What Anna spoke about.

16 Sep

2026

DE Speech

Stop gold-plating, relieve SMEs: Member States must implement EU legislation without adding extra bureaucracy (topical debate)

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Madam President, The fish starts to stink from the head, we all know that. Only in the EU, that's not always true. Many hurdles and a lot of effort that our companies have to deal with on a daily basis, which do not come from the EU or the head; The reason for this is that the 27 fins all want to swim in some other direction. How absurd it is, for example, that in Austria the cars have to be picke…

25 Mar

2026

EN Speech

European Citizens’ Initiative 'Ban on conversion practices in the European Union' (debate)

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Madam President, time and time again, the far right speak about protecting children. So let's see what conversion practices do to protect children. These so-called therapies are not based on any scientific or medical evidence, but there is a lot of evidence about what they do – they increase shame, they increase anxiety, they increase not just suicidal thoughts, but suicide attempts. So when the f…

10 Mar

2026

DE Speech

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

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Madam President, For six years NASA developed, calculated and built. And then what? Then she sent the first humans to the moon. For six years, authorities examined, discussed and processed an approval procedure. And then what? Then we built 46 kilometers of power cables. Don't get me wrong. These 46 kilometers of power lines in Salzburg are very, very important. They help us move our excess wind e…

10 Mar

2026

DE Speech

Presentation of the Energy Package (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner! Today, our energy supply is our Achilles heel. Today we must tremble when Trump blackmails us with liquefied natural gas supplies, when Putin turns on the gas tap, when Iran decides not to let oil tankers into Europe. In doing so, we have the power to make this Achilles heel our superpower – from fossil dependency to European freedom energy, from the flickering carpet t…

9 Mar

2026

DE Speech

Gender pay and pension gap in the EU: state of play, challenges and the way forward, and developing guidelines for the better evaluation and fairer remuneration of work in female-dominated sectors (debate)

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Mr President! Nearly 30 percent of women work part-time. Most of them not because they want to, but because they see no other choice because they have care responsibilities – duties that in theory fall on both parents, but still weigh on women’s shoulders. We must not accept that women today are still far too often financially dependent on men, that women still suffer for the m…

9 Mar

2026

DE Speech

Upcoming European Research Area (ERA) Act (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, Minister! Imagine a AI‑Factory in the middle of old Vienna, creating opportunities for new ideas that lay the foundations for new solutions. Yes, just like one AI‑Factory opened its doors in July 2025 – thanks to the EU. Half of the costs for this project came from European budgets, the other half from Austria. Yes, and now we come to that, because in…

11 Feb

2026

DE Speech

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

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Madam President, Commissoner! I was lucky. I was lucky to be born into a family that had the opportunity to nurture me. Happiness to be in a school that has dared to rethink education. Happiness to come to teachers who have nurtured my talents and not exploited my mistakes. Far too often today, happiness still decides whether children have and get the opportunities they deserve. At the same time, …

21 Jan

2026

DE Speech

Presentation of the Digital Networks Act (debate)

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Madam President, The Commission continues to promise net neutrality with this proposal, which is also good and important. But we cannot, on the one hand, promise net neutrality and, on the other hand, put obstacles in the way of European providers and companies. With Fair shareWe want to ask Big Tech for mechanisms, but we also want to catch European companies. European companies that could stand …

19 Jan

2026

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

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Madam President, The EU is the best idea we have ever had. An idea that promises a continent of freedom – limitless and full of opportunities. But what happens today when a European woman has an idea? An idea for a product or service that makes our lives easier? If you want to implement such an idea, realize it, start a start-up, then the first limits quickly appear: Do you have the right business…

16 Dec

2025

DE Speech

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

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16 Dec

2025

EN Speech

Phasing out Russian natural gas imports and improving monitoring of potential energy dependencies (debate)

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Madam President, let us be clear – Russian gas has always been too expensive. Russia has always used our dependency to threaten us, to pressure us, and to try to bend us to their will. But while it has been expensive for Europe, it is Ukraine that has truly paid the price for our obsession with Russian gas. And dear colleagues from the far right and the far left of this House, you always say you w…

15 Dec

2025

DE Speech

Incentivising defence-related investments in the EU budget to implement the ReArm Europe Plan (debate)

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Mr President! Your own house – that is freedom, that is responsibility and that is security. The same is true of our common European home. But when I build a house, I don't let the alarm system be installed by burglars, and yet, as Europe, we did just that. Nevertheless, we have far too often placed our critical digital infrastructure in foreign, even dangerous hands. We risk daily that, for examp…

