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Jul

2026

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EU’s response and preparedness to protect people against recurring heatwaves and upcoming wildfires (debate)

Mr President, dear colleagues, at least 1 300 people died in a heatwave. I want us to be serious about it. Imagine, just for a moment, that 1 300 people had been killed in a terrorist attack. All of Europe would be mourning: the heads of states, the governments would have crisis meetings. We would be in a situation where we understand how dramatic that is, and we would offer our deepest condolence…

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Jun

2026

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The resilience of the European transport sector and the need to ensure the supply of essential goods amid ongoing geopolitical instability (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. Dear Mr Haider! He's gone, but I'm going to tell you this first anecdote. Do you remember Wickie and the strong men? There are scenes where Vikings row on a rowing boat, but somehow they don't progress, and yet they just row more and more. And then Wickie comes and says: ‘I got it! ″, rubbing his nose for a moment: “The problem is not that we are not rowing hard…

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May

2026

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Reviewing the ETS system to support European competitiveness (topical debate)

Madam President, Oh, ladies and gentlemen, it is not great that right-wing groups repeatedly propose to debate the climate and then think about it: Hm, actually we don't have much to say about that. Perhaps next time Mr. Procaccini should speaking notes Take it with you from the Eni CEO, which certainly gives him exciting. I believe that if we are standing here today talking about the climate cris…

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2026

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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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Mar

2026

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Cutting red tape to enable a competitive and clean transition – the urgent need to shorten and simplify permitting (debate)

Mr President, dear colleagues, Europe is being told a very convenient story right now about how cutting red tape, simplification and speeding up permitting will solve all our problems. But let's be honest: what is presented is not about simplification. In reality, it is about deregulation. Leaders like Merz and Meloni are pushing for it and the European Commission is increasingly following. So, le…

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Feb

2026

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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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Feb

2026

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

17

Dec

2025

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The deepening democratic crisis in Georgia (debate)

Mr President! Dear colleagues, When I stand in front of you today, I think of a moment. I am thinking of the moment when I stood in the courtroom in Georgia. Where I stood in the courtroom and looked Msia Amaghlobeli in the face, how she sat behind a glass cage and quite, very many journalists accompanied this process. If I stand in front of you today, I'll do it for Msia. Then I do this for all t…

27

Nov

2025

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Outcome of the UN Climate Change Conference - Belém (COP30) (debate)

Mr President, dear Commissioner, colleagues, here we are again having yet another debate about the lack of climate ambition – the climate ambition we would need so desperately. And yes, there were small steps forward, but it is far from any 1.5‑degree path. We are standing here with a lukewarm result 10 years after the Paris Agreement; after floods destroyed the homes and the lives of people, also…

27

Nov

2025

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Development of an industry for sustainable aviation and maritime fuel in Europe (debate)

Mr President, colleagues, Commissioner, I think it's very good that we have this debate, but let me set this straight before even starting my speech: actions need to follow. The transport sector is not only the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the European Union, but also it is a hard-to-abate sector, like you said. So we need to help the industry. We need this transformation to tackl…

13

Nov

2025

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Framework for achieving climate neutrality (A10-0223/2025 - Ondřej Knotek) (vote)

Madam President, dear colleagues, there are two sides in this Parliament: those who work for Europe, for democracy, for transparency, and those who hide behind secret roads and a lack of transparency. To those colleagues: you are not even brave enough to show what you stand for. We in this House are elected to represent European citizens who have a right to know what we are doing and where we stan…

12

Nov

2025

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Framework for achieving climate neutrality (debate)

Mr President, dear colleagues, tomorrow we have a decision to make about Europe's future. We can agree on a compromise that is giving stability and a clear direction to Europe, or side with the far‑right climate deniers who are trying to destroy Europe. We have the choice, and we should make a clever one. By setting a 2040 climate target of 90 % we could have sent a very strong signal to the world…

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Oct

2025

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UN Climate Change Conference 2025 in Belém, Brazil (COP30) (debate)

Madam President, dear colleagues, once upon a time, we had climate ambition. But it's not 'once upon a time': ten years ago, the leaders promised with the Paris Agreement to care about the future of the next generations, the future of the children of Europe. And today, we are having this debate. We know the forests are on fire, harvests are failing, and people are dying of heat in our cities. And …

