What Lukas spoke about.

9 Jul

2025

EN Speech

Lessons from Budapest Pride: the urgent need for an EU wide anti-discrimination law and defending fundamental rights against right-wing attacks (topical debate)

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Madam President, once again, in this debate about LGBTQ+ rights, it's because of Rule 10(4) of Rules of Procedure of the European Parliament prohibiting hate speech. Saying that a man who wears lip gloss on his face is a perversion is hate speech, dear colleagues. It's not allowed. You can, of course, have another opinion about if you think it's pretty or not, but it's not perverse. Let people be …

8 Jul

2025

EN Speech

State of play of implementation of the European Media Freedom Act in the Member States (debate)

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It's not a point of order; it's a reaction. Thank you, dear colleague. I can just tell you two things when you talk about the fact that the only corrective that is needed is the reader – I advise you to research a little bit about the effect that the state-controlled media of the communist German Democratic Republic had or, on the other hand, the state-controlled media of the Nazi regime in German…

8 Jul

2025

EN Speech

State of play of implementation of the European Media Freedom Act in the Member States (debate)

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No point of order. No. Or did I get the translation wrong?

8 Jul

2025

EN Question

State of play of implementation of the European Media Freedom Act in the Member States (debate)

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In accordance with Rule 178(10), the last sentence of the Rules of Procedure, I would also ask for your permission to react to the answer that I will get from my colleague. Thank you, colleague, for accepting the blue card – you talked a lot about the dangers of one unified administrative body that regulates the media and the press. My question would be, do you think that media and press should be…

8 Jul

2025

DE Speech

Preparation for the 2025 EU–China Summit - Tackling China's critical raw materials export restrictions

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Thank you very much, Mr Colleague, for this statement. I can only agree with you. I think the most important thing about this is: Of all the things you just mentioned – I personally knew about half of them, I think the average citizen, the average citizen of the European Union, knows almost none of them. I think it is all the more important here that we explain these instruments, that we explain t…

8 Jul

2025

DE Question

Preparation for the 2025 EU–China Summit - Tackling China's critical raw materials export restrictions

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Madam President, in accordance with Rule 178 of the Rules of Procedure of the European Parliament, I would also like to ask you for the possibility to react to the reply that Mr Lange gives to me right now. Thank you, Mr. Colleague, for accepting the blue card. My question would be, in your opinion, what can be done if China does not agree to let these practices, which we criticise here with a lar…

7 Jul

2025

DE Speech

One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Madam President, dear people of Europe! What I particularly love about my job are the many first times. Last week I was for the first time at the splash! festival and at the same time the first member of parliament backstage at Germany's largest hip-hop festival. Just for a moment, dear house: Think back to your last festival, this concert you will never forget. These places are not a luxury. They…

7 Jul

2025

EN Speech

From institution to inclusion: an EU action plan for deinstitutionalisation, family- and community-based care (debate)

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So my law studies were good for something after all, thank you Mr Vice-President. Dear colleague, I can just tell you that the people, the will of the people, the will of the Italian people, that was what led to this European Union. They decided democratically to give power, to give trust to the European Union. Therefore, I think you should not in general be against that. You should respect the de…

7 Jul

2025

EN Question

From institution to inclusion: an EU action plan for deinstitutionalisation, family- and community-based care (debate)

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Mr President, in accordance with Rule 178(10), the last sentence, I would ask for your approval to be able to react to the answer that I will get from the speaker. Dear colleague, thank you very much for taking this blue card. You said in your speech that we do not need more centralised rules from Brussels. That's something that we hear over and over again. And every time I hear that, I'm wonderin…

7 Jul

2025

EN Speech

Product safety and regulatory compliance in e-commerce and non-EU imports (debate)

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Mr President, dear people of Europe, I am happy to see that there is so much unity in this House when it comes to the necessity of e-commerce consumer protection. What troubles me a little bit is the idea that we can just apply the laws that we have and that this will solve the situation, because we are talking, in fact, about the internet. I know that for some of us this is maybe hard to grasp st…

19 Jun

2025

DE Speech

Protecting bees: advancing the EU's New Deal for Pollinators (debate)

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Madam President, dear people of Europe! Personally, I always find the debates in this European Parliament the most interesting, where everyone actually agrees, but where at the same time the greatest nonsense is being told. Everyone here agrees that bees must be saved in one way or another. Some say agriculture is to blame, others say pesticides are to blame. Commissioner, I would like to tell you…

19 Jun

2025

EN Speech

Institutional and political implications of the EU enlargement process and global challenges (debate)

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Mr President, dear people of Europe, it really drives me crazy when some people here in this debate say that the EU was never able to fix the big problems of our time, when it's the same people that, when we ask for a strong and robust financial mandate for the European Union, say no. When we asked to unify the European Union's competences on cross-border challenges, they say no. So the same peopl…

