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Speaker: Terry REINTKE (Germany — Bündnis 90/Die Grünen)
Political group: Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance
Date: 2021-12-16
Debate: MeToo and harassment – the consequences for the EU institutions (debate)

  Terry Reintke,  on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group. – Mr President, ‘Me Too, yes, also I have been sexually harassed’. These were the words I started my speech with four years ago. When reports of sexual harassment also from inside of this house came to the surface, when millions broke the silence of what had been considered something you just have to be able to deal with beforehand. And yes, Me Too did change a lot.
We now have a completely different conversation from what we had four years ago, but it did not change enough. Still, cases of sexual harassment and sexual assault and not taken seriously. Still, conviction rates, even of rape, are ridiculously low.
And we have a backlash against women’s rights in full swing. And also here in this Parliament, our common House of European Democracy, issues have been talked down and urgently needed measures have still not been implemented. Like, for example, mandatory trainings or a fully independent audit of the situation.
The European Parliament indeed stands for more than just itself. The fact that the Presidents of this House have still not managed to implement all of these reforms is simply a shame. I was told back then that I would damage the reputation of the European Parliament if I spoke up too loud and too clear about the problems with sexual harassment and the necessary reforms in this Parliament.
Well, here’s the thing: neither I nor the many women who raised their voices about sexual harassment or were damaging this House; quite the opposite. It is the people who have covered this up. The people who slowed down the process of changing things who are damaging this Parliament. But here’s to you. Time’s up.
Speaker: Terry REINTKE (Germany — Bündnis 90/Die Grünen)
Political group: Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance
Date: 2021-12-15
Debate: State of play of the RRF (Recovery and Resilience Facility) (debate)

  Terry Reintke (Verts/ALE).   – Madam President, an illegitimate constitutional tribunal that undermines fundamental rights, that attacks the primacy of EU law, and that now declared that the right to a fair trial, as laid out in the European Convention on Human Rights, does not apply to Polish citizens. Judges being suspended for applying EU law. Prosecutors moved to the other end of the country simply for doing their job.
I mean, it is pretty obvious by now that Poland does not have a functional independent judiciary any more, and the Commission obviously knows all this. It must, because otherwise it would already have greenlighted the RRF funds going to Poland. 
The big question remains. If an independent judiciary is a precondition for receiving RRF funding, why does this not apply to all EU funding? Why has the European Commission not yet triggered the rule of law conditionality? I guess that it is because the European Council a while ago wrote something into some document.
Let me remind you of this, Commissioner. Not the European Council, it’s the EU institutions supervising the Commission. It is this House, the European Parliament.
Speaker: Terry REINTKE (Germany — Bündnis 90/Die Grünen)
Political group: Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance
Date: 2021-12-15
Debate: Plans to undermine further fundamental rights in Poland, in particular regarding the standards of the European Convention of Human Rights and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (debate)

  Terry Reintke (Verts/ALE).   – Madam President, patriarchy has always hated women. That is why we had to fight for every single millimetre to have control over our own bodies. That is why we still have to waste so much energy just to get what should actually be obvious: our body, our rights. Let us be clear: this whole debate has nothing to do with avoiding abortions. It is all about controlling women’s bodies. It is about the exercise of power. 
The latest proposals in Poland again speak volumes about this. The battle over our bodies and our lives is on again, unfortunately, and we can already see the consequences. Two women died in Poland just this year. We can already see the chilling effect it has on doctors who did not perform abortions despite the fact that the foetuses were dying, posing a threat to the women’s lives. We will never be silent about tragedies like this, no matter how long it takes. We stand with everyone who defends freedom and fundamental rights.
Speaker: Terry REINTKE (Germany — Bündnis 90/Die Grünen)
Political group: Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance
Date: 2021-12-14
Debate: European framework for employees' participation rights and the revision of the European Works Council Directive (debate)

