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MEPs whose initial is “K” · 22 MEPs

Kai Tegethoff

• Between 2021 and 2024, Europe paid EUR 930 billion extra for fossil fuel imports due to price shocks and geopolitical cr
• The EU and India together represent around 25% of global GDP.
• The EU and India together represent 2 billion consumers.
• Trains save Europeans 132 million barrels of oil annually compared to road transport.

Kaja Kallas

• The EU diplomatic service summoned the Iranian ambassador on 13 January
• The Arctic is warming 3 to 4 times faster than the global average
• The ship that severed internet cables in the Baltic Sea in December 2024 escaped through Russian Arctic waters
• The European Union Military Assistance Mission (EUMAM) has already trained 86,000 Ukrainian soldiers.
• Since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion, the EU and Member States have delivered over EUR 69 billion in military
• In December 2025, European leaders agreed on a EUR 90 billion loan to cover Ukraine's military and financial needs.
• The EU has adopted 19 sanctions packages against Russia.
• To date, over 2,600 individuals and entities are sanctioned by the EU in relation to Russia.
• More than 20 EU citizens have been released from detention in Venezuela.
• The EU-Mercosur free trade agreement covers a population of 700 million people.
• The EU-Mercosur agreement creates the world's biggest free trade area.
• SAFE has a budget of EUR 150 billion for enhancing Europe's defence readiness.
• Since 2015, the EU emergency mechanism ProtectDefenders.eu has assisted nearly 94,000 human rights defenders worldwide.
• 19 Member States have requested SAFE loans to fund 700 defence projects totaling EUR 150 billion.
• SAFE loans will fund 700 defence projects.
• Two thirds of the EUR 150 billion SAFE loans are allocated to joint projects and joint procurement.
• Eight national investment plans under SAFE were approved last week.
• Eleven national investment plans under SAFE remain under examination.
• The Commission provisionally proposed Hungary be eligible for a EUR 16 billion share of SAFE loans.
• EU sanctions on violent settlers were adopted after being blocked for two years.
• EU funds available for Palestine for 2025-2027, including UNRWA, amount to 1.2 billion euros.
• The number of executions in Iran increased by 68% since 2024.
• The EU has designated the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization.
• 54% of fertilisers going to Sudan are transported via the Strait of Hormuz.
• Since 2015, the share of trade from Israeli settlements in total trade has been around 0.5%.
• Russia spends around 8% of its GDP on the military.
• The Pentagon halted planned deployments of American troops to Poland and Germany.
• Tens of thousands of American troops are stationed in Europe.
• The European Union provides a EUR 90 billion loan.
• The European Union pays its United Nations contributions in full and on time.
• Millions of Cubans face daily power outages, shortages of medicines and food, collapsing public services, and growing di
• The European Union has mobilised an additional EUR 6 million in humanitarian assistance for Cuba.
• The EU and Uzbekistan signed the enhanced partnership and cooperation agreement in October 2025.
• Key parts of the enhanced partnership and cooperation agreement have been provisionally applied since 1 March 2026.

Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz

• Poland has a powerful deregulatory wave - over 120 specific changes in one year.
• Poland entered the top 20 strongest economies in the world.
• Today European armies use 18 different types of tanks versus one for the United States, and 20 different types of fighte
• Poland today invests almost 5% of GDP in defence
• The Digital Markets Act is working: Apple received a fine of 500 million and Meta received a fine of 200 million for tre
• Aviation fuel in Europe costs 85% more than before the Iranian crisis.
• Europe imports 40% of aviation fuel from the Persian Gulf.
• Over half of Polish entrepreneurs cite bureaucracy as the biggest barrier.
• Elon Musk's artificial intelligence undressed 4 million women and children in 9 days.

Karin Karlsbro

• Under the current EU steel safeguard measure, Ukraine has an exemption that runs until summer 2028.

