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So, next is Hieron Lenas, 1.5 minutes please.

President, President von der Leyen,

thank you for today's State of the Union speech and for your commitment to a strong and independent Union. I would like to make three points.

First, a lot has been achieved in the past 2 years.

We have simplified our rules and cut red tape, saving our businesses already 18 million a year.

We have strengthened our approach to migration and returns, already halving the amount of illegal arrivals into our Union,

and we have put competitiveness and security back at the heart of the European agenda.

We are on the right track, and we need to continue.

Secondly, I welcome today's new initiatives and priorities the European Security Council, the Emergency protocol, the strengthening of Frontex and new measures on migration,

and protecting our children from the risks of social media,

and we are looking forward to working on and finalizing these initiatives as soon as possible you can count on us.

Thirdly, the future of Europe is not the responsibility of the European institutions alone.

Thank you, so many leaders have knocked on your door in recent weeks asking you to put their priorities into today's speech,

and I hope you also reminded them that Europe cannot be built by asking alone.

It also requires bringing something to the table, bring ambition, bring political courage,

be prepared to step beyond national shadows and create a common European.

Like you said today, either act together or risk being pulled apart,

because that is the only way to build a truly strong and independent Europe. Mrs. Katarina Barley, one minute.

Prime Minister, Thank you, the digital world is being shaped by a handful of American tech billionaires,

the Chinese regime and the Russian machinery of manipulation. This leads to consequences.

Developers are losing control over the AI they created.

They warn that AI agents could wipe out humanity in the near future.

On social media, it is not us who decide which information we receive,

but hyper personalized algorithms that fuel outrage, division and insecurity.

Our democracy is being weakened by the content of extreme parties being amplified disproportionately more than moderate ones,

and the companies know exactly that this is against European law, but they still do it. We have the power to act.

The EU has strong legislation, above all, did the DSA, the DMA and the AI Act.

Now the Commission has to be brave enough to enforce them consistently, especially given the dangers posed to our democracy.

Companies that fail to comply with European law must face more swift and tangible consequences. Finally, we need to close regulatory gaps.

By now, hopefully, everyone has understood that we should not choose between innovation and regulation. We need both.

I conclude the EU stands for information instead of manipulation, solidarity instead of division, responsibility instead of greed for profit,

and we Social Democrats, stand for technology serving people, not the other way around.

I give the floor to Herman one minute.

President von der Leyen President von der Leyen,

71 minutes during which he just said, we will, we will, we will. 7 years.

Since you took office, but Europeans are poorer and less free.

I think that Devastatingly sums up your presidency of the Commission.

All powers, all regions of the world are growing apart from us. Luckily we got hope.

Your party in Germany, the CDU is falling apart, as is the government of Friedrich Merz in France.

Next year, we're going to have a patriot government with Marine Le Pen, your majority here. Is falling apart. And what's happening in Spain? Mr. Sánchez, who you protect.

Has traitorously allowed people to enter CETA in agreement with Morocco,

but you don't talk about Morocco because Morocco has bought half of the members of this hemicycle,

including our dear Socialists. That's what's going on at the moment. It is scandalous.

Part of Europe is being occupied and we're not saying who the aggressor is here. At Thank you very much President.

For the first time, I will not focus my remarks on the fight against illegal immigration.

Unfortunately, we'll have to endure the consequences of the past policies for a long time to come,

but we're finally moving in the right direction.

The job remains to be finished, of course, and there are still steps to be taken to achieve proper immigration management.

As desired by the peoples of Europe,

I agree with President von der Leyen's remarks on excessive European regulation.

Perhaps I would have expected a couple of words of criticism, self-criticism as well, but anyway, we'll take things step by step.

Frankly, I didn't find any other good news in your speech, Madame von der Leyen.

The bowing to the Canadian Prime Minister, whom I greatly respect, was actually quite embarrassing.

Is it possible that the United Kingdom doesn't take precedence as an associate member? Now, I believe that Europe should not.

Bow to anyone, not even the US, much less China.

Once again, we heard about that obsession with decarbonization.

It's clear, it is something we should, we, we shouldn't ignore,

but it cannot be the top priority on the agenda.

Let me remind you, Madam von der Leyen, that,

5% of global CO2 emissions are coming from the European Union.

Neverthetheless, these emissions are steadily rising year after year.

And furthermore, from 1990 to the present, we have reduced emissions by 36%,

while global emissions have risen by 68%.

Is it really possible for these, with these figures, looking at them, provided that the EU's EDGAR platform provided by that particular platform,

that they do not raise any doubt in your mind about the union's solitary race towards decarbonization.

