What Lukas spoke about.

24 Nov

2025

EN Speech

Enhancing police cooperation in relation to the prevention, detection and investigation of migrant smuggling and trafficking in human beings; enhancing Europol’s support to preventing and combating such crimes (debate)

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Madam President, dear people of Europe, what you have heard today here in this debate is not contradictory. It is not contradictory to have respect for the work and the commitment of policemen and policewomen, and for the fear of migrants that leads them to turn to smugglers and human traffickers. It is not contradictory to call for a safe Union that protects its border and for a dignified way to …

24 Nov

2025

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Enhancing police cooperation in relation to the prevention, detection and investigation of migrant smuggling and trafficking in human beings; enhancing Europol’s support to preventing and combating such crimes (debate)

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24 Nov

2025

DE Speech

Existence of a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is founded (debate)

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24 Nov

2025

DE Speech

Existence of a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is founded (debate)

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24 Nov

2025

DE Question

Existence of a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is founded (debate)

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24 Nov

2025

EN Question

Existence of a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is founded (debate)

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Mr President, in accordance with our Rules of Procedure, I would also like to react to the reply that my colleague will give me. Dear colleague, I was wondering if you could explain to me the rhetorical concept of 'whataboutism'?…

24 Nov

2025

EN Speech

Order of business

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Madam President, unfortunately, yes. I will be very brief because I did not plan to do this. It's on Rule 10(1), first sentence: mutual respect. I would like to ask our colleague Mr De Masi not to speak in the name of the non-attached. Respecting the decision to be non-attached also means that other non-attached don't speak for other non-attached. We are not one. There is not 'the non-attached' an…

13 Nov

2025

EN Speech

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

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Madam President, I would like to ask the audiovisual service to move the speech that I hold in the wrong topic to the topic where it belongs in the live stream recording. Honourable Members, dear people of Europe, climate protection is not ideology. It is infrastructure; it is energy; it is every euro that we invest today in clean technology as a euro we do not need to pay tomorrow for floods, fir…

13 Nov

2025

EN Speech

Addressing transnational repression of human rights defenders (A10-0206/2025)

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Madam President, dear people of Europe, our corporate tax system has long been like a puzzle where every Member State kept its own set of pieces. The picture on the box says 'single market', but when you try to assemble it, you discover 27 different shapes that don't quite fit. In the gaps between those pieces, profits quietly slip through. BEFIT doesn't solve the puzzle, but it finally gives us o…

13 Nov

2025

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 23 October 2025 (debate)

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Madam President, I wanted to speak about the frozen Russian assets and that we should abolish the unanimity principle in the Council, but I will instead say something about the behaviour of our not-so-dear colleague Mr Braun. As a German, especially for me, it is scandalous that this man uses this plenary to call the Head of the Commission Nazi ranks like 'Reichsführer'. It is a disgrace to the su…

12 Nov

2025

EN Speech

Gender Equality Strategy 2025 (debate)

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Madam President, dear people of Europe, 'in this time of economic crisis and war, this is not the time to talk about topics like gender equality': this is what they say. 'God's laws are clear, there are men and women, and abortion is a sin': this is what they say. 'Everyone is born in the right body, no matter what science tells us': this is what they say. 'Gender equality is a threat to tradition…

12 Nov

2025

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The new 2028-2034 Multiannual Financial Framework: architecture and governance (debate)

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Madam President, in accordance with the Rules of Procedure, I would also like to react to the reply that my colleague will give me. Thank you, dear colleague, for accepting the blue card. You said that it is necessary that the financial framework is in accordance with the challenges that we face. And you also said that it's important to include climate protection in that. So my question is, in you…

12 Nov

2025

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The first European Annual Asylum and Migration report and the setting up of the Annual Solidarity Pool (debate)

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I think Sweden can do more. I think Sweden is a great nation, not only from its size, but also from its values and its solidarity to those in need. And that is something that Sweden has shown over and over again in the past. And I think you are very, very much mistaken when you think that Brussels dictates anything. The whole idea of the European Union is to share common interest and to find commo…

12 Nov

2025

DE Question

The first European Annual Asylum and Migration report and the setting up of the Annual Solidarity Pool (debate)

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Madam President, In line with our Rules of Procedure, I would also like to be able to respond to my colleague's reply. Dear colleague, thank you for accepting the blue card. If I understood you correctly, you said that when your party wins the next election, you will not participate as a Member State in the distribution of migrants. So am I understanding you correctly that you are saying that if y…

