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Jun

2025

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Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience Facility (debate)

Madam President, thank you very much. The good thing about this implementation report is that it takes note of the Court's warnings that the grant economy entails significant administrative burdens. Several members in this debate today, from left to right, have pointed out the major shortcomings that the Corona Fund RRF entails. It risks weakening productive entrepreneurs that strengthen competiti…

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May

2025

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Discharge 2023 (joint debate)

Madam President, thank you very much. As far as the European Court of Auditors is concerned, it is interesting to hear that no one has proposed savings on this activity. We have very different political views in this House, but I think it is a strength that we agree that the European Court of Auditors is doing an excellent job. A reflection: The ECA budget represents less than one-tenth of the EU …

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May

2025

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Discharge 2023 (joint debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. As rapporteur for this proposal, I would first like to underline the importance of the work of the European Court of Auditors. The ECA plays a unique role within the Union. The ECA carries out independent audits of the Union’s substantial spending and, through its work, reinforces the lack of democratic legitimacy that the EU suffers from, by providing increased …

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May

2025

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A revamped long-term budget for the Union in a changing world (debate)

Madam President, thank you very much. On the part of the Sweden Democrats, we have long been sounding the alarm about the EU's unsustainable budgetary policy, about the problems with joint borrowing and about the corona fund, the RRF. We warn that increased budgets lead to misinvestment and that billions are lost through fraud and irregularities. The Commission, on the other hand, is pushing for a…

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May

2025

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Control of the financial activities of the European Investment Bank – annual report 2023 (debate)

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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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Topical debate (Rule 169) - Social Europe: making life affordable, protecting jobs, wages and health for all

Mr President, I would like to thank you. Unemployment is too high. Social networks are inadequate. There is a significant shortage of affordable housing. Healthcare needs to be strengthened." Much of what my colleagues have said here today can be agreed with. But these are not competences for the EU, but for national and local democratic bodies that are closer to citizens' everyday lives. We in th…

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Mar

2025

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100 days of the new Commission – Delivering on defence, competitiveness, simplification and migration as our priorities (topical debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. She speaks of bold and decisive actions, yet the Commission is unable to do just that: focus. It continues to speak in terms of ‘more of everything’. To be truly bold, Europe must have the courage to make it a priority. A number of previously set ambitions must be prioritized down or scrapped. The big question …

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Mar

2025

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Roadmap for Women`s Rights (debate)

Women's rights are, of course, something that is very important to address here. But I wonder why you do not mention what exists and spreads very much in Europe now, with the destructive women's culture that Islamist fundamentalists are trying to implement with oppression of honor and other things. Isn't that a very big and essential part to deal with when it comes to women's rights in Europe?…

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Feb

2025

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Competitiveness Compass (debate)

Mr President, I would like to thank you. Do you remember the Lisbon Strategy of 2000? The EU would become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world. Twenty-five years later, we can see that not only the Lisbon Strategy, but a series of other solemnly proclaimed treaties, have failed. The EU lagged behind and lost momentum. The competitiveness compass now proposed is fil…

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Feb

2025

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Mr President, I would like to thank you. In the United States, Doge, the Department of Government Efficiency, has in a short time made big headlines when exposing waste in government administration. An initiative such as Doge is needed in the EU. Someone who questions priorities in current budgets and allocation of resources. The European Court of Auditors and others are doing a good job of mappin…

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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, I would like to thank you for your It is a serious misuse of taxpayers’ money when NGOs use contributions from the Commission’s LIFE programme to influence us parliamentarians on green issues. Following the revelation, the Commission, as Commissioner Serafin has now also said here, has changed the rules so that they are not allowed to use this money in direct influence. But it sti…

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Jan

2025

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Geopolitical and economic implications for the transatlantic relations under the new Trump administration (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. The American people have chosen a new political direction. This will have positive consequences for us in Europe. Europe is finally forced to strengthen its competitiveness, green utopias must be reconsidered. There's an important sobriety waiting. The United States will deregulate the state apparatus, take control of borders and protect the interests of taxpayer…

