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6 May

2025

DE Speech

An urgent assessment of the applicability of the Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement (PDCA) with Cuba (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner Kallas! I should like to return once again to Mr Sonneborn's book criticism, which you have just had to endure. I hope you don't take them too seriously. The colleague Sonneborn has long exceeded his journalistic zenith. He recently published his own book, the Handbook of European Values. This is just white on 80 out of 100 pages, so not the most profound joke at this…

6 May

2025

DE Speech

Protecting Greenland's right to decide its own future and maintain the rule-based world order (debate)

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Madam President, dear people of Europe! The year is 2025, and a US president is fabulated by neo-imperialist ideas about taking Greenland. 79 years ago, it was the troops of the first US army that liberated my hometown of Wiehl, a small town in North Rhine-Westphalia, from the Nazi reign of terror. My grandparents learned then that the United States is liberators. My parents have learned that they…

6 May

2025

EN Speech

Discharge 2023 (joint debate)

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Mr President, in the same way as mentioned in other budgetary debates, the biggest mistake that was done in the budget was lack of transparency. EU funding is enormous. It affects millions and millions of people. In the same way, we do not even have sufficient data on how much the public actually accesses our publication when it comes to the budget. At a time of rising populism and attacks on demo…

6 May

2025

DE Question

Discharge 2023 (joint debate)

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Thank you, Mr. Colleague, for accepting the blue card. I would be interested to know how you would finance the necessary investments in infrastructure, education, social equality and the other issues that you understand are not ideological, because if your wet dream of a government came true – if we are already talking about Germany here.…

6 May

2025

EN Speech

A revamped long-term budget for the Union in a changing world (debate)

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Mr President, people of Europe, I am not adequately dressed to hold a speech in the European Parliament. I am wearing jeans and a t-shirt, and on my t-shirt there is a funny little rabbit. I am not wearing a suit and a tie like you saw me earlier today. I am half the age of the average Member of this Parliament. I am part of the youth and while we discuss the budget – one of the most important top…

6 May

2025

EN Speech

A unified EU response to unjustified US trade measures and global trade opportunities for the EU (debate)

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Mr President, first of all, we are not the group, the Non-attached, that goes against the very nation ... (The President interrupted the speaker) Sorry. I know, I know, I know. I just wanted to say this. We are not the group. Dear people of Europe, dear Commissioner, in the INTA Committee, you told us: 'We will give the US two weeks and then we will respond'. It has been over a month now and the U…

6 May

2025

DE Speech

A unified EU response to unjustified US trade measures and global trade opportunities for the EU (debate)

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Thank you, Mr. Colleague, for accepting the blue card. You said: We should get the energy back from the cheapest supplier. I suppose you mean the Russians. Despite the Russian war of aggression, despite the Russian war crimes, despite the deportation of hundreds of thousands of children. Without going into this specific question now, I would therefore like to define your general moral understandin…

5 May

2025

DE Speech

Control of the financial activities of the European Investment Bank – annual report 2023 (debate)

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5 May

2025

EN Speech

Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2023 (debate)

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Mr President, dear people of Europe, dear Commissioner, when I was researching the most important administrative body of the European Union regarding the topic of this debate, OLAF – who, by the way, also has one of the funniest names of all European institutions, at least from a German or maybe Scandinavian perspective – I found a shocking truth: this so important administrative body does not hav…

5 May

2025

DE Question

Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2023 (debate)

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5 May

2025

DE Speech

Preparation of the EU-UK summit (debate)

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5 May

2025

EN Speech

Order of business

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Madam President, we see a whole lot of violations of Rule 1(10), which obliges us to uphold the values of our Union. Discrediting democratic institutions for applying the law is not free speech. It may breach that rule. We have seen this after the Romanian elections, the French court's ruling on Marine Le Pen, and we will see it again this week, when the AfD will attack German constitutional autho…

3 Apr

2025

DE Speech

Health care related tourism: protecting EU patients abroad (debate)

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Mr President! I would like to start by advising you - with all kindness - to always listen to Mr Droese's speeches from the beginning. Because it is the same man who had himself photographed in front of Hitler's headquarters Wolfsschanze with his hand on his heart at that time. Accordingly, I think: We should listen carefully to these people in what they are doing. Dear people of Europe, two years…

3 Apr

2025

EN Speech

110th anniversary of the Armenian genocide

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Mr President, dear colleagues, sometimes when I upload my speeches to social media, I cut them into footage of a full plenary because the emptiness of the real one is a shame to this House. This is going to be one of those speeches. Dear people of Europe, 110 years ago, the Ottoman Empire began a crime that many still deny today: the genocide on the Armenian people. But it was not foreign historia…

