What Rasmus spoke about.

9 Jul

2026

DE Speech

Joint communication on humanitarian aid (JOIN(2026)0025) (debate)

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Mr President! In the Gaza Strip, more than 2 million people continue to suffer from poor access to water, electricity and basic services; More than 1 million people live in tents. And we also have many other crises in this world, such as in Sudan, where we have almost 20 million people suffering from famine. In total, there are over 230 million people - you have to imagine that! – depending on hum…

20 May

2026

DE Speech

Financing EU priorities in a sustainable, predictable and resilient way through a new EU own resource from the online gambling and betting services sector (debate)

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Madam President, Play online casino games on a rainy Sunday or tap the games of the evening just before the World Cup. Both the gambling industry and sports betting are booming and the industry is making almost €50 billion in profits in the European Union every year. That is why it makes perfect sense to talk about whether, in difficult times, this industry, which is very financially strong and ve…

20 May

2026

DE Answer

Recent proposals to fight poverty in the EU (debate)

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Mr Colleague, first of all, I would like to point out to you that I am a member of the Green Group here in the European Parliament. There is no commissioner in CollegeI'm a member of my party family, so I don't know who you're talking to. And secondly, I would like to say that it is not the number of regulations that counts, but the quality of regulation. And I just made it clear, for example, tha…

20 May

2026

DE Speech

Recent proposals to fight poverty in the EU (debate)

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Madam President, pensioners who need to collect deposit bottles in order to make ends meet; single mothers who can no longer pay their bills at the supermarket checkout; Students who suffer from high rents in our cities; or homeless persons who have already fallen through all grids and safety nets: Poverty has many different faces in Europe. I think we should be ashamed that we can afford it on su…

28 Apr

2026

DE Speech

Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034 (debate)

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Mr President! In the budget debate, we should be honest: Many of us in the European Union are not doing well. They have concerns about your workplace, they have mental health problems, or they can no longer afford their rent or electricity costs. And the budget will also be measured by whether we succeed in providing answers for these people. That is why we Greens have been very shocked to see the…

10 Mar

2026

DE Speech

Guidelines for the 2027 budget - Section III (debate)

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Mr President! The 2027 budget cannot move mountains. It will probably be the last budget in the current multiannual financial framework, and I expressly share what Mr Körner has just said. We should try to set common priorities here as a Parliament and not allow ourselves to be divided – not even in tomorrow's vote. We have already set an important priority in this report, and I am very happy abou…

10 Mar

2026

DE Speech

Housing crisis in the European Union with the aim of proposing solutions for decent, sustainable and affordable housing (debate)

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Madam President, Paulina and Jonas have a problem. For many months, they have been desperately trying to find an apartment in their hometown, Hamburg, in the city where they work and study. For more than half a year, tens of enquiries have been sent and mass visits – who does not know it – have taken place. Most of the time there was no feedback. Paulina and Jonas are not just any people, but exam…

9 Feb

2026

DE Speech

European Central Bank – annual report 2025 (debate)

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21 Jan

2026

DE Speech

Online piracy of sports and other live events: urgent need to address unsolved issues (debate)

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Mr President! Who doesn't know? Games of the favorite club, which are now streamed on four to five different streaming portals, and the temptations to search for free streams on the Internet, so that you do not have to complete a fourth in addition to the third streaming subscription. Amazon, Sky, DAZN, Magenta, and more recently Netflix – providers are increasing and the fees for these streaming …

17 Dec

2025

DE Speech

Preparation of the European Council meeting of 18-19 December 2025, in particular the need to support Ukraine, transatlantic relations and the EU’s strategic autonomy (debate)

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Madam President, With a pea budget, the EU cannot stand against Trump, China and Russia, because the EU budget is about the same size as the budget of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. And that alone shows how incapable of action the EU is when we talk about fiscal policy. And I was a little surprised, I must say quite honestly, that Ursula von der Leyen did not even speak a single second in he…

25 Nov

2025

DE Speech

2026 budgetary procedure: joint text (debate)

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Mr President! We Greens are satisfied with the budget negotiations: Plus EUR 10 million more for the nature conservation programme LIFE, plus €20 million more for the Horizon research programme and over €30 million more for humanitarian aid. These priorities can be seen. And, above all, during the budgetary negotiations, we have once again seen what happens when the European forces hold together h…

12 Nov

2025

DE Speech

The new 2028-2034 Multiannual Financial Framework: architecture and governance (debate)

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Mr President! The EU does not live or die here in Parliament, in Council rooms or in the office of the President of the Commission, but on the ground with the people, in the regions. That is why it is good and right that the EU Commission has moved here in Parliament after pressure from the big four budgetary groups and wants to introduce a regional check, for example, or even a minimum quota of 1…

