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22 Apr

2024

NL Speech

One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Mr President, Commissioner, highly pathogenic avian influenza has been detected in cattle in the United States. It is worrying that the virus now also appears to spread in cattle and even from cow to cow. More and more mammal species are becoming infected. Humans, too, are ultimately mammals. The WHO therefore warns that this pandemic can also spread to humans in animals. I call on the Commission …

10 Apr

2024

EN Speech

Union code relating to medicinal products for human use - Union procedures for the authorisation and supervision of medicinal products for human use and rules governing the European Medicines Agency (joint debate - Pharmaceutical package)

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Madam President, in this new pharmaceutical legislation, steps forward are being taken to reduce AMR (antimicrobial resistance). AMR is a suicide killer that can cause the next pandemic. Resistant pathogens threaten us not only directly, but also indirectly. Ordinary surgeries, like knee or heart operations, will no longer be possible if there are no antibiotics to cure simple infections that can …

14 Mar

2024

NL Speech

Promised revision of the EU animal welfare legislation and the animal welfare-related European citizens’ initiatives (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, as the first Dutch veterinarian in the European Parliament, I think it is a very special privilege to draw attention to an animal welfare issue that has particularly affected me in my second speech here. 23 years ago, on 20 March 2001, foot-and-mouth disease broke out in the Netherlands. Vaccination has been banned in the European Union since 1991, resulting in the larg…