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EU-China relations (debate)

Mr President, Mr High Representative, ladies and gentlemen! China does not follow the human image that makes up our civilization, which is based on human dignity, which is based on freedoms, democracy and the rule of law – this is not new. A few years ago, China mediated that it was about modest prosperity, as it was called there, and recorded considerable growth rates. But there is not much to be…

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EU-US relations (debate)

Mr President, Mr High Representative, ladies and gentlemen! The United States is and will remain our most important partner on the planet. At the same time, we need to have an open eye to the fact that 2024 will not only see elections in Europe, but also in the US, and that the world as a whole is at many crossroads, that only 25 per cent of people still live in democracies – with a declining tren…

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Environmental consequences of the Russian aggression against Ukraine and the need for accountability (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! Democracy never sleeps, and that is also the message from the European Parliament today, where we are discussing an important issue late in the evening in a context of an even more important issue. More importantly, we must not lose sight of the fact that Putin-Russia has been conducting a military raid, combined with hybrid warfare, against all of…

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Dec

2023

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Need to release all hostages, to achieve a humanitarian ceasefire and prospect of the two-state solution (debate)

Dear Mrs. Colleague! I would strongly warn against abusing this Chamber, this Parliament, this representation of citizens, which stands alongside the people of Israel and all people of good will who respect liberties and human dignity, for something that is obviously not part of the legislation or foreign policy or parliamentary diplomacy of this House. If you have a relevant complaint about somet…

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Dec

2023

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Need to release all hostages, to achieve a humanitarian ceasefire and prospect of the two-state solution (debate)

Mr President, Mr High Representative, ladies and gentlemen! Firstly: Israel defends itself by military means, by regular forces, against an irregular terrorist organization that does not respect the lives of children, that does not respect the lives of women, that does not respect the lives of men, but that seeks the lives of all Jewish people, and that, in addition, develops its Islamist activiti…

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2023

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European Health Data Space (debate)

Mr. Colleague, you are insisting very, very clearly here. I would like to point out to you that for me, health is not an issue that we should sacrifice for partisan political conflicts. It's about health, it's about citizens' trust in the health system, it's about achieving the goals I've mentioned: Documentation for the individual and for the individual, documentation for research, and this withi…

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Dec

2023

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European Health Data Space (debate)

Dear colleague, thank you very much for the question and for the good debate on it. The wording is not important, the word is not important, the possibility is important. And here we represent the citizens of Europe, who have the right to unsubscribe. That is why I have also used the term "unsubscribe" as a general term. And that will be possible, especially with the European Health Data Space in …

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2023

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European Health Data Space (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! Documentation is so incredibly important for the health of individuals and individuals that, if possible, nothing that has developed in a person’s health is forgotten. Of course, only for prevention and treatment and quite discreetly and not for third parties or even the public. That is why data protection is so important in the context of the E…

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2023

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

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! Socially, prohibition has never worked, and geopolitically, appeasement has never worked. The latest major example of this is the so-called nuclear deal – the JCPOA agreement. Such an agreement cannot be made with the Iranian regime because the Iranian regime does not abide by agreements. The Iranian regime is thus a threat to peace and security…

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30 years of Copenhagen criteria - giving further impetus to EU enlargement policy (debate)

Dear Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, We are talking about the 30th anniversary of the Copenhagen criteria. The criteria are good, but their application has been in trouble and they are certainly not sufficient to give Europe more external strength as Europe would need. The Copenhagen criteria have a value dimension, an economic and competitiveness dimension and a structural dimen…

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Humanitarian situation in Gaza, the need for the release of hostages and for an immediate humanitarian truce leading to a ceasefire and the prospects for peace and security in the Middle East (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner and Commissioner for Foreign Affairs! Yes, the weapons must remain silent, the weapons of all terrorist groups organized and financed by Iran: Hezbollah, Hamas, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards and all Islamist terrorist groups around the world, including in Europe, the EU, our capitals. If these weapons remain silent, then there will be no more Islamist terrorism. And y…

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Recent developments at the EU’s external border between Finland and Russia and the need to uphold EU law (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, The times are over when so-called hybrid warfare against Europe could be waged by leading people to the borders of the European Union, to the borders of our continent, who thought they might have a ground for asylum, but had or did not have a ground for asylum at all. The first victims of this irregular migration on the basis of organised smuggl…

