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Lukas SIEPER

MEP · Germany

Plenary speeches · European Parliament

Plenary speeches · EU Parliament

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All Speeches

490

Since July 1, 2024

Time at the Floor

7.7h

≈ 459 min

Average speech length

1:03 min

≈ 1.1 min · Rank 687/690

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Since July 1, 2024

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Rank	Name	Country	Group	Speeches
1	Lukas Sieper	GermanyDE	Renew Europe (Renew)	356
2	Sebastian Tynkkynen	FinlandFI	European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR)	329
3	Juan Fernando López Aguilar	SpainES	Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D)	301
4	João Oliveira	PortugalPT	The Left in the European Parliament (GUE/NGL)	207
5	Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis	LithuaniaLT	Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D)	198

17 Dec

2024

EN Question

Misinformation and disinformation on social media platforms, such as TikTok, and related risks to the integrity of elections in Europe (debate)

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I think this line of questioning shows really well why the non-attached should not be put into one box together. Not all of us are neo-Nazis or populists. But you said something about the poisoning of our children. And this children rhetoric is used a lot by special people, so not for me so much, but maybe for them, you can elaborate a little bit more about the poisoning of children's minds with u…

16 Dec

2024

DE Speech

One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Mr President! Dear fellow human beings! As a representative of the Progressive Party, I would like to take this opportunity to talk about the situation of the new parties in Europe. What unites us all is the barriers to voting – now they are very different across Europe. In the Czech Republic, you will collect 1,000 signatures and from then on you will be allowed to vote in all elections for all d…

16 Dec

2024

EN Speech

Conclusion, on behalf of the European Union, of the United Nations Convention on transparency in treaty-based investor-State arbitration (short presentation)

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Mr President, dear people of Europe, as a shadow rapporteur on this file, I would like to thank Anna Cavazzini and to state my support, as well as to describe to you the importance of this file. The EU has always been committed to transparency and facilitating public engagement with our institution and its procedures. It is important to hold all our Treaties to this standard, even those from a dec…

16 Dec

2024

DE Speech

A European Innovation Act: lowering the cost of innovating in Europe (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, As a representative of the Progressive Party, the European Innovation Act I have a special concern. Recently, I was able to look at an important historical example of innovation in the South Harz, in Germany: The first Wattscher steam engine – put into operation on 23 August 1785. Watt's steam eng…

16 Dec

2024

DE Speech

Right to clean drinking water in the EU (debate)

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Madam President, Ladies and gentlemen, and everyone in between and outside! I too wanted to mention the number of people in Europe who do not have access to clean drinking water – fortunately, Mrs Ter Laak has already done so. I would like to take this opportunity to disagree with Mrs Bentele with the utmost respect. She said we have a good situation when it comes to the distribution of clean drin…

16 Dec

2024

DE Speech

Regional Emergency Support: RESTORE (debate)

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Madam President, Dear Commissioner Fitto, I do not think I have to tell you that it was your staff in particular that caused quite a stir in this House in the composition of the new Commission. And I must also tell you: If I could have voted personally on the individual Commissioners, I would have voted against you – simply because you belong to a political current that is called post-fascist, at …

16 Dec

2024

EN Speech

Activities of the European Ombudsman – annual report 2023 (debate)

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Madam President, dear people of Europe and dear secretaries of the Vice-President. The European Ombudsman is an institution of transparency, and while the annual report of 2023 shows how important this institution is given the fact that 372 proceedings have been concluded, it also shows us the price of transparency. It is not for free – it takes the involved institutions some bravery, because what…

28 Nov

2024

EN Speech

Need to adopt an ambitious international legally binding agreement on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment

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Mr President, dear colleagues, if you have seen me in the last half an hour, you might have realised that I was not sitting here in my place where I, unfortunately – but I respect the rules of procedure, of course – need to take this speech from. I was sitting down there with my colleagues from the Greens, and this is not only because me and my colleagues from the Greens had a nice little chat, th…

28 Nov

2024

EN Speech

Resumption of the sitting

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Madam President, dear colleagues, don't worry, it's going to be my last one for now. I am referring to Rule 167(1), where it says, 'Parliament may place debates on specific matters'. A debate is, according to the Oxford Dictionary, a formal discussion on a matter in a public meeting or a parliament. And here we got a long list of speakers coming in, talk for one minute and then leave. And this roo…

28 Nov

2024

IT Speech

Foreign interference and espionage by third country actors in European universities (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I still remember the first time I spoke in a university classroom: My voice trembled but it was full of passion. That freedom to express myself has shaped who I am today. Every young person deserves the same opportunities free from any foreign interference. Today, our universities are facing an ever-increasing challenge: Countries like China and Russia are attem…

28 Nov

2024

DE Speech

Strengthening children’s rights in the EU - 35th anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen! I would like to join Mrs Van Leeuwen in calling on us to overcome our political trench fights. At the beginning of this year, there was a very serious attempt in Germany to write children's rights into the Basic Law, into our constitution. They even agreed on the content, and it was only because of the political trench fights of the parties involved that this ha…

