What Sebastian spoke about.

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FI Written Statement

Crackdown on peaceful pro-European demonstrators in Georgia (debate)

The EU has failed in a sad way with regard to Georgia. Now the people are on the streets because of election irregularities. The EU was unfaithful to its own principles and, in its mere greed for enlargement, did not act sufficiently, did not sting hard, and allowed situations to escalate to this point. Instead of addressing the erosion of democracy in a timely manner, the EU has behaved gently wi…

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EN Written Statement

Outcome of COP 29 and challenges for international climate policy (debate)

USD 300 billion each year by 2035. That’s how much money will be ripped off from European and other developed countries as a result of the climate conference. For what? For funding climate work in Africa, for instance. Europe accounts for only eight per cent of global emissions. However, we are told to pay up, while China and India only keep polluting more and more. Once again, we have been fooled…

8 Oct

2026

FI Speech

EU strategies for islands, coastal communities and outermost regions (debate)

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Mr President, the area along Finland's eastern border is one of the most important regions of Europe as a whole. Dense forest, call, desolate villages. For the city bubble in Brussels, this may look bleak, but it isn't. That area ensures that the rest can live in those city bubbles. It is the longest border of an EU country with Russia. This long border region will not remain viable by any means o…

7 Oct

2026

EN Speech

The cases of Ali Karimli, Anar Mammadli and other political prisoners in Azerbaijan

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Mr President, there are over 300 political prisoners in Azerbaijan, some sentenced to 13 years in prison. Hate to say it, but it is the EU's business partner that imprisons opposition figures and journalists. What message is the EU putting out by not acting? Does it mean that violations can be bought at a certain price? Can values be ignored when the benefits are big enough? The EU has been giving…

7 Oct

2026

EN Speech

Attempts by the ruling party Georgian Dream to ban opposition parties in Georgia

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Mr President, Europe is on its way to having a new dictatorship. The Georgian regime is tightening the screws even further on the nation. Foreign-funded organisations, activists and independent groups: for a leadership seeking a dictatorship, these have posed a threat, but what is even more frightening for a party reaching for a dictatorship is opposition. Now, the ruling party is aiming to ban op…

7 Oct

2026

EN Speech

Human rights situation in Iran, notably the cases of Taraneh Rahimi and Leila Abolhasani

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Mr President, European selective moral disgusts me. A 20‑year‑old girl, Taraneh, was sentenced to death in Iran for 'waging war against Allah'. She simply opposed the Islamic regime. What is Europe doing? Our highest officials are having dialogues with the killers. The Islamic regime is constantly killing people – many just like Taraneh. But you on the left, tell me: where are your boat stunts tow…

7 Oct

2026

FI Speech

Implementation of the Nature Restoration Regulation (debate)

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Mr President, the EU Restoration Regulation is one of the most terrible mistakes of EU policy this century. The large-scale forest protection scenario would saw more than 20,000 jobs in Finland. If 20,000 Finns leave work, a long queue of family members and mothers will leave the unemployment card system. The left, the so-called workers' defender, rejoiced at the passage of such a killer. At the s…

7 Oct

2026

FI Speech

Ensuring promotion of clean energy in European policies (debate)

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Mr President, high energy prices are penalising citizens. One of the great lashers for citizens in recent years has been the green-left and their energy policies. Would it finally be time for you to admit the impossibility of wind and solar power acting as our stable energy base? There is a true energy stone legacy, but that is what you have wanted for ages and times to crumble and even concretely…

7 Oct

2026

FI Speech

The upcoming EU anti-corruption strategy (debate)

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Mr President, the EU is sowing taxpayers' money in corrupt countries for billions of dollars. The 2024 statistics have confirmed and reveal that the EU and its Member States mobilised almost EUR 90 billion in development aid in one year. Just a few hours ago, this hall discussed the cost-of-living crisis in Europeans. When you look at this shoveling of money around the world, the cost-of-living cr…

7 Oct

2026

FI Speech

Empowering Europeans to address the cost-of-living crisis (debate)

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Mr President, the Finnish Automobile Association is telling us what the EU's problem is. Direct quote: "EU regulation first raises the cost of fossil energy and mobility, then builds a new support scheme to mitigate regulatory harm." It's exactly this headless how the Autoliitto describes it. But what does the EU do? It also tightens the scope of emissions trading to transport from the beginning o…

7 Oct

2026

FI Speech

An ambitious multiannual financial framework 2028-2034 for a strong and resilient Europe (debate)

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So, Mr Colleague, one third of climate finance, this figure comes from the Commission's proposal, and you have certainly read it. Prioritisation can be done, but it is a matter of value choices. For example, we in the Conservatives think that it is now more important to focus on security and defence than to direct such a huge part of this 2,000 billion bill to climate finance.…

7 Oct

2026

FI Question

An ambitious multiannual financial framework 2028-2034 for a strong and resilient Europe (debate)

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Right-wing parties, such as the EPP, have traditionally advocated strict financial discipline and resisted loose spending. Now I understand that you are defending this growth of money in the EU. Isn't it the case that one third of the budget that goes to climate finance is far too much? Could we not make prioritisation from there and finance the important projects that we have, for example, in the…

