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16 Sep

2026

DA Speech

State of the Union (debate)

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Madam President! Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, President von der Leyen. Thank you for a hopeful speech. I would like to thank you three times and then I would like to ask you a question. First thank you for honoring the Danish helicopter pilot Rune Kyndal. I know that his family really appreciated what happened today, it was very touching. Thank you so much for opening up to Canada. I am sure t…

7 Jul

2026

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Presentation of the Action Plan on Cybersecurity and AI (debate)

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Mr President! Artificial intelligence has fundamentally changed cybersecurity. It gives us a stronger defense, but it also gives our attackers stronger weapons. That is why Europe needs action and we need action now! The most important task is not necessarily – as some colleagues point out – several rules. The most important task is to ensure that European businesses and authorities actually have …

16 Jun

2026

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Achieving digital sovereignty and resilience for Europe, in light of recent developments affecting access to advanced AI technologies (debate)

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19 May

2026

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EU cybersecurity and preparedness in view of advanced AI systems (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, Minister! It is not news that Europe has been in a hybrid war for a long time. What is new, however, is that AI has become the crucial weapon of war. Every day, authoritarian regimes try to undermine our democracies through cyber-attacks, disinformation and attacks on critical infrastructure. What used to take a bunch of talented hackers a month now only takes a few …

28 Apr

2026

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Presentation of the Better Regulation and Enforcement Communication (debate)

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Madam President! Then we are here again at one of the most important presentations in this Chamber for a long time: the presentation of communication on better regulation. It certainly sounds like something we have tried before, and the result is usually more declarations of intent, calls, guidelines and even more consultants at a very expensive hourly rate to interpret what we really mean in Brus…

10 Mar

2026

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Single Market: how to move from an incomplete single market to one market for one Europe (debate)

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11 Feb

2026

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Urgent actions to revive EU competitiveness, deepen the EU Single Market and reduce the cost of living - from the Draghi report to reality (debate)

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Madam President! With all due respect, I think my colleague is now making a political straw man. I have never voted for anything that I knew would mean fewer jobs. On the contrary. I think that is a common political assumption in Denmark, and I share that view, that there is no contradiction between making green policy and then creating jobs. I think that most Danish companies that make millions o…

11 Feb

2026

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Urgent actions to revive EU competitiveness, deepen the EU Single Market and reduce the cost of living - from the Draghi report to reality (debate)

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Thanks for the question. It was hardly a question, but more of a comment. I can feel that my colleague has just started in the European Parliament, because it is a political virtue to be able to adapt to a new political situation. I think we can all agree in this House that the situation has dramatically changed. When, for example, we have voted in favour of green reforms, it is not because there …

11 Feb

2026

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Urgent actions to revive EU competitiveness, deepen the EU Single Market and reduce the cost of living - from the Draghi report to reality (debate)

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Madam President! Commissioner, Minister. Yes, we have had this debate many times before, and while we are talking, yes, European businesses and consumers are paying the price for the fact that we have still not done what we all know is necessary. The Draghi report and the discussion here today show that we are still in the same trenches that we have always been, politically speaking. Can I not mak…

21 Jan

2026

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Preparations for the EU-India summit (debate)

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Madam President! I had brought a script and there is no reason to follow it. I'm furious! I'm furious about this house and what we've done today. I came here to talk about an FTA agreement with India – on the same day, a few hours ago, when we shot ourselves so heavily in the foot that we can hardly hump from here, by making sure to postpone a Mercosur agreement that every normally thinking and fe…

20 Jan

2026

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Presentation of the Cybersecurity Act (debate)

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Madam President! Commissioner! First of all, thank you. Thank you for finally coming up with this important, important step towards more digital security. Since the Cybersecurity Act entered into force in 2019, the threat landscape has changed significantly. It's much, much worse than we were trying to predict back then. So it's very, very yawsThat this is coming now. It would be desirable for mor…

20 Jan

2026

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Territorial integrity and sovereignty of Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark: the need for a united EU response to US blackmail attempts (debate)

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Mr President, before I begin, let me sincerely, on behalf of Denmark and Greenland, thank this Parliament for its strong show of support, including yesterday's standing ovation. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you very much. It was really a nice gesture. Thank you. Mr President! Eight months ago, I stood in this Chamber and talked about Greenland as a place of opportunity, partnership, develo…

19 Jan

2026

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The 28th Regime: a new legal framework for innovative companies (debate)

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25 Nov

2025

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Digital Package (debate)

