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You lost in Ukraine, that I'm ashamed of you, and the speaker is interrupted. 1.5 minutes.

Thank you, when dictators cooperate to weaken us,

we as liberal democracies have to cooperate even closer.

We have to combat the enemies of our democracy outside and inside the European Union. They exist and we know it. We have to tell people.

Populists and autocrats are a risk for our security, for our prosperity, for our democracy, for our freedom of expression, and for our freedom of the press.

This is why our top priority for the next years will be to protect European citizens.

We will protect European citizens offline and online.

The relation between citizens and technology in Europe needs to work for the citizens.

We have to put technology at work for the people, not put people to work for technology.

We shall invest in artificial intelligence because artificial intelligence makes people more productive.

But on the other side, social networks make people less productive. Citizens should not be tools for technology. Technology should be.

As a tool for people to be more productive.

To make the relations between citizens and technology fair, we as a European Parliament, propose a digital levy on technological giants, and we propose,

and the European Parliament is very strongly united on proposing using this digital levy as its own resource to the budget of the European Union.

This means that we will be more able to invest in security and competitiveness, in research to support.

For farmers and our regions, the choice is clear.

Either the richest people on earth, who own the technological giants, pay a fair share for their access to the European single market,

or we might have to cut funding for farmers, researchers, for our security, and I strongly believe that cutting farmers would be a mistake.

This is why let us work together for a strong budget based on our own resources for a strong Europe. Moura, you have a blue card. Will you take it? Yes, Ms. Escudero. There I go. Mr. Moran, you're talking about taxing big tech. That's the EPP.

You talk about digital aspects, but you're not investing, you're talking about the climate, and what,

and those who lost their lives in the summer, but who is managing the transition.

You talk about international law, and then you invited the Taliban and you're not doing anything on Gaza, you're talking about European defense,

and then you put 800 billion international rearmament, you talked about autonomy and investment, but the EPP.

She doesn't want own resources, you don't want taxes, aren't you tired of lying interruption, your speech has nothing to do with my intervention,

of course, but let me say once again, we want a strong European Union,

security, defense, protecting citizens, competitiveness, investing in research, innovation.

These are our priorities for the next years. Security and competitiveness are linked.

We will have to invest more in our security, and we will only be able to do that if our economy is strong,

and the private sector will only continue to invest in Europe if it feels safe and protected.

This is what we're going to do, and we are strongly united as a majority here in the European Parliament for a strong Europe,

and the budget will be an essential tool to achieve this. Thank you very much, Mr. Morrison. Kathleen Van Brempt, one minute.

Thank you, colleagues, let me start by agreeing, President von der Leyen, that Europe is strong, but when we are confronted with the bullies at the geopolitical stage today,

think about Trump, think about Xi Jinping,

we have seen a Commission and the Council that did not react from that strength but from fear, and that must change.

Yes, we need a credible trade strategy, and we support the work of the Commission has done on the trade deals with Australia,

Indonesia, India,

but bilateral agreements alone will not protect us from illegal tariffs and unfair trade practices.

We welcome today Prime Minister Carney, very much looking forward to his speech.

But as leader, he stood up for Canadian workers and industries, and let that be an example for Olof us and let us build further on a trade and really good coalition with Canada,

the UK, Japan, Australia and others, and develop a real and coordinated response to end economic coercion and.

We have given you, Commission, a powerful trade defense and anti coercion toolbox.

Please use it when necessary, because bullies may not act when you lift a finger,

but they will understand you when you raise a fist. Ms Van Brempt. Next is Marieke Ehler one minute.

For years now we've heard that without Brussels our whole sanctions regime would collapse,

but the reality is, I think, not that.

9 out of 10 times we find that Brussels is the one causing problems, and then we try to find a solution.

Competitiveness first of all regulate it so that it's completely destroyed and then draw up an action plan.

Energy costs unaffordable, and then comes the strategy migration,

look the other way for years and years and then come up with a migration pact.

Every single time your answer to this kind of failure is let's have more European Union,

even more European Union. Today is no exception.

What I see is politicians, Olof us here.

In this chamber, you know, we're here to listen, we applaud, but then things just go on as usual from Brussels.

More money, more power, more EU, more rules, but that's not what people want.

