What Christian spoke about.

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Oct

2023

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Establishing the Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (‘STEP’) (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner! With STEP, the Commission dares to square the circle. In a correct way, the proposal aims to promote the production of strategic technologies and their supply chains in Europe. At the same time, however, three different and competing objectives are to be met: firstly, the production of the necessary technologies to achieve the 2030 and 2050 climate targets, rightly so; …

11

Jul

2023

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COVID-19 pandemic: lessons learned and recommendations for the future (debate)

Mr President, Mrs Limmer! I'd like to know who silenced you? You are speaking in front of the plenary. They contaminate social media channels. They are public everywhere. Who for God's sake silenced you? Perhaps it is simply because the intolerability of majority decisions in democracy is an imposition on you. No one here has silenced you. This discussion, which is being held on the left, IP right…

10

Jul

2023

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Industrial Emissions Directive - Industrial Emissions Portal - Deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure - Sustainable maritime fuels (FuelEU Maritime Initiative) - Energy efficiency (recast) (joint debate - Fit for 55 and Industrial Emissions)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen! The Industrial Emissions Directive, as it existed before the revision, successfully contributed to the reduction of emissions in Europe. Basically, it is also a modern instrument, because it has a mechanism where industry, NGOs, the public sector discuss for years how to achieve technological progress. But in this case, we are completely beyond the scope. Thi…

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May

2023

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Establishing the Act in Support of Ammunition Production (C9-0161/2023) (vote)

Madam President, dear colleagues, every day, every week counts for Ukraine, desperately fighting against the Russian invasion. Supplying ammunition to Ukraine is urgent. We should therefore also deal with the proposal to ramp up industrial production of ammunition urgently. Therefore, the EPP Group requests and supports an urgent procedure along Rule 163 here in Parliament. ASAP – the name of the …

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May

2023

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Establishing the Act in support of ammunition production (debate)

Mr President, dear Commissioner, as soon as possible, ASAP, I think the acronym is well chosen. The need for ammunition, but also the need for production in Europe for ammunition is urgent. In that sense, the suggested EUR 500 million support for the short-term ammunition production via ASAP is welcome. As the EPP, we strongly support this effort and we salute your personal effort not just to ask …

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Apr

2023

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Guidelines for the 2024 budget - Section III (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, if you are going to look back on that decade, we will learn that this year will be decisive for the future of Europe in terms of competitiveness, in terms of transformation of our societies, in terms of technology, in terms of our ambition of the transformation of our societies towards the CO2-free world. And we are going to see that we don’t under…

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Mar

2023

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Question Time (Commission) - How to ensure energy security in the EU in 2023

Mr President! My question remains very close to the topic because it is the same question. The Energy Agency has attested to a gap of 57 trillion cubic meters. We closed this last year with Russian natural gas and LNG. It was explained that LNG was available on the market because China did not buy this gas on these scales due to the COVID measures. The Chinese have stated that they will massively …

14

Mar

2023

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Question Time (Commission) - How to ensure energy security in the EU in 2023

Mr President, Commissioner, let us be a little more specific. The International Energy Agency has published a study that this summer, and at the latest this autumn, we will have a huge problem in replenishing gas stocks in Europe, unlike last year, where we have still done it via Russian natural gas and liquefied natural gas (LNG). The Energy Agency has made concrete proposals here. In this respec…

14

Mar

2023

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Data Act (debate)

Madam President, dear colleagues, today we are discussing legislation that can enhance the European data-driven economy and enable new business models for industry. Enabling secure, efficient data sharing among businesses can have a profound impact on the economy, leading to more innovation, growth and job creation. It will provide businesses with the right incentives and support to innovate, deve…

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Feb

2023

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A Green Deal Industrial Plan for the Net-Zero Age (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, in 2020, the Commission proudly announced a new industrial policy to implement the European Green Deal as a growth strategy. Yet it took a loud bang from the US to wake up the von der Leyen Commission. Three years later, they finally woke up to the fact that simply placing Fit for 55 regulation is not enough. We need a business case for the European industry …

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Jan

2023

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An EU strategy to boost industrial competitiveness, trade and quality jobs (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, when he presented the Green Deal in this House back in 2019, Vice-President Timmermans said that the fundamental question before us was whether we would be masters of the momentous change ongoing in our industry or we would be subject to what others decide. Through the Green Deal we are supposed to be masters, and the American Inflation Reductio…

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Dec

2022

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EU response to the US Inflation Reduction Act (debate)

(start of speech off mic) ... the Inflation Reduction Act is a systematic challenge for the Green Deal. It’s an alternative to the Green Deal because we never delivered on the deal part of the Green Deal. We are regulating our industry. We are co-creating the regulation. This House is part of that exercise, but we are not investing to ensure in the business case for the transition. That’s what the…

