What Sebastian spoke about.

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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. And one thing I cannot understand: how can we agree on financing other countries’ climate goals with these astronomical sums, and at the same time have troubles finding the resources needed to defend our own continent? So let’s not be fools anymore and let’s put our priorities in order. For us Europe must come first.

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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 with the ruling party in Georgia. In Georgia, a Russian-style agent law has been blocked, and the country has even gone so far as to threaten the opposition with denial. When a candidate country moves in this direction, it is also a failure of the EU. The case of Georgia serves as a dissuasive example to the EU of how it should by no means operate in relation to other candidate countries.

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Question Time with the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy - EU’s strategy to address the current crises in the Middle East

The oppression of the Iranian people is undeniable. Their desperate plea for help in the face of overwhelming brutality from the Islamic regime is also undeniable. An entire people have been cut off from the internet for months, silencing the voices. In this internet blackout, they are intimidated, imprisoned and executed. This is an actual open‑air prison. The EU's reaction has been disgraceful. Instead of helping liberate the people and getting rid of the Islamic regime, Europe has decided to take the path of weakness. European leaders want to get back to diplomacy with these fanatics even if that condemns the Iranian people to live under oppression forever. My question to the High‑Representative Kaja Kallas is: how do you see that the EU's diplomatic approach towards the regime has concretely helped the oppressed Iranians?

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May

2026

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Presentation of the Fertilisers Action Plan (debate)

Mr President, without fertilizers there is no food. This highlights the importance of fertilizers to the world. When looking at the euro, fertilisers are the single biggest cost of agriculture. This, in turn, crystallises the importance of the price of fertilisers for food producers. If we do not secure the availability and affordability of fertilizers, we will not control our dining table. Despite all this, Europe has developed a dependency on fertilisers. We are dependent on imports, and I am not saying that we are dependent on a country like Norway. We are dependent on Russia for fertilizers. Is this European self-sufficiency? What is important to us should be held in our own hands. We need more of our own fertilizer production. No more one new addiction should be served on our dining tables. Europe must finally learn to feed itself.

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May

2026

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EU cybersecurity and preparedness in view of advanced AI systems (debate)

Madam President, artificial intelligence has changed our lives forever, in both good and bad. Unfortunately, Europe has fallen behind its competitors, but this should not come as a surprise. Our unhinged obsession with regulation has brought us to this point. Now, we are afraid of what others are creating. We are in a situation where American companies are able to produce models with supreme hacking abilities. We may not like it, but you cannot deny that it's an asset for them. I agree that such models should face proper inspection and monitoring, but I cannot help thinking if without all the regulation, European companies could have created something that the rest of the world would be willing to inspect. It's not the companies' fault, it's the EU decision-makers that have made Europe the loser.

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May

2026

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Mr President, Pedro Sánchez has become the face of the collapse of Europe's cultural and security backbone. Debt, uncontrolled migration, crime, violence and irresponsibility in security policy. And yet there are people on the left who call him Europe's moral leader. Excuse me? Pedro Sánchez does not represent anything that is good for Europe. First, you misuse EU recovery funds to patch up pensions and welfare spending. Then you say no to strikes against the Islamic regime of Iran. In other words, you say yes to a terrorist tyranny. On top of that, you want to regularise half a million illegal migrants and endanger the security of the entire Schengen area. Shameful. I feel sorry for Spanish people and I feel sorry for Europe.

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May

2026

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Research Fund for Coal and Steel: research programme and multiannual technical and financial guidelines (short presentation)

Mr President, much of the foundation for our prosperity lies in the European coal and steel industry. For 50 years, the activities of the European Coal and Steel Community were financed by contributions from the coal and steel sector. When the Community officially came to an end, it was decided to mobilise its tremendous cash to set up the Research Fund for Coal and Steel. Funds have been channelled, among other things, towards the green development of Europe. For the coal sector, funding is already focused on post-mining issues such as mitigation of emissions. The path represents the EU very poorly. The glorious industry in Europe has faded, and the same politicians who are responsible for the fading of industry are using the wealth that industry has created in Europe. Not to support the foundation that brought prosperity, but to support ideological goals. Somewhere this would be called theft.