  Terry Reintke,  im Namen der Verts/ALE-Fraktion. – Herr Präsident, liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen! Rechte Parteien stellen sich gerne als die Stimme der kleinen Leute dar: gegen die abgehobenen Bürokraten in Brüssel und die hippe Großstadtschickeria. 
Aber wenn die kleinen Leute selber eine Stimme haben sollen, wenn Arbeitnehmerinnen und Arbeitnehmer an den riesigen Transformationsentscheidungen der Wirtschaft, die jetzt gerade vor uns stehen, beteiligt werden sollen, dann hören wir plötzlich ganz andere Töne. Immer noch haben viele Arbeitnehmerinnen und Arbeitnehmer keine oder nur beschränkte Möglichkeit, wirklich Einfluss auf Unternehmensentscheidungen zu nehmen. 
Dabei müssen wir gerade in Umbruchphasen wie jetzt alle mitnehmen. Dafür ist es zentral, Demokratie am Arbeitsplatz EU-weit zu stärken. Anstatt Menschen das Märchen zu erzählen, dass einfach alles so bleibt, wie es gerade ist, müssen sie besser eingebunden werden. Über umfassende Informations-, Konsultations- und Mitentscheidungsrechte – in Betriebsräten und in Führungsgremien. 
Wir stehen vor massiven Umbrüchen in der Art, wie wir arbeiten und produzieren. Digitalisierungsprozesse, aber auch der Klimawandel werden unsere Gesellschaft und Arbeitswelt einschneidend verändern. Und: Nein, Klimaschutz und gute, verlässliche Arbeitsplätze sind natürlich nicht unvereinbar, ganz im Gegenteil. Die Transformation hin zu einer nachhaltigen Wirtschaft schafft neue Arbeitsplätze, gerade im Industriesektor. Aber: Ja, das geht nur mit Veränderung und Umstrukturierung. Und genau daran müssen Arbeitnehmerinnen und Arbeitnehmer umfassend beteiligt werden. Und dabei kann und muss die Europäische Union eine Rolle spielen und Rahmen schaffen, gerade wenn es um grenzüberschreitende Mitbestimmung geht. 
Und last, but not least: Dabei sollten natürlich alle Arbeitnehmerinnen und Arbeitnehmer einbezogen werden, und nicht nur die Hälfte von ihnen. Genau deshalb haben wir uns in diesem Bericht für Geschlechterparität eingesetzt, weil Frauen in der Politik, aber natürlich genauso in der Arbeitswelt, die Hälfte der Macht verdienen. 
Ich danke der Berichterstatterin für die gute Zusammenarbeit. Herr Kommissar, wir können viel tun für ein sozialeres Europa, für Demokratie und Mitbestimmung am Arbeitsplatz: „let's do this“.
Speaker: Terry REINTKE (Germany — Bündnis 90/Die Grünen)
Political group: Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance
Date: 2021-10-19
Debate: The Rule of law crisis in Poland and the primacy of EU law (debate)

