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Feb

2024

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Empowering farmers and rural communities - a dialogue towards sustainable and fairly rewarded EU agriculture (debate)

It was your party that voted in favour of the CAP and land subsidies, that is to say, in favour of increasing and promoting agro-industrial measures and letting smallholder farmers slip into unfair competition. They criticize environmental measures without presenting any alternative, see SUR, Pesticide reduction. Now to say that reducing pesticides, damaging fertile soils, damaging our health and …

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Nov

2023

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Sustainable use of plant protection products (A9-0339/2023 - Sarah Wiener) (vote)

Madam President, A black day for the environment and for health, for society and for the liberation of farmers from the agro-industry. (Tumults) However, pursuant to Rule 59(4) of Parliament's Rules of Procedure, I would like to request that the report be referred back to the ENVI Committee. (Applause)…

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Nov

2023

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Sustainable use of plant protection products (debate)

Mr President! Yes, this was an exciting discussion, and one wonders as rapporteur whether so many MEPs have actually read the SUR here. Because what you are saying is that there is no flat-rate reduction, neither for individual farmers nor for Member States. There is one exception, that this is reduced, especially for your country, for example. Dear Mr. Liese, you can repeat this ten times with th…

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Nov

2023

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Sustainable use of plant protection products (debate)

Mr Lins, you are talking about protected areas, which should also exist. Could you briefly tell me which protected areas you would like to protect against chemical pesticides? Which ones are they supposed to be? And how do you want to protect them?…

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Nov

2023

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Sustainable use of plant protection products (debate)

Dear Andi Glück, you are talking about total bans. How do you then stand by the immense exception in sensitive areas that all regions with all pesticides are approved in the member countries? Why do we always talk about total bans when they don't exist?…

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Nov

2023

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Sustainable use of plant protection products (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner Stella Kyriakides, ladies and gentlemen! Here we are at last. First of all, I would like to thank all those who have made this debate possible today. Because you know that even this fact that we are voting on an SUR tomorrow is not self-evident. From the outset, there have been very great efforts not to negotiate this SUR at all, very one-sided information – to put it…

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May

2023

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

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to say quite clearly here: Reducing pesticide use, implementing integrated pest management and restoring nature are in the interests of farmers. Why? Quite simply: Restoration of nature, of vital ecological systemic services such as soil quality, pollination, water quality, pest control, etc., contributes to a healthy, productive and r…

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Apr

2023

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Keeping people healthy, water drinkable and soil liveable: getting rid of forever pollutants and strengthening EU chemical legislation now (topical debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen! You've heard it all here today. I too want to blow into that same horn. PFAS are everywhere, they are eternal chemicals, we can't get rid of them anymore. But they are also a man-made product, and they are, for example, in frying pans, as has also been mentioned, in food packaging material, but also on pizza cartons, so that the pizza does not soup through. S…

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Mar

2023

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

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, First of all, of course, I would like to congratulate the initiators for this great citizens' initiative. It is a remarkable achievement that they have achieved, especially in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nevertheless, they were successful and launched this initiative. But I very much regret that it is precisely the people who are responsible for thi…

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Jun

2022

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Question Time (Commission) Reducing the use of pesticides and strengthening consumer protection

Madam President, I have no question, just a remark: As a beekeeper, I will look closely at what you want to do about pollinators. You are not only responsible for our food, but you are also responsible for a hopefully good and toxin-free honey.…

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Jun

2022

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Question Time (Commission) Reducing the use of pesticides and strengthening consumer protection

Dear Madam President, Dear Commissioner, thank you for making yourself available for this exchange. They have full support in the farm-to-fork strategy, because we know it's rushing and it's burning: The cost of inaction increases every year. As far as pesticides are concerned, this is the case: The more pesticides we apply, the more they not only harm soil health, not only our own microbiome, but…

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Oct

2021

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Farm to Fork Strategy (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, It's been a long way to get here, you all know that. First of all, I wanted to thank the consultants – Zoë and Juliette, Vivian and Jana – and Tilly Metz from AGRI and all the other shadow rapporteurs and rapporteurs – so much time has to be taken. As expected, we had a lot of disagreements, had to cross many bridges on both sides to reach this …