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Nov

2022

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Implementation report on the European Innovation Council (short presentation)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the European Innovation Council (EIC) is a centrepiece of the European innovation policy. It’s a new instrument that was set up to do things differently. An essential part of the Green Deal, the industry’s policy strategy of the EU, Europe’s innovation agenda, it was most likely the most valuable contribution to the new Horizon Europe programme.…

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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, Let’s be realistic. I mean, what the Council has been suggesting is that no less than 40% of all the suggested cuts fall on Horizon Europe. So 40% is on innovation – the innovation we need for everything we are going to endeavour in the coming years. If you look a little bit closer, it is just 7% of the budget, but you impose 40% of the cuts. I mean, if you give a madman a nail an…

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Oct

2022

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Keep the bills down: social and economic consequences of the war in Ukraine and the introduction of a windfall tax (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen! It's a bit shocking: We're rewinding all our old records here. The Commission stresses what it will do, but it has not yet started. The Council stresses what it will do. But he has always, so to speak, relied on Article 122 for the big boys to act – Olaf lends energy to Macron, but the same Macron is then the problem of why there are no pipeline connections from…

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Sep

2022

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Implementation of the Updated New Industrial Strategy for Europe: aligning spending to policy (debate)

Madam President, perhaps I might express our collective hope that we also get an additional five minutes like the Commission. But anyway, Madam Commissioner, you referred to the gratefulness of the Commission for our report. That’s on the one hand true, but on the other hand, what we are doing with that report is simply your job that you didn’t do. And why so? Because this Parliament is united beh…

13

Sep

2022

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The new European Bauhaus (debate)

Mr President, I think my colleagues and I, we listened carefully to the other committees, to the Members and I think a lot has been said. But I would like to appeal yet again and to reiterate, the idea of the Bauhaus. In these harsh times it might be a little bit like something nice to have – to flourish up public space, integrate artists, something like that. For me, the European Bauhaus is the c…

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Sep

2022

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The new European Bauhaus (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! With the Green Deal, the European Union is undertaking arguably the most far-reaching, fundamental transformation of our way of life and society since the existence of the European Union. Currently overshadowed by the terrible war in Ukraine and the resulting crisis in Europe's markets, the Green Deal offers the opportunity to both achieve neces…

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Sep

2022

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EU response to the increase in energy prices in Europe (debate)

Madam President, Three things are important for the EPP. Firstly: Only a real and binding reduction in consumption would allow us to get through the winter and reduce dependence on Russia. Secondly, and quite realistically, any intervention must be assessed in terms of the advantages and disadvantages and their possible consequences. Interventions in the pricing mechanism must never lead to higher…

12

Sep

2022

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Energy efficiency (recast) (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner! Good legislation is not only ambition, and I believe that it was important for the EPP to establish a truly ambitious, but also realistic and feasible energy performance target in the negotiations. I believe that the directive now allows Member States to minimise the administrative burden. I believe that, importantly, we have also been able to integrate other principles…

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Jul

2022

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Objection pursuant to Rule 111(3): Amending the Taxonomy Climate Delegated Act and the Taxonomy Disclosures Delegated Act (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the Green Minister of Economics and Energy, Robert Habeck, placed on Saturday a press release on the taxonomy, and he was deliberately quiet on gas. And I do not use that triumphantly. It’s simply ‘welcome to reality’. We know that for a transitional time we need gas and nuclear in order not to destabilise the grid, to lead the pathway to renewable energy in 203…

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Jun

2022

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Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System - Social Climate Fund - Carbon border adjustment mechanism - Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System for aviation - Notification under the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) (joint debate – Fit for 55 (part 1))

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen! I think we need to move a little bit out of these ideological positions. European industry has long been on the path to decarbonisation. It also makes no sense to raise such a myth here that there are citizens or a young generation who are against industry, against the economy. Our citizens want both. They want change, so to speak, but they are also workers. …

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Apr

2022

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Global approach to research and innovation: Europe’s strategy for international cooperation in a changing world (debate) (debate)

Madam President, dear Commissioner, colleagues, I think we all welcome the dedication of the Commissioner for global research cooperation, in particular, her realistic approach to it. And we should all understand, if we have two strengths in Europe’s it’s the economy and its innovation, our innovation capacity, and that is an issue we have to work on and we have to use for our global ambitions. Bu…

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Apr

2022

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Guidelines for the 2023 budget – Section III (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! The ITRE Committee is concerned. This, of course, is the nature of those responsible for budgets within committees. But the research framework programme – which is our fear – is increasingly turning into a quarry of ambitions for everything. I believe that the importance of the research framework programme goes far beyond research and innovation…

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Apr

2022

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Trans-European energy infrastructure (debate)

Mr President, to make the energy transition work for people and business in Europe, we need more European cooperation. Sustainability, security of supply and affordability are the main criteria, and we, the EPP Group, believe in these three aspects, and they are necessary. I think we should highlight that there is a sharpened focus in this regulation on the needed infrastructure to deploy a robust…