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May

2026

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The multiannual plan for the Baltic Sea and ways forward (debate)

Mr President! Ladies and Gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, My colleagues! If you live on the Baltic Sea like me, you can't help but worry. The Baltic Sea is in critical condition. Fish stocks are under pressure. The coastal communities are fighting for their future. And confidence in the long-term development of the region needs to be maintained as a matter of urgency. That is why – yes, we need ur…

28

Apr

2026

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Joint debate - Discharge 2024 (joint debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen! I'm not sure if I'm right here, I wanted to speak on the 2024 discharge. I just had the impression that this is about completely different points. Incidentally, this is not a simple report, but the discharge – a royal right of this Parliament, which we are following. I only have 60 seconds, so I want to use the time to address the really im…

12

Nov

2025

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The new 2028-2034 Multiannual Financial Framework: architecture and governance (debate)

Mr President, dear Commissioner, the Minister, who already had to leave, said status quo is not an option. And that is true, we all agree: more of the same is not the answer, we do agree. But we should not make the same mistakes that we already made, and during the RRF we made a lot of mistakes and we witnessed a lot of mistakes. I know that you are eager to say that the MFF is not the RRF 2.0. Th…

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Oct

2025

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Presentation of the Court of Auditors' annual report 2024 (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen. I am, of course, particularly pleased – and warmly welcome him – about Tony Murphy, but also about Jan Gregor and everyone else from the European Court of Auditors, because we have worked excellently together over the past months. I would like to thank you very much for that. I think you have provided a good template for our work with the 2024 annu…

10

Sep

2025

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Rule of law and EU funds management in Slovakia (debate)

You have basically already given the answer yourself: because it is about people and because we have standards that should apply to everyone; this applies to the audit area, this applies to the audit. And if we have the rules for everyone, then this is not only fair, but it also serves the goal. We want to achieve something, for example with agricultural policy, with cohesion policy; It is in the …

10

Sep

2025

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Rule of law and EU funds management in Slovakia (debate)

Madam President, Let me say in advance: I accept the blue card that comes right away, that's fine. The Committee on Budgetary Control and its mission have been mentioned on several occasions. We were in Slovakia. You may not have read the report at all, but it is quite balanced. I believe that the position of the Slovak authorities is reproduced there quite correctly. Nor do we go into the current…

9

Jul

2025

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Alleged misuse of EU funds by Members of the far-right and measures to ensure institutional integrity (debate)

Mr President! Well, who would have thought that there should be a new case of misappropriation and misuse of funds. Of all those who often complain about the - let's say - waste of taxpayers' money at European level. First of all, I would like to thank the administration of our Parliament, which has meticulously and persistently and over a long period of time collected interesting things that read…

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May

2025

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Discharge 2023 (joint debate)

Madam President, Thank you for the debate. I would particularly like to thank you for the preparatory work, the months of preparatory work, because we have prepared all the reports over many hearings and many meetings. Personally, I would also like to thank the shadow rapporteurs in my report. You may not believe it if you have followed the debate today, but we have worked very constructively toge…

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May

2025

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Discharge 2023 (joint debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, dear colleagues, I would especially like to welcome Tony Murphy, President of the Court of Auditors, because the Court of Auditors has really been a source of inspiration and information for this report. Let me just start by seizing the opportunity to stress that the Commission's discharge is a really important issue for us as the Parliament. It is not like any other re…

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Mar

2025

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Guidelines for the 2026 budget - Section III (debate)

Mr President! A heartfelt thank you also to the rapporteur for the hard work: It's not easy to get the different points under one roof. I believe that this has been well done, and we must now also look ahead in a united way. I would also like to thank you for the fact that many of the points from budgetary control and also from our audit have been included in the report. This is very, very importa…

22

Jan

2025

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EU financing through the LIFE programme of entities lobbying EU institutions and the need for transparency (debate)

I have heard once again in this debate that it is a question of cancelling funds for the NGOs. Can you give me a name for the current EPP Group from a colleague who has called for the funding in the LIFE programme for NGOs to be reduced or cancelled? A name?…

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Jan

2025

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EU financing through the LIFE programme of entities lobbying EU institutions and the need for transparency (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner! Personally, I find it really hard to listen to this debate because there are so many phantom discussions going on here that I am slowly getting upset. It would be nice if perhaps the Social Democrats would also send someone who has already dealt with the subject and, for example, has looked past the Committee on Budgetary Control. Maybe you write this down so that it…

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Nov

2024

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2025 budgetary procedure: Joint text (debate)

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Oct

2024

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Presentation of the Court of Auditors' annual report 2023 (debate)