3 Apr

2025

EN Speech

Establishment of a European Day of the Righteous (debate)

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Mr President, dear people of Europe, by recognising the European Day of the Righteous we honour those who did the right thing, not because it was easy, but because it was right. The righteous are those who hid families during the Holocaust, the ones who stood up to dictators, the ones who said 'no' when silence would have been safer. They remind us that conscience is not a luxury, it is a duty. Th…

3 Apr

2025

IT Speech

European Action Plan on Rare Diseases (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, dear citizens of Europe, rare diseases affect millions of people in Europe: They are often children, often lack treatment and often those who are sick feel lonely. Europe must be the answer, with a European action plan for rare diseases, a plan that combines research, access to medicines and solidarity. We are calling for more funding for public research, common…

2 Apr

2025

ES Speech

Prosecution of journalists in Cameroon, notably the cases of Amadou Vamoulké, Kingsley Fomunyuy Njoka, Mancho Bibixy, Thomas Awah Junior, Tsi Conrad (debate)

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Mr President, dear peoples of Europe, journalists in Cameroon are in prison for telling the truth. Amadou Vamoulké has been imprisoned without trial for years. Kingsley Fomunyuy Njoka, Mancho Bibixy, Thomas Awah Junior and Tsi Conrad are also in prison. His crime is to write and talk about freedom. But being a journalist is not a crime. Asking isn't dangerous. It is necessary for a free society. T…

2 Apr

2025

EN Speech

Recent legislative changes in Hungary and their impact on fundamental rights (debate)

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Madam President, I am basing my point of order on Rule 10(1) and Rule 10(4). In relation to the colleague who just said that the elites here in this House do not want a certain policy or a certain candidate – I think this is a blatant disrespect for the fact that we are all democratically elected officials, elected by the people of Europe. We are not elites – we are people from all political and s…

2 Apr

2025

EN Speech

Recent legislative changes in Hungary and their impact on fundamental rights (debate)

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Madam President, dear people of Europe, a few years ago I watched the Cologne Pride, and I saw a man dancing on a wagon, wearing a strap-on dildo, and right next to him two children on the sidewalk. And I thought to myself: maybe sex toys don't belong in a public parade. That would have been a proportionate response – one that respects the rights of the performer and the dignity of the children, o…

2 Apr

2025

EN Question

Recent legislative changes in Hungary and their impact on fundamental rights (debate)

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Thank you, colleague. You asked: 'what is the problem?' And then you talked a lot. I think I can educate you. The problem is that the human right of assembly – which is guaranteed by the Charter of European Human Rights, to which Hungary is a signatory state – is taken away. So in the light of this problem, would you change your opinion?…

2 Apr

2025

DE Speech

European oceans pact (debate)

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Mr President, dear people of Europe! The European Oceans Pact It is more than just a political project. It is a promise that we will no longer only exploit our seas, but also preserve them. Our oceans are CO2-Storage, food source, biodiversity space, our most important allies in the fight against climate change. That's why beautiful words aren't enough. We need to act – bold, concrete and European…

2 Apr

2025

DE Speech

Energy-intensive industries (debate)

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Madam President, dear people of Europe! Our energy-intensive industries, such as steel, chemicals, cement and glass, are not simply production sites – they are the backbone of our economy, drivers of investment and innovation and systemically important to our sovereignty. And unlike the colleague hostage of BSW, who thinks this is a dream, I say: Yes, we can transform these industries – unbureaucr…

1 Apr

2025

DE Speech

Crackdown on democracy in Türkiye and the arrest of Ekrem İmamoğlu (debate)

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Madam President, dear people of Europe, dear friends in Turkey and in the Turkish diaspora! Of course, we are concerned about the situation of a candidate for accession to the European Union. And that's why we are concerned when Ekrem İmamoğlu, the mayor of the country's largest city, is arrested, when the opposition leader is arrested with him, when he is accidentally deprived of the diploma nece…

1 Apr

2025

EN Question

Improving the implementation of cohesion policy through the mid-term review to achieve a robust cohesion policy post 2027 (debate)

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Thank you for taking the blue-card. In your speech, you talked about your fear that the defence spending would swallow all the other – as you said – very important matters. While I share that fear and theory, I would like to ask: why exactly do you think that? Why exactly should that happen? Because I think if we just state that without any reasoning in these really dark times, that would also not…

1 Apr

2025

DE Speech

Presentation of the New European Internal Security Strategy (debate)

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Mr President, dear people of Europe! The threats to our internal security are real – from Russian sabotage to Islamist, left-wing or right-wing extremist terrorist cells, from cyberattacks to election manipulation. This strategy recognises this, but if we want European security, we need European solutions. This means an investigative power of Europol in transnational cases, European forces to prot…