People don't want Brussels to decide what they're going to eat, what they're going to drive, what they're allowed to say. That's not what they want.

And I think that it's time for you to review this position.

We're better off without you, as Barry Palmer would say. Madam, you spoke about cost of living.

You want to bring the cost of living down for families, but at the same time you're voting against taxes.

You're saying that you don't want us to be dependent on others.

Rather than supporting European industry, you're doing the very opposite, I'm afraid.

So the Sakharov Prize, for instance, your nomination, that's just one example. I have a question for you. You call yourself a patriot.

And yet you reject Brussels, you reject Brussels and the Commission, but in that case, may I ask you, what do you prefer?

Would you rather be with Washington or Mr. Bardella?

I don't recognize anything from my speech in the question that you have asked,

so I assume this was a pre-prepared question that you wanted to ask me, a pre prepared question that you wanted to ask me.

Of course we are patriotic, but that means strong nation states, not a strong European Union. Thank you.

Thank you, I give the floor to Nikolaus van. One minute. M Ms.

Von der Leyen, I heard you 5 years ago, practically this day 5 years ago, repeating practically what you've said today.

You talked about renewable energy, rejecting nuclear, but now you're promoting it.

You talked about the Greer Deal and its avalanche of rules for our businesses and farmers. Now you talk about simplification.

Now that shows that it's difficult to move from words to actions,

but it also testimony to the failure of your policies to date which have led to Europe dropping down the rankings on the global level.

But you're still rushing headlong towards Brussels centralism.

Eroding the freedom of choices of member states after joining together common debt,

you want to also to invade the sovereignty of tax setting and budget policy.

You want to create a European Security Council that respond to Ukraine involving the UK and Canada.

So let's add not just inflation but institutional inflation.

The whole thing's ridiculous where the EU is so weak,

so Unattractive that 400,000 population of Iceland has just slammed the door on European membership. Thank you. One minute.

Thank you Metsola, Minister Byrne, President von der Leyen, in this envelope.

The rest of the European Union and all the Member States have all the bills, all the programs that we all consider crucial for the future of our Union.

I'll just go through a few of them decarbonisation, hundreds of billions a year a year, competitiveness,

hundreds of billions of euros a year, defense, hundreds of billions of euros a year.

There are many, many more bills like this, I will not bore you, but unless we grow, we all know we cannot afford this,

and to grow, we We just don't have to continue to simplify, by the way, companies have not feel the simplification yet.

We don't have to just complete the single market, which, by the way, includes not excluding EU ink from all sectors and all companies,

and it also includes completing the savings in the Capital Markets Union to liberate 2 or €3 trillion of European savings through finance change.

We also We have to face another bill, the bill,

and a large bill for AI because it is obvious that we cannot grow if we remain a mere spectator in the AI revolution.

We are fully aware of the existence of existential warning from the insiders, but as outsiders now, we are not even part of that discussion,

and we will not be able to pay the bills, and you know what happens when you don't pay the bills, and that's all. Next is Kim parent. One minute.

Thank you von der Leyen, in an increasingly unstable world where tech bros are spreading fear and chaos,

the people and businesses of Europe are longing for stable leadership.

On AI, if Europe is racing, I want to know where we are going. Will our approach on AI protect people?

Will it make us more or less dependent on foreign companies,

and will you ensure the race does not just pay for new tech pro bunkers that guzzle water and energy and harm our nature?

I'm glad you are finally taking on the manipulation machines we are all carrying in our pockets,

but if we only kick children off the platforms and fail to fundamentally change how these platforms work,

Musk and Zuckerberg will pop champagne and leave all our health, safety and democracy at risk.

Thank you, you promised to make all online services safe for all,

everyone and our democracies. We will hold you to it.

Ban addictive design in a strong digital Fairness Act,

then we determine the rules of the game and not AI billionaires. Marc Botenga is next, one minute. Thank you very much, Thank you, Mrs.

Von der Leyen, you talked about self-sufficiency, but it, your arrogance bothered me.

You talked about the best of times for you, who earn so many thousands of euros, but what about other people?

Our hospitals have been destroyed, our trains are late, firefighters are under-equipped, so many people have financial issues. Travel.

