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Oct

2025

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Rising antisemitism in Europe (debate)

Madam President, thank you very much. Today is October 7, a date that will never be separated from Hamas' bloody terror attack. Two years have passed since the worst assault on Jews since the Holocaust. A heinous wave of anti-Semitism is now sweeping across Europe, a hatred that has become increasingly coarser. This is also happening in Sweden. People are threatened, harassed, murdered just becaus…

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Sep

2025

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Implementation of EU-US trade deal and the prospect of wider EU trade agreements (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, Council, colleagues, there is no reason to put lipstick on a pig. The deal with the United States is not good. It's not good for the EU, nor for the US or for shared security interests. It's because of Trump, who has taken the United States out of rules-based international order and into an era of disorder and chaos. In this situation, a stronger EU is needed more than …

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Sep

2025

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Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: simplification and strengthening (debate)

Madam President, thank you very much. The Commission! Colleagues and listeners! The EU continues to be the world's best environmental organisation, and today we show that it is possible to simplify but at the same time stick to climate ambitions. In a global economy, everyone has to take responsibility and reduce emissions, not just move them elsewhere, to some other part of the world. EU climate …

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Jul

2025

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EU-US trade negotiations (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. Colleagues! With promises of high tariffs on the entire world, which would bring the United States into an economic golden age, Donald Trump won the battle for the White House. Well, how's it going? Not so good for Trump. Not only does protectionism make us all poorer on both sides of the Atlantic, but since January the president has also succeeded in destroying …

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Jun

2025

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2023 and 2024 reports on Moldova (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, colleagues, while Ukraine is fighting for its existence, Moldova is working hard for a European future. Since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, free trade between the EU and Moldova has not only been beneficial, but has served as a hope for the EU candidate, Moldova. But soon, on 24 July 2025, the temporary trade liberalisation will come to an end, and the Commis…

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May

2025

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Amending Regulation (EU) 2023/956 as regards simplifying and strengthening the carbon border adjustment mechanism (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. The world is changing rapidly, but the EU continues to be the world's best and foremost environmental organisation. Now we confirm that we want and we can and we have the courage to tackle emissions and show global leadership in reducing climate emissions and completing the work that we joined in the last mandate. Border adjustment mechanism for the climate, it i…

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May

2025

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Suspending certain parts of Regulation (EU) 2015/478 as regards imports of Ukrainian products into the European Union (A10-0059/2025 - Karin Karlsbro) (vote)

Mr President, dear colleagues, in front of us we have a proposal to continue with free trade between the EU and Ukraine for steel products. This vote takes place in a moment when Russian drones and missiles continue to terrorise the Ukrainian people and destroy infrastructure, and at a time when the United States has chosen to impose a 25 % tariff on Ukrainian steel products. Ukraine's steel indus…

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May

2025

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Return of Ukrainian children forcibly transferred and deported by Russia

Madam President, Commissioner, colleagues, Russia must bring all the stolen kids back home to Ukraine immediately. It is more than painful to realise the fact that tonight thousands of Ukrainian children will not have dinner, not prepare their homework, nor go to bed at home. This summer, 19 000 or more Ukrainian kids will not be together with their loved ones because they have been stolen, taken …

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May

2025

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A unified EU response to unjustified US trade measures and global trade opportunities for the EU (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. How to Cure Trump Anxiety? The best recipe is a strong Europe. A Europe that stands up for all the things that make this planet a little better: democracy, free trade, science, enlightenment, rule of law, gender equality. Or simply put: This is called liberalism. Since President Trump moved into the White House, we have seen an American president who has devoted …

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Mar

2025

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Frozen Russian assets (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. The Commission! Dear colleagues, Russia’s war against Ukraine has a very high price. The costs can be measured in many dimensions, in damages and losses for the whole society and individual people, ultimately human lives. There is no one but Russia to pay for the war you have chosen to start when you invade a peaceful neighboring country. Last autumn, we decided …

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Feb

2025

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EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement (debate)

We live in a world where we depend on each other. European agriculture also depends on inputs, on fuel, on energy from other parts of the world. It seems that this debate overlooks it. We are dependent on each other and the more we can cooperate and trade with each other, create friendships and collaborations, find forms in which we can all win, the more we get a growing economy and a better world…

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Feb

2025

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EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement (debate)

I think it is very good that we hear such an example of how lies and disinformation spread from the margins of politics. They are threatening that people will get cancer and that this will basically kill people. These are lies, these are disinformation, and you should be ashamed. Stop spreading lies. Read inside. We are all knowledgeable about what is in this draft agreement. It is clear that Euro…

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Feb

2025

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EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement (debate)

Madam President, I would like to thank you for your For 25 years, the EU has been negotiating with Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay – or, as we say, Mercosur – to trade and cooperate more with each other. There is finally a deal on the table. For those of you who want to stop this, I would like to ask: Why? Why do you want to leave walkover to China and Russia in South America? These negoti…

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Feb

2025

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Preparedness for a new trade era: multilateral cooperation or tariffs (debate)

