Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU (debate)
We are committed to effectively protecting victims and promoting prevention measures, but these efforts can only be effective if the necessary measures are tailored to the socio-legal specificities of each Member State at national level. A unified, centralised approach ignores national, cultural and legal differences that are key to genuine assistance. We are concerned that the left is trying to i
Madam President, Europe is special, but sadly not in a good way. After listening to calls for more regulation and bureaucracy, let's listen to what the companies are saying. Just yesterday, Amazon Web Services released information about the experience and plans of AI start-up companies in Europe. Four out of ten companies are considering leaving the EU. Why? They cannot get the necessary funding t
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Recommendation on EU-China political relations (debate)
High energy prices in Europe, overregulation of businesses are not hypotheticals. They are not theoretic. They were all featured in the Draghi report two years ago, on which we delivered almost nothing. How do we expect to have more European competitiveness economically if we are saying that you do not actually need to change any of the rules that we already have? We need to undo red tape, we need
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Recommendation on EU-China political relations (debate)
I think we agree. That is the argument I was making: we need to have a strong European economy. It is through cheap energy, through lower regulations, etc., that we allow private investors to invest more in Europe so that it is not the European Union who has to spend more or the states that need to spend more on new technology and on research and development. But if we have business‑friendly rules
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Recommendation on EU-China political relations (debate)
There was no question, but let me tell you something. I understand that for many people, the green marketing of the last decade is very strong and has its effect. The truth is, when there was the race for nuclear weapons and nuclear technology, the only thing that matters was who gets it first. The same competition goes on in other technologies, including now with AI and that technology. Whoever i
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Recommendation on EU-China political relations (debate)
China is investing everything it can in getting cheap energy and getting all the resources it needs to develop its industry and its economy. It's what it's doing. We are limiting ourselves ideologically, based on what kind of energy we want, what kind of manufacturing we want, whether it's sustainable or not. If you listen to any of the AI speeches of the European Commission or many people in this
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Recommendation on EU-China political relations (debate)
Dear Madam President, It is absurd that part of the European Parliament expects China to solve Europe's problems. Let's look at the facts. China's GDP is almost equal to that of the EU. The scissors have been steadily closed for the past 15 years. China has cheaper electricity, more industrial robots, more new AI investments and patents. And what hurts Europe the most today: The share of Chinese c
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The recent hybrid attacks and instrumentalisation of migrants in Ceuta and the need for a coordinated response to protect EU’s external borders (debate)
You've raised several issues which deal with generally how we're going to apply AI. Of course it touches on software engineers as well. That's why I argued in favour of public procurement, because private investment is not happening in AI or not sufficiently in Europe. That's why we should have massive public procurement. To suck up also the engineers, we should incentivise software engineers and
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Presentation of the Action Plan on Cybersecurity and AI (debate)
Mr President, the European Commission's response to the rise of AI and related cybersecurity challenges is disappointing, to say the least, including the new action plan. When the US learned that Germany was building a nuclear weapon, it understood that it must do the same. In fact, it understood that it must win the race. When the first atomic bomb was built, others were rushing to catch up. Thos
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Urgent measures to strengthen the competitiveness and safeguard quality jobs in the EU’s automotive sector (debate)
Madam President, Mercedes is decreasing wages by 20 %, Volkswagen is shutting down factories and firing tens of thousands of workers, Stellantis has achieved a net loss of EUR 20 billion last year, and the European Commission estimates that 600 000 jobs in the auto industry are at risk. And the Commissioner is also saying that the automotive sector is in mortal danger. But only ten years ago, we h
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Achieving digital sovereignty and resilience for Europe, in light of recent developments affecting access to advanced AI technologies (debate)
Mr President, when it comes to digital sovereignty and innovation in the digital sector, the EU is lagging far behind the United States and increasingly behind China, too. And this has been the case for very long now. In Europe, we lack enough software and hardware engineers, chip manufacturing is limited, expensive energy makes investing in data centres in Europe unattractive, and so does overreg
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EU cybersecurity and preparedness in view of advanced AI systems (debate)
