What Arba spoke about.

6 Oct

2026

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Recommendation on EU-China political relations (debate)

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Madam President, colleagues, China has more than 70 % of Gen-AI patents, while Europe only has 2 %, and we only have 5 % of the global AI computing capacity compared to China. We are all complaining here in this room about China, but we need to stop being naive: Europe needs to wake up, not only because we are dealing with the world's biggest communist regime, but also we need to wake up and do ou…

9 Jul

2026

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Feasibility of a 28th tax regime and its potential to support EU competitiveness (debate)

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Madam President, building a company in Europe today means 27 rule books. Unfortunately, many see it as 27 reasons to move to the US. So we need to make it easier for European companies to stay in Europe. We must make it easier for them to scale in Europe and not just scale the paperwork. That is the ambition that we should set for 'EU Inc.': one European company form, one rule book, one single mar…

15 Jun

2026

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Simplification of the implementation of harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Digital Omnibus on AI) (debate)

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Madam President, thank you, colleagues, for a lively and important debate. The AI Act and the future of artificial intelligence is really engaging and rightly so. I noticed that some of the left parties are crying now over that Trump is putting an export ban on the latest powerful AI models. The same parties who, year after year after year, have been anti‑tech, anti‑AI, anti‑business, which means …

15 Jun

2026

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Simplification of the implementation of harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Digital Omnibus on AI) (debate)

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20 May

2026

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High time to deliver on the Single Market, providing certainty and predictability for EU businesses and quality jobs (continuation of debate)

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Madam President, dear colleagues, a strong Europe starts with the single market, where a German florist can work in Sweden as easily as in Germany, where a Swedish start-up can build and scale in Poland, where that start-up can raise funding from a Spanish investor instead of leaving Europe. Europe has talent. We have the ideas and the capital, but our rules are too fragmented, and the costs of ou…

26 Mar

2026

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Simplification of the implementation of harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Digital Omnibus on AI) (A10-0073/2026 - Arba Kokalari, Michael McNamara) (vote)

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Madam President, colleagues, thank you for the big support. On behalf of both co-rapporteurs, I would like to refer the file back to the IMCO and LIBE committees to start the interinstitutional negotiations pursuant to Rule 60(4).…

26 Mar

2026

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Simplification of the implementation of harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Digital Omnibus on AI) (A10-0073/2026 - Arba Kokalari, Michael McNamara) (vote)

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Madam President, dear colleagues, for too long, Europe has been seen as the world's rulebook on tech, but nobody's innovation hub. Now we are changing this. We can't let our European start-ups drown in paperwork before they even get their first customers. Because Europe needs to get serious now on AI and innovation. We have the talents and we have our single market. I want a continent where start-…

20 Jan

2026

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Tackling AI deepfakes and sexual exploitation on social media by making full use of the EU’s digital rules (debate)

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Madam President, dear colleagues, we are having this debate because the chatbot Grok on X has allowed users to create AI-generated sexual images of women without their consent, including the Vice-Prime Minister of my country, Sweden. There were even reports of minors being sexualised. This is clearly, clearly illegal. Sexualised content without consent, whether it is real or AI-generated, is explo…

16 Dec

2025

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European Citizens’ Initiative ‘My voice, my choice: for safe and accessible abortion’ (debate)

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Mr President, dear colleagues, you would think that by this time that fundamental human rights are protected and respected in the European Union. But this is not the case. That is clear in this debate tonight. I want to tell you about Agnieszka from Poland that was pregnant with twins. After one foetus died, she was denied an abortion and forced to carry the dead foetus. Doctors acted only after t…

25 Nov

2025

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Impact of artificial intelligence on the financial sector (A10-0225/2025 - Arba Kokalari) (vote)

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Mr President, colleagues, the US and China are running ahead of us in the global AI race, and Europe's prosperity is at stake. Today, we are voting on the first AI report since adopting the AI Act, and it concerns a key sector for AI: the finance sector. Today, we are sending a clear message from the European Parliament that now is not the time for more legislation. Now is the time to make our law…

8 Oct

2025

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The role of simple tax rules and tax fragmentation in European competitiveness (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Saving on the stock market is not just about investing in companies. It is also about people being able to realise their dreams of a better life, about saving for their first home or for the dream trip with their family or putting a golden edge on their retirement. Since the alliance government introduced the investment savings account, ISK, in Sweden, the stock …

8 Oct

2025

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Promoting EU digital rules: protecting European sovereignty (debate)

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I'm not really sure which apps you are talking about, but we have already decided in Europe that transparency is one of the key things in AI regulation – that users and consumers need to understand whether what they see on the screen is AI or a real picture. That is an important principle. But I also think that in Europe we have been focusing too much on being scared of the new technology and scar…

8 Oct

2025

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Promoting EU digital rules: protecting European sovereignty (debate)