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May

2026

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European solidarity: key to securing medicine access in a shifting geopolitical era (debate)

Mr President, let us return to the corona and its lessons. What happened when medicines and supplies were needed in Europe? The nation-states took the lead in their own hands, because that is how the nation-states act. They protect their own citizens. For example, Germany imposed an export ban on protective equipment. EU solidarity melted like ice cream on a hot summer day. In the name of this same solidarity, the rabies law has pushed for the centralisation of pharmaceutical supply at EU level. No, I'll tell you. Finnish medicines are Finnish medicines. They are also reserved for Finnish elderly people, children and patients to protect them during times of crisis. National security of supply is not charitable work at European level. Each country must take its own responsibility and be prepared. Sick concentration projects at EU level must not be diffused into implementation. They're quarantined.

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May

2026

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

Mr President, when will this madness end? You are talking fine proverbs about security of supply, but again you are driving down European food production. The aim is now the fishermen of the Baltic Sea. The Mercosur agreement, which opens Europe's doors to Brazilian meat imports, has barely dried up the ink, while we are going at the expense of European food production. Temporary closure areas are now required for the Baltic Sea at EU level. Stock recovery breaks are proposed for herring stocks and fishermen. No, there is an urgent need for a regulatory break and a ban on EU interference. For Finnish fisheries, herring in the Gulf of Bothnia is the most important fish stock of all, and that is why Finland makes sustainable use of the herring stock. Without Ursula, without the EU, without the European Greens or the Renew hubs. So write this in your directives: Finnish fish for herring, and onion with it.

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May

2026

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The impact of the implementation of the Maritime Spatial Planning Directive 2014/89/EU on fisheries in selected fishing areas and sea basins (debate)

Mr President, Europe has lived in a green wind power utopia. For climate ideologues, wind power has offered only pluses, no minuses at all. They have forgotten their greatness when landscape disadvantages, when the volatility of production, when taxpayers' money embedded in wind power subsidies. I know that you can see the negatives in energy production, if you want to. When it comes to peat production or oil, you see nothing but minuses. Wind power is certainly a worthy cause, but European energy policy requires common sense, which is not only slavishly focused on stalking the emission meter and celebrating when it creeps in the right direction. We need to look at the whole, the costs, the disadvantages, the security of supply. To boost wind power, Europe has been forced to shut down functioning energy production, such as peat and nuclear power. It's been a gigantic mistake.

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May

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Negative trade-related effects of global overcapacity on the Union steel market (debate)

Mr President, China is threatening the European steel industry. The Chinese Communist Party is not restricted by the Green Deal of the European Communists, not by any means. Instead, China is rolling its head in red from low-priced steel to the global market. China produced more than 1,000 million tons of crude steel based on previous year's statistics. This is more than all the other countries in the world combined and is about 27 times more than Germany, the largest producer in the EU. When this Chinese communist steel then flows into Europe, our own producers will be in trouble. The European steel industry is first struggling with the European regulatory avalanche and climate requirements, after which the Chinese steel avalanche will blow the rest of the air out. Free trade is a fine and commendable thing, but the survival of the European steel industry now requires this: Chinese steel imports to Europe must be restricted.

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The need to combat antisemitism and protect Jewish life in Europe, following the recent attacks against the Jewish community in the Netherlands and Belgium (debate)

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Apr

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The need for targeted criminal provisions and platforms’ responsibility to effectively address cyberbullying and online harassment (debate)

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Apr

2026

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EU strategy in response to the ongoing Middle East crisis, its implications on energy prices and the availability of fertilizers (joint debate)

Madam President, are you satisfied now? You demanded a ceasefire with Iran, and in doing so, you have granted breathing space to a regime built on terror, a regime you chose to shield. As a European, I am deeply ashamed. It seems that for the European Union, the lives of ordinary Iranians have no value. You have de facto been saving an Islamist regime. When executions by the regime intensify, as they almost certainly will, how will you justify this moment? You indirectly stood with the mullahs against the US and Israel. You got the ceasefire, but your friends are still keeping the strait closed and making us pay the price. If you want stability, removing the regime would be a real step towards it.

