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Thank you very much, dear Commission President, we will now go to the first round of political group speakers,

starting with the EPP Group, its chair, Manfred Weber.

Thank you, the European Parliament, President of the Commission, Commissioners, Prime Minister Carney, great to have you here, dear colleagues.

Thank you, we are facing a fundamental shift that hits Europe with 3 shocks.

The first shock is a technological one, and that's why I thank the Commission President for putting AI in the center, artificial intelligence.

It fascinates, it scares, and it will change the way of life.

That's why a revolution is ongoing, and yes, we have to answer it. The second shock is a geopolitical one.

I don't know whether you saw the pictures from the BRICS summit on the weekend, with a laughing war criminal, Putin next to President Xi.

Discussing their idea of a new world order for me truly shocking pictures,

and the era of naivety is over for us as Europeans, and the third shock runs through our own societies.

Every month we are losing 27,000 industrial jobs, well paid jobs.

The best concept for a social market economy is to have well paid jobs,

and the the emotions created by this are fears among families. We have to find solutions.

As Christian Democrats, as the European People's Party, we give a response.

The first response for us is a different way of doing politics. Not lecturing people. But listening to people.

When people cannot afford to fuel their cars because of the conflict in the Middle East, don't tell them that this is good for climate defense.

Climate change is a reality, no question about this, and we have to work hard to fight against it,

but we have to do it together with people and not against people.

The EPP will fight for a reasonable ETS reform and we stop the ban on combustion engine,

as we promised, we need innovation and not bans.

Let me mention a second example of the way we do politics.

Let's not wait, let's act, and that's why a big thank you to Ursula von der Leyen for the proposal on protecting our children.

Children are not an advertisement target, they are our future, and we should look to Australia,

our colleagues there allowing users to switch off the algorithm.

Elon Musk will not like it, but probably that's a reason for doing it, dear friends.

The second response from an EPP point of view is let's act together.

Ursula von der Leyen spoke about the devastating wildfires.

In France, 70 Ukrainian firefighters came to help. Europe at its best defense.

We must apply the same logic to defense. We spend on defense.

Today more than we spent during the Cuban Missile Crisis,

€6.4 trillion in the next 10 years. And what do we get for this? Let me be a little bit provocative. 27 bonsai armies in the future. The threat is clear. Putin won't stop. We know it.

The airspace violation in Romania, the Polish border, today the news from Lithuania.

Colleagues, the answer is unity and now a European pillar of defense.

François Léotard and Helmut Kohl did not just introduce the euro, they made with the euro European unity irreversible.

No one, even not the hardest nationalist, can exit from the euro without risking a bankruptcy at national level,

and that is exactly what all the defense now needs.

Europeans worry about an empowered German armed forces led in the future,

possibly by an authoritarian AFD defense minister.

Don't get me wrong, that's not the reality today.

But many Europeans are worried when they look to the polls.

Our answer to this is a single market for amendments, joint command structures, European drones,

European satellites so closely connected that no one can ever undo this cooperation.

Adenauer, De Gaspar and Schumann, dear friends, understood this political and historic dimension of unifying Europe in this field. The treaty for a real defense pillar.

Has been sitting in the drawer since 1952.

Let's make this old treaty now a new reality France with a promise,

and this promise means lasting peace for Europe. This is our generation's project.

Finally, the third response from an EPP point of view, bring back growth means bring back hope to Europe.

The EPP delivered on the roadmap towards the single market, let's make it now a reality.

On AI, US investsR 300 billion, ChinaR €290 billion.

Comparing the figures from France and Germany, it's a little bit funny to see these figures.

That's why the message is clear we only can do it together.

We need a European AI Fund, the new Competitiveness Fund.

Dear friends, the EPP will fight for a strong MFF for farmers, mayors and researchers, and if someone wants to cut the European Fund,

please stop being populist, tell us where you want to stop and where you want to cut, then on this. Friends, finally we need friends.

Prime Minister Carney, Canada is the best example for this.

