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21 Oct

2025

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Renewing the EU-Africa Partnership: building common priorities ahead of the Angola Summit (debate)

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Thank you, colleague, for accepting the blue card, and thank you, especially, for mentioning Sudan in this context. You rightfully said that, in this conflict in Sudan, we need to send humanitarian aid and impose diplomatic pressure. At the same time, we see, especially by the RSF, the most heinous war crimes in a century. Would you agree with me that we should also consider military interventions…

21 Oct

2025

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

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Madam President, Colleague Neuhoff is a very special TünnesI haven't seen that yet. Madam President, dear people of Europe, for me the situation is clear: We need to make Russia pay. But I really do not understand the legal problem that some people are having here, because when you listen to Putin, then Russia goes all the way until Lviv. So even if we listen to those people, what we are doing is …

21 Oct

2025

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

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Thank you very much, Madam. I would be interested in what you would say to Viktor Orbán if you could tell him something about the fact that this summit will probably take place in Budapest.

21 Oct

2025

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

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Dear colleague, I was wondering if you are aware of the international treaties between Russia and Ukraine in the 90s, where Russia promised to respect Ukraine's sovereignty and borders in exchange for Ukraine giving up its nuclear arsenal? And also, did I understand you correctly that once a state breaks international agreements, that's a reason to wage an illegal war of aggression against that st…

21 Oct

2025

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Commission Work Programme 2026 (debate)

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Mr President, dear people of Europe, dear honourable Commissioners and colleagues, some of our colleagues seem to think that it is a crime when the Commission proposes new or updated legislation, while this is actually its core job, because we – the people of Europe – decided to go further together. This will not change, no matter what happens in a single Member State and, just as a side note to s…

21 Oct

2025

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Recent peace agreement in the Middle East and the role of the EU (debate)

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Mr President, dear people of Europe, dear people of Israel, dear people of Palestine! Peace to you! Peace between ruins from which anti-tank missiles are still fired and on which artillery shells still fall. Peace between people who are still waiting for their relatives' bodies to be handed over and people who are still starving. Peace between war criminals and terrorists, all of whom are in custo…

20 Oct

2025

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A new legislative framework for products that is fit for the digital and sustainable transition (debate)

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Mr President, thank you, colleague, for accepting the blue card. You said one thing that caught my attention: the customers must know. I can not agree on that more. At the same time, especially in the digital realm, I see a problem that many customers do not read through this long text, in the same way that we always just accept the general business rules without reading through any of it. So, in …

20 Oct

2025

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The decision to impose a fine on Google: defending press and media freedom in the EU (debate)

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Mr President, I would like to congratulate Google, because if you Google this fine, the Google knowledge panel says that Google in fact broke the law, while the legal team still debates that. I would also like to congratulate my colleagues here today who spoke up against Google, because this will not be good for your Google algorithm in any way. I want to congratulate some of our colleagues for th…

20 Oct

2025

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Chemicals (joint debate)

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Mr President, dear people of Europe! First of all, I would like to congratulate the rapporteur, because he has achieved something that is rarely the case. We have a very complicated legislative proposal here. And yet, as a layman who has no knowledge of chemistry at all – and this is not due to my former chemistry teacher – I have understood what this is all about. I welcome this OSOA package beca…

20 Oct

2025

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Chemicals (joint debate)

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Thank you, Mr. Colleague, for accepting the blue card. They talked about alternatives to animal testing, and you hear that over and over again. Personally, I hope they actually exist. Because I also don't want rats or fish or birds or whatever to swallow any toxins. At the same time, however, I want our consumers to be sure that we can achieve the things we need to achieve in medical research. So …

20 Oct

2025

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Order of business

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Madam President, according to Rule 124(2) read together with Rule 174(3) of the Rules of Procedure, the proceedings of this Parliament must be public and available in all official languages of the European Union. Yet today the live stream of our debates offers neither sign language nor subtitles. That means millions of deaf and hard of hearing Europeans are effectively excluded from following the …

9 Oct

2025

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Public health risks in a Europe affected by global warming: tackling the spread of mosquito- and tick-borne diseases (vote)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, dear citizens of Europe, climate change is not only an environmental problem but also a threat to the health of all of us. As the heat increases, new insects arrive in Europe: tse-tse mosquitoes, parasites that carry diseases such as dengue, Nile virus and malaria. These are not distant fears, they are facts. Those who say they are defending the people must p…

9 Oct

2025

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World Mental Health Day - addressing the socio-economic factors (debate)

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Mr President, colleagues, dear visitors, after I got elected to the European Parliament was the best time of my life – how exciting, how wonderful to be able to work here, how wonderful to be able to shape Europe's future! Dear colleagues, after I got elected was the worst time of my life. I worked 80 hours, I was lonely, I was away from home and I fell into a deep depression. For the first time i…