23 Oct

2025

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Discontinuing seasonal time change (debate)

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Madam President, dear colleagues, I also wrote a poem. But now my colleague Mr Streit also did a poem. So I will take up the challenge for a rap battle. Dear people of Europe, Joachim rhymes with gentle grace, but like the clock, he lost his place. He writes of time, yet slips the line. His hour's off, while mine's on time. He says his rhyme can lead the light, but shifts like hands in autumn nigh…

23 Oct

2025

DE Speech

Breast cancer: the importance of screening (debate)

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Madam President, dear people of Europe! Every 18 seconds, somewhere in the world, a woman hears the words: You have breast cancer! And sometimes this woman is a mother, a sister, a colleague or someone who has never had the chance to go to precaution in time. Early detection saves lives, but only if it is accessible, affordable and trustworthy. In Europe, participation rates in precautionary progr…

23 Oct

2025

EN Speech

Combating violence against women and girls, including the exploitation of motherhood (debate)

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Madam President, how easy it would be if we would do it because we hate women. How easy would it be if we would do it because we do not have white skin. But in truth, worldwide, every ten minutes a woman is killed by her partner. So why do we do it? And the disgusting truth is because we can. Because we are stronger. We are faster. And quite frankly, we are more brutal. We have the power to hurt w…

23 Oct

2025

DE Speech

Audiovisual Media Services Directive obligations in the transatlantic dialogue (debate)

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Madam President, dear people of Europe! The most important first: Congratulations to the author. Nela, good work! Now a supplement to what Mr Zdrojewski said: He said that culture is above all a matter for the Member States, above all something internal. And with all the respect I can show to a former minister of culture, I would like to strongly disagree or add something. We live in a time when c…

22 Oct

2025

DE Speech

Key objectives for the CITES COP20 meeting in Uzbekistan (debate)

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Mr President! One day, when every lion's head hanging on any wall, or every ivory horn lying in a trophy chamber, will disintegrate into dust, when no butterfly flies over flowers and no lizard crawls through the jungle, when we humans live under glass domes because we have destroyed our planet, our nature and our livelihood, we will wonder what else we could have done. Or one day, when we have sa…

22 Oct

2025

EN Speech

Allegations of espionage by the Hungarian government within the EU institutions (debate)

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Madam President, it's a point of order regarding Rule 10(3) of the Rules of Procedure of the European Parliament, which says that we as Members, we shall not impose inappropriate behaviour. In my personal opinion, threatening EU officials to neutralise them with the security services of a Member State is inappropriate behaviour, and I would ask the Bureau to look into this. So much for my point of…

22 Oct

2025

ES Speech

First anniversary of the DANA floods in Spain: improving EU preparedness (debate)

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Madam President, dear citizens of Europe, Mrs Junco García, you said: It wasn't climate change, it was an administrative failure. With respect, that surprises me a lot. First, it was climate change, because climate change causes more and more natural disasters, such as the rains of the Dana; and secondly, the real problem in the administration is the lack of understanding or sometimes the denial o…

22 Oct

2025

EN Speech

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

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Madam President, dear people of Europe, imagine a country in the heart of our continent, rich in forests and fields, where people work hard to build, dream and create. Imagine a country that trades freely, that welcomes its neighbours not with fear, but with friendship. A country whose engineers, teachers and farmers shape the future not in silence but in pride. Imagine a Belarus that is not a pri…

22 Oct

2025

DE Speech

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

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We are well on our way not to follow Belarus, Mr Droese, because we oppose populists and extremists like you and your party. I think it speaks volumes that you have not answered my real question – as is so often the case when you and your peers are referred to the defamations and lies you are spreading in this Parliament. Then you can think of nothing better than repeating these lies and these def…

22 Oct

2025

DE Question

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

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Thank you very much, Madam President. In line with the Rules of Procedure, I would also like to have the opportunity to respond again to Mr Droese's reply. Mr Droese, you have now spoken in great detail here about why the democratic system in Germany, in Europe, is broken and how much your party is being persecuted. Of course, you avoid essential points such as the open extremist aspirations of ma…

22 Oct

2025

DE Speech

Preparation of the European Council meeting of 23 October 2025 (debate)

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Madam President, dear people of Europe! If you listen to people like Mr Haider from the far right, you have the feeling that there are only a few grey bureaucrats sitting in the Council acting against the interests of the people of Europe. Or if you listen to people like Mr Oliveira from the far left, you have the feeling that the people sitting there are at best pretending to represent the intere…