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Madam President, dear colleagues, Commissioner Virkkunen, I think it is time for Europe to focus less on other countries and more on helping European companies to grow. Because this is our market, it's our rules and it's our responsibility. Our digital policies play a key role for Europe's competitiveness. With the DSA and the DMA that we are discussing here, we are creating one set of rules acros…

10 Sep

2025

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Package travel and linked travel arrangements: make the protection of travellers more effective and simplify and clarify certain aspects (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Colleagues. European Commission. Most of us know someone who has been forced to cancel a charter trip, especially during the pandemic. For a family with children, it can be a lot of money. As a consumer, you don't always know what your rights are. However, cancellations of package tours shall not constitute cancellations of rights. Therefore, we are now making it…

18 Jun

2025

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Freedom of assembly in Hungary and the need for the Commission to act (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Viktor Orbán has for years committed crimes against the rule of law, most recently through a ban on LGBTQ people's right to meet and meet. The right to live one's life openly and safely is slowly being erased in Hungary. In the midst of all this, and during a burning war, Orban has approached the dictator Putin. This is a betrayal of the Hungarian people and it i…

11 Mar

2025

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Roadmap for Women`s Rights (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Insecurity is the biggest freedom issue of our time, and women's rights are at the heart of that struggle for freedom when one in three women in Europe has been subjected to violence, when Russian soldiers use women's bodies as part of Russian warfare. I want all the girls and young girls growing up in our Europe today to feel that we are standing up for their fu…

21 Jan

2025

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Need for actions to address the continued oppression and fake elections in Belarus (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Lukashenka's dictatorship in Belarus is a disgrace to Europe. For 30 years – for 30 years – he has held on to power by committing systematic human rights abuses, by imprisoning journalists and opposition figures. He has repeatedly stolen the presidential elections, and now it is time for the EU to take a hard line, because it is Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya who is th…

17 Dec

2024

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Misinformation and disinformation on social media platforms, such as TikTok, and related risks to the integrity of elections in Europe (debate)

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Mr President, colleagues, we have war in Europe and we are fighting the battle both on the ground and online. In Romania, we see the results of the Russian attacks on European countries and our elections enabled by Chinese social media platform TikTok. This must be stopped because next year we have new elections in Europe: in Germany, in Denmark, in Austria, in Poland, Portugal, Romania, Ireland, …

24 Oct

2024

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Closing the EU skills gap: supporting people in the digital and green transitions to ensure inclusive growth and competitiveness in line with the Draghi report (debate)

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Mr President, I would like to thank you. The Single Market has made the EU one of the largest economies in the world with less regulatory burden for consumers and businesses. It has created prosperity, growth and a stronger Europe. We need to take care of this. But the EU's freedom of movement must also apply to the labour market. Today, our citizens – those who have trained as chefs, nurses, arch…

23 Oct

2024

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Findings of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on Poland's abortion law (debate)

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Mr President, I would like to thank you. Abortion can never be taken for granted. When the U.S. goes to the polls, women's right to their bodies is at the center. In Texas, where abortion has been banned, maternal mortality has increased by over 50% in a few years. In fact, we are in the same battle of values in Europe. In Poland and Malta, women are forced to risk their lives when they are denied…

17 Sep

2024

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Global measures towards social media platforms - Strengthening the role of DSA and protecting democracy and freedom in the online sphere (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner Vestager, thank you very much. We have put in place a historic law that sets clear requirements and rules for social media giants to stop crime online and protect the freedom of ordinary people online. At the same time as the EU's new digital law, DSA, has entered into force, we see how gang criminals in Sweden are recruiting openly on social media. On TikTok, on Snapcha…

23 Apr

2024

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Combating violence against women and domestic violence (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. In four months, 12 women have been murdered in their homes. This is what everyday life is like in Sweden, but also for many women around Europe. Women have had to pay the highest price with their freedom and their lives because the previous government has plunged with violent men and insecurity in Sweden. I am proud that we have now been given powerful tools here…

14 Mar

2024

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Inclusion of the right to abortion in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Why should someone else have the right to control your body and your life? It should be obvious that it is you who decides, but it is not today. The right to your own body is and should be a human right. Abortion rights are under threat all over the world. There are women in Europe who are forced to risk their lives and die because they have been banned from havi…

7 Feb

2024

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The EU priorities for the 68th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Every day, women and girls are subjected to assault, sexual assault, rape and murder. whereas one third of all women in Europe have experienced physical or sexual violence at some point; Violence against women leads in the long run to increased poverty because vulnerable women are at risk of losing both their jobs and their homes. Combating violence against women…

7 Feb

2024

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The fight against hate speech and disinformation: responsibility of social platforms within the Digital Services Act (topical debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Almost two years ago, Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The war is taking place not only on the ground in Ukraine, but also on the internet. Russia is trying to fight our democracies in Europe and in the West by spreading disinformation on social media. Through fake news and propaganda and hate crimes, Russia is trying to spread lies in order to…