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MEPs whose initial is “K” · 26 MEPs

Kai Tegethoff

• The EU and India together represent around 25% of global GDP.
• Between 2021 and 2024, Europe paid EUR 930 billion extra for fossil fuel imports due to price shocks and geopolitical cr
• Trains save Europeans 132 million barrels of oil annually compared to road transport.
• Economic damage of €180 billion was caused in Europe during a single summer (2026).
• The EU and India together represent 2 billion consumers.
• 36,000 Europeans died during a single summer (2026) as a result of extreme weather and climate-related disasters.

Kaja Kallas

• 19 Member States have requested SAFE loans to fund 700 defence projects totaling EUR 150 billion.
• EU sanctions have deprived the Russian economy of EUR 1 trillion.
• The Arctic is warming 3 to 4 times faster than the global average
• The EU and its Member States have provided more than EUR 78 billion in military support to Ukraine.
• The EU-Mercosur free trade agreement covers a population of 700 million people.
• The Commission provisionally proposed Hungary be eligible for a EUR 16 billion share of SAFE loans.
• Ukraine supplies 15% of global maize exports, 10% of wheat exports, 15–20% of barley exports and 50% of global sunflower
• Global grain prices are at their highest level since February 2023.
• Since 2015, the EU emergency mechanism ProtectDefenders.eu has assisted nearly 94,000 human rights defenders worldwide.
• EU sanctions have deprived the Russian economy of EUR 1,000,000,000,000.
• The European Union pays its United Nations contributions in full and on time.
• In 2026, the European Union provided €85 million in humanitarian assistance to Yemen.
• More than 20 EU citizens have been released from detention in Venezuela.
• In December 2025, European leaders agreed on a EUR 90 billion loan to cover Ukraine's military and financial needs.
• The United States has imposed individual sanctions on nine ICC judges and a chief prosecutor.
• Around one fifth (20%) of EU trade passes through the Red Sea.
• Key parts of the enhanced partnership and cooperation agreement have been provisionally applied since 1 March 2026.
• Global grain stockpiles are larger than they were in 2022.
• EU sanctions on violent settlers were adopted after being blocked for two years.
• Russia spends around 8% of its GDP on the military.
• Around 90% of Ukrainian grain exports move through the Black Sea corridor.
• In the last two weeks, Houthi attacks on Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport killed dozens of civilians and injur
• Millions of Cubans face daily power outages, shortages of medicines and food, collapsing public services, and growing di
• The EU has designated the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization.
• July and August 2026 were the deadliest months for Ukrainian civilians since the start of Russia's full-scale war agains
• EU Operation ASPIDES has escorted hundreds of vessels to safety since 2024.
• The European Union provides a EUR 90 billion loan.
• Since August 2026, 200,000 people in Yemen have fled their homes.
• More than 22 million people in Yemen are in need of some form of humanitarian aid.
• The European Union has provided EUR 220 billion of support to Ukraine since the start of the war.
• EU sanctions have deprived Russia of more than EUR 1 trillion from its war chest.
• The European Union has adopted 21 packages of sanctions against Russia, three of which address the circumvention of sanc
• The EU diplomatic service summoned the Iranian ambassador on 13 January
• Eleven national investment plans under SAFE remain under examination.
• The EU-Mercosur agreement creates the world's biggest free trade area.
• Over 5 million people in Yemen were already displaced.
• Six suspected Russian drone attacks occurred in ten days in the Black Sea.
• At the UN General Assembly, 51 countries came together to condemn Russia and call for Black Sea passage.
• The EU and Uzbekistan signed the enhanced partnership and cooperation agreement in October 2025.
• To date, over 2,600 individuals and entities are sanctioned by the EU in relation to Russia.
• The EU Ukraine support loan amounts to EUR 90 billion over two years, with EUR 60 billion earmarked for military assista
• Russia has destroyed around 90% of food storage infrastructure inside Ukraine in recent months.
• The European Union has provided EUR 13 million to the International Criminal Court over the past two years.
• Russia blockaded 20 million tonnes of Ukrainian grain in 2022.
• Overall EU assistance to Ukraine amounts to more than EUR 220 billion since the start of the war.
• The EU has adopted 19 sanctions packages against Russia.
• The ship that severed internet cables in the Baltic Sea in December 2024 escaped through Russian Arctic waters
• The number of executions in Iran increased by 68% since 2024.
• Eight national investment plans under SAFE were approved last week.
• SAFE has a budget of EUR 150 billion for enhancing Europe's defence readiness.
• Since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion, the EU and Member States have delivered over EUR 69 billion in military
• The European Union adopted more than 30 rounds of Russia-related sanctions between April 2025 and September 2026, includ
• The Pentagon halted planned deployments of American troops to Poland and Germany.
• Two thirds of the EUR 150 billion SAFE loans are allocated to joint projects and joint procurement.
• The European Union recently sanctioned nine individuals and four entities.
• Since 2015, the share of trade from Israeli settlements in total trade has been around 0.5%.
• Over 120 states participated in establishing the International Criminal Court.
• The European Union has mobilised an additional EUR 6 million in humanitarian assistance for Cuba.
• EU funds available for Palestine for 2025-2027, including UNRWA, amount to 1.2 billion euros.
• The European Union Military Assistance Mission (EUMAM) has already trained 86,000 Ukrainian soldiers.
• Since September 2026, the European Union mobilised an additional €2.5 million in emergency humanitarian funding for Yeme
• EU sanctions have deprived Russia of EUR 1 trillion, money that does not reach Russia's war coffers.
• EUR 8.35 billion of the Ukraine support loan has already been disbursed, including funds destined for Patriot missiles.
• Ukraine is losing an estimated EUR 60 million per day in export revenues.
• The EU sanctioned more than 1,600 people and entities linked to Russia's war, the largest round of listings since the wa
• The EU has escorted hundreds of commercial vessels to safety under Operation ASPIDES.
• SAFE loans will fund 700 defence projects.
• Since July, grain exports through the EU-Ukraine Solidarity Lanes rose by almost 2 million tonnes.
• A few weeks before October 2026, the European Union signed a €9 million agreement with UNDP to support local-led recover
• Tens of thousands of American troops are stationed in Europe.
• 54% of fertilisers going to Sudan are transported via the Strait of Hormuz.
• The European Union has adopted 21 sanctions packages covering 3,000 individuals and entities.

Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz

• Aviation fuel in Europe costs 85% more than before the Iranian crisis.
• Poland has 2.3 million micro-firms that do not have dedicated administrative departments.
• Europe imports 40% of aviation fuel from the Persian Gulf.
• About 100 cases were identified in Poland where the country, under the PiS government, adopted more restrictive rules th
• Poland has a powerful deregulatory wave - over 120 specific changes in one year.
• Poland entered the top 20 strongest economies in the world.
• Bureaucracy costs the European Union €150 billion per year.
• Experts calculate that 713 billion euros are at stake for the EU economy if the practice of over-regulation is ended.
• Poland today invests almost 5% of GDP in defence
• Inspections of micro-firms in Poland were shortened from 12 days to six, exactly by half.
• Over half of Polish entrepreneurs cite bureaucracy as the biggest barrier.
• The Digital Markets Act is working: Apple received a fine of 500 million and Meta received a fine of 200 million for tre
• Elon Musk's artificial intelligence undressed 4 million women and children in 9 days.
• The Polish government is implementing 354 deregulation proposals submitted by entrepreneurs.
• Today European armies use 18 different types of tanks versus one for the United States, and 20 different types of fighte

Karin Karlsbro

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

Karlo Ressler

• The European Investment Bank mobilised record financing in 2025, the largest amount ever.
• More than 35,000 tonnes of hazardous waste were illegally disposed of in Varaždin, Gospić and Benkovac, discovered with

Katarina Barley

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

Katarína Roth Neveďalová

• Slovakia has a 200-year tradition of sparkling wine that originated from France.
• The annual report puts the error rate in EU budget expenditure at 3.8%
• The European Court of Auditors has issued an adverse opinion for seven consecutive years
• 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

Kateřina Konečná

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

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.
• Ten EU member states have still not ratified the CETA trade agreement.

