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MEPs whose initial is “S” · 42 MEPs

Sabrina Repp

• Mecklenburg-Vorpommern has almost 2,000 kilometres of Baltic Sea coastline.

Sakis Arnaoutoglou

• Fish stock management under the EU's Common Fisheries Policy shows progress, according to the policy evaluation.
• Greece has the oldest car fleet in the European Union, with an average age of 18 years for passenger cars and 23 years f
• Three years ago, 57 people, the majority of them young, lost their lives in the Tempi train accident in Greece.
• Drought, water scarcity and soil loss are worsening in the Mediterranean region.

Sander Smit

• In France, 57% of anti-religious attacks target Jews, who constitute less than 1% of the population
• Europe is already dependent on imports for 70% of the fish it consumes.
• In France, Jews constitute less than 1% of the population
• Between 27% and 49% of end-of-life vehicles in the EU disappear into undocumented flows and are exported as second-hand
• The blockade of the Strait of Hormuz by Iran is causing shortages of very expensive artificial fertilizer
• Since the Lisbon Treaty, the number of policy areas in the EU requiring unanimity in the Council has decreased.
• 76% of Jews in Europe hide their identity and are afraid in large cities

Sandra Gómez López

• The EU has given EUR 2.5 million in humanitarian aid to Nepal.
• Iran has launched attacks against more than a dozen countries
• More than 59,000 professionals have been trained, more than double what was planned.
• A fire in Soneja, Castellón burned more than 183 hectares and caused no fatalities.
• The tragedy in Nepal has caused more than 1,300 deaths.
• More than 6,000 people are missing after the floods in Nepal.
• More than 269 events have been organised in the Union and more than 59,000 professionals have been trained, more than do
• The Valencian government gives more than 70 million euros of public money to private Opus Dei schools that continue to s
• The Commission's annual report for the year 2024 is absent.
• The European Globalisation Adjustment Fund supports 400 Galician workers dismissed from the automotive sector
• The Council has kept the CBAM-based own resource blocked since 2020, despite the need for it to enter into operation.

Sandra Kalniete

• According to a NewsGuard study, ten leading chatbots systematically repeat Russian-origin falsehoods about Ukraine.
• Canada was the largest per capita supporter of Ukraine amongst the G7 countries at the end of 2025
• More than 18 sailors have died in the Black Sea during the war in Ukraine.
• The EU sanctions list includes 3,000 Russian individuals.
• Canada has recently increased its support to Ukraine by EUR 2 billion in military equipment
• In the last week alone, Russia killed more than 100 Ukrainian civilians.
• Russia's information hybrid war costs 1 billion USD per year, while its military budget is 190 billion USD.
• Ukraine has identified 5,500 Western and Asian components in Russian missiles.

Sandro Gozi

• According to the IMF and the Draghi report, internal tariffs are 45% for manufactured goods and 110% for services.
• Each year, more than 300 billion euros of European savings leave the continent to finance growth in the United States.
• The Draghi report calls for EUR 800 billion of additional annual investment in the European Union.

Sandro Ruotolo

• Venezuela possesses the largest oil reserves on Earth.
• Europol has identified over 14,000 accounts linked to the online recruitment of minors.

Sara Matthieu

• People in Belgium pay more than €2 per liter at the pump today
• The five largest oil companies made USD 6,000 in profit per second during the summer of 2026.
• 3,000 people lost their jobs due to the closure of the Audi Brussels plant
• Every year, 3.5 million cars are shipped out of Europe.
• 1,222 people died in Belgium in only 12 days during the heatwave.
• Belgium experienced its largest wildfire on record in the summer of 2026.
• The five biggest oil companies made USD 6,000 per second.

