What Stine spoke about.

Commissioner, to quote you: 'what we can do better and cheaper together, we must'. Thank you so much for sticking to this quote. It's two years old and I think you remember the situation. Of course, defence and energy connectivity are the obvious things to do together, but also civil protection and areas of health such as rare diseases cease to be rare when we work together. And to the Council rep

Mr President, I want to address this directly to the Presidency of the Council. You need to be bold and brave together, and the majority of this House is ready to act together with you. Times of just talking about security and defence have to be over. We must invest. Times of just talking about our independence of energy supply must be over. We must act to get the basis of our independence correct

Well, again, thank you very much for coming back. I spent 35 years in business and I can tell you we juggled, and we juggled with a lot of things at the same time. I can also promise you that if we work together – I am not promising anybody anywhere that this will not come with some consequences and sacrifices – but if we do not work together, if we do not get all our acts together, then we are fa

I think it is a pleasure to take a blue card. I was brought up in a manner that you can actually handle more than one thing at a time. I think Europe is brilliant. Europe has done extremely good for many, many years and we will continue to do so even if we now have more things on our plate.

Madam President, Commissioner, Chairman, on Sunday, Russia carried out yet another attack close to the Polish border. Another reminder that Russia is not only brutally attacking Ukraine. The threat to Europe is growing and we need to act. We need a stronger European defence industry. With NATO becoming less predictable, we need to think differently about capacity building. We need to build capabil

Thank you very much, Mr Sokol. Yes, a very good question indeed. And I do think that many of the things that we have done together already in this field and the Biotech Act II are very important cornerstones. But I should mention one more thing that is desperately needed and that is, I guess, also in the hands of this Commissioner – but definitely in the hands of other Commissioners and Ms von der

Mr President, Commissioner, dear colleagues, Europe has a hidden strength: our bioeconomy, our bio-based solutions. What is this? Well, it is the power of the new and the very old. The power of the gigantic and the very, very small. The largest trees in our forests and the smallest, smallest microorganisms. They feed, they heal, they ferment and they build. The bioeconomy contributes almost EUR 1 

Madam President! It is absolutely true, as the Commissioner says, that until we are all safe, no one is safe. But at the same time I also want to celebrate and point out that here in Europe we have actually learned from what we have been through. We now have authorities that are watching; HERA, ECDC, which actually makes sure every day that we can sleep safely at night. While all this has happened

Madam President, Commissioner, dear colleagues, the Hondius cruise ship case is a true reminder. We all remember COVID‑19. Back then, Europe was not prepared. Today, we are stronger. During the Hondius case, European experts were deployed, repatriation flights were coordinated and critical data was shared in real time. That is our European Health Union in action. But we must never be complacent. W

Madam President! We are really, really good at making a wish list in this parliament and many other places that is really long and really expensive. And there are really, really good reasons for that, because we must, of course, ensure that the European Union becomes stronger. We are under clear external pressure and we so need to develop the Union. When it comes to defence, when it comes to healt

Mr President! All citizens in the EU must have access to affordable and secure energy. These are the places, even today, where you are the most advanced in converting to renewable energy. Because when you focus on energy transition, you become less dependent on expensive and unstable fossil fuels. Businesses have to go that way, too. They must have access to clean, cheap energy from wind, solar, w

Mr President, dear colleagues, first of all, I want to acknowledge the work already done with the pharma package, with the critical medicines act, with now also the work being done on the biotech act – all very needed, because our European healthcare systems are under attack. Our patients are losing access to life-saving medicines and our share of clinical trials is shrinking. Investments are leav

Mr President, Commissioner, dear colleagues, no more free lunch or we will be the dinner. I will continue in Danish. Mr. President! We can no longer take for granted that others will solve our problems. We can no longer depend on others, and we can do it ourselves. Europe has something unique: some of the world's sharpest heads and some of the world's strongest societies. It is our responsibility

Thank you, Grégory, for accepting this. From time to time, we here in the Parliament have people who don't really respect science and numbers from the insurance industry. But we know that you, as a firefighter, you have been on the ground, you have seen this change. Can you just tell us in a few words what has happened during the last 10-20 years regarding forest fires and extreme events?

I really feel sorry for everything that has happened in your country. Now, your colleague – or our colleague – from ESN stated absolutely no facts in saying that it was not shown in data that climate is actually changing and that these severe weather events are going to increase. Is your group here in the Parliament also going to face up to that fact, or are you only going to talk about the need f

Mr President, dear colleagues, fellow Europeans, I speak with pride as one of the vice-chairs of the Committee on Public Health. In Europe, no one goes bankrupt because of a cancer diagnosis. In too many places in the world access to care depends on wealth or politics. In Europe, we take care of our people. And yes, despite what some may claim, this also applies to patients in Greenland. The EU ha

Madam President, dear colleagues, since the amendments for this report were tabled last week, the situation regarding Greenland has changed and is now even more serious. In light of this, I want to move the following oral amendment, on behalf of the Renew Europe Group, to be added after paragraph 34: 'Confirms its full and unwavering solidarity with Greenland as part of the Kingdom of Denmark; den

Mr President, Commissioner, allow me to address our dear American friends. We have fought shoulder to shoulder, defending our shared values of democracy and freedom. The way your current administration treats us makes absolutely no sense and the claims being made are simply not true. Let me give you some facts: Greenlanders are proud, peace-loving people, but the 56 000 people of Greenland are sca

Madam President, Commissioner, colleagues, these are indeed turbulent times. Trump is shattering our trade ties and this is a shock also to our security. The task to build Europe's strategic sovereignty in medicines is more urgent than ever, as the stability we've long relied on is gone. Europe must now prepare for a harsher world. Our patients come above all. 'Solidarity' must be our slogan, ensu

Mr President! You didn't have time to answer my second question, but I can do it on your behalf, because you're obviously smart on mine. You have never voted in favour of aid to Ukraine, and as a Dane and as a European you must deplore this.

Mr. President! Anders, I have two questions for you. The first question is a yes/no question. Was it Russia that was the aggressor and entered Ukraine and remains the aggressor and can stop the war we see in Ukraine by simply withdrawing? My second question is: how many times in this room has Mr Anders Vistisen voted for us to increase aid and support for Ukraine?

I just do not get that answer. I was asking you correctly just now – not back in history – just now: did you see that Russia was starting the war, entering Ukraine with an aggressive warfare? Easy to answer. Yes or no?