What Sigrid spoke about.

Mr President, European leaders will arrive at COP31 telling the rest of the world that we need to do more to fight climate change. But isn't it a bit ironic how here in Europe we are weakening climate laws? We are going backwards on deals that we spent years fighting for. At the same time, Europe is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world: 30 000 people died in this summer's extreme heat, a

Madam President, fossil energy is like a toxic ex: super unstable, and way too hard to get rid of. Luckily, I want to help Europe move on. Move on from expensive gas and petrol bills, move on from dependence on Russia, move on from polluting the global climate. Moving on from fossil fuels will also make everyday life cheaper for Europeans, and that matters now more than ever. Lower prices will not

Mr. President! A huge multinational group or a small sole proprietorship are two completely different things, and we must keep that in mind when we make legislation. Of course, we must have green ambitions for the sake of the planet. At the same time, we must also take care of our small European businesses. The good news is that both are possible. But it should not be the case that small business

Madam President, morning. Let's start with some good news. June was an all-time high for electric car sales in the EU. We are setting records as we speak. Across Europe, more and more people are choosing electric cars. They are getting better, cheaper and more accessible. At the same time, let's be honest, high fossil fuel prices make the shift even more attractive. If we don't prioritise producin

Madam President, electrifying is not just about climate policy anymore. It's about security and competitiveness. Every time we replace fossil fuels with green electricity, we reduce our own dependence on imported fossil fuels, we reduce our exposure to price shocks, we become less vulnerable to unstable energy prices and, electron by electron, we are making Europe stronger. But for this to happen,

Mr President! We need biofuels to decarbonise our air transport and our shipping sector. Biofuels are important, because aviation or shipping cannot just be easily electrified. But fortunately, cars can run on green, European power. So on a continent with limited space and a lot of pressure on our nature, we have to ask a simple question: Is it really wise to grow soy, corn or wheat to pour it int

Mr President! I can't believe that something as important and valuable as care work is all too often both unpaid and invisible. Let's talk about what care really means. It means being there for each other. We reach out when someone needs us. Maybe it's your old grandparents. Maybe it's your burnt-out, stressed-out friend. A lonely acquaintance who needs you. A school student struggling with well-b

Mr President! If you pollute, you will have to pay for the clean-up and discharge yourself. If not, everyone else will do it. I don't want to pass the bill on to my children or grandchildren. But the populists, the anti-Europeans out there on the right, who are trying to trick you into thinking that it is the payment through the ETS system that has caused energy prices to explode - that is simply

Madam President! In fact, I think we can do this much better. I think we owe it to European farmers to take the world situation and the challenges they face seriously. The challenge for European agriculture is not about plant proteins or what you can call your veggie burger or your plant sausage. It's far, far bigger than that. Climate change, drought and extreme weather are, of course, hitting ou

Mr. President! Think about how you dress. Keep an eye on your drink when you're in town. Perhaps, as a woman, you have also received some of these well-meaning advice. Take care of your tea at home in the living room. Do we really want to add that to the list? Because at an online academy, men exchange experiences, teach each other to stun, rape their partners, and share it on the internet. It's t

Mr. President! One hundred million euros. It is Europe's extra energy bill every day, because it is really, really expensive to be dependent on imported fossil fuels. And yet we see it happening again and again. Iran is just the latest geopolitical crisis and the consequences - we already know them: soaring bills, enormous uncertainty. It affects citizens, industry and businesses. Then there is

The most expensive and the stupidest, it's not the green transition. The most expensive, stupidest and worst thing for Europe is then to continue to be so dependent on black energy. So you're talking against better knowledge if you think it's not worth investing in renewable energy sources. If you think it won't make us both richer and safer as a continent to put up more wind tur

Mr. President! When the world becomes more uncertain, we in Europe can feel it directly. When Russia invaded Ukraine, energy prices exploded, and now we see again how the situation in the Middle East is causing oil prices to go crazy. It hits the Europeans. But it doesn't have to be that way. It is not written in stone that it should be so. We can give Danes and Europeans access to green, safe and

Mr President, I struggle to understand why we're not more angry. Maybe it's because as women we are told to smile more. But it's 2026 – women are done waiting politely for rights that should be the basic, should be the bare minimum! The fight for women doesn't stop at Europe's border. In the US, it seems that more weight has been put towards the emails of a dead man, rather than the testimonies of

Mr President, year after year, Putin continues his aggressive war. People are dying, but not only on the battlefield. People are freezing from the cold. The systemic targeting of Ukraine's energy system is not only a military tactic, it's designed to break civilian resilience. When electricity is cut, when hospitals struggle to operate, when heating systems stop functioning, what's the result? Sur

I just can't help but wonder: when you say it's important for the EU not to undermine NATO, I think that the one person who is undermining NATO right now is not sitting in this Chamber, but in the White House in the US. The biggest threat to NATO at the moment seems to be coming from within. So how do you see that it is not in this House that we are undermining NATO? It's from the US. I think the

I think you're wrong if you think climate policies and security and defence policy differ that much. The solution is the same: free ourselves from Russian gas. And let us not be naive and think that we can just switch from Russian gas to American LNG. If we go your way, deciding to treat these as completely different topics, we are doomed to fail, we are doomed to replace just one dependency with

Mr President! Thank you. When you look out into the world, you can get worried, whether you look at Beijing or Moscow or Washington, there is plenty of bad news, but it is important that we in Europe do not shy away. We shouldn't be afraid or make ourselves smaller than we are. On the contrary. We are the best place to be if you ask me. We have so much to give to this world and we have so much we

Mr President, let us not forget the name of Jina Mahsa Amini. Remember 'Woman, Life, Freedom', a fight that must not fade away. The Iranian regime's surge in death penalty executions and brutal abuses against peaceful protesters cannot stand. Iran's ayatollahs gun down children and raid hospitals because a whole nation is rising. It's making Tehran tremble. A generation is fighting for their futur

Mr President! Zusammenhalt. Eenheid. Yhteishenki. Collaboration. Solidarity. Sammanhold. Unity. Unity. It's not just words. This is the backbone of the European project. This is the one being tested right now. So thank you to the countries that contribute to the security of Greenland, who cherish what matters: International order. Mutual respect. Together, we say it loud and clear to Trump: Leave