Dirk GOTINK

EPP

Dirk GOTINK

MEP · Netherlands

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Plenary speeches · EU Parliament

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45

Since July 1, 2024

Time at the Floor

1.0h

≈ 62 min

Average speech length

1:32 min

≈ 1.5 min · Rank 181/690

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7

May

2025

NL Speech

Competition policy – annual report 2024 (debate)

Mr President, Europe must become more competitive. We want our businesses to grow and invest here. They are the basis of our livelihood. But this sticks to words if we don't overcome two gigantic challenges. Because why is it easier for a start-up to move from Amsterdam to San Diego instead of, for example, from Amsterdam to Milan? There's a huge problem there. Businesses cannot grow here unless w…

6

May

2025

EN Speech

Discharge 2023 (joint debate)

Mr President, first of all let me thank especially my colleagues working on the agencies discharge in the Budgetary Control Committee. It was I think a very collegial process and I think we worked a lot on content, and we were very patient to hear all the agencies and to look into their issues. For me, there are two points that I would like to raise, and I am happy that we could also pick them up …

6

May

2025

NL Speech

A revamped long-term budget for the Union in a changing world (debate)

Mr President, I am here on behalf of the Committee on Budgetary Control, and this is exceptionally a committee that does not cost so much money, but has to make money. I think this is a special situation. However, there is still some work to be done and every MFF offers opportunities for improvement in spending in the Member States and how we can strengthen this Parliament to control spending. We …

12

Mar

2025

NL Speech

European Semester (joint debate)

Mr President, I am very concerned. Low economic growth, an escalating trade conflict. The economic outlook is bleak. A real test for the new rules. And now we in the EU are mainly talking about more spending on defence and how we are going to pay for it. And believe me, I am the first to say that Europe must pay for its own security. That will be a task of decades, not years. At the same time, we …

10

Mar

2025

NL Speech

Cutting red tape and simplifying business in the EU: the first Omnibus proposals (debate)

Mr President, we are at a turning point in Europe. Old friends are turning their backs on us and old enemies are getting stronger. Especially if Europe takes the lead in the field of climate, for example, other continents no longer follow us. We're not "market makers" anymore. Especially to the colleagues of the S&D I would like to say that the world has really changed. We're not in charge anymore…

11

Feb

2025

NL Speech

Preparedness for a new trade era: multilateral cooperation or tariffs (debate)

Mr President, Trump continues the line of previous US presidents. It is ‘America First’ and that is not Trump’s own. The Inflation Reduction Act has also enticed companies from Europe, to the United States, with all kinds of tax advantages. They opt for re-industrialisation and purchasing power recovery. We have also started this in Europe; we must continue with this, to the benefit of European in…

10

Feb

2025

NL Speech

European Central Bank – annual report 2024 (debate)

Mr President, President, Commissioner, in recent years, people across Europe have lost purchasing power due to unprecedented inflation. Covid, the Russian invasion, it is all cutting very hard, in savings, pensions and in general livelihood security. People notice this every day because of the high energy prices and the food prices. Inflation in the eurozone is persistent. At the same time, I see …

22

Jan

2025

NL Answer

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

I am not opposed in principle to the funding of civil society. After all, Christian democracy is also made up of civil society. So stop framing and don't turn us against the NGOs. The first NGOs in Europe were Christian-Democratic NGOs. I am in favour of them getting money, but not that they then lobby for the European Commission's proposals. This undermines what we do. We are talking about LIFE t…

22

Jan

2025

EN Speech

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

Madam President, I thought we were just getting going, so it was starting to get fun. But I am a bit shocked simply by the framing and sticking to it on your side. We are every time saying: this is about the integrity of the system, not about banning NGOs, getting rid of their funding. The work of the Budget Control Committee, and dear Commissioner, I'm happy you are here, has proven that there is…

22

Jan

2025

EN Question

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

You're framing this very much as an attack on NGOs, and many of you have done that. Could it possibly enter into the debate that we're actually trying to protect also the integrity of the way laws are made in Europe? That it would reinforce the trust people would have in these laws if we would not have this phenomenon of a kind of shadow lobby that is financed by the European Commission? This is i…

