What Christian spoke about.

10 Mar

2022

EN Speech

The need for an ambitious EU Strategy for sustainable textiles (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, to be honest, I don’t believe a word. We have been announcing that for years. It had been this Parliament strengthening the research programme, doubling the challenge for the creative industries, for innovation. We are facing a transitional phase where clothing is not just about sustainability and new textiles. We are going to a world where fibres will change the con…

8 Mar

2022

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Rising energy prices and market manipulation on the gas market (debate)

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Mr President, in recent months natural gas prices have experienced historical increases to reach 400% between 2020 and 2021 and represent a considerable cost for industry, companies and households. This is caused by many reasons, obviously, but mainly linked to the geopolitical tensions and lower imports from fossil gas from Russia. With the EU gas storage at historical low levels, we witness a gr…

24 Nov

2021

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State of the Energy Union (debate)

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Mr President, the European energy union is based on different pillars, as the Commissioner has been highlighting. But currently, policy agendas are primarily based on climate action and decarbonisation. Rightly so – but what about the other pillars? The report points out that Europe is making good progress towards decarbonisation. However, we all know that more is needed. The other four pillars of…

5 Oct

2021

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The future of EU-US relations (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, what you can count on if you talk about the European-American lessons in this House is the hypocrisy of the populists in this House. The Left is protecting the European defence industry in the Australian issue and fighting any defence budget, any defence industries in Europe. The Right is giving up any kind of solidarity when French companies and France are losi…