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2026

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Reviewing the ETS system to support European competitiveness (topical debate)

Madam President, what is even happening here? Every day since the start of the war in Iran, Europe has been paying an extra half a billion euros for fossil fuels. Every day. For nothing. That's EUR 3.5 billion this week alone to the fossil fuel industry. For nothing. They're robbing us. Without the emissions trading scheme, we would have been in a much worse situation. Reports show that without the ETS, we would be rationing fuels to European citizens by now. We would be much more dependent on the fossil industry, which is now robbing us. ETS is not the cause of the high energy prices; it is the way out of them. What we need to do is not more of this nonsense – criticising the ETS – we need a plan to phase out fossil fuels. We need to stop subsidising them. Stop supporting the industry that is now holding a gun to our head, robbing us. We need to stop calling for the suspension of the ETS. It applies in this House, but also to the various nervous governments around Europe right now. To Austria, to Italy, to Germany. Enough is enough. Stop questioning the best climate tool, the best anti‑fossil tool that we have. I have had enough of it. You want to stop this? I say, I want to stop you. Stop questioning the way out of this dangerous addiction. Stop holding the fossil industries back, because they are robbing the citizens of Europe right now.

19

May

2026

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Presentation of the Fertilisers Action Plan (debate)

Fertiliser prices went up because the Hormuz Strait was closed, and we are dependent on oil and gas and this Hormuz Strait to produce the fertilisers. That is why the prices went up. The ETS price went down during this time. This is why we have this crisis. Why don't you want to take us out of these dangerous dependencies? I don't understand that.

19

May

2026

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Presentation of the Fertilisers Action Plan (debate)

So here we go again. I still don't understand. We have fertilisers that are dependent on oil and gas. Oil and gas prices go up. Fertiliser prices go up. And what do you want to do? Continue using fertilisers from oil and gas! How will that solve Europe's fertiliser problem? How will that make fertiliser cheaper for our farmers? We need green policies. We need the Green Deal to transition to the sustainable, cheap fertilisers. But you are rejecting all of the alternatives. How will that lower the costs for fertilisers?

19

May

2026

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Presentation of the Fertilisers Action Plan (debate)

Madam President, thank you very much. Sun, earth and water. Yes, many people think that's all it takes to produce food and food. But nutrition is needed in the form of fertilizer, and it's getting really expensive now. Our farmers deserve better than their lives, livelihoods and future being decided by dictatorships or populists. We are still too dependent on imported fossil-based fertiliser. Russia remains one of the largest suppliers of ammonia and potassium. We can no longer accept that our food production is this vulnerable to Russia or the whims of all other countries. It's not just a farming issue. It is a matter of strategic resilience and food security. So where is Europe's production? We've been talking about this issue for so long now. Every day without sufficient production in Europe is a failure. To reduce dependence on fossil and imported fertilizer, it's not just a choice between environment and competitiveness, it's the solution to both of those problems. And that is what Europe's farmers both deserve and need.

18

May

2026

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The multiannual plan for the Baltic Sea and ways forward (debate)

But isn't the bigger picture more important here – that we send a signal to the Commission that the Baltic Sea is in desperate need of action? This report is the first time ever the Parliament is taking such a stance. Isn't it more important that we send this strong signal together, united, even though we disagree on the content? Yes or no? Will you vote in favour of this report? The Baltic Sea needs you!

18

May

2026

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The multiannual plan for the Baltic Sea and ways forward (debate)

The aim of this report is to send a strong signal to the Commission that we need to review the Baltic Sea map. Because it is obviously not working for the Baltic Sea. The Left Group, in the Fisheries Committee, did not support this report in the fall, because of the seals and cormorants that you mention. I agree that you do not have to like everything that is in the report. Everything is not for everyone. But do you agree on the strong message of reviewing the Baltic Sea map? My question is pretty simple actually. Will you support the signal of reviewing the Baltic Sea map, even though you do not support everything that is in the report?

