What Thomas spoke about.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Do you know the story of Goethe's sorcerer's apprentice? It reads as follows: Which I called, the spirits, I am not going to get rid of now. This is recalled by the call for help made yesterday by leading developers of artificial intelligence. Anthropics CEO Amodei warned of the development of systems that we can no longer control. And a manager of his compan

Madam President, Commissioner! Dear colleagues! One thing in advance: I am not one of the 41 million Germans who regularly gamble, i.e. play video games. I have a lot of sympathy for this initiative. Anyone who purchases a license for a video game must be able to rely on the fact that they can basically play this game for as long as they want. After all, anyone who buys a book does not have to exp

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! Almost 130 billion euros were implemented in the European betting and gambling market in 2025. This business is growing dynamically and is becoming more and more digital. It is not uncommon for providers to be based in low-tax countries, notably Malta. And it's not completely harmless either: Gambling is known to be addictive and affects 5-6 mil

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. When Ms von der Leyen presented the draft multiannual financial framework, many of you were outraged – and rightly so. This is because these plans, in particular the concept of national and regional partnership plans, result in Parliament being largely marginalised in both the allocation and the control of the use of the EU budget. Moreover, the negotiations wit

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, There is a lot of money going on in Brussels. Whether the money reaches the right people is sometimes very much the question. One example is the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund. This should be mobilised in the event of mass redundancies and show that Europe also has a social side. However, a closer look shows that more than half of the applications com

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! I do not know how many energy packages the Commission is presenting here. European energy policy has become a bureaucratic monster, driving up energy costs more and more and giving the industry no more planning certainty. It's time to think about the basics. What Europe needs is safe, cheap and climate-friendly energy. For this we do not need a cen

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. The war in Ukraine has already cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and destroyed large parts of the country. But now he is also destroying Europe and the European Union. While the American president wants to end the war in order to enrich himself with the natural resources of Ukraine, which President Zelenskyy promised him, the European Union is in

Madam President, Commissioner! Dear colleagues! The conditionality regime is supposedly about protecting the EU budget, which is known to be adopted by Parliament and the Council. And that is indeed very important. The aim is to ensure that the funds made available by the European Union are spent in accordance with the law and regulations. As a rule, this should be conclusively regulated in the la