What Sven spoke about.

7 Jul

2026

DE Speech

Presentation of the Action Plan on Cybersecurity and AI (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! We're talking about artificial intelligence today, but in truth we're talking about Europe's future, and that future is emerging somewhere else. Europe has only around 5% of the global AI ‑ computing capacity; the United States of America is close to 75%. American digital companies are investing hundreds of billions in data centers, chips, networks…

16 Jun

2026

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Question Time (Commission) - State of play on the European Commission’s pledge to reduce the reporting burden, in particular for SMEs

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Madam President, Commissioner Dombrovskis! Many companies in Europe are now despairing of the bureaucratic burden from Brussels. For decades, European regulation has strengthened the single market because 27 national rules have become a European rule. But at the latest since Green Deal We are experiencing a sharp increase in reporting obligations, evidence, often without any discernible added valu…

19 May

2026

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EU governance under pressure – institutional responses to global challenges (debate)

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Mr President, Vice‑President Šefčovič, dear colleagues, when citizens look at Europe today, many of them see two contradictory realities at the same time. On the one hand, they expect Europe to protect them. Protect them from war, from economic dependency, from geopolitical pressure, from insecurity in an increasingly unstable world. On the other hand, many people also feel that European decisions…

28 Apr

2026

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Monitoring the application of European Union law in 2023, 2024 and 2025 (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, colleagues, EU law is often seen as technical – even bureaucratic. But for businesses and citizens it is something much simpler: it is the difference between clarity and confusion. The application of EU law is not a detail; it is the foundation of the single market. And yet, too often, the same rules do not lead to the same outcomes. A market that looks unified on pa…

28 Apr

2026

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Presentation of the Better Regulation and Enforcement Communication (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Europe employs more people to comply with rules than to innovate – and that is a problem. Regular compliance accounts for 3.9% of jobs and research and development for only 1.7%. A company that always has to comply with new reporting obligations – sustainability, supply chain, taxonomy, I could continue – no longer wonders how it grows, wonders how it survive…

10 Mar

2026

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Housing crisis in the European Union with the aim of proposing solutions for decent, sustainable and affordable housing (A10-0025/2026 - Borja Giménez Larraz)

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Madam President, colleagues, it's a point of order concerning Rule 191, with the title 'Committee filter of plenary amendments'. Two sentences only. It reads: 'When more than 50 amendments or requests for a split or separate vote have been tabled concerning a text tabled by a committee for consideration in Parliament, the President may, after consulting its Chair, ask that committee to meet to vot…

9 Mar

2026

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Framework Agreement on relations between the European Parliament and the European Commission (debate)

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9 Mar

2026

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Framework Agreement on relations between the European Parliament and the European Commission (debate)

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9 Mar

2026

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Framework Agreement on relations between the European Parliament and the European Commission (debate)

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9 Mar

2026

EN Speech

Framework Agreement on relations between the European Parliament and the European Commission (debate)

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Madam President, colleagues, today we are discussing the revision of the Framework Agreement on relations between the European Parliament and the European Commission. The history of parliaments in Europe teaches us an important lesson. Parliamentary rights rarely appear all at once. They develop step by step. They grow through practice, through agreements, and sometimes also through debate and dis…

11 Feb

2026

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Rule of law, fundamental rights and misuse of EU funds in Slovakia: the need for an EU response (debate)

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I personally cannot give you this answer, but you know me: I would have fought for that because I'm known here that I'm always fighting against double standards, and you know that. We must be precise. In Hungary we can find enough concrete infringements of human rights and freedoms, so that I'm against this general resolution that an infringement of the rule of law has taken place. I am very preci…

11 Feb

2026

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Rule of law, fundamental rights and misuse of EU funds in Slovakia: the need for an EU response (debate)

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Madam President, colleagues, misuse of EU funds in Slovakia is sadly linked to a decline in the rule of law generally. In the European Union, ethnicity must never determine rights. Never. Yet in Slovakia, land is reportedly being confiscated from citizens of Hungarian descent on the basis of decrees from 1945. Let us call this what it is. Property taken because of ancestry. Without compensation. Q…

19 Jan

2026

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The 28th Regime: a new legal framework for innovative companies (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner! Colleagues! We're all upset about Donald Trump's irrational tariff policy at the moment, rightly so, but there's one thing we have in our hands: abolish the de facto tariffs within the European Union that we impose on ourselves in Europe. The European single market is the foundation of our economy, but still unfinished to this day. Instead of one market, we already h…

21 Oct

2025

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Institutional consequences of the EU enlargement negotiations (debate)

