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Mr President, thank you. An important message from the Court of Auditors is that EU borrowing is increasing at a very rapid pace. This is an eight-fold increase in just five years, and as we heard from the President, the debt burden is expected to be EUR 1 000 billion by the end of 2027. As a result, interest costs are also increasing. The Court notes that they appear to be twice as high as foreca

Madam President, I would like to thank you for your The European Council should cut significantly more in the budget for 2027. Then why? Well, we often forget that the EU budget does not create any new money. What my colleagues here often talk about, with social reforms, housing construction and other things, it is best solved at the national level, and then it is wrong to scrotum the nations and

Madam President, thank you very much. I think we all agree that things need to be simplified. After all, the European omnibus initiative is such a proposal, and we can probably agree that the national authorities are overzealous in interpreting these European rules, which we are deciding on in this House. But the important decision, or the important position here, is that we must turn the course,

Mr President, thank you very much. The Commission's opinion points to the collapse of the global aid system. This is serious, but at the same time I think we need to look at what we from Europe have done? Sweden has quadrupled its aid budget over 25 years and the European Union has doubled in many more times over these 25 years. Yet the world is as it is. You have to ask yourself if you have faile

Of course, illegal activities must be combated. Illegality is one thing. They are to be fought through prosecutors and courts. It is a completely different matter than talking about introducing new taxes. These are two completely different things. I fully agree that we should fight against illegality and criminal activity. Raising taxes is not the solution to this problem. Taxes reduce opportuniti

Madam President, thank you very much. There is no limit to the imagination when it comes to proposing new taxes in the Union. Just listen to this: Cryptocurrency tax; a new tax on tobacco; tax on electronic scrap; tax on tech companies such as Amazon and Facebook; new corporate income tax on turnover; taxes on oil companies; new wealth tax; tax on luxury products such as sports cars; new organic i

Madam President, thank you very much. We underline that Parliament's monthly move between its two places of work wastes enormous amounts of energy and millions of euros of taxpayers' money every year. Recalls that the suspension of part-sessions in Strasbourg during the COVID pandemic contributed to savings of over EUR 26 million, according to Parliament’s Secretariat; Recalls, furthermore, that,

Mr President, thank you very much. Granting discharge does not sound sexy, but it is Parliament’s most important task, and it is our strongest instrument of power – for us as Members of Parliament. Unfortunately, Parliament does not use this instrument very often to reject institutions. Too much misuse is accepted. Too much mosquitoes are missed. Many of the EU's many institutions cannot be justif

Mr President, thank you very much. When the government of Löfven for Sweden negotiated the current long-term budget, expenditure increased by 68% and the basis was laid for introducing a wealth of taxes for the Union. The Democrats backed the Democrats here. Only the Swedish Democrats and the Left Party voted against it. The EU is now refusing once again to rationalise, streamline and cut back. Fo

Now we see how the left is using an important discussion of principle about how to structure the European Union to engage in political pie-throwing, and also about money that has nothing to do with the EU at all. As far as I know, there are many issues, when it comes to this aid money, that are up for discussion, so it is not just those that concern my party. That's wrong. We need to be able to di

Mr President, thank you very much. I find it sad that an important principled discussion is being made into party-political pie throwing. These various issues raised by the left are under preparation in other contexts. These are issues of principle where the fight against fraud is not only about catching the wrongdoers but also about protecting every euro that the taxpayer entrusts to the EU. Ther

Madam President, thank you very much. I think it has been an interesting debate, and we have heard here that there are visions of the perfect Europe – if you invest in green, everything will be fantastic. I am a little allergic to it because it is taxpayers' money and they have to be managed in an extremely efficient way. We need to know "value for money" – what is the added value of the investmen

Madam President, thank you very much. Europe lacks venture capital, especially private and commercial capital. While the US tends to focus on growth and innovation, Europe opts for a precautionary approach characterised by regulation and the status quo. It weakens our competitiveness. Here, the European Investment Bank and the European Investment Fund fill a gap through their lending. But this arr

Madam President, thank you very much. It sounds very beautiful, this thing with Global Gateway and this strategy. It has been running since 2021 and spends EUR 300 billion. However, the fact is that various audit bodies, including the European Court of Auditors, criticise a lack of transparency, a lack of governance and a lack of evaluation. We have heard from some speakers here that it

Mr President, thank you very much. These guidelines for the 2027 budget require increased spending across the scale. They are striving for higher taxes and new own revenues. They increase the regulatory burden and include green activism and gender perspectives. And this without any restraint on costs or meaningful priorities. The frugal position is absent. Those of us who want to see a more discip

Madam President, thank you very much. The housing market is a national, regional and local competence. It is not a cross-border issue. That is why the EU should keep its fingers off. The reason is obvious: The housing market is very different in different Member States. What applies in Barcelona and Berlin does not work in the Swedish countryside north of the Arctic Circle. Europe's housing proble

Madam President, thank you very much. The social networks in our Member States are, of course, absolutely fundamental in order to provide security for the many people, but I think the oral question that was asked is wrong. It assumes that there would be stronger protection if centralisation were to take place and if the European Union were to determine more and more of the regulatory frameworks. T

Mr President, thank you very much. The European Parliament's draft budget clearly shows how far we are from reality. When the Member States in the Council cut a billion euros because the economy is on its knees, growth is lousy and deficits are running, then Members of this House are running in the opposite direction, demanding that the whole amount be restored. It doesn't stop there. In addition,

Mr President, thank you very much. I would also like to thank the European Court of Auditors for this solid annual report. It is extremely important to remove it, and I would like to thank the Commission for underlining that it will work hard to reduce the level of error, which is still far too high. However, I would like to mention something that I find remarkable about the recommendations, and t