Katri Kulmuni

• The automotive industry employs about 13 million people in Europe.
• In Finland, cancer is the second most common cause of death group, with about 23% of Finns who died in 2024 having vario
• Atlantic salmon stocks in the Baltic region have collapsed.
• The automotive industry employs about 13 million people in Europe.
• The share of cleaner electricity and renewables is highest in the Nordic countries and the electricity is the cheapest t
• Finland has 1,343 kilometres of border with Russia to defend.
• Among religious groups worldwide, Christians, especially converts to Christianity, experience the most persecution.
• Electricity is currently the cheapest in the entire European Union (in Nordic countries).
• The EU internal market has 100 million more inhabitants than the United States.

Katrin Langensiepen

• The Federal Republic of Germany was reprimanded by the Commission today for not fully implementing the EU accessibility
• Housing costs in Europe have risen by an average of 60% since 2015
• The European Union could face a shortage of more than 4 million health and care workers by 2030.
• There are 100 million people with disabilities in the EU.
• On average, women perform 17 hours of unpaid care work per week.

Kim Van Sparrentak

• Adolescents in Europe spend on average 4.5 hours a day on screens on weekdays, and 6.1 hours per day on weekends.
• 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

Kinga Gál

• The EU fines Hungary EUR 1 million per day over its southern border fence.
• 80,000 illegal migrants entered Ceuta, a city of 80,000 inhabitants.
• Accession has been promised to Serbia for almost 20 years
• Agricultural subsidies, merged with cohesion policy, would decrease by 20%.
• A EUR 90 billion loan package for Ukraine risks pushing Europe into a debt spiral.

Kinga Kollár

• The European Court of Auditors issued an adverse opinion on the regularity of EU spending for the seventh consecutive ye
• The estimated error rate for the EU budget rose to 3.8% in 2025.
• In cohesion policy, the estimated error rate reached 6.6% in 2025.

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

• In the European Union in 2023, there were 3,298 worker deaths.
• The International Labour Organization estimates that more than 840,000 people die each year worldwide from illnesses lin
• Four private individuals, two Greeks and two Israelis, were convicted with 126 years and eight months imprisonment each
• According to the ILO, work-related psychosocial risks are responsible for over 112,000 deaths at work every year across
• Greece spent approximately 4 billion US dollars on protection against threats from neighbouring Turkey, linked to the US
• In Greece, 49% of workers say work has caused or worsened their anxiety, depression or stress.
• In Greece, a 13-hour workday has been legislated.
• In Greece there are 200 dead from workplace accidents
• Since the beginning of the year, Greece has already counted 65 worker deaths.
• In Greece alone there are 100-120 workplace deaths annually.
• In Greece in 2025, there were 201 worker deaths.
• Greece ranks first in workplace accidents.

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.
• More than 73,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza conflict.
• Fertilizer prices are almost triple the level of 2022.
• Thousands of people died in the heatwave in Europe.
• Turkey is receiving 44 Eurofighter aircraft under a deal signed by Germany, France, Spain, Italy, and the UK.
• Imported fertilizer prices have increased by up to 50% within a few months.

Kristian Vigenin

• Corruption costs the European Union close to one trillion euros per year, according to the most pessimistic estimates ci
• Bulgaria is among the EU countries with the lowest number of health specialists relative to population.
• The EU and India have been strategic partners for more than 20 years.
• 44% of Bulgaria's territory is protected and the country has 92 protected habitats.

Kristoffer Storm

• Livestock production secures thousands of jobs across Europe
• Hundreds of thousands of migrants cross the European Union's external borders every year.

Krzysztof Brejza

• Under the EU's SAFE defence programme, Poland has already signed 60 agreements worth more than EUR 40 billion.

Krzysztof Hetman

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

Krzysztof Śmiszek

• 140 people died in the crisis at the Ceuta border.
• 70,000 people stormed the border of Ceuta.