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Oct

2023

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EU-Switzerland relations (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. First of all, of course, I would also like to thank Lukas Mandl, who has done an excellent job and who reminds us - a lot has already been said - that in 2021 the Swiss Federal Council, unfortunately, decided to unilaterally end the negotiations on a comprehensive agreement, a horizontal agreement with the European Union. It is regrettable because it did not res…

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Sep

2023

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Single market emergency instrument (A9-0246/2023 - Andreas Schwab) (vote)

Madam President, A very short thank you to my colleagues for their approval. And I would simply ask for the referral back to committee.

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Sep

2023

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Single market emergency instrument (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner! Thank you very much for this excellent debate. I think you just have to be clear again at this point: You, Commissioner Breton, have done an excellent job in the crisis with President von der Leyen. Some things may not have been as successful as one would have liked, but the way to put the interests of Europe's citizens at the centre was right. And we want to go furt…

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Sep

2023

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Single market emergency instrument (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner! In the coronavirus crisis, we saw how quickly Member States brought back border controls in Europe because we were not sufficiently prepared for the crisis, and this almost brought the economic heart of Europe to a standstill. We want to defend the European single market. We want to ensure that the Member States keep this single market open beca…

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Jul

2023

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Global Convergence on Generative AI (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! Artificial intelligence systems can make an important contribution to addressing the societal and economic challenges of the future. My previous speaker pointed this out. These systems can be accessed from any mobile phone or PC around the world, and this demonstrates – as the rapporteur has already mentioned – that we as a Parliament must have a s…

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Jun

2023

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Make Europe the place to invest (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! It is good that today the Swedish Presidency is taking up the debate in the European Parliament and working with us on what more we can do to make Europe a real place for further investment. We were in Singapore with the Single Market Committee a few weeks ago, and large sovereign wealth funds have been investing in the United States of America …

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Jun

2023

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Artificial Intelligence Act (debate)

This is a very, very important point. The EPP Group is very clear that direct total surveillance by artificial intelligence must remain prohibited, as proposed in the legislative process. There are only two exceptions for us for which we have requested a separate vote. This was also the case in the committee vote. That's why we don't want to fall in anyone's back. It was clear from the outset that…

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Jun

2023

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Artificial Intelligence Act (debate)

Madam President, Madam Vice-President, ladies and gentlemen! First of all, a big thank you goes to all those who have worked out a really exceptionally good compromise for the Artificial Intelligence Act. Because, of course, it is important that with this global milestone that the European Union can set, we ensure that the rules we create in Europe apply uniformly to everyone in Europe and are not…

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2023

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Competition policy - annual report 2022 (debate)

Mr President, Madam Vice-President, ladies and gentlemen! The annual report on the European Union's competition policy is always a good indicator of which topics in Parliament are relevant for the preparation in this area. And I think we can quite rightly state that the Digital Markets Act for this year's work of the Commission is a whole series of decisions ahead of us, which must ensure that wha…

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Mar

2023

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General Product Safety Regulation (debate)

Mr President, Mr Vice-President, ladies and gentlemen! First of all, I would like to thank Mrs Charanzová and our shadow rapporteur Marion Walsmann for their excellent work and to focus on two points that seem to me to be particularly important. The first is that this regulation, too – here too we are dealing with an amendment from a directive to a regulation – ensures that what is prohibited offl…

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Jan

2023

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Consumer protection in online video games: a European Single Market approach (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! The importance of the online gaming market has already been explained several times. Today we are dealing with an extremely relevant topic, especially for many young people in Europe. The video game industry is one of the fastest growing creative industries: 24 billion turnover – this has already been mentioned. One in two Europeans is involved, an…

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2023

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30th Anniversary of the Single Market (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! The single market is much more exciting than what we have heard so far. If we did not have the single market, we would have to invent it. You pointed out, Madam Vice-President: . It's true, in German you would probably say: The Single Market helps us to do business with each other, both economically and personally: economic, because we have the opp…

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Dec

2022

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Major interpellations (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! Critical infrastructures are increasingly only conceivable and usable across borders in Europe today. It is therefore good that we have just heard what the European Commission has said about how we can better protect critical infrastructure together – which includes not only energy transmission networks – and that, of course, we must also ask th…