21 Oct

2025

DE Speech

General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sections (debate)

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Mr President! The 2026 budget is a good time to compare – to compare how serious we really are about making improvements for the people of the European Union. We Greens are fighting for social improvements for all people. We are fighting to make Erasmus accessible to more young people, including from low-income parents’ homes. We are fighting for more money to be spent on social housing, for rents…

8 Oct

2025

DE Speech

Promoting EU digital rules: protecting European sovereignty (debate)

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Mr President! A small group of tech billionaires want to control the world with their technology – more powerful than any state, more important than any company and richer than everyone else. They managed to buy US policy and made Donald Trump great. Their next step is the European Union, and Donald Trump stands firmly by their side. Dealing with the tech industry is one of the key issues for our …

6 Oct

2025

DE Speech

Role of EU policies in shaping the European Sport Model (debate)

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Mr President! Football belongs to the fans, not the investors. At least it should be. But the reality is different: Football has become the investment and toy of the super-rich. More than 180 European clubs are part of non-transparent multi-club ownership structures such as Red Bull or City. Oil sheikhs from Saudi Arabia and Qatar buy clubs, titles and thus also political influence. While a few ma…

10 Sep

2025

DE Speech

Taxation of large digital platforms in the light of international developments (debate)

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Mr President! Over €90 billion – this is how many profits Meta, Amazon, Alphabet and Microsoft have made in the last three months alone. They shift the profits in such a way that they actually pay no taxes anywhere and certainly not in Europe. While small businesses in the EU pay honest taxes, tech billionaires trick where they can. No one in the population likes this, and many MEPs here in the Ho…

8 Sep

2025

DE Speech

Investments and reforms for European competitiveness and the creation of a Capital Markets Union (debate)

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Madam President, A year after former Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi presented his report on competitiveness, it shows how tedious it is to implement his recommendations. To be honest: Not much has happened yet, and the Commission's proposals have so far been very limited in terms of its concrete recommendations. His recommendations were actually very clear: We need to invest significantly mor…

9 Jul

2025

DE Speech

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

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Madam President, The world is flying apart, and that's why it's right to strengthen the EU now. And whether there are really deeds behind the many Sunday speeches, we will see this in the multiannual financial framework in the coming months. However, Europe will only become stronger if we ensure social peace on our continent, and this means that we need a strong pillar in the EU budget. Over 30% o…

8 Jul

2025

DA Answer

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

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Madam President! Thank you for the question, and I would just like to refer to what our vice-president of our group just said in his introductory speech to our group. I think it will be important in the next few months to get an EU budget in place, where we have room both for the green transition and for social issues, but of course also with a strengthened commitment to security policy, which tak…

8 Jul

2025

DA Speech

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

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Madam President! Dear Prime Minister! At a time when hatred and nationalism have taken the stage, it is important to stand together. But as a minority Dane and citizen of the Danish-German border, I think that the EU and successive governments on both sides of the border have failed us. Permanent and illegal border controls have made the daily lives of many thousands of people in our region much m…

17 Jun

2025

DE Speech

Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience Facility (debate)

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Madam President, The (incomprehensible words) The Reconstruction Fund is at an economically very complicated stage of stabilising the European Union. And yes, as some colleagues have already made clear, many concrete infrastructure projects have also been initiated, which also help to transform our economy green and set it up sustainably. But especially if you want a continuation of a reconstructi…

7 May

2025

DE Speech

High levels of retail food prices and their consequences for European consumers (debate)

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Mr President! More than 42 million Europeans can no longer afford a balanced meal. In recent years, more than half of the people in the European Union have experienced their income being eaten up by too high food prices. And if you want food to finally become affordable again, you also have to talk about inflation. He has to talk about the fact that half of the price increases in the food sector a…

6 May

2025

DE Question

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

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Thank you very much, Mr. Colleague. I would not be interested in which financial instruments you reject. I understand that you have a problem with joint borrowing at European level. I would be interested to know how you intend to finance the future priorities of the European Union, such as defence, for example, because I suspect that you also reject own resources. In fact, the only thing left is t…

6 May

2025

DE Speech

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

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Mr President! When the world is in disarray, it is important to stand together and strengthen the European Union – socially, economically and in terms of security. And the multiannual financial framework must be the time when we move from Sunday speeches to political action. To be honest: This has been lacking in recent years. There have always been Sunday speeches on the one hand, but when we loo…

5 May

2025

DE Speech

Ninth report on economic and social cohesion (debate)

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