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15 Jan

2024

DE Speech

Revision of the European Labour Authority mandate (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Cross-border work is all too often abused for wage dumping. And there are also very often – Commissioner, you know that – unsustainable working conditions here. The tip of the iceberg was probably the truck drivers from Gräfenhausen. But we also saw it in the pandemic among the asparagus workers in Germany. Where law is abused and not respected, there must be…

15 Jan

2024

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The need for an EU and international response to the Houthi attacks in the Red Sea and for continued support to the Yemeni peace process (debate)

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Madam President, Yes, of course, the attacks of the Houthi militias on merchant ships in the Red Sea must be criticized. But anyone who sharply criticizes this and at the same time remains silent about Israel's crimes in Gaza is playing a hypocritical game and is not contributing to a sustainable solution in the region. And the US even blocked the demand for a ceasefire in Gaza in the UN Security …

13 Dec

2023

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EU strategy to assist young people facing the housing and cost of living crisis (topical debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. Christmas is just around the corner – a great time for many to look forward to. But we can't imagine how many families with children and adolescents this time is a challenge. Rising cost of living, rising food prices, horrendously high rents that eat up much of the income: This means uncertainty for many citizens in the European Union. Whether young or old, peop…

12 Dec

2023

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Need to release all hostages, to achieve a humanitarian ceasefire and prospect of the two-state solution (debate)

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Thank you, Mrs Beer, for your comments. But I have a question because you say it is not yet the time for a permanent ceasefire. I would like to ask you seriously: How many more people need to be killed in Gaza? How many children still have to cry for their parents or carry dead themselves through the area, so that the federal government in the Federal Republic of Germany finally says it needs a pe…

12 Dec

2023

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Parliament’s call for the right to disconnect - three years on (debate)

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Mr President! The right to switch off and thus be able to switch off is not an exotic issue, but a bitterly serious one. More than 300 million people worldwide suffer from depression, mental disorders related to work, every year. The reason: Stress, work consolidation and the absence of the so-called work-life balance. According to a survey, about a third of employees started working from home in …

18 Oct

2023

DE Question

The despicable terrorist attacks by Hamas against Israel, Israel’s right to defend itself in line with humanitarian and international law and the humanitarian situation in Gaza (debate)

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I have heard several times now from colleagues in your group that the Left would somehow trivialize, trivialize, relativize Hamas terrorism, Islamic reactionism or the like. That's what you said. Are you aware that the left in the Muslim countries is the force that fights against the reactionism of the Islamists as well? Do you realize, dear Mr Bellamy, that it is not the left that are the brother…

4 Oct

2023

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Need for a speedy adoption of the asylum and migration package (debate)

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Mr President! For an hour now, I've been hearing from over there that migrants are criminals. I would like to say very clearly here: I myself came to Germany at the age of five as the daughter of a political refugee family from Turkey. Me and people like me are not criminals, but how criminal fascists are and were, we know that not least from history, we know that not least from the houses that bu…

12 Sep

2023

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Ukrainian grain exports after Russia’s exit from the Black Sea Grain Initiative (debate)

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Madam President, I am a little surprised at the debate. It is about the grain agreement with Russia, so that the world population can be supplied with food. And I don't understand what you're discussing here. Last week, Mr Guterres made another push to reach a grain agreement with Russia again and is doing something to help Russia because it is about preventing people from starving around the worl…

12 Jul

2023

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 29-30 June 2023, in particular the recent developments in the war against Ukraine and in Russia (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. Whether EU summit or NATO summit, the motto seems to be: ‘Weapons, weapons, weapons. Long live the war!’ The latest escalation is: Cluster munitions from the USA, long-range missiles from France, other tanks from Germany. Let the war take its course. The message to Ukraine is: “Fight, boys, keep fighting! You are also fighting for our freedom." And if necessary,…

11 Jul

2023

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Relations with the Palestinian Authority (debate)

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Madam President, There is a connection between the planned judicial reform of the ultra-right government in Israel and the latest developments in Palestine. It is no coincidence that the same government that is trying to undermine the justice system is particularly aggressive towards Palestinians. Because an essential goal of this reform is also to circumvent and overcome the legal hurdles in sett…

14 Jun

2023

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 29-30 June 2023, in particular in the light of recent steps towards concluding the Migration Pact (debate)

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Mr President! The solution found by interior ministers to the EU's common asylum system is not a solution, and it is at its core exacerbating misery. The falsehood that already exists is perpetuated, and this system has nothing to do with solidarity. Colleagues, more and more people around the world have to flee and leave their homes. You have to do it because of armed conflicts, which also involv…

13 Jun

2023

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Humanitarian and environmental consequences of the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam - Sustainable reconstruction and integration of Ukraine into the Euro-Atlantic community (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. Do you actually notice that? They are currently discussing the reconstruction of Ukraine, euro-transatlantic integration, while a war is raging in Ukraine and is taking on ever more brutal proportions during this war. And you're discussing this without taking a single initiative to end the war. They do this, for example, by putting aside all the peace initiative…

31 May

2023

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Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (debate)

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Mr President! In 2012, 259 people died in a Pakistani textile factory. They died in a fire. They produced for the German textile discounter KiK. The relatives, who later sued KiK, were dismissed on their charges. The case was time-barred, he said. What a mockery, isn't it? And Kik is not the only example. In the Global South, Latin America, Africa and Asia, multinationals, Western corporations, in…