Madam President, Donald Trump has been elected as the new president of the United States, not the world. With tariffs and barriers, he promises to make America great and force others to dance to his tune. But what President Trump doesn't say is that the price will be paid by the American consumers. It's absurd that the new president is pushing us into a trade war. Instead, we should be joining for…

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Feb

2025

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Escalation of gang violence in Sweden and strengthening the fight against organised crime (debate)

Madam President, I would like to thank you for your Sweden's worst mass shooting has shocked Europe. My thoughts are in Örebro, with the murdered, with you who are injured and you who are grieving. The most serious crime can have different faces, but regardless, it ruthlessly affects completely innocent people. It kills lives and spreads fear. It threatens the foundations of our open society. Seri…

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Jan

2025

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Failure of the negotiations in Busan for a UN plastic treaty and the urgent need to tackle plastic pollution at international and Union level (debate)

Madam President, I would like to thank you for your The Commission! The Council! Colleagues! Plastic that spreads in the oceans is a pure curse. Thousands of tons of plastic of all sizes are spreading in the environment and harming animals and nature and also us humans. Without breaking it down, it remains there almost forever. Why is it so hard to get the world's countries to just get along and s…

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Jan

2025

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Geopolitical and economic implications for the transatlantic relations under the new Trump administration (debate)

Mr President, Council, Commission, colleagues, the United States has a new president. Exactly what that means for us remains an open question. The strong link across the Atlantic is as important today as it was the day before yesterday. But President Trump is putting our relationship at risk. Today, Europe must stand united behind our commitments to the climate as the US once again withdraws from …

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Dec

2024

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Restoring the EU’s competitive edge – the need for an impact assessment on the Green Deal policies (topical debate)

Mr President, I would like to thank you. Now at the end of the year, we can conclude that 2024 is the warmest year ever recorded. It will be the first time that a calendar year's average temperature is over one and a half degrees warmer than in pre-industrial times. Almost 20 years ago, the so-called Stern Report came out, which concluded that the benefits of taking action now outweigh the economi…

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Nov

2024

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Critical infrastructure vulnerabilities and hybrid threats in the Baltic Sea (debate)

Madam President, I would like to thank you for your Alien power threatens critical infrastructure at the bottom of the Baltic Sea. Protecting and protecting our sea is a concern for the whole EU at a time when Russia is escalating the war against Ukraine. We need to work more together to protect marine infrastructure. It can be to jointly patrol the sea and, together with the defence industry, dev…

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Nov

2024

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Reinforcing EU’s unwavering support to Ukraine against Russia’s war of aggression and the increasing military cooperation between North Korea and Russia (debate)

Madam President, Commission, colleagues, last week, we marked day 1000 of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Despite our common efforts, our military aid to Ukraine is far from sufficient and it comes too late. And our economic pressure on Russia works, but it is not enough. Putin seizes every sign of weakness from Europe as an invitation to escalate, and the Ukrainians pay for it with their…

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Oct

2024

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EU actions against the Russian shadow fleets and ensuring a full enforcement of sanctions against Russia (debate)

Madam President, I would like to thank you for your On the Baltic Sea there is wind in the sails of Putin's shadow fleet. Shady shipowners without insurance make good money shipping sanctioned oil and gas. They are making sure that the Russian war chest is replenished and funding the missiles falling over Ukraine. The Shadow Fleet is a ticking environmental bomb, and the Navy warns of spy boats. N…

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Oct

2024

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Establishing the Ukraine Loan Cooperation Mechanism and providing exceptional macro-financial assistance to Ukraine (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, colleagues, thank you for this important debate. Listening to you and my colleagues in this Chamber, I am proud that the support for Ukraine remains so strong also after the European elections. I want the vote later today to be the first of many votes we take in this mandate to support Ukraine, because our support will remain firm until Ukraine's victory, until the l…

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Oct

2024

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Establishing the Ukraine Loan Cooperation Mechanism and providing exceptional macro-financial assistance to Ukraine (debate)

Mr President, Commission, colleagues, since the first day of Putin's war, it has been clear: one day Russia must pay for the destruction of Ukrainian society and the rebuilding of future Ukraine. But already today, the European Parliament can make it happen – by using the windfall profits from frozen Russian assets, we can send EUR 45 billion to Ukraine and let Russia pay. The brave Ukrainian peop…

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Sep

2024

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Organised crime, a major threat to the internal security of the European Union and European citizens (topical debate)

Madam President, I would like to thank you for your Commission, colleagues, listeners! The gang's worst enemy, it's the EU. This morning, the news came that Europol, in cooperation with Swedish and other police authorities, managed to crack another forum where criminals could have planned murders and drug deals completely undisturbed. In the words of Catherine De Bolle, Head of Europol: We have sh…

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Mar

2024

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EU climate risk assessment, taking urgent action to improve security and resilience in Europe (debate)

Madam President, thank you very much. The EU has done a lot to reduce climate emissions in recent years, but most of the work is ahead of us. To reach the goal of a carbon-neutral Europe by 2050, we need to decide on reducing emissions by 95% by 2040. Without an investment in European nuclear power, we will not get there. Climate change affects all life on Earth. The science is clear. Today, we ar…