What Anders spoke about.

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2024

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The adoption of the Special Measure in favour of Tunisia for 2023 (B9-0173/2024)

Madam President! Now we are seeing the consequences of the hopeless migration policy to Europe. Because no one has wanted to take responsibility, and that is why the answer here from the House, from the Commission and from the Council has been: Let's try to outsource it. Let us make agreements with Islamic despots in North Africa, in Turkey, and let us let them hold back migration flows. It may so…

14

Mar

2024

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Cohesion policy 2014-2020 – implementation and outcomes in the Member States (A9-0049/2024 - Andrey Novakov)

Madam President! The money keeps pouring out of the EU's coffers. Every time you fail to make progress in southern Europe, in eastern Europe, the answer is the same: Send more money! This time it is the EU's so-called cohesion funds that are at stake. But the prospect is that it will get much, much worse. 8-10 new countries are being invited into the EU, and when you look at the Council's calculat…

14

Mar

2024

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Financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union (recast) (A9-0180/2023 - Monika Hohlmeier, Nils Ušakovs)

Madam President! The EU's money is not in control. For the 29th year in a row, the European Court of Auditors, our own auditors, have chosen to tell us that the EU budget could not be approved. The latest report shows that 4.2% of the funds simply cannot be accounted for. It is therefore a problem, indeed scandalous, that, year after year in this House, budgetary procedures are adopted without tak…

14

Mar

2024

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Promised revision of the EU animal welfare legislation and the animal welfare-related European citizens’ initiatives (debate)

Mr President! Every day, hour, minute, millions of animals in the EU suffer and they suffer because the EU allows it. We have just heard from the Commission that it is defending its inactivity by the fact that there are different rules in the Member States. Perhaps the Commission should concentrate a little more on raising the disastrously low level of animal welfare protection, rather than shooti…

13

Mar

2024

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This is Europe - Debate with the Prime Minister of Finland, Petteri Orpo (debate)

The Danish People's Party's proposal is the one that the Danish Social Democrats have copied. This is the Australian model, and I am glad that we have inspired the social democrats in Denmark. Now, unfortunately, the Social Democrats here in the S&D Group belong to a very, very small minority who want to do something about illegal immigration. But I think there is good reason to praise the Danish …

13

Mar

2024

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This is Europe - Debate with the Prime Minister of Finland, Petteri Orpo (debate)

Madam President! Prime Minister! Illegal immigration is used as a weapon against European borders. We have seen it in Finland, where Russia, with their aggression, has pushed illegal migrants against your country. We've seen it in the Mediterranean. We have seen it in Turkey against Greece and Bulgaria, and this is something we need to take seriously from Europe. Because, of course, we cannot rely…

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Mar

2024

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Substantiation and communication of explicit environmental claims (Green Claims Directive) (debate)

Mr President! There is simply too much climate nonsense in the EU, and it must be stopped now. The EU's so-called green transition is characterised by massive bureaucracy, huge taxation and ill-considered bans. Typically, it comes from the best of intentions. You want all the good. Indeed, green has almost been abolished as a pseudo-religion here in the Union. No one is against better consumer rig…

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Feb

2024

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Deepening EU integration in view of future enlargement (A9-0015/2024 - Petras Auštrevičius, Pedro Silva Pereira)

Mr. President. This is EU enlargement at speed. It is to allow Turkey, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia and a number of other countries into the Union without them being ready for it in any way. We know the consequences. This is going to be a huge financial burden for taxpayers. For Denmark alone, DKK 36 billion in each EU budget period. This will lead to social dumping. It will lead to welfare tourism, …

29

Feb

2024

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The need for unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after two years of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine (RC-B9-0143/2024)

Mr. President! Ukraine is disappointed, Ukrainians are disappointed and they are disappointed in you. I was there a few days ago, and all the promises that have been made about military aid, about a million grenades, they are like evaporated into the sun. We see that little Denmark has given twice as much in military aid as France as Spain as Italy put together. If we really want the Ukrainians to…

29

Feb

2024

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The murder of Alexei Navalny and the need for EU action in support of political prisoners and oppressed civil society in Russia (RC-B9-0147/2024)

Mr President! I think today, most people can see what a tyrannical regime Vladimir Putin's Russia is. Unfortunately, it is a realization that has come too late for many in this house. I still remember debates in the European Parliament defending Macron's right to sell aircraft carriers to Putin. Debates defending Germany's economic interests in Russian gas and pressured Denmark, among other things…

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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)

Mr President! Today, you are ashamed of being Danish, of having a government and a prime minister who try to silence and confuse the Danes when it comes to the real intentions behind the EU's defence policy. But here you are liberatingly honest. It is openly said here that this is about the creation of a real European army. That it is about an attack on countries' veto rights in foreign and defenc…

27

Feb

2024

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Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2023 (debate)

Mr President! How dare you not be embarrassed just a little! To sit here and teach the whole world about democracy and human rights, while at no time dare to look inward. Towards an EU that bit by bit eats up national democracy, national self-determination, with a Commission that no European has voted for, that conspires with you to take fundamental rights – not to Europeans – but from Europeans. …

27

Feb

2024

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War in the Gaza Strip and the need to reach a ceasefire, including recent developments in the region (debate)

