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Mr President, President von der Leyen, and now we move to the speakers for the political groups,

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

Can I please ask you to take your seats? Go ahead, Mr. Weber.

Madam President, President of the European Commission, dear colleagues.

This summer was not an easy summer for Europe.

It was Alaska, a missing Europe, it was Gaza, totally split Europe,

it was a US trade deal not easy, forest fires, Draghi criticizing the economic policy pool.

It was really not easy, and it's now easy to stand here in this plenary and criticize.

I think a lot of colleagues after me will do so, they criticize the Commission, Commission President, Council. I will not do like this.

I believe we only can win trust if we trust in us,

and that's why my first message is that people can count on what the EPP promised in the election campaign.

We voted in Bucharest for our projects, for our priorities, we won the elections, and the Commission is now delivering.

A fleet of omnibuses started, the return regulation is on the table, a safe program on defense.

We have 18 sanction packages in the Tunisian agreement.

The fences in Greece and Poland are protecting our external borders.

We have illegal migration numbers reduced by 80%.

A lot happened in the last month, it's not perfect at all,

but we start to deliver, and I want to thank the Commission for their work.

We are attacked as the EPP from the left, that we are too right, from the right extreme, that we are too left,

but I tell you, we will seriously and decisively continue to deliver content,

content, content, that's what counts for the EPP.

Autumn, dear friends, will be a moment of truth for us now in Parliament.

The legislation arrives on our desk, and the guiding principle for us is responsibility,

and that's why we will support the US trade agreement.

I understood that in the INTA Committee, a lot of colleagues criticized the EPP was the only group who supported the outcome of Scotland.

I don't like to have 50% tariffs.

I would like to talk about 0 about TTIP.

It was opposed by the left in these times when we discussed it,

but what is the alternative to Scotland, a trade war with the US?

Responsibility means also to stand here and say yes to Mercosur with the proper safeguards for our farmers.

We want to have more of these further agreements with Mexico, already presented India, Indonesia.

We have partners who still believe in a rule based trade order in the world.

Mercosur is for us an anti Trump agreement to show that the rule based approach works,

and if we refuse Mercosur, we push South America to China.

I know defending Mercosur is not popular, but it's responsible and it is honest to tell it to the people.

Speaking about jobs,

last year we lost around 90 jobs in the European car industry, 90 families.

We speak as the EPP with trade unions, we speak with the CEOs from the car sector,

and everybody tells us we need an ambitious climate approach, but also a realistic one.

At this moment in time, whole industries in Europe are dying. That's a reality on the ground.

We support an ambitious climate approach for 2015, no doubt about this.

But we need a technologically neutral approach, nuclear energy, combustion engine,

and we have to screen the legislation on practicability.

That is what we have to do, and we have to do it fast.

Dear friends, more single market, more flagship projects, more investments, more digital, we all agreed in this House on the Draghi Agenda,

and now Draghi is asking us what are you waiting for at this moment in time?

Socialists, I have to say, voted in the APE Committee against the omnibus for the rejection of the omnibus proposals,

and I listen to that Hirace, you said publicly that Socialists take the US trade agreement into question.

You don't know whether they will support it or not.

I tell you, this behavior is splitting the platform.

This is exactly what is harming the European agenda.

I want to We have to deliver now, and that's why we have to be honest in this plenary now. Prime Minister Fredrikson.

A Socialist leader stood here in July and presented the agenda for the Danish Presidency.

She spoke about competitiveness, about stopping illegal migration and security, key pillars.

She asked us to be strong on less bureaucracy and migration.

There are two sides of the Socialist reality, I have to say.

There is the Socialists of Sanchez and there is the Socialists of Fredriksen in today's Europe,

and I hope that we don't see the Spanish political reality spreading to Europe.

I tell you, nearly all votes, all votes during this week.

Proposed CAM, the future of agriculture policy, Public procurement Waste Directive,

all votes this week are based on a platform agreement on the committees. That's a reality in our house. It works.

Europe does not need another ideological fight in the center of what we need now are solutions, and we have to act fast,

dear colleagues, on the return regulation, Fredriksen again, asking us to be a partner for the Danish Presidency.

On the return regulation, the Commission presented the regulation in the 1st 100 days in office.

It took another 100 days to nominate a rapporteur in the European Parliament,

and now we have foreseen the return regulation vote in December at the end of the Danish Presidency.

Sorry, dear colleagues, that's not the way how we should work.

We must speed up, people asked from us solution at this moment in time.

Allow me And allow me to underline also. The historic moment we are in.

Ukraine confirmed, the Alaska event confirmed that the red carpet for Putin

ends up in the most brutal attacks against civilians we ever saw. That's the reality. And on Gaza, enough is enough.

Hamas is a terrorist organization, no doubt about this, but hunger can never be a weapon.

The reality of some of your friends in these historic issues is that we are,

as Europeans, alone in a stormy world order.

Nobody on the global stage is currently listening to us.

I said it on Gaza, totally split Europe, so how can we change this?

Colleagues, the idea that national sovereignty exists is a Potemkins village. It is not real.

Schmittner the laws understood this reality on economic terms.

They created the single market and the euro.

They made us strong European integration not revocable.

Now Metz, Macron, Tusk and all the others must create the same for foreign affairs and for defense,

to bring the European integration another step forward and make it non revocable,

as our Commission President presented today.

We cannot allow Orban and crazy Fio that they turn the European Union into a foolish organizations. And just a final point.

On the national lists, because we are attacked by both sides, one word to the national lists at the end.

The nationalists here in this House applaud to America first.

They are friends of American tech billionaire Mask.

They are friends Nationalists applaud America first,

and they are friends of American tech billionaire like Musk.

They follow the agenda of the tech money.

The reality is that nationalists are not patriots, they turn Europe into a colony of Silicon Valley and Washington even worse of Moscow,

and that's why we will never allow this, dear friends, never allow this.

We love Europe, we love the European way of life. Europe is not weak.

Europe is strong as we make it, and that's why Europe must lead now.

We are in front of a European autumn of truce,

the EPP is ready. Bye. I give