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May

2022

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The REPowerEU Plan: European solidarity and energy security in face of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, including the recent cuts of gas supply to Poland and Bulgaria (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, dear Kadri! Thank you very much! In March, the Commission considered which autocrats it would beg next to get fossil energy. Now she has turned around and it says: save, switch, search – save energy, switch to renewables and then look where we need to look for more fossils. Savings are the most important: It alleviates our dependence, it relieves our citizens an…

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May

2022

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Building of a wall on the Polish – Belarus border in the Białowieża primeval forest (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, This is not the first time that Białowieża has been a topic here. We know that the Commission is in a position to act decisively, as it has done when illegal deforestation took place in this strictly protected world heritage site. Now it's just a wall. But this wall is 5 meters high and almost 200 kilometers long. For the construction, trees are felled, roads…

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May

2022

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Question Time (Commission) Europe’s Energy Autonomy: The strategic importance of renewables and energy interconnections and efficiency

So as a follow up, if I may. You are totally right. If we want smart, active consumers being part of the electricity market, we, of course, would need a smart meter rollout in order for them to be able to sell their energy. So this is maybe the follow up question because the smart meter rollout was also due to be completed already, but not every single Member State has succeeded in doing so. So my…

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May

2022

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Question Time (Commission) Europe’s Energy Autonomy: The strategic importance of renewables and energy interconnections and efficiency

Madam President, Commissioner, dear Kadri, thank you very much for this opportunity! My questions relate to the objectives of our European energy policy. Not only for fossil fuels, but also for uranium, the EU is highly dependent on imports. But among the eight scenarios that the Commission has modelled, there is not a single one that represents 100% renewable energy, even though such scenarios ha…

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Apr

2022

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Trans-European energy infrastructure (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen! Yesterday, the IPCC presented its new report, and Mr Guterres, but also Inger Andersen, have found very clear words. We need to act now. Not next year, not next month, not tomorrow, but today. But today we are voting on a regulation on trans-European energy infrastructure that has fallen out of time, cementing investments in fossil gas for years, if not decades.…

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Mar

2022

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The Power of the EU – Joint European Action for more affordable, secure and sustainable energy (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner! The answer to the energy crisis cannot be that we subsidize fossil fuels unconditioned. Of course, the Green Deal will make us more independent in the long term. But that doesn't help us now. This does not help our citizens who suffer from the high prices, nor does it help the companies that are threatened in their existence. The Commission has …

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Mar

2022

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A systematic EU approach to chronic kidney disease (debate)

Mr President, I would like to say to Commissioner Kyriakides that she has described the problem very well and has already listed quite a few of the issues that the Commission is doing already, such as focusing on promotion and prevention, screening, diagnosis and knowledge data. Commissioner Kyriakides, I’m glad that you are ready to take up the idea of having digital transplant registries in orde…

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Mar

2022

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General Union Environment Action Programme to 2030 (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, We are voting today on the outcome of the trilogue on the Eighth Environment Action Programme, and for the first time a European legislative text states the need to end fossil fuel subsidies. However, given the current situation in Ukraine, it is more than regrettable that the parliamentary position to end these subsidies by 2025 at the …

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Mar

2022

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Rising energy prices and market manipulation on the gas market (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen! When we put this oral question some time ago, no one could have imagined that today we are not only discussing prices, but whether next winter in the European Union we will still be able to heat our homes and supply our industry with energy. It is now getting revenge that the expansion of renewables has been delayed and the waste of energy …

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Feb

2022

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Strengthening Europe in the fight against cancer(debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! We have heard a lot today about the lack of treatment options and obstacles in the treatment of cancer. Therapies are important, but more important is the prevention, so that it does not come to these diseases in the first place. A few days ago it was in Nature A study has found that the fifth planetary limit, i.e. the exposure to chemicals and …

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Feb

2022

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A European strategy for offshore renewable energy (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen! First of all, I would like to thank the rapporteur Morten Petersen and also all the co-rapporteurs for the good cooperation and cooperative atmosphere on this important issue – offshore renewable energy. When it comes to offshore, most people think of wind farms near the coast, but offshore is much more: There are now floating wind farms, there is the use of …