Sarah Knafo

• A few weeks ago, Ursula von der Leyen presented the European age verification app for social media; 24 hours later, a si
• Marriage contracts, pay slips, and medical data of European Parliament staff are now for sale on the internet.
• The May 2024 riots in New Caledonia caused €2 billion in damage
• A 15-year-old hacked the state and offered 11 million identity cards, passports, and driving licenses to criminals.
• About 270,000 European citizens live roughly 17,000 km from the European Parliament, in New Caledonia
• Europe accounts for 8% of global steel production
• Nine in ten households in the United States and Japan have an air conditioner.
• In May 2024 New Caledonia experienced the worst riots in its history, with 14 deaths
• The French Interior Ministry's file of judicial records of 16 million French people was hacked.
• Electricity bills in New Caledonia rose 10% on 1 October, the third consecutive annual increase, amounting to 30% over t
• The European Union borrowed EUR 750 billion in the name of its citizens under Next Generation EU and must repay it.
• Energy accounts for 40% of the price of steel

Saskia Bricmont

• 4.7 million hectares of Canadian forest burned in summer 2026.
• 680,000 hectares of European forest burned in summer 2026.
• In July 2021, investigative journalists and NGOs revealed that thousands of people had been illegally spied on using the
• The European Union is Pakistan's second-largest trading partner.

Sebastian Everding

• Animal and plant species are dying out at a rate that humans have never before experienced in history.
• During these one and a half minutes, over 2,000 animals were slaughtered in Germany alone.

Sebastian Kruis

• Our industry currently pays five times more for energy than the US and China
• In the Netherlands, 379 antisemitic incidents were registered in 2023, 421 in 2024, and 867 in 2025.
• In the strategy for the single market, the Commission mentions ten obstacles for the internal market

Sebastian Tynkkynen

• 60% of this sum, nearly 45 billion EUR, went to climate action and environmental sustainability.
• Ukrainian people have been involved in the war with Russia for over four years.
• In 2023, 12,000 citizens were arrested in Britain for messages and social media posts.
• French counterintelligence dismantled nine secret Chinese police stations operating on French soil.
• The maximum amount of eligible expenditure in the project was EUR 276 million.
• Sudan is ranked in the top five countries in the world for Christian persecution.
• In 2024, the EU and its member states spent nearly €90 billion on development aid in a single year.
• Nuclear power produces nearly 40% of the electricity used in Finland.
• China accounts for about one third of all global CO2 emissions.
• China's crude steel production is about 27 times that of Germany, the EU's largest producer.
• Last year a Swedish court ruled that a rape committed by an Eritrean immigrant against a 16-year-old Swedish girl did no
• The Finnish government raised the minimum income threshold for labour immigration to 1,600 euros per month.
• 85% of global battery production capacity is located in China.
• The nation has been occupied by an Islamist dictatorship for 46 years
• Finland recently agreed on a massive icebreaker deal to sell icebreakers to the United States
• According to the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), the Nature Restoration Regulation could remove nearly €3 bi
• Baltic herring is the most important fish stock for Finnish fisheries.
• At EU level, only 17% of small companies use artificial intelligence.
• Fertilizers are the single largest cost in agriculture.
• Large EU countries currently have debt-to-GDP ratios hovering over 100%
• Cormorant populations in Finland have exploded, causing damage to fish stocks and the profitability of the fishing livel
• Turkey ranks 159th out of 180 nations in the World Press Freedom Index.
• The European Parliament does not mind concluding vaccine contracts worth tens of billions of euros via text message, let
• Germany imposed an export ban on protective equipment.
• Both the cormorant and the barnacle goose are thriving species whose populations in Finland have increased considerably
• The European Court of Auditors issued an adverse opinion on EU spending for the seventh consecutive year.
• 90% of rare earth mineral refining is under China's control.
• The large-scale forest protection scenario under the Nature Restoration Regulation would eliminate more than 20,000 jobs
• Left-wing and anarchist terrorism accounted for 21 attacks within a year
• 98% of Europe's solar panels come from China.
• Recorded antisemitic crimes in Germany rose from 2,641 in 2022 to 6,236 in 2024.
• A EUR 3 customs duty has now been introduced for parcels valued under EUR 150.
• In a survey of healthcare staff in Finland, only 1% of respondents felt that internationally recruited workers had suffi
• An operation led to the seizure of more than 3 million counterfeit pills.
• 88% of Europe's lithium-ion battery imports come from China.
• At EU level, only 30% of medium-sized companies use artificial intelligence.
• The European Court of Auditors has seriously warned about continuous misuse of EU funds multiple times.
• Nearly 5,500 drones were used against Ukraine in one week
• At EU level, 55% of large companies use artificial intelligence.
• An EU-level law enforcement operation targeting counterfeit medicines carried out in 2025 resulted in 40 organised crime
• 71% of European startups named regulatory obstacles or administrative burden as their biggest challenge.
• Russia has suffered over one million casualties.
• Nearly a quarter of the Recovery and Resilience Facility grant payments disbursed to member states during the year did n
• Turkey ranks 163rd in the World Press Freedom Index.
• The Investment Bank provided over 76 billion EUR in new financing in 2024.
• Last year Europe invested EUR 45 billion in wind power.
• Last year the EU and its member states provided almost EUR 32 billion of public money in international climate finance.
• According to statistics, 4.6 billion e-commerce parcels valued under EUR 150 arrived in Europe last year.
• Iranian law permits girls as young as nine years old to be married.
• Finland is the world's largest cobalt refiner outside China.
• The share of Finnish companies using artificial intelligence is almost twice the EU average.
• Finland's cobalt dust occupational safety limits are more than twice as strict as China's and five times stricter than t
• China produced more than 1,000 million tonnes of crude steel in 2025.
• Germany has already closed its last nuclear power plant.
• Finland's overall return rate for beverage containers is 99%.
• The share of companies using artificial intelligence in Finland has risen to almost 38%.
• Finland has the longest border with Russia of any EU member state.

