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11

Feb

2025

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Preparedness for a new trade era: multilateral cooperation or tariffs (debate)

Madam President, Ladies and gentlemen, Donald Trump has announced tariffs on aluminium and steel, and that is no surprise. But we here in Europe have made ourselves vulnerable and dependent on the Americans with our sanctions. We – our companies – have five times the energy prices compared to the US. And at the same time, these sanctions have made no contribution whatsoever to ending the war in Uk…

10

Feb

2025

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

Madam President, In accordance with Rule 27 of the Rules of Procedure, the Conference of Presidents is responsible for relations with international organisations. We now deal with the terrible war in Ukraine every week, even if we have different views on the solution of this conflict. That is appropriate, but we now have the President of the United States, the Western leader, Donald Trump, who has…

22

Jan

2025

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Presentation of the programme of activities of the Polish Presidency (debate)

Madam President, Mr Tusk! They have identified the priorities of the Polish Presidency, which consist in increasing defence spending and tightening sanctions and completely renouncing Russian energy imports. Let's look at the armor: We are talking about 500 billion euros. In my home country, in Germany, the Greens and the AfD are competing to see who reads Mr. Trump's every wish off his lips, and …

22

Jan

2025

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 19 December 2024 (debate)

Madam President, The power outage we have just witnessed here is a symbol of the situation in which the European Union finds itself. We used to have the Juncker Commission, now we have the Bunker Commission. Mrs von der Leyen stows herself in place Schuman, she refuses the reality, the exchange with the population and also with this Parliament. What are we seeing in the United States? A true turni…

20

Jan

2025

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Request for consultation of the European Economic and Social Committee (Rule 151)

Madam President, According to Rule 167 of the Rules of Procedure, this Parliament can and should deal with debates that shape our time, with debates that move the 450 million citizens in the EU. While we are discussing all sorts of things – the rule of law in distant countries or racing mice in the Sahara or what do I know – many things that outrage people have not yet been taken up by this Parlia…

16

Dec

2024

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Mr President! Not only do we have a terrible and avoidable war in Ukraine, which is a great tragedy for Europe, but we also have hybrid warfare, for example in the field of energy infrastructure – in my country, Germany, the Nord Stream pipeline has been blown up. We had a US president, Joe Biden, who, in the presence of the German chancellor, announced in principle that this pipeline could be tak…

16

Dec

2024

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Approval of the minutes of the previous sitting

Madam President, I'm referring to paragraph 206 on the standing committees. We were informed that there shall be installed two standing committees: one on public health and one on defence. These two have been lumped together. We support, indeed, a Committee on Public Health, but we firmly reject further armament and escalation in Europe. That's why we want to ask for a separate decision on those t…

26

Nov

2024

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The Autumn 2024 Economic Forecast: a gradual rebound in an adverse environment (debate)

22

Oct

2024

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Establishing the Ukraine Loan Cooperation Mechanism and providing exceptional macro-financial assistance to Ukraine (debate)

Mr President! Ladies and gentlemen, I summarise the debate so far. Firstly: Loans for Ukraine's debt service to the G7 countries and the continuation of an endless war and thus the destruction of infrastructure are good. Secondly: Loans for civilian investment and infrastructure development in Europe are bad. This madness will continue to depend on Europe economically. While the EU wants to borrow…

9

Oct

2024

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Taxing the super-rich to end poverty and reduce inequalities: EU support to the G20 Presidency’s proposal (topical debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen! After the Second World War, even the German Christian Democracy warned in its Ahlen program against the concentration of economic power in the hands of fewer people. But for decades, wealth concentration in Europe has been on the rise again, while the middle class is under pressure. During the coronavirus crisis, the number of billionaires continued to rise. Few…

19

Sep

2024

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The historic CJEU ruling on the Apple state aid case and its consequences (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen! Ten years ago, the Luxembourg leaks revealed how large international corporations often pay less than 1% tax on their profits in the EU, while our middle class and our employees are being scooped up. The state aid procedure and litigation with Apple and Ireland also took almost a decade. In the case of Amazon and Starbucks, the EU Commission has lost proceedings…

17

Sep

2024

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Outcome of G20 ministerial meeting in Rio-de-Janeiro and fighting inequality (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen! For the first time under Brazilian leadership, the G20 countries have decided to make the ultra-rich more accountable. Only 2,500 billionaires worldwide, using tech companies for example, to determine how 8 billion people work, read the news or pay with which technologies. This economic power is a threat to democracy, and sooner or later it culminates in the …