What Claudia spoke about.

19

Jan

2022

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Digital Services Act (continuation of debate)

Mr President! We are writing the year 2000. If you had already installed Office 2000 months after the release, you were almost an early adopter. Google was an impressively successful start-up, Amazon expanded to Europe, and Facebook did not exist yet. Now we have the year 2022. There is no day-to-day life without these three companies. And we are finally working on an update for digital legislatio…

14

Dec

2021

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Digital Markets Act (debate)

Mr President! With the DMA and DSA digital package, the European Union is truly reaching a milestone. The billions in fines against digital companies in recent years have shown that there is a need for action. Now we are creating the tools to guarantee fair competition and thus make Europe the starting point for digital innovation again. How do we do that? For example, through interoperability. Th…

24

Nov

2021

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State of the Energy Union (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner! Time is money! And the time that policymakers have already wasted in expanding renewables over the past few years is now costing Europeans an enormous amount of money. And we are still extremely far away from a truly modern, innovative, decentralized energy supply. Instead, we remain blackmailable from Russian gas supplies, or we make a good face to the evil game with S…

24

Nov

2021

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Outcome of the COP26 in Glasgow (debate)

Mr President, Mr Vice-President! What is the value of climate protection that is still far away from what we actually need? And can we be satisfied with something that falls short of all the necessary goals? I have heard in the reactions, including in the media, that many oscillate between pragmatism, frustration and resignation, at least from those who have definitely recognised the problem. But …

21

Oct

2021

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The outcome of the Western Balkans summit (continuation of debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner! Your attitude towards the Western Balkans reveals the weakness of European politicians and thus also the weakness of the European Union itself. Then they say: We regret the dependence on Chinese infrastructure projects, we are annoyed by the influence of Russian security strategy, and we are concerned about the imminent disintegration of Bosnia and…

20

Oct

2021

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

Mr President, Commissioner! The facts about climate change are clear: We don't have time anymore. That is why it is always disturbing for me to hear that there are also heads of state who believe that we still have time to wait for solutions. The motto is a little: ‘Let's look, let's look further.’ Learned Austrians know this serenity, but it is what will lead us directly to the catastrophe. I'm v…

6

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, ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, Gas is becoming more and more expensive across Europe at the moment, while renewables remain cheap. The European women's mandate to Parliament here is very clear: Let's finally complete the energy transition. Let us finally make Europe independent of these abstruse price fluctuations that fossil energy entails. Renewable energy means abo…

14

Sep

2021

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Presentation of the Fit for 55 package after the publication of the IPCC report (debate)

(Beginning the speech with the micro switched off) ... it is really about the concoction, about the implementation of the climate goals. But with half-baked statements, we will not get there at all, and what has been heard, for example, from the Conservative colleagues were really almost aggressively ignorant, supposed warnings of costs – one colleague even claimed that there would be impoverishme…