What Jutta spoke about.

7 Jul

2026

DE Speech

Presentation of the Action Plan on Cybersecurity and AI (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! A quiz question: How many resources does one minute of AI-generated video take? 200 kilowatt hours. This is the power consumption of an average family over two days. Seven litres of water, clean drinking water that is no longer available to our citizens and our agriculture. The tech companies are not only extremely hungry for data, but also extreme…

17 Jun

2026

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Electrification Action Plan (debate)

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Actually, the nuclear phaseout in Germany was, in 2011, carried by a super-large majority, including all democratic groups in the German Bundestag. And as we know, nuclear power plants have large difficulties delivering flexible energy. But flexibility is what you need when you have a system that is based on renewable energy. So the much better option would be to have batteries for the short term …

17 Jun

2026

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Electrification Action Plan (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! Finally arrives Electrification Action Plan – an elegant way out of the crippling unanimity on tax issues that has cemented us in an antiquated tax logic; Finally, a plan that takes note of physical reality: the laws of thermodynamics, according to which combustion processes are unfortunately always inefficient – greetings to Mr. Kanev – and the…

16 Jun

2026

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An EU future for the Western Balkans (joint debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! We Greens have always advocated the accession of new countries to the EU. However, this support is conditional and the Copenhagen criteria are non-negotiable for us. It is all the more disturbing that the Commission looks the other way when environmental law and the rule of law are called into question. Today, I would like to pay tribute to the …

21 May

2026

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Need for an adaptation of the EU legal framework on sustainable biofuels (debate)

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Mr President! Commissioner! Dear colleagues, I have bad news for you: The land mass on this planet is limited. And the land that we humans have already repurposed for our purposes is breaking the ecological boundaries that ensure our survival. This is not an individual opinion of mine, it is based on satellite images and scientific findings. But it is also clear: We need to get out of fossil fuels…

20 May

2026

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Reviewing the ETS system to support European competitiveness (topical debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen. It's almost a bit funny. For decades we have heard from the Conservatives: "There is no need for regulatory action at all, we have a market-based instrument and that will do everything for the best." And now that free allocations can expire and the price can regulate, there are, of course, calls for softening. I've been listening to the debate for …

25 Mar

2026

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Implementation of the Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive (UWWTD) and risks to the security of supply of medicines (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! Families, pensioners, small businesses: they struggle every day with rising prices at the petrol station, in the supermarket – soon perhaps even with higher VAT; if the CDU goes ahead, in the future also on the water bill. Instead of taking the polluter-pays principle seriously and adequately implementing the Urban Waste Water Directiv…

10 Mar

2026

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Presentation of the Energy Package (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! It is clear: Our electricity supply needs to become cheaper, safer, more independent and meet our climate goals. But 15 years after Fukushima, Ms. von der Leyen comes around the corner with mini-‑ nuclear power plants that don't contribute to any of these four goals. Firstly, costs: The few projects that have been built or planned worldwide so far …

10 Mar

2026

EN Question

Presentation of the Energy Package (debate)

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Ms Vivaldini, you just said that nuclear is so disadvantaged in Europe. And my question is very simple: why and how?

21 Jan

2026

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Preparations for the EU-India summit (debate)

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Madam President, dear colleagues, dear Commissioner, there is an interesting Chinese curse which says, 'may you live in interesting times', and we are living in interesting times indeed. On the geopolitical scale, things are happening that I wouldn't have imagined even two years ago – well, let's say three years ago – whoever has read Project 2025 knew what would be coming. Therefore, I think it i…

16 Dec

2025

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Grids package and tackling raising energy prices through robust infrastructure (debate)

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Mr President, Mr Commissioner, thank you for this very valid proposal. And I was very content to hear that nearly all the colleagues – let's say the pro‑democratic, pro‑European colleagues – are content with this proposal and are seeing the need to strengthen our grids, and, of course, get faster in implementing our common electricity union. And why is this so important? We have seen in recent yea…

22 Oct

2025

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Ending all energy imports from Russia to the EU and closing loopholes through third countries (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! This House finally wants to end Europe’s dependence on Russian gas and oil – definitively, uncompromisingly, without loopholes. For far too long, the European Union has been blackmailed by Putin's henchmen Orbán and Fico. They have blocked sanctions and helped fill Putin's war chest. Ukrainian blood sticks to Russian oil and gas. This must end! And…

