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Speaker: Patrick BREYER (Germany — Piratenpartei Deutschland)
Political group: Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance
Date: 2021-03-25
Debate: European strategy for data – Commission evaluation report on the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation two years after its application (debate)

  Patrick Breyer,  im Namen der Verts/ALE-Fraktion. – Frau Präsidentin, verehrte Damen und Herren! Unsere persönlichen Daten sind in Europa so stark gesetzlich vor Missbrauch, vor Datenklau, vor Datenverlust geschützt wie nirgendwo sonst auf der Welt. Dieser Goldstandard an Datenschutz und Privatsphäre sichert unsere Freiheit und Selbstbestimmung – im Unterschied etwa zur chinesischen Diktatur. Persönliche Daten sind kein Industrierohstoff.
Aber unsere Datenschutzrechte sind nur so viel wert, wie wir um ihre Einhaltung zu kämpfen bereit sind – auch gegen Industrieinteressen, auch gegen mächtige Staaten wie die USA. Die Datenschutzbehörden müssen ohne Rücksicht auf Standortinteressen zeitnah Anordnungen treffen und Strafen verhängen. Die EU—Kommission muss Vertragsverletzungsverfahren einleiten, wo das nicht klappt.
Und wir als Volksvertretung müssen bei ePrivacy und beim Digitale—Dienste—Gesetz gegen Chatkontrolle, gegen Vorratsdatenspeicherung, gegen totales Tracking und für das Recht auf Anonymität kämpfen.
Denn auch unsere Kinder haben ein Recht auf ein Leben frei von ständiger Beobachtung und Manipulation. Packen wir es an!
Speaker: Patrick BREYER (Germany — Piratenpartei Deutschland)
Political group: Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance
Date: 2021-02-10
Debate: Democratic scrutiny of social media and the protection of fundamental rights (debate)

  Patrick Breyer (Verts/ALE).   – Madam President, if the dominant internet platforms were states, they would be dictatorships that use an army of robots to spy on their citizens and manipulate them, that dictate the news headlines, that arbitrarily censor what their citizens may say, that cut off communication channels with citizens of other countries, that expel them at will from their country.
The EU must stop putting these tech despots and their error—prone machines in charge of curing society and of preventing violence and crime, lies and hate because this only fuels the despot’s powers, and despots will use despotic means. 
The weapons of a democracy are humans, the rule of law and independent courts to take decisions. Let’s start setting up our own federated platforms and make corporate platforms interconnect. Let democracy reign in the digital age, not corporations and their machines.
Speaker: Patrick BREYER (Germany — Piratenpartei Deutschland)
Political group: Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance
Date: 2020-10-19
Debate: Digital Services Act: Improving the functioning of the Single Market - Digital Services Act: adapting commercial and civil law rules for commercial entities operating online - Digital Services Act and fundamental rights issues posed - Framework of ethical aspects of artificial intelligence, robotics and related technologies - Civil liability regime for artificial intelligence - Intellectual property rights for the development of artificial intelligence technologies (debate)

  Patrick Breyer,  rapporteur for the opinion of the Committee on Legal Affairs. – Madam President, the digital age we live in today permeates our daily lives and even more so our children’s lives. 
Can we accept that algorithms created by international corporations decide on what we can say and read online, what human rights defenders can say, what dissidents and whistle—blowers can publish? 
Do you know that YouTube’s filters suppressed a parliamentary debate on torture because they confused it with violence online? Many constitutions ban ex—ante censorship. It is high time we take back control and do the same with censorship machines used by digital platforms. 
Secondly, let’s tackle the predominant business model of surveillance capitalism. Major platforms are tracking our every click, everything we read and write online, to analyse our personalities, our likes, our weaknesses, our illnesses. 
We cannot accept this permanent surveillance of users online, and therefore we need to make sure that we are not subject to pervasive tracking.
Likewise, the right to anonymity is essential to safeguard our identity online and prevent abuses and data losses and sales.
Finally, let’s address the gated communities on the internet. Let’s make sure consumers can choose which platform to use to ensure competition and to ensure interaction across platforms, to break the dependency and the user lock—in that is predominant on the internet. Let’s make sure we take back control of our digital lives.
Let me add one aspect regarding the AI reports. There is some mention here of biometrics surveillance that has nothing to do with the report on AI and IPR protection. Let’s make sure that we do not confuse artificial intelligence with surveillance. This language on biometrics surveillance needs to be deleted.
Speaker: Patrick BREYER (Germany — Piratenpartei Deutschland)
Political group: Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance
Date: 2020-05-14
Debate: Use of contact tracing apps in the fight against the coronavirus (debate)

