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DE Written Statement

Russian aggression against Ukraine (continuation of debate)

I condemn Putin's invasion of Ukraine, but I have great doubts that the instruments chosen in this resolution are the right way forward. If Article 42 of the resolution welcomes measures concerning Russian athletes and cultural workers, then I am sure that the wrong people are being addressed here. Rather, it promotes a division of society once again and does nothing with regard to the military si…

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2026

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The Union’s preparedness for and response to health emergencies: the case of the MV Hondius and the hantavirus warning (debate)

Madam President, it is a tragedy what happened on the MV Hondius. People died, others became seriously ill. Of course, we must act when a health emergency happens, but proportionately with restraint and respect for subsidiarity. But, yet again, you use a rare and highly specific outbreak aboard a confined expedition vessel to implement more permanent crisis structures, more monitoring, more coordi…

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May

2026

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EU governance under pressure – institutional responses to global challenges (debate)

Mr President, history teaches us something important: political systems tend to become more bureaucratic when confidence in their political leadership dwindles. Once democratic trust declines, institutions attempt to compensate through procedures, frameworks and mechanisms. Bureaucracy, however, must not ever replace legitimacy. As Hannah Arendt warned, bureaucracy easily becomes the rule of nobod…

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Apr

2026

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Topical debate requested by a political group (PfE) (Rule 169) - Commission interference in democratic process and elections (topical debate)

Mr President, for months we have warned about the Commission interfering in elections in Member States. We raised concerns about Romania, about pressure on platforms, about expanding reach of the Digital Services Act. And then the American Congress did what this. Parliament refused to do: they investigated and found the Commission did interfere in free speech and in elections. You chose to ignore …

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Apr

2026

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Amendment of the European Electoral Act allowing Members to vote in plenary by proxy voting during pregnancy and after giving birth (A10-0123/2026 - Juan Fernando López Aguilar) (vote)

Madam President, all of us respect and want to protect motherhood, we share the objective of supporting mothers in this House. However, allowing proxy voting for Members who are pregnant or have recently given birth raises a question of democratic principle. The mandate belongs to the elected Member. It is, in our constitutional understanding, strictly personal, non-transferable and non-delegable.…

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Apr

2026

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Order of business

Madam President, On behalf of the ESN Group, I would like to request that the agenda be expanded to include the item ‘Declarations by the Council and the Commission on the limitation of EU legislation’ – Ursula von der Leyen is being asked to do just that today in Berlin by Chancellor Merz and the CDU parliamentary group – and to be able to focus instead on competitiveness. The Commission is led b…

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Mar

2026

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Child sexual abuse online: protect children, not perpetrators (topical debate)

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Mar

2026

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Framework Agreement on relations between the European Parliament and the European Commission (debate)

Madam President, this agreement is supposed to give Parliament better tools to scrutinise the Commission, and this is exactly what should happen in a democracy. But apparently the Commission does not want to be scrutinised. How else would you explain that answers to written questions are regularly given well beyond the deadline, and are always vague while carefully avoiding the actual point? The s…

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Feb

2026

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State violence in Minneapolis and the rule of law in the United States (topical debate)

Madam President, what happened in Minneapolis is first and foremost a legal dispute, a tragic incident, an incident during a law-enforcement operation. Investigations will follow. Evidence will be gathered. In the end, a judge will decide. And this will all happen in an American court, under American law, by American judges, not in this Chamber. And it will certainly not be decided by the hyperven…

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Feb

2026

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Spain’s large-scale regularisation policy and its impact on the Schengen Area and EU migration policy (debate)

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Feb

2026

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Presentation of the action plan against cyberbullying (debate)

Mr President, governments pretend to care about children to propose the most intrusive measures. An example is chat control – it is a ruse. The EU wants to scan private messages sent from your phone; they say it is about illegal material online, but in practice it means scanning everything that people say. Once again: it is a ruse. We are talking about a social media ban for those under 16. A tric…

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Feb

2026

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Order of business

Madam President, I am taking the floor because I was mentioned by name in a Rules of Procedure request. But I will have to say: Mr Sieper, I really do not know what you are actually doing in this House. As you said, you had 250 speeches. All you do is really use this as a platform to promote yourself. And in other news, you can call me whatever name you want. It doesn't faze me in the least. You d…

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Jan

2026

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Tackling AI deepfakes and sexual exploitation on social media by making full use of the EU’s digital rules (debate)

Madam President, AI-generated sexual deepfakes are vile. For the women and children targeted the harm is permanent and real. They violate dignity, privacy and basic decency. And, yes, they must be stopped. Period. But let's be honest about the ritual we are performing here today. A new technology appears. It is abuse. Platforms have a problem. Parliament hyperventilates, especially when it comes w…

