What Axel spoke about.

15 Jun

2026

DE Speech

Simplification of the implementation of harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Digital Omnibus on AI) (debate)

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Madam President, dear Commissioner, thanks a lot, grateful, for achieving this goal today. I'm switching now to German. The results we have achieved in the whole omnibus process are worth supporting, but of course it is not what we should achieve overall; At least that's what we were able to achieve. But in the end, we always have to ask ourselves the question: What do we really want? If at least …

10 Mar

2026

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Copyright and generative artificial intelligence – opportunities and challenges (A10-0019/2026 - Axel Voss)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, In view of the advanced time only a very short overview: With this report we try to create a balance for the KI‑ developers that on the one hand there is legal clarity and no obstacle and on the other hand the European creatives also benefit from the use of their works. That's why we offer this by means that are simple, digital or adapted to the digital world…

11 Feb

2026

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Accession of Montenegro to the Convention of 2 July 2019 on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters - Accession of the Republic of Albania to the Convention of 2 July 2019 on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters (joint debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! To anticipate this, we explicitly support the accession of Albania and Montenegro to the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters. The accessions certainly strengthen legal certainty, judicial cooperation and also our broader engagement with reliable partners. But once again - and the rappor…

19 Jan

2026

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

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8 Oct

2025

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Promoting EU digital rules: protecting European sovereignty (debate)

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Mr President, Vice-President of the European Commission, ladies and gentlemen! We have to ask American companies whether they still have an interest in following our rules. At the moment, that doesn't seem to be the case anymore. Instead of cooperation, we are witnessing an increasingly open questioning – and in fact disregarding – of a European legal framework. Then we must also ask ourselves whe…

8 Sep

2025

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Governance of the internet – renewal of the mandate of the Internet Governance Forum (debate)

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Mr President, Madam Vice-President! The Internet has long since ceased to be a technical – or merely a technical – infrastructure; It is a common public space in which we work, communicate and also live democracy. Therefore, no one – no power – is allowed to control, fragment or abuse it. That is why the Internet Governance Forum is actually indispensable, because it brings together governments, l…

19 Jun

2025

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The United Kingdom accession to the Convention of 2 July 2019 on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters (debate)

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Mr President! It is a great pleasure for me to be able to speak here today under your supervision. Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, let me make one thing clear: This is not just a question of the United Kingdom’s willingness to accede to the Convention on Choice of Court Agreements; I think we all agree that the UK is capable of doing this. The real question is how the Commission handles the ac…

21 Jan

2025

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Need to enforce the Digital Services Act to protect democracy on social media platforms including against foreign interference and biased algorithms (debate)

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Madam President, Madam Vice-President! It is undeniable that social media influences our society, our opinions and our behaviour. We can remember: Arab Spring 2010, 2011, where we all thought social media brought transparency and democracy to the world. 14, 15 years later, we stand with our backs to the wall and have to defend democracy. The influence on elections is quite obvious: U.S. election, …

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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Madam President, Madam Vice-President, ladies and gentlemen! Social media practices today have simply become a real security risk to our democracy: Whether the X is for election interference, whether the Telegram is for security, or whether the TikTok is in some sort of state mandate, it has become a kind of hybrid warfare. We saw this during the US elections. We saw that in the European elections…

24 Oct

2024

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Closing the EU skills gap: supporting people in the digital and green transitions to ensure inclusive growth and competitiveness in line with the Draghi report (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! We cannot really be shocked by the findings of the Draghi report. We've been hearing the lawsuit for years, and we don't really take it seriously. When do we have to wake up, I think? The digital agenda belongs at the top of our whole agenda, and that really has to be at the top to take the people here with us. When it comes to digital competition,…

12 Mar

2024

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Artificial Intelligence Act (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! The legislation we have on the table here is complex, it is complicated legislation and, in my opinion, actually for a leading AI nation, what would be right – but we are not. That is why the mood outside the EUbubble Not very good either. We protect everything and everyone, but we miss out on a bit of added value through innovation. We should also…

17 Jan

2024

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Policy implications of the development of virtual worlds – civil, company, commercial and intellectual property law issues (A9-0442/2023 - Axel Voss, Ibán García Del Blanco) (vote)

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– Mr President, ladies and gentlemen! We are now dealing here in this report with the so-called global-virtual space, which we also refer to in some way as a metaverse. And we should not neglect, as with social media, to raise a regulation or even the questions, but rather deal here with what questions will come to us tomorrow. Of course, we have more questions than solutions in this report, but t…

13 Jul

2023

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Global Convergence on Generative AI (debate)

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Mr President, Madam Vice-President, ladies and gentlemen! Generative AI is a new quality that we have to deal with, even within artificial intelligence itself. That is why it is also important to set a good framework here for achieving this – and that also more globally than regionally. That would be good, of course. We have global recognition for road signs everywhere. Actually, we would have to …

13 Jun

2023

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Artificial Intelligence Act (debate)

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Mr President, Madam Vice-President, Commissioner! Ladies and gentlemen, I would also like to thank you very much for all the cooperation that has brought us to a compromise. The importance of AI needs to be re-emphasized, I think. This is the basis of all the developments that we will have in the digital world in the future. That's why the balance is right here: It has to be balanced and it has to…

31 May

2023

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Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, especially from the JURI working group! I would like to thank you very much for the very trusting and respectful cooperation. Although we always differed extremely in terms of content, in the end we managed to reach at least compromises here. It is a very political issue, including within the EPP, and that is why it is not easy for us. We have also…

3 May

2022

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Artificial intelligence in a digital age (debate)

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Madam President, Madam Vice-President Vestager! Basically, I think we all notice one thing: We don't want to die in beauty here. Values are important, but they need to be balanced with the innovations of a technology, and that's what matters. We really only want to see regulations for the digital sector, here proposed by the Commission. We need better access to data, and by that I mean personal da…

3 May

2022

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Artificial intelligence in a digital age (debate)

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Mr President! I also thank you for being able to explain all this so well here again, and I think it's good that you're here. But I would also like to thank you, Madam Vice-President, very much for coming, and my fellow Members, very much for what we have achieved here now, and of course also the secretariat and our assistants. We have achieved a lot, but we could have been even more courageous or…