  Terry Reintke (Verts/ALE).   – Mr President, dear Prime Minister, dear colleagues, dear Commission President. Mr Morawiecki, despite what you have been saying today, I must admit that I have to ask myself the question after what happened in Poland in the last weeks and months, whether on 7 October, when this ruling was proclaimed by the Constitutional Tribunal, you actually did not secretly open a bottle of champagne together with Vladimir Putin. Because seriously, when I look at the situation, political vision and political agenda, I see a lot of similarities between Putin and what your government is doing.
What you are trying to do is to convert Poland into an authoritarian state with weak democratic institutions and weak enforcement of fundamental rights of its citizens. And you seem to be sharing another political aim with Vladimir Putin. And that is a weak and disunited European Union.
But let me break it to you, let me break it to you. The majority of the Polish citizens disagrees with you. The majority of the Polish citizens – and they have shown that beautifully last weekend – they want to live in a strong Poland, in a strong European Union based on rule of law, fundamental rights and democracy. And we salute these people in Poland.
And it shouldn’t be here in the European Parliament that this is addressed to you. It should be you, Mr Prime Minister, who speaks to your citizens, who speaks to your judges – some of them I hear on the tribune today – to your prosecutors, to your civil society organisations, speak to them and listen to them. They want to live in a country based on rule of law, with an independence of the judiciary, with separation of powers and with fundamental rights.
And I must say I find it unbearably painful sometimes to say so many obvious things again and again in these debates. But yes, obviously, Polish citizens are EU citizens and they are protected by EU law, and it is not a nice-to-have luxury for the European Commission to protect their rights. It is the duty of the European Commission to protect their rights.
And lastly, I would like to say one thing, because I think this has been confused a lot in this debate. There is no conflict. There is no disagreement between the Polish Constitution and the EU treaties on the subject matter that we are debating, on rule of law and separation of power or the independence of the judiciary. They are completely in line there.
So please, Mr Prime Minister, bring Poland back on a path to rule of law, implement the ECJ rulings as demanded and do what your citizens demand you to do: bring Poland back really to the heart of Europe.
Speaker: Terry REINTKE (Germany — Bündnis 90/Die Grünen)
Political group: Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance
Date: 2021-10-07
Debate: The state law relating to abortion in Texas, USA

  Terry Reintke,  on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group. – Mr President, a couple of years ago, I watched a documentary, it’s called ‘Trapped’, and actually, I recommend you watch it too. It’s about the situation of access to abortion in the US, and this was from before these kind of laws were passed.
And there is one scene that I will never forget, it is a healthcare worker describing the situation, when a woman is calling the abortion clinic that she’s working in. And this woman says: I’m pregnant. Nobody can know. I cannot come to the clinic right now, it’s too far away. I don’t have enough money, but I can tell you what I have in my kitchen cabinet. And then can you help me to perform an abortion over the phone?
This situation is something that we will see happen again if we do not make sure that there is access to abortion across the board. This law in Texas, and none of the crazy laws that have been passed over the last years, will actually prevent abortions from happening; what these laws prevent from happening are safe and legal abortion. And this is why we have to make clear that laws like this are called what they are: they are barbaric, and they are putting women in exactly these situations.
And some of you might say, well, OK, this is happening far away, this is happening in the US, they don’t have their religious fundamentalists under control. Well, look at the situation in Europe. Look at what has happened over the last years. We have exactly the same problems here. So, we need to have global solidarity in defence of women’s rights, in defence of sexual and reproductive rights – our bodies, our rights – everywhere in the world.
Speaker: Terry REINTKE (Germany — Bündnis 90/Die Grünen)
Political group: Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance
Date: 2021-10-05
Debate: The situation in Belarus after one year of protests and their violent repression (debate)

  Terry Reintke (Verts/ALE).   – Mr President, what is the most powerful weapon that dictators and autocrats have? It is not the tear gas they use or the water cannons, or even the machine guns of their brutal police forces. It is oblivion. People like Lukashenko want us to stop caring. They want us after months and months and months to turn a blind eye, to look away and not look at what is happening in Belarus anymore. 
Maria Kolesnikova was illegally detained more than a year ago. Last month, she was illegally convicted, once again, to 11 years in prison. Maria is 39 years old. If this madness is not going to be stopped, she’s going to be 50 by the time that this sentence is over, and even if our message today cannot reach her directly right now, as she is in prison, let us make sure that it’s going to reach Lukashenko. This Parliament will not stop caring. This Parliament is not going to look away, and this Parliament is not going to forget what has happened in Belarus. We will continue to stand in solidarity with the democratic opposition in Belarus.
Speaker: Terry REINTKE (Germany — Bündnis 90/Die Grünen)
Political group: Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance
Date: 2021-09-15
Debate: Media freedom and further deterioration of the Rule of law in Poland (debate)

