commissioner, Britain is also a very important nuclear power for Finland, with a strong and developed defence industry. It is an important partner for European security, with a complementary capacity. Our relationship with the UK is important at a time when Europe is facing growing security challenges. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has changed our security environment forever. Ukraine

Mr President, Commissioner, corruption is not a vice to Russia, it is a weapon. Before the war, it worked with bargains, honey, and money. Former prime ministers served as consultants to Russian energy companies and sat on their boards. Hundreds of billions of European banks laundered dirty money. When the attack began in February 2022, many European capitals were already softened. The war will no

Mr President, High Representative, Parliament was not elected in Russia in September, but a headquarters was assembled there. 86 veterans of Russia's war of aggression entered the Duma. The only party calling for peace was removed from the list as soon as it began to gather support, and its vice-chairman was sentenced to years in prison. A government that records a 58% result and still does not da

Mr President, Commissioner, it should be clear to every European why Ukraine needs to be supported. The message has been repeated for years and years. Ukraine is defending the whole of Europe. In spite of this, we're chasing, we're hesitating. Russia's frozen assets are gathering dust in Europe while Ukrainian cities are burning. The equation doesn't work. Solutions must be found. Now every prolon

Madam President, in recent months, Russia has changed radically its playbook. It no longer only spreads lies using AI-enabled support networks across all main platforms. It sabotages cables, blows up weapons factories, threatens assassinations and carries them out as well. It jams aviation, flies drones over our airports, pushes migrants across our borders and pays criminals inside our Union to do

Mr President, Commissioner, the clock is ticking. Russia doesn't move one piece at a time. It looks at the whole board, and right now it sees a hole. America's support is weakening. Our own common defense is only crude. That's where Russia is pushing its hands and testing our readiness. We have one ally who can solve the game: Ukraine. It doesn't ask for security, it gives it. Ukraine already know

Mr President, Commissioner, at the heart of the report on Turkey is ultimately the question of whether Europe can act strategically in its neighbourhood. Can we still see the woods from the trees? In July, NATO will meet in Turkey. Let's call it NATO 3.0. The first NATO held the Soviet Union in check, the second extended to the east, the third NATO must make Europe the mainstay of the alliance. NA

Mr President, Commissioner, there are over eight hundred high-risk criminal networks in Europe. They recruit children, school-aged, 12-year-olds from every corner of the web, from TikTok, Instagram, games. Where our children are. Promising money, status, friendship. Friendship unnoticed turns into abuse. The child gets stuck. You can't get out of the network. There is violence ahead. We know the p

Mr President, Commissioner, it is time to grow up. Putin is waging a criminal war of aggression and is actively sabotaging Europe. Trump is deliberately undermining the transatlantic alliance, and the relationship can no longer be fully trusted. China is engaged in a geo-economic struggle and is rolling its products over to us. Europe is under pressure from these forces, and so is our future, and

Mr President, Commissioner, the world's largest humanitarian crisis continues, and the world is looking away. In Sudan, 150 000 have died. Fifteen million displaced. Half of the population faces hunger. To look away is not only a moral failure, but also a strategic risk. Instability does not stay contained – it spreads. And we should name who benefits. Among them is Russia. Through Wagner and now

Madam President, Commissioner, the Strait of Hormuz has been blocked for over a month, and the consequences are already being felt in our energy markets. Yet the headlines too often overlook the longer‑term consequences that are beginning to unfold. If this crisis continues into May, we are likely to face significant fertiliser shortages next year. That means higher food prices for ordinary famili

Mr President, Commissioner, Russia is Europe's biggest security threat and yet there are those who think that we need to negotiate with the Kremlin. Wrong, wrong, wrong! You can't trust the Russian word. Moscow doesn't even defend its allies. At worst, it will attack those with whom it has a security agreement, such as in Ukraine. In 2023, it stood by when Nagorno-Karabakh was emptied. Now Armenia