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Apr

2026

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Supporting democratic resilience in Armenia (debate)

Madam President, Armenia is getting ready for parliamentary elections to be held in June. These elections will define the country's future. They are about taking distance from Russia and its military alliance and becoming closer with Europe. That choice is to be welcomed. Of course, the Kremlin does not accept losing influence quietly. We have seen it before in Georgia, Moldova and elsewhere. We know the playbook. Russian malign influence must be fought on all levels. The future path of the country must be decided by the Armenian people – not by Russia. I have a message to all countries at this same crossroads, deciding between a European path and a Russian one: choose wisely, you don't want your country to end up like Lukashenka's Belarus.

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Apr

2026

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Ensuring accountability and justice in response to Russia’s continued attacks against the civilian population in Ukraine (debate)

Madam President, the senseless targeting of Ukrainian civilians by Russian invaders should serve as yet another wake-up call for Europe. Time and again, Russian orcs are using drones to hunt Ukrainians who refuse to leave their homeland. Kherson is under daily shelling. In just one week, nearly 5 500 drones were used against the region. However, Russia's meat grinder is not making any real progress. As a result, they have become so desperate that targeting civilians has become their new tactic. When you see what Russia is doing, you must be out of your mind to think they will be driven away through diplomacy. The reality that Europe must accept is that this war will be decided on the battlefield. Ukraine does not need more European debates – it needs more European arms.

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Apr

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Monitoring the application of European Union law in 2023, 2024 and 2025 (debate)

Mr President, the Commission's legislative circus, led by President von der Leyen, will make the public breathe. When the EU makes legislation that affects the lives of 450 million people, isn't the basic assumption that we first assess how the proposed law would affect? It will be clear if it makes any sense at all or if the costs get out of hand. This is called impact assessment, which is a normal practice in Finnish ministries, for example, when legislating. But no, the European Commission is not investigating, it is concentrating on drooling. In 2023, almost half of ordinary law-making processes were published without an impact assessment. Now we also have the figures for the following year, when an incomprehensible 84% was published without an impact assessment. Dear Europeans, your affairs are being mismanaged.

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The Commission’s 2025 Rule of Law report (debate)

Mr President, as long as there are areas in EU countries where the police cannot go, we will have black holes in the rule of law. Sweden and the parallel societies formed there by the immigrant population are a sad example of this. In addition to the so-called no-go areas, the flood of news coming from Sweden is coloured by crimes. Last year, there was news about the trial of a terrible case. An Eritrean immigrant raped a 16-year-old Swedish girl on her way home after a shift at McDonald's. According to the court's assessment, the rape did not last long enough for the man to be deported. Soon this man, too, will be on the loose again, hunting for the next victim. The streets of Europe are full of similar hunters. This is the great real threat to the rule of law that the left is silent about. I'm not going to be.

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Enforcement of the Digital Markets Act (debate)

Mr President, digitalisation and artificial intelligence are gigantic opportunities for growth, but for the EU they appear as gigantic opportunities for regulation. There is the Digital Markets Act, there is the Artificial Intelligence Act, there is the Digital Services Act, there is the Data Act, there is the Data Protection Regulation, there is the Audiovisual Media Services Directive. My speaking time will run out if I continue this list. Do citizens and European businesses really need this regulatory wall that the EU is building in all directions? Now, the European Parliament expresses its concern about what it calls pressure on third countries when the EU has been called upon to reconsider the Digital Markets Act. The accusing finger this time, of course, points to the United States. Instead of insulting the call to review regulation here, would it be worth putting a drink on something else? For example, the fact that the EU is not the current regulatory hell.