Ursula von der Leyen already referred to the big success of CETA,

and I have to say I was here in this plenary when we ratified CETA.

I still remember the debate about CETA, and I really want to ask again those who opposed to CETA years ago, think again.

Trade agreements are more than new markets, they are the foundation of an alternative world order,

a world order where Europe is not alone anymore.

That is what is at stake when we speak about these kinds of things.

We win by listening to people and answering with bold solution.

We win by listening to people with answering this European vision, and we win by listening to people answering with hope.

The EPP fights for hope and Europe offers hope.

Now I give the floor to the chair of the S&D Group, Iratxe García Pérez. You very much President. Mr. Carney. Welcome, welcome to the European Parliament.

This is your home as well, the home of Europe.

Thousands of Canadians died on European soil fighting against tyranny in two world wars.

Their sacrifice helped to build a Europe of peace, democracy, and international law.

Today that Europe stands at a crossroads, and you have shown great courage.

Confronting Donald Trump, and that courage is extremely important.

It matters because when the law of the strongest reigns.

We need allies who will defend sovereignty, solidarity, and international law.

President von der Leyen, I have heard, we have heard altogether your messages,

but your words must be turned into action.

We can return to nationalism, hatred, and war, or we can defend the Europe we have built.

We chose that Europe and that means being very courageous altogether.

This courage, the courage of Europe to tackle and deal with climate change, to uphold the Greer Deal,

to fight for climate neutrality, we need a European adaptation plan with investment. We need simplification.

Not to become deregulation, not to have deregulation coming in through the back door.

What we need is no competitiveness with, we need competitiveness rather with clean, secure and affordable energy. Let's also work together for independence. We can't be dependent on fossil fuels.

Trump and Netanyahu and their war on Iran have strengthened the Ayatollahs,

and now the time has come to accelerate the transition to renewables.

And let's make those who are putting,

and profiting rather from this particular crisis, let them contribute.

We need an introduction of an extraordinary tax on these particular types of profits.

President von der Leyen, the European project will not survive if our citizens can't afford to live in dignity.

Let's strengthen the European Housing Act and really make it reality and take action on short-term rentals as well.

Let's pass a Quality Jobs Act as well with fair rules for AI in the workplace and collective bargaining.

We need, we need to work in a concerted fashion as concerns. Artificial intelligence.

A courageous Europe is also one of a Europe for women in the face of a far-right that wants to eliminate The crime of femicide,

the right to abortion, even limit the right to vote. We need to work together. We cannot back down. Let them hear us loud and clear. Our rights are irreversible.

We need also to defend our borders, however, without abandoning our values. Migration cannot become a political weapon.

Ceuta is Spain, and it is Europe, and European solidarity.

Cannot depend on who is in power and where the crisis emerges.

Above all, the courage to defend peace and international law.

A year ago, you called for suspending the trade component of the association agreement with Israel. And imposing sanctions. A year later, where are we? Where do we stand? We cannot accept genocide and impunity.

How is it that there is not a single measure against Netanyahu? We need immediately an embargo.

On arms, and we need to activate that blockade statute,

that blocking statute to protect international, the International Criminal Court.

In other words, those who start wars have to be punished.

As concerns Ukraine, being courageous also means making those who are responsible pay.

Let's put the confiscation of frozen Russian assets back on the table. Let's let Putin pay, not European backpayers.

Also, it's extremely important for us to work for the Youth Protection Act and the Digital Fairness Act to protect our young people against algorithms,

and a courageous Europe needs a budget to Maciej. We cannot do more with less. We cannot cut back on this.

We need our own resources and we need to be able to invest,

invest in defense, but at the same time in Greer and digital transitions.

Madame von der Leyen, the 21st century is of, we've seen incredible developments.

We have to work with pro-European forces, not looking back, not looking towards the right, but moving forward.

We cannot have the far right, write the future of Europe as well. This world. Is that of Canada.

We want a world of Canada and Europe.