18

May

2026

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The multiannual plan for the Baltic Sea and ways forward (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. Hey, now it's a month left until midsummer and who wants to celebrate Swedish summer without herring? I don't think anyone. But the situation in the Baltic Sea is still acute. Eutrophication, overfishing and a collapsing fish stock. It's clear. The current Baltic Sea Management Plan is not working and the Baltic Sea is an EU issue. It is only here that we can do something together about the situation. Only together can we save the Baltic Sea. But saving the Baltic Sea is no longer about politics. It's about common sense. And now it's happening. The European Parliament is finally taking a stand. And it's no coincidence. It's hard work. You, the Swedish people, voted for results. I was on the Committee on Fisheries myself during the last term of office. Now we have been five Swedes who have worked together, and we have worked hard to ensure that your voices are heard in this Parliament. We worked together across political parties. Because when it comes to the Baltic Sea and our shared sea, it doesn't matter if you're sitting on the right or on the left. We need to listen to the research and we need to work together. Our results are now on the table. We vote in the European Parliament and then it will be time for the European Commission to listen and act. You can no longer sit on your hands when it comes to the Baltic Sea and the future of the Baltic Sea. Now you have a political result to act on. Use it. Act. Make sure we really do the work that needs to be done. In a month it will be midsummer and I am not only looking forward to herring and nubbe, I am also looking forward to results for the Baltic Sea.

25

Mar

2026

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Energy security, independence and supply in the geopolitical context - ensuring market stability and affordable energy for industry and citizens (debate)

Mr President, it is not a political message.

25

Mar

2026

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Energy security, independence and supply in the geopolitical context - ensuring market stability and affordable energy for industry and citizens (debate)

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25

Mar

2026

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Energy security, independence and supply in the geopolitical context - ensuring market stability and affordable energy for industry and citizens (debate)

Mr President, right now, we are living some really hard‑earned lessons. For decades, we built our economy based on fossil fuels when we should have known better. We should have known better when Russia invaded Crimea and cut the gas flows. We should have known better, changed our tax system and phased out oil instead of hoping for Iran to keep the Hormuz Strait open. We should have known better than to let the US threaten us to comply in order for them not to cut our gas supply. We were wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. We were wrong on getting dependent on Russia, wrong on getting dependent on the Middle East and wrong on getting dependent on the US. So, my question is to the governments across Europe: how dare you challenge the EU climate policies when that is the only way, the only path to get rid out of these harmful dependencies? When will Europe learn?

10

Mar

2026

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Cutting red tape to enable a competitive and clean transition – the urgent need to shorten and simplify permitting (debate)

Mr President, I agree with President Macron. The energy transition is too slow, the pathway towards new mines is too slow, reducing dependency on fossil fuels is too slow, building Europe's competitiveness is too slow. And one of the reasons is because of the lack of predictability that we are creating in this House. The political uncertainty is actually influencing our businesses. But second of all, it is also because of costly, long and complicated overdue permitting processes. Waiting several years for a 'no' is not a reality that we should accept. Not when we know that investments are needed to create change and growth that we very much need in Europe right now. So to all of you speaking and listening here today, as rapporteur for the Commission proposal on speeding up environmental assessments, this is my invitation to you: assessments that take too long, we can solve that. Regulatory overlaps, we can solve it. Our own unclear rules, we can solve that too. Now we have the chance to do something about it, we should take it. I am ready to do the job, the question is: are you?

10

Mar

2026

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Presentation of the Energy Package (debate)

Mr President, colleagues, we are facing a very serious situation. The war in Iran is sending shockwaves into our energy system, causing prices to soar, and we need to be prepared. The petroleum populism isn't working. Our best way to prepare is finally phasing out fossil fuels for real. But we are not delivering. Renewable energy is taxed the same way as fossil energy in this Union. Biofuels have the same tax as diesel, and biogas is treated the same way as natural gas. This is not a bug – it's a feature in the system that we built. I am ashamed that the Energy Tax Directive is designed to lock us into our fossil fuel dependencies – totally irresponsible and the opposite of what we need to do right now. So thank you, Commission, for raising this issue, but it is now up to the Member States to finally do something about the energy tax issues. The farmers in the EU want to do more. The Swedish farmers are ready to make a difference. But for doing that, they need a real market for biofuels. And we need to stop protecting the interests of the fossil fuel industry once and for all.

10

Mar

2026

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Presentation of the Energy Package (debate)

But what your side of the House, this part of the House, needs to understand is it's the dependency on coal, oil and gas that led us here. That's why we are in the situation where we are today. That's why the prices are skyrocketing. Coal will not be a nice teddy bear you can go to whenever you have a problem. It is the actual problem. Coal, oil and gas are the main cause of the energy price problem that we are facing today.

