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11 Mar

2026

EN Speech

EUCO and situation in the Middle East (joint debate)

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Mr President, since the very first day of this conflict, people want me to pick sides. People want me to pick sides as a politician between an Islamist terror regime and war criminals that are corrupt and transform their state into authoritarianism. I refuse to pick sides, because the only people that I care about in this are the civilians that suffer. And you can choose which side kills more or k…

11 Mar

2026

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EUCO and situation in the Middle East (joint debate)

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Mr President, in accordance with Rule 10, the Members of this House have to respect the dignity of Parliament. Mr Droese just called this Parliament a 'sham' Parliament, which is an insult to the dignity of this House. The same insult was already perpetrated last plenary session by a member of his very own party, by a member of his very own group. We can no longer tolerate that Members of this Hou…

10 Mar

2026

DE Speech

Recommendation on enhanced EU-Canada cooperation in the current geopolitical context, including the threats to Canada’s economic stability and sovereignty (debate)

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Mr President, dear people of Europe, Mr Tynkkynen, climate protection is not an ideology – it's a necessity. Commissioner, I would like to refer to one thing that Mrs Bentele has just rightly said: Everything fits with Canada. And sometimes, when I have a quiet moment, I think about the European Union. And then I wonder: What is the European Union? The European Union is a legal construct, a supran…

10 Mar

2026

EN Question

Presentation of the Energy Package (debate)

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Mr President, I would also like to be able to react to the reply of my colleague. Dear colleague, thank you for accepting the blue card. First, I would like to answer your question. Who will turn off the light for European industry? It will be the Russian army, when they bomb us once we lift the sanctions and allow them to push through Ukrainian lines. But my question is different. You talked abou…

10 Mar

2026

DE Speech

European Semester for economic policy coordination 2026 - European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2026 (joint debate)

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Mr President, dear people of Europe! Listening to colleagues like Mr Jungbluth in this way makes you feel that the biggest problem we have in Europe is that the Commission is actually exercising its powers. The problem is actually quite different. After all, we would have much more time to focus on economic policy, innovation, competitiveness if we were not in a constant defensive fight against ex…

10 Mar

2026

EN Question

Single Market: how to move from an incomplete single market to one market for one Europe (debate)

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Dank u wel, mijnheer. I listened very carefully to you and I was happy to hear that you are in favour of European integration in these very critical sectors. So, I was wondering if you would agree with me that if that is the case and if we want to reach this goal, we should in no way and never collaborate with those political forces who want to destroy the European Union and roll back on European …

10 Mar

2026

DE Speech

Housing crisis in the European Union with the aim of proposing solutions for decent, sustainable and affordable housing (debate)

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I am sorry to bore you, Mr Jungbluth, this is called a parliamentary debate. Mr Schirdewan, since we have now agreed that private leasing is actually not such a bad thing, I would like to ask you: What can we do to increase the proportion of private landlords, so that at the end of the day we may have a housing market where landlords and tenants are roughly in a balanced relationship and can opera…

10 Mar

2026

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Housing crisis in the European Union with the aim of proposing solutions for decent, sustainable and affordable housing (debate)

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Thank you, Madam President, for removing me from the list of spontaneous interventions. I do not want to tire my colleagues. However, I would also like to ask another question to Mr Schirdewan. Mr Schirdewan, you have said a lot of great things. So in the matter, I'm right about the problem, but you couldn't let it get back on the landlords and on housing corporations that speculate, or any people…

10 Mar

2026

DE Speech

Housing crisis in the European Union with the aim of proposing solutions for decent, sustainable and affordable housing (debate)

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Thank you very much, Mr. Colleague. My demand would be this: So how do we enter the market? Then how do we regulate this market without any price increases for the young people who then travel? As I said, I agree with you on this point, but how can I imagine this in concrete terms?…

10 Mar

2026

DE Question

Housing crisis in the European Union with the aim of proposing solutions for decent, sustainable and affordable housing (debate)

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Madam President, In accordance with the Rules of Procedure, I would also like to ask a question if necessary. Mr. Colleague, thank you for accepting the blue card. They also talked about the regulation of short-term rentals, and it's about Airbnb and corresponding platforms, if I understand that correctly. And I understand that need. I understand that this is important. At the same time, I know fr…

9 Mar

2026

DE Speech

Gender pay and pension gap in the EU: state of play, challenges and the way forward, and developing guidelines for the better evaluation and fairer remuneration of work in female-dominated sectors (debate)

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Now that we have civilised the debate a little, I ask the second question: In your opinion, what is the point of the current EPP programme where you say that this is the closest to this goal or that this goal is pursued most of all? And why?…

9 Mar

2026

DE Question

Gender pay and pension gap in the EU: state of play, challenges and the way forward, and developing guidelines for the better evaluation and fairer remuneration of work in female-dominated sectors (debate)

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Thank you, Madame, for accepting the blue card. I also wanted to ask you what you intend to do, but now Mrs Demirel has already done so in a way that I do not like. That's why I'm more likely to ask you: Do you think that it is conducive to women's equality if women assume among themselves, on the basis of generalised attributions such as membership of a particular political group, that they are i…