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Strengthening the right to participate: legitimacy and resilience of electoral processes in illiberal political systems and authoritarian regimes (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Only a democracy is a democracy. And that means much more than having an election day. An election day that culminates in democracy, all citizens are invited and invited to vote. It is the strong sign of democracy that there is this summit, but the conditions that are rooted much, much deeper. It needs not only the right to vote, it needs the right to stand a…

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2023

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Islamist terrorist attack on French schools and the need to protect people and promote social cohesion (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! We are discussing the latest cases of Islamist terror in France today on the basis of the agenda. But tragically, reality has overtaken the agenda. This week, when the agenda for the plenary of the European Parliament was already ready, there was an Islamist terrorist attack in the capital of Europe, Brussels. Almost exactly three years ago there w…

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2023

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Mental health at work (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Mental health has always been important, and even before the pandemic, it was important to break the taboo, talk about mental health and take care of mental health – one’s own and that of others. And it is even more important after the pandemic, because the pandemic has changed so much in our working lives – throughout life, but also in working …

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2023

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Establishing the Ukraine Facility (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! The European Commission has to deal with a lot of criticism these days. Criticism from citizens channelled through their European Parliament – and much of the criticism is justified. But the Ukraine Facility, the reconstruction plan for Ukraine: Here, the European Commission deserves great recognition for the pace and content of what is being done.…

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2023

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EU-Switzerland relations (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. Mr Vice-President, thank you for responding to almost every intervention in this parliamentary debate, in this reflection. This shows how factually we are debating the Switzerland report here in the European Parliament and how helpful – hopefully not only for the European Commission, but also for the Swiss Federal Council – this report from the European Parliame…

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EU-Switzerland relations (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Switzerland is an important state in the European family of states, and Switzerland does a lot geopolitically in peace work, in mediation and thus represents what Europe is, what Europe wants for the world and what European civilization should be now and in the future. This is a dimension of Switzerland that may not have been sufficiently taken int…

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Recent developments in the Serbia-Kosovo dialogue, including the situation in the northern municipalities in Kosovo (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner Lenarčič sits here and has to represent the European Commission, in which quite different members are responsible for the fact that the European Commission's Western Balkans policy has completely failed in this mandate. Josep Borrell is absent, Mr Várhelyi is absent, or Mr Lajčák as Special Representative for the Kosovo-Serbia Dialogue…

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2023

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Corrupt large-scale sale of Schengen visas (debate)

Mr President, Mr Vice-President, ladies and gentlemen! The people of Poland are right when they warned of the danger of Putin-Russia for years, if not decades. The people of Poland have participated a lot in history and have a very, very clear positioning. The colleagues here in the European Parliament are often very, very helpful, and the rest of Europe now sees how the people of Poland also defe…

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2023

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European Media Freedom Act (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, When one speaks of the great innovations, inventions of mankind, then one speaks about printing, for example, or about the electric current, perhaps about penicillin. But freedom of the press is also a great innovation of humanity, by the way, as is parliamentarism. We in Europe defend freedom of the press in particularly difficult times, because the Internet…

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Combating the normalisation of far-right and far-left discourses including antisemitism (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner! Anti-Semitism, as its victims, has primarily Jewish fellow human beings. But anti-Semitism is endangering our societies as a whole, endangering trust in our society, endangering freedom, defending the values of human dignity, freedoms, what Europe should be, what the free world as a whole should be. In my home country of Austria, the President of the Parliament commi…

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2023

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2022 Report on Türkiye (debate)

Dear Mr President, Commissioner! Turkey now wants to be called Türkiye and I respect that. Each entity should decide for itself what it wants to be called, and Türkiye will certainly not become a Member State of the European Union. It is important to keep this in mind, it is important to communicate this to the representatives of Türkiye and also to inform EU citizens that we must live together in…

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Recommendations for reform of the European Parliament’s rules on transparency, integrity, accountability and anti-corruption (debate)

Madam President Evelyn Regner, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! We are adopting new rules for the European Parliament, for parliamentary work, for parliamentarians, and that is important. There were already rules, and the rules were partly broken, which was the reason for thinking about new rules. It is important to have rules, because to protect parliamentarism is to protect democracy. This is…

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The need for EU action on search and rescue in the Mediterranean (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! We are dealing here with a tragedy of enormous proportions. This one shipwreck has a huge scale in itself. There are deaths in the Mediterranean almost every day, and we need to see what the causes are. And the causes start at the beginning of a chain of tragedies, and this chain starts with disinformation, with people in countries of origin get…