Speeches

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 problem alone. Improved intelligence sharing and coordinated operations with international partners is a vital component to fighting cross-border criminal organisations. A global coalition brought down the 'Ghost' communication platform used by drug gangs and murderers. Congratulations to all law enforcement agencies involved. Intergovernmental cooperation works. Lastly, tougher laws targeting organised crime and stronger protection for whistleblowers deter criminal activity and send a strong message that we will not tolerate organised crime. Colleagues, it's time to stop being soft on crime. Let's make Europe safe again.

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, everyone in the youth organization SSU jumps off the trip. The same party that demands Richard Jomshof's resignation for sharing satire images that warn of social development. It's not just hypocrisy, it's worse than that. This is freedom of speech in the Democratic Party. Anti-Semitism is allowed to flourish. The flags of Hamas are flying in the wind. But if you criticize high immigration from Islamic countries, well, then it's incitement and hatred. Islamophobia. Resign. Prison. It should be the other way around. Punish sedition, prosecute those who celebrate violence and terrorism, but also ask yourself why? The same crowd that pays homage to your Social Democratic representatives is also chantingKhaybar, Khaybar, ya yahud". It's your supporters chanting like that, Evin Incir.

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 shot by criminal immigrants. The same gang that now sells lottery tickets for the Swedish Social Democrats. In 2024, 39-year-old Mikael is shot in the head in front of his 12-year-old son on his way to the swimming pool. 2019 20-year-old Alexander is tortured for a winter jacket. The murder is filmed and the abuser, a stateless Palestinian, brags about how Alexander was taped together as a Jew and the pig was slaughtered. In 2023, Lena, 76, gets her front door ripped open by an Afghan and murdered in her kitchen in Stockholm. Madam President, I would like to thank you for your All these murders were committed during the previous legislature. Now we who have been entrusted to sit here in the European Parliament have five years to do everything in our power to reverse this trend. It is a heavy responsibility. It's about protecting the people we represent, ordinary people, grandmothers, sons, fathers and little sisters all over Europe. I am pleased that the PPE is talking about the need to expel illegal migrants and to protect our citizens. Let's work together to make Europe safe again.

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 years of one-sided focus on weather-dependent power. The need to deport illegal migrants was not mentioned in a word today, even though we know that the Left stopped the Return Directive from being decided as part of the migration pact during the last legislature. Subsidiarity is not respected. You want to be involved in housing policy and health policy. You are proposing treaty changes that you know the left will use for transfers of power. It is a green left agenda that we heard today, with detailed political control, and then we can only vote against you today.

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 the EU. In fact, the term ‘competent authority’ also includes authorities of third states. High Representative, you had this document. You knew the truth. You shamelessly lied to protect the IRGC. We won’t miss you, Mr Borrell, but I’m sure the mullahs will.

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.

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. Instead, the entire EU will mimic Sweden’s migrant problems, gang wars, overrun welfare systems and increasing Islamism all over Europe. Commissioner, you ones on the left won’t be in charge after the elections. Then the centre right can negotiate a deal that stops illegal migration, locates the entire asylum process outside Europe, increases deportations and support frontline Member States without imposing forced solidarity. Colleagues, vote ‘no’. Let the people decide in the elections: more or less migration.

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 funding physical border barriers today. Reduce EU funding to countries refusing returns of migrants. Listen to Greece. Launch an EU deportation mechanism now. Initiate a full audit of the climate pact. Everyone should know the true cost of implementation. Deindustrialisation must not be allowed to happen. If President von der Leyen wants to work with us, she can show it today.

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 from Europe – we’ll deduct EUR 20 000 for every migrant your country refuses to take back. And sanctions shouldn’t be just for Putin and other bad guys. Apply them to all countries who won’t accept returns of their citizens. It’s often said that Europe has soft power. It’s high time we use it.