10

Mar

2026

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Presentation of the Energy Package (debate)

So do I understand you correctly that we are in a situation where the oil and gas prices are skyrocketing because of the war in Iran, the situation in the Middle East, and what you want to do is take all of the climate policies that are to take us out of these dependencies on fossil fuel, remove them, and then continue using oil, gas and coal? How will that lower energy prices for European consumers? It's the dependency on oil, gas and coal that makes energy prices skyrocket at the moment. I don't understand the logic here.

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Feb

2026

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Cooperation among enforcement authorities regarding unfair trading practices in the agri-food supply chain (debate)

12

Feb

2026

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Recommendation to the Council on EU priorities for the 70th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (debate)

Mr President, colleagues, as we are having this debate now, there is a banner outside of this room sponsored by a Member of this House from the ECR that is really attacking women's rights to their own body. I demand ...

10

Feb

2026

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European response to the attacks on the Ukrainian energy system causing a humanitarian crisis (debate)

Mr President, a few days ago, the Olympic fire was lit in Milan. The same night, Russia fired 447 missiles and drones towards energy facilities in Ukraine. The halls in Italy where curling, hockey and figure skating will take place are about -1 to -5°C. The temperature in Ukraine has dropped to under -21°C in the past days. When you are watching the Olympic Games in your nice, warm living room, 1 400 apartments in Kyiv are still without heating. When the opening ceremony of the Olympics echoes messages about peace, it is evident that Vladimir Putin is not listening. Energy can be weaponised, energy is being weaponised. My message is: don't let Putin use energy as a weapon in this war against Ukraine. To all of the EU members: make the Ukraine Energy Support Fund work. Contribute now to help Ukraine. And to all of the power plant workers across Ukraine: you are also heroes, you are all heroes in this war.

27

Nov

2025

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Outcome of the UN Climate Change Conference - Belém (COP30) (debate)

Interesting thing about the Sweden Democrats. You seem almost proud that you want to dismantle Sweden's climate policy and that we miss all emissions targets. You do not want to reduce Sweden's emissions. You are voting against the EU's climate targets and all climate legislation presented in Fit for 55, and you do not want us to go to the COP and negotiate at global level. So explain to me, Beatrice, how you and the Sweden Democrats are different from all the other climate deniers that we have heard here in the house today, and how you want to reduce emissions, because I really have not understood that.

27

Nov

2025

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Outcome of the UN Climate Change Conference - Belém (COP30) (debate)

Mr President, the EU is not fighting fossil fuels themselves, but the emissions they produce. That was what Ursula von der Leyen said last week. I am sorry, honourable President, but I do not agree. We are fighting fossil fuels. They are the reason for global warming and the climate crisis that we are in, and it is outrageous to state otherwise. More than 80 % of the world energy and 68 % of the energy in the European Union is still fossil. Last week in Belém was a disappointment, but we, team EU, have homework to be doing and a reason to be self-critical. We needed a good deal. 10 years after the Paris Agreement and what did we get instead? I am sorry Commissioner, but I think the support for the fossil fuel roadmap was too weak and we were disorganised in the European Union at the table of the COP. Why else would EU countries sign different proposals at different times? In the first call to end the era of fossil fuels, Italy and Poland were missing. In the second call in the coalition of the willing, we are missing 18 countries. Where are Sweden? Where are Germany? There are so many Member States missing. We are completely disorganised. If the Council had not focused only on our own 2040 target, maybe we could have prepared better for the most important climate conference since 2015. So, I am disappointed, but I am most disappointed with our climate ministers and with the Commission President. Why would Ursula von der Leyen make such a statement, undermining the negotiations on the spot in Belém at the G20? That is, for me, completely not understandable. We elected von der Leyen with a promise to deliver on climate. I am still waiting for that promise to be delivered, and the next meeting in Colombia in April would be a good opportunity for our Commission President to do so.

