What Monika spoke about.

28 Apr

2026

DE Speech

Joint debate - Discharge 2024 (joint debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, dear Presidency of the Council! I just want to give you one more suggestion. The European Court of Auditors and its President Tony Murphy, as well as the Court of Auditors' team, have repeatedly indicated that the individual agencies, especially when they are smaller or even when they have to make very complex calls for tenders, urgently need support. Perhaps you can…

28 Apr

2026

DE Speech

Joint debate - Discharge 2024 (joint debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, dear Presidency of the Council! I would like to briefly present the discharge report on the agencies, their priorities. We have found a very large majority together, and we were particularly interested in checking how well the agencies are functioning and where problems arise. I believe that it is very important that in the future we pay clear atte…

28 Apr

2026

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Control, transparency and traceability of performance-based instruments (A10-0022/2026 - Monika Hohlmeier) (vote)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I didn't even want to have it myself, but I found out that I... (incomprehensible passage). In this respect, I make it very short: We have passed through the Resilience base performance, some entirely new performance-based instruments through the Corona Recovery Fund. These are now to be transferred to the multiannual financial framework. For us it is essenti…

28 Apr

2026

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Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034 (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, dear President-in-Office of the Council, ladies and gentlemen! First of all: The Commission proposal sets good priorities in terms of competitiveness, innovation, science and research. In defence, he is rather meagerly knitted, where I would hope for more cooperation within Europe. And in terms of infrastructure, there are also reinforcements where we actually need them…

11 Feb

2026

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Rule of law, fundamental rights and misuse of EU funds in Slovakia: the need for an EU response (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, dear Presidency of the Council! First of all, let's start right away: I think it is outrageous to attack NGOs in this way in general. You can't make a blanket mistake, but if someone makes a mistake, you can correct it individually, but now you can't just compare it to corruption or the like, if there is no corruption; I would like to make that clear. Secondly, with …

20 Jan

2026

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Pending approval of the Hungarian national plan for Security Action for Europe (SAFE) funding in light of persistent concerns around the allocation of public funding (debate)

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Madam President, Greetings to both the Commission and the Council! Viktor Orbán's government wants a EUR 16 billion loan from the SAFE programme. In 2023, the European Commission halted the disbursement of over €20 billion due to serious breaches of the rule of law. threats to the independence of the judiciary, rampant corruption, threats to journalists, similar attacks against European companies …

17 Dec

2025

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Implementation of the rule of law conditionality regime (debate)

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Mr President! Commissioner! Dear colleagues! In some respects, today's parliamentary debate has not always been a highlight. I rarely have so much disinformation, so much conspiracy theory – and dear Commissioner, I thank you for the fact-based answer that was indeed right. It does not examine one Member State, but 27 on the basis of the decision of 27 Member States, on the basis of a judgment of …

17 Dec

2025

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Implementation of the rule of law conditionality regime (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner! Dear colleagues! First of all, I would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to my co-rapporteur Jean-Marc Germain and also to the shadow rapporteurs for the good cooperation we have had and for trying to present the best possible implementation report to each other. First of all, it is important for me to say that, from the ground up, we are happy that we were able t…

10 Sep

2025

EN Speech

Presentation by the Council of its position on the draft general budget – 2026 financial year (debate)

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Dear President, Commissioner, Minister, dear colleagues, first, I would like to present the best regards, the best greetings of Johan Van Overtveldt, who will join us again when he can be back in Strasbourg and in Brussels, but he is on a good way of recovering. First, I would like to thank the Minister that he is coming personally because we are not always used to the Ministers doing like this, s…

6 May

2025

DE Speech

Discharge 2023 (joint debate)

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Madam President, Mr President, Commissioner, Mr Minister! This time I have not forgotten the Presidency of the Council, as I did last time. First of all, I would like to thank the Court of Auditors very warmly for the excellent cooperation and for the fact that we always get very good advice, as well as – even with different views that we have – the shadow rapporteurs, with whom we normally agree …

6 May

2025

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Discharge 2023 (joint debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, dear Mr President! One, two, three – all presidents and presidents and commissioners. I am extremely pleased that we are meeting together today for the discharge. There is a novelty in the European Parliament that, following a request from AFCO in CONT, the Greens and the Social Democrats have decided that they do not want a resolution at all. It just said that it was E…

2 Apr

2025

DE Answer

Recent legislative changes in Hungary and their impact on fundamental rights (debate)

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To respond in a completely Christian way – Christian means respecting people as they are and accepting each other as they are, rather than enacting rules that force people to go on the defensive, to stop expressing their opinions, to stop showing what they really are and who they really are. This is what I mean by European free values, which – frankly – are currently not respected in Hungary.…

2 Apr

2025

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Recent legislative changes in Hungary and their impact on fundamental rights (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! Several colleagues from the Hungarian side or from the right side have mentioned that it would allegedly go beyond European legislation and competence. I want to make it clear here where one definitely does not comply with the European rules. We have the free movement of goods, we have the free movement of capital, we have the freedom of establi…