Katarina Barley

• In Hungary, the destruction of democratic institutions has been happening for 16 years.
• In January, Iranian authorities shut down the internet during nationwide protests.
• Thousands of demonstrators are being killed and injured.
• MEPs Nikos Androulakis and Krzysztof Brejza were spied on using Pegasus spyware.
• One in six young people in Europe has experienced digital violence
• More than 20 mayors from the CHP party in Turkey have been imprisoned.

Katarína Roth Neveďalová

• Israel attacked Lebanon causing the flight of hundreds of thousands of people
• We are today talking about the death of hundreds to thousands of civilians who have died in this conflict
• Slovakia has a 200-year tradition of sparkling wine that originated from France.

Kateřina Konečná

• EU steelmakers pay three to five times higher energy prices than competitors.
• EU Emission Trading System allowance prices are constantly rising.
• In the Czech Republic, black coal mines are being closed and backfilled to prevent future use.

Kathleen Funchion

• The Internet Watch Foundation has traced the majority of child sexual abuse material to countries within the European Un
• The means test for the Carer's Allowance in Ireland excludes thousands of carers.

Kathleen Van Brempt

• Seamus Culleton has been detained for five months.

Katri Kulmuni

• Electricity is currently the cheapest in the entire European Union (in Nordic countries).
• In Finland, cancer is the second most common cause of death group, with about 23% of Finns who died in 2024 having vario
• Finland has 1,343 kilometres of border with Russia to defend.
• The share of cleaner electricity and renewables is highest in the Nordic countries and the electricity is the cheapest t

Katrin Langensiepen

• There are 100 million people with disabilities in the EU.
• The Federal Republic of Germany was reprimanded by the Commission today for not fully implementing the EU accessibility
• On average, women perform 17 hours of unpaid care work per week.

Kim Van Sparrentak

• The EU spends EUR 250 billion on US cloud services each year
• Three artists were attacked and abused by a mob of children around 14 years of age after a performance at Brussels Pride
• Adolescents in Europe spend on average 4.5 hours a day on screens on weekdays, and 6.1 hours per day on weekends.

Kinga Gál

• Accession has been promised to Serbia for almost 20 years
• A EUR 90 billion loan package for Ukraine risks pushing Europe into a debt spiral.
• Agricultural subsidies, merged with cohesion policy, would decrease by 20%.

Kira Marie Peter-Hansen

• Housing prices are increasing across European capitals

Klara Dostalova

• The amendment introduces an obligation to refund customers within 14 days for cancelled package travel

Klára Dobrev

• The rich have become richer and the poor have become poorer over the past decades.

Konstantinos Arvanitis

• Four private individuals, two Greeks and two Israelis, were convicted with 126 years and eight months imprisonment each
• In Greece there are 200 dead from workplace accidents
• According to the ILO, work-related psychosocial risks are responsible for over 112,000 deaths at work every year across
• In Greece alone there are 100-120 workplace deaths annually.
• In the European Union in 2023, there were 3,298 worker deaths.
• In Greece in 2025, there were 201 worker deaths.
• Since the beginning of the year, Greece has already counted 65 worker deaths.
• In Greece, a 13-hour workday has been legislated.

Kosma Złotowski

• The Central Transport Hub (CPK) project in Poland suffered about 1.5 years of delay due to political disputes and renami

Kostas Papadakis

• It is complicit in 2,000 murdered, 7,000 injured and 1,000,000 displaced.
• Imported fertilizer prices have increased by up to 50% within a few months.
• Fertilizer prices are almost triple the level of 2022.
• Turkey is receiving 44 Eurofighter aircraft under a deal signed by Germany, France, Spain, Italy, and the UK.

Kristian Vigenin

• The EU and India have been strategic partners for more than 20 years.

Kristoffer Storm

• Livestock production secures thousands of jobs across Europe

Krzysztof Hetman

• The EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) accounts for 40-50% of the energy bill for industrial consumers.