Sebastião Bugalho

• There are 470 political prisoners in Venezuela
• More than 120,000 young people were helped to buy their first home in Portugal.
• Eight million Venezuelans left their country over a period of 12 years.
• More than 1,600 political prisoners remain to be released.
• CETA contributes about EUR 1,300 million to Canadian GDP
• Portugal's immigration reforms resolved 583,000 pending regularisation processes.
• The Portuguese government delivered 30,000 homes.
• President Rodriguez unilaterally revoked the amnesty law five days prior to the speech date

Sergey Lagodinsky

• One in six children are victims of cyberbullying
• There are only 150 American troops on the ground in Greenland
• The EU pays Russia billions for gas, oil and nuclear fuel.
• 1.8 million of the images were sexualized images of women.
• The defence agreement with Denmark dates back to 1951
• OpenAI has raised USD 122 billion and Anthropic USD 30 billion in funding, while Mistral has raised EUR 3 billion.

Sergio Berlato

• In the last 20 years the livestock sector recorded a 37% reduction in breeders
• 96% of forest fires in Europe are caused by human activity, whether accidental or deliberate, according to official stat

Seán Kelly

• Oil prices have been pushed above USD 100 per barrel, helped by Houthi attacks.
• Europe is the largest public climate finance provider, contributing EUR 31.7 billion in 2024.
• 16 million people have taken part in the Erasmus programme.
• UK productivity is 4% lower than it would have been had the United Kingdom remained in the European Union.
• The United Kingdom is the European Union's second-largest trading partner, after the United States.
• Ireland is one of the few countries in the world with a national play policy.
• Irish wholesale electricity price averaged EUR 90 per megawatt-hour the week before US attacks in Iran, and spiked to EU
• Sales of hybrid cars are growing in Europe.
• According to the IEA, oil supply from the Middle East is 14.4 million barrels per day below pre-war levels.
• Each of the last 10 years ranks among the 10 hottest years on record globally.
• EU household energy prices are up almost 19% compared with last year.
• There have been almost 100 prosecutions for cyberbullying in Ireland in the three years since Coco's Law was enacted.
• Ireland has the highest household electricity prices in the European Union, around EUR 480 per year above the EU average
• For each additional year of education, a person's lifetime earnings increase by 10%.
• India is the world's fastest-growing economy.
• The European Commission estimates that rebuilding Gaza will cost USD 71 billion.
• Ryan Cornelius has been arbitrarily detained in Dubai since 2008
• UK imports and exports are 15% lower than they would have been had the United Kingdom remained in the European Union.
• Ryan Cornelius's sentence was retroactively extended by 20 years
• More than 40 independent bookshops have closed in Hong Kong since the national security law was imposed in 2020.
• 20 million Sudanese civilians are suffering
• Current national climate pledges still imply global warming of well over 2°C.

