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Jul

2026

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

Mr President! Dear Commissioner, I would like to thank you very much for your report on cyber security and artificial intelligence, because cyber security is changing massively through the use of artificial intelligence. And of course, the security authorities have their task there, as well as in the public space, and of course the policy must frame the framework so that security authorities can w…

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2026

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Preparation of the European Council (joint debate)

Mr President, Commissioner! At the next summit, we urgently need to deal with the basic things, and the basic things are that the European Union is competitive again. I have now heard from many here today constant complaints about third countries: Our task as the European Parliament is not to complain about third countries, but to solve our tasks. In the previous mandate, from 2019 to 2024, the Co…

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Apr

2026

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New Chinese law on ‘ethnic unity and progress’ and the intensified suppression of ethnic identities

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, The law on ethnic unity in China unfortunately forces us to deal again with China in a negative context in the European Parliament. Let's imagine: A Presidency of the Council of the European Union would decide: the ethnic unity of the European Union. What would that mean for France? What would that mean for Australia? We have to ask ourselves this question. What…

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Apr

2026

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The need for targeted criminal provisions and platforms’ responsibility to effectively address cyberbullying and online harassment (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner! When parents and families have to bury their children, something goes wrong in the European Union. That is not the correct order, Commissioner. And it must not be the case that a mother of a murdered daughter has to fight her way through a felt eternity in order to have to tell here in the European Parliament that she finds her daughter dead at home. Commissioner, th…

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2026

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Savings and Investments Union: time to accelerate the process to deepen market integration (debate)

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Mar

2026

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Tackling barriers to the single market for defence - Flagship European defence projects of common interest

Madam President, Commissioner Kubilius! Two trillion euros – we could make up to two trillion euros of unnecessary debt if we do not finally manage to get a single market for defence. This is an opinion from the Commission. Because we have to pay up to 30 percent more in debt, we have to pay more in interest if we can't finally build a competitive single market. We need defense, we need the best d…

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Feb

2026

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Building a stronger European defence in light of an increasingly volatile international environment (debate)

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2026

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European Central Bank – annual report 2025 (debate)

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Jan

2026

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Conviction and imminent sentencing of Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong

Madam President, Madam Executive Vice-President of the Commission! Today, not because we want to, but because we need to, we have to talk again about a case in Hong Kong where, tragically, one person, Jimmy Lai, represents a very large number of people. Jimmy Lai campaigned for freedom of expression in Hong Kong, and he did so rightly, because the 1984 Treaty clearly gave Hong Kong a high degree o…

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Nov

2025

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Protecting citizens' right to make cash payments and ensuring financial inclusion (debate)

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2025

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Protecting citizens' right to make cash payments and ensuring financial inclusion (debate)

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2025

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Effective use of the EU trade and industrial policy to tackle China’s export restrictions (debate)

Madam President, dear Minister, dear Commissioner! We obviously do not have a problem of knowledge in this House, because 99% of the speakers say one thing: The European Union has badly burned its hand. Very badly, the European Union has put its hand on the hearth by allowing a monopolist to have the rare earths we need in all sectors, from health to security and defence. However, we already suspe…

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Nov

2025

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Enhancing police cooperation in relation to the prevention, detection and investigation of migrant smuggling and trafficking in human beings; enhancing Europol’s support to preventing and combating such crimes (debate)

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Oct

2025

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The decision to impose a fine on Google: defending press and media freedom in the EU (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, The fine of almost three billion euros against Google is right and important, because it sends a clear signal: No one, but really no one, is above European law. And it's important that we cement it now. Another sign, however, is that the European single market needs fairness. And when we talk about the need for fairness in the internal market, we also need dereg…

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Oct

2025

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Europe’s automotive future – reversing the ban on the sale of combustion cars in the EU (topical debate)

Mr President, Commissioner! We want climate protection with reason and innovation and not with the ban on combustion engines. By 2019, we had a functioning car industry in the European Union. Then the CDU and CSU managed to make Mrs von der Leyen President of the Commission. In 2020, Ms von der Leyen, with her majority in the European Parliament, decided to put an end to this incinerator and destr…

