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23 Oct

2024

EN Speech

Seven years from the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia: lack of progress in restoring the rule of law in Malta (debate)

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Madam President, dear colleagues, today we remember Daphne Caruana Galizia, a brave and tireless journalist whose voice was silenced because she dared to expose the truth. Daphne wasn't just reporting stories. She was fighting for justice, for accountability, for the very soul of our democracy. And for that, she paid the ultimate price. Her brutal assassination is a chilling reminder for Europe. W…

22 Oct

2024

EN Question

General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sections (debate)

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Colleague, thank you for accepting my blue card. Because you referred directly to me, I want to ask where in my speech I talked about the conflict between Israel and Palestine. I didn't talk about UNWRA. I also didn't talk about the Palestinian Authority. I just talked about antisemitic schoolbooks. And I want to ask you: who would be against removing antisemitic content from school books, other t…

22 Oct

2024

EN Speech

General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sections (debate)

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Madam President, dear colleagues, Palestinian schoolbooks teach hate. In science and math books, terrorists are praised. A female terrorist who killed several Jews is cited as an example for female empowerment. Most maps replace Israel with Palestine. Despite our financial support, these books haven't changed for years. But whenever we propose withholding funds until anti-Semitic pages are removed…

9 Oct

2024

DE Speech

2024 Annual Rule of law report (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen! The Rule of Law Report is now an established mechanism. And we also see that the indications from the reports are increasingly being taken up in the Member States. It is good that the Commission plans to include the internal market component more in the Rule of Law Report, because with competition policy, the EU Commission also has a strong sword in its hand to …

9 Oct

2024

EN Answer

Presentation of the programme of activities of the Hungarian Presidency (debate)

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Thank you, colleague, for this question because it's really good, because it is connected. It should not be differentiated. If you are destroying the rule of law and European values in your country, if there is an Article 7 procedure in place and the rule of law conditionality applied to your country, that should make a difference. You should not make the school bully the school director – and tha…

9 Oct

2024

EN Speech

Presentation of the programme of activities of the Hungarian Presidency (debate)

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Madam President, what a speech Mr Orbán gave. What a speech. Mr Orbán, you say you want democracy and you brag about your majorities in the Hungarian Parliament. Yet for years, you have only ruled by emergency decree. Are you so afraid of democracy, Mr Orbán? You say you are for national sovereignty, yet you invite Chinese policemen to surveil the people in your country. You say you want to stop m…

17 Sep

2024

DE Speech

Global measures towards social media platforms - Strengthening the role of DSA and protecting democracy and freedom in the online sphere (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner! We are still discussing a lot about X, or Twitter, and Elon Musk. The commission even constantly writes letters, which it then posts on X, and argues with Elon Musk. I think we should write a little less letters with Elon Musk and look more at what's actually happening with our teens with TikTok. We know that TikTok is a China app and there is infl…

23 Apr

2024

DE Speech

Conclusions of the recent European Council meetings, in particular on a new European Competitiveness deal and the EU strategic agenda 2024-2029 (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, We also need the economic transition in Europe. Only with a strong economy can we achieve our goals. We need to cut red tape in Europe. Since Mrs. von der Leyen has in recent years, you have rather built something. We need a stronger European capital market so that we can also mobilise private capital. And we need more joy in inventing than in forbidding in E…

13 Mar

2024

DE Speech

Financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union (recast) (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! A discussion on the Financial Regulation may not be one of the most emotional debates taking place here in Parliament. But it is one of the important debates, because the basic rules for our budget must ensure that taxpayers' money reaches where it belongs. We have achieved this very successfully in the negotiations, which is why I would like to…

13 Mar

2024

EN Speech

Guidelines for the 2025 Budget - Section III (debate)

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Mr President, dear colleagues, with the budget we set the right priorities for the future, for a stronger economy, but we also have to act along our values. Over the last 30 years, the European Union has paid EUR 8 billion to Palestinian territories. Where did the money go? Ten per cent of the Palestinian budget goes to the so-called Martyrs Fund. This fund pays a monthly income to every Palestini…

28 Feb

2024

DE Speech

Report on the Commission’s 2023 Rule of Law report (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! It is important that we discuss this rule of law report here again. But we also need to link it to more concrete consequences. It is not enough just to analyse the situation in the rule of law in different countries, but we actually need to implement more. But it is important that we have this report because we are looking at all countries througho…

27 Feb

2024

DE Speech

Multiannual financial framework for the years 2021 to 2027 - Establishing the Ukraine Facility - Establishing the Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (‘STEP’) (joint debate - multiannual financial framework revision)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. I think it is important that we set stronger priorities in this budget. And that is why we also need to redeploy and, for example, redeploy cohesion funds – towards the new tasks that we have. We actually did that with this review. But I would like to go into this here, because things have just been mentioned by colleagues: Support for Ukraine. The colleague Joa…

7 Feb

2024

DE Speech

Implementation report on the EU LGBTIQ Equality Strategy 2020-2025 (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! We have just received terrible news from Yemen, where 13 people have been sentenced to death for their sexuality. Fortunately, this is unimaginable in Europe. European values are tolerance and diversity. In Europe, it doesn't matter who you love. But we also see that our values, our European values, are being attacked. Liberal democracy is under…

