What Lukas spoke about.

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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9 Feb

2026

DE Question

European Central Bank – annual report 2025 (debate)

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9 Feb

2026

DE Speech

Amending Regulations on agricultural products as regards market rules and sectoral support measures in the wine sector and for aromatised wine products (debate)

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9 Feb

2026

EN Speech

Order of business

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Madam President, Rule 10(1) and (4). Dear colleagues, I have had the honour to address this chamber more than 250 times. If you spend so much time here, you start to listen not only to speeches, but to people, to the interpreters, to the ushers, to the secretaries and to the Vice‑Presidents. And they all tell me the same thing: the level of verbal hostility in this mandate is unprecedented. We hea…

21 Jan

2026

DE Speech

Attempted takeover of Lithuania’s public broadcaster and the threat to democracy in Lithuania (debate)

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Thank you, people of Europe. To the interpreters: Don't be scared! I will not do my full speech in Lithuanian. Not yet! Mr President! I understand the three arguments put forward here. I understand the argument of security, I understand the argument of threat, I understand the argument of state responsibility. But what I don't understand is the naivety of believing that freedom and security can be…

21 Jan

2026

EN Speech

Attempted takeover of Lithuania’s public broadcaster and the threat to democracy in Lithuania (debate)

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OK, thank you very much. Then I would like to do my speech now, and I would ask you to reset the time.

21 Jan

2026

EN Speech

Attempted takeover of Lithuania’s public broadcaster and the threat to democracy in Lithuania (debate)

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Mr President, before I do my speech, in the direction of a point of order: if I understood the colleague directly, she said that the European Parliament ordered for protesters to be shot. If that is the case, then I would really like the Bureau to investigate that, because this is a level of lie and deception that is unacceptable in light of the honour of this House.…

21 Jan

2026

EN Question

Attempted takeover of Lithuania’s public broadcaster and the threat to democracy in Lithuania (debate)

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You said something very refreshing. You said that it hurts that we are here and have to discuss a problem with the democratic system in your home country. And why is this refreshing? Because in many other cases when we discuss problems like this, we see colleagues who are very angry and very disappointed about the fact that we have this kind of debate. So maybe, for me, could you elaborate? Why do…

21 Jan

2026

EN Question

Attempted takeover of Lithuania’s public broadcaster and the threat to democracy in Lithuania (debate)

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You talked, dear colleague, about the amendments, and talking about these amendments, why do you think there is so much importance put on those where it goes about freezing the financial assets in this?…

21 Jan

2026

EN Speech

Preparations for the EU-India summit (debate)

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Madam President, dear people of Europe, earlier in this debate I was very direct in my criticism of the Commission, and I stand by that criticism because this Parliament exists to scrutinise. But scrutiny and hostility are not the same thing. When it comes to our approach to India I must also say clearly that the Commission has done important and good groundwork. You have chosen realism over illus…

21 Jan

2026

DE Speech

Preparations for the EU-India summit (debate)

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I do not want to rely on these false arguments, as you have called it, because that is why I did not make the decision. I took the decision above all because I feel - and I would be interested in that because we have already spoken in the same committee - that it is important for me to show the Commission that it needs to pay more attention to the European Parliament and that in the past it has pr…

21 Jan

2026

DE Question

Preparations for the EU-India summit (debate)

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Thank you, Madame, for accepting the blue card. You have quite rightly spoken about the relevance of new trade agreements in a complicated geopolitical world. And there, of course, the trade agreement with India is very important, but this, as we have just heard, also worries many people. And at Mercosur, it's also the case that many people have concerns. I, as someone who voted in favour of the r…

21 Jan

2026

EN Question

Presentation of the Digital Networks Act (debate)

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Thank you, colleague, for accepting my blue card. My question goes more into a certain aspect that you mentioned and less to the file at hand, I have to confess. You talked about the fact that we are constantly attacked in the digital realm, that we are hacked, especially for you, coming from a country that is under direct threat of Russian imperialism and has been always, I think that matters. So…

21 Jan

2026

DE Question

Presentation of the Digital Networks Act (debate)

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Thank you, Madame, for accepting the blue card. And simply because I didn’t know it until just now – from the point of view of my student self, who travelled through Europe, I also thank you for the roaming legislation. My question is: You said that we need to think about how we finance this – the grid conversion. This is a correct and important question, which, I say, is repeatedly asked by broad…

21 Jan

2026

DE Speech

Presentation of the Digital Networks Act (debate)

