What Udo spoke about.

9 Jul

2026

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Joint communication on humanitarian aid (JOIN(2026)0025) (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. Hundreds of millions of people in acute need, more forced to flee than ever before. Commissioner, you have the full support of this House for your dedicated work. Any Ebola outbreak that we don't nip in the bud will come back to us. Any hunger that is not satisfied will at some point express itself in violence, and any war that is not prevented and that, if it c…

26 Mar

2026

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Global Gateway – past impacts and future orientation (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen. Nearly half of our foreign policy funding now goes to Global Gateway projects. And yes, the European Parliament wants us to succeed. We want – the House wants – this to become a central tool for shaping our international partnership and have a good future. What does it mean practically? The Global Gateway strategy needs to know what …

11 Feb

2026

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Post-election situation in Uganda and threats against opposition leader Bobi Wine

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Mr President, Commissioner! Please allow me to read a social media post. I quote: We have killed 22 NUP terrorists since last week. NUP stands for National Unity Platform, the opposition party. I quote further: I'm praying the 23rd is Kabobi. Kabobi stands for Bobi Wine, the opposition leader and candidate for the presidency. The quote comes from the president's son, who is also the head of the Ug…

21 Oct

2025

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Renewing the EU-Africa Partnership: building common priorities ahead of the Angola Summit (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen. Africa is the youngest continent in the world. 40% of the population is under the age of 15. These are hundreds of millions of young people who are eagerly waiting for good education and training, for meaningful work with which they can contribute to the future of their countries. This is where the challenge of the summit in Angola lies, but also t…

21 Oct

2025

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General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sections (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, honourable Presidency of the Council, ladies and gentlemen! If you want to live in prosperity and peace tomorrow, you have to invest in international, reliable partnerships today. This is the commandment of the hour. We are talking about opportunities – yes, that is right. We have to be there when others withdraw. But, Commissioner, please tell us in your reply: How muc…

9 Jul

2025

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Outcome of the Conference on the Financing for Development in Seville (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, Madam Minister! I don't know if everyone in Seville understood the former minister of Senegal correctly: What she wanted was a real partnership. She pleaded for this, and she invited us to enter into a real partnership. This is precisely why such people are invited to discuss with us how this can be done in practice so that we can have a common suc…

12 Feb

2025

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US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, the World Health Organisation and the suspension of US development and humanitarian aid (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner! Dear colleagues! punitive tariffs on friendly nations, the dismantling of its own development agency, the adoption of the Paris Agreement, yes, the announcement to withdraw from the obligations of the World Bank and other international funds: This is not Washington as we know it. This is Neanderthal, this is club-winging before any civilization. For me it is clear: T…

11 Feb

2025

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Escalation of violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (debate)

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Mr President! Dear colleagues! We see the extent of the atrocities in the east of the Congo, the atrocities committed by the warring parties, but especially also by the M23 militia. We see the indescribable extent of sexual violence. Innocent people are victims of war. CommissionerYou heard the house: This must stop, because it must not be that the industrialized states also become the profiteers …

8 Oct

2024

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Outcome of the Summit of the Future: transforming global governance for building peace, promoting human rights and achieving the sustainable development goals (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen! The Commissioner is right: It was a success in New York. The summit for the future was a success. The Pact for the Future is a success. Why? Let me point this out again, Commissioner. Not because we have already achieved everything that urgently needs to happen. No, we do not yet have a global agreement on a common tax concept. No, we do not yet have the larg…

13 Mar

2024

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The immediate risk of mass starvation in Gaza and the attacks on humanitarian aid deliveries

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen. I was able to visit the region last week, on both sides, in Palestine and in Israel. What we are seeing here is an unspeakable, a diabolical spiral of hatred and violence on both sides. That's why you're doing me a favor: It is not about us; It is not a question of how we traditionally approach this conflict. Today and tomorrow, the vote is all abo…

6 Feb

2024

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State of play of the implementation of the Global Gateway and its governance two years after its launch (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen. Yes, we want – no, we even need – to break new ground. We need to move to new shores – the world's crises demand this. And our partners in the Global South also demand this from us. could be an essential answer to this challenge. But I ask: Do we already offer the partnership for good education and work, the partnership to fight poverty and disease…

16 Jan

2024

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Humanitarian situation in Gaza, the need to reach a ceasefire and the risks of regional escalation (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I have a request. Contribute to making this debate today a part of the response to the situation. Contribute to getting a strong resolution, because it makes no sense that we take one side or the other and thus only contribute to the spiral of violence continuing to turn and continue to die and suffer. Death must stop in Gaza. We need to help people finally find…