7 Feb

2024

DE Speech

The fight against hate speech and disinformation: responsibility of social platforms within the Digital Services Act (topical debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! Rutgers University in the US recently presented a study showing that TikTok systematically reduces or less plays out content that does not match China’s interests – content that informs about the Uyghurs, support for Ukraine and also support for Israel. This is very worrying, because our debates, especially among young people, are shaped by TikT…

6 Feb

2024

DE Speech

Conclusions of the European Council meetings, in particular the special European Council meeting of 1 February 2024 (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Now we've all celebrated: the great unity on the summit and so on and so forth. But we have to say: Why did this special summit take place? This was only because the summit was blocked by Viktor Orbán in December. That's why we actually have to draw conclusions and think: What happened? How do we prevent this Putin disciple and demolitionist from further bloc…

17 Jan

2024

DE Speech

Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 14-15 December 2023 and preparation of the Special European Council meeting of 1 February 2024 - Situation in Hungary and frozen EU funds (joint debate - European Council meetings)

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Mr President! Mrs. von der Leyen, you've been blackmailed. They have released 10 billion euros for Viktor Orbán once going to the toilet and thus the accession talks with Ukraine could begin. However, he can block every further step and immediately did so again with the funds. So they have achieved little for Ukraine. Instead, however, they have squandered the rule of law in the European Union as …

15 Jan

2024

DE Speech

Amendments to the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) - Amendments to the Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) (joint debate - Markets in financial instruments regulations)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I'm really pissed off tonight because we're attacking stock culture in Europe right now. Especially since the pandemic, young people in particular have invested, with small amounts: the student or trainee who puts something aside and invests, simply via neobrokers on the stock market – and very, very cheaply. Instead of doing more now to strengthen the stock …

13 Dec

2023

DE Answer

Planned dissolution of key anti-corruption structures in Slovakia and its implications on the Rule of Law (continuation of debate)

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The question does nothing at all. First, I was already there on the last and visited Slovakia on site. But the question just shows again that here a Whataboutism takes place by you, by the rights, that you actually do not want to deal with the fundamental question, that you do not want to deal with the fundamental questions, where the rule of law, where corruption control in Europe still works. An…

13 Dec

2023

DE Speech

Planned dissolution of key anti-corruption structures in Slovakia and its implications on the Rule of Law (continuation of debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, The events in Slovakia are indeed dramatic and the Commission has correctly described that it is very concerned. But I have to be honest: If I experience this debate here tonight, at the same time, really at the same time, as the same Commission, which is now very concerned about the rule of law there, at the same time releases 10 billion euros in blocked fun…

13 Dec

2023

DE Speech

One year after Morocco and QatarGate – stocktaking of measures to strengthen transparency and accountability in the European institutions (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. One year after Qatargate – you can now read more information, you just have to look at Politico. It is written in great detail: an Excel list, where all cases are there, where you really wanted to influence the institution, then the nice SMS exchanges, where Mrs Kaili tried to offer the President of Parliament tickets for the World Cup in Qatar, which Mrs Metsol…

18 Oct

2023

DE Speech

Fighting disinformation and dissemination of illegal content in the context of the Digital Services Act and in times of conflict (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! Of course, we must protect our democracy against disinformation, lies, hatred and hate speech. Freedom of speech is just as important to our democracy. And exactly this balancing act – what is hate speech, what is hate, what is wrong, what is an opinion that I do not like? – it is very, very narrow in a democracy. This is precisely why the Digital …

18 Oct

2023

DE Speech

Presentation of the Court of Auditors' annual report 2022 (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, Mr President of the European Court of Auditors! Thank you for this report, which shows that we still have a lot to do when it comes to controlling EU funds. And of course, we are all a bit surprised and horrified to see how the error rate has increased. But if we're honest, we can't be surprised. We are now at the end of the cohesion funding period and we are desperatel…

17 Oct

2023

DE Speech

General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2024 - all sections (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. The tightness of the budget and the interest burden are actually forcing us to set even stronger priorities. We have to ask ourselves where we really want to invest in the budget, and we also have to look at what funds do not flow out, such as cohesion funds. Again, we are still not prepared to set enough priorities - not in the Council, not in the Member States…

4 Oct

2023

DE Question

The spread of ‘anti-LGBTIQ’ propaganda bills by populist parties and governments in Europe (debate)

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I will make it short, Mr President. The colleague did not answer the first question put by the colleague. You have pointed out that there is a difference between heterosexual and homosexual relationships, because a child can emerge from heterosexual relationships. Do you want to take rights away from heterosexual couples who can't have children biologically? That would be the consequence of your a…

4 Oct

2023

DE Speech

The spread of ‘anti-LGBTIQ’ propaganda bills by populist parties and governments in Europe (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner! Netflix currently has one of its most popular series, Heartstopper. Nick and Charlie, two teenagers in high school, fall in love, a series that is really great. I highly recommend them to everyone in the house, especially the right. You'll learn a lot about tolerance when you watch the series. But I can assure you one thing: You don't get gay from watching Netflix. Neve…