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Jul

2026

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2025 Commission report on Ukraine (debate)

You speak of a time, the Second World War, the cruelest after the First World War, of what happened in Europe; This is what the European Union has been built on. These are personally tragic stories – I do not want to deny this to you; Everyone here has experienced tragic stories in the family, with parents and grandparents. And that is why it is our task to fight here in peace and for freedom. And…

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Jul

2026

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2025 Commission report on Ukraine (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner! We have ladies and gentlemen here today who are listening to our debate, and I am sure that some believe that they are not listening properly here. We are at the heart of Europe, the largest post-World War II peace project in the world, and we have been witnessing a full attack on Ukraine for over four years – strictly speaking since 2014 with the annexation of Crimea. …

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May

2026

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EU–Canada Agreement laying down the conditions for the participation of Canadian legal entities and products originating in Canada to procurement under the SAFE Instrument (A10-0144/2026 - Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, Borys Budka) (vote)

Madam President, Dear colleagues! We need to significantly expand cooperation in the European defence industry, strengthen joint procurement and ramp up and promote European production. Like we did in the trilogue yesterday. Defence Omnibus Unfortunately, the problem is still a big one: Not only is the Council too slow, but it is annoying that the Council is seeking EU ‑ legislation that amounts t…

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May

2026

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Europe's response to reduced US military deployments in Europe, particularly at its Eastern flank in the light of the latest US decisions (debate)

Madam President, Mrs Kallas! I just came out of the trilogue “Defence Omnibus“and, ladies and gentlemen, I can only say – I cannot really say anything, because of the three packages we have negotiated since yesterday, we have launched one because the Council is still hiding behind national prerogatives. And this is contrary to the declaration of the Member States when they called on the co-legisla…

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Apr

2026

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Danger of normalising relations with Russia, including its participation in major cultural and sports events (debate)

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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, ladies and gentlemen. We are on the right track with this year's financial framework. Security and defence are more in focus, and this is long overdue. The last few years have shown us how vulnerable Europe is and how quickly our situation can change. We need to prepare in time to react decisively in the event of a crisis – and to rely on others is history. More flexibility in the bu…

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Mar

2026

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EUCO and situation in the Middle East (joint debate)

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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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Feb

2026

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Building a stronger European defence in light of an increasingly volatile international environment (debate)

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Jan

2026

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Preparations for the EU-India summit (debate)

Madam President, High Representative! India is a great opportunity for Europe – the Indian economy is the fourth largest in the world with 1.5 billion people. It is also the largest democracy in the world. Even if we have to pay attention to Prime Minister Modi in his Hindu nationalist and partly Islamophobic policies, which he unfortunately always raises, it is important to find open words. Ladie…

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Jan

2026

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CFSP and CSDP (Article 36 TEU) (joint debate)

Mr President! Ladies and Gentlemen! What are we waiting for? Until Russia, China and the US split the world between themselves, to the delight of our friends right and left here in the house? We need a determined, pro-European foreign policy that promotes democracy, human rights and the rules-based international order, support for a stronger, strategically autonomous EU that is at the same time a …

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Jan

2026

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Situation in Venezuela following the extraction of Maduro and the need to ensure a peaceful democratic transition (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen! The great hope of the people of Venezuela was foreseeably deceived. Mr. Trump did not liberate them. He only exchanged a dictator to prepare for months with the Vice-President and current Prime Minister Rodríguez – change of dictator instead of change of system. If he had acted out of love for humanity, he would have immediately demanded free elections, joine…

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Dec

2025

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 18-19 December 2025, in particular the need to support Ukraine, transatlantic relations and the EU’s strategic autonomy (debate)

Mr President! Dear colleagues! Europe is and will be facing an existential decision this week. Do we play a significant global role in this world? Or are we on the way to an international zero number that is no longer taken seriously? If we want this brutal Russian war of aggression, which the right always likes to describe as an oversight if this war is to finally end, the pressure on the aggress…