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Mr President! Ladies and gentlemen! Let's be honest. There are many areas of European legislation that need a loving hand. Digital is one of those areas. Therefore, a talk about a digital omnibus cannot be taken without ending up talking simplification. punctuation. We are drowning in double legislation, contradictory demands and rules that have long since run from the technology they were suppose…

21 Oct

2025

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Commission Work Programme 2026 (debate)

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Mr President! It is not often that you stand here on the lectern and have to start praising. But I have to say that there were a lot of really, really good tones from the president here today. I think that one should praise, first of all, the fact that there has been an initiative on the so-called 'citizens omnibus', i.e. a citizens' initiative. I can assure the left, which immediately went out an…

7 Oct

2025

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New Strategic EU-India Agenda (debate)

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Mr President! Let's make this clear from the start. Europe and India need a trade agreement. punctuation. It is about strengthening Europe's economy, but it is also about tying India closer to all of us in an uncertain world. India is the world's largest democracy and a fast-growing economy. A stronger partnership with India will of course promote the green transition, innovation and lift hundreds…

8 Sep

2025

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Investments and reforms for European competitiveness and the creation of a Capital Markets Union (debate)

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Madam President! You get a deja-vu when you stand here once again and are about to discuss the Capital Markets Union, for those of us who have been here before. We've been waiting for 10 years, we haven't been able to do much yet. That is why I cannot help thinking that when we see an excellent report - and congratulations to Laluck, my good colleague, for the report - we are once again looking at…

8 Jul

2025

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Presentation of the programme of activities of the Danish Presidency (debate)

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Madam President! Dear Mette! The other day Denmark started its presidency of the EU, and we had a party in Aarhus. A big party, where we as Danes paid tribute to European leadership in the midst of a time of upheaval, led by Commission President von der Leyen. It was nice to see that the Danes backed as much as they did, and the contrast to yesterday in this room was noticeable. Here it was precis…

21 May

2025

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Single Market Strategy (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, I think this strategy is very welcome. I think it has a lot of good measures, a lot of good ideas. So we welcome that in the Renew Group. I just have basically one question. Several of my colleagues mentioned the Member States, the lack of implementation, the lack of enforcement. I totally share their view that we need to do more on this issue, which is actually quite c…

7 May

2025

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Winning the global tech race: boosting innovation and closing funding gaps (topical debate)

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Mr President! Commissioner! Europe has a lot of talent. We have lots of ideas. We have a lot of capital, yet we are losing ground in the global tech race. Why do we do that? If we do not succeed in realising the potential that we have, in terms of scale, investment, then we will not have European innovation as a driver for growth. So we need to do more than offer pilot projects and PowerPoints. We…

6 May

2025

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Protecting Greenland's right to decide its own future and maintain the rule-based world order (debate)

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Madam President! If someone had said just a few months ago that we were going to discuss Greenland in this room, well, most people would probably have shaken their heads. As you know, nothing is as it was. And now it is the American President's appetite for Greenland that has made it necessary not only for us as Danes, but also for us as Europeans to step into character. First of all, because Gree…

12 Mar

2025

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100 days of the new Commission – Delivering on defence, competitiveness, simplification and migration as our priorities (topical debate)

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Mr President! We know it all too well. Europe is falling behind. We can excuse ourselves with war and doubts about alliances that someone will roll back the green transition, that Trump's tariffs are destroying all our opportunities. But let's be honest and say the same as Mario Draghi does. We have to look inside. If we are to strengthen Europe's competitiveness, we must start by cleaning up the …

12 Feb

2025

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Competitiveness Compass (debate)

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Mr President! When you follow today's debate, you are unfortunately confirmed that the trenches are already being dug in this debate. A goal that we should all be able to sign up to; making the lives of European businesses and citizens easier ‐ in an increasingly complicated EU system ‐ ends up being a war of words already on the first day. Instead of doing something concrete, we are doing somethi…

22 Jan

2025

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Uniting Europe against actors hostile to the EU: time to strengthen our security and defence (topical debate)

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Madam President! Europe is in the midst of a new kind of war. The hybrid war challenges both our security and the very foundations of our democracy. It is, of course, about online mis- and disinformation with the sole aim of undermining our trust in each other. And then there are the attacks on our critical infrastructure. From Denmark we have seen with concern the attack on cables in the Baltic S…

17 Dec

2024

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Misinformation and disinformation on social media platforms, such as TikTok, and related risks to the integrity of elections in Europe (debate)

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Mr President! Ladies and gentlemen! Our democracy is under severe pressure – very severe pressure. Every day of the year we are manipulated. And the worst thing is that the manipulation is most often done intentionally and is very well organized. We are in a kind of struggle for existence. That is why we must all defend our democracy, and all those who do not must of course feel the consequences. …