  Terry Reintke,  on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group. – Madam President, Igor Tuleya, Ewa Wrzosek,  Beata Morawiec: these are just three of the many people who have been targeted by the Polish Government over the past years. They were targeted because they were trying to defend rule of law, democracy, media freedom and fundamental rights. They were targeted because they were trying to defend EU values, EU law and everything that the EU stands for. They very clearly show that the rule of law, the separation of powers and the independence of the judiciary are not abstract concepts. Behind these concepts there are stories of people. They have names, they have faces and their life realities are at stake here as well.
These people were in the forefront of the struggle for the rule of law. They stood up to defend EU values in Poland and, when they became targets, they waited for a determined response from the European Union. They waited and they waited some more. They were dragged in front of unlawful courts. They were the targets of smear campaigns, of hate and of threats. After waiting and waiting and waiting, finally – finally – the Commission seems to have changed its mind and is ready for more decisive action right now. 
From now on, the stories of the people who stood up for EU values, their names and their struggles, should be at the centre of the EU’s response because this is not an abstract battle of lawyers. The struggle for rule of law matters in every single citizen’s life, and the people who defended our rights and our freedoms deserve not only our solidarity, they deserve our praise and our protection.
Speaker: Terry REINTKE (Germany — Bündnis 90/Die Grünen)
Political group: Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance
Date: 2021-09-15
Debate: Identifying gender-based violence as a new area of crime listed in Article 83(1) TFEU (continuation of debate)

  Terry Reintke (Verts/ALE).   – Frau Präsidentin! Jeden Tag versucht ein Mann in Deutschland, seine Partnerin oder Ex-Partnerin umzubringen. Jeden dritten Tag passiert es. Jeden dritten Tag findet allein in Deutschland ein Femizid statt. Das sind keine Familiendramen oder gar Morde aus Liebe. Das sind brutale patriarchale Verbrechen, die nicht vom Himmel fallen, sondern gedeihen, in einer Gesellschaft, in der Frauen immer noch ständigem Sexismus und Gewalt ausgesetzt sind. 
Ich bin vor sieben Jahren in dieses Parlament gewählt worden, und ich kann nicht mehr zählen, wie oft ich seitdem gehört habe: Ja, Gewalt gegen Frauen, das sei ja schlimm, aber nicht Aufgabe der Europäischen Union, dagegen vorzugehen. Die Zeit der Ausflüchte muss einfach vorbei sein. Wer Gleichberechtigung will, das Gleichheitsversprechen der Europäischen Union wirklich ernst nimmt, der weiß doch ganz genau: Gleiche Rechte sind reine Illusion, solange wir diesem Flächenbrand der Gewalt gegen Frauen nicht Einhalt gebieten. Und dafür brauchen wir die volle Umsetzung der Istanbul-Konvention, eine EU—Richtlinie gegen geschlechtsbasierte Gewalt. Und ja, wir brauchen auch endlich Regierungen in den Mitgliedstaaten, die dieses Problem ernst nehmen und konkret angehen.
Speaker: Terry REINTKE (Germany — Bündnis 90/Die Grünen)
Political group: Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance
Date: 2021-07-07
Debate: Breaches of EU law and of the rights of LGBTIQ citizens in Hungary as a result of the adopted legal changes in the Hungarian Parliament - The outcome of 22 June hearings under Article 7(1) of the TEU regarding Poland and Hungary (debate)

