What Peter spoke about.

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, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to use the first few seconds of my short speaking time to thank those like Niels Fuglsang and Pernille Weiss who have worked out a good compromise on energy efficiency. I believe, and we as the EPP believe, that it would have been even better with nationally binding targets, but unfortunately the Council stopped us there. I also ask all journalis…

13 Jun

2023

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Batteries and waste batteries (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Batteries bring challenges - in the extraction of raw materials, in the production of batteries and also in the disposal. We are addressing these challenges, and I am glad that the industry is also addressing these challenges. I would like to thank all those who have contributed to this compromise in the EPP, especially Jessica Polfjärd and Antonius Manders, …

1 Jun

2023

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Coordinated action to address antimicrobial resistance (debate)

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Madam President, Ladies and gentlemen, it is truly dramatic. A few years ago, 30,000 people died every year in the EU from antimicrobial resistance. Now we're at 35,000 and it's getting worse every year. That's why we finally have to stop playing the Black Peter game. Many of my professional colleagues – medical practitioners – say that veterinary medicine needs to be acted upon. Veterinarians say…

18 Apr

2023

EN Speech

Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System for aviation (A9-0155/2022 - Sunčana Glavak) (vote)

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Madam President, dear colleagues, we have now agreed on the cornerstone of Fit for 55 – like Esther de Lange said, the Holy Trinity of the ETS, CBAM and the social climate fund. This is good for the climate, it’s good for people and it’s good for our jobs in industry. One point only I wanted to make: many people say the social climate fund is so small, but it is big; it is more than EUR 80 billion…

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, there was quite some criticism on the package and on my report, there was criticism from the far right, and I think their basic argument was climate change is not so serious and I can’t follow that argument. It is serious, we are suffering from it and we need to act. There was criticism from part of the Left and part of the Greens and their main idea is we should have even higher tar…

17 Apr

2023

EN Speech

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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Thank you for accepting the blue card. First of all, Sasha, you know that me and my party, we are against phasing out nuclear in this week. It’s definitely a mistake. But you shouldn’t put the blame on everybody, but on the German Government. But my question, Sasha, in the trilogue you supported the deal. In the ENVI Committee, you voted in favour. Your speech, is it for the other colleagues or is…

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. On 14 July 2021, a terrible catastrophe occurred in Europe, including in my home country. Due to heavy rain and flooding, more than 200 people lost their lives within 24 hours. The first victim in my constituency in the city of Altena was a firefighter who had just saved the lives of others and then died in the floods himself. When I later visited with the mayor…

29 Mar

2023

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Fluorinated Gases Regulation - Ozone-depleting substances (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. You can't see it, but these F-gases are really a mess, and I'm trying to translate that into English: F-gases are a very dirty stuff. We need to get rid of them. This is important for the climate and the environment. Now it says: Yes, but this is a problem for the economy and for jobs. But I am convinced that the opposite is true: European industry is innovative…

13 Mar

2023

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Binding annual greenhouse gas emission reductions by Member States (Effort Sharing Regulation) - Land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) - Revision of the Market Stability Reserve for the EU Emissions Trading System (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, These are three important legislative proposals for climate protection, and I would like to thank all those who have contributed to the fact that we now have such good compromises here, especially Jessica Polfjärd, Norbert Lins and Cristian Bușoi within the EPP. I just want to say two sentences about the content. Once: We talk in English about effort sharing.…

16 Feb

2023

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Transitional provisions for certain medical devices and in vitro diagnostic medical devices (C9-0003/2023) (vote)

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Madam President, I refer to Rule 163(3) of our Rules of Procedure. We are doing an urgent intervention here, an urgent procedure, but still it is important. That is why I regret that the request of the EPP to have a debate has been rejected. It is a very important intervention. We will save lives with this decision and we need to continue this debate. For example, for children, there is more to be…

13 Feb

2023

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REPowerEU chapters in recovery and resilience plans (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, The compromise is an important part of a comprehensive response to the three major crises of recent months: this terrible Russian war of aggression and the fact that we have unfortunately continued to finance Russia through our dependency – this must end – the high energy prices that still affect many businesses and citizens, and the climate crisis. Through t…

12 Dec

2022

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Outcome of COP27 (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen. For me too, Sharm al-Sheikh was a disappointment: 1.5 degrees is in the paper. But there has been no progress towards 1.5 degrees, and in terms of loss and damage, I find it really terrible that we have not succeeded in taking China on board. China must participate and live up to its responsibilities. For me, there are two important consequences of this unsat…