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 the Swedish Social Democrats voted for the forced renovations. The directive voted on this week will not be as expensive as expected, but it will be renegotiated in 2028 and then the demands for forced renovations may return. The question voters should ask themselves is who they want to represent their interests here in the European Parliament when that day comes? Social Democrats who vote for bad proposals and then celebrate when proposals they voted for are stopped – or Sweden Democrats who put Sweden first and vote no to costly EU bills.

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 circus workshops to integrate military-age male migrants and empty parties in the metaverse. Every year, hundreds of thousands of migrants are told to return. Everybody knows it: they don’t! Because their countries won’t even take them back. Greece wants sanctions against those countries, an EU deportation mechanism. We should support them – it should be in this report – and use the sanctions to pay for physical border barriers. The Commission should immediately inform uncooperative countries that for every migrant they refuse, EUR 20 000 will be deducted from the EU funds they receive. And for every weaponised illegal migrant entering Europe, it will cost them EUR 200 000. Some of you talk about Fortress Europe like it’s a bad thing. I say: fund that wall and make Morocco, Turkey, Syria and Pakistan pay for it!

Madam President, thank you very much. Europe's refugee policy has collapsed. This resolution on Syria shows that the cause is ideological. Sweden has received 160,000 Syrian refugees, which has exacerbated our problems with segregation and Islamism, and we see similar problems in other countries. Those who came here from Syria would receive temporary protection. The experts at both the EU Agency for Asylum and the Swedish Migration Agency have concluded that the Damascus and Tartus regions are safe and that refugees can return there. But here in the European Parliament, liberals and social democrats want to state, contrary to the experts, that Syria cannot be considered, in whole or in part, a safe country to return to. It can't be clearer. When the liberal left gets to decide, refugee policy is transformed into settler policy, and ordinary people pay the price. It's completely unsustainable.

Mr President, thank you very much. Last year, the Sweden Democrats gathered a majority for the EU to stop funding campaigns with messages like "Freedom lies in the hijab". Unfortunately, the Commission did not listen and a few hours later, Ylva Johansson's Directorate-General had posted the next hijab-normalising video about football and girls in hijab. Hijab is coercion and oppression. Hijab is honor culture and honor violence. Hijab is the weapon of mullahs and moral police. Hijab is inequality and religious extremism. Hijab signals that women are property. The annual report on human rights and democracy does not mention Islamism once, but instead claims that Islamophobia, as it is called, is a major global problem. Instead of fertilising the Islamist sacrificial narrative, the European Parliament must once again demand that the Commission stop funding and legitimising Islamism. Vote for the Sweden Democrats' motion.

Mr President, thank you very much. SVT made it the first news that the Sweden Democrats want to reform the EU's climate policy. The climate minister hooks on and tried to pick points, as did the KD leader. Romina Pourmokhtari, it's not Swexit fantasies to want to keep prices down on transportation, food, energy and housing. Ebba Busch, isn't it the case that the demand for batteries and the expansion of wind power are actually increasing China's dependence? KD has also opened up the possibility of abolishing the ban on internal combustion engines. The KD and Moderate Party groups talk about climate policy as torture against farmers, and the proposal for forced renovations is, incidentally, only a foretaste of the price tag for climate policy that is to come. The Sweden Democrats want to protect ordinary people from cost shocks and we want to ensure the survival of the industry. This is the only sustainable climate policy. It's not radical. The radical thing is to legislate draconian laws without impact assessment.

Mr President, in the wake of the slaughter of 335 Christians by Muslims in Nigeria, I very much welcome this debate. Atrocities against Christians don’t fit the EU narrative. We just heard the left label the systematic persecution of Christians in Nigeria a tribal conflict between herdsmen and farmers. Well, was it a coincidence that the slaughter and burning of churches took place on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, I wonder? Fact: 90 % of Christian martyrs are Nigerian. It is wilful ignorance to claim the religion of peace did not motivate these brutal killings. The EU is not exerting real pressure on Nigeria to bring these terrorists to justice and restore law and order, because Christian victims do not fit the post-colonial worldview of the left. That’s why.