We want a world of cooperation rather than domination.

Of progress rather than regression, of democracy rather than fear, that is the world that we defend. A world of peace, not war. Thank you very much.

I give the floor now to the Chair of the PFP Group, Jordan Bardella. Thank you, Prime Minister of Canada.

President von der Leyen, every year we hear you glorifying what you've done and it seems that Europe is always About to be relaunched,

but if we listen to our citizens, I think the system is reaching an end because in 2026 we currently have two Europes.

We have the Europe of those who write the rules bureaucrats who waste public money and make up taxes for tomorrow, Europe which wants to increase its expenditure on staff by 40%,

and Private jets for commissioners by 50% and then there's the Europe that has to pay the second Europe,

those who have to pay for a liter of petrol, €2.5 in France, have to pay for heating. They have to pay increasing bills.

Europe that continues to work harder to earn less.

That, essentially, is the state of the Union.

We're going to have the ETS 2 regulation soon and that's going to make fuels even more expensive,

15 cents per liter.

This is something that significantly affects the middle and lower classes,

and basically what you're doing is making life constantly more expensive for our citizens.

What about a worker, for example, who travels 40 kilometers to get to work,

a family that doesn't have a tram or a bus that gets to their home, they're just going to have to pay more and more.

And unfortunately, your Europe isn't just more expensive every year, it also protects us less and less.

This summer in Ceta, tens of thousands of migrants.

Broke through a European border in just a few hours.

Ceta is Spanish and has to remain Spanish, but the borders of Ceta are also our borders,

and when a border can be flooded in just a few hours, it's not just a migration crisis, it's a sovereignty crisis.

Europe without borders looks as though it's going to disappear. Ceuta, Lampedusa, the border with Belarus. The people of Europe want one thing. They want you to protect our borders.

They want you to send back illegal migrants that are illegally coming to our union.

They shouldn't be spread through our towns and our countryside as you want to see it happen as a result of our migration pact.

They need to go back to their countries.

And finally, let's look at the world around us.

War in Ukraine, war in the Middle East, Islamist terrorism, food insecurity, energy insecurity. The US is investing.

China is investing, and we continue to regulate even more.

We're regulating things that we no longer produce.

We're taxing things that we no longer know how to make.

And we're also taxing things that we've banned the production of in Europe.

That is a major paradox in Europe and that's why we need to change.

We need to build a new European architecture.

We need to put buy European in public procurement.

When the money is European, the jobs need to be in Europe.

When the money is French, the jobs need to be in France.

Let's get rid of red tape, these absurd and useless rules.

Let's protect our farmers and businesses from unfair competition. Let's have national funds.

Let's invest in tech, space, defense, and nuclear energy.

Let's free ourselves from the regressive ideology of de-growth. Let's go back to power and innovation.

The 21st century reminds us of a truth that Europe had forgotten.

A people that cannot defend its borders,

cannot produce its energy and feed its children, leaves its destiny to others.

For decades, you've asked people to adapt to your vision of the European Union.

Today, in Brussels, the time has come to change things and give power back to the people.

Now I give the floor to the co-chair of the ECR Group, Patrick Caré. Thank you, Thank you, Prime Minister. President von der Leyen.

You mentioned deeds are better than words,

so I've been taking a look at Your deeds.

I've been taking a look at your promises, not from last year, but from 2020,

because you've had six years to show what you can do, that's more than most governments in member states. Let's take vaccination against COVID-19.

According to a journalistic investigation based on data from 19 European countries,

More than €4 billion worth of vaccines were wasted,

and what's the result of the recovery and resilience facility?

The European Court of Auditors has pointed to a lack of transparency and waste of money in Poland,

for example, money spent on swingers' clubs, yachts, and tanning beds in pizzerias. Then you promise to reduce bureaucracy.

The number of officials has increased and,

Now there's more recruitment being announced, and then you promised.

New institutions and a new industrial strategy and lower energy prices.

