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Erik Bergkvist

MEP · Sweden

Plenary speeches · European Parliament

Plenary speeches · EU Parliament

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13 Sep

2023

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Framework for ensuring a secure and sustainable supply of critical raw materials (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Dear Members, The engine driving the green transition is the new technologies that are now being developed in Europe and not least in northern Sweden. If this engine is to work, the key is access to strategic and critical raw materials. These must be extracted in a sustainable way, for the environment, for people and not least the people who work in production. W…

12 Sep

2023

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Sustainable aviation fuels (ReFuelEU Aviation Initiative) (debate)

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Madam President, thank you very much. Dear Members, Many thanks to the rapporteur and my shadow rapporteurs, the Commission and the Council and not least our colleagues for a very constructive process. Now we are giving wings to the green transition. Let's change the flight. We will need flights now and we will probably need more in the future, not least in regions with large distances. For us Soc…

11 Jul

2023

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Ecodesign Regulation (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Dear Members, Ecodesign will give us great opportunities to create sustainable products and energy-efficient products for our internal market. It will create the conditions for companies and industries to create sustainable processes and be able to work circularly in a way that they have not worked before. It will allow us to remove bad products. To create sustai…

11 Jul

2023

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Greening transport package (debate)

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Madam President, thank you very much. Dear Members, For several years now, we have been working on transforming our transport systems to make them green. The road to the destination is still bumpy, and many dangerous junctions remain. Some important problems that need to be addressed include the large shortage of drivers for heavy-duty vehicles. We also need to accelerate green fuels and a more ef…

13 Jun

2023

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Batteries and waste batteries (debate)

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Madam President, Members of Parliament, we are in the middle of our biggest and most important transition, the transition to a green society. Batteries have played a crucial role and will play an even more crucial role in this transition. In the transport sector, we can see how batteries are now powering electric cars, e-bikes, e-scooters, hybrid ferries, and soon also commercial aviation. But we …

20 Apr

2023

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Cohesion dimension of EU state aid and de minimis rules (debate)

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Madam President, thank you very much. In recent years, the world has experienced bigger, more unexpected and more unwanted crises than in a very, very long time. Cohesion policy has proved to be a very powerful tool for bringing great benefit to the citizens of Europe. Flexibility from this house and from the Commission has enabled us to use cohesion policy in many unexpected – sometimes unwanted …

18 Apr

2023

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Energy storage (debate)

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Madam President, thank you very much. The green transition will require a lot of green electric energy and green hydrogen. If we are to do that, I am very optimistic about the production of wind power, solar power and also other renewable forms of energy, but here the major additions will take place. What we then also need to complement this with – whatever we think about nuclear power, some new n…

18 Apr

2023

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The need for a coherent strategy for EU-China Relations (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. This week, Parliament is making very important decisions for the climate. The climate threat is global. The EU and China are now dependent on each other to cope with this climate threat. We rely on trade and cooperation to produce important things such as wind turbines, batteries and solar cells. If we are to cope with the climate threat, this cooperation must be…

15 Feb

2023

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Access to strategic critical raw materials (debate)

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Madam President, thank you very much. Dear Members, Commissioner, Minister, The engine of the climate transition is the green technologies that are now being developed in Europe and not least in northern Sweden. Critical raw materials must never become a bottleneck in this. We must increase Europe's self-sufficiency in strategic, critical raw materials and we must form strategic alliances with rel…

17 Jan

2023

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Presentation of the programme of activities of the Swedish Presidency (debate)

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Madam President, thank you very much. Members! Mr. Prime Minister! It makes me both proud and happy that the Swedish Presidency was inaugurated in my home region in northern Sweden. It is a region that has much of the technology and development that we need for the green transition: fossil-free steel, battery factories, new battery technology, green energy. However, if we are to achieve our full p…

4 Oct

2022

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AccessibleEU Centre in support of accessibility policies in the EU internal market (debate)

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Madam President, thank you very much. Dear Members, Many thanks to the rapporteur for this very important report. A society that takes into account everyone's needs, even those with large functional variations, is a good society. It will be a better society for everyone. This is why this center is so important. Focusing on these issues will help us all do a better job. At the same time, it is extr…

7 Jul

2022

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Sustainable aviation fuels (ReFuelEU Aviation Initiative) (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Dear Members, First, thanks to the rapporteur and the shadow rapporteurs for constructive and, at times, tough negotiations. I would also like to thank our colleagues who have worked very hard on this report. Air travel is absolutely necessary for a functioning world, and therefore it is also imperative that air travel is environmentally friendly. The Socialist G…

6 Jul

2022

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Taxing windfall profits of energy companies (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Dear Members, Europe is in a deep energy crisis. Many households find it difficult to meet energy and food costs, i.e. the most basic. At the same time, many energy companies are making huge profits. This then creates opportunities. A right – and I mean right – designed tax could make it easier for those companies that want and are already making green investment…

5 Apr

2022

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Trans-European energy infrastructure (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Members! First, a big thank you to my colleagues, the rapporteur, the shadow rapporteurs, the Commission and the Presidency for a very constructive and at times tough change process that led to a good result. Europe is getting colder. A war, a terrible war, has created a cold that we had hoped we would never have to relive in Europe. The energy crisis has created…

24 Nov

2021

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State of the Energy Union (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. On Saturday I will be home in the north of Sweden. It will be -20 ° cold. My house will be warm. It is well insulated and it is heated with green energy. Everyone in Europe should have it. We are in a hurry and we need to hurry. We need to accelerate green investments. We need to speed up the linking up of Europe's energy networks, which we are currently negotiat…

6 Oct

2021

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The Council's lack of will to move the European cross-border mechanism forward (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Dear Members, I come from a border region. It borders both Norway, which is not a member of the EU, and Finland, which has been a member of the EU for as long as Sweden. For us, it has always been natural to socialize across both regional and national boundaries. I remember my first trip abroad, which we didn't really see as abroad, but it was to Finland. We took…

6 Oct

2021

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European solutions to the rise of energy prices for businesses and consumers: the role of energy efficiency and renewable energy and the need to tackle energy poverty (debate)

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Madam President, thank you very much. Dear Members, I've lived in the Arctic my whole life and I've almost never frozen. The times I have frozen have often been when I traveled south. The cold house. High energy prices. Poor heating. No one in Europe should have to freeze today. But it is a complex problem and therefore there is no single easy solution. There are a number of things we need to do t…

5 Oct

2021

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The Arctic: opportunities, concerns and security challenges (debate)

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Madam President, thank you very much. Members! On Thursday I will go home. 2,000 kilometers, then I'm in the Arctic. Some people view the Arctic as a museum. It should be as it always has been and nothing can be changed. Others see it as a pantry where you can freely take raw materials, battery metals and other things. For me it's home and for millions of others it is. We live our lives. We try to…