20 Oct

2025

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Chemicals (joint debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! There is a lot of simplification at the moment, i.e. simplification – the speech. Unfortunately, deregulation is often the case. deregulation – I mean. Fortunately, this legislative package is different. So far, important data that are highly relevant for our health, for the health of our citizens, but also for our soils, for our waters, for our ai…

7 Oct

2025

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Common agricultural policy (joint debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! Our farmers are at the forefront of the fight against extreme weather, against price pressure from corporations, against barren soils and against a system in which they often barely make ends meet. And now comes Donald Trump with his tariffs. What our farmers rightly expect are solutions and not right-wing diversionary and cultural struggle debates…

8 Jul

2025

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Presentation of the Chemicals Package (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! Apparently, no one from the commission was once with a toddler on the beach and bought the child an ice cream. Inevitably, the child will spill. And just as inevitably, it will lick the sticky from the skin. So, where's the problem? The Commission considers that carcinogenic substances should only be banned in cosmetics if they are…

18 Jun

2025

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Electricity grids: the backbone of the EU energy system (debate)

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Mr Buchheit, have you read the report that came out today about the cause of the blackout in Spain, namely that, unfortunately, the conventional power plants have not fulfilled their task, but have gone off the grid in view of the overvoltage, instead of keeping the voltage as it would have been required?…

18 Jun

2025

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Electricity grids: the backbone of the EU energy system (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! First of all, thank you to Anna and the colleagues who wrote this good report; I hope it is read and implemented. Ladies and gentlemen, this week we celebrated 40 years of the Schengen Agreement, but Europe's electricity grids are still often subject to: Please wait at the border. The transmission capacities required by EU law have been laid down b…

6 May

2025

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The European Water Resilience Strategy (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, dear Thomas, ladies and gentlemen! This is the European drought map. This is what our soils look like at the beginning of May. Everything that is red here is affected by drought. The soil has already dried up in many regions. And it has already been said: Without water there is no life, no agriculture, no economy. What should our farmers reap? How can the industry co…

2 Apr

2025

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Outcome of the recent COP16 biodiversity negotiations in Rome (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! The negotiations on COP 16 in Rome have shown that: Progress is possible. From 2030 onwards, 200 billion dollars are to be invested annually in the protection of species. Of course, this is an important signal, but otherwise the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal commitments stalls dramatically – also here in the EU. 30% of the land and sea und…

12 Mar

2025

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Accelerating the phase-out of Russian gas and other Russian energy commodities in the EU (debate)

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I just wanted to know if you're on the payroll Putin, because so far it has been China that has supported you.

12 Mar

2025

EN Speech

Accelerating the phase-out of Russian gas and other Russian energy commodities in the EU (debate)

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Mr President, honourable Commissioner, dear colleagues, it has been three years now since REPowerEU was launched and the promise to end fossil fuel imports is still not fulfilled. Twice has the Commission announced a roadmap, and yet we still wait for a concrete proposal. Yes, a lot has been achieved. Gas imports have decreased by two thirds, being replaced mostly by renewables and efficiency, whi…

23 Jan

2025

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Combating Desertification: 16th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP16) of the United Nations Convention (debate)

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Thank you very much, Madam, for the question. It is a mystery to me where your accusations and information come from, because we are certainly the party that advocates peasant, small-scale, family-centered agriculture that advocates sustainable agriculture that is in line with what science recommends. All you have to do is look at the reports of our own agency – the European Environment Agency is …

23 Jan

2025

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Combating Desertification: 16th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP16) of the United Nations Convention (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! When I was a child, the desert was the Sahara or the Gobi. Far, impressive places, described in the novels of Karl May or the descriptions of Sven Hedin. And today, just a few decades later, we see desertification in Spain, in Portugal, in Italy, in Greece, in Hungary, in Bulgaria. Anyone who is surprised has ignored science or believed the whisper…

22 Jan

2025

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Failure of the negotiations in Busan for a UN plastic treaty and the urgent need to tackle plastic pollution at international and Union level (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! Plastic is persecuting us all over the world. A chip bag is emptied in a few minutes – sometimes in a few hours – but it remains in the environment for hundreds of years. And while on holiday by the sea, we encounter the plastic bags of the local discounters, and the stomachs of the colorful fish are full of microplastics. The World Plastics Con…

20 Jan

2025

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Powering Europe’s future - advancing the fusion industry for energy independence and innovation (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! Good news: We have a perfect fusion reactor. It has been operating absolutely reliably for billions of years and is located at a safe distance of 150 million kilometres – our sun. Don't get me wrong. I'm a scientist. I find nuclear fusion absolutely fascinating, and of course we should continue to do research. But we should also be honest. Earth…