Everything that makes up a joie de vivre has to be given up,

3 L, excuse me, €3 per liter for our petrol at petrol stations.

What have you done to end the criminal war of Trump and Netanyahu?

What are you doing to bring peace back to Ukraine? Nothing. You prefer to send Ukrainian.

Fathers to die in Ukraine, and what are you doing to,

to come up with a windfall tax and tax windfall profits?

You prefer to focus on the savings of workers and to provide subsidies for the arms industry.

This is your choice, but you will pay for this. Thank you, President, President von der Leyen.

Generations of Europeans once dreamt of a united Europe.

They dreamt of safety, freedom, prosperity, and the future of dignity.

This dream has now been substituted, yet you keep speaking as though you were still striving for it. The reality confronting Europeans is different. Migration is uncontrolled. There are social tensions.

Energy costs are high, industries are living, and having a decent life is more difficult.

Private and corporate interests have come to replace those of citizens, and decisions are not made close to citizens either. The old European dream no longer exists.

Just recently, the people of Iceland proved that more and more Europeans are seeking to forge a new path ahead.

Europe needs a new dream, a reformed union of sovereign states with a solid foundation underlying it,

a union as Europe's nations have willed, not an elected chiefs.

Europe needs something new, and it is already taking place. Thank you very much, Thank you and Thank you. Our enemies are really testing our vulnerabilities.

The invasion in Ceta, Lithuania, Denmark, Germany, Poland,

these are not just occurrences, casual occurrences.

We're talking about drones, we're talking about cyber attacks. We're talking about territories being impinged upon.

So we're talking about invasions onto the European territory.

We need to have an infrastructure and we need them to know that we will respond immediately.

We don't want, you know, someone like Mr.

Sánchez who just goes off on holiday rather than defending our own borders, because the damage could be really lasting, irreversible.

We need to be autonomous, but we continue.

To work as 27 different small markets, we need to bring down energy costs. We need to invest in digitalization.

We need a made in Europe industry, new trade agreements.

These are the only way forward for Europe in the future.

Europe first, in order to create opportunities and jobs for all young people as well.

Secondly, If we don't put limits on the powers of technologies, then this will be dangerous for young people.

Young people need to be able to use these technologies safely without risk.

And also we need to look towards our young people and their access to housing.

It mustn't be some kind of dream that can never be achieved.

We need less red tape and more assistance.

We also need to look at the question of private property.

This is One of the great assets of the European Union, so competitiveness and unity, that would be the real Europe that we need going forward. Thank you. OK. Next is Raphaël Glucksmann. One minute. Thank you Thank you.

Words, words and words, as Hallet said, words count, but at the moment.

In Europe, 500 workers a day are losing their jobs in European industry. Our society. Is under the burden of closing enterprises.

That is the cost of 30 years of free trade and humiliation vis a vis Trump,

capitulation vis a vis China.

Our battery, our solar panels, everything is coming from China today.

We are fully dependent upon the AI and platforms of the US, our airports, our railways are targeted by Putin. And what do you announce this morning? Panels, strategic debates, wake up.

We need a European investment plan for the ecological transition industry.

We need European preferences, markets, public procurements reserved for European enterprises, protection against. Chinese dumping.

We need the rules that we voted for against the digital giants of the US and China implemented. It's not the time for words. It's the time for actions. Let's act together. A blue card for you. Do you wish to take it, Mr. Gressalis? Go ahead. Mr. You represent the ruling majority.

It has been 5 years since we have had the war in Ukraine with buildings being exploded and people killing.

Are you not ashamed that the biggest union in the world cannot protect Ukraine?

Within 5 years we have had so many words but very little action.

How do you think about the EU that is not able to protect Ukraine for 5 years?

Mr The war in Ukraine is not just a war against Ukraine,

but against the whole European continent, against all our nations.

So we must continue to support the Ukrainian resistance, indeed do much more than we have done to date.

What we need to do from now on is ensure the protection of Ukrainian skies against Russian missiles targeting civilian targets across Ukraine.

What European countries have done for the United Arab Emirates, for the skies of Abu Dhabi,

is something that we should do today for Ukrainian towns.

No, we have not done enough to protect Ukraine.

