What Lukas spoke about.

10

Oct

2024

EN Speech

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Composition of committees and delegations

(Start of speech off mic) … Rule 202 deals with the point of order. This rule gives us, the Members, the opportunity to uphold the rules of these plenary sessions, and we break it every plenary session. Every plenary session, it is misused to make political statements instead of calling out the rules. Now, I talked to our dear President about this because I wanted to hear her take, and she told me…

10

Oct

2024

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World Mental Health Day - need for a comprehensive EU strategy on mental health (debate)

Mr President, honourable Members of the House, our body is just a shell of flesh and bone, but our mind is what we need to really exist. And if we talk about an important topic like this, we need to compare ourselves with the individual situation of the people that we represent. We – all of us here – can have a spot in therapy instantly in this House, here and in Brussels. Why do I know this? Beca…

8

Oct

2024

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Outcome of the Summit of the Future: transforming global governance for building peace, promoting human rights and achieving the sustainable development goals (debate)

Mr President, dear people of the world, sometimes there are topics where it's better to quote than to give your own account. So let me quote: 'There comes a time when we heed a certain call; when the world must come together as one; There are people dying, and it's time to lend a hand to life – the greatest gift of all; We can't go on pretending day by day; that someone, somewhere will make a chan…

8

Oct

2024

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The democratic backsliding and threats to political pluralism in Georgia (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen. Mr Braun – by the way, a very fitting name in terms of the choice of colours – asked us – Mr Braun, I am talking about you – whether we are tired of the EU interfering in the affairs of states. We are not fed up with it because what you call interference is based on the democratic will of these states, because these states have democratically opted for a comm…

8

Oct

2024

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The crisis facing the EU’s automotive industry, potential plant closures and the need to enhance competitiveness and maintain jobs in Europe (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, this House! As you can read here, the European automotive industry is in crisis. In times of crisis, one should stand together, reflect on one's common strengths. That's why I was particularly surprised when I recently heard about plant closures of the European automotive industry in Germany. I personally – but only marginally – would rather recommend that th…

8

Oct

2024

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Preparation of the European Council of 17-18 October 2024 (debate)

(Start of speech off mic) … House, praised leaders of Europe: war and foreign policy, economy, migration, climate and biodiversity. Important topics, big-boy topics that give a chance for empowering political speeches, juicy press shots and lovely dinner receptions. You might think differently now, but I actually support those line of topics. But those are all topics related to recent political cr…

7

Oct

2024

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One year after the 7 October terrorist attacks by Hamas (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen. War is the scourge of humanity. A year ago, Hamas carried out the largest mass murder of people of Jewish faith since the Holocaust. On that day, she again plunged the people of Israel into darkness. It has not only plunged the people of Israel into darkness, but it has also plunged the people of Palestine into darkness. It has provoked Israel to a military r…

19

Sep

2024

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Droughts and extreme weather events as a threat to local communities and EU agriculture in times of climate change (debate)

Dear colleague, I would like to ask you how you and perhaps your immediate colleagues would feel about the idea of a common European disaster relief service, since you spoke at the beginning about the clean-up work, which is starting intensively not only in your region, but everywhere. I imagine something like THW in Germany, if that tells you anything, directly from the European Union, so that it…

18

Sep

2024

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The case of José Daniel Ferrer García in Cuba

Mr. President, dear human beings, if a person is imprisoned anywhere in the world for their commitment to democracy, that is an attack on every democracy in the world. If we want to defend our democracy here in Europe, then we have to defend José Daniel Ferrer. I would therefore ask you, ladies and gentlemen, to vote in favour of a resolution that makes it very clear what Europe stands for: to spe…

18

Sep

2024

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The severe situation of political prisoners in Belarus

Madam President, dear colleagues, I want to thank you all for the unity in this House regarding this question. I also want to say thank you to the two people in the visitor area for still being with us at this late time. I would like to stress one last time what we are talking about here. You can see the evil of every regime when it comes to the most evil things it does – when it's killing people.…

18

Sep

2024

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The deteriorating situation of women in Afghanistan due to the recent adoption of the law on the “Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice”

Mr President, honourable House! I dedicate my speech to Mr Froelich, who had the Bravado, in a debate on the rights of Afghan women and their oppression, to call for the deportation of these women to Afghanistan. I myself have been going to the same hairdresser in Cologne-Kalk for eight years, to an Afghan family business. The mother of this family, the boss of this shop, did her master's degree i…

18

Sep

2024

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The Hungarian “National Card” scheme and its consequences for Schengen and the area of freedom, security and justice (debate)

Mr President, a German tells Europe something about Schengen – maybe not the best timing, but I am not Nancy Faeser. So, dear people of Europe, dear Prime Minister Orbán, we are in fact in a state of hybrid warfare, and it hurts me to say this here, as I am a pacifist, but I am a militant pacifist. So in that state of hybrid warfare, I call out to our misled Hungarian allies and fellow Europeans, …

17

Sep

2024

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Global measures towards social media platforms - Strengthening the role of DSA and protecting democracy and freedom in the online sphere (debate)

Mr President, dear people of Europe, you might not know me. My name is Lukas Sieper. I'm 27 years old. Therefore, I'm one of the very, very few digital natives in this room. I grew up in both worlds, in the digital and the analogue one. I illegally downloaded movies and music when I was a child. I was scammed by online shops. I am watching democracy and the rights of all of us being targeted by fa…

16

Sep

2024

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Persistent problems of anti-Semitism in Europe and of other forms of hate speech and hate crimes (debate)

Mr President, dear people of Europe, dear Members of Parliament, given the special responsibility of my people regarding this topic, I will speak in German. For just a moment: Imagine that you belong to a faith whose followers have been persecuted since time immemorial and who are now again subjected to increased hatred and hatred. Imagine that you have a sexual orientation that is still defamed a…

16

Sep

2024

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Outcome of the Strategic Dialogue on the Future of EU Agriculture (debate)

You said the people of Europe reject the Green Deal. I would like to ask you which statistics or which polls you lean that claim on?