  Patrick Breyer (Verts/ALE).   – Herr Präsident! Nicht nur Edward Snowden warnt, dass im Windschatten der Corona-Pandemie dauerhafte Kontroll- und Überwachungsstrukturen aufgebaut werden. 
Obwohl die Pandemie in Europa inzwischen unter Kontrolle ist, wollen Regierungen die Rückkehr zu unserem normalen Leben davon abhängig machen, dass wir in ein Gesellschaftsexperiment zur digitalen Verhaltenserfassung einsteigen. Bisher sind es Menschen, die Kontaktpersonen Infizierter erfragen und benachrichtigen. Das schützt uns Studien zufolge deutlich besser als jede App und vermeidet massenhafte Fehlalarme. Wer von Ihnen glaubt wirklich, dass eine einmal eingeführte Kontakterfassungstechnik überall in Europa dauerhaft freiwillig bleiben wird? Das ist doch eine Illusion. 
Liebe Regierungen, sorgen Sie endlich für ausreichende Schutzausrüstung und Gesundheitsversorgung, für Testangebote, für Impfstoffversorgung, sorgen Sie für zukünftige Pandemien vor. Das sind Sie uns schuldig, nicht Überwachungstechnik und Datensammlung!
Speaker: Patrick BREYER (Germany — Piratenpartei Deutschland)
Political group: Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance
Date: 2020-02-10
Debate: Automated decision-making processes: Ensuring consumer protection, and free movement of goods and services (debate)

  Patrick Breyer (Verts/ALE).   – Herr Präsident! Code is law – das heißt, das, was in Maschinencode geschrieben ist, ist in vielen Fällen so gut wie Gesetzgebung, und deswegen: Schlechter Code ist auch wie ein schlechtes Gesetz. 
Das bedeutet, dass wir heute nicht mehr nur mit der Situation zu tun haben, in der Algorithmen wirklich Entscheidungen treffen, sondern in vielen Fällen ist es so, dass Algorithmen Entscheidungen treiben oder Entscheidungen auf Informationen gestützt werden, die von Algorithmen berechnet sind. Diese Situation darf man nicht unterschätzen, denn die Zahl, die angezeigt wird, ist bestechend – auch für einen Menschen, der vielleicht theoretisch die Entscheidung trifft –, aber bisher sind wir nur geschützt oder gibt es nur bestimmte Transparenzgarantien für die maschinell getroffenen Entscheidungen. 
Ich glaube, das muss sich ändern. Wir brauchen künftig Transparenz auch dort, wo Algorithmen Entscheidungen beeinflussen und vorgeben, denn dass ein Mensch entscheidet, darf nicht nur reine Fiktion und Theorie sein, sondern muss auch in der Praxis gewährleistet sein.
Speaker: Patrick BREYER (Germany — Piratenpartei Deutschland)
Political group: Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance
Date: 2020-01-15
Debate: European Parliament's position on the Conference on the Future of Europe (debate)

  Patrick Breyer (Verts/ALE),  blue-card question. – Dear colleague, you said that you don’t want the EU Parliament to be delegitimised by Parliament representation. Do you know the concept of a fundamental treaty of society as laid out by Mr Rousseau The idea that citizens will agree on the kind of government that they want. And do you think that this idea is a threat to representative institutions or would you rather agree that we are elected to represent citizens when they want us to?
Speaker: Patrick BREYER (Germany — Piratenpartei Deutschland)
Political group: Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance
Date: 2020-01-15
Debate: European Parliament's position on the Conference on the Future of Europe (debate)

  Patrick Breyer (Verts/ALE).   – Frau Präsidentin! Wie schaffen wir es, dass die EU Politik für die Mehrheit der Bürgerinnen und Bürger macht und nicht für Konzerne? Wie dämmen wir Lobbyismus ein? Wie können die Europäerinnen und Europäer bei Bedarf selbst das Ruder in die Hand nehmen durch EU-weite Referenden und direkte Demokratie?
Um das Vertrauen der Bürgerinnen und Bürger in die EU zurückzugewinnen und Europa vor einem Auseinanderfallen oder einer schrittweisen Übernahme durch Nationalisten zu schützen, wie wir sie auch heute gehört haben, brauchen wir eine Fundamentalreform, einen Neustart der EU. Diese Konferenz zur Zukunft Europas wird hoffentlich einige kleinere Verbesserungen bewirken können. Aber ausgerechnet von Vertretern der EU-Organe zu erwarten, sich quasi selbst zu reformieren, das ist wie Frösche zu fragen, wie man einen Sumpf austrocknet.
Lassen Sie uns deswegen den Mut und das Vertrauen in unsere Bürgerinnen und Bürger aufbringen, einen direkt gewählten Bürgerkonvent mit der Ausarbeitung einer neuen EU-Verfassung zu beauftragen und die Europäerinnen und Europäer in einem europaweiten Referendum selbst über die EU entscheiden zu lassen, die Sie haben möchten.
Speaker: Patrick BREYER (Germany — Piratenpartei Deutschland)
Political group: Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance
Date: 2019-12-19
Debate: Situation of human rights and democracy in Nicaragua (RC-B9-0251/2019, B9-0251/2019, B9-0252/2019, B9-0253/2019, B9-0254/2019, B9-0255/2019)