22 Jan

2025

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EU financing through the LIFE programme of entities lobbying EU institutions and the need for transparency (debate)

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Dear Daniel, I am accustomed to denunciations from you by now, but to say it dryly, you are against the entry in the transparency register. Organisations are promoted without being listed in the Transparency Register. Haven't we just called for this as an EU Parliament? Secondly: We do not demand the cancellation of funds, but we only demand transparency for the expenditure and that here not indir…

22 Jan

2025

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EU financing through the LIFE programme of entities lobbying EU institutions and the need for transparency (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! In terms of budget relief, we discovered massive problems with LIFE contracts. The contracts were awarded by CINEA, under the responsibility of the Directorate-General for the Environment, then by Commissioner Sinkevičius. We had received hints from whistleblowers, and there are many questions: How can Commission Treaties provide guidance on the…

23 Oct

2024

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Presentation of the Court of Auditors' annual report 2023 (debate)

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Dear Mr President, dear Commission! But a very warm greeting goes to the European Court of Auditors, to President Tony Murphy and his entire team, and to rapporteur Jan Gregor and his team! Thank you very much for this really valuable report, which is an excellent basis for us. I want to address three key points that go through my mind. Firstly, with regard to the Corona Recovery Fund: I am fascin…

22 Oct

2024

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General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sections (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, dear President-in-Office of the Council, ladies and gentlemen! The European budget is as diverse and multifaceted as hardly any other budget. In the coming year 2025, there are so many urgent issues that we can hardly take care of all of them. But I would like to address three areas in particular. Firstly: Horizon EuropeAs mentioned earlier by my colleague. I do not wan…

9 Oct

2024

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Protecting the EU budget and ensuring that EU funds do not benefit entities or individuals linked to terrorist or Islamist movement (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! What bothers me about the debate here is the undifferentiated nature of – I'm really saying now – the outside left and the outside right. Firstly, the Commission for the most part does not finance terrorist organisations, to be clear, but the vast majority are normal means. But we have problems in reviewing some organizations that, under the gui…

11 Apr

2024

DE Speech

Discharge 2022: EU general budget - European Parliament (A9-0067/2024 - Andrey Novakov) (vote)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. The Green Group loves to submit morally high-quality proposals. There must be transparency everywhere, ethical standards must be raised to paradisiacal heights of infallibility. Of course, the controls must be carried out mainly by green NGOs, and EPP MEPs are particularly keen to be subjected to green audit standards. That is why we women from the EPP - or at l…

10 Apr

2024

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Discharge 2022 (debate)

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Mr President! So, now to the end. First of all, I would like to thank my colleagues who have made the report with me and, once again, the Commission, the European Court of Auditors. Now I can answer a few things. First of all, to Daniel Freund: I think it's great when a Member talks about ethics, then comes shortly before his speech, goes shortly after his speech and otherwise is not present in th…

10 Apr

2024

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Discharge 2022 (debate)

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Mr President! Dear Commissioner, dear President of the Court of Auditors and also the rapporteur of the Court of Auditors, dear Jan Gregor, I am very pleased; Dear President, thank you very much for your presence! Indeed, the 2022 budget discharge has presented us with various challenges. First of all, on the Commission budget: Of course, the coincidence of discontinuing cohesion funds from the ol…

10 Apr

2024

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Ongoing hearings under Article 7(1) TEU regarding Hungary to strengthen Rule of Law and its budgetary implications (debate)

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Mr President! Once again, we have a debate on Hungary and the rule of law. I have followed many debates closely; What surprises me to some extent, dear Hungarian colleagues – and I think Commissioner Reynders will be equally astonished – is the tenacity with which, on the one hand, one wants to have as much money as possible from this European Union and, at the same time, to introduce almost autoc…

13 Mar

2024

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Financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union (recast) (debate)

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Madam President, As I said, once again a thank you to the Commissioner and for the good cooperation we had. Mr Körner expressed it so nicely that the Financial Regulation seems to be something very dry. One cannot even guess what emotional outbursts there have been in part in relation to this actually very dry matter, because if one addresses the Member States to digitalisation and to their admini…

13 Mar

2024

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Financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union (recast) (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, colleagues, at the beginning, I would like to thank all my colleagues first; Nils Ušakovs is my colleague who has worked together with me as Co-rapporteur excellently, thank you very much, and all the shadow rapporteurs. The Financial Regulation is a single rulebook for budget implementation and can be considered one of the backbones of the EU budget. The recast of the …

13 Mar

2024

DE Speech

Guidelines for the 2025 Budget - Section III (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! I believe that in the European Union, even when the time is ripe for crises, we need an extremely large amount of money and, in fact, more money for research and innovation, for Horizon Europe. I am actually very saddened by the fact that the Member States are always cutting horizons in principle on everything – that is, science and research, what …