What Udo spoke about.

19 Jan

2023

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The Global Gateway Initiative (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen. Global Gateway is a huge opportunity. It is our chance to put the European Union’s opportunity, relations with the Global South – and this is a long time to come – on a new footing, on a partnership basis that creates the basis for us to shape our future together. But the political direction must be right. It is about 300 billion euros by 2027 for …

18 Jan

2023

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Control of the financial activities of the European Investment Bank - annual report 2021 (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, Vice-President, ladies and gentlemen! Yes, we need the European Investment Bank, Mrs Tinzig is right. And yes, if in 2021 she decided to set up her own department for global tasks, then that's right. But the task is to implement the objectives of the European partnership policy. And there is a European institution that is responsible for ensuring that these European …

23 Nov

2022

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The future European Financial Architecture for Development (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen. Hundreds of millions of people are starving. To achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), 130 trillion are missing by 2030. This is our job, this is our challenge. Yes, it is true – no one is spending more money on development policy internationally than the European Union and its Member States; But the numbers tell us: We ne…

19 Oct

2022

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Global food security as follow-up to the G20 Agriculture Ministers meeting (debate)

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Commissioner, President-in-Office, ladies and gentlemen! – this was the theme of World Food Day on 16 October 2022. No one should be left behind. But what does reality look like? About 830 million people go hungry every day. More than 340 million people are at risk of acute famine. And about 50 million people are waiting immediately for death, unless something decisive happens. Behind these figure…

5 Oct

2022

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The recent humanitarian and human rights situation in Tigray, Ethiopia, notably that of children

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! The people of the Horn of Africa need everything, but not this war. We heard the numbers. Thousands of people have died and more than two million have lost their homes. More than a million children can't go to school, are forcibly turned into soldiers, have lost their parents. It is raped, people suffer, especially women and children. These are cle…

5 Oct

2022

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Outcome of the Commission’s review of the 15-point action plan on trade and sustainable development (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen. If we ask ourselves today how we want to make this world better, then we must recognize how much power lies in shaping trade relations. To recover this treasure, to make it a reality – what do we need for it? Fair trade, decent pay, sustainable products that give the planet a chance to survive, and good working conditions for every woman and every …

15 Feb

2022

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EU-Africa relations (debate)

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Madam President, High Representative, ladies and gentlemen! The summit ahead of us is a huge opportunity. But this opportunity will only become a reality if consistent action is subsequently taken, not if we adopt only one resolution. It has been said in the discussion: Only a fraction of the African population, 11 to 12 percent, have been vaccinated so far. In many large nations, it is less than …

14 Dec

2021

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Outcome of Global Summit Nutrition for Growth (Japan, 7-8 December) and increased food insecurity in developing countries (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen. Millions and millions of people around the world are at risk of acute famine. We know that hundreds of thousands of children will die as COVID-19 worsens the hunger crisis. This, ladies and gentlemen, is a situation in which one thing is completely unacceptable: Look away, turn away and don't act. Commissioner, I am grateful to you for being a stro…

15 Sep

2021

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State of the Union (continuation of debate)

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Mr President, Madam President of the Commission von der Leyen! At the beginning of your mandate, you started with the ambition to lead a global Commission, a Commission at the height of time, which ensures first and foremost that we make the major challenges manageable, under an important role, led by the European Union. I think this claim is still correct and it needs to be pursued. But today we …

14 Sep

2021

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Situation in Afghanistan (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, The lesson of the disaster in Afghanistan can only be one thing: We need a self-confident, independent foreign, security and development policy in the European Union. A global policy that is not based on saber-rattling and one-sided national interests, but looks at how people can live freely in their own self-determination, how we can strengthen the United Na…