27 Nov

2024

EN Speech

Promoting a favourable framework for venture capital financing and safe foreign direct investments in the EU (debate)

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Madam President, dear Commissioner, being a new Member to the Parliament, I was not able to see your work in action, but I was told a lot of good things and having a great sense of love for your culture, I must say, you have the most Irish name that I've ever heard in my life. Our newly elected President of the Commission said we need an economy that works for the people and I fully agree. Our str…

27 Nov

2024

EN Speech

Recent legislation targeting LGBTQI persons and the need for protecting the rule of law and a discrimination-free Union (debate)

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Madam President, dear people of Europe, I would like to use this opportunity to challenge one fundamentally wrong talking point of the intolerant, the religious zealots and those who use the discrimination of people to gain power. They say tolerance for people of the LGBTIQ+ community is an ideology. How can you claim the nature of people is an ideology? How can you claim that tolerance for that i…

27 Nov

2024

EN Speech

Rise of energy prices and fighting energy poverty (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, food, safety, energy: that is everything that keeps us from anarchy as human beings. Everything that leads people from distrusting a system if it is missing. And now, in this so very important debate, on average – I counted it – we had 20 MEPs sitting in this room. I know, unfortunately, this is not how it's working here in this Parliament. I know the number of MEPs …

27 Nov

2024

DE Speech

Critical infrastructure vulnerabilities and hybrid threats in the Baltic Sea (debate)

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Madam President, dear people of Europe! Personally, I've always had trouble believing in coincidences. The bigger the coincidence, the harder it is for me. For example, it was a great coincidence when, on the day of the appointment of our Head of Delegation for China, I joined him in the Members' Bar When we got out, there happened to be three Chinese lobbyists, one of whom, like the head of the d…

27 Nov

2024

DE Speech

Stepping up the fight against and the prevention of the recruitment of minors for criminal acts (debate)

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Mr President, dear fellow human beings! I lived for eight years in Köln-Kalk, a district with above-average poverty and therefore above-average crime. For eight years, 14-year-olds offered me marijuana on my way home, and the rest of the time these kids were busy looking cool around the area. But in recent years I've noticed something: They don't look cool in the area anymore, they look at their p…

27 Nov

2024

DE Speech

Presentation by the President-elect of the Commission of the College of Commissioners and its programme (debate)

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Madam President, Madam President of the Commission in spe von der Leyen! Last time we spoke, I told you that I did not vote for you because of a grassroots democratic decision by my party and expressed the hope that you would teach us better. I would give you a 6 out of 10 for this commission. Not bad, but with air upwards, especially with regard to individual Commissioners. Nevertheless, I am now…

26 Nov

2024

DE Speech

Prison conditions in the EU (debate)

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26 Nov

2024

EN Speech

Full accession of Bulgaria and Romania to the Schengen Area: the urgent need to lift controls at internal land borders (debate)

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Madam President, our lands where once the borders stood, now flows the breath of brotherhood. No sentry halls, no gate delays, the open roads greet sunlit days. Through valleys deep or hills that climb, a fearless union breaks through times. In market hum and hearts alight, the ties of Schengen bind the night. Bulgaria's plains, Romania's streams, now wave into our shared dreams. From east to west…

26 Nov

2024

DE Speech

Outcome of COP 29 and challenges for international climate policy (debate)

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26 Nov

2024

DE Speech

Question Time with Commissioners - Challenges in the implementation of cohesion policy 2021-2027

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26 Nov

2024

DE Speech

2025 budgetary procedure: Joint text (debate)

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26 Nov

2024

EN Speech

Reinforcing EU’s unwavering support to Ukraine against Russia’s war of aggression and the increasing military cooperation between North Korea and Russia (debate)

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Madam President, dear people of Europe, I wanted to hold a speech about the saying 'show me your friends and I will tell you who you are', but one colleague already did that, so I'm just going to say, if you use troops of a tyrant in your war, you are a tyrant. But one of my colleagues caught my eye, and this is Petr Bystron from the tyrant-supporting AfD. Petr Bystron, you need to know, right now…

25 Nov

2024

DE Speech

International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (debate)

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Madam President, dear fellow human beings! Every act of violence against a woman deprives her of some of her dignity. Earlier, in the dark Middle Ages, women were not legally considered as human beings, but as objects under the control of their father, brother or husband. Until a quarter of a century ago, there were no laws in large parts of Europe to protect women from violence that was regularly…

14 Nov

2024

EN Speech

EU actions against the Russian shadow fleets and ensuring a full enforcement of sanctions against Russia (RC-B10-0161/2024)

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Madam President, dear people of Europe, I have voted today with the reality in mind that despite our best efforts, EU sanctions on Russia have been not as effective as they should be, as we would have wished for. One weapon in the arsenal that Russia is using as a tool of hybrid warfare are those shadow fleets as an attempt to circumvent EU sanctions. We cannot let this happen. I stand along with …