24 Nov

2022

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Revision of the Medical Devices Regulation – how to ensure the availability of medical devices (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. Medical care in Europe is in grave danger. This is especially true for the care of children. I used to work in a children's clinic, and my medical colleagues in pediatric surgery, in pediatric cardiology say: “We are on the verge of making medicine from the 1950s because modern devices are no longer available.” The reasons are manifold: Brexit, Corona, but also,…

9 Nov

2022

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REPowerEU chapters in recovery and resilience plans (debate)

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– Mr President, ladies and gentlemen! As draftsman of the opinion for the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection, I would like to support this report by BUDG and ECON, in all its parts. There is also a controversial point where the Committee on the Environment shares the same opinion as the committees responsible: We should not finance oil from REPowerEU. Our main task…

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. We are currently facing a variety of challenges, but climate change remains the biggest problem in the long term. And we have to keep an eye on climate change and fight it with all the other difficulties. Of course, this can only be done internationally. This is why COP is so important. And two things are in the foreground. Firstly: aid to Africa and other least…

3 Oct

2022

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European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control - Serious cross-border threats to health (debate)

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Madam President, "The pandemic is over," said US President Joe Biden, adding: "We still have a problem with COVID." And I think Joe Biden is pretty close to a realistic assessment of the situation. We are now in a much, much better situation than 2020 and 2021. We have another virus. We have a high level of protection from a very good vaccine, which has also been produced, developed and made avail…

13 Sep

2022

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Renewable Energy Directive (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. The problem of high energy prices in the EU cannot be overestimated. Many companies, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, and many consumers are highly challenged. At the same time, we are still financing Russia's war in Ukraine, and we must end that. And summer has shown us how bad the climate crisis is and that we need to fight climate change. That's…

13 Sep

2022

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Consequences of drought, fire, and other extreme weather phenomena: increasing EU's efforts to fight climate change (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. This summer we are witnessing in a terrible way the effects of climate change in the European Union. That is why we must act to combat climate change, and I would be very grateful if we could achieve something concrete before the next COP in the implementation of Fit for 55, as a sign to the international community, because only internationally will we really ac…

5 Jul

2022

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Objection pursuant to Rule 111(3): Amending the Taxonomy Climate Delegated Act and the Taxonomy Disclosures Delegated Act (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. There are many reasons to vote against this delegated act. Because of the limited time, I want to limit myself to two. Firstly: The delegated act cannot take into account the new situation following the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine because it was written before. You can turn it around as you like – things that are not promoted by the taxonomy become more…

22 Jun

2022

EN Speech

Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System (A9-0162/2022 - Peter Liese) (vote)

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Madam President, dear colleagues, finally we got it. We adopted with a huge majority the biggest climate law ever. We are doing a big step for the climate, but also protecting jobs. In accordance with Rule 59(4) of the Rules of Procedure, I would now ask colleagues to refer the report back to committee to open interinstitutional negotiations with the Council so that we can really find an agreement…

22 Jun

2022

EN Speech

Voting time

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Madam President, just to remind us, in committees we often have compromises that are voted first. I don’t remember that those colleagues that protested today are protesting when they are part of the compromise. So when there is a compromise, it can be voted first – and that’s what we should do. I’m very grateful to everybody that worked so hard to bring us to a position in which we have brought co…

8 Jun

2022

EN Speech

Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System (A9-0162/2022 - Peter Liese) (vote)

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Madam President, of course, it’s a bad day for the European Parliament when you see this. (Mixed reactions) Please calm down colleagues. I think it’s a shame, like in many occasions in this report, that the far right and the Socialists and the Greens voted together. We are now giving a lot of responsibility to the European Council. The Council will be definitely earlier than the European Parliamen…

7 Jun

2022

DE Speech

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, dear colleagues, for the many very lively contributions. A few points from me as rapporteur on the response. Firstly: Many have said: The package is not ambitious, especially emissions trading is not ambitious enough. If we calculate: If we accept the emissions trading package, we will reduce 1.5 billion tonnes of CO2 by 2030, that is 1500 million tonnes. CO2 cars, which w…

7 Jun

2022

DE Speech

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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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, On 14 July last year, the European Commission presented the proposals for the "" package. Exactly the same day there was this terrible flooding in Central Europe. And when you, Vice President Timmermans, presented the package, I got the message on my phone that a firefighter had drowned in my constituency. In other parts of Germany, 130 people have drowned in…

19 May

2022

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The REPowerEU Plan: European solidarity and energy security in face of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, including the recent cuts of gas supply to Poland and Bulgaria (debate)

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Mr President! Ladies and gentlemen, first of all, full solidarity for Poland and for Bulgaria. It was right not to pay in rubles, and we must support these countries now. We must not be blackmailed by Russia. Commissioner, full support for raising the renewable energy target to 45%. That was a proposal from our EPP rapporteur. It is a good thing that the Commission is joining us now, and I am plea…