Siegbert Frank Droese

• The share of seafood consumed in the EU that is imported rose from about 40% in 2000 to 70% today.
• Indigenous Greenlanders had to undergo euthanasia programmes until a few decades ago
• The number of fishing enterprises in the EU fell from 150,000 in 2014 to about 120,000 today.
• The EU fishing fleet catches about 25% less fish today than ten years ago.

Siegfried Mureşan

• Drone incidents violating Romania's airspace in 2026 are more than four times the number recorded in 2025.
• More than 30 drones violated Romania's airspace in 2026.
• The current EU multiannual financial framework was put forward at 1.14% of the gross national income of the Member State
• More than 40 merchant vessels were attacked in the Black Sea region in 2026.
• National budgets of the EU Member States have grown by 68% in absolute terms over the last seven years.

Sigrid Friis

• Extreme weather has already cost the European Union more than EUR 200 billion.
• Europe is warming twice as fast as the global average.
• There is still no equal pay for equal work in the European labour market.
• One third of the EU's total budget is spent on agricultural support.
• 30,000 people died in Europe during this summer's extreme heat.
• Electric car sales in the EU reached an all-time high in June 2026.

Silvia Sardone

• In the world there are over 200 million women and girls who have been victims of these horrible practices (child marriag
• In 2025 alone, around 3,500 Christians in Nigeria were killed by Islamist hands.
• Europol reported a 106% increase in reports in the last year.
• According to UNICEF, Pakistan has 19 million child brides.
• Christians are nowadays the most persecuted religious group in the world.
• Christians are the most persecuted religious group in the world
• In Pakistan, about 1,000 girls a year, many of them Christian, are abducted, forcibly converted to Islam and married aga
• Under the Taliban's new penal code, a husband who beats his wife and is proven guilty faces 15 days in prison, while mis
• China's CO2 emissions rose from about 4 billion tonnes in 2000 to more than 12 billion tonnes, roughly tripling.
• The European Union's CO2 emissions fell from about 4 billion tonnes in 2000 to 3 billion tonnes around 2025.
• There are twenty-one points on racism in the Commission report on fundamental rights

Sirpa Pietikäinen

• In many countries, housing costs take up to 40% of household income
• Up to 80 percent of active pharmaceutical ingredients come to Europe from China and India.
• In recent years, house prices in the EU have risen by an average of almost 50% and rents by almost 20%

Sofie Eriksson

• Sweden has over 100 inhabited islands, including Gotland, Möja, and Hönö.
• In Sweden, travel costs can be up to 166% higher for residents and over 300% higher for businesses than on the mainland.
• Swedish recreational fishers spent over 9 billion Swedish kronor on rods, fishing licences and lures in 2025.
• About 1.1 million Swedes went recreational fishing in 2025.

Stanislav Stoyanov

• Bulgaria was acceded despite serious public disagreement and without a referendum being held
• Western Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America have all had a Secretary-General from their region.
• In the 80-year history of the UN, no Secretary-General has been from Eastern Europe.
• In eight decades, nine Secretaries-General have led the UN.
• More than half of the countries in the Eastern European group are EU member states.
• 21% of the EU population is at risk of poverty and social exclusion.

