What Pernille spoke about.

16

Jan

2023

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Shipments of waste (debate)

Mr. President! Thank you very much. Ladies and gentlemen, you are here, and you are here, dear Commission. What do you really want? In future, will the circular economy be the formula for all waste treatment in the EU? That we use international trade as a lever for environmentally sound waste treatment worldwide? That the paper jungle is replaced by digitalisation that frees up resources for more …

23

Nov

2022

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A truly interconnected Energy Single Market to keep bills down and companies competitive (topical debate)

Madam President! We have invented so many deep plates in the EU. There are also many new energy technologies that are better for the climate and the environment. We just don't have enough of them. For many reasons. Too many reasons. Because we are messing around with one-off projects that are unrelated to the rest of the energy sector. Both in the Member States, but also across them. We are messin…

21

Nov

2022

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Prevention, management and better care of diabetes in the EU on the occasion of World Diabetes Day (debate)

Madam President! A resolution on diabetes? Yeah, why not. After all, it has been ten years since the last one and the challenges have not diminished, nor has the scale diminished. Today, 33 million people in the EU have diabetes, and by 2030, 38 million will have it. Most of them are related to lifestyle: How much we eat, what we eat, sleep, move, and so on. Everything we try to prevent or ban - d…

18

Oct

2022

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

Mr. President! There are so many things to say over and over and over again. But we must never stop, we must deliver, including a strong decision as a reminder of all that we are going to achieve in Egypt next month. And this year we are actually very well prepared, because we have made a more concrete and actionable decision than ever before. And it is important at a time when more and more citiz…

3

Oct

2022

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Momentum for the Ocean: strengthening Ocean Governance and Biodiversity (debate)

Madam President! Ocean Governance - i.e. the area of policies and activities relating to the sea and coastal areas and the abundance of marine resources - is now receiving a report from the European Parliament. It does so, among other things, because for too many years we have not prioritised marine biodiversity and opportunities high enough. We must not continue to do so, because in the long term…

15

Sep

2022

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Implementation of the Updated New Industrial Strategy for Europe: aligning spending to policy (debate)

Madam President! Since this year's State of the Union speech does not mention industrial policy in a single word, we must, of course, do so, and that is why it is good that we now have a broad and solid blanket of recommendations on how the EU develops and maintains our economic muscle. The muscle that must enable us to do all the good and indispensable for each other and the next generation such …

13

Sep

2022

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The new European Bauhaus (debate)

Mr President! Ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner Gabriel. "We shape our buildings and then they shape us," Winston Churchill said. But as the daughter of a carpenter and a nurse, I also grew up precisely in the logic that people and bricks influence each other. In fact, I have also been an expert on how architecture affects people who are hospitalised or people with dementia living in a nursing ho…

12

Sep

2022

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Energy efficiency (recast) (debate)

Mr. President! Energy efficiency has long been known as the most cost-effective way to reduce CO2 so that we reach the climate target on time. Now it has also been recognised that energy efficiency is indeed a powerful weapon to defeat the EU's energy dependence on Russia and other hostile suppliers. And every week, families and large and small businesses across the EU feel that energy can – and m…

5

Jul

2022

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Objection pursuant to Rule 111(3): Amending the Taxonomy Climate Delegated Act and the Taxonomy Disclosures Delegated Act (debate)

Mr President! So, if we are now pouring natural gas and nuclear energy out of the EU's taxonomy for sustainable investment, what does that really mean? That we, like those who adopted the world’s most ambitious climate law on behalf of voters only two years ago, are now pushing the goal of climate neutrality far into the future – far beyond the promised 2050! Then we are also the ones who, despite…

5

Jul

2022

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Question Time (Commission) Increasing EU ambitions on biodiversity ahead of COP 15

I have the supplementary question and the invitation to the Commissioner that I think you should deal with the fact that the markets are asking for a new chapter to be created in the taxonomy for 'enabling technologies'. It's missing! We don't have that yet. I also think that you should listen to the fact that many stakeholders are asking for fast-track approval procedures in the Commission in rel…

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Jul

2022

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Question Time (Commission) Increasing EU ambitions on biodiversity ahead of COP 15

Thank you for being here, Commissioner Sinkevičius. Now the COP is very much about agreeing on high ambitions, but it is also about reaching out to each other with tools and with initiatives. And I would like to hear - because we haven't talked about that much in this debate: What will the European Commission send signals to researchers, to entrepreneurs and to investors about what kind of communi…

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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))

Mr President! This is not the easiest task, but it is also the EU's biggest and most important task to date. What we vote on must work so that we comply with our part of the Paris Agreement and live up to our own climate law, without destroying our cohesion or our economy. It's time to show the rest of the world how 27 independent countries can help each other with what no country on this planet c…