Madam President, I'm sorry. The European Union is on the path of digital colonisation, but we are not colonising others, we are being colonised by others, and this has a serious economic and security side. The European Union is very proud to have created the world's first AI regulation. By contrast, Europe is not the first to innovate, code and create all relevant technical conditions in the digit
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Topical debate requested by a political group (PfE) (Rule 169) - Commission interference in democratic process and elections (topical debate)
Mr President, EU interference in the domestic politics and elections of EU Member States is a massive scandal that elites in Brussels want to sweep under the rug. President von der Leyen has publicly admitted that the European Commission was incredibly strict with Prime Minister Orbán. The EUR 17 billion of EU funds that were frozen, she said, were huge for a country of such size. She also said th
Dear colleague, you just spoke about 'happy ending' and 'the time is ticking'. Well, the person who was lecturing Hungary and many other countries – in fact, all of Europe – on rule of law, was from your political family: Didier Reynders, who is under investigation for corruption and money laundering. I think the EU and your party needs to do its own homework first. By the way, how is his case pen
Dear Mr President, The European left-liberal politicians and media have lied, and many of you have said that there is no rule of law in Hungary, no democracy, no one else can win, no one else can win elections but Viktor Orbán and Fidesz, because this is the electoral system, and if someone else did win, the authoritarian regime would not hand over power. And we can still say how many vile lies ha
Dear Mr President, EU enlargement is a historic success that the Grand Coalition led by the People's Party wants to destroy at all costs. They would break all the rules to take on Ukraine, a country at war with a nuclear power. This is what the Enlargement Report says, and I quote: “Accession is a key instrument to promote lasting peace, democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights, regional
Mr Gahler, as you have just said, you are a big supporter of Ukrainian membership, but they need to fulfil all the political criteria. Do you think it is acceptable for a country which wants to join the European Union that its president personally threatens the prime minister of an EU country? Do you agree that that is unacceptable? Can you call on Mr Zelenskyy to apologise and withdraw this threa
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Guidelines for the 2027 budget - Section III (debate)
Dear Mr President, The Tisza MPs are so deeply in President Zelensky's pocket that they have voted six times in two years in various resolutions to separate Hungary from cheap Russian energy sources. Most recently in this resolution, at the end of February, while Zelensky's energy blackmail was already clear to everyone. President Zelenskyy is lying about the state of the pipeline. If he hadn't li
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Rule of law, fundamental rights and misuse of EU funds in Slovakia: the need for an EU response (debate)
So, colleague, you've just said that we should be consistent. Well, you are not consistent, and the EPP is not consistent. You spoke about minority rights in Slovakia, but speaking is not enough. Just last year, in the 2025 human rights report, we had our colleague make an amendment to mention traditional national minorities and linguistic minorities, and the EPP and your left-wing coalition didn'
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Rule of law, fundamental rights and misuse of EU funds in Slovakia: the need for an EU response (debate)
Dear Madam President, The European Commission has consistently ignored the rights of national minorities for years and decades. This is what they do in the case of the Hungarians of Upper Hungary, the Hungarians of Transylvania and the Hungarians of Transcarpathia. Whether it's Beneš decrees, language use, schools or cultural institutions, or even deadly forced conscriptions in Ukraine. Fidesz-KDN
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State violence in Minneapolis and the rule of law in the United States (topical debate)
Madam President, Joe Biden and George Soros have orchestrated the largest immigration and border crisis in American history, and it should be a warning to all of us. The massive fraud, the failed integration and the violence are the consequence of the far-left, open-borders ideology of George Soros and the EU elites in Brussels have embraced the exact same borders policy. So who are we to tell Ame
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Attempted takeover of Lithuania’s public broadcaster and the threat to democracy in Lithuania (debate)
Mr Member, you say that there is a campaign and that you have 105 Members. A lot of people were talking to them on the street. They're not responding. They always give everyone the same droid answer: to turn to the press department of the Tisza. Is this freedom of the press? I have a question, when are the candidates going to have a debate? I wanted to be on the BBC with one of them last week. The
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Attempted takeover of Lithuania’s public broadcaster and the threat to democracy in Lithuania (debate)
Mr Speaker, as you say, this is a Lithuanian sovereign matter. How they handle their own media doesn't have to be up to us. Yet it is sad that you come here and ask for the floor just to thrash your own country and give a lesson in freedom of speech and freedom of the media while your own party president, Péter Magyar, behaves aggressively and arrogantly towards the Hungarian, otherwise left-wing