What Jakop G. spoke about.

23 Apr

2024

SV Speech

Withdrawal of the Union from the Energy Charter Treaty (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Finally, at last, Europe is about to step away from the Energy Charter Treaty. This is a lousy treaty that the EU has been a part of and that allows if we abolish fossil power such as coal or gas power plants, we could be sued. It's unreasonable. It is therefore to be welcomed that the EU is now finally on its way to taking this decision. The Greens have been fig…

28 Feb

2024

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Improving the Union’s protection against market manipulation on the wholesale energy market (debate)

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Madam President, thank you very much. With regard to the financial market, we see it as self-evident that regulation and supervision are needed to protect consumers and ensure that the market is not manipulated. The EU has finally woken up to the fact that we need the same thing for our electricity market. Consumers need protection, not least when it comes to cross-border trade. Consumers should b…

7 Feb

2024

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Increased number of executions in Iran, in particular the case of Mohammad Ghobadlou

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Mr President, thank you very much. The death penalty is a terrible tool that no state should have the power to use against its citizens. In Iran, the regime executed 834 people last year and now – just over a month into this year – another 54 lives have been extinguished. It's disgusting. The mere threat of being sentenced to death is a ruthless weapon that the Iranian regime holds over the heads …

16 Jan

2024

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Humanitarian situation in Gaza, the need to reach a ceasefire and the risks of regional escalation (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. The number of people killed in Gaza every day now exceeds all other conflicts of this century, according to Oxfam International. 250 people every day, that's more than twice as many as in Syria, as in Ukraine, as in Sudan, Iraq, Yemen and Afghanistan. The threat doesn't just come from the bombs raining down on Gaza. It is also the lack of food, water, healthcare …

22 Nov

2023

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Latest attacks against women and women's rights defenders in Iran, and Iran's arbitrary detention of EU nationals

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Madam President, thank you very much. More than a year has passed since Jina Mahsa Amini died in an Iranian police custody. At the same time, Iranian women and girls continue to protest against Iranian repression. Earlier in October, 16-year-old Armita Geravand took the subway and protested against the veil claim and was beaten and then died in the hospital. This is terrible. At the funeral, Sakha…

21 Nov

2023

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Strengthening the CO2 emission performance targets for new heavy-duty vehicles (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Members of the Commission. The climate crisis is acute. Parts of the transition are progressing, but emissions from heavy transport are still increasing. Despite the Paris Agreement, despite a European climate law, emissions from heavy transport are still increasing. It is therefore extremely urgent that we take ambitious decisions that ensure that heavy-duty tru…

20 Nov

2023

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Framework of measures for strengthening Europe’s net-zero technology products manufacturing ecosystem (Net Zero Industry Act) (debate)

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Madam President, thank you very much. The climate crisis is acute and the pace of transition needs to increase. At the same time, we are seeing a recession in Europe and we need to invest in both industry and the green transition. Not least when the United States is finally starting to show its prominence on the climate issue and is investing in its law on inflation reduction. That is why I think …

8 Nov

2023

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 26-27 October 2023 - Humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the need for a humanitarian pause (joint debate - Conclusions of the European Council and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the need for a humanitarian pause)

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Madam President, thank you very much. No child grows up to hate anyone. You learn that from adults. Nor are children responsible for military conflicts – adults are responsible for it. A few years ago, I was in Israel/Palestine and visited Sderot, an Israeli community close to Gaza that is often the target of rocket attacks. I visited a school and talked to the Israeli children who need to be scar…

12 Sep

2023

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Sustainable aviation fuels (ReFuelEU Aviation Initiative) (debate)

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Madam President, thank you very much. The whole science is clear. Emissions from aviation must be significantly reduced! Therefore, we are now making decisions that require the flight to reconfigure: a reduction obligation that reduces fossil fuels and starts to incorporate renewables. I particularly welcome the fact that the high-altitude effect – greenhouse gases other than CO2 – will now start …

11 Sep

2023

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European Defence Industry Reinforcement through common Procurement Act (EDIRPA) (debate)

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Madam President, thank you very much. whereas 564 days have passed since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and even longer since the annexation of Crimea; It is a long-term conflict, and it risks continuing to be a long-term conflict. Ukraine needs our support, including with armaments, not least ammunition. It can be expensive. We need to be willing to pay, but we can also be more efficien…

13 Jun

2023

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Batteries and waste batteries (debate)

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Madam President, thank you very much. Batteries are crucial if we are to cope with the green transition and phase out fossil fuels. But at the moment, batteries have a dark back. Some of the minerals used, including cobalt, have a problem in how we extract them. A majority of the world's cobalt is mined in Congo, where a quarter of a million miners work in dangerous conditions. According to UNICEF…

14 Feb

2023

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Response to the situation in Tunisia (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. whereas on 17 December 2010 the Arab Spring began following Mohammed Bouazizi’s protest against corruption, the lack of democracy and food prices; Tunisia became a symbol of the democratic revolution throughout this region. But a decade later, the country's democracy is on the verge of being wiped out. Imprisoning opposition leaders, journalists and civil society…