Mr President, thank you very much. One by one, time after time, we learn about young Iranians who have been murdered by the Mullah regime in Tehran. whereas Mohammad Ghobadlou was executed for ‘warfare against God’; But the Islamist regime in Tehran is not only committing cold-blooded acts on its own land. Yesterday it was revealed that Iran's military intelligence service mapped three Swedish Jews they plan to murder in Sweden. The agent pair were deported to Iran, but this is hardly a one-off event. Mullorna's executioners should not be allowed to forge murder plans on Swedish or European soil. Iran's regime is mapping, planning and capable of carrying out attacks in Europe. It's time to put hard on hard and terror list IRGC. Demand the release of all those arbitrarily detained in Iran, including Johan Floderus and Ahmad Reza Djalali. Extend sanctions and also include the Supreme Leader, the President and the Prosecutor General.

Thanks for the question, Evin! The Swedish Democrats have adopted a zero-tolerance policy against racism. This means that we exclude people who express themselves anti-Semitic, unlike the Social Democrats who hold on to their MP Jamal El-Haj, who has demonstrated under the banner of Hamas, who has hugged Hamas representatives and who attended the conference in Malmö that the PLO ambassador in Sweden called the Hamas conference. We try to find out when there is a problem, but the Social Democrats, you are in full defensive for your MP who takes important votes for you in Malmö. It's cynical.

– Madam President, would you feel safe walking Europe’s streets with a kippah? No. Just read the statements by Swedish Jews in an official EU study: ‘I never wear any Jewish symbols publicly’. Sweden was not antisemitic at all before, but that has changed. For centuries, European Jews have been interwoven in the tapestry of our history, culture, art, science, philosophy and law, but that has changed. Mass migration from the Islamic world has spawned a cancer that festered and grew in Muslim enclaves. This is why so many are afraid to live an open Jewish life in Europe. In the wake of the barbaric attack by Hamas, antisemitism has intensified. Cheerleading and jubilant rallies for these Islamist butchers took place all over Europe. This is naked antisemitism cloaked with a thin veil of anti-Zionism, as they call it. Colleagues, in order to crush antisemitism, we must end mass migration. We must deny citizenship to those who espouse antisemitic beliefs, and when we can, we should revoke citizenship for those convicted of antisemitic crimes. (The speaker agreed to take a blue-card question)

Madam President, X, formerly Twitter, is no longer a leftist safe space for woke snowflakes. It’s a bastion for free speech, just as Elon Musk promised. But the EU’s new Ministry of Truth, spawned by the Digital Services Act, pursues censorship of free speech. The Sweden Democrats saw this coming and voted against the DSA Regulation. The EU censorship tsar – you, Commissioner Breton – threatened X with multi-billion euro fines if illegal content is not removed, including documentation of Hamas’s barbaric murders, kidnappings and rapes of Israelis: graphic, monstrous evil content. Supporters of the Islamic death cult dismissed these atrocities as lies. But I wonder: if the world does not witness Hamas atrocities, how can it confront such wilful ignorance? Don’t fear free speech. Embrace it!

Mr President, seldom have I read some such unadulterated piffle as the praise heaped on the Conference on the Future of Europe in these reports. National parliaments are elected for a temporary time and contingent on the safeguarding of our country’s sovereignty and liberties. National parliamentarians do not have the right to hand over sovereignty without asking for an explicit mandate from the people. The Conference on the Future of Europe was a sham and a scam. Giving the European institutions more power because some randomly selected citizens, guided by federalist MEPs, said they want it, is not how democracy works. We should trust the peoples. New powers should only be transferred to the institutions after all national parliaments have secured a majority running on an explicit mandate to transfer power, or lacking this, a positive referendum result in all countries.