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Oct

2025

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New Strategic EU-India Agenda (debate)

Mr Sieper, thank you very much for your question. The China issue is a very important issue. We have seen that at the BRICS meeting, sincere hugs have taken place. We have to be careful here, too. In the end, I think – as I said clearly in my speech – we have made the mistake of not treating India properly in recent years. That is why I say very clearly: We need to work more closely with a country…

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Oct

2025

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New Strategic EU-India Agenda (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner Lahbib! Thank you very much for your speech. It's all about what you said. Here, as the European Commission, as the European Parliament, we want to take relations with India to the next level. This is the step we want to take now. From Parliament's point of view, it is clear that: The step is too late. We, including the Member States, should have worked better with India…

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Sep

2025

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Investments and reforms for European competitiveness and the creation of a Capital Markets Union (debate)

Madam President, Madam Commissioner! We are talking today about Mr Draghi and his report, and I am really not a friend of Mr Draghi and his policies; at the latest after ‘Whatever it takes“and the crisis he brought the eurozone to – questionable. But here you have to be very clear: Commissioner, you are right. Mr Draghi's report shows the impasse that Mrs von der Leyen has brought to the European …

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Jul

2025

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Preparation for the 2025 EU–China Summit - Tackling China's critical raw materials export restrictions

Madam President, Commissioner, Madam President of the Commission von der Leyen - welcome to our House! We are discussing today – very importantly – the Summit we have at the end of this month. Mrs von der Leyen, I would like to give you three points that you might be able to put forward from the point of view of the European Parliament. economy. In business, in the last mandate, Mrs von der Leyen,…

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2025

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Upcoming NATO summit on 24-26 June 2025 (debate)

Mr President, Honourable High Representative! We are discussing the NATO summit, and it is a really important discussion. I am pleased that the European Union is finally realizing that security does not exist in vain and that we must also work for our security and also pay for our security. The teachings of human history also show that a world that would be possible without defence, without securi…

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May

2025

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80 years after the end of World War II - freedom, democracy and security as the heritage of Europe (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner Séjourné! Thank you for being with us today. Eighty years after the end of the Second World War, we remember and commemorate a very important thing here in Parliament. Millions of people, millions of innocent people were brutally murdered because of ideologies. They were invaded. Everything was taken away from them, including life in the end. And this remembrance must be…

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May

2025

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Violations of religious freedom in Tibet

Madam President, Commissioner! We are deeply concerned about the death of Tibetan cleric Tulku Hungkar Dorje in Vietnam and demand a transparent explanation of his death. It cannot be and it is absolutely incomprehensible that, according to reports, his body was cremated without the consent of his family, and many more questions arise. Commissioner, you in particular know how important freedom of …

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Apr

2025

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Topical debate (Rule 169) - Social Europe: making life affordable, protecting jobs, wages and health for all

Mr President, Commissioner! I agree with your assessment. It is simply the case that people are most concerned about inflation in the European Union because they realize that housing is becoming more expensive, shopping is becoming more expensive and life is becoming more unaffordable. But it is the Commission with its proposals and the parliamentary majority that is to blame, Commissioner, and no…

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Mar

2025

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Democracy and human rights in Thailand, notably the lese-majesty law and the deportation of Uyghur refugees

Mr President, Commissioner! What are we talking about today? 40 people have been deported from Thailand to China. And the really tragic thing is that we are discussing it today, because we already know about the deportation for several weeks. And we had already demanded with a group of MEPs in the last plenary week in Strasbourg that we have this debate before people are deported from Thailand to …

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Mar

2025

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Action Plan for the Automotive Industry (debate)

Dear President Metsola, dear Commissioner! Let's find out where we stand: By 2019, the European Union had a healthy and functioning automotive industry. Then Mrs von der Leyen came into office and we managed to push our automotive industry into crisis with her agenda and her Commission – that is the reality. So we have made political mistakes in the Commission, and unfortunately Parliament has con…