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Nov

2021

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State of the Energy Union (debate)

Mr President, dear Kadri Simson, ladies and gentlemen! The State of the Energy Union report addresses where our problems lie. We need more renewables and more energy efficiency to end our dependence on fossil fuels and, as we are currently noticing, also the risk of price jumps. I therefore very much welcome the fact that the Commission is planning to use a solar strategy to help the renewable ene…

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Nov

2021

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Outcome of the COP26 in Glasgow (debate)

Mr President, Mr Vice-President Timmermans, ladies and gentlemen! It is interesting how different the results of Glasgow are judged here. From my point of view, it is a great step forward that for the first time the planetary limit of 1.5 degrees of warming is explicitly mentioned in the final report. But we still have no reason to be proud. And the efforts to mitigate the Fit for 55 package show …

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Nov

2021

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A pharmaceutical strategy for Europe (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen. The COVID pandemic has shown that we in the EU need to rethink our healthcare system. No commercial company would have provided the necessary billions for vaccine studies in the summer of 2020. Only the almost unconditional assumption of costs by the EU has been able to speed up the development process. The much-vaunted market would not have done this alone. …

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Oct

2021

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An EU strategy to reduce methane emissions (debate)

Madam President, I really want to thank especially Maria Spyraki for her great leadership on this file and to all colleagues who have contributed so much to making this own-initiative report a really strong call for action. Maria has already pointed out that we need to tackle all sectors. We must not focus only on the energy sector, as the Commission proposed in its methane strategy last year, but…

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Oct

2021

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UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, the UK (COP26) (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen! In a few days, the climate conference in Glasgow will begin, and many scientists say: This is the last chance to take the world on a 1.5-degree path. Because we are currently heading towards a catastrophic 2.7 degrees. Today it was Production gap report published, and it shows: Under current plans, 240% more coal, 57% more oil and 71% more gas would be produced …

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Oct

2021

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Climate, Energy and Environmental State aid guidelines (“CEEAG”) (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen! Today, we are debating directives that are fundamental to the Green Deal. But unlike the many bills that we are currently discussing in Parliament and which are intended to bring us to climate neutrality, these directives are not adopted democratically. Instead, the Commission alone decides which technologies Member States are allowed to support and how. With th…

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Oct

2021

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European solutions to the rise of energy prices for businesses and consumers: the role of energy efficiency and renewable energy and the need to tackle energy poverty (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! I have heard the word ‘historic’ several times today in the context of gas prices. And who takes a look at the Internet: No, it's not historical. We had such high gas prices in 2013. Fortunately, we are already better equipped today, because we have more renewables in the mix, and we have implemented efficiency measures. In other words, this is …

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Oct

2021

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EU Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority: ensuring a coordinated EU approach for future health crises and the role of the European Parliament in this (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! All colleagues across the political groups have complained about the lack of involvement of the European Parliament and the lack of democratic control. This shows: It is essential to improve this legislative proposal. However, it cannot be everything to involve Parliament now. The experience with the contracts with the vaccine manufacturers that…

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Sep

2021

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Natural disasters during the summer 2021 - Impacts of natural disasters in Europe due to climate change (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Hundreds of deaths due to the flood disaster in July, hundreds of thousands of hectares of forest lost due to fires this summer, billions of dollars in infrastructure damage, that is the reality in a 1.1°C world. With the current climate protection plans of the states, we are heading for well over 3°C. The probability of meeting the 1.5°C limit is one percent. T…

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Jul

2021

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General Union Environment Action Programme to 2030 (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, dear Grace! The 8th Environment Action Programme is the instrument by which we monitor the implementation of the Green Deal, and that is why it is so valuable that not only the planetary boundaries are in the text, that not only criteria for nature-based solutions have been included, that not only the One Health approach is addressed, i.e. a holist…

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2021

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European Medicines Agency (continuation of debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! The pandemic has brought suffering and death to Europe, and I hope that next time we will be better prepared. But I also have to say: Shortages in the supply of medicines that we have seen in this pandemic have also existed before, and have been a major problem before. That is why I am glad that we now have a majority in this Parliament in favou…