What Villy spoke about.

7

Oct

2025

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The EU’s role in supporting the recent peace efforts for Gaza and a two-state solution (debate)

Mr President! Today, two years ago, Hamas carried out a brutal terrorist attack. Another trauma has been added to Jewish history. My thoughts go out to the affected families and the hostages, and there are no excuses for killing innocent civilians. Israel's response was heavy bombs that destroyed everything. A huge number of people were killed, wounded and traumatized. Israel has blocked aid. Ther…

9

Sep

2025

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Strengthening Moldova’s resilience against Russian hybrid threats and malign interference (debate)

In a few weeks' time Moldova will be going to elections and fortunately there are many who want to become part of the European Community. Incidentally, I think it is remarkable that countries are queuing up to join the European Union. It says something about the attraction, while there are other countries that threaten to force the country into not wanting it. That says something about the opposit…

9

Sep

2025

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Gaza at breaking point: EU action to combat famine, the urgent need to release hostages and move towards a two-state solution (debate)

Madam President! I'm always so impressed with these debates. Over the fact that the extreme right is not able to mention in a single word the pain that is being inflicted on the Palestinian people right now. What is happening is that Israel is punishing an entire people for the outrageous acts of the terrorists. They use hunger as a weapon, the carpet bomb hospitals, tent camps and schools. They'r…

8

Jul

2025

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Situation in the Middle East (debate)

Madam President! I am always surprised by those of my colleagues from the far right who can only talk about the pain of Israelis who lose, but are not able to understand in a single word, the losses for the Palestinians in a situation where it is becoming increasingly desperate for the Palestinian population in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The Israeli bombing leaves a Gaza in ruins, peo…

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Jun

2025

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Situation in the Middle East (joint debate)

Mr President! With all eyes on Israel and Iran, we must not forget that the bombs are still raining down on Gaza's starving population. First held in an iron grip by Hamas since 2007 and then bombed by Israel. As the King of Jordan said yesterday in this House: A shameful version of our humanity is unfolding before our eyes, right now, and our global values are being unraveled at shocking speed wi…

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May

2025

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The EU's response to the Israeli government's plan to seize the Gaza Strip, ensuring effective humanitarian support and the liberation of hostages (debate)

Madam President! Children are dying of hunger. They're doing it right now. The situation is deteriorating dramatically in Palestine these days. In Gaza, a human catastrophe is unfolding. Israel has been blocking all forms of aid for 80 days. Nothing has come in to the bombed, starved and exhausted population. And Israel continues to bomb, even though almost everything has already been destroyed. A…

7

May

2025

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Return of Ukrainian children forcibly transferred and deported by Russia

Many of us sitting here have probably tried it. Delivered our children to school, in a daycare center or in a sports club. Imagine dropping a son or daughter on the sidewalk of a school or sports club on a random morning and never seeing their face again and never hearing their voice again because they have been kidnapped and abducted to a foreign country where they are forbidden to speak their la…

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May

2025

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Protecting Greenland's right to decide its own future and maintain the rule-based world order (debate)

Madam President! Those who know Greenland and the Greenlanders know that it is a very proud people that houses a unique culture and nature. The future of Greenland therefore belongs to the Greenlandic people. That is why the total lack of respect is what Trump, Vance and their allies are showing. Their rise creates insecurity and fear in the Greenlandic population. I have just returned from Greenl…

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Apr

2025

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Dramatic situation in Gaza and the need for an immediate return to the full implementation of the ceasefire and hostage release agreement (debate)

Madam President! In the ruins of the Gaza Strip, two million Palestinians have lost everything. Really everything. Since March 2, Israel has blocked access to humanitarian aid, food and medicine. They've shut off power and water. On March 18, Israel broke the ceasefire, and since then the bombs have caused more death and destruction. Netanyahu and Trump are now openly talking about the cleansing o…

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Apr

2025

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Russia’s war crimes in Ukraine: standing with Ukraine and upholding justice (debate)

Madam President! According to the UN, more than 12 300 civilians, including 650 children, have lost their lives and more than 40 000 have been injured. These are only numbers, only statistics, and they represent broken families, broken dreams and a generation of trauma. What is happening in Ukraine is a terrible crime committed by an aggressive and irresponsible Russian regime with a power-hungry …

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Mar

2025

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Signature of acts adopted in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure (Rule 81)

Madam President, I make this point of order referring to Rule 40(1) in the Rules of Procedure of the European Parliament. As a former Foreign Minister of Denmark, I urge my urges to do all they can to stand with the Kingdom of Denmark and the people of Greenland in these telling days. We are threatened by Trump, and I will continue from here in Danish. We live in uncertain times. Our European Unio…

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Mar

2025

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European Council meetings and European security (joint debate)

