What Tiemo spoke about.

18 Sep

2024

DE Speech

The devastating floods in Central and Eastern Europe, the loss of lives and the EU’s preparedness to act on such disasters exacerbated by climate change (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen! The room is full because of our debate. We are currently discussing the consequences of the catastrophic floods in Europe. We are discussing how we can better protect human lives in the future. First of all, I would like to thank all the helpers who have made sure that the flood damage is limited. Many thanks to all those who work across European borders to save…

17 Sep

2024

DE Speech

Global measures towards social media platforms - Strengthening the role of DSA and protecting democracy and freedom in the online sphere (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! In the last mandate, we achieved great things with the Digital Services Act, with the new Basic Digital Law for the European Union: We make sure that freedom of speech also applies online. But we also ensure that hatred, hate speech, murder calls – as you have just proclaimed from the right as freedom of expression – are punished, but not by any on…

25 Apr

2024

DE Speech

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

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Mr President Karas, I am very pleased to be able to deliver this speech today under your chairmanship, Commissioner, dear rapporteur Ehler! First of all, I would like to thank you for the good cooperation between the various committees here. I think this is a signal of departure for industry in Europe. We are driving decarbonisation and investing in future industries such as batteries, solar power…

24 Apr

2024

DE Speech

The attack on climate and nature: far right and conservative attempts to destroy the Green Deal and prevent investment in our future (topical debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. Actually, it would be good if we could look back on the successes of the Green Deal in this last plenary session with conciliatory words. Because we started ambitiously, but unfortunately we are no longer really good at it at the moment. And, dear Peter, I think we had just banned greenwashing here. That's why I find your argument about the EPP behaviour in the …

23 Apr

2024

DE Speech

Conclusions of the recent European Council meetings, in particular on a new European Competitiveness deal and the EU strategic agenda 2024-2029 (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Competitiveness, sustainability, social justice – this is the formula for a successful transformation of our society. That is why we must prepare the European Union for the approaching challenges of a globalised and polarised world. An unfinished single market, an uncoordinated industrial policy and ever-increasing dependencies on critical infra…

22 Apr

2024

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Preventing plastic pellet losses to reduce microplastic pollution (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, It is a really good sign that we, as the European Parliament, have once again been able to tighten up the European Commission's proposal to prevent microplastics in the environment. I would particularly like to thank our rapporteur, Mr João, for his hard work on this report. I think it has become very clear that we in the European Parliament are really concer…

10 Apr

2024

DE Speech

Union code relating to medicinal products for human use - Union procedures for the authorisation and supervision of medicinal products for human use and rules governing the European Medicines Agency (joint debate - Pharmaceutical package)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Thank you for this intense debate! Thank you for intensive three months of negotiations, which I believe we have really, really used productively. We have created incentives for the production and development of new antibiotics. It has been underlined once again: We all share the goal that we want to produce more antibiotics in the European Union so that we c…

10 Apr

2024

DE Speech

Union code relating to medicinal products for human use - Union procedures for the authorisation and supervision of medicinal products for human use and rules governing the European Medicines Agency (joint debate - Pharmaceutical package)

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Madam President, dear Commission, dear Pernille! Unfortunately, the European Commission presented the legislative package to revise the pharmaceutical directives very late – only a few months ago. Nevertheless, here in Parliament, we have managed to work across many political groups on the 400 articles in the regulation and in the directive and, I think, to present two reports and two legislations…

13 Mar

2024

DE Speech

Type-approval of motor vehicles and engines with respect to their emissions and battery durability (Euro 7) (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. When I look at the outcome of the negotiations on the Euro 7 revision, I have to say: There would have been clean air up there. We must note that the limit values are indeed not sufficient to achieve better environmental protection and better health protection in Europe. Thousands of people are still dying as a result of bad air in Europe and also in Germany. I …

12 Mar

2024

DE Speech

State of play of the corporate sustainability due diligence directive (debate)

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Madam President, dear Commissioner, dear Presidency of the Council, dear Lara as rapporteur! We have fought together here in the European Parliament to get a supply chain law that protects human rights, protects environmental standards, ensures that our consumption here in the European Union does not contribute to the suffering of people anywhere else in the world. We have negotiated this intensiv…

27 Feb

2024

DE Speech

Unitary supplementary protection certificate for plant protection products - Unitary supplementary certificate for medicinal products - Supplementary protection certificate for plant protection products (recast) - Supplementary protection certificate for medicinal products (recast) - Standard essential patents (joint debate - Patents)

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Mr President, Commissioner! Thank you for your explanations. Just like right now, I want to say something about the SPCs first and then about the SEPs. About the SPCs: It is already possible that pharmaceutical companies can obtain these protection certificates. However, we are now regulating a single SPC across Europe to end market fragmentation, and this also helps generic drug manufacturers bec…

27 Feb

2024

DE Speech

Unitary supplementary protection certificate for plant protection products - Unitary supplementary certificate for medicinal products - Supplementary protection certificate for plant protection products (recast) - Supplementary protection certificate for medicinal products (recast) - Standard essential patents (joint debate - Patents)

