Debate contributions by Sibylle BERG

Madam President, good morning, dear people present! Rough people might be rasping that the founding of the Coalition of the Willing – brilliant B-movie title – was the French president’s first landmark invention to distract from the problems of his highly indebted, politically unstable little country. Distraction from complex problems, that's what we all want. And that is why, dear President of the Commission, your desire to be close to the willing is admirable, especially since you know, as we all do, that the war for peace is only a Trojan horse before the actual coup. Soon the willing will fight against education cuts with immense debt money strength, PR accompaniment and 5% of GDP; Then there is the dismantling of the health sector, the criminalisation and full monitoring of citizens – what happened to chat control again? – against unemployment, against ailing infrastructure in the EU, against poverty, homelessness and housing shortages. This is a great plan, thank you very much for this courage! A high for the willing!

Mr President, dear people present! I am new here, and I have already understood that we must prevent the rebellion of the masses against the downfall of the system out there. This is why the non-transparent EU expert group "Going Dark" recommends, for example, the effective abolition of cryptography – i.e. for the others. I understand that we few can want to know everything about the rest and just delete SMS, because we are the good guys, that we approve of the biometric facial monitoring hidden in the AI act, because most of us here seem a little faceless. So it seems like we have a digital dictatorship craving in here. But: In preparation for my work, I have read the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU. Article 7: ‘Everyone has the right to respect for his or her private and family life, home and communications’. Now I believe that the establishment of surveillance states is undemocratic. We could just leave those out there alone and let the development of Peer-to-peerPromote chats – for example.