The result industry is collapsing and energy prices since then have risen by 100% while you've been in charge.

I quote you, I propose increasing 2030 emissions. Reduction target.

And you say that companies actually want it.

But during this period, according to Eurostat, 1.5 million companies in the EU became insolvent or went bankrupt,

and the EU lost 5% of its share of global GDP.

Then you spoke about young people wanting climate change, and now youth unemployment stood at 14.3% then, and now it's 15.5%.

And then you talked about a European hydrogen valley, a renovation wave,

the EU being a leader in the economy, and what's happened? Well, not, not a lot has happened.

We've managed to tighten bottle caps and turn European citizens into compulsory rubbish collectors. And then migration.

In 2020 you said migration has always been and will always be a reality for Europe.

You said it's enriched our cultures and shaped many human lives.

You, but what are you doing, making new promises.

Unfortunately, Europe has never been as weak as now, it's not as strong as ever,

as you said, it's as weak as it's ever been.

And if you want to do something for young people, then stop censoring the internet.

Give people jobs and safety, especially the women that you seem to be so worried about.

To the chair of the Renew Europe Group,

Valérie De President, Prime Minister.

President, I listened to your speech with great interest, and yes, you're right, Europe must move forward on its path of independence and power. But I'd go further.

We need to defend a new vision, a positive vision.

Pro-European radicalism is what we want because the summer we've just experienced is the perfect synthesis of the challenges facing Europe.

We failed in our migratory solidarity in CETA because of, among other things, Ms. Maloney's hypocrisy.

We had the referendum in Iceland and what it reveals about our attractiveness.

We had the AFD victory in Saxony-Anhalt, and of course we all suffered a historic climate crisis, which we know, ladies and gentlemen.

These challenges are immense, but what I want to say today is because we have all the cards in hand to respond,

and we've done our bit in this Chamber. We adopted an asylum and migration pact. Let's apply it. We adopted a Greer Deal.

Let's stop unraveling it and implement it, for goodness' sake. And when it comes to decarbonisation policy.

Thank you,

we need a European law on climate resilience and risk management that needs to be something that we do as a priority because decarbonisation and adaptation go hand in hand.

I say this all the more strongly because the Greer Deal is a pact,

an independence pact, particularly with regard to energy, and that's our first priority prosperity. The Greer reminds us of one thing.

The standard of living of Europeans during the coming depends on our ability to innovate in disruptive technologies,

Greer tech, AI, data centers, biotech, quantum computing. Our sovereignty is at stake. We need to invest heavily.

We need to defend our innovative businesses from unfair competition.

We need to make European public procurement a genuine weapon, as China or the US do.

In a word, we need to become indispensable to the rest of the world.

We also need to take global leadership for a legal framework on AI as we once did on nuclear power, because, quite honestly,

it's not normal for it to be the Pope and the Vatican to be the first to set a philosophical limit on the development of AI. That's our role as elected representatives. Colleagues, These are common sense measures. We need energy and economic independence.

We need to support our farmers, the CAP, our food security.

If we don't do that, we're condemned to subservience,

and that damages the purchasing power of Europeans, and that's not something I want to see.

Our second priority is to use our power, because this economic revolution is taking hold in a world that is shutting itself off and becoming more brutal,

and I don't want to be ashamed of Europe as I was a year ago.

Prime Minister Carney, you showed what should be done vis a vis Mr. Trump.

Refuse to compromise, retaliate, protect your interests, speak the language of power.

Please be aware that Canada is welcome in the European Union because we share the same values and our interests converge. And. So let's go further. Let's begin by all ratifying CETA.

Let's establish an economic security pact against trade coercion.

If Trump imposes tariffs, let's collectively respond with tariffs, and the same would go for China and anyone else. Let's build on each other's strengths.

Let's cultivate academic exchanges, and let's continue the strategic rapprochement between Canada and Europe on rare earths,

defense, the Arctic, energy and research.

Prime Minister, as you are fully aware, Trump,

Putin or Xi Jinping understand only one thing, the language of power.