Now, I'll conclude here, the main problem that we have to address is not CO2,

but the shortage of critical raw materials.

Without those, we cannot, we, we can be, we can have no Greer or energy transition, nothing whatsoever.

The worst part is that lithium,

and other poly silicon and other similar such critical materials, we have to buy them.

We need them desperately, and we're forced to buy them basically.

So this is something that we have to be concerned about.

Let's focus on that and then we can look at the rest. Thank you. One minute.

I Thank you von der Leyen for outlining the State of the Union address and your ambition for our people.

You say ambitious about the future and focused on results.

Changes are exceptional, great possibilities and great perils.

And they are great perils, Commissioner von der Leyen.

If you look at this particular House, you can see that there are great perils that are advocating against Europe on a continual basis.

In my one minute, I just want to make a strong plea to the center in this House.

Particularly to my SD colleagues and my EPP colleagues.

We have to address the fundamental issues that are facing our people from the center out.

We can't have a situation where we have colleagues who at times are looking over their shoulder,

flirting with the right, and others trying to undermine from the left.

We simply have to be cohesive to ensure that over the next 2.5 years,

we can bring forward an ambitious plan and show results to the people who will be electing the next European Parliament.

If we don't, if we stand divided, well, I fear that the right will continue to gain and the center will be hollowed out,

and that would be shameful on Olof us in the center, in this Parliament.

So I urge unity on the program that you've outlined for our citizens. Thank you very much. Next is Diana Riba, one minute. President.

Well, In your office in the Baillymont building,

there is a letter signed by Over 650 local elected representatives from many European regions and they're calling for the European budget and European policies not be held in the hands of member states.

We've seen how the European Union seems to be a union of member states,

but let's recall that it's not states but municipal areas and regions,

and when people feel they're not being listened to.

Then things happen such as the result in Saxony-Anhalt, Catalonia, Galicia, Valencia, the Balearic Islands,

Brittany, Corsica, and many other regions are ready to build Europe. Let me remind you of that, President. Do not.

Forget that as has happened so many times in this legislative period because the lesson from Germany is that it's the original that wins out,

not the copy, so you shouldn't be turning right.

You should be looking to federalist Europe, Europe which wants a more democratic and fairer Europe. Thank you. Thank you very much, President.

Europe needs to look at savings for homes.

It has to provide for companies as well.

This is something that you've emphasized as well.

Do you know what it costs people to save, to save for gas, for light, for their rent?

Has, have you looked recently at what 12 eggs costs, a liter of milk? Mhm.

Money is moving from down, from below up, from the poor to the rich,

from Europe to the United States to pay for wars, to pay for their business.

Didn't it ever occur to you to put this money to the service of families,

the savings in banks, energy companies, defense industry?

Nothing, nothing is going in the direction of people. These people have won nothing.

Unfortunately that's what's going on,

and it is people that are missing out and others whom I just mentioned are making major gains. President von der Leyen. What you did today was appalling.

You want to pump millions of euros into the black hole of Ukraine,

and you use a Ukrainian child to that end. €200 billion it has cost.

There's even an audit panel set up by the Commission to keep tabs on that money, which is European taxpayers' money,

but we've seen no Report In Poland,

we're seeing the effects of your policy of reducing CO2 emissions.

Companies are going to the wall or relocating.

The Commission wants to tax everything, ban everything, regulate everything.

For some reason, you don't want to leave people and leave businesses alone. We need less ideology. We need more pragmatism.

Is bad enough what's happening in the Middle East.

Close down your ETS, let alone your ETS too, and let's stop pumping money into Ukraine. Thank you. Thomas Gass. One minute, please. Thank you.

President, President, colleagues, and first and foremost colleagues from the CDU, if there are any of you left,

you're going to have to decide are you going to follow your president of the Commission or are you going to follow your Chancellor. Friedrich Merz is gathering allies on the MFF.

And he's trying to cut hundreds of millions of euros from that budget.

Colleagues, I'd recommend that you follow your party boss.

I mean, you won't be able to save his Chancellorship,

but at least you will be able to make sure that no more money goes to Brussels and further strengthens European bureaucracy.

I mean, the European Union needs joint rules where joint action is necessary,

but we don't need a budget worth billions of euros and a blank check for the Commission to intervene in the Member States. Thank you. 15 minutes.

Thank you, I love Europe and I also love Canada,

so I believe in this marriage. Thank you.

Colleagues, We also must face the reality that we have many threats outside and within our Union, and now is the time to protect our freedoms,

to make Europe safer and build a more strong and prosperous Union for our future generations.