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May

2022

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Reaching women's economic independence through entrepreneurship and self-employment (short presentation)

Mr President! It has been many years since it was the men who earned the money and the women who spent it. Fortunately, this division of labour belongs to another time, and today each of us can, will and must relate to how the economy is connected. For the EU, the conscious use of society's economic muscle is crucial in order for us to be able to afford, into an increasingly uncertain future, ever…

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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! A lot of decisions need to be made in the European Union in order for us to be able to get out of the energy crunch that Putin has put on us. Today's debate makes no difference if we don't act on it – and we act on what we know works. We've known for a long time: The less energy we use, the better for our wallet, for the environment, for the climate, for health, for productivity. …

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Mar

2022

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The need for an ambitious EU Strategy for sustainable textiles (debate)

Madam President! Ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner. Right now, I am preparing the European Parliament's proposal for an absolutely necessary revision of the Waste Transport Regulation. It must have a circular economy in its DNA, and digitisation must replace the old-fashioned paper milling, which hinders a harmonised and sustainable internal market for the transport of waste. Also textile waste -…

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Mar

2022

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Batteries and waste batteries (debate)

Madam President! Used batteries have long been problematic for our environment. Therefore, this is not the first time that batteries are on the agenda here in the European Parliament. This time, however, it is different, because since the last time we have really understood what circular economy can do and how central batteries are in the green transition. We must therefore create ecosystems for b…

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Feb

2022

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A European strategy for offshore renewable energy (debate)

Madam President! More than 40 years ago, I rode my bike around Jutland. It was in the summer when we children did not make sand castles on the beach and got black feet from the oil cakes that washed in from the sea. Like two little ducklings, my sister and I biked behind our parents on the road. Bicycles weren't invented yet. At one point, my father pointed, and my mother began to sling on her bik…

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Jan

2022

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

Madam President! Let me start by underlining that the recommendations we are debating today are full of constructive proposals on how we in the EU are doing more for animal welfare and thereby inspiring the rest of the world to do the same. This is important because animal welfare is far too bad in many places and something needs to be done about it. But like everything else in this world, animal …

22

Nov

2021

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A pharmaceutical strategy for Europe (debate)

Madam President! The pharmaceutical strategy is a report. It is not legislation – yet – on medicines for the needs of Europeans and on how to ensure that the pharmaceutical industry chooses the EU as the home for its activities. Therefore, this is an important report that says a lot about what we want the pharmaceutical industry to keep doing – and more. It is also the easy part of political craft…

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Oct

2021

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

Mr President! The Glasgow Climate Summit will hopefully result in far more and far better international agreements than the Madrid Summit in 2019. After all, the coronavirus gave us an extra year of preparation – a year that hopefully has not been wasted. COP 26 is about how to reach the Paris Agreement. In particular, it is about getting joint agreements in place and into the calendar. And then C…

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Oct

2021

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Farm to Fork Strategy (debate)

Madam President! I've said it before from this place. We are getting fewer and fewer, we are getting older and older – and we are getting fatter and fatter in the EU. Almost 60% of EU citizens over the age of 18 either have precursors to obesity or are already obese. Therefore, it is good that the EU Farm to Fork Strategy – or Farm2Fork – has as a key objective to reduce overweight by 30%. Overwei…

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Oct

2021

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European Union Agency for Asylum (continuation of debate)

Mr President! Should the EU have an asylum agency instead of the current and so-called asylum support office? Many - who naturally worry about the increased influx of illegal migrants and many of the problems that unfortunately exist in too many Member States due to the failure of integration of asylum seekers and the return of those who do not have a need for protection or have come through the r…

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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! Energy prices are rising. Gas and oil are getting more expensive week by week. The fact that the EU must be geared up to achieve an Energy Union, which must be self-sufficient in green and clean energy, is underlined with alarming brutality. Concerns are rising with potentially hundreds of thousands of families and businesses, and here the European Parliament must focus on solutio…

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Oct

2021

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The Arctic: opportunities, concerns and security challenges (debate)

–Mrs President! Thank you for the last word, which should be that many of my colleagues have already said it very clearly, so I would just like to say it very briefly: The EU must be more active and visible in the Arctic. Everything else is thus reckless dealing with Europe's security, well-being, peace and freedom. It can, and must, be done in many different ways. Several have already been mentio…

5

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! A defense is no stronger than the weakest link. This rule is both banal and vital. COVID-19 taught us this in a brutal way, and it is the EU's most important task to take all the experience we have gained and do something about it. We have done very well because we have the instruments in the Member States and in the cooperation between the EU institutions and in a strong life sci…