Every time we played by the old rules, we lost. Let's look again at this summer, Russia.

Carried out an attack on Leipzig Airport yesterday.

A Danish helicopter had flares fired at it.

This sabotage, these cyberattacks, intimidation, disinformation, these are not isolated events. They're differing dimensions of the same strategy. And what do we do?

Well, we just react often too little and often too late. President, we need to change our doctrine.

We need to make it clear to Putin that if he attacks us,

It'll cost him and we must also make it clear to Putin that we will continue to support Ukraine.

Finally, ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to conclude by my remarks by addressing the pro-Europeans here.

We face threats and challenges, but given that, we must defend a new, deeply optimistic vision pro European radicalism.

We need to do more, we need more Europe, and we need it more quickly.

We need to speed up our legislative agenda.

Ms von der Leyen, thank you for the announcement of this law to protect minors online.

Thank you for this idea of the European Security Council. We fully support you.

Now tell us what we can do to help you.

We must deliver, and we must also implement the laws that we've adopted for,

and here we're not there yet on the DSA, the Digital Services Act, on critical raw materials, the rule of law.

I can't name everything, but we have the legislation, it's the Commission's responsibility now to implement it.

Ladies and gentlemen Europe must free itself from its taboos.

It must benefit from new transfers of sovereignty validated by the people of Europe.

It needs powerful tools and reformed institutions so that it can be more efficient, and it also needs an ambitious budget.

And for that, there is only one possible majority, one possible majority. It's our pro European majority.

It's key for cooperation and trust to be restored among us.

That's the only way we can deliver for Europeans.

It's the only way we can deliver this power based agenda with Europeans and without extremists.

We also need to increase our sphere of influence and become a safe haven for democrats all around the world.

Prime Minister Carney, in the face of the reactionary international context, let's build this alliance of democracies. Colleagues, Nothing is set in stone.

Just think of the European Union 10 years ago.

Who would have imagined then that we would have a Europe of defense, a Europe of health, a recovery plan.

So let's be proud, let's be ambitious, let's be radical, let's be pro-European.

Now I give the floor to the Chair of the Greens Group, Terry Reintke.

Thank you, Madam Commission President, Prime Minister Carney, it's a great pleasure to have you here.

You're very welcome in this House, and I hope you're already feeling comfortable amongst the Member States sitting here,

because we hope to see you there very often in the future.

Minister, colleagues, we have all lived through an absolutely devastating summer. There is no doubt about it anymore.

We are in the middle of a climate emergency.

For me, the fundamental question is now where does the Commission and where do you, Ms von der Leyen, actually stand?

Because where were you, President von der Leyen,

when more than 650 30,000 hectares of forest burned in Europe this summer.

Where was Friedrich Merz when grain farmers in Europe lost around €2 billion of their revenue in a heatwave in June?

And where,

where were European leaders when 35,000 Europeans died excess heat-related deaths in Europe this summer?

We didn't see an emergency task force, we didn't see ad hoc Council meetings, there was no immediate action plan.

Colleagues, this is not enough, this is unacceptable, we have to do better.

Now you're going to tell me, well, these leaders were at home dealing with the crisis, they actually had to do a lot in order to keep track,

and that's true, but honestly, I do not buy that response anymore,

because this is a crisis of European and of global magnitude.

It affects Olof our citizens, and we will only be able to solve it if we work together,

and our leaders know that, but they are avoiding the topic even worse sometimes, they are weak.

The Greer Deal, the attacks on the nature restoration law, the opening of climate legislation,

the absolute lack of determination in adaptation laws,

and the ideological insanity of wanting to continue to be dependent on fossil fuels.

Not only do we have to stop this, the deregulation, the attacks on the Greer Deal,

but we have to investigate why the European institutions were so weak.

On enforcing the Greer Deal,

and that is why my group is going to ask for an inquiry committee into the shortcomings of executing what we had already decided in the European Union in the Greer Deal.