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Jan

2026

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Framework for strengthening the availability and security of supply of critical medicinal products as well as the availability of, and accessibility of, medicinal products of common interest (debate)

Madam President, against Covid, Ursula von der Leyen had a master plan. Stay at home, wash your hands and take an experimental mRNA shot. These shots we were supposed to take were ordered centrally, via her now infamous text messages. In ridiculously vast quantities, so vast, in fact, that the Commission built up a massive stockpile, much of which later was discarded. Millions of doses, billions o…

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Dec

2025

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European Democracy Shield – very large online platform algorithms, foreign interference and the spread of disinformation (debate)

Mr President, some colleagues here suffer from a new condition, 'botophobia': the irrational fear of bots. But bots are simply the digital equivalent of a leaflet. During the Cold War, Europe was flooded with political pamphlets from every direction, yet no democratic government claimed that it must regulate these leaflets. This is actually what free speech means. Bots, however, are just a conveni…

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Dec

2025

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European Citizens’ Initiative ‘My voice, my choice: for safe and accessible abortion’ (debate)

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Dec

2025

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Order of business

Madam President, Yesterday, at least 15 people were brutally murdered in an anti-Semitic attack on a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney. An Islamist terrorist attack – we mourn with our relatives. On Friday, the German authorities prevented an Islamist attack on a Christmas market in Bavaria. All this does not come unexpectedly at this time of the year. We're used to it now. Today marks the anniversar…

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Nov

2025

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Communication on the Democracy Shield (debate)

Mr President, the Commission wants to build a Democracy Shield. You say it will protect us from foreign interference, but all of your tools end up pointing inward. EU‑funded trusted media, EU‑sponsored fact checkers and now an EU‑run network of influencers selected, trained and coordinated by Brussels. This is not a shield, this is a 'Ministry of Truth'. Influencers are meant to be authentic voice…

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Oct

2025

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Combating violence against women and girls, including the exploitation of motherhood (debate)

Thank you for the question. I totally agree with you. The left side has taken such a shot at the hatred against white men, and consequently only white men can be the offenders according to their views. The reality, however, is quite different. As I said, the ‘cityscape’ has already been tried. We see it in our cities. Women just aren't safe anymore. And it is not the white men who commit these ass…

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Oct

2025

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Combating violence against women and girls, including the exploitation of motherhood (debate)

Madam President, Violence against women and girls is unfortunately a daily occurrence, and it is a disgrace. That is consensus here. But you look away when the cause of violence doesn't fit into your narrative. The ‘cityscape’ has already been addressed. We have assaults on women – always the same types of perpetrators, always the same culture. But you are blind to this violence. We can also look …

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Oct

2025

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Commission Work Programme 2026 (debate)

Madam President, Ms von der Leyen, it's me again. I'm sorry. But looking at your work programme, I have to say I haven't seen a document this full of ridiculous promises since you, Ms von der Leyen, swore to save all of your emails. But you have the audacity to call it 'Europe's independence moment'. Independence from what? Common sense? Well, congrats, you nailed that one. Common sense would mean…

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Oct

2025

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Declaration of principles for a gender-equal society (debate)

Well, I'm glad you were shocked about what I said today even though there was nothing shocking about it. And please do not talk to me about violence against women in Germany. What we are seeing on an daily basis is two brutal gang rapes every single day in Germany right now. And this is not counting all the other rapes where there's only one perpetrator. So please do not. This is exactly what I'm …

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Oct

2025

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Declaration of principles for a gender-equal society (debate)

First of all, I'm terribly sorry that you thought my speech was not enlightening to you, maybe you should have listened more closely. What I actually propose is let the people just be people. I'm a woman – I don't want to be anything else. When you go this way – what are we doing? It was all about raising women in society, but with your politics, especially with this whole transgender madness that…

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Oct

2025

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Declaration of principles for a gender-equal society (debate)

Mr President! Yes, a small left-wing minority is once again waging a war against reality – with strategies and laws, just as if biological facts were subordinated to left-politically correct nonsense. But the reality remains. There are exactly two genders: Man and woman. And they are biologically different – different strengths, weaknesses, preferences, ambitions. However, the resulting life decis…

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Oct

2025

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Promoting EU digital rules: protecting European sovereignty (debate)

Mr President, five years ago, the Commission promised a Europe fit for the digital age. We were to have world‑class chips, sovereign clouds and 10 000 green data centres humming in harmony. The Chips Act, the Data Act, the AI Act: the Commission seems convinced that if only they regulated innovation hard enough, it would just magically come into existence. Today, the dream of chip sovereignty rema…