What Sebastian spoke about.

11 Feb

2026

EN Speech

Systemic oppression, inhumane conditions and arbitrary detentions by the regime in Iran

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Mr President, I had the honour of meeting personally with the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola. The timing could not be more urgent. Today marks the 47th anniversary of the revolution of the IRGC terrorists. For 47 long years, the Islamist regime has ruled Iran through fear, torture and arbitrary detentions. My message to President Metsola was clear: this House must hear the v…

11 Feb

2026

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Post-election situation in Uganda and threats against opposition leader Bobi Wine

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Mr President, Uganda's President, who has been in power for more than 40 years, has placed the only credible opposition candidate under house arrest. 40 years in power, and challengers are put under house arrest – this is not democracy, it is criminal. Now listen to what the EU's official policy is at the same time regarding its support for Uganda: 'The EU cooperates with Uganda to promote the cou…

11 Feb

2026

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Accession of Montenegro to the Convention of 2 July 2019 on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters - Accession of the Republic of Albania to the Convention of 2 July 2019 on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters (joint debate)

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Mr President, look at Albania. Migrant waves are hitting the shores of Europe. Countries like Albania are the ones that are taking the first hits. The Western Balkan route has been a growing pathway for illegal migration and human trafficking. Albanians understand that we need strong cooperation to tackle issues that are cross-border in nature. The country signed earlier an agreement with Italy th…

11 Feb

2026

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Addressing subcontracting chains and the role of intermediaries in order to protect workers’ rights (debate)

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Mr President, what are we doing to ensure that labour immigration does not lead to exploitation of migrants? Believe it or not, there is no need for EU-wide strategies. There is no need for complicated new legislation, no need to increase the power of trade unions. We need higher income limits for labour migration. If a person is willing to come here from thousands of miles away for inhumanely dis…

11 Feb

2026

FI Speech

Developing a new EU anti-poverty strategy (debate)

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Mr President, this paper on the EU's anti-poverty strategy is a prime example of how detached the European left is from reality. It contains numerous references to declarations, indicators and holistic approaches. Poverty is defined as structural injustice. Well, these are the structures you, the good leftists, have been building in Europe for decades, and yet your solution always seems to be the …

11 Feb

2026

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International Day of Education, fighting inequalities in access to education (debate)

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Madam President, it is very difficult for me to celebrate the International Day of Education. The women and girls in Islamic countries, such as in Iran, face tremendous suppression. They might never see a system called education. The Islamic regime of Iran allows girls as young as nine to be married. Can you imagine? A nine-year-old should be in school not getting forcefully married. But this is t…

10 Feb

2026

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Violence in the Great Lakes Region, particularly in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (debate)

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Madam President, the EU has been supporting both Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo with hundreds of millions. We've entered into so-called partnership with Rwanda to help them advance the green transition, amongst other things. But how can they turn green when their hands are dripping in blood? Rwandan-backed M23 fighters have killed civilians. They have targeted human rights defenders a…

10 Feb

2026

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Spain’s large-scale regularisation policy and its impact on the Schengen Area and EU migration policy (debate)

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Madam President, the decision of Spain's socialist government to legalise more than half a million illegal migrants is an act of self-deception without parallel. A Spanish left-wing MEP even celebrated this as an opportunity to replace native right wingers and so-called racists with migrants. The message was clear to millions of Spaniards and, at the same time, to hundreds of millions of Europeans…

10 Feb

2026

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Urgent need to address the humanitarian catastrophe in Sudan and to achieve a sustainable peace (debate)

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Mr President, for those of you who constantly search for racism where it is not, hear this out: in Sudan, ethnically motivated violence against non‑Arab people is happening on a scale that is hard to comprehend. Survivors speak about seeing piles of dead bodies in what they describe as an apocalyptic scene like the Day of Judgement, they said. We are not talking about mean comments online, which i…

10 Feb

2026

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Situation in Northeast Syria, the violence against civilians and the need to maintain a sustainable ceasefire (debate)

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Mr President, religious cleansing is under way in north‑east Syria. After Bashar al-Assad's fall, we were promised a new Syria. However, the extrajudicial executions, destruction of property and deliberate attacks carried out by extremist Islamist groups in the Syrian transitional government speak a climate of open religious hostility. This is unacceptable. The Kurdish people have been among our m…

10 Feb

2026

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

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Mr President, the word of Russia is worth less than the toilet paper we wipe ourselves with. So when Russia promised to enter into a so-called 'energy ceasefire' with Ukraine at the end of January, only a stupid person could not have guessed what would happen next. Four days later, the Russian war machine struck again. Make no mistake, the brave Ukrainians had no misgivings about the sincerity of …

10 Feb

2026

FI Speech

Extreme weather events in particular in Portugal, southern Italy, Malta and Greece: European response in strengthening readiness, preparedness and solidarity mechanisms (debate)

