What Gabriele spoke about.

1 Feb

2023

DE Speech

Preparation of the Special European Council meeting of February, in particular the need to develop sustainable solutions in the area of asylum and migration (debate)

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Mr President, Madam Minister! Disappointment and hope are very close when it comes to migration. Looking back again at the Future Conference, we can see that citizens are extremely disappointed that Europe is not able to act in the field of migration and that many problems arise from the fact that Europe is not able to act. And that is why it is really extremely important to see that only European…

19 Jan

2023

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Revision of the European Works Councils Directive (debate)

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Mr President! Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! I would like to thank the rapporteur and the shadow rapporteurs for this report. And it shows once again that Parliament is able to work out good compromises together, and that deserves broad support in plenary. Strengthening democracy is the challenge. We have discussed it here several times this week, and we can see that where people can get invo…

18 Jan

2023

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Revelations of Uber lobbying practices in the EU (debate)

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Mr President! Ladies and gentlemen, many of us have recalled the hearing that took place in this House's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs. It was really a stellar moment for Parliament, and every now and then our breath stalled when we heard what methods Über works with. And that's why it's right: Whistleblowers need our special protection. They take risks because they realize that somet…

18 Jan

2023

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Terrorist threats posed by far-right extremist networks defying the democratic constitutional order (debate)

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. – Madam President, Minister Roswall, Commissioner Johansson! Thank you for the clear words also regarding the dangers that threaten our democracy here. We have known for a long time that we really need a defensive, a contentious democracy. With us in Germany, this discourse and the awareness of it have really arisen from the experiences of National Socialism, and it is important for us that demo…

18 Jan

2023

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 15 December 2022 (continuation of debate)

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Madam President, Happy birthday from my side as well. Six out of ten Europeans are satisfied with the cooperation of the Member States in addressing the social and economic consequences of the war. On the one hand, this is good, but it also shows that there is still room for improvement and that everything stands and falls with it, that we give citizens the confidence that Europe is able to meet t…

14 Dec

2022

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Tackle the cost of living crisis: increase pay, tax profits, stop speculation (topical debate)

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Madam President, 2022 will be a year that will be specifically mentioned in the history books, including whether it is a crucial year for stabilising democracy or weakening it. We can see that rising energy prices and rising inflation are simply causing many people to have less money in their pockets and that the conversations before Christmas revolve around: Where can you save, where can you limi…

13 Dec

2022

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The recent JHA Council decision on Schengen accession (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, Minister! We all welcome the fact that Croatia will actually be there from 1 January. That was a good decision and I really congratulate everyone who contributed to it. But it has already been said by the Commissioner, by everyone: It was really a serious mistake on the part of Austria and the Netherlands, Bulgaria and Romania, who have met all the criteria for years, a…

13 Dec

2022

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Suspicions of corruption from Qatar and the broader need for transparency and accountability in the European institutions (debate) (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. I think it has become quite clear that this is a tough week for all of us. I have rarely seen so many feelings in this Parliament: So much anger, so much disappointment and so much real shock. But I believe we have shown that this attack, which is really aimed here at our democracy, at the credibility of our institutions, continues to challenge us beyond these e…

13 Dec

2022

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A need for a dedicated budget to turn the Child Guarantee into reality - an urgency in times of energy and food crisis (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, Minister, ladies and gentlemen! Imagine this block here would be filled with children like the rest of the house. Then on this side, all the children from poor families sitting in cold apartments would get barren breakfasts, their shoes broken, their talents not encouraged. That would be the reality, because poverty is spreading to the middle of society. That's why it's…

23 Nov

2022

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The need for a European solution on asylum and migration including search and rescue (debate)

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Mr President! I believe that, in the light of the debate here, it is good that we remember once again what the citizens of the Future Conference on Migration wrote to us in the home book. They said that we should act more decisively and finally achieve a common migration policy, and I believe that the migration pact is the proof of what we have to create in order to follow it. And they have told u…

9 Nov

2022

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 20-21 October 2022 (debate)

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Mr President, Mr Vice-President Šefčovič! It is good to prepare for next winter, and many of the measures being discussed by the European Council will not take effect until next winter at the earliest. But it is also very daring to say that we are already well positioned, that everyone will come over this winter as well. Many people don't know how to pay their bills. Companies that are energy-inte…

19 Oct

2022

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Whitewashing of the anti-European extreme right in the EU (topical debate)

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Dear Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, One can get the impression that trivialization and normalization of right-wing extremists or post-fascists is always what the others do, what doesn't happen where we are. But that's not the case, and that's why we put it on the agenda. We simply see that in many Member States right-wing extremists, populists, post-fascists, parties with a Nazi past are winn…

18 Oct

2022

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Keep the bills down: social and economic consequences of the war in Ukraine and the introduction of a windfall tax (debate)

