What Niklas spoke about.

24 Apr

2024

DE Speech

Forging a sustainable future together: economic, social and territorial challenges for a competitive, cohesive and inclusive Europe (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, You hear so many rumors in the corridors right now, in this case so many that there might be something to it. One hears, for example, that DG REGIO is to be completely phased in. managed funds are to be the future of regional policy. So it's about the substance of the investments for the regions, the substance of the i…

24 Apr

2024

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The attack on climate and nature: far right and conservative attempts to destroy the Green Deal and prevent investment in our future (topical debate)

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Mr President! A request for rules of procedure: I would like to make a very clear complaint about the fact that, as a parliamentary group, we have proposed and recommended that blue cards and spontaneous interventions be possible in all debates. It was not possible in this debate because the Bureau decided in this way. I find it an outrageous state that really decimates and destroys our culture of…

13 Mar

2024

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Allegations of corruption and misuse of EU funds in Spain during the pandemic (topical debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I have to say, I'm both annoyed and shocked. I am shocked that we have to talk about cases of corruption because it is disgusting that people put money into their own pockets, which should be used to protect people. But I am also a bit annoyed that we are doing some Spanish election campaigns here in the European House. Because these cases have happened across E…

11 Dec

2023

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The European Elections 2024 (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I think we have heard many good words, and the rapporteurs have also put forward a good plan, which, if we were to be quite honest, we would not have needed if the electoral reform act had gone through. But unfortunately, the Council shines once again through absence. Nevertheless, I would like to point out two things in particular to the two rapporteurs: The…

20 Nov

2023

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Framework of measures for strengthening Europe’s net-zero technology products manufacturing ecosystem (Net Zero Industry Act) (debate)

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– Madam President! The rapporteur has already summarised on many points why it is good and right that we should address this net-zero industry regulation here. But I have to sprinkle a bit of salt in the soup, because I think that what we do, in the way we do it, is not appropriate to the challenge we actually face. On the one hand, the Commission has made and presented a very precise and strategi…

18 Oct

2023

EN Speech

A true geopolitical Europe now (topical debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I have heard a lot of debates here now about what to do if we have geopolitical power. But the fact is that we need to discuss how we get geopolitical power. The answer to that is quite simple: unity. We need European unity throughout foreign policy and geopolitical questions. Every single country in this Union will fail, will weaken itself if it stands alone…

14 Sep

2023

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Parliamentarism, European citizenship and democracy (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much, everybody, for participating in this debate. It is a parliament. ‘Parliament’ derives from the word and means talking. I wish that we would also include ‘listening’ to it, because a lot of Members who have spoken are not here anymore to listen, actually, to responses. However, I’ll still try to sum it up a little bit. The liberal democracy – I think this is the p…

14 Sep

2023

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Parliamentarism, European citizenship and democracy (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, dear Alin, my dearest co-rapporteur on this, European society is changing. My grandma was born in a village. She received her education there. She bore her children there. Her whole life was in this village. She almost never left it. She died there in the end. And that’s a few decades ago. My mom was the first one of the family to fly to Paris on a plane that you could …

10 Jul

2023

EN Speech

Industrial Emissions Directive - Industrial Emissions Portal - Deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure - Sustainable maritime fuels (FuelEU Maritime Initiative) - Energy efficiency (recast) (joint debate - Fit for 55 and Industrial Emissions)

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Madam President, it is necessary to ensure that no citizen, whether he lives at the city, village or in a remote territory, is left behind. Alternative fuel systems will only be effective when a specific person can move freely within the whole territory of the European Union and to be sure about to be able to use the alternative fuels infrastructure at any time of the whole trip. This means immedi…

31 May

2023

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Social and economic costs of climate change in light of the floods in Emilia Romagna, Marche and Toscana and the urgent need for European solidarity (debate)

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Well, I believe that the streamlining of the procedure would be helpful, but I don’t think that a simple increase of the funds is enough, because honestly, we don’t know when a catastrophe will come. We don’t know if it is at the beginning or at the end of the MFF. We don’t know in which size it will come for the future. I think what we need is an insurance scheme in which all Member States make s…

31 May

2023

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Social and economic costs of climate change in light of the floods in Emilia Romagna, Marche and Toscana and the urgent need for European solidarity (debate)

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Madam President, First of all, I would like to express my heartfelt condolences to the families and relatives who have lost people and relatives who have lost their livelihood. This catastrophe sadly reminds us once again that we are in the midst of a climate catastrophe. And I think we must finally learn from it. We must draw conclusions from this that are more than simply a denial that the clima…

20 Apr

2023

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Cohesion dimension of EU state aid and de minimis rules (debate)

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Madam President, dear colleagues, I don’t need to repeat what you said. I think the goal is clear. We want cohesion throughout Europe and that is of utmost importance. But the question I have is whether this is the right tool, if state aid really is the right tool to achieve it. Because the problem that we have throughout Europe is we have very rich Member States and we have very poor Member State…