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Dear Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I wouldn't have expected so much interest in these four topics, but that's nice. I would like to start with the topic of supplementary protection certificates and then I will also say something about the standard essential patents, where I was shadow rapporteur. First, the supplementary protection certificates or SPCs: An SPC extends the term of a patent fo…

27 Feb

2024

EN Speech

Protection of journalists and human rights defenders from manifestly unfounded or abusive court proceedings (A9-0223/2023 - Tiemo Wölken) (vote)

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Mr President, dear colleagues, SLAPPs are strategic lawsuits against public participation. They are a form of legal harassment and abuse of the justice system. They are used against journalists, NGOs and human rights defenders by powerful individuals and organisations who try to avoid public scrutiny. This is why we need this Directive so badly, and with today’s adoption, we will, for the first ti…

27 Feb

2024

DE Speech

Multiannual financial framework for the years 2021 to 2027 - Establishing the Ukraine Facility - Establishing the Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (‘STEP’) (joint debate - multiannual financial framework revision)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. The promises attached to the STEP programme – they were huge. The Commission wanted to give a strong answer to that of the Americans. An additional €10 billion should be invested, of which €5 billion should go to the Innovation Fund to stimulate and support climate-friendly investments throughout Europe, in the regions, to invest in the future. There is almost n…

6 Feb

2024

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EU2040 climate target (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, We want to be climate neutral by 2050 at the latest and we need to achieve this goal; We owe it to the Europeans. And for this we need an ambitious interim target: We must save at least 90% of our greenhouse gases in 2040 – otherwise we will fail with our efforts, otherwise we will not make it possible for Europeans to live well here in the future.…

17 Jan

2024

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Improving the socio-economic situation of farmers and rural areas, ensuring fair incomes, food security as well as a just transition (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner! Many European farmers are currently demonstrating to express their disappointment with agricultural policy. They are furious about the market power of food retailing, which spills valuable food and doesn't pay decent prices. They are faced with new requirements for animal and environmental protection, which are necessary, but whose additional costs are not rewarded. …

12 Dec

2023

EN Speech

European Health Data Space (debate)

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Can I reply now again, Madam President? OK! I never had that so thank you very much for this opportunity. Once again, if we agree that the wording at the moment is already allowing patients to say ‘no’ to register their data initially into the electronic health record, then it’s fine. But then we can also adopt Amendment 555, which would precisely make this legal and we wouldn’t have to depend on …

12 Dec

2023

DE Answer

European Health Data Space (debate)

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Our amendment will ensure that the interpretation is very clear. You have just said yourself that the wording now permits this possibility of contradiction, but that is not really clear. And that is why I did not understand your statement that you would explain it as a red line if this amendment, which would find a clarification of the wording found so far, were supported. We could easily accept t…

12 Dec

2023

DE Speech

European Health Data Space (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Undoubtedly: The European Health Data Space is a key building block of the European Health Union. The digitalisation of healthcare with improved cross-border patient care and improved pan-European research through better data access can actively save lives and will strengthen the European research location. But this digitalisation will only succ…

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, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I am already somewhat fascinated that the colleagues from the CDU, in particular, are now running against the same wall with the same head for the eleventh time and then find out again: This time, too, this wall will stand up. It makes no sense at all to underline a technology here, so to speak, and to demand it again and again, of which we know th…

20 Nov

2023

DE Speech

Union certification framework for carbon removals

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Dear Mr. President, thank you very much and congratulations again on the election! Dear Commissioner, it is good to see you again! Dear colleagues! First of all, I would like to thank Lídia, our rapporteur, for the great cooperation, for the many meetings we have had together. I believe that this has been very constructive work, which we have done here across the political group boundaries, thus c…

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, Commissioner, Mr Rapporteur! I believe that the net-zero industry regulation must send a clear industrial policy signal from the European Union that we want to produce the key industries for the future, such as battery production, solar production or wind energy and heat pumps here in the European Union, and that we want to ensure that we do not fall into dangerous dependencies. F…

20 Nov

2023

DE Speech

UN Climate Change Conference 2023 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (COP28) (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, We stand again – no, rather, we are still on the edge of the turning point of international climate policy. Last year was one of the hottest years in the world since records began. This year will be even hotter. Last year, 32 million people fled the consequences of the climate crisis, and there will be even more. Last year we lost over 1.5 milli…

18 Oct

2023

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Fighting disinformation and dissemination of illegal content in the context of the Digital Services Act and in times of conflict (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner Breton! I want to make it very clear: We honestly knew that Elon Musk would not fulfill his obligation under the Digital Services Act before Hamas' cruel terrorist attack on Israel. A few weeks ago, I asked the Commission a parliamentary question about enforcement. I look forward to an answer, even before the six-week deadline. And I think we cannot allow so much time…

18 Oct

2023

DE Speech

Rule of Law in Malta: 6 years after the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia and the need to protect journalists (debate)

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Madam President, Dear Commissioner, I am glad that you are here, ladies and gentlemen. It's been six years since journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was murdered. Many of you may not know that they were also subject to over 40 lawsuits – 40 lawsuits that should silence them. Unfortunately, there are still far too many journalists in the European Union who are victims of lawsuits that are meant to si…