We have not done enough to defend Europe. What we need is European strategic autonomy. What does that begin with? Increasing our support to Ukrainian resistance. Mr Thank you, Mrs.

Von der Leyen, for years and years you lied saying that there was no rule of law in Hungary,

and yet you know perfectly well that that was not true, not a single word of it.

You had this campaign because you wanted to withhold EU resources and you wanted to make the patriotic Hungarian government fail.

And in a way, you have acknowledged that today.

Then a few months later,

the Tissa government actually put an end to the democratic Hungary and actually introduced a system that is very arbitrary.

You know Olof that, you've been following Olof that, and yet you remain silent now. Why?

Well, we know that Brussels and the Tissa party have actually found an agreement, a pact.

Péter Modar's job is basically to destroy Hungarian sovereignty.

And as for Brussels, Brussels will be prepared to Provide Union resources and support, political support. That's the price you pay for this.

The Tisa government is completely abandoning our sovereignty.

It is deciding to introduce Hungary into the bureaucracy of Brussels as a subservient partner,

but we will continue to fight against this. We fight for Hungarian freedom.

The fact that Ursula von der Leyen has brought her a round of applause does not change reality.

The fact that the EU and the member states are Over indebted people are unemployed.

The causes are visible, but er we fail to see them,

the irrational measures taken in during the pandemic and the Greer Deal, er support for these mafioso regimes.

We are Lily Putin economically,

but we dream about technological sovereignty.

The Greer Deal has brought more dependence on China,

a champion of over regulation of gold plating and of censorship,

that is the democratic shield.

We have forgotten and left behind our democratic origins in Europe. We are an undesirable. Dwarf.

We are organized on a Soviet type centralistic model, but von der Leyen should resign. Thank you.

I give the floor next to Morton Lokega one minute. President von der Leyen. Thanks for a hopeful speech. So I've said 3 times thank you.

I'll say 3 times thank you, and then a question.

Firstly, the helicopter pilot O Connell being paid tribute to is great for his family.

Thank you also for being open towards Canada.

I'm sure we'll get a good speech from Mr.

Carney tomorrow and we're writing history here today.

That's something that's very valuable from our perspective.

And a final thank you for focusing on gold plating, something we've discussed a lot.

I think we've done a lot in Brussels.

Now we need member states to agree and ensure that action happens.

My question To you then is how can we ensure that member states are compelled to do what's necessary because up until now that's been a major problem.

I hope we can consider that in more depth. One minute.

Dear President, dear Prime Minister Carney, I'm really excited we are formalizing our long distance relationship.

Of course, our history has had its ups and downs,

but we recently had a bad breakup with the Brits and you seem to be going through a rough patch with the US.

So clearly we're both open for something new.

And for us, choosing you, Canada, and Mr. Carney is quite easy.

You have Greer hydrogen to keep us warm.

You have maple syrup to keep us happy and heated rivalry to keep us entertained.

We have Poutine, the Mounties, Celine Dion, and Leonard Cohen, and of course, almost every famous Ryan or Justin I can think of. Furthermore, you Canadians possess humankind's rarest skill.

And that is the ability to apologize, which in today's ego denominated world is very rare.

You have courage, Prime Minister, which you have shown by standing up against Trump's gaslighting,

something we still have yet to learn, and we know that Canada will never be the fifty-first state.

And apparently maybe also not the 28th member state even though you would be very welcome,

but maybe we could become the 11th province of Canada in addition for you being an associate member here because we really need to double down,

double, double down on our relationship. Long live Lake Ontario across the oceans. Our hearts will go on. Thank you. Thank you very much, Mr. Vallat. Some prose. Pasquale Golizia, one minute. Thank you very much, Thank you.

Ladies and gentlemen, President von der Leyen, in the last year,

the Commission has presented 41 initiatives on defense and 31 on social issues.

I think that figure is enough to show that your real policy priority is rearmament,

so we're surrounded by war, there's AI, a skyrocketing petrol stations.

Petrol prices and so many people can't make ends meet.

We need to look at labor and you're not focusing on that.

When politics stops looking at people's real lives, people don't, stop having problems, they stop believing in politics,

and that's why the far right is surging, not because Europeans have become extremists, but someone has stopped listening to them. We still have problems in Europe, deindustrialization. Poverty, inequalities, housing.

