What Anders spoke about.

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Nov

2023

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

Mr President! Fifteen years after the great eastward enlargement, we are here again. We are in a situation where a large majority in this House, the European Commission, the President of the Council, wants a major enlargement to the east. Has anyone learned from the past? Has anyone learned from the chaos brought about by the eastward enlargement, precisely because the agreed rules of the game wer…

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Nov

2023

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Destruction of judicial independence and the persecution of democrats in Hong Kong (debate)

Mr President! China is a threat, but China has been a threat ever since the communist takeover. The Chinese Communist dictatorship has stood for crimes against humanity on a scale that fully bears comparison with Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany. Yet we have not seen a strong condemnation by Europe of China's communist form of government. It is very worrying that what has allowed China to grow…

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Nov

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Humanitarian situation in Gaza, the need for the release of hostages and for an immediate humanitarian truce leading to a ceasefire and the prospects for peace and security in the Middle East (debate)

Mr President! This debate is always very emotional, and I don’t think there is anyone in this chamber – at least I hope not – who thinks that any civilian death is not too much of a death. If it can be avoided, it must be avoided. But the rhetoric is a bit silly. For example, when the UN Secretary-General states that "we are witnessing the greatest loss of civilians. It is completely without paral…

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Nov

2023

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Effectiveness of the EU sanctions on Russia (RC-B9-0453/2023, B9-0453/2023, B9-0454/2023, B9-0455/2023, B9-0456/2023, B9-0457/2023)

Madam President! Hypocrisy is driving down the walls when you praise yourself in this Chamber with your strong efforts against the Russian occupation in Ukraine. Let's remember the prehistory. After Russia took Crimea, who wanted to sell aircraft carriers to Putin? France did that. President Macron. Who wanted to get more Russian gas and dismantle its own nuclear power? Germany did that. Chancello…

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Nov

2023

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 26-27 October 2023 - Humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the need for a humanitarian pause (joint debate - Conclusions of the European Council and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the need for a humanitarian pause)

The questioner is well aware of the Danish People's Party's attitude towards anti-Semitism. We have always stood 100% with Israel, and we fight it wherever we see it. Even when the Red-Green Alliance has given direct support to one of the organisations behind the terrorist attack through public funding. This has been acknowledged in the Danish debate. It was said that it was a mistake to have spen…

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Nov

2023

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 26-27 October 2023 - Humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the need for a humanitarian pause (joint debate - Conclusions of the European Council and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the need for a humanitarian pause)

Madam President! Fucking die, you fucking jew-tamp! We'll hit you tonight. It was the words that met a Danish young Jewess when she returned to her home. Hagekors was scratched in the windows. Her front door had been broken. The conflict between Israel and the terrorist organisation Hamas has also hit Europe. In Denmark alone, we see an increase in anti-Semitic attacks of 2300 percent since the te…

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Oct

2023

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A true geopolitical Europe now (topical debate)

Madam President! Then we stand here again, for God knows when, discussing your and the Commission's wet dream of a United States of Europe with a common foreign policy. It is approaching the tragicomic when you look at the "track record" that the EU has when it comes to foreign policy. I understand that our Minister for Foreign Affairs had to spend five times the allowed speaking time just to try …

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Oct

2023

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Schengen area: digitalisation of the visa procedure - Schengen area: amending the Visa Sticker Regulation (Joint debate – Schengen area)

Mr. President! The Schengen system has collapsed! Visa is being sold out of the back door by criminal officials from Poland, Malta and probably elsewhere. We have seen that more than 1 million illegal migrants came last year. We expect the same this year. This week we witnessed again, again, a terrorist attack by one of these illegal migrants. A person who should never have been in Europe. A perso…

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Oct

2023

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Need for a speedy adoption of the asylum and migration package (debate)

Mr President! European migration policy is a disaster. Year after year, hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants arrive in Europe. Completely uncontrollable. Just two simple facts: By 2050, there will be one billion more people in Africa. A poll shows that between 18-24 year olds, 50% want to migrate to Europe. In other words, migratory pressure is a permanent state of affairs. What is the EU’s r…

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Oct

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Corrupt large-scale sale of Schengen visas (debate)

Mr. President! The borderless Europe has been a disaster. A disaster that has hit ordinary people, Danes, Europeans hard. With a real slaraffenland. A gift for organised criminals, smugglers and illegal migrants. The scandal we are dealing with today, in which up to 250,000 - a quarter of a million - visas have been issued illegally to the entire Schengen zone, comes in a string of other scandals …

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Sep

2023

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Iran: one year after the murder of Jina Mahsa Amini (debate)

Mr President! The Islamic regime of terror does not only have power where it is at home. It also has power right here on European soil, where they have been behind murder and terror and, most recently through the Organisation of Islamic Countries, have demanded that countries like Denmark and Sweden restrict our freedom of expression in order to respect the religion of Islam. A ban that the Swedes…

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Sep

2023

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Ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe (debate)

Mr President! It is incredible that one cannot find a single problem that does not require the EU to have more power. But what has happened when the EU has been waiting for the EU in the environmental context? It has been the case that bureaucracy, opaque decision-making procedures, have always meant that too little has been done late. The best thing that could be done for the environment at Europ…

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Jul

2023

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Public access to documents – annual report for the years 2019-2021 (debate)