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Jan

2025

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Need to enforce the Digital Services Act to protect democracy on social media platforms including against foreign interference and biased algorithms (debate)

Madam President, thank you very much. All dictatorships in history have curtailed freedom of expression with motive to prevent disinformation, to prevent lies. Therefore, DSA is a tragic act that plays with fire. Instead, I would like to safeguard our European Enlightenment tradition and I could quote Voltaire: "I dislike what you say, but am prepared to die for your right to say what you think." …

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Dec

2024

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

Mr President, I would like to thank you. This discussion frightens me. In the last 20 years, nothing has strengthened democracy, made it broader, more accessible, than the internet and social platforms. Many tens, hundreds of millions of people have been able to express themselves in these media that have not been heard before, that have not had their voice heard, that have been able to participat…

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Dec

2024

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

Mr President, I would like to thank you. Today's debate on innovation in Europe is very important. The situation is serious. Europe's share of the world economy is rapidly declining and our industry is moving abroad. We spend less on research than the US, where four times more venture capital is invested and twice as many patents are registered. We're missing the tech boom. The EU has only 85 unic…

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Nov

2024

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

Madam President, I would like to thank you for your Once again, everything indicates that a Chinese ship has sabotaged important infrastructure in the Baltic Sea. A ship is detained in the Kattegat. The Swedish Prime Minister has kindly requested that the vessel go to a Swedish port to be investigated. It's not good enough. The ship should be forced to a Swedish port, where interrogations can be c…

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Nov

2024

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2025 budgetary procedure: Joint text (debate)

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Oct

2024

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

Mr President, I would like to thank you. The Court's annual report is alarming. Last year's waste of over SEK 150 billion is unacceptable and something radical must be done. We need to drastically reduce the oversized EU budget. When the amounts are so huge, and the time frame for spending this money is tight, the control mechanisms do not keep up. The Sweden Democrats warned of just that when the…

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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, thank you very much. Parliament’s discussion on the 2025 EU annual budget focuses on one thing only: More money for Brussels. Member States show greater financial responsibility and cut proposed expenditure by EUR 1 billion. Parliament must sober up. Money doesn't grow on trees. Europe needs to focus on effective solutions, on competitiveness. Despite record levels of error – up to 1…

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Oct

2024

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Establishing the Ukraine Loan Cooperation Mechanism and providing exceptional macro-financial assistance to Ukraine (debate)

I welcome the support of the Social Democrats in sending weapons to Ukraine. But it is worrying that your partner the Green Party now, according to Swedish Radio, criticizes Poland when it stops Russia's hybrid warfare with migrants across the border from Belarus. Isn't it serious that the Green Party is running Putin's affairs?…

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Oct

2024

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One-minute speeches (Rule 179)

Mr President, I would like to thank you. After police raids in Eastern and Southern Europe earlier this year, Rolex watches, gold, diamonds, jewelry, apartments, villas, cryptocurrency, Lamborghini, Porsche and an Audi Q8 were seized. A single criminal gang is suspected of stealing over SEK 6 billion from the coronavirus fund Next Generation, with the help of experts on grant applications, AI tool…

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Oct

2024

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Mobilisation of the European Union Solidarity Fund: assistance to Italy, Slovenia, Austria, Greece and France further to natural disasters occurred in 2023 (A10-0002/2024 - Georgios Aftias)

Mr President, I would like to thank you. Supranational socialist funds create perverse incentives. Those who are not prepared will be rewarded. Those who have done their job will have to pay. Natural disasters are tragedies, and they are not worthy of being used as an excuse for increased economic redistribution within the EU. To let others pay, for example, if the Dutch would stop maintaining the…

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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)

Madam President, I would like to thank you for your The UN summit, which would be a global governance, makes me think of John Lennon's naive song Imagine. The final declaration states that we should improve migration pathways and recognise the positive contribution of migrants. On the other hand, no mention is made of the sharp increase in violence caused by migration in countries such as Sweden. …