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2026

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High time to deliver on the Single Market, providing certainty and predictability for EU businesses and quality jobs (continuation of debate)

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Apr

2026

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Enforcement of the Digital Markets Act (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Vice-President Ribera. Two years after the Digital Markets Act came into force, we must remember once again that what my colleague Cavazzini just said was a principle for all of us. We not only created a set of rules, but we wanted to use the ex-ante principles to bring digital markets as a whole into a new competitive culture that we did not have until then.…

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2026

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Joint debate - Discharge 2024 (joint debate)

Well, Raquel, that's a very interesting question. You know that all our Member States have very different systems, and there are some very democratic Member States where there is no ethical body. So the question is not should the institutions behave ethically correctly, the question is how we can achieve that. There is no doubt that my group has some doubts about creating an authority that is stat…

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2026

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Joint debate - Discharge 2024 (joint debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. You can say anything in a democracy and that's why I'm trying to get back to the facts. If citizens entrust us with resources for political priorities, which we decide here in the plenary of the European Parliament together with a majority, then we are assuming the highest responsibility for which we must also justify ourselves. It is therefore our common democr…

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2026

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Package travel and linked travel arrangements: make the protection of travellers more effective and simplify and clarify certain aspects (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! First of all, I would like to agree with what Mr Oetjen has just said for the Committee on Transport. The Committee on the Internal Market has also played a leading role here. In the end, our rapporteur managed to reach a compromise. We have always emphasised that strong consumer protection must not be carried out or implemented on …

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2026

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

Madam President, dear Vice-President Séjourné, dear Minister Raouna! Without a doubt, the European Single Market is one of the greatest success stories of the European Union and also of European cooperation. It has created prosperity for all citizens for three decades. That is why today we honestly state that there are even more opportunities for this single market – if we are willing to take adva…

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Feb

2026

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

Excellent point, dear colleague, thank you so much for asking me. This was the last point that I had to drop. I do agree with you. There is definitely an area – there are sectors – where we are too much exposed to non-European, dangerous technology that can be used against us. For example, the PV inverters. We are at risk there because these tools can be used against our own infrastructure. That c…

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Feb

2026

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

So, dear Mr Boeselager, thank you very much for the request, and it would be a misunderstanding. I don't think simplification is the only thing we can do. I simply believe that we need to ensure that any reporting, documentation or information obligation makes sense, including from the point of view of the entrepreneur who creates it, who has to set it up. If we achieve this, there will be much mo…

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2026

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

Madam President, dear Vice-President, ladies and gentlemen! Mario Draghi is very clear in his report: If the European Union does not change course, the gap with the US in terms of gross national product will increase. And we do not want that because good jobs and prosperity are important to the people of Europe, and because as Europeans we can only play a role in the world if we can make our own c…

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2025

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2030 Consumer Agenda (debate)

Mr President! Commissioner! Dear colleagues! The Consumer Agenda is an essential part of European policy, the European single market policy. And that is why, Commissioner, it is good that you have said that this is the beginning of a journey. This journey must lead us where Mario Draghi has described that European consumers play a central role in using our single market, buying the products that a…

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2025

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Digital Package (debate)

I am grateful for your question. I have said that the coherence between the General Data Protection Regulation, which was done more than ten years ago, together with the treatment of data – that are not only the new oil, but like sunshine for the digital economy – is needed. We don't want to break anything down, but we want to achieve full coherence between AI and the digital services sector, but …

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2025

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Digital Package (debate)

Mr President, Executive Vice-President, I think I am well known in this House for respecting the rules – especially the speaking rules – so I will stay within my time frame. But I would like to say, colleagues, we want to deliver. We want to make sure that European companies can compete at worldwide level. For sure, they have to respect our rules – as all other companies in Europe as well. But our…

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2025

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Protection of minors online (debate)

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2025

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Protecting EU consumers against the practices of certain e-commerce platforms: the case of child-like sex dolls, weapons and other illegal products and material (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! Today we are talking about something that should deeply concern us all – the uncontrolled sale of illegal and dangerous products through large online platforms. These include, as in the case of today's discussion, childish-looking dolls, weapons and other clearly illegal goods and content. These products, ladies and gentlemen, are not only clear…

