What Tiemo spoke about.

18 Oct

2023

DE Speech

Objection pursuant to Rule 111(3): European Sustainability Reporting Standards (B9-0426/2023) (vote)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. Almost exactly one year ago, we adopted the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive here by a huge majority. The result was possible because our colleague Pascal Durand negotiated a balanced text that also took into account the concerns of the companies. Three EPP colleagues have drawn up their opinions for ECON, ENVI and ITRE, and DEVE, AFET, EMPL and FEMM…

13 Sep

2023

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Reviewing the protection status of wolves and other large carnivores in the EU (topical debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I'm from Lower Saxony, and there are now a lot of wolves in Lower Saxony. Many people in Lower Saxony are happy about this, because it is a sign that nature conservation works. But there are always places and conflicts where there are actually problems. For example, if the dyke protection is endangered by the wolf threatening the sheep on the dykes…

12 Sep

2023

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Ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, it is good that you are here today, ladies and gentlemen. In the European Union, we can rightly be proud that air quality in the European Union has improved in recent years because, as Europeans, we have jointly enacted laws that have ensured that people in the European Union can live healthier lives. And yet: More than 300,000 people die each year as a result of poo…

11 Sep

2023

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Renewable Energy Directive (debate)

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–Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! The Renewable Energy Directive is a real success. We are finally getting more renewable energy. And contrary to what my two previous speakers have just said, the future does not belong to radiant nuclear energy, which is expensive and dangerous, where we do not know how to store nuclear waste, but it belongs to the sun, it belongs to solar energy …

11 Jul

2023

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

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Today is a good day for journalists in the European Union. We will better protect them from lawsuits they want to silence. It helps our democracy. This helps our coexistence. It is more important than ever for journalists to be able to do their job. Thank you very much for this broad support. We want to start the interinstitutional negotiations with the Counc…

11 Jul

2023

DE Speech

European Chips Act (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, it is good to see you here! First of all, you might think that after we've been talking about food security all this morning, it's about something to eat. But it is not about food, it is about the digital sovereignty of the European Union. For this, we need clear rules that stimulate production in the European Union again, but which also ensure that we not only produ…

11 Jul

2023

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Nature restoration (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, A lot of fairy tales are told in this debate. This culminates in the fact that the EPP leadership was not too bad to portray a Commissioner as Santa Claus on Sharepic and then not even to appear today to apologize for this action. But this faction has also told a lot of fairy tales about the content. It was about putting food security at risk. T…

10 Jul

2023

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Protection of journalists and human rights defenders from manifestly unfounded or abusive court proceedings (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much to Commissioner Jourová for her words. I hope we will have a successful trilogue. For that we have to really make sure that what we as Parliament will adopt tomorrow will make it to the final text. Unfortunately, the Council’s position is a bit less ambitious, but today’s discussion here made for me very clear that we in the European Parliament are united. We will…

10 Jul

2023

DE Speech

Protection of journalists and human rights defenders from manifestly unfounded or abusive court proceedings (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, it is good that you are here today. We need to talk about an important issue. We need to talk about the fact that our legal systems are being exploited to suppress reporting in which we, as a general public, have a great interest. We need to talk about the fact that reporting, which is part of public discourse, is increasingly silenced by rich peop…

10 Jul

2023

DE Speech

Industrial Emissions Directive - Industrial Emissions Portal - Deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure - Sustainable maritime fuels (FuelEU Maritime Initiative) - Energy efficiency (recast) (joint debate - Fit for 55 and Industrial Emissions)

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Madam President, Dear Commissioner, I am glad that you are here today! I am now talking about part of these three reports that we are talking about today, namely the report on sustainable marine fuels. In fact, it was very intense negotiations that we conducted. I believe that, as the European Union, we are taking a first step towards decarbonising shipping. As a Parliament, we are once again much…

13 Jun

2023

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Batteries and waste batteries (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner! First of all, I would like to congratulate the rapporteur, Achille Variati, on his report. I think this has become a really good report because it makes it clear that we in the European Union are counting on us to reuse products. We give consumers the right that batteries are no longer permanently installed in these and other devices, but can actually be replaced, an…

13 Jun

2023

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Humanitarian and environmental consequences of the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam - Sustainable reconstruction and integration of Ukraine into the Euro-Atlantic community (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. With the destruction of the dam, we are witnessing another escalation by Putin's troops. Another terrible war crime directly in our neighbourhood, which also causes an environmental catastrophe to the humanitarian catastrophe caused by this flood. At least 150 tons of engine oil have leaked from the power plant and are polluting the river. There is further pollu…

12 Jun

2023

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EU Day for the victims of the global climate crisis (debate)

