What Charlie spoke about.

16 Dec

2024

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Mr President, I would like to thank you. Sweden's energy minister is insane that German energy policy has pushed electricity prices in Sweden to soaring levels. That's how most Swedes feel. So I will take this opportunity to send a greeting directly to Germany's Green Energy Minister, who claims that electricity prices are our own fault. Mr. Habeck! They are the symbol of de-industrialisation – pr…

27 Nov

2024

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Stepping up the fight against and the prevention of the recruitment of minors for criminal acts (debate)

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Mr President, I would like to thank you. In the past in Sweden we talked about child soldiers in distant countries. It felt unreal. Today there are child soldiers in most Swedish cities. Sweden has the highest number of fatalities per inhabitant in Europe after Montenegro and Albania. A large number of these shootings in Sweden are carried out by children. In 2013, there were 24 shootings. In 2022…

27 Nov

2024

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Presentation by the President-elect of the Commission of the College of Commissioners and its programme (debate)

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Madam President, I would like to thank you for your As voters now turn away from Europe's Social Democrats, we can see the five phases of grief unfold: Denial, when we agreed to support the opposition in Venezuela, the Social Democrats left the negotiation. Anger, that group was not happy when we introduced realism into climate policy. And Now we see negotiations, now the Social Democrats want to …

13 Nov

2024

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Deplorable escalation of violence around the football match in the Netherlands and the unacceptable attacks against Israeli football fans (debate)

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Starting with the history of my party, that party started 40 years after the Second World War. Yes, there were bad actors in that party who have been purged after the race and that was an important reason why I as a Christian Democrat could go over to the Sweden Democrats, in fact, so the party has really done an important lesson there. Then, with regard to the war in Gaza, it must be noted that a…

13 Nov

2024

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Deplorable escalation of violence around the football match in the Netherlands and the unacceptable attacks against Israeli football fans (debate)

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Evin Incir, I advise you to go and visit the victims of the families of hostages in Gaza. I advise you to broaden your picture. I advise you to visit the kibbutz that I have visited and see this with your own eyes, so that you get a more balanced picture of the conflict that is taking place on the ground in Israel. I note that you were very careful to point out so-called provocations that had take…

13 Nov

2024

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Deplorable escalation of violence around the football match in the Netherlands and the unacceptable attacks against Israeli football fans (debate)

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Mr President, I would like to thank you. The point I am trying to make is that you are standing here condemning the violence in Amsterdam today, but that tomorrow you will defend the right of these people to remain in Europe. You are going to do that because you have very big problems internally. When your party tried, so to speak, to counter anti-Semitism by sending down your youth wing on a fiel…

13 Nov

2024

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Deplorable escalation of violence around the football match in the Netherlands and the unacceptable attacks against Israeli football fans (debate)

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Mr President, today the woke Greens, Socialists, Liberals, Left will condemn, express outrage, shock and horror at the pogroms in Amsterdam. But what will you do tomorrow? When we want harder punishment, you will gripe. When we try to deport, you will protest. When we try to strip citizenships, you will defend these thugs. Why do you want them here? And why in the world do you want more of them? I…

23 Oct

2024

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Managing migration in an effective and holistic way through fostering returns (debate)

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Madam President, colleagues, the right won the election. Securing the border – once rejected as heresy – has become mainstream. The Council, even the Commission, recognise the need to prevent illegal entry, host refugees outside the EU and swiftly deport illegal migrants. But will the European Parliament defend Europe or open the floodgates? On Monday, this House rejected the left's attempt to con…

22 Oct

2024

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State sponsored terrorism by the Islamic Republic of Iran in light of the recent attacks in Europe (debate)

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Madam President, thank you very much. Israeli embassies in Stockholm and Copenhagen were recently attacked. Rawa Majid's criminal gang carried out these terrorist acts on behalf of the mullahs in Tehran. The Islamist regime has previously used gang members to carry out similar attacks and also sent its agents to murder Swedes in Sweden. It is time to fight back, and we must fight back hard enough …

9 Oct

2024

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Protecting the EU budget and ensuring that EU funds do not benefit entities or individuals linked to terrorist or Islamist movement (debate)

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Madam President, finally, the European Parliament is holding a debate here in the plenary about the scandalous fact that European taxpayers' money is being channelled to Islamists via the EU budget. Yes, the debate is taking place against the will of the Socialists and the Greens. You don't want the facts in the open. And when we want to condemn EU sponsorship of the glorification of the veil, the…

9 Oct

2024

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Strengthening the security of Europe’s external borders: need for a comprehensive approach and enhanced Frontex support (debate)

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Madam President, I would like to thank you for your Welcome to the European Parliament, Mrs Henriksson! You spoke about the Russian hybrid warfare against Finland and you were the Minister of Justice in the red-green-liberal government that decided to erect a physical border barrier with Russia. But your Liberal Group in this House does not want such solutions. They are voting against the EU helpi…

9 Oct

2024

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Strengthening the security of Europe’s external borders: need for a comprehensive approach and enhanced Frontex support (debate)

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Mr President, colleagues, the need for a comprehensive approach to secure Europe's external borders is what we are here to debate. And yet the approach cannot be comprehensive nor effective without physical border barriers. But the EU won't fund that. Frontier Member States should not face the Russian threat alone, nor the Belarussian, Moroccan, Turkish... Helping them with IT and surveillance sys…

8 Oct

2024

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Preparation of the European Council of 17-18 October 2024 (debate)

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Mr President, dear colleagues, you pledged to protect Europe's borders against illegal migration. Do you want to deliver on that promise? The right supports funding walls at the external border, as do a majority of Member States. Does the left? The right has long called for safe third countries to host asylum seekers, as the EPP and 15 Member States have done. Do the Social Democrats? The right wa…

