What Sylvia spoke about.

13 Jun

2023

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Ensuring food security and the long-term resilience of EU agriculture (debate)

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Madam President, The fact that people are thinking about food security here is not without a terrific irony after doing everything - no, not having done it, because the Green Deal would only be postponed - i.e. after doing everything possible to abolish this food security. At this point, I would particularly like to recall the dear German colleagues from the Christian Democrats, who voted ferventl…

13 Jun

2023

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Batteries and waste batteries (debate)

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Madam President, Crazy resource consumption, geostrategic dependencies or the unresolved disposal of the so-called traction batteries of electric cars are just some of the problems with batteries. Therefore, I would actually be interested in an even stricter battery regulation - but only to establish equal opportunities between combustion engines and the politically hyped e-cars. But especially wi…

10 May

2023

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New Oil Drilling in Alaska – impact on the global climate crisis and the rights of indigenous peoples (debate)

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Madam President, The right of the European Parliament and an unelected European Commission to interfere in the national approval process of the Willow project, an oil well in Alaska, which is also expressly supported by the local authorities, is definitely not clear to me. You should be told: Unlike EU utopians, as gathered here or not, Americans appreciate the benefits of black gold, which has al…

10 May

2023

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Ukrainian cereals on the European market (debate)

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Madam President, With €1 billion from Brussels, a solidarity corridor for cereals and agricultural products from Ukraine is being set up to allegedly secure the world's food supply. 1 billion for transport costs and infrastructure. Stupidly, then, with at least another 151 million euros, Eastern European farmers must be immobilized, who quite rightly see their economic existence threatened by Ukra…

10 May

2023

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The role of farmers as enablers of the green transition and a resilient agricultural sector (continuation of debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner! The ban on the use of plant protection products and the associated justification obligations or such grotesque record-keeping obligations as the cleaning of work equipment, which would have to be notified to Brussels in the future, are an absolute imposition on farmers. But your latest idea that farmers now have to certify a carbon removal from the atmosphere tops every…

20 Apr

2023

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

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen. In particular, should the IPCC not inform about adaptation measures to climate change instead of showing this obsession with this atmospheric CO2? And why does he not point out that more than half of anthropogenic CO2 is bound, i.e. net zero does not mean net zero? And why should a reduction in CO2 emissions be synonymous with the phasing out of fo…

19 Apr

2023

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EU Global Health Strategy (debate)

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Madam President, Honestly, I am already terrified of an EU Commission that presumes to declare a health emergency only within the EU, for example due to – care, I quote literally from a new regulation entering into force – ‘climate-related dangers’. So if I understand correctly: A health emergency due to heavy rain, storm or too much sunshine? You're crazy! But practically. It was already possible…

19 Apr

2023

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Dieselgate: suspected widespread use of defeat devices in cars to reduce effectiveness of pollution control systems (debate)

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(Start of the speech with the microphone switched off) ... by ICCT, the International Council for Clean Transport, on the basis of rather incomprehensible theoretical calculations to the conclusion that allegedly 70 percent of the diesel models Euro 5 and Euro 6 prohibited switch-off technologies could be installed. By the way: The pompous name of this ICCT is probably intended to hide the fact th…

16 Mar

2023

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European Citizens’ Initiative "Save bees and farmers! Towards a bee-friendly agriculture for a healthy environment" (debate)

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Madam President, Let's take a look at who or what the Alliance of the European Citizens’ Initiative ‘Save bees and farmers’ is. More than 140 internationally networked organisations and political lobby groups operate behind this alliance, including many with organic labels – with a hard economic orientation and corresponding interests – or Extinction Rebellion – with a radical left-wing extremist …

16 Feb

2023

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Availability of fertilisers in the EU (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen. After all, it is obvious that the availability of fertilisers is somehow linked to food security, which nevertheless does not prevent the Commission from continuing to say that agriculture is bad for the climate. It is not even unfortunate to use farmers as a new business model instead of food production to apply the CO2 sequestration in a regulation, for whi…

14 Feb

2023

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CO2 emission standards for cars and vans (debate)

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Madam President, Mr Timmermans, ladies and gentlemen. It is very simple: There is no zero-emission locomotion, even the e-car propagandists among us know that. Emissions from electric cars will only be shifted, for example to coal-fired power plants, which will now increasingly have to step in in the future not only in the event of wind and/or dark slump, or which will be released during the produ…

17 Jan

2023

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Surge of respiratory infections and the shortage of medication in Europe (debate)

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Mr President! Well, pandemics are practical when it comes to acquiring skills that you don't actually have. The citizens have just completed an odyssey, also fuelled by Brussels: deprived of their fundamental rights with lockdowns, dust masks, which were still said by the EU health authority ECDC in 2021 to have no added value – they were ordered anyway – and vaccination, which at best, according …

14 Dec

2022

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 15 December 2022 (debate)

