What Georg spoke about.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen! Performance must be worthwhile again in Europe. I think this is an approach that we would like to use here. Anyone who works must be able to afford an apartment. I think we're all d'accord here in the house. And there are more and more people who simply can't afford it. And now – and we are already becoming very sceptical – Brussels wants to make affordable hous

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. We spoke here last time in Strasbourg about the Commission's electrification initiative, which is similar to what we are seeing now. And we are clearly saying yes to protection, but no to a Brussels bureaucracy crackdown. AI makes cyberattacks smarter and more dangerous – we know that. But this Commission action plan threatens once again to become a monster of f

Madam President, The Commission refers to this as an action plan for electrification; However, I think this will become more of a doctrine that will become a constraint on electricity. Everything should be plugged into the socket: Cars, factories, heaters. But one question is not answered: Where does this stream come from? The electricity comes from the socket, but, as many greens always believe,

Madam President, What we are witnessing here again today at our doorstep is estimated to be the tenth time that European farmers have demonstrated here in front of our house. You are absolutely right when you look at the situation, you are absolutely right! They are demonstrating for their own rights and they have a hard time. When we talk about plant protection products here today, we are not jus

Mr President! I don't need to know more and know more than this quote by Ursula von der Leyen, which she wrote during a discussion of the magazine. The time He said. When asked by a citizen whether Orbán should have been dealt with more strictly, the unelected President of this Commission, von der Leyen, said exactly: We have been incredibly strict with Orbán. EUR 17 billion has been frozen. For s

Madam President, Cybersecurity is now indispensable in all areas of life and something that is absolutely necessary. This act, however, does not bring much certainty, but brings once again a lot of bureaucracy and a licensing regime, which is associated with numerous obligations. Market access is against fees, and that's the motto here. For SMEs in particular, this naturally means high costs and a

Mr Sieper, this has nothing to do with me defending Putin or defending Russia. I defend Europe and I defend the people of Europe. That makes the two of us very different. This is not about Putin, it is about European interests that are not represented here.

Madam President, This strategy, which you drive here, has not been successful so far, and it will remain so. What we have here is certainly not a contribution to energy security in Europe. That's what you can expect. What we see here is rather the exact opposite of that. This is short-sighted and self-destructive. The EPP nuclear lobby, together with the Commission, is doing us massive damage here

Madam President, The Chinese and the Americans represent their interests, and of course they do so harshly. And I've been wondering for years and years in this house that we don't. We do not represent the interests of the European economy. And what will it look like in the end? We will become a Disneyland for those very Chinese and Americans who come and see how beautiful it is in Europe, but our

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. This season’s forest fires – I think they show one thing very clearly: Civil protection is a national task, and it must remain so, I think. Member States and local people know the situation much better and therefore, of course, how to deal with the danger. Subsidiarity: This is once again the motto that we should write on our flags. Brussels likes to use crises

Madam President, ‘Nightingale, I hear you trapsen’, says the Berliner in such a case, which means: I doubt that you can expect a lot of positive things for the industry here. Once again, it is just another chapter of the completely ideologically exaggerated Green Deals, which in Europe is affecting businesses by imposing more and more obligations and bans and more and more reporting obligations. S

Madam President, It's all no longer fun what we're experiencing here. And I believe that the last ideologically deluded person here in the house now sees, perhaps with the exception of a few greens, that this does not work as they have previously believed. And the Commission is now trying to exploit this crisis politically: More control is needed, more bureaucracy is needed. That is certainly not

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen! Industry – and I believe we all agree – is an indispensable lifeline for Europe and for the economy. And now we are not acting as if external factors are responsible for making us look like we are in the energy sector – and this is not the case, for the most part, with the Commission. Essentially, the problems we have are homemade. Because everywhere else in

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen! Let's not pretend that these high energy prices happened to fall from the sky. Everything in this world has its effects through cause and effect. Fourteen packages of sanctions were to bring Russia to its knees and bring it to peace. Pipelines have also been blown up. And what do we have to do? We need to compete on the world market for expensive US LNG gas.

Madam President, I refer to Rule 8 of our Rules of Procedure, which deals with the conduct and dignity of this House. It is now almost two years ago in December that this House and the European Union experienced the biggest corruption scandal in history, Qatargate. You called it an attack from the outside. It wasn't, it was an attack from within. The Socialist Group is not only involved in this co

Madam President, I refer to Rule 10(2) of our Rules of Procedure. And we have identified a huge and violent problem here in the House in the form of an Italian GUE/NGL MEP named Salis, who likes to hit people with a hammer and who has taken a seat right out of the cell here in this House. Violence comes from the left, esteemed colleagues. We didn't see it last week in the US, we see it in Europe.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. The rule of law is always such a thing. Either it applies to everyone – always and without ifs and buts – or it does not. The question for me, of course, is: What does the EU understand by the rule of law? The Union, which always likes to point the finger at others, should, I think, turn to its own door, Commissioner. Because one often has the impression that th

Madam President, All of these examples, or the vast majority of these examples brought here today for hate speech, are already finding coverage. Namely, in the vast majority of criminal codes in Europe, this has long since been covered and is also punished there. And you know that's a sensitive subject that we're talking about today. And I don't believe you. I just don't believe you, if you know t

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. It is always a good idea to become independent. This is true in all areas, but especially when it comes to raw materials. But I do not believe that this regulation will achieve this goal. Why did we depend on Chinese raw materials? On the other hand, we have been turning off mining in Europe for years and decades. And independence, esteemed colleagues, does not

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen. Action for citizens and for the economy, the Vice-President of the Commission has said, will be this programme. Alone I wonder: For which citizens and for which economy will this programme make a difference? Perhaps the Ukrainian citizens, to whom, as I said, you have already sent 82 billion euros in European taxpayers' money, which will seep into a highly co

Mr President-in-Office, ladies and gentlemen. Weather extremes have always existed on this earth. Let's not pretend it's something new. And also in my region, in the south of Styria, there were big floods this summer after massive rains. This is, of course, a great deal of human suffering associated with it. And on the other hand, of course, existences are also threatened, which of course have to

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. Man is a curious being. This is already in the nature of man. And the technical development we are currently experiencing is, of course, also a double-edged sword. Today we voted on artificial intelligence. This takes on a development and a journey, where we do not yet know where the journey will go. I think it will soon no longer be a matter of human judgement