What Tiemo spoke about.

16 Sep

2026

DE Speech

Stop gold-plating, relieve SMEs: Member States must implement EU legislation without adding extra bureaucracy (topical debate)

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Madam President, Dear colleagues! Restricting national autonomy is what the EPP, ECR, ID and ESN are calling for in this Parliament. Sounds absurd, too! One of the greatest strengths of the European Union is actually that we tackle things together, and that unfortunately usually means agreeing on a small common denominator. And now you, who are always crying out for sovereignty, want to deprive Me…

8 Jul

2026

DE Speech

EU’s response and preparedness to protect people against recurring heatwaves and upcoming wildfires (debate)

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21 May

2026

DE Speech

Need for an adaptation of the EU legal framework on sustainable biofuels (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen. After the fairy tale of synthetic fuels, which will free us from all dependencies, we have now once again arrived at biofuels as a detour, so as not to electrify too quickly and too well. In doing so, we need the truly sustainable biofuels that we can produce ourselves here in Europe for vehicles that simply cannot be electrified. These are especia…

21 May

2026

DE Answer

European Citizens’ Initiative ‘Stop destroying videogames’ (debate)

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I believe that the European cultural sector is also shaped by video games. Unfortunately, we forget that. Our copyright, which we have at the moment, goes too little into the digital reality. We saw this in the revision of the last copyright reform, when we had to argue for years about whether libraries can also give users access to digital media, for example to e-books, whether they can be lent. …

21 May

2026

DE Speech

European Citizens’ Initiative ‘Stop destroying videogames’ (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, thank you very much! Planned wear describes the practice of manufacturers to artificially shorten the functionality of products. We know this from toasters, from televisions, from computers. With the right to repair, we have already worked together to remedy this situation. But the problem doesn't stop there. Over the past few years, this perfidious practice has beco…

21 May

2026

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European Citizens’ Initiative ‘Stop destroying videogames’ (debate)

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Thank you very much for your speech. I simply have one question: by arguing that they don't want it, what do you tell European publishers like CD Projekt Red who actively support this initiative? So, I think there are many publishers in Europe who know that they built a community and they do not want to disappoint them, and they know that they need customers happy. So, what do you tell publishers …

20 May

2026

DE Speech

Reviewing the ETS system to support European competitiveness (topical debate)

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Madam President, dear Commissioner, if you allow me five seconds more, I would start with the thing which should connect us today: Happy birthday to Peter Liese, whose birthday is today. We organized this debate on your favourite topic today. Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, How often do we have to run our heads against the fossil wall in this debate in order to understand that the road here…

28 Apr

2026

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Enforcement of the Digital Markets Act (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! The Digital Markets Act is indeed one of our sharpest swords in the fight against the dominance of big tech companies. But let's not fool ourselves: Google, Apple – they all won't give us anything. They will use any of our negligence to perpetuate their unfair business practices and crowd out European competitors and expand their monopolies. Rig…

28 Apr

2026

DE Speech

Presentation of the Better Regulation and Enforcement Communication (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, "Better legislation" – that sounds good at first. But better for whom? For the citizens to whom we are committed. Or for businesses, administrations and Member States. I believe that those who want to think better about European legislation must prioritise transparency, proportionality and comprehensibility. In Germany, on the other hand, the CDU and CSU have…

8 Oct

2025

DE Speech

Europe’s automotive future – reversing the ban on the sale of combustion cars in the EU (topical debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. We are making exactly the same mistake in the political debate that leading automotive managers have made in recent years and have thus destroyed jobs: We are in a circle in this debate. The European automotive industry and its suppliers are doing badly, yes. But we have to answer the question: Why? Because cars are produced that are no longer competitive in the…

9 Jul

2025

DE Speech

European Climate Law (vote)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, This debate is now taking longer than the vote. However, I would like to remind you that this House has already used the urgency vote in many places. We did it to help the automotive industry, we did it to help the automotive industry. Deforestation regulation To help, we did it to make the rules easier when shooting down the wolf – in other words, whenever i…

8 Jul

2025

DE Speech

Revision of the European Climate Law (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, dear Wopke! I'm glad you're here today, and thank you for the suggestion. It's always difficult to start with a correction, but unfortunately I have to. The Scientific Advisory Board – your Scientific Advisory Board – has said that 90% is the minimum we need to achieve in 2040, and we can also use climate credit as a flexibilisation element. But making them part of t…

12 Mar

2025

DE Speech

Action Plan for the Automotive Industry (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner! The automotive industry in Europe is an important employer, and that is why the ranks here today are also reasonably well filled. At the same time, however, it is also true that many people do not buy a new car, but that they buy a used car. That is why we must finally create support for the vast majority of consumers in our actions, as they come into electromobility…

11 Mar

2025

DE Speech

Clean Industrial Deal (debate)

