What Delara spoke about.

11 Jul

2023

DE Speech

Nature restoration (debate)

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Madam President, I think many of us would have liked to talk about the worries and the law of nature restoration. But instead of the "how" we need to talk about the "whether" here today: whether the European Parliament is the only European institution to block the law. Refusal to work instead of solution. It would be a great vote if it were only about nature restoration. But it is also a question …

10 Jul

2023

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Madam President, Two and a half metres long and one and a half metres wide – this is the size of an isolation cell in Evin prison in Iran. Discrimination, isolation and torture are part of the everyday life of the detainees and also the uncertainty of whether and when you will ever be free again. Especially in unofficial detention facilities of the Revolutionary Guards, which are euphemistically c…

10 May

2023

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The role of farmers as enablers of the green transition and a resilient agricultural sector (continuation of debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. Above all, I find this conservative narrative that agriculture and the Green Deal are on different sides – pseudo-solidarity. Drought and water shortages are already threatening not only the livelihoods of our farmers, but also the supply of sustainable food. However, the political answer must not be: Everything remains as it was, we favor agro-industry and let …

20 Apr

2023

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IPCC report on Climate Change: a call for urgent additional action (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called the IPCC report a survival guide. I have listened to the whole debate now and I believe that some of my colleagues really need guidance and we must act accordingly. Because the first realization of the report must never become routine, namely that our current climate measures are not enough and the climate damage …

19 Apr

2023

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Keeping people healthy, water drinkable and soil liveable: getting rid of forever pollutants and strengthening EU chemical legislation now (topical debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Does my rain jacket actually belong in the hazardous waste? And is the baking paper carcinogenic? These are legitimate questions that cannot be answered clearly today and which have occupied many since this news at the latest. At 1500 locations in Germany, PFAS, so-called perpetual chemicals, could be detected. Water, dirt and grease repellent – these propert…

17 Apr

2023

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Deforestation Regulation (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. Whether it's the coffee at the train station this morning or the piece of chocolate I ate on the train, consumers in the EU cannot be sure whether or not their consumption contributed to deforestation. Whether we want it or not: When we go shopping, we almost always put a piece of forest destruction in our shopping cart. Soya, palm oil, rubber, coffee, cocoa, wo…

14 Mar

2023

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European Semester for economic policy coordination 2023 - European Semester for economic policy coordination: Employment and social priorities for 2023 (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, It seems very difficult for some to imagine that the economy does not take place in an empty space, but is rather affected in real terms by social and ecological crises. A good example of this is the delayed energy transition. People are suffering from high inflation, resulting in rising prices across Europe. Inflation is, above all, one thing: A fossil crisi…

13 Mar

2023

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Binding annual greenhouse gas emission reductions by Member States (Effort Sharing Regulation) - Land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) - Revision of the Market Stability Reserve for the EU Emissions Trading System (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, 2030 – that always sounds a long way off. But there are only seven years left. Only seven years until we have to reduce our emissions by at least 55% in all areas, to which we have committed ourselves legally, but also internationally. And it's not numbers that we've somehow diceed, it's hard planetary boundaries that we're negotiating with here. We are the g…

14 Feb

2023

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Question Time (Commission) - Strengthened EU enlargement policy to the Western Balkans

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Something has been lost in translation, so I will try to do it in English now because there is the question I was asking about the reform proposed by the High Representative Christian Schmidt on 2 October, which is a white flag, which is also now in front of the constitutional court. And I think it’s a pity and it’s a shame that the High Representative is proposing an electoral reform that needs t…

14 Feb

2023

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Question Time (Commission) - Strengthened EU enlargement policy to the Western Balkans

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Mr President! Commissioner, you said earlier, when asked by a colleague, that Bosnia and Herzegovina needs Europe, and I very much agree with that. However, Bosnia and Herzegovina also needs the EU Commission as guardian of the treaties, which supports it along the way, but also clearly addresses it when the country strays from the path. I would therefore like to ask you about the electoral reform…

12 Dec

2022

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Outcome of COP27 (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, As the European Parliament, we have met many allies in the fight against the climate crisis and have also heard many fates, for example from the Nigerian climate activist who cannot continue to study because floods have not only cost hundreds of lives in his country, but have also destroyed his university. We have heard from the Environment Minister of the Ma…

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, ladies and gentlemen. When you talk about searches and rescues, you don't really have to look for the problem, because it's happening right in front of our eyes – well documented by the Coast Guard, civil society, even Frontex. We in Europe are committed to freedom and human rights, but we do not raise them at sea. Human rights don't have to be earned, we all have them from birth. In…

22 Nov

2022

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EU response to the increasing crackdown on protests in Iran (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I have one minute here, and I want to give that minute of votes that I believe must be heard here in this European Parliament: The two Kurdish activists Zeineb and Shahab. They say: “Over the last two months, more than 100 Kurds have been murdered, including many children. The Iranian government is now using banned chemical weapons and nerve gases. How can it…

