What Sven spoke about.

Madam President, thank you colleagues for this exchange and many welcoming words. Thanks a lot to the Commission, in particular to the commitment in the opening speech to include most of our ideas in the DAC8 revision. Now, in the closing speech, some we will see and hope that it will be rather most than some. We are looking forward to what will be coming, but thanks for this commitment. We would

Madam President, dear Commissioner Gentiloni and dear colleagues, first of all we are discussing today the first implementation report of the European Parliament ever done in the area of economic and monetary policy. Our implementation report deals with the important implementation of EU rules when it comes to the exchange of tax information between Member States. Faced with hundreds of billions o

Madam President of the Commission, ladies and gentlemen. Europe's Green Deal is undoubtedly the largest climate protection programme ever presented by an EU Commission, yes, an entire continent. But especially after this climate crisis summer, we need more speed and ambition. The central problem with Europe's climate policy, however, is not a lack of announcements from Brussels, but the huge defic

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! In fact, building up debt and deficits after two major crises worries many people. That's understandable. At the same time, a monetary union and the EU also need common fiscal rules. But when these fiscal rules that we have now are applied again, they stifle future investments that we just as desperately need. And secondly, they would lead to ca

Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! Today we are under the impression of a new, terrible attack: After Daphne Caruana Galizia and Ján Kuciak, it is today the investigative crime reporter Peter de Vries in the Netherlands who is struggling for his life. This attack is an attack on freedom of the press across Europe. And what must particularly worry us is the fact that the alleged perpetrators from

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. As we talk about our investment bank here, forests are burning in many places around the world. Our Investment Bank, the European Investment Bank, is acting against climate change and has significantly changed course. I am also personally grateful to you, Mr Hoyer, for what you have done in the phase-out of coal against the harsh resistance of many Member States