Mr President! The EU prides itself on its so-called democratic legitimacy. That we should be a beacon of democracy must be said to be punctured by the debate here today. Because can we speak of a genuine democracy if there is no access, public access to review our decisions, to review how we spend taxpayers' money? After all, it is completely insane to find that someone wants to reduce the issue o…

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Jul

2023

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Nature restoration (debate)

Mr President! When you take the words of the left and the green NGO world at face value in this debate, we are in a huge biodiversity crisis. The first natural question is: How did we get there in Europe? Agriculture policy, Fisheries policy, has always been the exclusive competence of the European Union. So if you think that it is fisheries, if you think that it is agriculture that has the main r…

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Jul

2023

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Industrial Emissions Directive - Industrial Emissions Portal - Deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure - Sustainable maritime fuels (FuelEU Maritime Initiative) - Energy efficiency (recast) (joint debate - Fit for 55 and Industrial Emissions)

Madam President! It's as if in this house you think that when you want to save the planet, save the green transition, save the climate, it's about politicians sitting in a room and finding the wise stones. It is a question here, with the special interests that exist, of 'picking the winner', of releasing industries that are close to oneself or that have a national interest, and of coming up with a…

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Jun

2023

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Artificial Intelligence Act (debate)

Mr President! The debate we have here today on artificial intelligence is one that is filled with ethical dilemmas and difficult questions. On the one hand, there is no doubt that technology has an incredible ability to potentially improve people's living conditions, could streamline large parts of the activity that takes place both in the private sphere, but also in the business world. But on the…

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This is Europe - Debate with the President of Cyprus, Nikos Christodoulides (debate)

Mr President! Year after year, the farce continues with Turkey's candidate status as a potential EU country. That is, the very same Turkey that has just re-elected the despot and Islamist Erdogan to the presidency. The very same Turkey that, year after year, bribes and blackmailes and threatens Europe to give him billions and billions and billions of Europeans' tax dollars. Turkey occupies one-thi…

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Jun

2023

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Foreign interference in all democratic processes in the European Union, including disinformation - Election integrity and resilience build-up towards European elections 2024 (debate)

Madam President! Any attempt to go against democracy and go against the democratic rules of the game is of course problematic, and therefore one should not accept misinformation or disinformation either, but I have the feeling, when I hear the debate in this Chamber today, that it is mostly about the disinformation that goes against the majority. Granting huge sums of taxpayers' kroner to propagan…

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May

2023

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Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence – EU accession: institutions and public administration of the Union - Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence - EU accession: judicial cooperation in criminal matters, asylum and non-refoulement (debate)

Mr President! First of all, it is strange that the questioner gets so much extra speaking time, but I have to be brief. These are not things that are not factually based. The Danish statistical agency, the official “Statistics of Denmark”, clearly documents that there is a much higher crime rate from migrants from the Middle East and from North Africa. And I would very much like to send that to th…

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2023

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Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence – EU accession: institutions and public administration of the Union - Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence - EU accession: judicial cooperation in criminal matters, asylum and non-refoulement (debate)

Madam President! Murder of women. Rape of women. Violence against women. Circumcision of women. Treating women as second-class citizens is all fundamentally unacceptable. All of which should be banned and are banned in the vast majority of civilized countries and all of which should be punished much more severely than is being done today in European countries. However, this is not something we can…

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This is Europe - Debate with the Chancellor of Germany, Olaf Scholz (debate)

Madam President! Mr Bundeskanzler Scholz. Your visit to the European Parliament is a reminder of the detrimental effect that German migration policy has had on Europe. Their coalition government with Merkel and the ‘wir schaffen das’ policy led to more than one million illegal migrants in Germany and many more across the European continent. Unfortunately, that policy remains under your leadership.…

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This is Europe - Debate with the Prime Minister of Luxembourg, Xavier Bettel (debate)

Madam President! Prime Minister! The refugee and migrant crisis in Europe is once again completely out of control. We see women, men and even children drowning in the Mediterranean every day. We see time and time again that the people smugglers and despots living in our neighbourhood in Turkey, in North Africa, are only getting richer and richer. And we are seeing the cultural impact that so many …

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2023

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EU Rapid Deployment Capacity, EU Battlegroups and Article 44 TEU: the way forward (debate)

Madam President! It would be less than a year before the golden promises of the 'yes' parties and violent scaremongering, which convinced the Danes to abolish our defence reservations, led to a masquerade here in the European Parliament. For now it is clear what you want. The future of EU defence cooperation must be a standing force, a rapid reaction force of 5,000 men is Parliament's wish. A stan…

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2023

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Energy storage (debate)

Madam President! European energy planning has proved to be a disaster with fatal consequences for the ordinary European, the ordinary Dane. The green forces in this House have spent all their energy on combating efficient green energy such as nuclear power. Yes, we have seen this week that Germany closed its last nuclear reactors after green pressure. It has created a much greater dependence on Ru…

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2023

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Strengthening the application of the principle of equal pay for equal work or work of equal value between men and women (debate)

But the paradox is that if legislation could have solved this, it would have solved it. Discrimination on the basis of gender is prohibited. This legislation has been in the EU as in Denmark for many years. So if we could solve this by sitting in this House and passing new legislation that just adds more bureaucracy, why was it not solved 20, 30 and 40 years ago? I can only refer to the fact that …