What René spoke about.

22 Nov

2022

DE Speech

EU-China relations (debate)

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Madam President, High Representative, ladies and gentlemen! Our strategy vis-à-vis China is a major challenge because it poses the question: What do we want to be ourselves as a European Union at the end of the period of turboglobalisation through pandemic and war? Do we want to be a big market with rich consumers where you can sell your products cheaply? Or do we want to be a self-confident middl…

22 Nov

2022

EN Speech

Question Time (Commission) - Future legislative reform of the Economic Governance Framework in times of social and economic crisis

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To be one step more specific, an idea or an orientation in the paper that I found particularly interesting was introducing the relationship, or emphasizing the relationship, between the macroeconomic imbalance procedure and the fiscal rules. Here I am wondering to what extent expenditure that might be necessary to overcome macroeconomic imbalances has to be part of the expenditure rule or is taken…

22 Nov

2022

EN Speech

Question Time (Commission) - Future legislative reform of the Economic Governance Framework in times of social and economic crisis

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Let me please, first, take this opportunity to congratulate Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni on his birthday, being here with us in the room. Congratulations, happy birthday. Now, to my question, I very much welcome the orientations that were presented by the Commission, coming up with a lot of good proposals, solving rules that are obviously not fit for purpose. And in particular this idea that we ge…

22 Nov

2022

DE Speech

Gender balance among non-executive directors of companies listed on stock exchanges (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! Where the market fails, where companies do not prove that they can regulate themselves, that is, get a grip on themselves, there we have to, the state has to regulate. You, the company, had enough time. That's why today is a good day. 40% of the seats on supervisory boards must be female, one third of all board members. This is a milestone. Youn…

9 Nov

2022

DE Speech

Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner! Markets are not God-given, but they are legal constructs that we, as legislators, can shape, but also reshape. Markets serve not only to maximise profits, but above all the people on them – as entrepreneurs, as workers, as consumers worldwide. Investors play a particularly important role in shaping markets. You have the money that others need. They have a leverage ef…

4 Oct

2022

DE Speech

Radio Equipment Directive: common charger for electronic devices (debate)

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Madam President, Vice-President of the Commission, ladies and gentlemen, dear Alex! German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said the following in his Prague speech: When we talk about the supply of raw materials, we are thinking above all of the countries of origin far away from Europe. Raw materials have long been here in Europe, in cables and plugs, as they are on the table here with colleague Alex. Chanc…

7 Jul

2022

EN Speech

Better regulation: joining forces to make better laws (debate)

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Mr President, Mr Vice-President, dear colleagues, better law-making is a nice idea. We all share this view. That requires courage, deliberations, transparency and accountability. These goals of better law-making are undermined by the involvement of the Regulatory Scrutiny Board. This Board can stop legislative proposals internally up to the need to be overruled by the College of Commissioners. It …

4 Jul

2022

DE Speech

Digital Services Act - Digital Markets Act (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioners, ladies and gentlemen, Digital markets are disrupted. We have companies here who write the rules of the markets they dominate, whose access they control. Their services have become so important to people that they sell their proverbial souls to use these networks, these services. The soul in digital markets is our data. to collect, organize and from this precise profile…

4 May

2022

DE Speech

Competition policy – annual report 2021 (debate)

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Dear Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Competition law is Europe's sharpest weapon for enforcing our rules of the game for markets. Economic power must not be in the hands of less, but markets must be democratized in which everyone can participate. This means more than promoting consumer welfare. Citizens expect markets to respect their privacy, protect their data, combat climate change and ensu…

5 Apr

2022

DE Speech

Outcome of the EU-China Summit (1 April 2022) (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen! A new word has found its way into the political language, a German word that expresses untranslatedly that everything is under political scrutiny: A turning point in time. A turning point is also in the relationship between the EU and China. China continues to avoid the full condemnation of Russian war crimes and relativizes the war of aggression in violation of…