What Nils spoke about.

7 Jun

2022

FI Speech

Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System - Social Climate Fund - Carbon border adjustment mechanism - Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System for aviation - Notification under the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) (joint debate – Fit for 55 (part 1))

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Mr President, Commissioner, during this debate we have talked a lot about fairness, but we all know that fairness is a rather difficult concept. The Commissioner said that no one will be left behind, but nevertheless we are in a situation where these differences easily create incomprehensible situations from which justice is quite a long way off. We are talking about biodiversity, but diversity al…

19 May

2022

EN Speech

The REPowerEU Plan: European solidarity and energy security in face of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, including the recent cuts of gas supply to Poland and Bulgaria (debate)

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Mr President, a quick glance at a map of central Europe 150 years ago shows that the area was totally dominated by four empires: the Habsburg, the German, the Ottoman and the Russian. On the map, you don’t see the Polish, the Czechs, the Estonians, the Slovaks, the Hungarians, the Latvians, the Romanians, the Bulgarians, the Lithuanians, the Croatians, the Serbs, the Bosniaks, the Austrians, you d…

24 Mar

2022

EN Speech

The Power of the EU – Joint European Action for more affordable, secure and sustainable energy (debate)

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Madam President, let me start with a statement we all know is true but the implication of which we tend to go around. There will be no quick and easy fixes. For an undefinable time we will have an unstable and unreliable Russia on our borders. And the implications are huge, and we seem to be slightly unwilling to understand this. From the very first day, I said that we need to have two windows: on…

9 Mar

2022

EN Speech

Debate with the Prime Minister of Estonia, Kaja Kallas - The EU's role in a changing world and the security situation of Europe following the Russian aggression and invasion of Ukraine (continuation of debate)

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Madam President, High Representative. Kallis Kaja, tere tulemast tagasi parlamenti, ainult veidi teises rollis. During the last few days, I have had flashbacks from my years as a correspondent in Russia. I covered the first war in Chechnya and I saw the catastrophic results of moral decay in the Russian army. And a morally decayed or derailed army is something very, very dangerous. And we see the …

24 Nov

2021

EN Speech

Outcome of the COP26 in Glasgow (debate)

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Mr President, I would like to thank my dear friends for their efforts. We started to turn this table around after the 2015 Paris Agreement. We tweaked different parts and sectors of the issues. This led very easily to us choosing different issues according to the different priorities of different parties. What we now are trying to do is to turn the whole system around. This is, of course, a much m…

20 Oct

2021

EN Speech

UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, the UK (COP26) (debate)

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Mr President, to not repeat what my colleagues have already said, I have a map with me. You probably can’t see all the details of the map, but it’s actually very interesting. On this side, you see what China has been building and is planning in terms of coal power production. This is India. This is the United States. This map could easily be used to pinpoint and point fingers at developing countri…

6 Oct

2021

SV Speech

European solutions to the rise of energy prices for businesses and consumers: the role of energy efficiency and renewable energy and the need to tackle energy poverty (debate)

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Madam President, thank you very much. Commissioner, Minister! Actually, we were striving for this. With emissions trading, we wanted to achieve higher energy prices and now we have succeeded. The only error in this context is that we have some system errors in the way the entire program is structured. If you look at the old data on ‘effort sharing’, you can see that some countries got away very ea…

14 Sep

2021

FI Speech

Presentation of the Fit for 55 package after the publication of the IPCC report (debate)

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Mr President, the IPCC report was a serious reminder of the path our planet is on. Even if the European Union does its utmost now, the goal of staying at one and a half degrees is escaping from the hands of the world community. It is precisely for this reason that COP26 in Glasgow will be at the heart of the decisions to be taken now. Even if the EU is now at the forefront, everything now depends …