  Patrick Breyer (Verts/ALE).   –Madam President, the Pirate Delegation is in favour of holding the powerful accountable for grave violations of human rights, including by way of effective sanctions.
However, this should be done in line with international law, and this includes the principle of Head-of-State immunity, and furthermore, sanctions should primarily be imposed by the United Nations.
Now, this Parliament resolution on Nicaragua doesn’t really take these measures into account, and especially its calls for sanctions, inter alia, on the president of Nicaragua, the acting Head of State, and therefore, we decided to abstain on that specific split vote.
Speaker: Patrick BREYER (Germany — Piratenpartei Deutschland)
Political group: Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance
Date: 2019-12-18
Debate: Enabling the digital transformation of health and care (B9-0239/2019)  (vote)

  Patrick Breyer,  on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group. – Mr President, based on Rule 180(4) of our Rules of Procedure, I would like to request, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, an oral amendment to our amendments numbers 6, 7 and 9 to correct an error. These amendments should only insert the qualifier ‘anonymised’ and not the words ‘or pseudonymised’. So, in other words, I request that the words ‘or pseudonymised’ be deleted from our amendments. This oral amendment affects amendment 6 twice and amendments 7 and 9 once respectively. It is needed to effectively preserve the confidentiality of medical conditions and to reflect the outcome of the Commission’s consultation on this point.
Speaker: Patrick BREYER (Germany — Piratenpartei Deutschland)
Political group: Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance
Date: 2019-12-18
Debate: Enabling the digital transformation of health and care (B9-0239/2019)  (vote)

  Patrick Breyer,  on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group. – Mr President, in this case, based on Rule 180(5) of our Rules of Procedure, on behalf of my Group I would like to withdraw our amendments 6, 7 and 9.
Speaker: Patrick BREYER (Germany — Piratenpartei Deutschland)
Political group: Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance
Date: 2019-12-17
Debate: Enabling the digital transformation of health and care (debate)

  Patrick Breyer (Verts/ALE).   – Madam President, information on our health is about as sensitive as it can be. It includes data on our mental disorders, on our sexual health, including HIV, on reproductive disorders, etc., so certainly using this information for other purposes such as research and care can have benefits, but the Commission’s communication and the proposed resolution we are to vote on tomorrow do not acknowledge that the patient should be in control of this information on their health and should not be forced to give up control by feeding this information into centralised and interconnected databases. We fully know well that a decentralised storage on unconnected devices is much safer and also, Madam Commissioner, 62% of respondents to your consultation said they want to share their health data for research purposes only if it cannot be tracked back to them. That means anonymised data, not just pseudonymised data. Information on our physical and mental health must never be regarded as a commodity for industry to exploit but is a confidential and integral part of our personality.
Speaker: Patrick BREYER (Germany — Piratenpartei Deutschland)
Political group: Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance
Date: 2019-11-26
Debate: Children rights in occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Convention of the Rights of the Child (B9-0178/2019, B9-0179/2019, B9-0180/2019)

  Patrick Breyer (Verts/ALE).   – Mr President, this resolution on children’s rights is an important and necessary one. We Pirate Party members of this House, however, regret to see that certain stakeholders, including powerful lobby groups, are using this important resolution to promote their own commercial products. And political groups like the EPP are taking children hostage of private interests and make their support of this entire resolution dependent on this language being included. We fiercely oppose technology to subject an entire network to surveillance, because there are just too many ways to abuse it.
The resolution also grossly misrepresents the findings of the quoted study. Internet service providers are increasingly using filters to detect and report the unlawful distribution of child sexual abuse material, but there is no evidence that the total number of such images – reported or unreported – is actually increasing.
So, for these reasons, the Pirate delegation regrets that we cannot support the resolution, due to paragraph 16 and recital O and we abstained.
Speaker: Patrick BREYER (Germany — Piratenpartei Deutschland)
Political group: Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance
Date: 2019-10-24
Debate: Appointment of EBA Executive Director Farkas as AFME Chief Executive (debate)