Mr President, first of all, I would like to express my gratitude to Tony Murphy and Jan Gregor and everyone else involved at the Court of Auditors for their independent, high quality work in preparing the annual report. Considerable resources are dedicated to this report, and I can assure you that, in this House, it is well used as an invaluable source of information on the way the Commission has …

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Oct

2024

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General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sections (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen! Thank you for the debate. The many interventions have shown me that there are very broad wishes from the technical committees, from the colleagues, and I think we have also noticed that the complicated nature of our budget means that we have very limited the necessary flexibility. The debate also touched on the future MFF. I believe that we must work together…

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Oct

2024

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General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sections (debate)

Mr President, Minister of State, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! The multiannual financial framework is a very tight corset – a too tight corset. This always causes us problems with our annual budgets. Although the multiannual financial framework is such a tight corset, we do not manage to act in a truly forward-looking manner. Let me take the example of the revision of the multiannual financi…

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Sep

2024

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Presentation by the Council of its position on the draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 - all sections (debate)

Madam President, Secretary of State, dear Commissioner, dear colleagues, the challenges of the budget have been sufficiently described. You heard about it. Still, I would like to highlight some issues that are important for the European Parliament and for heading seven. As the rapporteur for the 2023 budget, I have strongly advocated for cybersecurity. And there was a tough discussion then, I reme…

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Apr

2024

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The sixth Anti-Money Laundering Directive - Anti-Money Laundering Regulation - Establishing the Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (joint debate - Anti-money laundering)

Mr President! I will hurry up and do not want to list the general things here. Members will certainly do so, but from the point of view of the Committee on Budgets there are a few important points, in particular on human resources: We have managed, even with amendments, to provide AMLA with reasonable human and financial resources. It is extremely important for the board to be equipped with the ne…

27

Feb

2024

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Multiannual financial framework for the years 2021 to 2027 - Establishing the Ukraine Facility - Establishing the Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (‘STEP’) (joint debate - multiannual financial framework revision)

Mr President, Commissioner! I would like to thank all those who have contributed to a solution, because it was urgently needed. We want to transfer the first funds to Ukraine as early as March. This is urgently needed. But let's not fool ourselves: These are means that contribute to the preservation of statehood. Much more will be needed, especially on the part of the Member States. And there must…

18

Jan

2024

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EU Action Plan: protecting and restoring marine ecosystems for sustainable and resilient fisheries (debate)

Mr President! I would also like to thank almost all the groups who have made it very clear that it is not the question of whether the objectives of this action plan are concerned, but that we need to talk about how. I would like to thank you very much for this, because it shows that this Parliament is very united here, at least as far as the speakers with an affinity for fishing are concerned toda…

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Jan

2024

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EU Action Plan: protecting and restoring marine ecosystems for sustainable and resilient fisheries (debate)

Mr President! Sometimes, in our political life in Brussels or here in Strasbourg, we forget what it is all about – in our negotiations, in our committee meetings, in our deliberations. That is why I would like to remind you once again of what happened almost a year ago when you presented an ambitious plan, an action plan, which has caused criticism not only among us here in Parliament, but also am…

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Jan

2024

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Recent ecological catastrophe involving plastic pellet losses and its impact on micro plastic pollution in the maritime and coastal habitats (debate)

Mr President, this is a very important issue for all of us in Europe, and it truly is just the tip of the iceberg, so let’s just put the election campaigning aside. And my question would be, also to the Commissioner, how did the Spanish Government inform you? And how were France, for example, as a neighbouring country, informed by the Spanish Government? That is a crucial European question. I reco…

11

Jul

2023

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Nature restoration (debate)

Mrs. Roose! So apart from the fact that you have now thrown recreational and professional fishing in a pot, which have very different interests, I tell you: First of all, I have an opinion as a Member of Parliament, and what associations I am close to say is another matter. I have to decide for myself and don't follow lobby groups. And the other thing you said, so really the claim that there is a …

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Jul

2023

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Nature restoration (debate)

Madam President, This law is not consistent with other laws dealing with the subject matter. You can already see this in the definition of what a good condition is. The prohibition of deterioration is completely inadequately regulated. We have the problem in the fisheries sector, for example that seabeds, most of which are still unexplored, are automatically attributed to poor condition. All these…

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May

2023

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Protecting and restoring marine ecosystems for sustainable and resilient fisheries - Agreement of the IGC on Marine Biodiversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (High Seas Treaty) (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, On Europe Day, fishermen all over Europe have sounded their horns in protest against the Commission's current plans. That is, we have managed to bring up against us the people we need, those we want to involve. That must end. We must finally start incorporating the fisheries sector. Let me take the area of crab fishing as an example. They were very concerned abo…