Madam President! It pains me to note that we can no longer trust the United States under Trump's leadership. I have just returned from Ukraine. Here the people of the country are fighting for their lives, their freedom and their future. We see the Ukrainian people being let down by the United States. The US has made it easier for Russia to bomb Ukraine and kill civilians. We see that every day now…

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Feb

2025

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Wider comprehensive EU-Middle East Strategy (debate)

Madam President! A riviera of gold, glittering skyscrapers built on the bones of 50 000 dead Palestinians. It can hardly be more absurd and despicable than what Trump is proposing. Netanyahu and Trump recognize that Gaza is uninhabitable after 16 months of carpet bombing. But Trump's solution of forcibly transferring two million people from their own country is further proof that he doesn't care a…

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Feb

2025

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Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggression (debate)

Mr President! Three years! For three years, people in Ukraine have been terrorised every day. What we see from Putin's war machine is nothing less than a horrific attack on a country, on innocent and defenseless civilians, a violation of all international law. Consistently, he tries to paralyze the country with attacks on critical infrastructure. Innocent people are now living through the third ha…

21

Jan

2025

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Geopolitical and economic implications for the transatlantic relations under the new Trump administration (debate)

Mr President! If anyone doubted that the election of a new US president would have far-reaching consequences, they must be convinced yesterday. The United States is emerging from international agreements that, among other things, limit the catastrophic climate change we see. The democratic rules of the world society are back when a big ally threatens a smaller one. I was elected in Denmark. We are…

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Jan

2025

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Ceasefire in Gaza - the urgent need to release the hostages, to end the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and to pave the way for a two-state solution (debate)

Mr President! Finally, a ceasefire. Nothing in this world justifies taking hostages, but there is nothing in this world that justifies fighting an entire people in the fight against terror. A people squeezed between the Hamas regime and Israel's siege before the war. Even before the war, the situation in Gaza was untenable. Now it's unbearable. After 16 months of war against the civilian populatio…

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Dec

2024

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Need to update the European strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities (debate)

Thank you, Madam President! People with disabilities face too many barriers. I learned how important it is to listen to them. Both from my time as chairman of the Danish Parliament's Social Affairs Committee in Denmark, but also as chairman of the Social Affairs Committee in Kolding. In the city council, how important it is to invite people with disabilities and their relatives to dialogue and hea…

17

Dec

2024

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Russia’s disinformation and historical falsification to justify its war of aggression against Ukraine (debate)

Madam President! Historically, it has always been a means of propaganda that if a lie was repeated often enough, it ended up being a truth. Therefore, it is important to say it as it is if information is a lie. And the master of misinformation is Vladimir Putin. Putin lied the day before his brutal invasion of Ukraine. Putin lied about the war he wouldn't call a war. Putin, like any autocratic, co…

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Dec

2024

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Regional Emergency Support: RESTORE (debate)

Madam President! Natural disasters, as we see these years, are not natural. It is the result of not taking serious action against the destruction of climate and nature. People die and lose everything in extreme weather conditions. It's terrible, but it's also predictable. This year has been the toughest we've seen. The future is getting even more violent. Of course, we need to help people and area…

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Nov

2024

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Strengthening children’s rights in the EU - 35th anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (debate)

Madam President! Children need security, for fundamental rights to food, to health, to a place to live and to go to school, to be allowed to play and to be protected from violence. Not all children have these rights. The many dead, maimed and orphaned children in Gaza have no rights. The same is true in Ukraine and Sudan, where there are also a lot of people who are affected by trauma. I could go …

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Nov

2024

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Reinforcing EU’s unwavering support to Ukraine against Russia’s war of aggression and the increasing military cooperation between North Korea and Russia (debate)

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Oct

2024

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Escalation of violence in the Middle East and the situation in Lebanon (debate)

Madam President! After yesterday's discussion, it needs to be stressed that the conflict is older than the horrific attack on innocent Israelis, which can only be condemned without reservation, and all sorts of sympathy for the victims and their families. Nothing on this earth justifies the killing of civilians. This is also the case in Gaza, where more than 40 000 people have been killed. Many mo…

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Sep

2024

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War in the Gaza Strip and the situation in the Middle-East (debate)

Madam President! More than 41 000 people have been killed in Gaza and they are the ones who have been found. Many lie under the rubble strangled, bled to death or starved to death, women and children and civilians, the majority of them. Killed by a myriad of bombs that rained and still rain down on a population that cannot escape. Hunger, thirst, no medicine, emergency aid that doesn't get let in.…

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Sep

2024

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Continued financial and military support to Ukraine by EU Member States (debate)

Mr President! Right now there is a fundamental struggle going on in Ukraine. We are witnessing an aggressive regime overturning all international rules and agreements. For me, there is no doubt what our response should be to this illegal war of aggression. We need to gear up with our support so that not too many Ukrainian soldiers and civilians are killed for lack of material. We need to remove th…