  Patrick Breyer (Verts/ALE).   – Madam President, when a senior bank supervisor, while still in office, negotiates working for the other side, there is clearly a public appearance that this person is being bought out of office. Public trust in the financial sector is low anyway, and they have the impression that it is intertwined with banking supervision. Therefore, a cooling-off period of just a few weeks is clearly insufficient. Also, we have no idea when he started the negotiations. Was that at a time when he was still exercising his functions and did it have any influence on his functions? Can someone tell us about that?
I believe that there is a very legitimate interest to have a sufficient cooling—off period to avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest. It’s an issue of trust. But if one thinks the Staff Regulations are not sufficient for imposing such a period then would one not propose a reform?
Speaker: Patrick BREYER (Germany — Piratenpartei Deutschland)
Political group: Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance
Date: 2019-10-21
Debate: The danger of violent right-wing extremism (in the light of the recent events in Halle, Germany) (debate)

  Patrick Breyer (Verts/ALE).   – Frau Präsidentin! Aus Hass gegen bestimmte Menschengruppen und Minderheiten sind mehrfach Menschen ermordet worden. Gegen Hass und Hetze müssen alle Menschen zusammenstehen und gemeinsam dagegenhalten, statt jetzt Gamer oder Internetnutzer unter Generalverdacht zu stellen. Die Antwort der Politik auf solche Taten muss mehr Demokratie und Bürgerbeteiligung, eine offenere Gesellschaft und mehr Menschlichkeit sein, statt jetzt lange vorbereitete Überwachungspläne oder Anonymitätsverbote aus der Schublade zu holen, die den Attentäter von Halle nicht im Ansatz hätten stoppen können. Wir müssen endlich in die dauerhafte Finanzierung von zivilgesellschaftlicher Arbeit gegen Menschenfeindlichkeit, in Interventionsprogramme zur Deradikalisierung im Netz, in die konsequente Verfolgung von Hasskriminalität online wie offline investieren, anstatt unsere Mittel für flächendeckende Massenüberwachungsprogramme oder Vorratsdatenspeicherung zu verschwenden. Wir dürfen auch beim Vorgehen gegen Gewalt niemals unsere Werte aufgeben, sonst haben die Terroristen gewonnen.
Speaker: Lara COMI (Italy — Forza Italia)
Political group: Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats)
Date: 2023-04-18
Debate: Energy storage (debate)

  Lara Comi (PPE).   – Signora Presidente, gentile Commissario, cari colleghi, rafforzare l'indipendenza energetica, accelerare la transizione verso l'energia rinnovabile, investire nello stoccaggio delle fonti sono al centro della strategia dell'Unione europea. 
L'obiettivo è sicuramente quello di assicurare una maggiore indipendenza dall'approvvigionamento da paesi terzi per evitare, come accaduto dopo lo scoppio del conflitto russo-ucraino, di mettere a dura prova la tenuta del nostro sistema. 
Nel solo 2021 abbiamo importato l'83 % del gas naturale, ma l'Europa è stata in grado di rispondere con celerità e adeguatezza alla crisi, diversificando i paesi fornitori, riducendo in un solo anno la dipendenza dalla Russia di quasi il 30 %. Bene anche l'introduzione del price cap, che ha messo fine alle grandi oscillazioni di prezzo. 
Abbiamo bisogno di una strategia europea comune, anche da un punto di vista energetico. Dobbiamo agire come centrale unica di acquisto, avendo così una forza negoziale sicuramente maggiore per aiutare famiglie e imprese a tenere basso il prezzo delle bollette. Se i singoli Stati membri agiscono in modo autonomo, si crea una disparità nel mercato interno. Per questo serve un'azione unica e forte allo stesso momento. 
L'Europa deve lavorare per costruire una politica energetica comune, integrata e moderna, sicura e capace di raggiungere in pochi anni l'indipendenza attraverso il mix energetico.
Speaker: Lara COMI (Italy — Forza Italia)
Political group: Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats)
Date: 2023-04-18
Debate: Adoption of the Cyber package proposals (debate)

