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May

2025

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

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Apr

2025

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Presentation of the New European Internal Security Strategy (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, first, I would like to extend my congratulations on the European Union's internal security strategy. But there are two things that I am particularly concerned about that I wanted to share with you and Vice President Virkkunen. The first has to do with the digital ecosystem. You have said that we will even remove content from the platforms. That may be fine, but we shoul…

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Mar

2025

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Cutting red tape and simplifying business in the EU: the first Omnibus proposals (debate)

Madam President, deregulate? Yes, I think we all agree on making our Europe more and more competitive. The Draghi Report says it in a special way. But I believe that, rather than deregulating and removing bureaucracy, the fundamental goal is to be world leaders at something. It has been shocking to me that some of the previous speakers have given the Chinese economy as an example, as if it were th…

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Feb

2025

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Threats to EU sovereignty through strategic dependencies in communication infrastructure (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, is Europe at war or not? I think we're at war. We are in a hybrid war and, for the first time in many decades, we are not sufficiently aware of the situation we are going through. We need to invest in our security and in our defence, in our critical telecommunications infrastructure. And to be truly sovereign we only have to do two things: invest in a significan…

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Jan

2025

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EU financing through the LIFE programme of entities lobbying EU institutions and the need for transparency (debate)

Your Honor, I understand that you are a Democrat like me. I would give my life to listen to anyone who even thought differently. What we cannot do is subsidise – neither by the Commission nor by any EU body – only those NGOs that are going to be favourable to us. From what I gather from your words, you would be in favour of those NGOs that only finance your political opinion. Well, I am not, I am …

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Jan

2025

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EU financing through the LIFE programme of entities lobbying EU institutions and the need for transparency (debate)

Madam President, the truth is that we are witnessing a debate at least surprising, because the reality is stubborn. Talk about lobbying is to speak of an instrument that anyone can exercise in our society. The Commissioner himself talked about wanting an active civil society - me too - and that's what NGOs are for. What happens is that the People's Group is trying to misuse, to go against a financ…

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Nov

2024

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

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, 2019: cyberattack at Maastricht University, with a ransomware and then the requirement of more than EUR 200 000 to release your data; 2021, University of Oxford; 2022, University of Cambridge: an attack of phishing to extract data and credentials from our researchers. Undoubtedly, the issue of protecting our science, our universities, our knowledge is a priority…

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Nov

2024

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Enhancing Europe’s civilian and defence preparedness and readiness (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the Niinistö report is extremely interesting. It puts us squarely in the face of the threats we are already facing today, but I wanted to highlight two fundamental elements of this report: the first is the ability to coordinate the intelligence of our countries and, secondly, to try to develop a protective shield that, above all, values the defense of our cit…

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Oct

2024

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Presentation of the Court of Auditors' annual report 2023 (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, it is a pleasure to share this debate with you. I would also like to thank the Court of Auditors, Mr Murphy and, in particular, Mr Gregor, who has made this report so excellent; of course, to a large extent, it seems to us that it is an essential task in the work of the accounts of the European Union. Undoubtedly, it also seems to us that the Digital Decade and, in part…

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Oct

2024

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General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sections (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, thank you for being here and, above all, thank you also to the rapporteurs, Mr Negrescu and Mr Herbst, who have done an excellent job of precisely translating Parliament's opinion into this draft budget. The CONT Committee would, of course, like to highlight the importance of ensuring that cost overruns, for example in Next Generation EU programmes, do not involve cuts …

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Oct

2024

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Facing fake news, populism and disinformation in the EU - the importance of public broadcasting, media pluralism and independent journalism (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, disinformation today is a reality that calls into question and blatantly puts our democracies at risk. Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights speaks of freedom of expression and freedom of information and clearly protects them. This is developed so that our citizens have the ability to make decisions and the ability to be able to …