Stanisław Tyszka

• The European Commission employs more than 30,000 officials.
• The EU Audit Council created by the Commission has not published a single report to date.
• Europe has already sent more than EUR 200 billion to Ukraine.
• In Poland, the EU emissions trading system already accounts for half of the electricity price for industry.

Stefan Köhler

• Fertiliser prices have risen by up to 50% due to the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
• CETA remains unratified in several EU member states almost ten years after its launch.

Stefano Cavedagna

• One in six boys in Europe has been a victim of cyberbullying
• A little over a year ago, a hacker attack targeted a server of the Emilia‑Romagna Region that holds all healthcare data

Stephen Nikola Bartulica

• The European Union imports over 70% of the fish it consumes.
• According to the European Central Bank's own estimates, the digital euro will cost between 4 and 6 billion euros.
• The poorest US federal state, Mississippi, has the same living standard as Germany.
• According to some estimates, the cost of living on Croatian islands is up to 30% higher than on the mainland

Stine Bosse

• The number of new medicines launched in Europe has fallen by 35%.
• Every minute, five people in the EU are diagnosed with cancer
• Europe’s share of clinical trials is shrinking.
• The war in the Middle East, Putin's aggression and Trump's unpredictability are sending energy prices up, and this can b
• Europe will lack up to one million doctors and nurses by 2030.

Stéphane Séjourné

• Of the EUR 2,000 billion in annual public procurement, EUR 600 billion is covered by the EU procurement legislation unde
• Global electric vehicle production exceeded 13 million units.
• Electric vehicle sales in Europe grew by more than 40% in the last quarter.
• In many strategic sectors, the EU depends on a single country for more than 90% of its needs.
• In Germany, BYD is currently the largest recipient of national public subsidies.
• 300 billion euros of European savings leave Europe due to unattractive capital markets.
• Global electric vehicle production has surpassed 13 million units.
• In Italy, more than half of the plug-in hybrid car market is dominated by Chinese models.
• Public procurement in Europe amounts to more than EUR 2,000 billion per year, close to 15% of EU GDP.
• The EU is 100% dependent on imports for its critical raw materials.
• Electric vehicles reached a 25% market share in Europe, and more than 35% when plug-in hybrids are included.
• The dependence on Russian oil and gas has cost the European economy more than €1,500 billion since the start of the Russ
• Including plug-in hybrids, electrified vehicles account for more than 35% of the European car market.
• Electric vehicles account for approximately 20% of vehicles sold worldwide.

Stéphanie Yon-Courtin

• There are 450 million Europeans compared to 340 million Americans.
• 20 million is the number of reports of online child sexual abuse in 2024
• Normandy is the second largest fishing region in France.
• The Channel attracts a quarter of the world's maritime traffic.
• Anthropic's most powerful AI model was deactivated for all non-Americans on Friday, 12 June 2026.
• One teenager in six is a victim of cyberbullying

Sunčana Glavak

• The wildfire in Omiš, Croatia, killed three people and injured more than 40.
• 12% of EU citizens access illegal online sports broadcasts.
• Ireland imposes seven years imprisonment for serious forms of cyberbullying, 12 months for lighter forms, and a fine of
• ENISA recorded almost 5000 serious cyber incidents in the European Union in the last year
• Among young people aged 15 to 24, this figure rises to 27%.
• Less than half of EU member states have fully transposed the NIS 2 Directive into national law
• The unadjusted pay gap at EU level is 11.1%
• In Croatia, around 2% of young people aged 18-24 are not included in education.
• The EU average is around 10% of young people aged 18-24 not included in education.
• In the Zadar area of Croatia, four suspects were linked to arson at ten locations.
• The catastrophic wildfire in Omiš, Croatia, burned about 1,000 hectares.
• One in six children has experienced violence on the internet

Susana Solís Pérez

• Spain is a leader in renewables, but around 90% of its electricity grid is saturated.
• Today nuclear power represents only 15% of European electricity, compared to nearly a third in 1990.
• In Spain, electro-intensive industry had to be halted to save the grid seven times in ten weeks when wind dropped.
• Spain wastes 11% of its solar energy because the grid is unable to absorb it.
• This summer Spain curtailed an amount of electricity equal to the consumption of 4 million households.
• The regulation enters into force on 1 July.
• The regulation adopted today reduces steel import quotas by half.