20 Apr

2023

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

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Madam President, well first of all, it’s a pity that the Council is not here, because the Member States are the ones that have agreed to the Paris Agreement and that are legally bound to take action. Nonetheless, we need to focus on what we as the EU can do. And sorry for you being the only Commissioner here, but the Commission is not doing enough. Why do we not use the power of the EU for the com…

18 Apr

2023

DE Speech

Question Time (Commission) - Legacy of the European Year of Youth

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Mr President! You know, when Cristiano Ronaldo scores a goal, he makes his famous goal cheer: ‘SIUUU!’ If I look at this, the European Year of Youth, then I get a maximum of a small ‘siu’. Because at the end of the day, we've missed too much, so much isn't on it. I always find it a pity that you have to say: I cannot say anything about this because the competent Commissioner is not there. We have …

15 Mar

2023

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More Europe, more jobs: we are building the competitive economy of tomorrow for the benefit of all (topical debate)

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Mr President! First of all, I would like to agree with Mr Karas's words. We must not be able to lose the connection to future technologies in the end, but must really move Europe forward. Above all, however, this also applies to cutting-edge technology, and we need to invest in research and investment here. But what I've noticed in all these debates: When we talk about jobs, it's all about the wor…

13 Feb

2023

EN Speech

Union Secure Connectivity Programme 2023-2027 (debate)

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Madam President, IRIS will give Europe a seat at the table on the new space age. We saw this constellation as an opportunity to prepare the European space industry for its new challenges. And IRIS will not only provide a secure internet connection, but will also establish a competitive space industry, ensuring Europe’s independent access to space. The significance of this can be seen every day in …

18 Jan

2023

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Implementation of the common security and defence policy - annual report 2022 (A9-0296/2022 - Tom Vandenkendelaere) (vote)

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Madam President, you had made the decision to take the oral amendment to a vote. The opposition has been expressed after the decision of the President has been made. Therefore, I request that the decision stands as it has been proposed to Parliament and, therefore, we vote on the amendment as proposed by the colleague.…

17 Jan

2023

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Consumer protection in online video games: a European Single Market approach (debate)

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Mr President, we already had a report about video games from the CULT Committee, which focused on the benefits, on the creativity, on the jobs that we have, on the big support that we want to send the sector. This report focused very much on the importance of the protection of consumers, and that is very, very important. On the one hand, it’s about online communities, to fight against sexism, raci…

24 Nov

2022

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The European Year of Youth 2022 Legacy (debate)

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Dear Mr Gallée! Compared to the hoopoe, there is already a difference: The hoopoe is protected in the special year. That's why I'd be interested in: We currently have the situation that a lot of young people have mental problems, that a lot of young people are struggling with fears of the future – climate change, a war. What measures of the Commission would you consider important in order to reall…

9 Nov

2022

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Esports and video games (debate)

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Mr President, for far too long politicians from past generations have seen video games as an irrelevant field, as a weird hobby for freaks, nerds and geeks that needs little to no attention or support from politics. Well, scrap all of this. This time is over. The gaming industry is already bigger than Hollywood, with a revenue of over EUR 23 billion each year. Half of all Europeans consider themse…

6 Oct

2022

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An EU approach for Space Traffic management - an EU contribution addressing a global challenge (debate)

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Mr President, I want to use the time because there’s another imminent problem that we need to talk about when we’re talking about space debris, and that is, of course, anti—satellite missile testing. We know that last year the Russians tested missiles in order to destroy their own satellites. We know that the Chinese and the Americans have done the same. And we know that this is very dangerous for…

6 Oct

2022

EN Speech

An EU approach for Space Traffic management - an EU contribution addressing a global challenge (debate)

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Mr President, while space might seem infinite, the usable space in Earth’s proximity is not. In the past decades, we only had a few satellites in orbit, but now we add several hundred new satellites every year. This extensive use of outer space means more possibilities to benefit all humans on Earth. But it also means that this increase of objects – be it functional satellites or useless trash – i…

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, the first victim in war is the truth – you all know the saying. But I would say that if you want to start a war, you first have to kill the truth. Putin has been doing this for decades now – and also in Europe, like supporting La Lega, Rassemblement National, FPÖ and the AfD. By the way, those colleagues all fled this debate like the Russians flee from the Ukrainian forces. But also,…

4 Oct

2022

EN Speech

Question Time (Commission) Tackling depopulation through cohesion policy instrument

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Mr President, I wish to thank the Commissioner, and thank you all, for this very interesting debate. I really liked the point on change of perspective – how can we bring people back to these areas? I think a lot of young families actually want to go back because I’ve talked to a lot of them and they say ‘I would like to come back, but I don’t have what I need. I don’t have a kindergarten for my ch…

3 Oct

2022

EN Speech

Flexible Assistance to Territories (FAST-CARE) (short presentation)

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Madam President, just before the summer break, the Commission proposed to us yet another emergency measure to tackle the consequences of the terrible war in Ukraine. It is, though, the fifth time within two years to finance an emergency tool out of the funds of EU regional development. During the pandemic, we agreed upon more support for regions, citizens and the economies, as well as healthcare i…