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Nov

2025

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Fishing opportunities 2026: ensuring the sustainability of fish populations, marine ecosystems and coastal communities

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Oct

2025

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UN Climate Change Conference 2025 in Belém, Brazil (COP30) (debate)

Madam President, where is the climate leadership? I am genuinely worried that the Paris Agreement would not be possible today – the climate leadership has disappeared. Our next climate conference is approaching, but the EU is still empty handed. Where is our climate target? Where is our contribution to the global COP agenda? And at the same time, country after country failed to reach their climate goals, and they're all pretending that it's not a big deal. But the targets of Sweden, of Denmark, of France, Romania, Bulgaria and Germany, they sum up to the EU target and the EU target is aligned according to the Paris Agreement. So when your country fails on your national targets, you are failing on the EU target and you are betraying the Paris Agreement. I am going to Brazil with a clear message to Ulf Kristersson and the other heads of state and government who avoid responsibility: it's time to wake up. It is time to show leadership and show that you are supporting the Paris Agreement. And to you, Hoekstra, good luck in Belém. And it does not make sense that the global stocktake only takes place every fifth year. This House demands more frequent follow-up. Good luck with that.

21

Oct

2025

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Standing Forest and Forestry Expert Group (A10-0175/2025 - Emma Wiesner, Pekka Toveri) (vote)

Mr President, thank you very much. Forests offer recreation. They store carbon, protect biodiversity and enable rural communities to live and develop. National experts are those who know forests best and must be at the heart of EU policies affecting forests. Because the conditions vary from Lapland to the Alps, between Finland and Spain, it is precisely this local expertise that is crucial. For decades, the Standing Forestry Committee has served as an important link between Member States and the European Commission. And as we modernise it, we must ensure that this cooperation, and the spirit of cooperation, lives on. I therefore hope that you will support this proposal and vote to maintain and preserve this important cooperation that puts local expertise and national experts at the heart of EU work and EU forest policy.

21

Oct

2025

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Monitoring framework for resilient European forests (A10-0176/2025 - Emma Wiesner, Eric Sargiacomo) (vote)

Mr President, today our national forest monitoring systems speak different languages. With this law, we have an opportunity to build a system that would be able to translate those languages into a common European one, a language that could help us understand why forest fires grow more common, why bark beetle attacks become more severe, to help and assist our forest owners. The Commission proposal was not perfect, but this was a perfect opportunity to guarantee the involvement of the Member States, to put the Member State authorities in the centre, and to ensure true subsidiarity in the field of forests – values that many of you in this side of the House (speaker gestures to the right of the House) say that you cherish. I will warn you, because if this law is rejected, information will still be used, but without the right safeguards, without any way for the Member States to ensure that the data is used correctly. Don't distrust information, colleagues, don't make this vote a lost opportunity to strengthen the Member States' role in forest-related policies.

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Oct

2025

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Europe’s automotive future – reversing the ban on the sale of combustion cars in the EU (topical debate)

Mr President, I've got a message for you, the climate deniers and the climate delayers of this House – you who love to blame electric vehicles for everything. You blame them for higher energy prices and lack of competitiveness. Well, guess what? You are the ones to blame for the higher energy prices and the lack of competitiveness. You are so stubborn, but the logic isn't there. First, you say it isn't true. Then science comes and proves you wrong. Then you say if we can't fix it, there's no technical solution. Then industry comes and gives you the technology and shows that it's possible. Then you say it costs too much, it will be too expensive. Then businesses come and show you the business case. They show you that it's done and it's possible, and it is feasible. Then you say it's too risky. But you know what? You are the ones hesitating. You are the ones creating this risk for industry when you're drawing back on policy after policy. Your dependence on dirty energy, your refusal to let go of all the fossil energy – that's what's driving up prices and that's what's causing us lack of competitiveness.

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Oct

2025

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Common agricultural policy (joint debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. Today I want to talk directly to you, all Swedish farmers. It's a long way from your yards here to Brussels and Strasbourg. But the fact is, I hear you all the way here. Tomorrow we will vote on two simplification packages that are designed just for you, to make life easier at home on the farms. But we in the policy also do not make it easy for you, because even before these packages come into force, the European Commission has presented a completely new agricultural policy for 2027. That's the point now. For in this agricultural policy, the one that will become the new EU agricultural policy and CAP, there are keys to increase profitability, prevent natural disasters, solve labour shortages and perhaps still worry about who is going to take over the farm when you at home are going to retire in a well-deserved retirement. We in the Centre Party are prepared to roll up our sleeves and do the work. Today we are voting in favour of simplifying the rules. Tomorrow we will deal with the next generation of agricultural policy.