What Helmut spoke about.

Mr President, Commissioner, the Pact for the Mediterranean is a first-rate European project – a perfect one. We live in a very difficult, even irrational time – we think only of the United States – but this pact is a European pact, the European Union that forms an alliance in good faith for mutual benefit. Since ancient times, the Mediterranean region has been a place of cooperation, trade and exc

Madam President, Vice-President Kallas! Putin has been waging a hybrid war against us for a long time. We underestimated cyberattacks, attacks, disinformation. Now there are real acts of war against European, against EU countries too. We can no longer underestimate this, all the more so as this verbal criminal regularly says on Russian television Soloviev: Kyiv must be brought to the point where i

So you're really saying that the EU is to blame if Putin murders children every day? I hope I got it wrong, but it sounded like that.

Mrs Demirel, I don’t know if you saw that – the pictures. A one-year-old child in Ukraine lies in a stroller, is murdered; Shortly thereafter, the mother who was sitting next to it. Did you see that? What comes to mind? And why do you always do ‘on the one hand, on the other’? Have you seen that Ukraine has begun? Have you seen Ukraine attack civilian targets in Russia? When can I hear from you th

Mr President, dear Commissioner, dear colleagues, our Europe is solidarity and our Europe speaks with one voice. International law is not optional. It is the foundation of civilised and peaceful coexistence. Europe stands with our Greek friends and our friends in Cyprus, of course. Türkiye's persistent provocations in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean must be judged against the treaties tha

Mr President, dear Commissioner, the Georgian dream became a nightmare for the Georgian people. Georgia's oligarch is banning opposition parties. We have seen this before – in Belarus. Two dictators, two regimes loyal to Putin, two peoples taken as hostages. Both regimes jail political opponents, both on Moscow's orders, both killing the future of their own nations. Like Putin, they are just afrai

Madam President, dear Vice-President Kallas! Of course it wasn't a choice. Putin is a coward, he hides somewhere and would not be able to deal with others at all in an election. What is really outrageous, however, is that here in this Parliament, where everyone can say what they want, we need to hear people here who are simply copying what Russian propaganda is saying and saying that in their own

Madam President, Prime Minister, Commissioner, I apologise for the fact that my Portuguese is not perfect, but I like to speak this language. In 1980, I spent the winter in Costa da Caparica and tried to learn Portuguese. Three years later, as an Austrian television journalist, I had the opportunity to make a documentary about Portugal. I met a country that ended a dictatorship, a long dictatorshi

Madam President, You said: "It's about deeds, not words." A year ago, I said: ‘Austrian surcharge − we pay more for products than in Germany.’ This is contrary to the internal market. Please, when do you finally do something? Second point: Democracy Shield − spoke to you. We had a great committee. Now it is about the implementation of this Resilience Centre. I expect this Parliament, this committe

Mr President, dear Commissioner, Ratko Mladić was a war criminal, a convicted war criminal, and he was responsible for genocide. Who does not know that should go to Srebrenica. We cannot tolerate the celebration of a war criminal. A government that glorifies such atrocities can never be part of the European Union. President Vučić has best relations with China and with Russia. He just wants our mon

I will have this oral amendment, but first I have to tell you and I will do it in German – according to Rule 180, I must have the possibility to say that what he just said is not true. Ich habe gestern gesagt: Es gibt den deutschen Bundestagsabgeordneten der AfD namens Matthias Helferich, und er hat sich einmal bezeichnet als „das freundliche Gesicht des Nationalsozialismus”. Matthias Helferich, M

Mr President, dear Commissioner, I admire the young Serbian people. They are very brave; they go on the street; they fight for a life in freedom. And then they listen to the Commission, and the Commission says, 'we want to open Cluster 3, we want to continue the process'. No! Right now it's not the moment to continue the process because there is a backlash. There are no reforms, as I hear now. On

So, you know, if you start by saying that someone somewhere would have banned something – if I look at what the AfD is doing, what I saw again recently. These are the ones who say they are the friendly face of National Socialism. Please stop these stories. And no matter what, it's all about what's now. Putin, to whom you also went, murders every day. I can bring you the photo now; I'm going to do

That was when? I can't remember. When was that supposed to be?

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, “We don’t want to be Putin’s slaves” – this is the phrase I heard most often in Ukraine. Yes, people in Ukraine talk about freedom; They want to live in freedom like we do, and that is why they belong to the European Union. There is still a lot to be done. And if here, of all things, from the right, where there are corruption scandals again, corrup

Mr President, dear Commissioner, dear colleagues, always in those difficult times, I talk about good news. So, it's good news that there is an action plan for cybersecurity and AI. The good news is that we had a very interesting debate here. And the next good news is that I think most of us have understood it is not true that it's always the Americans who invent and we who have regulation. But yes

Mr President! Russia's hybrid conflict management is becoming more aggressive and hitting Switzerland directly. This is what the Swiss intelligence service writes, and this is what I would like to say to my compatriots in my Austrian homeland: So, even neutral Switzerland is threatened and then, of course, Austria. And they also write very precisely: What is new is the extent of Russia’s hybrid co

Madam President, Belarus is a European country. The Belarusians are just Europeans like us, but they have a brutal dictator: Lukashenka. He is brutal, but he is also very weak. He was afraid of a 16‑year‑old girl who was writing graffiti, because the graffiti was against Putin. And Lukashenka is afraid of Putin, so he threw her into prison for ten years. Aliaksandra Pulinovich. Only for graffiti.

Mr President, Commissioner! Just today someone wrote to me on social media: I should not exaggerate, there is no hybrid war against Europe and against European countries. But here we have the proof: Yes, there is. In this case, it has just affected 600 000 entries from the registration register of Lithuania. It can also meet us in Austria at any time – each of us, with all the consequences. And ye

Madam President, dear Commissioner Kos, I want to speak to the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina, not to the ethnic groups. I want to speak to the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and I want to tell them: many of your politicians are still caught up in the past. But I can tell you, Europe is all about understanding our past, understanding our often difficult past, but to have a better future, espe

Mr President! Commissioner! The FPÖ MP Hauser has said so much inhuman nonsense that I want to correct this. The first: He meant, yes, with the Hantavirus a few people died, people died again and again, that's just the way it is. It's unbelievable! Then he said, there's the next plandemie going on. This is a big conspiracy industry. A plandemic that some secret powers are planning, just as Corona