9 Mar

2026

DE Question

Gender pay and pension gap in the EU: state of play, challenges and the way forward, and developing guidelines for the better evaluation and fairer remuneration of work in female-dominated sectors (debate)

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Thank you, Madame, for accepting the blue card. Listening to you like this, I can only say that I am once again ashamed of the role that we men – or many of us men – play in this whole complex. I couldn't help but mention the so-called "family situation" in your description of the family situation. Tradwives to think, i.e. women who stand up on social media and tell other wo…

9 Mar

2026

DE Speech

Gender pay and pension gap in the EU: state of play, challenges and the way forward, and developing guidelines for the better evaluation and fairer remuneration of work in female-dominated sectors (debate)

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Madam Vice-President! I would like to remind Mrs Boßdorf that the Rules of Procedure of the European Parliament prohibit hate speech in Rule 10(4). According to settled case law of European courts, trans women and other non-binary persons, hate speech must be denied their gender identity.…

9 Mar

2026

EN Speech

Upcoming European Research Area (ERA) Act (debate)

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Madam President, dear people of Europe, Commissioner, the author mentioned that research and education can become a unique selling point of Europe – and she's right. Throughout history, there have been many centres of knowledge and education: Alexandria, Baghdad, Oxford, Paris. Why not Europe again? Imagine a continent where a student in Lagos dreams of studying in Kraków; where a researcher in Mu…

11 Feb

2026

EN Question

Rule of law, fundamental rights and misuse of EU funds in Slovakia: the need for an EU response (debate)

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11 Feb

2026

EN Speech

State violence in Minneapolis and the rule of law in the United States (topical debate)

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Madam President, dear people of Europe, what's happening in Minneapolis, what's happening to the rule of law in the United States is horrifying, truly horrifying. And it has been happening for years – a reminder that democracy does not die overnight. It fades slowly, step by step: a slow decline, a drift toward fascism, fuelled by fake news media. Very sad! They used to say, 'Europe is declining.'…

11 Feb

2026

EN Speech

Urgent actions to revive EU competitiveness, deepen the EU Single Market and reduce the cost of living - from the Draghi report to reality (debate)

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Thank you, dear colleague, for your very colourful reply. I was a little sad to hear that you didn't in fact reply to the question at hand, so I will take the freedom to ask again. Do you think that certain fields should then be regulated by the EU? In line with the principle of subsidiarity, but would you agree on that in general? If so, following what you said in your first speech, which fields …

11 Feb

2026

EN Question

Urgent actions to revive EU competitiveness, deepen the EU Single Market and reduce the cost of living - from the Draghi report to reality (debate)

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Thank you, colleague, for accepting my blue card. If I understood the interpretation correctly, you said something truly remarkable. It's not important who does the legislation. It's just important that it is good. So does that mean that you might diverge from the classical Patriots line that there are in fact many, many fields where the European Union should have the competence to regulate and no…

11 Feb

2026

EN Question

Urgent actions to revive EU competitiveness, deepen the EU Single Market and reduce the cost of living - from the Draghi report to reality (debate)

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Dear colleague, thank you for accepting the blue card. I always listen to your speeches with great interest. You made the comparison to China, and you told us that China built nuclear power plants and the EU did nothing. As the ESN is normally firmly against any action from the EU and claims that the Treaties do not allow this or that, I was wondering: where in the European Treaties do you see the…

10 Feb

2026

EN Question

Presentation of the action plan against cyberbullying (debate)

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Thank you, colleague, for accepting my blue card. I think you said something very important in the beginning about how the internet shall not be a place for harassment, for threats. Of course, when we think about this in this debate, we think about minors, we think about women especially, but I think especially we should also think about ourselves as human beings. So, I followed your social media …

10 Feb

2026

EN Speech

Presentation of the action plan against cyberbullying (debate)

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Dear colleague, even though you're leaving now, I think I just want to remind you that also it is, in certain fields, necessary that the state watches all its citizens. I will give you one simple example: all of us have to pay taxes. So the tax authorities watch all citizens in every situation. And also this is a sign of the rule of law, of a functioning state, of a functioning democracy. Democrac…

10 Feb

2026

EN Question

Presentation of the action plan against cyberbullying (debate)

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Thank you, dear colleague, for accepting the blue card. I was quite happy to hear that you are in favour of all the goals that the Commission also pursues with this initiative, with this file. Still, in the very beginning, you said that we shall not limit the digital freedom of our citizens. So how exactly then can we regulate without limiting freedom? Isn't every regulation, every law, a limitati…

10 Feb

2026

EN Speech

Situation in Northeast Syria, the violence against civilians and the need to maintain a sustainable ceasefire (debate)

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Mr President, dear people of Europe, one month after the regime change in Syria, I had the opportunity to travel through northern Syria, and I had a meeting with Mazloum Abdi, the commander‑in‑chief of the SDF, the predominantly Kurdish forces that are now fighting with the central government. And one thing that I remember to this day is the wall of memorabilia that the commander‑in‑chief of the S…

10 Feb

2026

DE Question

Extreme weather events in particular in Portugal, southern Italy, Malta and Greece: European response in strengthening readiness, preparedness and solidarity mechanisms (debate)

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