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2025

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A new legislative framework for products that is fit for the digital and sustainable transition (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! Precisely because we want companies from Germany and France or wherever in Europe to be able to supply all cities in Europe with uniform products, we need uniform standards. For Europe to grow digitally and sustainably, we also need to strengthen the technical foundation. Standardisation remains one of the central pillars and it benefits precisely …

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2025

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The decision to impose a fine on Google: defending press and media freedom in the EU (debate)

Mr President, Vice-President Ribera, ladies and gentlemen! We had to wait four years for the penalty that the Commission has just carried out to be imposed. And during this period, many small and medium-sized publishers in the European Union have faced serious difficulties because they have largely lost the core business they need to publish contributions, articles and opinions, namely the adverti…

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Oct

2025

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Promoting EU digital rules: protecting European sovereignty (debate)

Thank you so much colleague van Lanschot – a brilliant question, and I am sure that you have been already exchanging with your colleague from the Social Democrats who is sitting next to you who is also in government with us. I think we can rely on the Parliament's position that is very clear and has very clearly said that we do not believe that this proposal is the way forward, because Briefgeheim…

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2025

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Promoting EU digital rules: protecting European sovereignty (debate)

Madam President, Madam Vice-President, ladies and gentlemen! The debate on European digital policy shows that sometimes we don't know exactly what we can be proud of and what we need to look at in a self-critical way. I believe that the basic principle of the social market economy, which allows open markets and access to new technologies for many players, is the right way to go – even in the 21st …

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Oct

2025

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Time to complete a fully integrated Single Market: Europe’s key to growth and future prosperity (debate)

Madam President, first of all, Minister, let me tell you that I think you did a very good job this morning of reminding us that if we announce that we want to change the law, then we also have to deliver on it. I cannot hide from you that I am myself a bit frustrated that this takes too much time. You're absolutely right. If you don't like it, it's announced. We have to find majorities and we have…

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Sep

2025

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Implementation and streamlining of EU internal market rules to strengthen the single market (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner! First of all, thank you to the rapporteur and our shadow rapporteur Henrik Dahl for an excellent work. I believe that we have come to a relatively unanimous agreement on what the broad lines must be in the context of our committee. This is very positive, thank you for making it possible. But – this is my first point: The Single Market is not only made in the Single M…

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Sep

2025

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Public procurement (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! As far as public procurement law is concerned, we are in a situation like 2014 except that we have had a colleague in every sectoral report since 2014 who did not find a compromise and then said: Then we simply introduce an additional provision under public procurement law! This has led in part to conflicting procurement rules. That is why the Comm…

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2025

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Product safety and regulatory compliance in e-commerce and non-EU imports (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! First of all, I would like to congratulate my colleague Salvatore De Meo on this excellent report. I believe that all the important issues relating to e-commerce in the European single market are really being discussed in depth here. This is important because the numbers are: 4.6 billion micro consignments below the duty-free limit of 150 euros wer…

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2025

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Electricity grids: the backbone of the EU energy system (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! The internal energy market is at the heart of one of the networked elements of the European internal market. That is why we are doing well to ensure, with Mrs Stürgkh's report, that we are investing in this single market in order to achieve greater resilience, as we saw it a few weeks ago in Spain: If a country does not have enough connectors wi…

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2025

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Single Market Strategy (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, congratulations on this strategy. Mr President! Monsieur le Commissaire, félicitations pour cette stratégie. The Single Market Strategy follows directly on from the reports by Mr Draghi and Mr Letta. It shows a new self-confidence of the European single market, the European Union. In other words, if we implement the Single Market Strategy, we can simply create new growt…

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2025

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Old challenges and new commercial practices in the internal market (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! Every year there is a new single market strategy, and the new one often contains exactly what was included in the old one. In this respect, Commissioner, I am pleased that you have taken up some refreshing new points of analysis in your analysis of the European Single Market for goods and services. However, the problem remains the same as you descr…