President, the more you follow the far right, the more they surge.

Why aren't we taxing big tech for a more social Europe that works for peace and doesn't boycott it?

We have to defend our businesses and labor and not austerity and rearmament. Thank you. Thank you, the.

Thank you, President, we've taken good note of your words and some figures.

I've got a minute and a half, and in that 1 minute and a half we're going to spend more than 15 million,

So we need to invest in the economy, clean energy, security, competitiveness. That is freedom.

In 70 years we've got used to circulating without borders, circulating.

Through the continent, but we still have 27 different legislations in what is a so-called single market.

It's still not possible today to create an enterprise recognized throughout Europe at the same time.

And with regard to the migration agreements,

we cannot continue with 27 different policies in a space which is supposed to be a common space.

We also need to guard against extrem extremism. We needed to.

Focus on effective management, that's only possible with integration.

We can only have good rules with good implementation.

The Europeans are looking to us for good results, and we are the ones responsible for that.

Ukraine reminds us every day of what Europe is a project of democracy, peace, and freedom.

The presidency has invited the Prime Minister of Canada, demonstrating a very important fact that democracies do not have the luxury to stand alone,

and that's something that we need to defend in Europe. Garcia Miguel.

Thank you, Sandra Pereira, thank you so much for your speech.

I can agree with a lot of what you said.

One of the things that I fully agree with you on is the need to fight extremism, and I think that fight begins in this House,

and there are a number of rather extreme groups and colleagues in this House with whom your group,

the European People's Party, is working.

Don't you think that we have to put an end to that once and for all, and the pro-European forces, let's see,

two Europeans that we are united for the goals that we share, instead of playing it with the extreme right? Ferreira. Mr. Thank you for your question.

We're all democrats here and what we want is to join forces,

giving priority to work with democrats and those who defend the European Union.

But madam, we also need to be realistic.

And if we have a program with ideas, then we need to negotiate that with all forces in this Parliament.

We would like to give priority to to negotiation and dialogue without prioritizing the cordon sanitaire.

We need to focus on our priorities and protect European democracies and our citizenship.

Thank you very much, Thank you, President von der Leyen.

In Europe, we're experiencing more and more of a backlash against equality, the rights of women, the rights of girls.

I therefore welcome your speech here before the chamber today because we need political will here,

political leadership in order to change our structures. Equality really needs to be incorporated.

Into Olof our policy areas mainstreamed into our budget, our legislation,

and every time we invest using EU resources we need to make a contribution to a more equal Europe.

We also need to use the skills that women have.

A third of all European women are currently outside of the labor market.

You know, they don't have a job, they don't have the income, they don't really control their own lives.

We need their skills and their intelligence as well when it comes to the Greer transition, their knowledge.

We need to really make sure that we stay on course in order to reach our 2030 objectives.

That's why I would be happy to quote you, Mrs.

Von der Leyen, Women are here to stay, but we need results. Thank you. Will you take it, Helene?

Ms Fritzon Will you take a blue card? OK. Paulo Borchia Frego. Mr.

President von der Leyen, your speech was a one-way monologue.

It wasn't connected to the reality that we're experiencing in Europe.

According to you, we've resisted very well to two wars,

but maybe you're not aware of petrol prices in Europe today. You talked about gold plating.

But I find it hard to believe that those who applauded you are not those who voted in favor of this over regulation.

You said, you talked about women and defending their role, I agree, but you're being hypocritical because the European Commission.

Hasn't moved a finger to fight against progressing Islamization of Europe.

You say we're importing more from China, and what about the Greer traffic lights, the Greer Deal,

but the League, the Lega will not allow Europe to become a Chinese colony. Thank you, the State of the Union.

Colleagues The State of the Union address is always generating high expectations,

but There's one key behind Olof our priorities economic growth,

which is the sine qua non.

Behind our geopolitical ambitions, Security,

our wealth, and our competitiveness. So we need genuine deregulation for that. It's not enough to simplify our bureaucracy.

We need to allow more air in for creative enterprise.

We need greater creativity, innovation,

and the European budget needs to have a focus on research and development.

Without strong economic growth, we can be as ambitious as we like.