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Madam President, dear people of Europe! I recently had one of those moments that shows how fragmented Europe is in everyday life. My internet in Brussels was absolutely stable, absolutely fine and exactly the level I knew from my fiber optic connection from Cologne. Then Proximus called me and said: Mr. Sieper, we would like to switch to fiber optic with you. I was honestly surprised, because I th…

20 Jan

2026

DE Speech

Situation in Venezuela following the extraction of Maduro and the need to ensure a peaceful democratic transition (debate)

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Madam President, Dear people of Europe, I would like to have two children someday. A boy named Heinz and a girl named Tilda. And one day I'll tell you about that moment. From the moment a U.S. president who dismantles democracy and puts children in cages kidnapped a Venezuelan president who stole elections and turned his people over to starvation. I will tell you that this was the turning point. T…

20 Jan

2026

DE Speech

Brutal repression against protesters in Iran (debate)

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Mr President, dear people of Europe! Many of our colleagues have mentioned important measures, such as sanctions, such as putting the Revolutionary Guards on the terrorist list, and I can only agree with that. But the most important thing that has often been said is the support of civil society, the support of the opposition. But now, at this point, we have to ask ourselves: Who are we actually su…

20 Jan

2026

DE Speech

Air passenger rights (debate)

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Madam President, The dismantling of air passenger rights is unspeakable and a mistake. But I would like to go into something else, as Mr Haider said in his speech. He said: ‘the unelected and totally incapable Ursula von der Leyen’. And Madam Vice-President, while I am doing this just as well in a Point of Order I can only say that I find this behaviour and this rhetoric, which is already going on…

20 Jan

2026

EN Speech

Territorial integrity and sovereignty of Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark: the need for a united EU response to US blackmail attempts (debate)

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Mr President, dear colleagues, in the light of the comment of our honoured Vice-President, one hesitates to accuse the President of the United States of anything so vulgar as organised crime, and yet facts are a stubborn thing. For years, 'the Don' informed his allies that protection would henceforth require cash upfront: pay more or face the consequences. Now, having discovered that Greenland is …

20 Jan

2026

EN Speech

Tackling AI deepfakes and sexual exploitation on social media by making full use of the EU’s digital rules (debate)

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Dear colleague, once again, do you think that AI-generated child pornography en masse is just any other reason to regulate? And don't you think that child pornography generated en masse is a good reason to update the system to have new rules? And the same, of course, goes for pictures of women generated without their consent en masse. Is this not a reason to take action, as a Parliament, in light …

20 Jan

2026

EN Question

Tackling AI deepfakes and sexual exploitation on social media by making full use of the EU’s digital rules (debate)

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Thank you, dear colleague. You said, and I quote you here: 'this debate is about everything that the left does not like', which then on the opposite, I think means that you, as a politician from the right, like what this debate is about. So I have to ask the question, do you like AI-generated child pornography? Do you like pictures of women that were generated without their consent? And, as you mo…

19 Jan

2026

ES Speech

Humanitarian aid in a time of polycrisis – reaffirming our principles for a more effective and ambitious response to humanitarian crises (short presentation)

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Mr President, dear people of Europe, I join in the expressions of solidarity and condolences for the tragic railway accident in Andalusia. Humanitarian aid is not a secondary gesture, it touches the core of the European idea of solidarity. In a world marked by wars, climate crises and forced displacement, solidarity is not naivety, it is responsibility. Europe exists today because after the destru…

19 Jan

2026

EN Speech

Safeguarding and promoting financial stability amid economic uncertainties (short presentation)

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I hope, rapporteur, that you are not too sad that it's just you, me and the Commissioner speaking. Dear people of Europe, I want to explicitly align myself with the analysis of our rapporteur, Mr Van Overtveldt, because the independence of central banks is not an abstract economic preference. It's a hard learned lesson from European history. Independent central banks protect price stability. They …

19 Jan

2026

DE Speech

Framework for strengthening the availability and security of supply of critical medicinal products as well as the availability of, and accessibility of, medicinal products of common interest (debate)

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Madam President, dear people of Europe! If you listen to the ESN's contributions in this way, you could almost believe that the EU treaties are a kind of mystical book. You like to call on it without ever opening it. The assertion of Mrs Anderson of the Union lacks the competences here is simply legally wrong. The Critical Medicines Safeguards Framework is clearly and unambiguously based on Articl…

19 Jan

2026

EN Speech

The 28th Regime: a new legal framework for innovative companies (debate)

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Madam President, dear people of Europe, last year I did something new: I founded my first company. After all, every Member of the European Parliament who takes themselves seriously apparently needs a side hustle. Together with a few close friends, we founded a company that organises raves – techno, electronic music, long nights, short mornings. And let me tell you, nothing kills the spirit of elec…