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Mr President! Many have said it here: This energy crisis threatens the very existence of millions of Europeans, and ordinary workers cannot cope with such price increases. The worst hits the poorest. 30% in Europe cannot make any reserves. That's why the first answer is: Wages up, prices down and solidarity with the strikers here in Europe. The excess profit tax has already been mentioned to finan…

5 Oct

2022

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The accession of Romania and Bulgaria to the Schengen area (debate)

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Madam President, Minister Bek, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! In fact, for eleven long years, Romanians and Bulgarians here are waiting for the door to the Schengen area to finally open and for them to get this privilege that all Europeans want to enjoy. It has been said: There are 27 million people involved, tens of thousands of companies, and both Member States meet all the criteria. Now on…

5 Oct

2022

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Countering the anti-European and anti-Ukrainian propaganda of Putin’s European cronies (topical debate)

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Mr President, Minister Bek, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! When the AfD speaks of the need for objective debates in this House, I can only say: Take care! Mr. Beck is no longer there. But I would like to say again: It was indeed a mistake of many parties to trust Putin for so long. But it's his party, and it's his country chairman Höcke, who called in August this year to open Nord Stream 2. S…

15 Sep

2022

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Statute and funding of European political parties and European political foundations (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner Jourová, ladies and gentlemen! As shadow rapporteur, I am pleased that we can set the course to strengthen political parties in Europe and also foundations. It has already been said: What we want is to make them a bit more visible, so that they don't just show up every five years just before the European elections. We are strengthening the democratic control of the Eu…

14 Sep

2022

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State of the Union (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen. The specter is about Europe, the specter of recession. We are in the race against time, but in the race of deeds, not in the race for beautiful words and symbolic politics. They have identified important concrete projects: price caps, Excess profit tax. That is a good thing, but you have again systematically neglected one issue, namely how to deal with the so…

13 Sep

2022

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Adequate minimum wages in the European Union (debate)

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Mr President! I would like to express my great thanks, firstly to the really experienced rapporteurs, secondly to the courageous Commissioner, but also to the French Presidency of the Council, which is not here, but which has conducted the negotiations very courageously and clearly. But I have a big request, a proposal to the Council, that tomorrow all the Member States compete on who can transpos…

12 Sep

2022

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Surveillance and predator spyware systems in Greece (debate)

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Mr President! I have to respond to my previous speaker: When it comes to myths, it's about facts. What we find is that exactly 50 years after the Watergate scandal, we have eavesdropping scandals in the middle of Europe. And we have them in Greece, and we have them in Poland. I myself have met victims who have been intercepted: Opposition politicians in the middle of the election campaign. It was …

6 Jul

2022

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Amendment to Parliament’s Rules of Procedure concerning Rule 216 on committee meetings (A9-0203/2022 - Gabriele Bischoff) (vote)

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Madam President, we are now voting on the amendment of the Rules of Procedure to allow for a hybrid committee working regime in the future. The working group on the Rules of Procedure has been mandated by our President to prepare a report to implement the decision of the CoP of 2 June, and this decision was supported by all the political groups. We have prepared this report under a lot of time pr…

6 Jul

2022

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 23-24 June 2022 (continuation of debate)

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Mr President, Vice-President Šefčovič! Take a close look: This symbolizes the Council's attitude towards the House of Democracy here in Europe. We are no longer present in the debate on the European Council and we apologise for having had other commitments. And this is precisely the attitude towards the citizens who have worked hard, who have put forward proposals for the reform of Europe and who …

5 Jul

2022

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EU initiatives to address the rising cost of living, including the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights (debate)

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Mr President, Minister Bek, Commissioner Nicolas Schmit! We launched the Pillar of Social Rights when we had the painful experience of the financial and economic crisis and the social crisis in many Member States. But we didn't know that soon after that we would have much bigger crises that would affect everyone. We only saw this in the pandemic, and we have managed to develop good instruments suc…

22 Jun

2022

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 23-24 June 2022, including the meeting with Western Balkan leaders on 23 June - Candidate status of Ukraine, the Republic of Moldova and Georgia (debate)

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Mr President! There is war in Europe and it is the right message to give candidate status to Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova. And one must also communicate clearly and honestly that this will cause enormous efforts in these countries to actually get through this process, which takes a long time. But it is also important for the European Union to become capable of enlargement. And here the conclusions…

9 Jun

2022

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The call for a Convention for the revision of the Treaties (debate)

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I would like to ask Mrs Laporte: You have to decide. We have now involved the citizens – 800 randomly selected citizens. You see this approach as one that does not involve citizens, but that is not true of reality. And now that we have involved the citizens, if we say: No, we do not like the result and therefore we do not want to take this into account, do exactly what you are accusing the Europea…

9 Jun

2022

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The call for a Convention for the revision of the Treaties (debate)

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Mr President, Madam Vice-President, ladies and gentlemen. We have met here today and are discussing a historic decision, namely that indeed the European Parliament is clearly assuming the responsibility that Mrs Šuica also referred to: The responsibility to say, now we have to commission a convention, and we have to start it. Not because we have nothing else to do, but because we see what serious …