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Nov

2022

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Revision of the Medical Devices Regulation – how to ensure the availability of medical devices (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner! On Twitter, the European Medical Association points out today that it urgently asks for: ‘European doctors aim to ensure the availability of medical devices.’ This is a warning signal that we cannot take note of with the usual technical calm here. If young children can no longer be treated because the necessary items are no longer available, because there are bottleneck…

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2022

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Establishing the Digital Decade Policy Programme 2030 (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner Breton, ladies and gentlemen! We are talking today about the road to a digital decade, and I would like to highlight three points following what Mrs Carvalho has said. First of all, I believe that it is very important that the European Union pursues a value-driven digital policy. And that is why this declaration on digital rights and principles, which you, Commissione…

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2022

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A truly interconnected Energy Single Market to keep bills down and companies competitive (topical debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! We put the issue of a single internal energy market on the agenda today because we believe that what we have so far is not enough to collectively make our Member States stronger, more resilient to challenges as we have seen them in recent months. This means: What we started in Europe in the 1990s, what we called the internal energy market, is de…

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Oct

2022

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General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2023 - all sections (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, Presidency of the Council, ladies and gentlemen! The opinion of the Committee on the Internal Market is, as always, relatively balanced, because we earn a bit of the money that the Member States and the Commission spend. That is why it was not a big problem to agree on the opinion here, but I would therefore like to highlight two issues that are particularly importan…

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2022

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AccessibleEU Centre in support of accessibility policies in the EU internal market (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! With today's decision to set up an AccessibleEU Centre, we are taking a step towards the single market, which some may not have expected so much, because we want to take into account the fact that this common living space, this common market, can only be shared if all citizens have the same rights and opportunities. Accessibility is not only an …

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Oct

2022

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Radio Equipment Directive: common charger for electronic devices (debate)

Madam President, Madam Vice-President, ladies and gentlemen! A uniform charging cable for small electrical appliances in the European Union is certainly good news. It is good news because the uniformity or standardisation of technical standards can focus competition on the places where citizens, users benefit the most and where we can simultaneously generate all the co-benefits that have already b…

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2022

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Adoption by Croatia of the euro on 1 January 2023 (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! It's a great moment for Croatia to celebrate its 20th anniversary this year. We want to become a eurozone country, and our colleagues have already pointed out that: Croatia has worked hard on this path. Because monetary union – Commissioner, you always attach importance to it – is rules-based, and that's why whoever, like Croatia, respects the rule…

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Jul

2022

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Digital Services Act - Digital Markets Act (debate)

Mr President, colleagues, Commissioners, I would like also wholeheartedly to thank you for the trust that you have given to me when we were dealing with the law, with the draft law, and when there were compromises to be made. This has been a difficult situation for those who felt not to be the leading part of it, but you have made a big step for this law to be, in the end, a success for all of us.…

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2022

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Digital Services Act - Digital Markets Act (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen of the Commission, ladies and gentlemen! Tomorrow we will vote together on the Digital Markets Act and the Digital Services Act. And so, as Mrs Schaldemose has already mentioned, there is a great deal of work behind us. Europe is thus ushering in a new era of tech regulation, in which we ensure that the principle applies in the future: What was not allowed off…

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2022

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Competition policy – annual report 2021 (debate)

Mr President, Madam Vice-President! First of all, I would like to thank you because you always manage to hold the discussions that we have with each other in a very factual and very constructive way. This is very remarkable and also makes these debates very valuable, because we always feel that arguments that are presented arrive there and are implemented with the greatest effort. And that, of cou…

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2022

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Competition policy – annual report 2021 (debate)

Mr President, Madam Vice-President, ladies and gentlemen! The annual report on competition policy is always a good indicator of where Europe stands in terms of the openness of its own markets and the competitiveness of its own economy. Before we get to the individual content, however, I would first of all like to thank the colleagues from the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, but above a…

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2022

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Right to repair (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! It is good that we are talking today about the right to repair, because it is a slogan that sends an important signal for sustainability, but we as the EPP Group also want to add innovation. You know I'm from the Black Forest, and the Black Forest is known for having a lot of tinkerers, mechanics, and do-it-yourselfers. And that's why it's kind …