  Terry Reintke,  on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group. – Mr President, Minister, dear Commissioner, dear colleagues, when I wake up next to my girlfriend in the morning and I’m filled with happiness and gratitude, I sometimes ask myself, how can you hate that the two of us love each other? When I see beautiful pictures from gay weddings I ask myself, how can you hate this kind of joy? And when I see a young trans person living a life as their true, authentic self, I ask myself, how can you hate someone just for wanting to be who they are? 
In Europe today we are faced with a choice, a choice between a Europe of freedom, of equality and diversity, where I can love and care for my girlfriend, where two men can get married and where a young trans woman can live her life without being afraid of violence or discrimination. And a Europe of hatred and oppression, driven by Orbán and Kaczyński and other people on this continent, where governments sponsor homophobic campaigns to cover up their systemic corruption, where our community is used as a distraction from the blatant failures of government politics. 
Now some of you might say, well, but this is only affecting a small part of the population because you are after all only a minority. But actually this is not true. It affects all of us. All of our freedoms are at stake here. And they might attack us first and in the most aggressive way but in the end this is about freedom of expression for all of us. This is about the fundamental rights of all of us, and this is about democratic principles for all of us. 
And between a Europe of freedom and a Europe of hatred and oppression, the choice is very clear. We choose freedom, we choose equality, we choose democracy. And we choose a European Commission that will stand up for this freedom, for the freedom of trans people in Hungary, for the freedom of judges in Poland, for the freedom of everyone in the European Union to love who they want to love and to be who they are.
(Applause)
Speaker: Terry REINTKE (Germany — Bündnis 90/Die Grünen)
Political group: Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance
Date: 2021-07-06
Debate: The creation of guidelines for the application of the general regime of conditionality for the protection of the Union budget (debate)

  Terry Reintke,  rapporteur for the opinion of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. – Mr President, Parliament has again and again been pretty clear. First of all, the development of these guidelines for the regulation is actually not necessary as it is sufficiently clear as it stands. Secondly, the guidelines presented by the Commission unfortunately have little, or very little, additional value to clarification. Thirdly – and I must say this, Commissioner – suspicion is actually high that the Commission is fully aware of this, but presented these guidelines anyway to buy some time.
Commissioner, I must say that I think we really need to end these theatre plays. We don’t need more delaying tactics, and we don’t need statements or Commissioners being very concerned about the situation of the rule of law in the European Union. We need action, and it is not me saying it. Check the committee votes. Apart from the far right in this Parliament, all groups agree. So, Commissioner, take this as a strong appeal. I can only support my colleagues in saying, come back from the summer break with a strong case on the basis of this regulation.
Speaker: Terry REINTKE (Germany — Bündnis 90/Die Grünen)
Political group: Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance
Date: 2021-06-23
Debate: Order of business

  Terry Reintke (Verts/ALE).   – Mr President, I would like to present a point of order on the basis of Rule 39. 
Colleagues, you have probably been following the debate that has arisen over the past days on the meaning of rainbow colours, also in the context of the Euro Cup, with UEFA taking the rather unfortunate – I would say – stance of putting down the request by the City of Munich to illuminate the stadium in Munich in rainbow colours tonight in the match between Germany and Hungary. Since then, many institutions, including town halls and a lot stadiums all across Europe, have declared their solidarity. They are going to be illuminated in rainbow colours tonight, or they are going to show rainbow flags. 
We would like to request the European Parliament do the same and join these efforts. So, Mr President, if possible, we would like to ask the European Parliament also, for tonight, to hoist a rainbow flag, because I think this Parliament agrees that the rainbow flag is not a political provocation. The rainbow flag is a sign of respect for fundamental rights, diversity and human dignity, and we should show this in this Parliament as well.
Speaker: Terry REINTKE (Germany — Bündnis 90/Die Grünen)
Political group: Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance
Date: 2021-06-23
Debate: Sexual and reproductive health and rights in the EU, in the frame of women’s health (debate)

  Terry Reintke (Verts/ALE).   – Mr President, dear colleagues, I only have three things to say. 
No, you will not prevent abortions from happening by criminalising them. You will only force people into having unsafe and illegal abortion and thus endanger human life, period. 
Yes, the right to decide about our own bodies and our own health is our absolutely fundamental human right, and especially for women and queer people who have been deprived of this right for centuries. It matters the world. We will defend it with all we have. 
And thirdly, the enemies of sexual and reproductive rights are not pro-life. They are only part of a movement trying to restrict our freedom to choose, trying to police our bodies, trying to get women and sexual minorities back into the captivity of authoritarian fundamentalists. We will not let that happen. Vote in favour of the Matić report.