What Anna spoke about.

Madam President, For far too long, Austrian grocers have suffered under Orbán's Hungarian foreclosure policy. Orbán was always creative when it came to punishing European companies that wanted to offer their services in Hungary; Always creative when it comes to pulling money out of the pocket of Austrian companies. A tax system aimed at discriminating against non-Hungarian companies is not a tax s

Hippocratic Oath. Prepping a pragmatic economy for an economy or autonomy. Merci beaucoup de Madame Sturgis. Thank you very much. You've rightly mentioned how important this is and how SMEs across Europe, small entrepreneurs are suffering under this. We can see that this Parliament has done his homework, and we can see that this topic is really important to people all over Europe. The news is floo

Of a man devoid of commission from some law. And bureaucracy. Some who applaud for the. Most bureaucratic problems. We must rise up. We must have some power. Merci beaucoup, a nice talk. Thank you. We made a mistake. It's time we fix it. Because every week we're not fixing it tells a story of an EU that is failing its people. And let's be very clear. That story is not written in this house. It's w

Madam President, The fish starts to stink from the head, we all know that. Only in the EU, that's not always true. Many hurdles and a lot of effort that our companies have to deal with on a daily basis, which do not come from the EU or the head; The reason for this is that the 27 fins all want to swim in some other direction. How absurd it is, for example, that in Austria the cars have to be picke

Madam President, time and time again, the far right speak about protecting children. So let's see what conversion practices do to protect children. These so-called therapies are not based on any scientific or medical evidence, but there is a lot of evidence about what they do – they increase shame, they increase anxiety, they increase not just suicidal thoughts, but suicide attempts. So when the f

Madam President, For six years NASA developed, calculated and built. And then what? Then she sent the first humans to the moon. For six years, authorities examined, discussed and processed an approval procedure. And then what? Then we built 46 kilometers of power cables. Don't get me wrong. These 46 kilometers of power lines in Salzburg are very, very important. They help us move our excess wind e

Mr President, Commissioner! Today, our energy supply is our Achilles heel. Today we must tremble when Trump blackmails us with liquefied natural gas supplies, when Putin turns on the gas tap, when Iran decides not to let oil tankers into Europe. In doing so, we have the power to make this Achilles heel our superpower – from fossil dependency to European freedom energy, from the flickering carpet t

Mr President! Nearly 30 percent of women work part-time. Most of them not because they want to, but because they see no other choice because they have care responsibilities – duties that in theory fall on both parents, but still weigh on women’s shoulders. We must not accept that women today are still far too often financially dependent on men, that women still suffer for the m

Madam President, Commissioner, Minister! Imagine a AI‑Factory in the middle of old Vienna, creating opportunities for new ideas that lay the foundations for new solutions. Yes, just like one AI‑Factory opened its doors in July 2025 – thanks to the EU. Half of the costs for this project came from European budgets, the other half from Austria. Yes, and now we come to that, because in

Madam President, Commissoner! I was lucky. I was lucky to be born into a family that had the opportunity to nurture me. Happiness to be in a school that has dared to rethink education. Happiness to come to teachers who have nurtured my talents and not exploited my mistakes. Far too often today, happiness still decides whether children have and get the opportunities they deserve. At the same time,

Madam President, The Commission continues to promise net neutrality with this proposal, which is also good and important. But we cannot, on the one hand, promise net neutrality and, on the other hand, put obstacles in the way of European providers and companies. With Fair shareWe want to ask Big Tech for mechanisms, but we also want to catch European companies. European companies that could stand

Madam President, The EU is the best idea we have ever had. An idea that promises a continent of freedom – limitless and full of opportunities. But what happens today when a European woman has an idea? An idea for a product or service that makes our lives easier? If you want to implement such an idea, realize it, start a start-up, then the first limits quickly appear: Do you have the right business

Madam President, let us be clear – Russian gas has always been too expensive. Russia has always used our dependency to threaten us, to pressure us, and to try to bend us to their will. But while it has been expensive for Europe, it is Ukraine that has truly paid the price for our obsession with Russian gas. And dear colleagues from the far right and the far left of this House, you always say you w

Mr President! Your own house – that is freedom, that is responsibility and that is security. The same is true of our common European home. But when I build a house, I don't let the alarm system be installed by burglars, and yet, as Europe, we did just that. Nevertheless, we have far too often placed our critical digital infrastructure in foreign, even dangerous hands. We risk daily that, for examp

Madam President, since, according to Rule 25(2) of the Rules of Procedure, the Bureau is responsible for organisational matters in the Parliament, I would like to draw your attention to the fact that CWT was recently acquired by American Express Global Business Travel. CWT being owned by a US company means that they also fall under the US sanctions regime – the regime that has, for example, recent

Mr President, Commissioner, EUR 111 billion. That is 37 000 wind turbines. That is more than two million batteries. That is a new European electricity grid. But instead, we're spending EUR 111 billion a year subsidising fossil fuels. We are throwing money at a technology that was already outdated yesterday. I am aware that we will not shut down gas turbines or get rid of petrol cars overnight, but

Mr President! Russian gas was the most expensive gas we have ever bought, says OMV CEO Stern. For years, the FPÖ has tried to make us believe that we are benefiting from cheap Russian gas – an untruth from which only one person benefits, and that is Putin. The truth is that this Russian gas was the most expensive we've ever bought. Russian gas, which has cost us billions, which has flowed directly

Madam President, To the Right in this House: You always say you are for people, but every word you make here shows the exact opposite – that you obviously don’t care about people. Obviously, you don't care if people run out of drinking water because our water reserves are drying up. Obviously, you don't care if thousands of people lose their homes because of the increasingly hungry flames and unbr

It is very exciting, because especially in my own country, Austria, we hear so often – especially from the right, from the FPÖ – how evil parties are. But if you look at who implements the bans, it's these FPÖlers: Prohibition of genders, prohibition of veggie burgers and so on and so on. So yeah, I'm afraid the real banning parties are sitting over there.

Madam President, With every iPhone, we hold a piece of Trump in our hands – and so do our children. Every time they look on Instagram, a piece of their privacy flows across the Atlantic, right into the hands of tech autocrats and data despots who share neither our laws nor our values. But it is clear: Not Google governs Europe, not TikTok educates our children, and not Elon Musk determines our fre

Madam President, I want to thank you for taking all the blue cards and thereby allowing a real debate in this Chamber.

Madam President, There is no meat in the meat tomato. There is no cheese in the liver cheese, cat tongues are not made of cats. There are no snails in the nut snail, no pigs in pork ears, no trees in the tree cake and no potatoes in a marzipan potato. There is no meat in the Shokovurst. And in the children's schnitzel? Well, I think you understand what I'm trying to get at. That was now a rather l

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! We know what we owe to the older generations: the reconstruction of our countries, our post-war democracies – the basis for our prosperity today and also the cornerstone of this common Europe from which we can benefit today and on which we can also work. But we must also not close our eyes to what else we owe to the older generations: climate ch