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9 Feb

2026

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European Central Bank – annual report 2025 (debate)

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9 Feb

2026

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Amending Regulations on agricultural products as regards market rules and sectoral support measures in the wine sector and for aromatised wine products (debate)

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21 Jan

2026

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Restoring control of migration: returns, visa policy and third-country cooperation (topical debate)

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Dear Mr President, Europe is in chaos. The only reason for this is the uncontrolled migration that has been going on for years. It's a point. In the Helsinki metropolitan area, more than half of the population in certain areas is of foreign origin. The most depressing thing, however, is that compared to the European peer countries, Finland is still doing relatively well, at least for the time bein…

21 Jan

2026

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European Council meeting (joint debate)

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Madam President, imagine your daughter being arrested for not wearing a headscarf. Imagine your wife never returning from a protest, and you being forced to search through body bags. Imagine the internet shut down, losing contact with your son abroad and being left completely alone. If you step into the streets, you do not know whether others are still protesting in other cities or whether you are…

20 Jan

2026

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Brutal repression against protesters in Iran (debate)

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Mr President, the Iranians have risen up bravely against their torturers. For 46 years, the nation has been occupied by an Islamist dictatorship. They have been brutalised, murdered, and for too long have their crimes gone unheard. Not anymore. What we are seeing in Iran is a revolution that will change the world. Also, the EU needs to act swiftly: ‑ Stop the appeasement policy, tighten sanctions …

20 Jan

2026

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Tackling AI deepfakes and sexual exploitation on social media by making full use of the EU’s digital rules (debate)

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Mr President, the Commission has once again visibly taken Elon Musk and the X-someplate to its teeth. More specifically, it blamed X’s Grok AI for being able to create images of underdressed people. X reacted quickly and said he was changing his service - that's good. But I ask, why is there only Musk and X in the headlines again? Is the Commission aware that similar images may have been made, int…

19 Jan

2026

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Framework for strengthening the availability and security of supply of critical medicinal products as well as the availability of, and accessibility of, medicinal products of common interest (debate)

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Mr President, after reading this paper, I have to brush my eyes once again. So the EU really wants to strike its dirty hands at the emergency stocks of our Finnish medicines. It is clear that every European country has completely different needs for the storage of medicines. In Finland, securing the availability of medicines is in a special position, as our supply chains through the Baltic Sea are…

19 Jan

2026

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The 28th Regime: a new legal framework for innovative companies (debate)

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Mr President, when I started as a Member of the European Parliament, I thought that the European Parliament would be the one that would specifically oppose the Commission's federal fanaticism. How wrong I was. I am now reading direct excerpts from the European Parliament's report on the initiative for common EU company legislation: "Parliament stresses that Member States should not be able to main…

17 Dec

2025

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Preventing sexual harassment in public institutions: latest revelations and resignations in Spain and institutional responses (debate)

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Mr President, sexual harassment is an abuse of power. All its forms are reprehensible. Let's start with the facts and Spain, which we are discussing today. Fact number one: The Spanish socialists have built their political identity on zero tolerance, equality and moral superiority, but in their own structures harassment has been commonplace. Then move on to the European level. Fact number two: Thi…

17 Dec

2025

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Implementation of the rule of law conditionality regime (debate)

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Mr President, how dare you parties on the left and centre talk about the rule of law? How dare you portray yourselves as the arbiter of what the rule of law is? You have shown time and time again that you are willing to accept even the most blatant violations as long as the victims are your political adversaries. Banning the most popular party in Germany – why not? Go for it! Arresting people and …

17 Dec

2025

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The urgent need to combat discrimination in the EU through the horizontal anti-discrimination directive (topical debate)

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Mr President, the arrogance of the EU is already on par. The EU-wide Non-Discrimination Directive is being pushed again. The Brussels batons really think that they are some kind of high priests who alone have the ability to determine what discrimination means. As if they – and only they – were able to lay down the right rules on these issues. It's not like this, is it? Finland already enshrines in…

16 Dec

2025

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EU Defence Readiness (joint debate)

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Mr President, the clock is ticking for Europe. According to the European Defence Agency, EU defence spending reached 1.9 % of GDP in 2024 and may finally exceed NATO’s 2 % target in 2025. You heard right: may exceed NATO’s 2 % target in 2025. It’s ridiculous that it has taken over 10 years to reach a target that is now outdated, while the new benchmark is 5 %. Look at Finland or Poland after the w…

16 Dec

2025

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Grids package and tackling raising energy prices through robust infrastructure (debate)

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Mr President, let me offer an example from Finland when discussing the grids package and energy infrastructure. We have not been waiting for EU-level strategies. We have been investing heavily in our own capacity, including nuclear power. Today, we are very close to full annual self-sufficiency when it comes to electricity. Our main grid transmission reliability rate is almost 100 %. This has not …