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Yes, indeed, thank you very much for this question. I think that a mistake in the construction of the institutional setting with the Lisbon Treaty is that we have a political union, fortunately, now, and the problem here is that the European elections do not have any effect on the composition of the Commission – that should be changed. At the moment, national governments nominate a commissioner. O…

21 Oct

2025

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Institutional consequences of the EU enlargement negotiations (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, Europe once again stands at a historic crossroads and, colleague Stoyanov, of course the decision has a geopolitical meaning and, we all know, colleagues, such windows of opportunity open and they also close again. Too often we have opened them only to close them half-heartedly afterwards, and each time the disappointment in the Western Balkans has grown. This is about …

7 Oct

2025

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Rising antisemitism in Europe (debate)

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Mr Körner, I did not know that Mr Mazurek laughed or should have laughed at the Auschwitz extermination camp. It helps us with the topic, as so often, only education, education. It's usually uneducated. In the case of Mr Mazurek, when I heard the speech here, I thought it was just stupidity. Anyone who expresses himself as he does, who on a day when we had a touching, moving memorial hour here in …

7 Oct

2025

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Rising antisemitism in Europe (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner! Mr Mazurek, I think you have just spoken nonsense and cannot put yourself in the shoes of people of Jewish faith, which puts pressure on them – in Germany, in Europe, throughout Europe. Two years after Hamas's barbaric massacre on October 7, Jews in Europe are once again living in fear, and this is really not comparable to what you have presented here, which is suppo…

9 Jul

2025

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Lessons from Budapest Pride: the urgent need for an EU wide anti-discrimination law and defending fundamental rights against right-wing attacks (topical debate)

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Madam President, The Budapest Pride Parade has attracted more people this year than ever before. So the ban did exactly the opposite of what Viktor Orbán wanted to achieve. Colleagues, we can discuss many things, including whether the form of protest is always helpful. We must also talk about it when parts of society and European institutions move away from liberal principles and use symbols of an…

17 Jun

2025

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The Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law report (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, colleagues, the European Commission's rule of law report is more than just a technical assessment, it is a political compass. It reminds us that the rule of law is not an abstract principle, but the very backbone of our Union. For the European Union, law constitutes the very basis of its existence. But let us be clear: credibility demands consistency. Double standard…

17 Jun

2025

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Amendments to Parliament’s Rules of Procedure concerning the declaration of input (Article 8 of Annex I to the Rules of Procedure) (A10-0086/2025 - Sven Simon) (vote)

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Madam President, colleagues, with this report, the Constitutional Affairs Committee is proposing to amend Article 8(1) of Annex I to our Rules of Procedure, according to which rapporteurs shall list the entities or persons from whom they received input on matters pertaining to the subject of the file in an annex to their report or opinion. In practice, it has become apparent that the wording 'enti…

6 May

2025

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Discharge 2023 (joint debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen! The Committee on Budgetary Control's investigations speak for themselves: For years, the European Commission has funded NGOs to lobby MEPs and Commissioners. A special report by the European Court of Auditors confirms: Between 2021 and 2023, several billion euros went to NGOs without a clear overview of their use. NGOs are part of our democ…

6 May

2025

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A revamped long-term budget for the Union in a changing world (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, In my view, the European Parliament's draft for the next Multiannual Financial Framework sets the right priorities. It calls on the Commission to put in place effective instruments to promote innovation. He is focusing on targeted investments to strengthen our defence industry and calls for greater transparency in the allocation of funding. The report by former …

31 Mar

2025

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Need to ensure democratic pluralism, strengthen integrity, transparency and anti-corruption policies in the EU (debate)

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Mr. Friend! My colleague Loránt Vincze has already given the answer: Democracy is also part of the rule of law. An election took place in June and there are now other majorities in this Parliament. We will carry out the procedure now. Then we will see the majorities and, if necessary, terminate this agreement if there is a new majority for it in the new Parliament. You have to get used to the idea…

31 Mar

2025

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Need to ensure democratic pluralism, strengthen integrity, transparency and anti-corruption policies in the EU (debate)

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Madam President, colleagues, the European Union was founded on the rule of law, which means there are clear rules on how to deal with crimes. The following order needs to be applied: suspicion, investigation, Indictment and then, if necessary, conviction. We often follow the process in the reversed order. But the fight for the rule of law can only be successfully waged if it is carried out using c…

31 Mar

2025

DE Speech

Guidelines for the 2026 budget - Section III (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. The guidelines for the 2026 budget of the European Union set the right priorities: The report focuses on European competitiveness; calls for investment in research of more than 3% of gross domestic product and stresses the need for an integrated European energy market. It is right to focus on strengthening funding opportunities for the European defence industry.…