8 Oct

2025

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Promoting EU digital rules: protecting European sovereignty (debate)

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Thank you, Mr. Colleague, for accepting the blue card. You just said that you care about the privacy of the population when it comes to telecommunications. How much, you would say, is your opinion influenced by the fact that the Czech secret service recorded your telephone conversations with the Russian secret service?…

8 Oct

2025

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Promoting EU digital rules: protecting European sovereignty (debate)

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Excuse me for this little hint on the matter of digital competence in all of this! Thank you, dear colleague, for accepting my blue card, whether it was raised on paper or digitally. I listened very carefully to you, and I agree that this is all a question of competitiveness and often the modern digital environment. At the same time, I know that our citizens fear many of the things that we want to…

8 Oct

2025

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United response to recent Russian violations of the EU Member States’ airspace and critical infrastructure (debate)

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Madam President, dear people of Europe! The members of the AfD like to call for my speeches here: ‘The little man spoke’. I find this amusing, because that's exactly what they always claim to represent, while in truth they are betraying him. They are committing treason because their deputies, like Mr Bystron, are allegedly being bribed by Russia. They practice treason by spreading fake news. For o…

8 Oct

2025

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United response to recent Russian violations of the EU Member States’ airspace and critical infrastructure (debate)

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Ladies and gentlemen, I am a bit confused, because you come from the Europe of Sovereign Nations Group, and you always argue that the EU should not interfere with the competences of the Member States. But now you are saying that the EU Commission should take a position on a possible crime on German soil or on German seabed and intervene in ongoing criminal proceedings in Germany. So apart from the…

7 Oct

2025

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New Strategic EU-India Agenda (debate)

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Mr. Colleague, I can only agree with you on this point. I would have been happy if you had actually answered my question. I understand from what you said between the lines, however, that you see it that way. I believe that our credibility depends above all on the fact that, just because we want to work more closely with India now and should do so, we still do not overlook the things that have prev…

7 Oct

2025

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New Strategic EU-India Agenda (debate)

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Mr President, in accordance with our Rules of Procedure, I would also like to be able to react to the reply that my colleague will give me. Thank you, Mr. Colleague, for accepting the blue card this time. I listened very carefully to you and you said that we need to deepen our relations with India. What interests me: Do you see that as well as I do, that we must do this above all in order to have …

7 Oct

2025

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

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Mr President, dear people of Europe, women and girls in Afghanistan, when we have a debate about the situation of women and girls in Afghanistan, what usually happens is the following: everyone in the room feels sad, compassionate, maybe even a little pity. A few minutes later, the feeling is gone, forgotten. We continue with the next debate. The reason why that is the case is that we do not take …

7 Oct

2025

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Rising antisemitism in Europe (debate)

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Mr President, dear people of Europe! There is right-wing extremist anti-Semitism, there is left-wing extremist anti-Semitism, there is migrant anti-Semitism, there is anti-Semitism in jokes and when it is meant seriously. And every time he's wrong, and every time we have to fight it. But you know, what really makes me laugh is that especially the colleagues from the AfD, who are leaving the debate…

7 Oct

2025

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Common agricultural policy (joint debate)

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Madam President, dear people of Europe! Our farmers are under pressure – not because they would have failed, but because the world has changed. Climate protection, geopolitical tensions, trade agreements - all this demands a lot from them. And that is why it is important that we reduce bureaucratic burdens. Whoever secures Europe's food must not get stuck in the form jungle. Because this pressure …

7 Oct

2025

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This is Europe - Debate with the Prime Minister of Luxembourg, Luc Frieden (debate)

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Madam President, dear people of Europe, dear Mr Frieden, what is Europe? To answer that question, we do not have to look far – just on the screen where the title of our debate includes the name of our honourable guest, Frieden. Frieden, the German word for peace. For centuries, the people of Europe fought each other – from empires to kingdoms, from crowns to nations – until the first half of the 2…

6 Oct

2025

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Revision of the Visa Suspension Mechanism (debate)

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Thank you, colleague, for accepting the blue card. I listened very closely to what you said and I would like your personal opinion: do you think that we can, in fact, solve our demographic crisis without migration, given the quota that I think what you would then call 'true Europeans' reproduce on?…

6 Oct

2025

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Role of EU policies in shaping the European Sport Model (debate)

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Mr President, dear people of Europe, sport is Europe's public good. It teaches merit, openness and solidarity – the values that our Union stands for. But those words mean little if a player cannot say three other simple words: 'I am gay'. Until today, not one active male player in Germany's top football leagues has come out. A statistical miracle – or rather, a symptom of fear – when about 3 % of …