6 Oct

2026

EN Speech

The state of play of advancing EU-Africa trade and investment relations (debate)

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Madam President, the traditional era of Euro‑African relations is dead. Africa does not want our pity. Our decades‑long charity has not been working either. What Africa wants is technology, access to markets and hard infrastructure. What Europe should want is to be integrated into one of the fastest‑growing markets on earth. Africa will not grow, and Europe will not become integrated into African …

6 Oct

2026

FI Question

The 2026 undemocratic elections to the Russian State Duma and its implications on civil society (debate)

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You mentioned that there have been no elections in Ukraine and you see this as a problem. I just met a delegation of Ukrainian MPs. There were also opposition representatives there, and their common message was that they did not want elections during the state of war. They did criticise Zelenskyy's policy as opposition politicians, but their unified message was that there would be no elections in …

6 Oct

2026

FI Speech

Affordable Housing Act (debate)

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Mr President, Suomen Maaninka is not the same as Marbella in Spain. Despite this, there is a fierce push at EU level to tackle housing shortages in some countries with EU-level action and funding. In Finland, many parishes have been a loss-of-migration municipality for decades. Correspondingly, large cities have pulled the population like a magnet and house prices have risen. This direction has be…

5 Oct

2026

EN Speech

Escalating student riots in France: arson attacks on schools, assaults against firefighters, police officers and teachers, including in La Ciotat, and the role of far-left parties in inciting violence (debate)

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Mr President, France has been burning in these so-called student protests. But let me go back in time. The story began with the left chanting for mass migration to enter our continent. Everyone who opposed this was accused of racism, Islamophobia or whatever. The left got what they wished for: Europe kept its doors open. Now, when we look at France, second and third generation migrants are rioting…

5 Oct

2026

FI Speech

Protecting patients from illegal and falsified medicines sold online: strengthening enforcement and cross-border cooperation (debate)

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5 Oct

2026

FI Speech

Psychosocial risks, stress and mental health at work (debate)

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17 Sep

2026

FI Speech

Strengthening global health resilience in partner countries (debate)

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Mr President, the EU cannot be a free health centre for the whole world. But what are you demanding again? In the name of the European Parliament, we now want to outline the need for political and economic commitments from the EU to protect global health as a universal right and a global public good. I don't know what utopia you live in, but in the real world we don't have the money for this at al…

17 Sep

2026

FI Speech

An EU health workforce crisis plan: sustainability of healthcare systems and employment and working conditions in the healthcare sector (debate)

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Mr President, when we blindly seek solutions to the shortage of caregivers, the result is this: Other nurses work alongside nursing as language trainers. Customer entries have been created with a translation application, wrong medicines are given to the wrong person, dangerous situations and patient injuries occur. These are all real-life examples of Finland and what a lack of language skills caus…

16 Sep

2026

EN Speech

Urgent need for EU support to Ukraine against Russia’s escalation of its war of aggression (debate)

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Madam President, Vladimir Putin's imperial ambitions are a bottomless pit. If his aggressions are tolerated, it is only a matter of time before Moscow chooses its next victim, then another – until the dream of a rebuilt Russian Empire is realised. Finland escaped this Russian jail over 100 years ago. Even the current generations have inherited the memories of what a misery it was to live under Rus…

16 Sep

2026

FI Speech

The impact of the implementation of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) on SMEs, its administrative burden and challenges for the European Single Market (debate)

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Mr President, the new EU regulation on packaging aims to reduce the amount of packaging waste, but at the same time it has slashed small businesses. No decision, no tail, that is the logic of the new EU environmental regulation. If Ville's clothing store wants to sell its caps to each of the 27 member countries, Ville's clothing store may have to register, report its packaging, pay producer respon…

16 Sep

2026

EN Speech

State of the Union (debate)

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Madam President, Ursula von der Leyen has put this continent in danger. Ms von der Leyen, your Green Deal is wrecking food security, businesses beg for relief, yet the regulatory monster you built keeps growing, even as you now try to scrap your own rules. You lost the race in AI and space. You close working power plants. You will kill combustion car factories in 2035. You celebrate 'achievements'…

15 Sep

2026

EN Speech

Escalation in the Middle East (debate)

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Mr President, 47 years of conflict and terror in the Middle East, planned by the Islamic Republic. From funding terrorism to slaughtering Iranians. But once the US and Israel started bombing this source of terror, the EU panicked. You immediately started talking about the urgent need for a way out of the conflict. Hasn't there been an urgent need for that for 47 years already? The strikes against …

15 Sep

2026

EN Speech

The recent hybrid attacks and instrumentalisation of migrants in Ceuta and the need for a coordinated response to protect EU’s external borders (debate)

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Mr President, when Muslims invaded Christian countries in the seventh century, they killed, raped and enslaved. That is how these countries became Islamic. The modern version of invasion is taking place in Europe right now. The latest example, the Islamic conquest of Ceuta, was only the tip of the iceberg. The Commissioner said that Spain had done a good job, and the EU had passed the test. Excuse…