14 Feb

2023

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CO2 emission standards for cars and vans (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Dear colleagues, Commissioner, The time for gasoline is over. The electric car revolution is here. Every car we sell on the market today will, on average, roll for another 20 years into the future. In 20 years, we will be well into the 2040s. We need to be close to zero in our emissions. It is therefore wise consumer policy to ensure that we sell fewer petrol car…

2 Feb

2023

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Preparation of the EU-Ukraine Summit (debate)

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Madam President, thank you very much. Dear colleagues, Ukraine belongs to Europe. What the Russian regime and Vladimir Putin are trying to assert, when they are trying to claim that the Ukrainian nation does not exist but is actually the same nation as Russia, is a falsification of history. Looking back through history, there are of course ties to Russia, but there are more and stronger ties, for …

18 Jan

2023

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The storming of the Brazilian democratic institutions

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Madam President, thank you very much. We gather here in a Parliament in the House of Democracy, where we solve our problems and contradictions – not by force or weapons, but by votes. That's what we do in a democracy. A few months ago, I was on a visit to Kiev, Ukraine, to the Ukrainian Parliament. It was surrounded by protective positions, with sandbags to defend this Parliament against an extern…

15 Dec

2022

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The humanitarian situation in Ukraine due to Russia’s attacks against critical infrastructure and civilian areas (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Colleagues! The courage and fighting spirit of the Ukrainian people is a primeval force. But this glow is put to the test when the true winter cold strikes, when windows are knocked out by the blast waves of the bombs, when the elements are cold because electricity lines have been cut and the power plants bombed, when there is no water coming out of the tap and w…

10 Nov

2022

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A high common level of cybersecurity across the Union (debate)

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Madam President, dear colleagues, Commissioner, the growing threats posed by digitalisation and the surge of cyberattacks underline that the weakest link is often the one from which a chain reaction can happen, and in an economy increasingly dependent on the digital domain, this can have catastrophic results on our society. We need to increase our collective readiness and ensure that a high common…

5 Oct

2022

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Russia’s escalation of its war of aggression against Ukraine (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Putin claims that the people of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia have made their choice in so-called referendums, but they are illegal under international law. It is a lie, just as the annexation of Crimea has been ever since the beginning of this war in 2014. whereas the annexation of Ukrainian regions by Russia is a violation of international law; The…

7 Jun

2022

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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, thank you very much. We are in a climate emergency and it is now that Europe makes decisions about our future climate policy that it is decided whether we will be able to meet our climate targets. We are in a climate emergency. Emissions need to be reduced faster. We need to ensure that aviation and maritime transport are included in the green transition. We must abolish the system o…

9 Mar

2022

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Batteries and waste batteries (debate)

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Madam President, the importance of independence with regard to energy supply has been made painfully obvious by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. We must use this pivotal moment – as we transition away from combustion engines to electrification – to become more energy independent. The amount of batteries the EU will need will increase immensely in the coming years, and we must not simply switch our…

16 Feb

2022

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EU-Russia relations, European security and Russia’s military threat against Ukraine (debate)

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Madam President, thank you very much. No matter how the current situation in Ukraine ends, we must take seriously the threat of Russian aggression. The use by Russia of the threat of violence as a means of diplomatic pressure is unacceptable regardless of the extent to which the threat is actually carried out. Russia's actions undermine international law and the European security order. Although t…

14 Dec

2021

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Situation at the Ukrainian border and in Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine (debate)

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Madam President, thank you very much. In recent weeks, hundreds of thousands of Russian soldiers have been mobilised on Ukraine's eastern border. This is not the first provocation, it raises disturbing memories. Almost eight years ago, a similar escalation ended with the illegal and illegal annexation of the Crimean peninsula. Under the Helsinki Agreement, countries have the right to self-determin…

24 Nov

2021

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State of the Energy Union (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Last year, renewable energy became the single largest source of energy in Europe. For the first time. It was historic, but we need to do so much more to get there and reach zero emissions. Now we are entering the moment of truth for Europe's climate transition, and our most important tool is the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS). Emissions trading in its curre…

6 Oct

2021

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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. Let's start with the basics. An economy built on finite resources will always lead to greatly increased prices when these finite resources begin to run out. It's that simple. The rise in energy prices today is 80 per cent due to the fact that the supply of fossil gas is lower than demand. That demand is currently increasing sharply in Asia, and in Russia, for …

16 Sep

2021

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The case of human rights defender Ahmed Mansoor in UAE

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Madam President, thank you very much. Now Swedes are once again starting to travel to Dubai to have fun. Last year, the United Arab Emirates was also the largest recipient of Swedish arms exports. At the same time, the country is treating Ahmed Mansoor and other human rights defenders in appalling ways. For over ten years, Ahmed Mansoor has been subjected to arbitrary arrests, death threats and il…