17

Dec

2024

EN Question

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

Mr Leggeri, you said some very serious things about the decision of the highest court in Romania and that it was somehow baseless. Do you think Romania is a state where the rule of law exists? Do you believe in the institutions of this European Member State? Because it appears that you actually don't. And instead of implying it, maybe you should say it explicitly in this House.…

17

Dec

2024

EN Speech

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

Mr President, dear Commissioner, the geopolitical symbolism of Romania's presidential election could not be greater: an ambitious European nation thrown into an unprecedented democratic crisis by a tech platform and totalitarian regimes from outside the EU. After letting the fire rage online for weeks, TikTok finally reacted. But when the fire started, they did nothing, despite having election pro…

27

Nov

2024

NL Speech

Rise of energy prices and fighting energy poverty (debate)

Mr President, the figures on energy poverty in Europe are shocking and also unacceptable. In 2022, more than six hundred thousand households in the Netherlands hardly dared to turn on the stove. One in ten Europeans – we have heard it many times in this debate – feel first-hand how energy prices are driving up housing costs and becoming unsustainable. It is a choice between a warm home and other b…

23

Oct

2024

NL Speech

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

Mr President, proper spending by the Union is necessary to ensure the confidence of our citizens, so that they know that their taxpayers' money is well spent. This trust comes on foot and goes on horseback. This applies to all levels of government, but certainly to the European ones, who are further away from the European citizen and who also make relatively little expenditure that really directly…

21

Oct

2024

NL Speech

A stronger Europe for safer products to better protect consumers and tackle unfair competition: boosting EU oversight in e-commerce and imports (debate)

Mr President, Europe has a China problem, because we are flooded with billions of cheap packages. If you stack these packages and put them together, you can almost – I think – build a new Chinese wall. This wall symbolises an export model that will affect all possible sectors of the European economy. It is a model that can offer prices that are hundreds of percent below our price levels. The items…

10

Oct

2024

EN Speech

The rise of religious intolerance in Europe (debate)

Madam President, Mr Commissioner, first of all, Commissioner, I want to thank you for your work in the past years on this important topic. Dialogue is the key to understanding. At the same time, one of the headlines of the past five years was to protect this European way of life: to protect, identify, understand in broad terms who we are, what we are actually protecting. This might be naive, but i…

9

Oct

2024

NL Speech

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

Mr President, Commissioner, from articles by The Welt and Le Journal du Dimanche It appears that the European Commission has warm ties with the University of Gaziantep in Turkey. For example, the university would have received 2.5 tons and can also participate in the beautiful Solidarity Corps that we have. You will think that this is a model university, a university where the European way of life…

9

Oct

2024

NL Speech

Ensuring sustainable, decent and affordable housing in Europe - encouraging investment, private property and public housing programmes (debate)

Mr President, Vice-President, if you cannot leave your parental home to start another life, to live together, to marry, to have children, because homes are unaffordable or unattainable, then you lose confidence in the future. This is exactly what is happening to hundreds of thousands of young people and families in Europe: They are losing confidence in the future. They are also losing confidence i…

19

Sep

2024

NL Speech

The historic CJEU ruling on the Apple state aid case and its consequences (debate)

Mr President, almost ten years ago, Apple CEO Tim Cook called the Commission's decision on state aid total political nonsense. “Total political crap’, he called it. I think that Commissioner Vestager – unfortunately she is not here today – could not wish for a better farewell gift, because after the ups and downs she has seen at the Court in recent years, she ends at least at a high point. So what…

18

Sep

2024

NL Speech

The deteriorating situation of women in Afghanistan due to the recent adoption of the law on the “Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice”

Mr President, as a new Member of this Parliament, it is an honour to speak for the first time on this very subject, on the horrific fate of women and girls in Afghanistan. Depriving women of their voices is the essence of evil. It goes against everything we believe in, and I struggle to conceive of a worse violation of a person's dignity. 21 million women have to disappear from the streets. I can'…