15 Dec

2025

EN Speech

Order of business

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Madam President, since, according to Rule 25(2) of the Rules of Procedure, the Bureau is responsible for organisational matters in the Parliament, I would like to draw your attention to the fact that CWT was recently acquired by American Express Global Business Travel. CWT being owned by a US company means that they also fall under the US sanctions regime – the regime that has, for example, recent…

27 Nov

2025

EN Speech

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

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Mr President, Commissioner, EUR 111 billion. That is 37 000 wind turbines. That is more than two million batteries. That is a new European electricity grid. But instead, we're spending EUR 111 billion a year subsidising fossil fuels. We are throwing money at a technology that was already outdated yesterday. I am aware that we will not shut down gas turbines or get rid of petrol cars overnight, but…

27 Nov

2025

DE Question

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

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22 Oct

2025

DE Speech

Ending all energy imports from Russia to the EU and closing loopholes through third countries (debate)

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Mr President! Russian gas was the most expensive gas we have ever bought, says OMV CEO Stern. For years, the FPÖ has tried to make us believe that we are benefiting from cheap Russian gas – an untruth from which only one person benefits, and that is Putin. The truth is that this Russian gas was the most expensive we've ever bought. Russian gas, which has cost us billions, which has flowed directly…

22 Oct

2025

DE Speech

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

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Madam President, To the Right in this House: You always say you are for people, but every word you make here shows the exact opposite – that you obviously don’t care about people. Obviously, you don't care if people run out of drinking water because our water reserves are drying up. Obviously, you don't care if thousands of people lose their homes because of the increasingly hungry flames and unbr…

8 Oct

2025

DE Answer

Promoting EU digital rules: protecting European sovereignty (debate)

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It is very exciting, because especially in my own country, Austria, we hear so often – especially from the right, from the FPÖ – how evil parties are. But if you look at who implements the bans, it's these FPÖlers: Prohibition of genders, prohibition of veggie burgers and so on and so on. So yeah, I'm afraid the real banning parties are sitting over there.…

8 Oct

2025

DE Speech

Promoting EU digital rules: protecting European sovereignty (debate)

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Madam President, With every iPhone, we hold a piece of Trump in our hands – and so do our children. Every time they look on Instagram, a piece of their privacy flows across the Atlantic, right into the hands of tech autocrats and data despots who share neither our laws nor our values. But it is clear: Not Google governs Europe, not TikTok educates our children, and not Elon Musk determines our fre…

8 Oct

2025

EN Speech

Promoting EU digital rules: protecting European sovereignty (debate)

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Madam President, I want to thank you for taking all the blue cards and thereby allowing a real debate in this Chamber.

7 Oct

2025

DE Speech

Common agricultural policy (joint debate)

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Madam President, There is no meat in the meat tomato. There is no cheese in the liver cheese, cat tongues are not made of cats. There are no snails in the nut snail, no pigs in pork ears, no trees in the tree cake and no potatoes in a marzipan potato. There is no meat in the Shokovurst. And in the children's schnitzel? Well, I think you understand what I'm trying to get at. That was now a rather l…

6 Oct

2025

DE Speech

Intergenerational fairness in Europe on the occasion of the International Day of Older Persons (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! We know what we owe to the older generations: the reconstruction of our countries, our post-war democracies – the basis for our prosperity today and also the cornerstone of this common Europe from which we can benefit today and on which we can also work. But we must also not close our eyes to what else we owe to the older generations: climate ch…

11 Sep

2025

DE Speech

Implementation and streamlining of EU internal market rules to strengthen the single market (debate)

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Madam President, Our common market is our strength – why do we stand in our own way? It should be clear that if I start a company in Germany, I can also work in Sweden. It must be clear that if I put a product on the market in Poland, I can sell it exactly as it is in Spain. Let's break down the barriers! National walks alone must finally be a thing of the past. It is clear: What applies to produc…

11 Sep

2025

DE Question

A new vision for the European Universities alliances (debate)

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Dear Mrs Dieringer, you say that Hungary makes education without ideology. It was Hungary, in particular, that forbids LGBTQ content in schools, in school books. What is it other than bringing ideology to schools, banning real educational content? Tell me where else this is happening in Europe, I'd be interested!…

11 Sep

2025

DE Speech

A new vision for the European Universities alliances (debate)

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Mr President! Over the ocean, Trump puts the shackles on science: Students are expelled, scientists lose their money, and universities are harassed. It is precisely the science that we so urgently need today; The science that today provides the solutions to our problems of tomorrow. And it is precisely this science that can flourish only in freedom. This is precisely why we are working here on our…