8 May

2023

DE Answer

Establishing the Act in support of ammunition production (debate)

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The Common Position of the European Union in Articles 3 and 4 explicitly states that the Common Position does not allow the supply of arms which prolong the war or which are provided for in war and crisis areas. The cynical thing is that this common position has always been betrayed, and now it is being made open. Mr. Borrell even stood up and said: The taboo has also fallen. Work is being done he…

8 May

2023

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Establishing the Act in support of ammunition production (debate)

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Mr President! When it comes to the military union, there are no limits to the Commission's creativity. Thus, the Defence Fund for the transport and procurement of military and war equipment is declared as an industrial policy and the fund from which arms deliveries to Ukraine are mobilized is called the Peace Facility. All this despite the fact that the EU Treaty, Article 41(2), prohibits military…

18 Apr

2023

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EU Rapid Deployment Capacity, EU Battlegroups and Article 44 TEU: the way forward (debate)

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Madam President, Today we are discussing the Parliament report on the EU Rapid Reaction Force, i.e. a small EU special army with at least 5000 men. Their deployment is planned in conjunction with Article 44 of the EU Treaty, i.e. a coalition of the willing for deployments. This EU army should have proactive intelligence and surveillance services, transport and air transport capabilities, space com…

18 Apr

2023

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Safeguarding labour mobility and social rights of striking lorry drivers from third countries (debate)

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Madam President, Mrs Rafalska, I have to say, but I have wondered what the Polish government is doing to ensure that such entrepreneurs can no longer act as freight forwarders. And this is a serious question. A battalion drives an armored car to a rest stop with the aim of threatening truck drivers. And the police in Germany must intervene. What sounds like a bad crime story actually happened in G…

18 Apr

2023

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The need for a coherent strategy for EU-China Relations (debate)

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Mr President! More than ever, citizens in the EU expect de-escalation instead of more wars. But in the so-called Indo-Pacific region, a geopolitical storm is brewing. The danger of escalation to an armed conflict between the US and China is growing. The US sees itself threatened by China in its hegemony, in its claims for it in the world. The Asian market is becoming increasingly important. China …

29 Mar

2023

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 23-24 March 2023 (debate)

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Madam President, There is a causal link between poverty and wealth. There is also a link between the war, price increases and rising poverty in the European Union. For a year now, I have only heard reports from the Council and the Commission about how many weapons we have now sent to Ukraine, how many sanctions have been adopted and how many billions have been put into prolonging the war – nothing…

15 Mar

2023

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Strengthening the EU Defence in the context of the war in Ukraine: speeding up production and deliveries to Ukraine of weapons and ammunitions (debate)

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Madam President, Mr Bütikofer just said he had to call me the fifth column of Russia, Putin, because I stand up for peace and against militarism. I would like to point out to you, Mr Bütikofer, that I am one of those politicians in this Parliament who have never spoken out against any regime. Of course, I criticize the Putin regime for the attack on Ukraine. But I do not want you here as Parliamen…

15 Mar

2023

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Strengthening the EU Defence in the context of the war in Ukraine: speeding up production and deliveries to Ukraine of weapons and ammunitions (debate)

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Madam President, 384 days and not a single EU diplomatic action to end the war in Ukraine. Instead, the EU has massively used the uncertainty in the population here to transform the so-called diplomacy power EU into a military union, to put aside the social hurdles against militarism and previous taboos against arms deliveries to war zones. For many, war means death, suffering, devastation, for a …

14 Mar

2023

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Adequate minimum income ensuring active inclusion (debate)

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Mr President! People who only eat dry pasta at the end of the month, children who go to school hungry, pensioners looking for deposit bottles in trash cans, workers who can no longer make ends meet despite work – these are no longer individual fates. Even before the price explosions, one in five EU residents was at risk of poverty. How many are there now, Commissioner? How many people are given th…

15 Feb

2023

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One year of Russia’s invasion and war of aggression against Ukraine (debate)

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Mr President! The war in Ukraine has been raging for a year, that is, people in Ukraine have been dying for a year. A year of war also means a year of brutal power struggle between NATO and Russia on the backs of the people of Ukraine and the peoples of the world. Yesterday, Mr. Stoltenberg stated that this war was foreseeable since 2014. Then you have to ask: Why was he not prevented by all means…

13 Feb

2023

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EU response to the humanitarian situation following the earthquake in Türkiye and Syria (debate)

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... from Turkey and Syria. My thoughts are with the people in Turkey, with my friends. Cities are destroyed, including the city where I was born. My phone is buzzing all the time: News of people in Turkey who are desperate and do not know where to go. The village I was in in October last year is 80% destroyed, and at the same time yesterday I saw a video on Instagram showing AFAD, the state rescue…

2 Feb

2023

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Preparation of the EU-Ukraine Summit (debate)

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Madam President, The EU could turn the EU-Ukraine summit into a peace summit. But instead, you are screaming again in this house, as if 1914 were. They say Ukraine should win this war on the battlefield. I'll tell you what the Chief of Staff of the United States, Mark Milley, said. He has said it is unlikely that Ukraine will be able to win this war militarily. I ask you: Would you like to go to w…