After all, thousands of millions do not live in Palestine, Margrethe. But the evidence against UNRWA is neither new nor isolated. We have individuals who have participated in terrorist attacks. We have terror tunnels under UNRWA headquarters and we have a long tradition of inciting hatred, violence and Islamism, including in school books. It is not an organization that I think is worthy of the UN.…

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Feb

2024

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War in the Gaza Strip and the need to reach a ceasefire, including recent developments in the region (debate)

Mr President! Your tax dollars should not be used to finance Islamic terrorism. It should be that simple. Unfortunately, it is not that simple here in the EU. In 2023 alone, UNRWA, the UN-funded refugee organisation in Palestine, received more than 600 million tax dollars. An organisation we know today had employees who not only paid tribute to Hamas' terrorist attacks on Israel, but even particip…

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Feb

2024

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Russiagate: allegations of Russian interference in the democratic processes of the European Union (debate)

Mr. President! You have a nice rhetoric here that if you are afraid of the state of democracy, then you should look to the right wing. But the truth is someone else. If you want to see who is taking money from the Islamic regime in Qatar, you need to look at the Social Democrats and Socialists. If you look at who is helping Russian intelligence, you have to look at the Green Group. So your percept…

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Feb

2024

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EU2040 climate target (debate)

Mr President! Look it in the eyes. Your climate fuss has gone overboard. On the streets from Paris to Berlin, from Rome to Warsaw, farmers, workers and pensioners protest against the grotesque climate policy being pursued in this House, in the Commission and in the Council. A costly policy which means that large sections of the European middle class today have lost all hope that their economic fut…

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2024

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The need for unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after two years of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine (debate)

Mr. President! The mixing of economic aid for Ukraine’s war effort and Ukrainian membership of the EU is deeply damaging. The truth is that we do not want to discuss the consequences of Ukrainian EU membership, but I do not want to participate in the silence and denial. If Ukraine joins the EU, it will mean more Eastern crime, more social dumping, more welfare tourism. For Denmark alone, the econo…

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Jan

2024

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Role of preventive diplomacy in tackling frozen conflicts around the world – missed opportunity or change for the future? (debate)

Madam President! China is our generation's greatest threat to Europe, to freedom, to democracy. It is a terrible dictatorship that, in addition to mistreating its own citizens, also poses a threat to its neighbours. But beyond that, many rogue states from Russia to North Korea and Iran are keeping alive, structurally challenging both our security and our democracy. Yet it is as if we in Europe are…

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2024

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Humanitarian situation in Gaza, the need to reach a ceasefire and the risks of regional escalation (debate)

Mr President! We're under attack. The terrible anti-human ideology, Islamism, has attacked us in the West, in Israel and here in Europe. The truth is that this is not an Israeli problem. We have seen terrorist attacks against Denmark, against Belgium, against Germany, against Sweden - all prompted by Hamas and their allies. We have seen that this cannot be isolated into a geopolitical conflict, bu…

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2024

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Empowering consumers for the green transition (debate)

Mr President! Taxation of fires and bureaucracy. That is obviously the answer, if you ask this House, the European Parliament, how we solve the challenge of the green transition. But you forget that every time the EU comes up with a new bureaucratic system and wants it rolled out on businesses in all EU countries, there is only one place where the bill can end, and that is with consumers. And you …

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2024

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Keeping commitments and delivering military assistance to Ukraine (debate)

Mr. President! $26 billion. This is what Denmark alone has contributed to military assistance to Ukraine. In other words, it is three times as much as France, Italy and Spain have supplied together. Dear colleagues, you are a joke. The EU is a joke. The truth is, if it weren't for U.S. military aid, Ukraine would have been out of this war a long, long time ago. The truth is that what you can find …

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2023

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Innovative humanitarian aid strategy: spotlight on current and forgotten crises (A9-0321/2023 - Carlos Zorrinho)

Madam President! Here we are again. Once again, more money has been demanded for emergency aid, for humanitarian work. Despite the fact that Danish taxpayers and European taxpayers have paid for generations without seeing an improvement. The worst thing is that a large part of this money must be channelled through so-called NGOs, associations which claim that they have nothing to do with countries…

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2023

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Digitalisation of cross-border judicial cooperation (amendment of certain directives and framework decisions) (A9-0063/2023 - Emil Radev, Marina Kaljurand)

Madam President! When we look at this legal cooperation, it is regrettable that it is so hassle-free to get third-party countries in. With our opt-out, Denmark has a special status as a third country, and sometimes in the EU it seems as if people would rather be kept out instead of fighting organised crime together. To fight what happens when international gangs, international criminal organizatio…

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2023

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Digitalisation of cross-border judicial cooperation (A9-0062/2023 - Emil Radev, Marina Kaljurand)

Madam President! After all, every time we talk about improving the security of the European Union, talk about improving our cooperation when it comes to fighting crime, the answer is always from this House: Greater European integration. Instead of cooperating as voluntary member states, as independent nation states, the solution must always be found in an ever closer cooperation with a supranation…

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Nov

2023

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30 years of Copenhagen criteria - giving further impetus to EU enlargement policy (debate)

It is fun to bring the Danish reservations into the debate, precisely because the Danish reservations are given in the Treaty, precisely because the Danish people voted no to the Maastricht Treaty, and thus one had to give Denmark the reservations. We want to keep the reservations, and I actually said verbatim in my speech that it is the same individuals in this Chamber who criticise Hungary, but …