We owe this accountability to the firefighters, to the nurses, to the doctors who sometimes gave their lives,

but who gave their energy and who very often gave their livelihoods over the summer.

We are going to hold the people who are responsible accountable.

What we need now is a way forward.

First, a clear plan and a timeline on how to phase out fossil fuels.

Second, a windfall profit tax to make polluters pay instead of our consumers,

and third, and there we see something from the.

Commission a climate adaptation plan that actually makes us better prepared for the next time with the necessary funding attached in the MFF.

These issues have to be at the absolute top of our agenda right now.

For Olof this, for all the challenges in the world ahead of us, we will need allies,

and let me be clear, we are up against powerful opponents Trump, the tech oligarchs, Putin.

Many powerful people are doing everything they can to destroy the rules based world order we are living in.

But there is one mistakes that we absolutely We must not make, and that is to believe that we are powerless. We are not.

Europe is strong and Europe can be even stronger, and we have powerful friends in the world.

One of them is sitting right next to us.

Believing and acting as if we are powerless will mean surrendering to the bullies of the world, and we will not surrender. We will unite, colleagues, as Europe, Europe.

Let us use all our power in order to give hope to all the people in the world that need it right now, because the demagogues, the dictators,

the autocrats of this world have not won, and we choose to stand up to them as Euros,

as Europe, and with our friends around the world. Thank you very much.

Now I give the floor to the co-chair of the Left Group, Manon Aubry. Der Leyen. President von der Leyen.

In your speech you didn't say anything about the cost of living, and yet this is what concerns the people of Europe the most.

People are paying €100 to fill up their cars.

People are spending a fortune on their homes.

What are you going to do at this time to stop the prices rising and to stop the price gouging by the energy companies?

I don't think we're on the same planet if you think €3 for a liter of petrol is normal.

All you talk about is growth and competitiveness,

but basically what you're talking about is deregulation.

You talked about a summer of truth, and yet your omnibus package is all about deregulation. You want a scorched earth policy. You think environmentalism.

Is To blame for everything we have to tax the rich.

We have to cap the prices of essential goods.

We have to invest massively in public services, and we have to stop these free trade agreements.

We have to favor billions of human beings and not the billions in profits. You celebrate the.

You celebrate the equality between men and women,

and yet your own friends from the extreme right have put up an exhibition here,

comparing abortion with murder. We don't want your fortress Europe either.

We're not going to cede an inch to the fascists, whether they're called Trump or Netanyahu,

and now you want to Give us a European Security Council and turn Canada into an associate member,

but who has given you a democratic mandate to do that?

Where were you, when Trump was threatening Canada and Greenland?

Yes, you were signing a free trade agreement with Donald Trump.

Last year in your speech, you said what was happening in Gaza was unacceptable and nothing has happened,

no sanctions against the state of Israel, no suspension of the association agreement despite the genocide continuing.

You hide behind a divided Europe, but the problem is your inaction.

Basically you've been talking to yourself, so I'm going to address the people of Europe and the world.

Be resolved not to continue in servitude of the ESN.

The State of the Union can be described.

By a loss of borders and losing competitiveness on the economic front as well.

Since the 2nd of July, for 7 weeks we've had an onslaught,

an attack on European borders.

And the situation has been dire indeed,

but there's no Nothing is going on in order to deal with that particular situation.

In the Arab and African world, they are coming in this direction.

The fortress Europe is no fortress at all, and something has to be done immediately in order to protect our borders,

to know who is coming into the union in other regions of the world.

Well, many of the things that they're discussing are things that we have heard today.

Deconstructing, taking apart bureaucratic, getting rid of bureaucratic structures,

getting rid of red tape, and moving forward effectively.

And with climate policy, the packaging regulation, and so forth, we've seen just the opposite.

We've seen more red tape and an increase in prices of energy deindustrialization.

At the same time, patriotic parties throughout Europe are gaining ground.

They are fighting against Olof that which you have so spouted out about today in the AFD.