22 Nov

2023

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Humanitarian situation in Gaza, the need for the release of hostages and for an immediate humanitarian truce leading to a ceasefire and the prospects for peace and security in the Middle East (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, When hostages are released, when pauses in fire are observed, these are important and right steps – but it is not enough. The people in the death zones of Israel, the people in the death zones of Gaza need more. And yes, Mr Borrell is right: We need to look towards peace. But what does that mean? This means for the European Union that we must also have the stren…

18 Oct

2023

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Outcome of the SDGs Summit (18-19 September 2023, New York) – transformative and accelerated actions leading up to 2030 and beyond (debate)

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Mr President, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, Commissioner! Yes, it is halfway through the 2030 Agenda, halfway through the Sustainable Development Strategy of the United Nations and its Member States – our common plan for the world of tomorrow. You have already mentioned it: The interim balance sheet is extremely worrying. With around 30 percent of our goals, there is no improvement, yes, …

17 Oct

2023

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Commission Work Programme 2024 (debate)

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Madam President, Mr Executive Vice-President! My heartfelt congratulations from me too! I have a request to the Commission when it comes to discussing the 2024 work programme. Ms von der Leyen has started with the promise to establish a global commission, a commission of international responsibility. Let's start with that! Yes, we want to support them in this. We have to show how to do this. We li…

12 Sep

2023

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Iran: one year after the murder of Jina Mahsa Amini (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. It's been a year since Jaina Mahsa Amini was killed. We have seen the courageous demonstrations, the rebellion of the people of Iran, especially women, and we have seen the regime's brutal reaction: the crackdown, the repression of the opposition, the acts of violence and the situation are deteriorating – this year alone, over 500 people have been executed. Huma…

12 Sep

2023

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EU-Tunisia Agreement - aspects related to external migration policy (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, President Saied receives more than one billion euros while committing key human rights violations and continuing to dismantle democracy in Tunisia. Commissioner Várhelyi, you have to answer questions, very specific questions. Why has an agreement not been attempted under the existing association agreement with Tunisia, Article 2 of which binds us precisely to re…

12 Jul

2023

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Tax the rich (topical debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, The progressive inequalities in this world are killing. This is especially true for the poorer countries of the Global South, countries that are actually very rich, very often rich in resources, but almost always rich – which is much more important – in young people who want to take their fate into their own hands, who want to do something in the truest sense…

14 Jun

2023

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Implementation and delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner! I would like to thank all the colleagues who have been so active in the debate. The debate, ladies and gentlemen, has underlined the urgency with which we are called to act, and there are opportunities for that. It has been mentioned: We will go in July to High-level Political Forum United Nations in New York. There will be a United Nations meeting in September dedic…

14 Jun

2023

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Implementation and delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, my dear co-rapporteur, Petros Kokkalis! I also thank the shadow rapporteurs who have worked so constructively on the report. In 2015, the international community agreed on a major reform programme: the 2030 Agenda - the concept for a sustainable, social and better world. If we make a mid-term review today, eight years later, we will have to deal with massive …

14 Jun

2023

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Lessons learnt from the Pandora Papers and other revelations (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner! We know the numbers. A continent like Africa loses around $80 billion a year due to illicit capital flight alone. That's about the amount Africa needs for its annual modernization investments, for schools, for hospitals and for transport routes. When will we finally wake up and draw the necessary consequences from it? Yes, we want global minimum…

19 Apr

2023

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Children forcibly deported from Ukraine and the ICC arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Putin has not only instigated a criminal war of aggression against Ukraine, he is trying to destroy the identity of an entire people. Since the beginning of the war, well over 16,000 children have been separated from their families and taken to Russia. Every single case is a war crime. Every single case is an attempt to destroy families, deprive children of thei…

18 Apr

2023

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The need for a coherent strategy for EU-China Relations (debate)

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Mr President, High Representative, Mr Vice-President of the Commission! Yes, Mrs. von der Leyen gave an interesting speech. Let's take care of our economic interests, let's take care of our technological interests. That's right. She mentions human rights. This is also the most serious injury in China. But what does that mean? This aspect is not declensed, and that is a problem. Are we willing to u…

15 Mar

2023

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The EU Guidelines on Human Rights Defenders (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! The defenders of human rights, the courageous women and men who stand with those whose rights are being oppressed – they need our protection. The External Action Service, the European Commission, but also the Member States of the EU have every reason to check where we stand with our policies and where we need to improve. Colleague Hannah Neumann…

13 Feb

2023

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EU funding allocated to NGOs incriminated in the recent corruption revelations and the protection of EU financial interests (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen. Ja, dieser Korruptionsskandal muss rückhaltlos – rückhaltlos heißt: without ifs and buts – be enlightened. Das gilt in Bezug auf ausländische Regierungen, die Einfluss genommen haben. This applies to deputies or ex-deputies who, as the case may be, have exerted influence. And it also applies to sham NGOs, which have taken advantage of the good a…