This is the clear top priority of the EPP Group.

To make Europe safe, we must also confront what we face with organized crimes.

Criminal networks operate across borders in several Member States at the same time.

Their violence is spilling into the streets of our cities.

We must step up our fight against these criminal networks.

We need to make Europol a truly operational police agency.

This is crucial, and I also call on this House now. We have a responsibility to deliver.

The Commission has put the proposal on the table, now it is time for us to do our part. Our citizens deserve to be safe.

There can be no place in Europe for dangerous criminal gangs except in jail. Next is Javier Moreno Sánchez. One minute. Thank you.

Thank you, as the Chair of the Delegation for Relations with Canada, I welcome your speech today,

I welcome Prime Minister Carney here, and I welcome your proposal on associate membership.

You can count on us to work on that proposal.

Ladies and gentlemen, Canada is a model when it comes to welcoming and integrating migrants, and we need to learn from them.

We should recall that the Asylum Migration Pact was adopted under the Spanish Presidency.

With Pedro Sánchez, and as we've heard it's working.

It's a pact based on shared responsibility and binding solidarity,

the solidarity that Spain showed in Lampedusa and which it is requesting as a result of the hybrid attacks that focused on Ce.

But we must recall that the best way to fight illegal migration is legal migration, talent pools, blue cards, etc.

President von der Leyen, how are you going to promote these tools that almost no one knows about?

Which proposals are you going to push to boost legal migration, which is necessary and positive?

How are we going to deal with those who are using the pain of so many people,

such as those in Ce to benefit politically? We need to follow the Canadian example. The soul of Europe is at stake. Thank you. Mr.

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, What Ridiculous comedy,

what a piece of theater.

Europe is facing its darkest hour, and look at what the left are doing.

People standing up and applauding and burying their heads in the sand.

Have you any clue about how people are doing outside this building?

Have you forgotten why this Europe was founded to give people peace? You want a war economy. Don't you understand? We should be providing economic prosperity.

What you're doing is adopting a Greer deal, over-regulating, destroying jobs,

taking money away from families, that is the wrong path.

Europe should be a diversity of peoples and nations.

We ought to be able to control our borders. It's time for you to resign. Thank you.

President,

I'm just going to talk about security now.

Obviously we have to look at the promises you've made and whether they've been implemented. We've had war in Ukraine. How are things going?

I mean, obviously there is money going to defense, but What's it achieving? I mean, you talked about various things.

You talked about hybrid war and you said that it's less hybrid and not so much of a threat.

I mean, look at what's happening on the border.

Of Latvia, I mean we have schools that are closed and trains that don't circulate.

Now 5 years since the beginning of the war in Ukraine,

we are here with the Prime Minister of Canada. That's a good thing.

Canada is Militarily present in Latvia as well.

Now, on what you said on the new defense strategy, well, there was a bit less applause on that.

It's not because we think it's not important, but it's because we don't think that that can replace NATO.

I don't want to see a Defense Council which doesn't include the United States.

President, I thank President von der Leyen for your powerful speech and your leadership.

You show how to deal with a world that is changing at a dizzying speed, as you said,

by building that independent Europe that has the power to act, and together with friends like Canada. That is also exactly what Europeans want. People want a stronger Europe.

People understand very well that to achieve these goals, Europe must be more united, but these same European people have less understanding for the reasons why we're not going much faster from ambition to reality,

and I'm not blaming you, Thank you, because the European spirit is very strong at the European Commission.

But the European governance structure is complex, too complex.

Europe's ability to change is fundamentally hampered by anti-European forces in this House and even stronger by the national reflexes in our Member States. Europe can only be stronger.

We will only be able to prosper if our member states and Council start working with the European spirit.

So please cross the street in Brussels and spread that European spirit to the member states. Mr. Gerbrandy. There's a blue card for you. Will you take it?

Uh-huh, you get a little bit more speaking time. So, Mr. Ronsac. Go ahead.

Paniza I will speak in Polish because, OK, moving, moving.

You have talked a lot about a strong Europe.

But Manfred Weber today talked about a shock to industry and that shock is real.

Firms are fleeing Europe and we can see the impact on our industry.

We need to use the globalization fund to support European industry. That's the impact of high energy prices.

That is the cause of this shock to our industry.

Can you take a few seconds to answer, please?

I don't think that was really a question,

but only a stronger Europe can also make our industries stronger by joint European forces. We can have cheaper energy.

We cannot do that alone in our member states, so I think we completely agree.