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Madam President, Dear Commissioner, I am glad that you are here! The motto of Clean industrial deals must be: Tempo instead of gravediggers. We need speed to decarbonise Europe, but we don't need a gravedigger for the Green Deal. The Green Deal for the clean industry must therefore not serve as an alibi for general deregulation, but must specifically promote strategically important industries with…

11 Mar

2025

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Presentation of the proposal on Critical Medicines Act (CMA) (debate)

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Stockpiling is an essential part, yes, I totally agree and I'm happy that it is also part of the MEAT criteria. I agree that in some Member States, medicine is more accessible than in others, and this is something we shouldn't accept. We should work together to have a European Union, a true European health Union, where every European citizen has equal access to medicines. I'm really sure that we a…

11 Mar

2025

DE Speech

Presentation of the proposal on Critical Medicines Act (CMA) (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Drug shortages can become a matter of life and death for patients; Therefore, it is high time that we tackle this problem. Although the Commission has been publishing a list of critical medicines for a long time, we have not yet had a legislative proposal. We as Parliament have already tried to take the first steps in the pharmaceutical regulation and also in…

12 Feb

2025

DE Answer

US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, the World Health Organisation and the suspension of US development and humanitarian aid (debate)

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The beautiful thing is: I am always there for an open exchange. I wanted colleague Anja Arndt – who comes from the same region as me, from East Frisia; East Frisia is at risk of rising sea levels – just asking if it ignores this fact and therefore saying that we do not need to increase the dikes, thus causing hundreds of thousands of people in their homeland to fall victim to climate change. She d…

12 Feb

2025

DE Speech

US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, the World Health Organisation and the suspension of US development and humanitarian aid (debate)

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Madam President, Dear Commissioner, I am glad that you are here! The world's richest man cuts the support of the world's poorest people. This is an egregious process. The AfD and others on the right celebrate this. They celebrate this because human lives are of no value to them; They only care about their own interests, the pursuit of power and corporate interests. They don't care about people, an…

12 Feb

2025

DE Speech

Collaboration between conservatives and far right as a threat for competitiveness in the EU (topical debate)

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Mr President! The leader of the CDU/CSU group said here today that he would like to put out the fire behind the fire wall, which the AfD has lit and which is called racism. But instead, you and your party friend Friedrich Merz continue to pour oil into this fire. Friedrich Merz stands in the Bundestag and talks about daily gang rapes by migrants in Germany. There's no such thing. And while you're …

18 Dec

2024

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Restoring the EU’s competitive edge – the need for an impact assessment on the Green Deal policies (topical debate)

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Mr President! Dear Commissioner, I am glad that you are here. I am a lawyer, and as such I believe in the strength of the law, not the law of the stronger. I believe that we need good regulation, and that is why an impact assessment is needed before a new law. I have to ask colleagues from the right side of the House: What have you done in the last five years? You obviously did not read the Commis…

17 Dec

2024

DE Speech

Misinformation and disinformation on social media platforms, such as TikTok, and related risks to the integrity of elections in Europe (debate)

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Dear Mr President, Ladies and Gentlemen! This debate about disinformation and misinformation is damn important, because we are seeing more and more electoral influence and influencing the issues on these platforms. We had originally planned in this debate to talk about TikTok and X, and then suddenly the right side of House X no longer wanted to have the title. So they preferred to limit and censo…

16 Dec

2024

DE Speech

Right to clean drinking water in the EU (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen! The right to clean drinking water for all Europeans has long been a real concern for us as Social Democrats. It is not for nothing that we have been fighting for years for a nationwide monitoring and, above all, against the privatisation of Europe's water supply. And we've actually come a long way, but not far enough yet. Latest analyses show: European ground…

24 Oct

2024

DE Speech

Closing the EU skills gap: supporting people in the digital and green transitions to ensure inclusive growth and competitiveness in line with the Draghi report (debate)

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Dear Mr President, Ladies and Gentlemen! The list of challenges Draghi has put in our specifications is long. There is the unfinished internal market, there is an uncoordinated industrial policy and ever-increasing dependence on critical technologies, which ultimately threaten our political capacity to act, but also our society as a whole. We are now actively discussing coping with this mammoth ta…

23 Oct

2024

DE Speech

U-turn on EU bureaucracy: the need to axe unnecessary burdens and reporting to unleash competitiveness and innovation (topical debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen! One thing is very clear: No one wants and no one needs unnecessary bureaucracy. But the debate here in this House, but also beyond, is increasingly becoming a populist debate. It is only a question of who shouts the loudest and calls in the most shrill tones for the chainsaw or axe – as the title of this debate says – to be subject to excessive reporting obligat…

18 Sep

2024

DE Speech

EU response to the Mpox outbreak and the need for continuous action (debate)

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Mr President, it's good to have Stella Kyriakides here. I will now start in German and then switch back to English. What we have learned from the corona pandemic is that pathogens know no borders. It has painfully reminded us that we must stand together as a global community, and it is therefore good that the World Health Organization is taking a very close look at what is happening in the Democra…