Speeches

I just would like to remind colleagues that when you are speaking you cannot show some photos or something like that so I would appreciate it if you would take that into account in future.

The next sitting is tomorrow, Wednesday 15 February 2023 at 3 p.m. 9.00. The agenda has been published and is available on the website of the European Parliament.

The next item is the debate on the report by Michiel Hoogeveen, on behalf of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) 2015/760 as regards the scope of eligible assets and investments, portfolio composition and diversification requirements, borrowing of cash and other fund rules and as regards requirements relating to the authorisation, investment policies and operating conditions of European long-term investment funds (COM(2021)0722 - C9-0435/2021 - 2021/0377(COD)) (A9-0196/2022).

The next item is the debate on the Commission statement on the tensions between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (2023/2557(RSP)).

The next item is the debate on five motions for resolutions on intrusion into Brazil’s democratic institutions (2023/2505(RSP))*. _______________ * See Minutes.

The next item is the debate on five motions for resolutions on the humanitarian consequences of the blockade in Nagorno-Karabakh (2023/2504(RSP))*. _______________ * See Minutes.

Madam President, Commissioner, Let us ask ourselves one question: what will peace look like and what will Ukraine’s victory look like in the absence of this special tribunal? And if we have talked about this special tribunal here in Parliament in the majority of the past, it seems that high-ranking officials in western Europe have also just started to support it. Why is this tribunal important for Western societies, Western democracies? Without this tribunal, at the end of the war, in fact, Europe, America and other Western democracies will receive a frozen war and insecurity for the next steps and a failure to provide an international framework for peacekeeping. And the second point is that, in reality, Russia itself needs this special tribunal. This may sound paradoxical, but without this tribunal there will not be an end to the imperial narrative of society, at least in the next generations of Russia. And we will get a frozen situation for Russia's aggressive actions in the future. This is actually also necessary for Russia itself.

The next item is the debate on the report by Adriana Maldonado López, on behalf of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, on consumer protection in online video games: European single market approach (2022/2014(INI)) (A9-0300/2022).

The next sitting is tomorrow, Tuesday 17 January 2023 at 10 a.m. 9.00. The agenda has been published and is available on the website of the European Parliament.

Next item: One-minute speeches (Rule 172 of the Rules of Procedure) I would like to inform you that during a one-minute speech you are invited to speak from your place.