Susanna Ceccardi

• Cuba has been under a communist dictatorship for 67 years.
• Italy's judiciary is among the slowest in Europe regarding the length of trials.
• According to Europol, minors constitute 70% of the criminal market in the EU.
• Repatriations under the Italy-Albania agreement increased by 20% to 30% annually.

Sven Mikser

• The EU disbursed EUR 270 million in pre-financing under the Reform and Growth Facility for Moldova, plus EUR 207.9 milli
• EU defence expenditure reached EUR 418 billion in 2025.
• According to a recent Eurobarometer poll, 81% of Europeans support a common European defence and security policy.
• According to a recent Eurobarometer poll, 68% of Europeans believe their country's security is threatened by the current
• Only 24% of EU defence equipment procurement was collaborative, well below the long-standing 35% European benchmark.

Sven Simon

• The United States has almost 75% of global AI computing capacity.
• Europe has only about 5% of global AI computing capacity, while the United States has almost 75%.
• The International Monetary Fund quantifies the tariff-like effects of internal barriers in the European Union at 44% for
• Last term, this Parliament made use of the de facto right of initiative 25 times
• During the last mandate, the Commission followed up on 24 of the 25 resolutions from Parliament exercising the indirect

Svenja Hahn

• The EU is already India's largest trading partner.
• Sixty per cent of children in Australia circumvent the social media ban.

Sérgio Gonçalves

• The EU tourism sector comprises about 2.3 million businesses and employs almost 11 million people directly
• 5 million Europeans live in the outermost regions of the European Union.
• In Madeira, women receive on average 11% less pay than men despite having similar qualification levels.

Sérgio Humberto

• Poverty affects more than 95 million people in the EU
• Around 20 million children grow up in vulnerable situations in the European Union
• Only about half of people with disabilities are employed in the European Union.
• Almost 95 million Europeans continue to be at risk of poverty or social exclusion
• In the European Union, around 87 million people live with some type of disability.
• The European Union has an estimated deficit of about 1.2 million healthcare professionals.

Séverine Werbrouck

• In France, one farmer takes their own life every two days.

Şerban Dimitrie Sturdza

• Almost half of the Romanian population of the Republic of Moldova also hold Romanian citizenship.
• There have been 46 unauthorised incursions into Romanian airspace since the start of the war in Ukraine until today.
• The European Union provided EUR 2.5 million in emergency humanitarian aid and 82 tonnes of relief supplies to Nepal, plu
• Romanian household energy bills are 58.6% higher than last year.
• Romania has the longest land and maritime border with Ukraine of any country.
• More than 1,400 people died and more than 5,000 are still missing after the disaster in Nepal.
• In Romania, the absorption rate of cohesion funds was 17% in mid-2025.
• In 2026, 97 drone attacks were recorded near Romania's border and 35 drones entered Romanian airspace without authorisat
• At the end of 2024, only half of the Recovery and Resilience Facility funds had been used.
• Romania has the highest household energy prices in the European Union.
• Europe borrowed heavily in recent years, 700 billion euros in less than five years
• Romania's taxes on labour are the highest in the European Union.

Ştefan Muşoiu

• Over 30 million jobs in the European Union depend directly on exports.
• Approximately 100,000 jobs have been lost over time in the European steel industry.
• Industry generates approximately 20% of European GDP.
• Over 150 anti-dumping and anti-subsidy measures imposed by the Commission in recent years.
• Approximately 650 million euros granted by the European Commission through the Connecting Europe Facility for financing