7 Oct

2024

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The reintroduction of internal border controls in a number of Member States and its impact on the Schengen Area (debate)

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Mr President, I would like to thank you. Commissioner Johansson. The European Parliament loves to condemn border controls. You have condemned Sweden and Denmark, and now it is Germany's turn. We are in breach of the principle of free movement. But if something breaks all the time, it may not be the user that is at fault. There may be something wrong with the design. Today, the right to free moveme…

18 Sep

2024

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Organised crime, a major threat to the internal security of the European Union and European citizens (topical debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner Hahn, organised crime threatens citizens' lives and undermines the rule of law in Europe. After a decade of ignoring the problem, the Swedish Government is tackling criminal gangs, increasing patrols in high risk areas and empowering specialised units to dismantle organised crime networks and allocating more resources to law enforcement. But we cannot tackle this prob…

16 Sep

2024

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Persistent problems of anti-Semitism in Europe and of other forms of hate speech and hate crimes (debate)

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Mr President, I would like to thank you. Terrorists are hailed, anti-Semites chant battle cries. This is the situation in Europe after decades of socially fragmented mass migration. In Sweden, representatives of Magdalena Andersson's government base spread anti-Semitic messages, and when the Social Democrats try to wash away anti-Semitism in their own party through study visits to Auschwitz, every…

16 Sep

2024

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Need to prevent security threats like the Solingen attack through addressing illegal migration and effective return (debate)

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Madam President, I would like to thank you for your Migrant violence is sweeping not only over Germany but all over Europe, including my own country. In Solna 2022, two teenagers are stabbed and tortured for nine hours by second-generation immigrants from Tunisia and Iraq. In 2023, 20-year-old high-pregnant Saga and her unborn son are murdered by a Somali in Örebro. In 2020, 12-year-old Adriana is…

18 Jul

2024

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Statement by the candidate for President of the Commission (debate)

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Madam President, I would like to thank you for your Mrs. von der Leyen. Voters in Europe sent a clear signal on 9 June. They voted for a middle-right majority in this house. But, Ursula von der Leyen, you and your bourgeois group, the EPP, have chosen to negotiate on the left, and we saw the result in your speech today. Nuclear power was not mentioned in a single word in the speech, after five yea…

24 Apr

2024

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Iran’s unprecedented attack against Israel, the need for de-escalation and an EU response (debate)

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Mr President, Mr Borrell, you’re a liar. For a year, you’ve claimed that in order for the EU to list the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terror organisation, a national authority in the EU must have found the IRGC has been involved in terrorist activity. That is nonsense! Here I have the Council’s secret legal opinion. Nowhere in this document does it say that it has to be an authority in t…

10 Apr

2024

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Common procedure for international protection in the Union (A8-0171/2018 - Fabienne Keller) (vote)

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I would suggest that colleagues who are applauding this utter disrespect of democracy go out and embrace their fellows because they don’t respect parliamentary procedures. That’s the way they behave every time.…

10 Apr

2024

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Screening of third country nationals at the external borders - European Criminal Records Information System - Third Country Nationals - Common procedure for international protection in the Union - Establishing a return border procedure, and amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1148 - Asylum and migration management - Addressing situations of crisis and force majeure - Establishment of 'Eurodac' for the comparison of fingerprints for the effective application of Regulation (EU) No 604/2013, for identifying an illegally staying third-country national or stateless person and on requests for the comparison with Eurodac data by Member States' law enforcement authorities and Europol for law enforcement purposes (recast) - Union Resettlement Framework - Standards for the qualification of third-country nationals or stateless persons as beneficiaries of international protection - Standards for the reception of applicants for international protection (recast) (joint debate - Migration and Asylum package)

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Madam President, colleagues, if you want less migration to Europe, kill this deal. Only three of these legal acts will help in the fight against illegal immigration without sacrificing national sovereignty or imposing costs. The others will incentivise more migration. How will redistribution deter millions and millions of migrants destined to arrive in Europe in the coming decades? It won’t. Inste…

12 Mar

2024

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Council and Commission statements - Preparation of the European Council meeting of 21 and 22 March 2024 (debate)

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Mr President, Commission President von der Leyen, both you and the EPP want Conservative and nationalist support for a second term, but what are you offering? Vague promises to reduce migration and the burden of recently enacted climate legislation? That is simply not enough. If you want our support, show a sincere wish to cooperate, to reduce migration and secure the border and the moratorium on …

11 Mar

2024

EN Speech

One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Mr President, foreign countries are refusing to take back their citizens. They’ve taken billions of our taxpayers’ money, but they won’t take their migrants. Greece has had enough. Its Minister for Asylum and Migration called for sanctions and the removal of aid for countries that do not cooperate. I agree. The EU needs a deportation mechanism. You’re an African head of state enjoying foreign aid …

11 Mar

2024

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Energy performance of buildings (recast) (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Germany's finance minister described forced renovations for very large amounts as hugely dangerous. A proposal that could jeopardize social peace. Politicians were afraid of voters' reactions, and the original proposal that would shock raised rents and lower housing values was so unreasonable that it was stopped. However, homeowners and tenants do not forget that…

28 Feb

2024

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Strengthening European Defence in a volatile geopolitical landscape - Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2023 - Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2023 (joint debate - European security and defence)

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Mr President, Russia and Belarus weaponise migrants against Europe’s frontier. Yet the resolve of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland holds strong – border barriers work. Unfortunately, the Commission believes physical barriers don’t efficiently improve border management and refuses to fund them. That’s a security problem. They believe EU funds are better spent – I’m not joking – on cir…