18 Jun

2025

DE Speech

Media freedom in Georgia, particularly the case of Mzia Amaglobeli

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Mr President, dear people of Europe! If you want to look at the extent to which a state is moving away from democracy, you have to look at how it deals with journalists. When journalists are imprisoned in a state for doing their job, that state distances itself from democracy. Now you have already applauded, Mr Bystron, but you have applauded a little too early, you have not listened to me until t…

18 Jun

2025

IT Speech

Electricity grids: the backbone of the EU energy system (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, dear citizens of Europe, energy is the lifeblood of our society, but today our electricity grids are too old, too slow and too isolated. If we want more renewable energy, electric cars and clean industries, we need a strong, modern and connected European electricity grid. A network that unites the sun of the South, the wind of the North and the power of innov…

18 Jun

2025

DE Question

Electricity grids: the backbone of the EU energy system (debate)

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Thank you, Madame, for accepting the blue card. Among other things, you mentioned the shortage of skilled workers. The figures are very clear, and as much as I agree with you on the training offensive, I think you will agree with me when I say that the experts tell us that we cannot cope with this shortage of skilled workers alone with our own population. At the same time, there are great fears of…

18 Jun

2025

ES Speech

Safeguarding the rule of law in Spain, ensuring an independent and autonomous prosecutor's office to fight crime and corruption (debate)

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Mr President, dear people of Europe, we all agree: Whoever steals from public office must go to jail, also if he belongs to the Government of Sanchez. But now some here say that this government has stolen power. They forget that he was elected by the Spanish people. Corrupt politicians can also be elected in democracy. But if there is corruption, it is decided by the courts. Democracy is not perfe…

18 Jun

2025

EN Speech

Freedom of assembly in Hungary and the need for the Commission to act (debate)

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Mr President, people of Europe, I am a man. I feel right in the body that I was born into. I am heterosexual. I am what's called an 'ally'. Someone who does not belong to a community, but who stands with them, who fights with them against fear, against hatred. I stand with a proud community because I believe in equal rights for all the people. Because tens of thousands of homosexual and trans peop…

18 Jun

2025

EN Question

Freedom of assembly in Hungary and the need for the Commission to act (debate)

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Thank you, colleague, you just very colourfully outlined your interpretation of what happened at the Warsaw Pride. As it sounded to me, you automatically assume that every man who shows his body automatically scares children, that drag queens automatically scare children, that trans people automatically scare children. So I just wanted to ask you if, in your opinion, in your worldview, the people …

18 Jun

2025

EN Question

Freedom of assembly in Hungary and the need for the Commission to act (debate)

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Thank you colleague, I'm up here in the middle for you. We have many colleagues today that claim that this all with the human rights by the European Union that we defended, that's an infringement of the Member States' rights of sovereignty. As you know, I'm just a simple jurist, but you were a chairman of a constitutional court, so maybe you could take this moment to explain to our colleagues how …

18 Jun

2025

DE Speech

Upcoming NATO summit on 24-26 June 2025 (debate)

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Mr President, dear people of Europe! Sometimes I wish we were really alone the lackeys of the United States; then it would not be so painfully alien to the world if some here claim that we serve American interests alone in our defense. Sometimes I wish that Ukraine was really just a proxy war with the West; then these distortions of the reality that some are doing here would not be such a shameles…

17 Jun

2025

EN Speech

Situation in the Middle East (joint debate)

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Mr President, dear colleagues, I am speechless, and you all know this almost never happens. I am speechless that so many seem eager to pick sides between a corrupt prime minister wanted by the International Criminal Court of Justice, and an Islamist ayatollah who kills young women for not wearing a hijab. I am speechless that some deliver weapons to an army guilty of countless war crimes, while ot…

17 Jun

2025

EN Speech

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

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Mr President, dear people of Europe, I would like to touch on two things. One colleague said he likes the smell of petrol like a normal man. To this, I would just advise to not spend too much time next to the exhaustion of a car. Another colleague said that he wants to regulate public transport there where it happens. Therefore, I think that means – not at the EU level. I would advise this colleag…

17 Jun

2025

DE Speech

2023 and 2024 reports on Moldova (debate)

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Mr President, dear people of Europe! Mr Sell is afraid of Moldova joining the European Union. He is afraid of Moldova's faltering economy. As if we were admitting countries to the EU in order to take immediate advantage of it in the short term and not to build freedom, prosperity and the rule of law together in the long term. He is afraid of corruption in Moldova – here I can recommend him to look…

17 Jun

2025

DE Speech

2023 and 2024 reports on Montenegro (debate)

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Mr President, dear people of Europe! Mr Valet has just presented Montenegro's accession as a risk, as if it were only corruption, drug trafficking and Chinese influence. I think that's cynical. If you read the progress reports, you will see that Montenegro is making real progress – not perfect, but honest – and that gives me hope. I belong to the first generation that only the European Union knows…

17 Jun

2025

EN Question

Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience Facility (debate)

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Dear colleague, I was just wondering, as you said that there was no debate about this before, and then you said that now there is no oversight afterwards. In light of the fact that we speak exactly about these topics, about these funds in this European Parliament, the only directly-elected institution of the European Union, before and, now, also after, and you have the freedom to outline all your …