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Mr President, Madam Vice-President, it is good that you are here today, ladies and gentlemen! Climate change is real. It happens every day, and it gets worse every day. Recent research shows that the surface water in the Atlantic has reached record temperatures. This means more energy transfer, more storms, more storms, more floods, more deaths. We don't see many deaths from the climate crisis. We…

1 Jun

2023

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Coordinated action to address antimicrobial resistance (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, Stella, it is good that we see ourselves here today on a very, very important subject: Antimicrobial resistance. It is one of the most underestimated health issues. Since 2017, there has been an action plan of the European Commission, and relatively little has happened. That is why it is good and necessary that we now talk about the subject agai…

31 May

2023

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Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, it is good that you are here; Dear colleagues! What right do we have in the European Union to consume products made in parts of the world that violate human rights, destroy the environment or actually exploit people? What right do we have to do this? We have no right to do so, and that is why we need a clear, strong supply chain law that ensures that human rights not on…

10 May

2023

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The role of farmers as enablers of the green transition and a resilient agricultural sector (continuation of debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Many of my previous speakers have already stressed this here today: Without farmers in Europe, we will not succeed in the transformation, because the transformation, climate change and also the threat to biodiversity affect farmers first. In many regions of the European Union, however, agriculture will soon no longer be possible if we do not finall…

8 May

2023

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Methane emissions reduction in the energy sector (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, it is good that you are here, ladies and gentlemen. We all know that after CO2 methane, the second largest polluter of climate change, over a period of more than 20 years, is even 80 times more climate-damaging than CO2. If we just consider that around 140 billion cubic meters of methane per year escape from the world's oil production alone, which we could catch on the …

20 Apr

2023

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IPCC report on Climate Change: a call for urgent additional action (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner! I'm glad you're with us today. As you rightly said, a few weeks ago the IPCC report made it very clear that the damage and irretrievable losses caused by climate change have increased significantly. And these effects continue to pick up speed. From 2006 to 2018, sea levels rose on average almost three times as fast as they did in the first half of the 20th century. And …

17 Apr

2023

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Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System - Monitoring, reporting and verification of greenhouse gas emissions from maritime transport - Carbon border adjustment mechanism - Social Climate Fund - Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System for aviation (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. As MEPs, we have started to make the European Union greener and to stop the climate crisis. To this end, we have decided on the climate emergency and we have adopted a European Climate Law that commits us to be climate neutral by 2050 at the latest. These goals are good, they are right, but they need to be implemented. With the votes this week, we are getting mu…

14 Feb

2023

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CO2 emission standards for cars and vans (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner Timmermans! Today, we are deciding whether to abolish the internal combustion engine in the European Union for new registrations from 2035 onwards. And that is right that we are making this decision – on the one hand for climate policy reasons, because road transport still emits far too much greenhouse gas, but on the other hand also for industrial policy reasons. Oth…

1 Feb

2023

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Transparency and targeting of political advertising (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, As a Social Democrat in the European Parliament, I stand here today to talk about regulating political advertising. We must be aware that regulation of political advertising should not regulate every political statement. Free political expression is an important part of our democracy. It gives citizens a voice and allows them to inform and discuss political m…

17 Jan

2023

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Surge of respiratory infections and the shortage of medication in Europe (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, dear representatives of the Council! The coronavirus pandemic has been affecting us for three years. As the European Union, we were able to avert the worst after initial difficulties, and due to the measures taken to combat the coronavirus pandemic, other seasonal diseases, such as the RS virus, which is very dangerous especially for infants, and other viruses, includin…

16 Jan

2023

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Shipments of waste (debate)

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Dear Mr President, dear Commissioner! 32.7 million tonnes of waste, including 1.1 million tonnes of plastic waste: In 2021 alone, the European Union exported this unimaginable amount of waste to the rest of the world, often to countries such as Turkey or Malaysia. True to the motto: Out of sight, out of mind. Unfortunately, this rubbish does not disappear simply because it is no longer with us. If…

13 Dec

2022

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Renewable Energy, Energy Performance of Buildings and Energy Efficiency Directives: amendments (REPowerEU) (continuation of debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, dear Frans! The European Parliament, together with the Member States, is taking the development of renewable energy seriously. If we achieve 45% renewables by 2030, we can save 200 billion euros, which we do not have to invest in fossil fuels. We can become independent of Putin's gas. And this goal can be achieved with a combined effort. I am glad that here in the Ho…

18 Oct

2022

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UN Climate Change Conference 2022 in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt (COP27) (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. The facts are crystal clear: The global goals are not enough, they are far from enough to stop the climate crisis. The EU target of at least 55% reduction by 2030 is also not a fair contribution, as the Paris Agreement would require us to do. This is why, from the outset, we as Parliament have called for the debate on climate law to be held: at least 60% reducti…