The only thing is that member states still have national reflexes and they hamper the path towards a really united,

stronger, faster Europe.

And that is what we have to achieve also with the pro-European forces in this House. Thank you very much. Next is Marie Toussaint. One minute.

Ms von der Leyen, once again you have come to tell us about the European climate policy,

but unfortunately your term in office has seen a regression on the social and environmental front.

Paying tribute to the firefighters who lost their lives to save ours is indispensable,

but carrying out policies to avoid huge wildfires and heat waves is perhaps even more essential.

But you've weakened not once but twice the law against deforestation.

Liberated multinational enterprises from their obligations, allowed them to pollute,

and you're still submitting farmers and business to unfair competition through free trade agreements. Europe is burning.

Workers are getting poorer, and the price of energy and food is exploding.

So why do you insist to defend the European economic model which is leading us to disaster?

Another model is possible out of respect and dignity.

You need to declare a social and climate state of emergency and allow people to stop working when heat kills.

You need to reintroduce controls on multinational enterprises compelling them to.

Reduce the cost of energy and invest in renewables and you need a social law in place to ensure that we stop getting poorer and I cannot stop without talking about Gaza and the occupation of The West Bank,

you need to apply sanctions to the government of Netanyahu now. Welcome, Thank you.

We have one extreme, and that is fascism.

I know about fascism, and we've paid a high price in Europe, so we're talking about these two extremes, and this isn't going to help us. When you took office, Mrs.

Von der Leyen, we were at a crossroads.

We were looking at whether the EU would follow fair growth,

prosperity and peace policies, but you actually, chose another path, Brian.

Neoliberalism that turned the EU into a community of just a few people.

You didn't invest in the primary sector, the welfare state.

You have just militarized the economy with specific interests.

You have adopted all the extreme views of capitalism and parasitic elites.

It's about the Exchange and you embraced the ideology of the far right and in combination with your policies this is leading to dangerous setbacks and reversals in Europe.

The fact that the far right is gaining ground and fascists are now back on the political scene is a result of your conscious choices,

but the left is here to fight this.

Thank you very much, but apologies, it was nonsense to listen to. Mrs.

Von der Leyen, you are a disaster for the whole of Europe.

You should get rid, you should, pack yourself and be gone. What did you talk about? Europe is so successful as never before.

Please, when have you last time been in a shop, shopping mall, or when have you filled your gas tank?

70% of Europeans say that their life is worse off than 5 years ago.

You said that Russians have cut us off from energies and from energy resources.

You are just lying to us because these were your sanctions and your Greer Deal, which totally destroyed energy in Europe.

This is the reason for bankruptcy of companies.

This is why European companies are leaving Europe.

This is why young people Europe has no future.

Europe needs solutions, but yes, functional solutions that will truly improve the life of people and of companies in Europe.

We need to get rid of the Greer Deal. We need to get rid of sanctions.

We need to introduce order and protect our borders. These are true solutions that Europe needs.

The president began by recalling the French Revolution.

After listening to the rest of the speech, I'd add that once people find out who is really going to pay for her wild fantasies,

I can guarantee you'll have one right here too. Mrs. Ursula, you make me sick.

No, the situation in Europe won't improve by arming ourselves more, by setting up our own Security Council,

by banning straws and plastic cups, or by printing more euros to bail out corruption in Ukraine. And President Zelensky's tragic decisions.

I have 3 pieces of good advice for you.

Don't drag us into war and stop fighting against your own citizens who hold different opinions.

Stop spying on their privacy and setting up a big brother check control.

Stop pulling more and more money out of citizens' pockets for your pipe dreams. Take off rose colored glasses already. Europe is suffering. It is not stronger.

It is no stronger, more united or competitive than before.

On the contrary, you did the best by going back to Germany. OK, Mr. Sipe. Thank you for accepting the blue card.

You've used very flowery words to make a few accusations, but one thing remained in my mind.

You said, Are you not drawing us further into war?

Now, given the fact that there are attacks on our energy structure,

our airports, attacks on the CEOs of European companies.

In light of the fact that There are rockets and drones attacking European soil,

then you have to recognize that.

It is now that we are in war.

We're not waiting for Russian tanks to cross the border.

We are at war because we have politicians who refuse, just like you, to say the word peace.

You have done nothing for peace in the European continent.

On the contrary, you support the US President and his steps that he makes to make people's lives even worse in Europe.

Instead of offering a perspective for Europe to make it competitive,

all you support is a man who has so many corrupt people behind him,

and there is so much money lost in Ukraine that