Mr President, the Arctic is no longer a frozen periphery; it is the next great arena for geopolitical competition and Europe is just waking up. Russia has militarised its Arctic coastline. China calls itself a 'near-Arctic state' and invests in it. And the United States, our ally, is openly coercing Canada, Denmark and Greenland. Canada shares our vulnerability and our interests in the secured Arc

Mr President, enlargement is geopolitical. Russia is not waiting. It is waging war in Ukraine and destabilising every country that wants to join us. In Georgia, it was successful and encouraged. Ukraine's place is in the EU, not as a protégé, but as a strong military power. As a country that has shown what the European backbone means. A rhetorical question for you, Commissioner: Could Orbán's Hung

I think that the current agreement and the negotiations are not as comprehensive as they would have been with Mercosur. They are relatively thin and relatively narrow, with many fields that are left uncovered. It seems that is the trend of the day. That's the thing that we're going to actually, in this relatively dusty House, achieve. So we cannot make India change its nature. What we can do is to

Madam President, dear Vice-President Kaja Kallas, on this sad day, we have to look forward and focus on new partnerships. Enhancing ties with India is a strategic necessity. Let's stop pretending. The age of soft globalisation is dead – buried by Russian brutal aggression and Chinese and US unilateralism. We have learned the hard way that our dependency is not just a mistake; it may be a true econ

Mr President, Commissioners, geopolitics is not limited to the Ukrainian front. We must therefore also turn our eyes to the northern Arctic region, where strategic competition is already taking place. In particular, it will determine the future of Finland, the Nordic region and also Europe. The Arctic is not a distant periphery. It is a strategic core region where Russia increases its military str

Mr President, Commissioner, we are now at a real turning point. We are not just careful observers, we are at the forefront of the fight in which Russia, China and Iran are trying to destabilise us with sabotage, electoral harassment, damage to critical infrastructure and even assassinations on European soil. The objective is the same: undermine our trust and break the backbone of democracy. We nee

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Russia is repeating its old play, its demands for roots, its interests, its attempts to divide Ukraine, the withering Russian empire, which is desperately clinging to its vastness-seeking past. Putin's army is bleeding. It cynically sacrifices young people in minority areas as mere disposable soldiers to keep a coughing war machine standing. The front does not m

Madam President, dear colleagues, the situation in Belarus continues to be a barbaric attack on democracy and freedom. Five years ago, people voted for change and their will was stolen by Lukashenko's fraudulent regime. Today, Belarus has become Moscow's vassal, complicit in Russia's war of aggression and even in the abduction of Ukrainian children to camps on its soil. These are crimes against hu

Mr President, Commissioner, at a time of profound geopolitical change, strengthening EU-India relations is a strategic imperative. If we have any strategic sense left, we will move towards that goal. India has been and should continue to be a counterweight to China. India – the world's fastest growing major economy, the largest democracy – is a natural partner in building resilience, diversifying

Mr President, Commissioner, the shield of democracy: democracy – an open one – is the foundation of Europe. It has to breathe, but it has external threats: Actors such as Russia, China, North Korea and Iran, who are actively using immense resources to reduce our democratic space and freedom of expression in Europe. Eighty percent of Russia's intelligence budget goes to destabilisation operations,

Mr President, dear Commissioner, at first glance, the new US-EU trade deal seems to be absurd. But it buys us something urgently needed ‑ predictability. Without it, Europe faced tariffs up to 30 % and loss of millions of jobs. Now, with average rate below 15 %, we bought time. Not comfort, but breathing space and transatlantic economic stability that has also important political ramifications. Ye

Mr President, Commissioners, Thukydides, a Greek historian, once said that the drivers of the escalation of war are the supremacy and fear of the rising, rising superpower. When Putin looks us in the eye, he sees fear in us. He sees a scattered west, and he's intimidating. Yesterday, the vice-president of the Russian Security Council, the former president, threatened Finland with war. These are no