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Mr President! This is the result of ideologically blinded energy policy. This is the result of green policies, so to speak, lived Green Deal. Freeze at home, in the office and in public buildings. But the pressure to save energy and the threat of energy rationing are only the immediate consequences of their CO2 tunnel vision, ridiculous, volatile renewable energies and a sanctions policy that harm…

23 Nov

2022

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Protection of livestock farming and large carnivores in Europe (debate)

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Mr President! Let me start with a clarification: Just because the wolf was extinct in Western Europe, it was never an endangered species or even threatened with extinction. The survival of was therefore never dependent on the fact that he was virtually forcibly resettled in densely populated areas by the strictest protection regulations. Today, Brandenburg has the highest wolf density in the world…

23 Nov

2022

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A post-2020 Global biodiversity framework and the UN Convention on Biological Diversity COP15 (debate)

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Mr President! It's amazing: They preach biodiversity, insult farmers for alleged pollution and want to expand protected areas, which are not worth a chanterelle in the end, because they cheerfully propagate a ‘green’ turn with mass expansion of wind energy, also in the protected areas. The Commission has just proposed an emergency regulation which completely suspends the protection of the environm…

9 Nov

2022

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 20-21 October 2022 (debate)

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Mr President! When it comes to the European Council's demands on energy, anyone with common sense can only be surprised. The solutions should be more energy savings and even more non-base load renewable energies. But it is precisely the latter that has brought us dependence on cheap Russian gas. It is therefore the own crazy green ideology plus sanctions policy plus energy scarcity and price incre…

18 Oct

2022

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UN Climate Change Conference 2022 in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt (COP27) (debate)

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Mr President! Today, let me put different terms in relation to each other. The self-proclaimed climate crisis – term number one – is reacted by political decisions with an exit from a functioning, favourable energy system, without having to worry about a reasonable impact assessment for the European economy. An economy which, moreover, not only finances environmental protection – term number two –…

17 Oct

2022

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Sustainable maritime fuels (FuelEU Maritime Initiative) - Deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. In the context of the Green Deal, the Climate Law and the Fit-for-55 package, Brussels now also wants to determine which fuels should be allowed for the free movement of persons in the future. The latest eco-socialist climate egg on the verge of final laying in Brussels is the EU-wide ban on internal combustion engines. It is expected to be delivered by the end …

12 Sep

2022

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Energy efficiency (recast) (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. The observation that physical understanding tends towards zero in this House is not new to me. I would therefore like to limit myself here to what is referred to as energy efficiency, namely increasing the efficiency of energy conversion. And this efficiency cannot be increased arbitrarily, especially not with guidelines set apart from technical progress. If thi…

22 Jun

2022

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Voting time

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Madam President, I would like to continue in German. The vote on the emissions trading system scheduled today will be listed as a first reading in the documents. It was voted on in a first reading in plenary on 8 June, i.e. just two weeks ago, and the system was rejected by a majority. Do we repeat the first readings until the result suits a few people? My German colleagues from the CDU have a lot…

7 Jun

2022

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Binding annual greenhouse gas emission reductions by Member States (Effort Sharing Regulation) - Land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) - CO2 emission standards for cars and vans (joint debate – Fit for 55 (part 2))

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. Undeterred, the fairy tale of the supposedly emission-free electric cars is propagated. And not only according to the will of the Commission, the combustion engine should be history by 2035 at the latest. In the twisted logic of green wealth destroyers, every electric car – fuelled by electricity generated from fossil fuels – is thus a zero-emission vehicle. Not…

7 Jun

2022

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Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System - Social Climate Fund - Carbon border adjustment mechanism - Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System for aviation - Notification under the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) (joint debate – Fit for 55 (part 1))

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Madam President, With the present legislative implementation of the Green Deal, the dangerous utopia of an ecosocialist Brussels state of liability and redistribution continues to take shape. The market is overturned, industry is driven out of the EU – which will not change the barely practicable bureaucratic border adjustment tax – and citizens are expropriated, disempowered and controlled. They …

9 Mar

2022

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Batteries and waste batteries (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen. Apart from the fact that it is completely insane to force the car market by political decree to switch to expensive, by no means CO2-free, resource-consuming electrical and thus battery technology – i.e. apart from the usual nonsense – I agree with the Commission that batteries are a key technology – or have been ordered and therefore need regulation. Not lea…

20 Jan

2022

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Protection of animals during transport - Protection of animals during transport (Recommendation) (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Of course, it is to be welcomed that this report and the recommendations to the Commission have clearly advocated improving the conditions for the transport of animals, specifying rules on animal species, supply, transport temperatures and requirements for transport systems, and have also created basic conditions for monitoring animal transport. It is precise…

24 Nov

2021

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State of the Energy Union (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. Basically, the Energy Union was and is the push from Brussels to finally tear the scepter of independent national action out of the hands of the Member States. The original justifications, namely to strengthen the reduction of the EU's energy dependency and to ensure security of supply, are distorted into their blatant opposite by the current political climate h…