Mr President, the war between Israel and Hamas is between a liberal democracy defending itself against an EU-listed terror organisation supported by authoritarian states such as Iran, China, Russia and North Korea. To establish a ceasefire, the answer is simple: Hamas must release all hostages, including the remains of those murdered, and ensure their safe and dignified return to Israel. For peace, Palestinians must end their support for terrorism. Their support for Hamas is at an all-time high. A vast majority of Palestinians support an armed struggle, meaning terrorism against Israel. The fight against terrorism and authoritarianism must be won, whether in Ukraine, Taiwan or Israel. I stand with democracy and freedom. I stand with Israel. Do you?

Madam President, geachte Premier De Croo, Europe’s streets are not safe. Last year, two Swedes were murdered in Brussels by an Islamist terrorist, an illegal alien. But ending illegal migration is only the first step to safe societies. The Islamists, the gang soldiers, are often second generation – and your country’s migration crisis, Prime Minister, isn’t solely caused by illegal migration. A big role is played by the universal right to apply for asylum. But Commissioner Schinas claims it is Europe’s destiny to be an asylum destination. One million asylum claims in Europe last year. UN asylum rules make 780 million people eligible for asylum. Prime Minister De Croo, the universal right to asylum is a threat to the future of Europe. Move the asylum procedure outside EU territory and process asylum claims in the first safe country. That’s a migration policy that would work for Europe.

Madam President, thank you very much. Let me start by apologizing for my vote. As a father of four, you can receive both one and the other from school and preschool. Indeed, most of the EU budget finances inefficient regional and agricultural subsidies. One project would generate job opportunities for immigrant women from southern Sweden in another part of Sweden, but the project managers had not booked meetings with potential employers, so Malmö residents got an EU-funded guided tour in Skellefteå instead of jobs. In order to support Ukraine, we need to slaughter this type of project. The Commission is calling for an additional contribution to meet French demands for increased funding for protectionist subsidy policies. The Swedes, who never wanted to take out joint billion loans to distribute grants to mismanaged economies, will now be forced to pay the interest costs through another increase in the EU fee. It is worth pointing out that the Social Democrats in Sweden have warned against even threatening to veto this. If we are to succeed in pushing through reprioritisation and savings, a new Swedish EU strategy is needed. Otherwise, countries like mine will be completely run over in future negotiations.

Madam President, thank you very much. United States of Europe. That is what the majority in the European Parliament voted in favour of here today. But I must say that I welcome the sincerity of the proposal for amendments to the founding Treaties of the European Union. Once upon a time, EU centralists could get away with waving away our warnings that the EU is turning into a superstate. Not anymore. For today, the Conservatives, the Christian Democrats, the Social Democrats, the Green Party, the Liberals and the Centre Party have voted through a report that wants to transfer power over taxes and finance, education, health, defence and much more from the Member States to Brussels. In such a Europe, Sweden has as little power as a state in Germany. We will be a tax province in the north with symbolic parliamentary elections. Trust that the Sweden Democrats will do everything we can for Sweden to protect our democracy and independence and stop the planned takeover of power by the centralists.

Madam President, thank you very much. Commissioner, thank you very much. In the late Middle Ages, no one would have guessed that Europe's many warring and divided small states would dominate the world. The Ming dynasty, the Ottomans, and the Grand Moguls had larger populations, better military personnel, and were economically and culturally superior. But it was Europe that came to rule the world while the others sank back. The cause? The demand for uniformity from the central institutions of the empires. The absence of a central power and the rivalry between different kingdoms stimulated a quest for innovation and progress. Europe experienced an upward spiral of economic growth that over time gave us a head start over all others. While others have embraced our recipe for success, we have abandoned it. The EU's deregulation and micro-management is today the biggest obstacle to innovation and development. More than 9,300 new or updated acts during this mandate speak for themselves. Today, this House voted to ban the wooden packaging contained in Camembert, as an example. Member States, businesses and citizens do not need better regulation. They need significantly fewer regulations, less bureaucracy and much more freedom.