  Lara Comi (PPE).   – Signora Presidente, signori Commissari, la sicurezza e la protezione dei consumatori e dei loro dati sono per noi elementi imprescindibili dai compromessi.
Negli ultimi anni le minacce ai componenti hardware e software dei prodotti e gli attacchi informatici a danno delle aziende, delle pubbliche amministrazioni e dei cittadini europei sono notevolmente aumentati, non solo da un punto di vista quantitativo, ma anche in termini di impatto e complessità.
La digitalizzazione è entrata nella vita quotidiana di tutti noi, facilitando molte attività, non per questo non deve essere regolamentata, sempre a tutela del consumatore. Questo pacchetto non deve essere un limite alla ricerca e allo sviluppo tecnologico, e non lo sarà, non è questo l'obiettivo che si pone. Sono necessarie però delle norme uguali per tutti gli Stati membri, in modo tale da avere un sistema armonizzato.
La sicurezza dei prodotti digitali è direttamente collegata alla sicurezza dei consumatori, che mettiamo sempre al centro delle nostre scelte. Lo abbiamo fatto per l'etichettatura dei prodotti, lo facciamo quando ci battiamo contro la carne sintetica e lo facciamo anche quando si tratta di dati sensibili e del mondo digitale, partendo anche dalla privacy di ognuno di noi.
Speaker: Lara COMI (Italy — Forza Italia)
Political group: Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats)
Date: 2023-02-15
Debate: Access to strategic critical raw materials (debate)

  Lara Comi (PPE).   – Signora Presidente, onorevoli colleghi, signora Commissaria, signora Ministra, se vogliamo realizzare una vera e sostenibile transizione energetica, dobbiamo assolutamente rafforzare sia la nostra competitività interna sia l'indipendenza dagli altri Stati, tra cui la Cina e gli Stati Uniti.
Attualmente, infatti, l'Europa fornisce meno dell'1 % delle batterie al litio e solo il 2 % delle materie prime relative alla robotica. Le materie prime critiche sono utilizzate in settori industriali chiave, tra i quali abbiamo la produzione dell'acciaio, la difesa, l'aviazione e la sanità. E queste materie prime essenziali sono importate principalmente da un numero limitato di paesi terzi, rendendoci così totalmente dipendenti da loro.
Però vi è di più: queste materie prime sono anche essenziali per garantire il raggiungimento del Green Deal europeo. Tuttavia, il mercato globale non è attualmente in grado di soddisfare la domanda, che è in rapida crescita. L'aumento del prezzo delle materie prime non è solo un problema per le imprese, ma soprattutto per i cittadini, sui quali ricade il costo finale del prodotto del servizio.
La ringrazio, Commissaria, perché sono convinta che lei su questo avrà una grande sensibilità e una grande collaborazione anche da parte di tutti noi.
Speaker: Lara COMI (Italy — Forza Italia)
Political group: Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats)
Date: 2023-01-16
Debate: 30th Anniversary of the Single Market (debate)

  Lara Comi (PPE).   – Signor Presidente, onorevoli colleghi, Commissaria, signora Ministra, quest'anno il mercato unico compie trent'anni. 
Quando sono stata eletta al Parlamento europeo ne avevo 26 e decisi di partecipare alla commissione mercato interno, dove, insieme a tanti colleghi – che ringrazio e che vedo qui ancora oggi – continuo a lavorare con passione e impegno, perché credevo e credo fortemente che la vera Europa si costruisca non solo su un'Unione economica, ma su una solida unione politica. 
Il roaming, il diritto dei viaggiatori, il riconoscimento delle qualifiche professionali, la direttiva sulla sicurezza dei prodotti, il Digital Markets Act, l'Erasmus sono stati alcuni provvedimenti apprezzati dai cittadini, dando loro garanzie, libertà e prosperità.
In moltissimi settori siamo i primi al mondo nel produrre ogni genere di bene e di servizio che esportiamo dappertutto. Il mercato unico ha armonizzato centinaia di atti legislativi e ha fissato norme standard in materia di protezione dei consumatori. 
Come tutte le creazioni dell'uomo, tuttavia, anche il mercato unico non è e non sarà mai perfetto. Ci sono questioni aperte che dobbiamo affrontare a livello comunitario, andando oltre quelli che sono ancora oggi gli egoismi nazionali, come l'Unione fiscale, l'Unione della difesa, il costo comune del lavoro, una politica comune industriale ed energetica, oltre a una politica migratoria europea. 
La pandemia, la guerra in Ucraina, l'inflazione e le ondate migratorie richiedono una risposta europea, ma una risposta che non sia ondivaga, che sia chiara e precisa. E proprio per questo il presupposto di tutto questo obiettivo è uno solo e il sogno è quello di arrivare agli Stati Uniti d'Europa, che è l'obiettivo che tutti noi ci poniamo e spero che tutti noi ci porremo insieme.