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7 Oct

2025

DE Speech

Rising antisemitism in Europe (debate)

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Madam President, I would be happy if the right-wing factions would speak out clearly against anti-Semitism, if Viktor Orbán again uses anti-Semitic stereotypes and uses them against Soros. Ladies and gentlemen, a few days ago there was a shop window in Flensburg with the words ‘Jews are not welcome in this business’. It reminds me of the darkest days in German history. Jewish students are attacked…

10 Sep

2025

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Rule of law and EU funds management in Slovakia (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, The political right bases its arguments on these discussions of the rule of law. Now you even had to argue that no one is there – if you are the only one of your group that is there at all, but people are sitting here; That's really interesting. Then there is always the argument in these rule of law discussions, we always talk only about Hungary. Now we are n…

9 Jul

2025

DE Question

Alleged misuse of EU funds by Members of the far-right and measures to ensure institutional integrity (debate)

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Mr. Colleague, thank you for allowing this question. I think you have been a bit tough with Mr Bausemer now, because he is at least the only one who dares to come here. But probably the reason is that he was not yet a member of parliament in the last period, otherwise he would probably be part of the whole. But he has to answer that. I have a question that I really asked myself, maybe as a corrupt…

9 Jul

2025

DE Speech

Alleged misuse of EU funds by Members of the far-right and measures to ensure institutional integrity (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. The website of Mrs Anderson, a colleague of the AfD, must be really great – it cost over 64 000 euros. And if you take a closer look: The tender procedure is not entirely clear, and behind it is a company owned by a local politician of the AfD. Apparently this is the system. It is not the only case: Quite a lot of other cases where either dubious associations ar…

9 Jul

2025

DE Speech

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, ladies and gentlemen, Now we have just heard that this debate here, i.e. that some MEPs had fallen over Budapest – 70 MEPs – and had brought their communist worldview over the Hungarians. So I've heard a lot as a FDPler, but no one has called me a communist yet. This is really new. You really get totally creative. Let's take a look at what Viktor Orbán has achieved. What does Vikt…

9 Jul

2025

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The EU’s post-2027 long-term budget: Parliament’s expectations ahead of the Commission’s proposal (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner! This will be a special budget. We have huge challenges: Defence, migration, competitiveness. We have to repay 30 billion euros a year in coronavirus debt for the first time, and the answer for many is here: We just have to spend more money. I don't think that's gonna work. It won't work. We have spent twice as much in the last financial period, …

18 Jun

2025

DE Speech

Freedom of assembly in Hungary and the need for the Commission to act (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. I always think about these debates: The arguments of the right cannot really be confused. But then comes the next debate, and they make it over and over again; It's really impressive. Here, a colleague has just said that the debate today is a foreign influence, and compared it to the use of Soviet tanks in Hungary in 1956. Tell me, are you still ticking right? W…

17 Jun

2025

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

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner! Dear Ana, thank you very much for your report, which is very, very important, which we worked on together, on the rule of law. Because the rule of law is often such a big concept, but it is indeed very central to the European Union, because if we do not have common rules that everyone adheres to and independent courts that interpret these rules,…

17 Jun

2025

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Combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child sexual abuse material and replacing Council Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA (recast) (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, What is this terrible crime of child abuse? What do we do with children there? What's happening there? How many millions of times does it happen in Europe, online, but still in close family circles, in sports clubs, everywhere? On the other hand, we are now trying to present a directive here in order to do something more effectively. What are the rights in Pa…

16 Jun

2025

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State of play and follow-up two years after the PEGA recommendations and the illegal use of spyware (debate)

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Mr President, Madam Executive Vice-President, ladies and gentlemen! Imagine for a moment, Pegasus, this surveillance software, is on your phone. What can happen there? You can turn on the camera and microphone secretly, make live recordings of conversations; one can retrieve the location data of the mobile phone, so know where you are everywhere; Read all the news; Access calendars, photos, passwo…

21 May

2025

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The Hungarian government's drift to Russia-style repression: legislative threats to freedom of expression and democratic participation (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. What are we waiting for? What is the Commission waiting for? What are Member States waiting for? What else needs to happen so that we can finally negotiate consistently? The rule of law has already been largely abolished, independence of the judiciary, democracy restricted. The OECD has said the elections in Hungary were free but not fair. Millions of taxpayers’…

7 May

2025

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The fine against TikTok and the need to strengthen the protection of citizens’ rights on social media platforms (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, If you might see this speech on TikTok in the future, then you can't be sure that the data you have there won't end up in China on any servers. Firstly, this is incredibly worrying and secondly, it simply violates our rules – and that is why the EU Commission has imposed a fine of €530 million. Because it is also clear: Our rules also apply to large platforms…

7 May

2025

EN Question

EU support for a just, sustainable and comprehensive peace in Ukraine (debate)

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Thank you for accepting my blue card. I want to ask you, have you been to Ukraine once? Have you visited? Have you seen what's happening there? What you do here, and with the massive media outreach you have, especially for young people in Europe, I think it would be your responsibility also to look at what's happening there and not doing whataboutism, which you did right now with this speech. Talk…