19 Oct

2022

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EU-Western Balkans relations in light of the new enlargement package (continuation of debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Finally, it was understood that enlargement policy is more than just annual country reports. It is a hope for democracy, for security and for a happy future. The Commission's recommendation to make Bosnia and Herzegovina an EU candidate country is a great signal. But it will still be a long time before something changes in concrete terms – so honestly we have…

18 Oct

2022

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UN Climate Change Conference 2022 in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt (COP27) (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. That the main sponsor of the climate conference is called Coca-Cola seems like a bad joke. It is precisely these companies whose business practices we must put a stop to, instead of rolling out the greenwashing carpet to them. This is precisely our homework between climate conferences, where we as the EU are so involved that we can even improve on our reduction …

4 Oct

2022

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The death of Mahsa Amini and the repression of women's rights protesters in Iran (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. After the murder of my grandfather shortly after the founding of the Islamic Republic, my family fled Iran to Europe to live in freedom. And it is thanks to them that as a young woman I can stand here in public and speak. Women in Iran take to the streets for freedoms like these. For years they were oppressed, and every grip on freedom was punished. The state co…

13 Sep

2022

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Consequences of drought, fire, and other extreme weather phenomena: increasing EU's efforts to fight climate change (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. We all have very concrete pictures in mind when we think of the drought summer: Dried rivers, beige-grey steppes that were once fields. And when I think of this drought summer, I think of the farmer Henning in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, whom I visited during the summer break with his paludiculture. As a conventional young farmer, he thinks intensively about how the…

12 Sep

2022

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Deforestation Regulation (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. Whether it's the coffee I bought at the station this morning or the leather in my shoes. How many times I have eaten or used something related to the destruction of forests alone today – I cannot say for sure. And I believe I am not alone in that, because the EU is one of the world's main drivers of deforestation and the destruction of other important ecosystems…

5 Jul

2022

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2021 Report on Bosnia and Herzegovina (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. Enlargement policy does not take place in a vacuum. We see how Russian, but also Chinese, influence is destabilizing the region. And we see in Bosnia-Herzegovina how an ethnonationalist boycotts and divides, how minorities are persecuted and how hard-won progress comes under pressure. It would now be up to the EU to show solidarity with the democratic forces in …

5 Jul

2022

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Objection pursuant to Rule 111(3): Amending the Taxonomy Climate Delegated Act and the Taxonomy Disclosures Delegated Act (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. I have listened very carefully to the previous speakers and in fact all those who oppose the rejection of the delegated act have done so on the grounds of security of supply, rising energy prices. But investing in this bridge technology is not prohibited by the taxonomy, that's not what it's about. That's a distortion of the debate, and you're actually about gre…

5 Jul

2022

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Question Time (Commission) Increasing EU ambitions on biodiversity ahead of COP 15

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Yes, I can connect very well, because especially with rubber we know that it is a very big challenge for Indonesia when it comes to forest destruction. Accordingly, it would be good to take a closer look at the COP in a collegial manner. But you also raise an important problem with your answer, namely the question of monitoring, the implementation of our ambitious goals, which we have not only in …

5 Jul

2022

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Question Time (Commission) Increasing EU ambitions on biodiversity ahead of COP 15

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Commissioner! You mentioned it in a few responses: We are not only doing the homework for COP 15 during the week of preparation, but we are doing it every day here in Parliament, you in the Commission. And a milestone with which we will arrive at the COP is the EU Deforestation Act. I would have a demand for this, because we have seen with astonishment that some of the products that demonstrably c…

7 Jun

2022

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Binding annual greenhouse gas emission reductions by Member States (Effort Sharing Regulation) - Land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) - CO2 emission standards for cars and vans (joint debate – Fit for 55 (part 2))

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. It's not that lobbying pressure has only been great in the last few weeks when it comes to this, it has been so for the last three years. Some political forces here in this Parliament, as well as parts of industry, like to use people’s fears – of food shortages, higher energy prices, the internal combustion engine – to meet the ambitions of the Fit for 55Unscrew…

9 Mar

2022

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Batteries and waste batteries (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, From the morning alarm ringing to the scrolling before falling asleep: Batteries are an integral part of our everyday life. Every year, we import over a million tons of batteries, and demand is increasing. Battery technology plays an important role in achieving our climate targets. We need more and more, but the extraction of raw materials and recycling rates…

8 Mar

2022

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The situation in Bosnia Herzegovina (continuation of debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. When I say ‘United in diversity’, most people think of the European Union. But I also think of the greatest strength that is in Bosnia and Herzegovina. But it is precisely this equality and diversity that has been blocked by ethno-nationalists for 26 years – not for the people, but out of political calculation. But the forces are shifting to their disadvantage, …