What Patrick spoke about.

24 Apr

2024

DE Speech

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)

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Mr President, Commissioner! Cash payments over 10,000 euros are prohibited, anonymous cash payments are only allowed up to 3,000 euros, anonymous payment cards are restricted and virtual cash, i.e. cryptocurrency, may no longer be stored anonymously at all. Under the guise of anti-money laundering, you are actually waging a war against cash, which has been protecting our financial privacy since ti…

12 Mar

2024

DE Speech

Artificial Intelligence Act (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner! Can you imagine a Europe where our faces are scanned everywhere using unreliable and intimidating technology and where you can expect to be arrested for confusion at any time, a Europe where you are automatically reported to the police for deviant and conspicuous behaviour, where you can be accused of lying when talking to officials using unscientific facial surveillanc…

14 Dec

2023

EN Speech

Non-objection mechanisms in international conventions to which the European Union is a party (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, dear colleagues, allow me to make a remark on the political dimension of the legal discussion that we are having. Indeed, Commissioner, the accession of Ukraine did not raise any political debates or controversies this year. But we can imagine in the future that other countries can be very controversial because they lack respect for due process, for human rights, for th…

12 Dec

2023

DE Speech

European Health Data Space (debate)

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I understand, Mr. Colleague, that you want to take into account the different approaches. Indeed, there are Member States where such an opt-out right does not exist. But our request only provides for the possibility for Member States to introduce or maintain such an opt-out right in the first place. This means that we want the Member States to have a choice at all, and we want to include this in t…

12 Dec

2023

DE Question

European Health Data Space (debate)

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In Germany, we have planned a transition from the opt-in system – i.e. you have to agree to an electronic health record – to an opt-out system – you can object to it. Are you in favour of maintaining this right of objection in the future? And if so, where exactly do you see this enshrined in the regulation that you can already object to the collection of data? Article 7 does not mention the right …

12 Dec

2023

DE Speech

European Health Data Space (debate)

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By unsubscribing, do you mean that you can object to access? Because if you only object to access, the data will of course be collected first – all treatments, all mental health problems are first set in the room and of course also exposed to security risks there. We basically read every week that this hospital was hacked, that this healthcare provider was virtually the victim of a hacker attack. …

12 Dec

2023

DE Question

European Health Data Space (debate)

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Thank you very much, Mr. Colleague! You mentioned the opt-out right against ELGA, which Austria would like to keep. We feel the same way in Germany. Do you see this right of opt-out secured in the light of the text adopted in committee? I think that reading through Article 7 – ‘Obligation to register all treatments’ – does not refer to an opt-out right. Together with Mr Wölken and other Members, w…

12 Dec

2023

DE Answer

European Health Data Space (debate)

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Dear colleague, at the first stage, patients have no right of participation in the question ‘What data will be registered in this new data room at all?’. You know: According to Article 7 of that template, any treatment – at least a summary containing all the diagnoses, i.e. all our health and mental health problems – must be recorded and registered. Even if I object to access, this alone exposes m…

12 Dec

2023

DE Answer

European Health Data Space (debate)

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Thank you very much, rapporteur. In order to collect representative data, there are representative studies. And they work with the consent of the patients. This could also be extended further, for example by making data donations possible. You yourself propose a right of objection, which also does not ensure perfect representativeness. But it is also true: We know that rights of opposition are har…

12 Dec

2023

DE Speech

European Health Data Space (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, We are representatives of the people. And we know from surveys: People do not want all treatments, all our physical and mental disorders to be collected and exposed to safety risks in a Europe-wide networked electronic health record - as you plan. There must be no compulsion to have an electronic medical record. The majority of citizens also do …

5 Oct

2023

DE Speech

The new European strategy for a better internet for kids (BIK+) (debate)

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Madam President, The best way to protect kids and teens online is to listen to them and respect their opinions. Unlike the European Commission, we have had 8,000 young people under the age of 18 surveyed representatively by pirates across Europe. The result is: Young people want to learn how to effectively protect themselves from online risks. They do not want their private chats and intimate phot…

13 Jun

2023

DE Speech

Artificial Intelligence Act (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Governments in France and elsewhere dream that machines could rid the world of all evil if they could only whisper to us who goes where with whom when, or who behaves unusually. In reality, with biometric mass surveillance, not a single terrorist has been found, not a single attack prevented, instead countless arrests of innocents - up to 99% fa…

19 Apr

2023

DE Speech

Markets in Crypto-assets (MiCa) - Information accompanying transfers of funds and certain crypto-assets (recast) (debate)

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Mr President! Cash is financial freedom. We can buy and donate anonymously without scissors in our heads. No one is excluded from cash. With cash, there are no card bans or negative interest rates. We pirates are fighting to ensure that in the digital age there must also be digital cash that can be used as freely and anonymously as banknotes and coins. For example, to be able to donate to Wikileak…

1 Feb

2023

DE Speech

Transparency and targeting of political advertising (debate)

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Madam President, Tomorrow will be a good day for European democracy. With a large majority, the European Parliament will gather behind the goal of stopping political surveillance advertising on the net in order to protect our democracy from manipulation. By the way, tomorrow will also be a good day for Youtubers like Rezo, for whom no restrictions are planned. So, dear Rezo, the next time you call…

10 Nov

2022

EN Speech

A high common level of cybersecurity across the Union (A9-0313/2021 - Bart Groothuis) (vote)

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Madam President, in accordance with Rule 53(3) and (4), on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group I request that the order of votes on this file be changed and our request for separate votes be put to the vote today before the provisional agreement. We understand that the House will have to vote on this request and we ask for a roll—call vote. This is to allow for a separate vote, notably on the proposed …

4 Jul

2022

EN Speech

Digital Services Act - Digital Markets Act (debate)

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Mr President, on behalf of my Civil Liberties Committee, let me be honest to our citizens: we tried to make the DSA a game—changer and overcome the surveillance capitalist business model of pervasive tracking online. But we failed. We failed to provide you with alternatives to toxic platform algorithms that will push the most controversial and extreme content to the very top of your timelines. And…

19 Jan

2022

EN Speech

Digital Services Act (debate)

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Mr President, the Digital Services Act is a unique opportunity for us to take back control of the digital age and put citizens and our democratic institutions in charge. My committee, the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, is proposing amendments to make the report of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO Committee) even stronger. For instance, the…

15 Sep

2021

DE Speech

The Pegasus spyware scandal (debate)

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Madam President, We all want our private messages and photos to remain private and safe from hackers. Our governments and Europol, however, prefer to use dangerous security vulnerabilities themselves to spy and monitor rather than let them be closed. Do you realize that you are financing organized crime with the purchase of security gaps and spy software? You are attacking the ePrivacy rules on co…

5 Jul

2021

DE Speech

Use of technologies for the processing of data for the purpose of combating online child sexual abuse (temporary derogation from Directive 2002/58/EC) (debate)

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Mr President! All MEPs received open mail last week. This is what it would look like if all your mail were opened and scanned without suspicion, and suspicious content handed over to the police. Inconceivable? This is exactly what our electronic mail should be allowed to do – with the first EU regulation on mass surveillance. Commissioner, you are not protecting children from abuse with these susp…