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Oct

2025

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Situation in Afghanistan: supporting women and communities affected by the recent earthquakes (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. An earthquake: Thousands of people who died and were injured – daughters, mothers, fathers, brothers – destroyed houses. A catastrophe in the crisis, in the crisis of a regime that oppresses women and girls. And as in any crisis, we see one thing: It happens again and again – women and girls being oppressed. When this happens, they are the main victims. There is…

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Sep

2025

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Summer of heatwaves in the EU: addressing the causes and providing adequate housing and health policies to address record-breaking temperatures (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. Let's imagine for a moment how an elderly lady lies in a hospital and struggles for every single breath. The window is open, but the thin, stuffy air doesn't mix with the hot, stuffy air from outside. Heatwaves are something we can all feel. The climate crisis has been around for a long time, and it has an impact. We sit with this elderly lady at her hospital be…

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Jul

2025

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European Climate Law (vote)

Madam President, dear colleagues, we need this urgency for the people that are already suffering under the heatwaves in Europe, for the people that lost their lives, their beloved ones and their homes to the floods – we have seen the pictures and had the discussions in this House – and for the farmers you pretend to defend while their livelihood is on the line. Yesterday, you let the far right tak…

8

Jul

2025

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Revision of the European Climate Law (debate)

Madam President, dear colleagues, I also need to start with this House. The 2040 climate now is in the hands of the far right – the people that deny the climate crisis – that has to be the final wake up call for this Parliament. We have tabled an urgency procedure tomorrow, and it's time for everybody here to really take responsibility. If we want to save the 2040 target, we need this urgency proc…

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Jun

2025

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Media freedom in Georgia, particularly the case of Mzia Amaglobeli

Mr President, dear colleagues, Mzia Amaghlobeli is Georgia's first and only journalist imprisoned as a political detainee. Her arrest is clearly political and based on fabricated charges. I was in Georgia and I attended one of her trials. And I can tell you something: her case is a direct attack on press freedom. Mzia symbolises a movement that, despite repression and intimidation, continues to fi…

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Jun

2025

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EU framework conditions for competitive, efficient and sustainable public transport services at all levels (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to start personally, because the question of traffic is a deeply personal one. As a child, my mom took me to kindergarten by tram. I got on the bus to go to school and on the subway to get to university. I'm still going to my grandparents' country today. Well-developed, affordable, reliable public transport means freedom. Freedom to mo…

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Apr

2025

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EU Preparedness Union Strategy (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen! When I stand here today, I think of the images of flooded villages, flooded houses and destroyed existences. And yes, that's why it's exactly the right time to talk about this strategy, about a strategy to tackle these crises together in Europe, because yes, natural disasters do not stop at national borders. And at the same…

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Mar

2025

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Accelerating the phase-out of Russian gas and other Russian energy commodities in the EU (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. First of all, I would like to congratulate all of us on (Tone off) leaving this Parliament. Now on to the matter. Yes, we are rightly discussing our security. We are rightly discussing how we support Ukraine and rightly discussing sanctions against Russia – but then we have to be consistent. And to be consistent means no longer making us economically dependent o…

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Mar

2025

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Clean Industrial Deal (debate)

That's a good question. I believe in the first place that we remain credible, that this zigzag course must stop, that we can not promise something once and can disassemble everything the next day, but that the things we negotiate here, which we decide here, which arise in a long process, that they also hold at the end of the day, because otherwise no one can really rely on it anymore. The Paris Ag…

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Mar

2025

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Clean Industrial Deal (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, This Clean industrial deal It must be a promise: A promise to the future. A promise that we think the transformation of the economy in industry together with climate protection, that we recognize that there are planetary boundaries. And a promise that we will stop asking whether Green Deal or competitiveness. The truth is: We need both, and we can and must wo…

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Feb

2025

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US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, the World Health Organisation and the suspension of US development and humanitarian aid (debate)

Madam President, dear colleagues, I am honestly sick and tired of discussing old white men destroying our future. In times where nature catastrophes, wildfires and droughts destroy the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of people, still denying the climate crisis is just irresponsible and not forgivable. Young people all around the world rightfully demanded a liveable future, and we do that righ…

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Jan

2025

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EU financing through the LIFE programme of entities lobbying EU institutions and the need for transparency (debate)

I must say that you, Mr Bernhuber of all people, are now campaigning for renaturation. Of course, it is about working with NGOs and civil society. And that also means that we will not be influenced, but I assume that we – all Members here in the House – can deal with the fact that we meet with different people, talk, form our opinion. We are paid for it here, we are elected for it and above all fo…