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Dec

2025

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EU Defence Readiness (joint debate)

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Nov

2025

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EU response to the continuous airspace violations and sabotage of critical infrastructure in the EU originating from Russia and Belarus (debate)

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Nov

2025

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EU response to the continuous airspace violations and sabotage of critical infrastructure in the EU originating from Russia and Belarus (debate)

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Nov

2025

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EU position on the proposed plan and EU engagement towards a just and lasting peace for Ukraine (debate)

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Nov

2025

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EU’s diplomatic strategy and geopolitical cooperation in the Arctic (debate)

Madam President, For many, the Arctic was far away – felt to be far away – and is suddenly at the centre of the action. Of course, this has something to do with Russia's attack on Ukraine, because we register that the whole world is touched by it. The Arctic is even very touched, after US President Trump suddenly thought, when he realized that, to subjugate the Arctic, to occupy – however. We were…

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Nov

2025

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European Defence Industry Programme and a framework of measures to ensure the timely availability and supply of defence products (‘EDIP’) (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner! EDIP is a good program, and that it took two years is sad enough, but I also thank the negotiators who got involved. It is about European sovereignty, about strength and autonomy. Let's not forget: Europe is the largest peace project in the world, and to believe that after 75 years of creation, it can last forever, which is deceiving. Our freedom is the most precious…

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Oct

2025

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The need for a united support to Ukraine and for a just and durable peace concluded on Ukraine's terms, with Europeans and without surrendering to Vladimir Putin's conditions ahead of the foreseen Budapest summit (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. ‘Don't give up, Europe!’ This is what the Ukrainians are telling us – fighting on the front lines for three and a half years, looking for their abducted children, standing in front of the rubble of their houses. They are afraid for 24 hours, but they are also afraid that we will stop our help and put the glue on those who sing Putin’s lie song – also here in thi…

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Oct

2025

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Situation in Belarus, five years after the fraudulent presidential elections (debate)

Madam President, Belarus not only borders Russia, it also borders Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, all three of which are on Mr Putin's menu. And let's not forget that it also borders Ukraine. From there, the attack started for the first time in 2022, co-organised by Putin’s puppet Lukashenko, who, after his election in 1994, ensured that he could be re-elected again and again – against the Constitution…

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Oct

2025

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General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sections (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen! Yes, it will be a huge challenge, because we live in unstable geographical conditions – let us not forget it – due to Russia’s brutal attack on Ukraine. The whole continent is touched and we need a flexible budget. We must always respond to this real world. This means: Investments in defence, resilience, joint procurement, interoperability, military mobility …

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Oct

2025

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Stepping up funding for Ukraine’s reconstruction and defence: the use of Russian frozen assets (debate)

(Start of speech when microphone is switched off) ... just so that it doesn't (Non-understood passage). I'd tell him to reroute the plane. We are Europeans and, as I said, Vladimir Putin does not belong in Europe. It is also not legally possible. Hungary has not yet left the question of not letting Putin come to Europe here. What if Putin wants to come to Europe? As I said, there are direct flight…

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Oct

2025

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Stepping up funding for Ukraine’s reconstruction and defence: the use of Russian frozen assets (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! What are we waiting for? In the face of the brutal attacks on Ukraine, it is time that we finally do what Putin should hear and see. Putin is a war criminal. By the way, he does not belong to Budapest, but directly to The Hague, and in court. This is called justice. Justice is also to use the frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine, to survive …

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Oct

2025

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Criminal intimidation against investigative journalists in the EU: the attempted attack on Sigfrido Ranucci (debate)

Thank you very much, Mr Orlando. You have been a really brave mayor in Italy – in Palermo – and know what you are talking about, under the threat of people standing and being intimidated. Do you share the concern I have when even in a country like the United States we are witnessing journalists being pressured in the White House to leave the Pentagon, the White House? And do you think that even in…