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Oct

2022

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

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. 828 million people are hungry and don't know what to eat tomorrow. Our primary task must be to equip the World Food Programme to provide acute assistance. But we also need to address the long-term causes – why are so many people starving? One reason is the climate catastrophe. You only look around in Africa. Many countries no longer have harvests. That is why th…

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Oct

2022

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The urgent need for an EU strategy on fertilisers to ensure food security in Europe (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. I am surprised at this debate. For years we have accepted that the fertilisers come from Russia, from Belarus, for years we have done nothing against the fossil dependence in agriculture, especially from Russia. And now there are people here in Parliament calling for subsidies to the fertiliser industry. Mr. Lins, let me tell you: Yara, the largest nitrogen prod…

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Sep

2022

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Renewable Energy Directive (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. We've kind of been arguing about wood for a long time, and we've found a compromise that ended up saying that not every wood burning is equal to carbon neutral, but that we need to see that we basically need to look more critically at primary wood biomass, that we need the cascade principle. Unfortunately, this compromise has now been lifted. Colleagues, I'm not…

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Sep

2022

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Deforestation Regulation (debate)

Mr President! With this regulation, we are taking a very important step forward and Europe can send a signal that we are really ready to assume our responsibilities. Europe is also responsible for illegal deforestation by importing soy, beef and palm oil. Actually, it is no longer possible for us to feed our pigs with soy, where we know exactly that a lot of wood has been illegally cleared for it.…

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Jul

2022

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Recent heat wave and drought in the EU (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. The climate crisis isn't coming anytime soon, the climate crisis is here. And we now see what happens at 1.5 degrees warming. What will happen if we move towards two or more degrees of warming? This planet is already burning. Not only the crisis in southern Europe, but also in the middle of Germany, forests are burning. Even worse is the impact of the climate cr…

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Jun

2022

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Question Time (Commission) Reducing the use of pesticides and strengthening consumer protection

Madam President, Commissioner, do you think the Member States are going along with you? For years, the Member States have been refusing to reduce production, as is already the case in integrated agriculture. There are no reports from the Member States and no plans are being put on the table to reduce pesticides in the Member States. So do you believe that the member states are playing along? Serio…

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Jun

2022

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Question Time (Commission) Reducing the use of pesticides and strengthening consumer protection

Madam President, Yes, Commissioner, you believe in genetic engineering. But do you also see that the use of pesticides has increased in genetic engineering in South America and the USA? Do you really think the opposite is true with the new genetic engineering? What is sustainable use of pesticides? Sustainable use of pesticides It's a term that doesn't work for me. We need to use fewer pesticides.…

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May

2022

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EU action plan for organic agriculture (debate)

Madam President, The 25% target for organic farming is important. And it is more important now than ever, because the invasion of Ukraine has shown us how dependent conventional agriculture is on energy to produce mineral nitrogen, but how dependent many are on feed imports. And then you can clearly say: Eco is not a luxury, but more urgent than ever, also with regard to a different agricultural m…

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Mar

2022

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Need for an urgent EU action plan to ensure food security inside and outside the EU in light of the Russian invasion of Ukraine (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Helping Ukraine must be our first and most important action. Our full support belongs to Ukraine, and we must now help with seeds, fuel and everything we can provide in technology. But the important thing is the fight against the global hunger that threatens. The countries that no longer receive grain from Ukraine will suffer from hunger. Russia will use its …

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Nov

2021

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Common agricultural policy - support for strategic plans to be drawn up by Member States and financed by the EAGF and by the EAFRD - Common agricultural policy: financing, management and monitoring - Common agricultural policy – amendment of the CMO and other regulations (debate)

Ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner! I think that today is a black day for European climate policy, but also for environmental policy. But it is also a black day for farmers in Europe. Because nothing is changed great. It continues as before: with new headings, but without any real changes in content. The main point is not the Eco-schemes; the key point is that 75% of the money continues to be disb…

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Oct

2021

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Farm to Fork Strategy (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Without another agricultural policy, there will be no Green Deal and therefore the Farm to Fork Strategy is the right answer to the future. 50% fewer pesticides, 50% fewer antibiotics, Commissioner, and 25% fewer fertilisers - that is a response; but also: 25% organic farming as a new agricultural model. What we also need, however, is a different trade policy…