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Apr

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Presentation of the Better Regulation and Enforcement Communication (debate)

Mr President, what does better regulation mean in the EU context? That is now the subject of this debate in the Chamber. Better EU regulation means two things to me: a) there is less of it, b) there is a greater transfer of responsibility to the nation-states. But we have gone in the exact opposite direction. Power is being stolen from the Member States to Brussels, and the EU's regulatory machinery is spreading like a virus to new areas. When are we ready to say "Enough is enough"? Has it occurred to anyone at this time that the EU is not the solution to everything, but is in fact also a major problem? A brake on business growth, a headache for citizens and, like a central vacuum cleaner, a money-sucking machine for taxpayers. If you, a good EU elite, really want better regulation, do the following: Give back power to the Member States.

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Apr

2026

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Joint debate - Discharge 2024 (joint debate)

Mr President, the more you look at an immigration rally, the crazier it gets. Look at the cost to the state, look at the insecurity on the streets of Europe, look at the aggravated sex crimes statistics. It looks bad from all directions. This also applies to auditing. The European auditors had carried out spot checks on the Greek islands where so-called hotspots for migrants arriving in the EU are located. The maximum eligible expenditure for this project was 276 million. Well, what was revealed? These movers had already suffered considerable damage to the furniture and equipment of the accommodation in two years' time. Fire extinguishing equipment was thrown where it hurts. And think about it: some of these international organisations even restricted access to documents for inspectors. Isn't it time to stop this rally?

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Apr

2026

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Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034 (debate)

Mr President, it is perhaps appropriate to teach this Chamber again a Finnish proverb: No collected water in the well stays. But Ursula wants to make the taxpayers pour money into the Brussels laurels. €2,000 billion – the Commission's proposal for the EU's next seven-year cash prize. Wake up, smart people! We do not need to sink the proposed EUR 700 billion to boost green growth. Deregulation is free. We do not have to give the EU the right to tax. We can cut spending. We do not need to invest our money in managing the migrant crisis and its consequences. We can throw the illegals out of here and hit the doors tight. Tapping in Europe's tar is not a law imposed by nature. It was the result of choices made by invertebrate politicians.

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Apr

2026

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Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU (debate)

Mr President, I disagree with this Chamber. I am not in favour of rape legislation based on consent at EU level. First, it is not regulated at EU level, as criminal law is, in principle, a national issue. Secondly, in Finland, such legislation has already been enacted and I consider it a mistake. Let's imagine a situation where two people are in a completely consensual atmosphere. The other party later comes to repentance and pleads a lack of consent. It is difficult for the accused to prove what has actually happened during the night. The real rapists want to be locked up for much longer than they are currently facing. I want foreigners who have committed rape to be sent outside the borders. I encourage each Member State to contribute to these goals. On the other hand, I cannot recommend legislation that creates uncertainty.

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Control of the financial activities of the European Investment Bank Group – annual report 2024 (debate)

Mr President, has this continent suffered from a lack of public money for green projects? Well, it's not a good time. This continent has suffered from the fact that money has been wasted on green ideological projects when it should have been spent on improving Europe's security. Climate workshops do not stop intruders crossing the border. We are now discussing the activities of the European Investment Bank for 2024. It is an institution capable of accelerating access to funding for the priorities that Europe wants to promote politically. In 2024, the Bank reportedly provided more than EUR 76 billion in new financing for various projects. 60% of this amount, almost EUR 45 billion, went to climate action and environmental sustainability. What about money channelled into defense and security? One billion dollars. So much for Europe's priorities.

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2026

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Global Gateway – past impacts and future orientation (debate)

Madam President, Europe has been living in a dream world for too long. That dream world is called development aid. We've operated on a naive belief that if we were just 'kind' enough, we would earn loyalty; that if we gave enough away, the world would adopt our values. Nothing could be further from the truth. This childish view has cost the European taxpayer hundreds of billions of euros in the last years alone. And what do we have to show for it? We gave away Europeans' hard‑earned money as charity to cultures that often reject everything we stand for. We chose 'feeling good' over doing business. It's time to wake up. Kindness does not buy loyalty in this world – strength and partnership do. If we want influence, we have to stop being a donor.