6 May

2025

DE Answer

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

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Of course, we have to shift the budget, and that's exactly what I said. This is where a majority goes and says: No previous edition is to be touched in any way. This is good fiscal policy, that you also have to set priorities, that you also have to ask yourself: What have we achieved so far with certain expenses? Where can we get better? What can we save? This debate is difficult, and we have to h…

6 May

2025

DE Speech

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

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. We need to talk about debt. They are calling for Eurobonds for defence spending and other crises. They are calling for an EU debt union and are selling it here as pro-European. But is it really European to make new debts for defence without first explaining what a common European defence should look like? Is it European, after the promise to take on debts once d…

2 Apr

2025

DE Speech

Recent legislative changes in Hungary and their impact on fundamental rights (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen! Let's look at the nonsensical arguments put forward here. The first argument is: Hungary can decide on its own. Yes, Hungary has a lot to decide on its own, but Article 2 of the EU treaties states that sexual orientation is protected as a fundamental right, and therefore you cannot simply decide on your own. These fundamental rights are fundamental rights tha…

1 Apr

2025

DE Answer

Presentation of the New European Internal Security Strategy (debate)

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Mr Colleague, thank you very much for the question which I am very happy to answer. I think the difference is exactly where we go from offline to online surveillance, that we don't throw overboard the same principles we have. There must always be an initial suspicion for an investigation, because there must be no general mass surveillance, where we end up giving up the presumption of innocence, wh…

1 Apr

2025

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Presentation of the New European Internal Security Strategy (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. Dear Commissioner, thank you very much for this security strategy! More cooperation in Europe in the fight against terrorism, organised crime and cyberattacks is certainly the right thing to do. A colleague, I believe from the EPP, has just said: Without security, there is no freedom – and that is right. But whoever gives up freedom in order to gain security wil…

12 Mar

2025

DE Speech

Adoption of the proposal for a Parenthood Regulation (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I don't know where to start, honestly, from what I've just heard. So, member state competence, then somehow sexualLGBT propaganda, then it is said that we somehow want to impose the privileges of rainbow families on anything. And then you have the audacity to talk about children and children's rights. The worst thing you can do to a child is that they no long…

12 Feb

2025

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Collaboration between conservatives and far right as a threat for competitiveness in the EU (topical debate)

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Mr President! Dear colleagues! Was it prudent that Friedrich Merz made these requests last week after saying weeks earlier that he won't do just that with changing majorities? I don't think so. But it was just as unwise for the SPD and the Greens not to go into forging a migration pact in the middle. What really disturbed them about this law, which all the prime ministers, including the Greens and…

21 Jan

2025

DE Speech

The Hungarian government’s illegal espionage of EU institutions and investigative bodies (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner! We are discussing the next scandal after the Pegasus scandal – now the Hungarian government seems to have been spying on EU institutions. And how do Fidesz and Co. respond to this? So there would be no prosecutor's investigation at all. Yes, what a miracle! In a country where the rule of law has been completely broken, where the public prosecutor’s…

21 Jan

2025

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Need to enforce the Digital Services Act to protect democracy on social media platforms including against foreign interference and biased algorithms (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Freedom of expression is the foundation of our democracy, and therefore: The DSA also does not establish a Ministry of Truth, but sets clear rules and transparency. If Musk and Weidel talk to each other on X, then this is not forbidden, the DSA has not forbidden, has also happened. From my point of view, it also showed the inability of Alice Weidel, this conv…

17 Dec

2024

DE Speech

Misinformation and disinformation on social media platforms, such as TikTok, and related risks to the integrity of elections in Europe (debate)

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Mr President! Freedom of speech is the foundation of our democracy. The exchange of different opinions and arguments, the competition about it, which ensures compromises in a society. But this competition has to be fair. That's what makes our open democracy, that's what makes liberal democracies. But if there is an outside attempt to influence this – as Anne Applebaum calls it in her new book “Aut…

17 Dec

2024

EN Question

Misinformation and disinformation on social media platforms, such as TikTok, and related risks to the integrity of elections in Europe (debate)

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So you didn't get a blue card until now and now you get two at the same time. It's about social media and I think you do it well, you know, you convince people. And nothing is wrong about that. But the problem here, and that's what we're discussing, is if there's a foreign actor putting lots of money to influence the whole discussion – that is what is happening there. And there's also a difference…

17 Dec

2024

DE Question

Misinformation and disinformation on social media platforms, such as TikTok, and related risks to the integrity of elections in Europe (debate)

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Madam, thank you very much for taking my Blue card accept. You have just mentioned that the election in Thuringia has been reversed. Did not Mr Kemmerich resign there, an FDP member, and why should he listen to Angela Merkel? That's my first question. And my second question is: What kind of sulfur stench do you mean in the hallways? I haven't been in your hallway lately. I don't know what it smell…