What Gerolf spoke about.

19 May

2026

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Recommendation on the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, this report is officially about the United Nations. But if you read well, you will see something completely different. This is another step towards more power for the European Union, more multilateralism – being the new European religion – and therefore less old ‑ national sovereignty. In practice, according to this text, the peoples of Europe will have to furth…

9 Mar

2026

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Framework Agreement on relations between the European Parliament and the European Commission (debate)

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26 Nov

2025

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Protecting citizens' right to make cash payments and ensuring financial inclusion (debate)

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21 Oct

2025

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Commission Work Programme 2026 (debate)

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(NL) Mr President, what this Commission is proposing to the Council and to this Parliament, and what this Commission is imposing on a European population that, exhausted, is increasingly turning away from it, without taking that signal into account, is more European Union, more powers and more money in a multi-annual budget that takes on hallucinatory proportions. To this end, we are increasingly …

10 Sep

2025

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Implementation of EU-US trade deal and the prospect of wider EU trade agreements (debate)

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Mr President, there can be no doubt about it: Beyond the protected bubble of this European Parliament and beyond the elite club of people interested in its political survival, von der Leyen would have long been evicted. Its Commission is the great conglomerate of self-interest and the trade deal With Trump is undoubtedly an icing on the cake of incompetence that has been baked by her over the past…

8 Jul

2025

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State of play of implementation of the European Media Freedom Act in the Member States (debate)

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Mr President! Could George Orwell's Big Brother have been a Big Sister? We now know the answer: Yes, of course! Emily O’Reilly, the former Ombudsman of the European Union, described the phenomenon. A supreme, unelected and untransparent corporate culture at the top of the European Commission is making opacity worse and worse. I was always, she says, at my inconvenience with the ‘mighty consiglieri…

18 Jun

2025

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Case of Ahmadreza Jalali in Iran

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Mr President, where at this moment a rain of ballistic missiles seems to be the reality of the day, the fate of one man may seem futile. But the fate of Djalali is well known. He has been innocently sentenced to death and has now been imprisoned for more than nine years, in an increasingly worrying medical condition. His fate can go two ways. A regime on the knees can be fierce. The weakest are th…

12 Feb

2025

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US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, the World Health Organisation and the suspension of US development and humanitarian aid (debate)

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Mr President, are we not going to be holding debates here every month and wailing for hours about every action now being taken in the United States to start the new era? We should put our energy into accepting this new time. For the times of multilateralism, the times of the moral superiority of international organisations and the times of foreign interference by unlimited subsidies and manipulati…

21 Jan

2025

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Geopolitical and economic implications for the transatlantic relations under the new Trump administration (debate)

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Mr President, I wish I could somewhat comfort the many panicking left-wing and left-liberal and the many globalist and multilateralist colleagues here in the hemisphere. With Donald Trump taking office in Washington, there will be no end to democracy. On the contrary: It is a celebration, a celebration, of democracy. What is a problem, however, is the reputation of the European Union in today's Wa…

24 Oct

2024

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Abuse of new technologies to manipulate and radicalise young people through hate speech and antidemocratic discourse (debate)

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Mr President, the Group of the European Liberal, Democrat and Reform Party believes that the progress and advancement of new technologies are a danger, because they can be used to – I quote – ‘manipulate and radicalise young people through hate speech and anti-democratic language’ – end of quotation. This Mickey-Mouse language of political correctness sets the tone and immediately rules out seriou…

13 Mar

2024

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European Semester for economic policy coordination 2024 – European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2024 (joint debate – European Semester)

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Mr President, despite – I am sorry, ladies and gentlemen – the blablabla in this report, as, for example – and I quote –: “upward social convergence” or the “economic governance architecture” and more, convergence is less than ever. The best example of this in this Semester is the President of your European Council, namely the Kingdom of Belgium. Belgium is lonesomely dangling at the bottom of the…

28 Feb

2024

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European Digital Identity framework (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, today we are at a crossroads. We need to make a decision that will have profound consequences for the freedoms of European citizens and their privacy in the future. The proposed legislation on a digital identity for the entire European Union hides a dangerous, if not a sinister, agenda. The idea of a digital wallet in fact puts the finishing touches to a path th…

16 Jan

2024

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Presentation of the programme of activities of the Belgian Presidency (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I did not come here today to apologise to you for the conduct of today's absentee, Charles Michel, who is disgraceful not only to Belgium, but also to the European institutions themselves. Somebody else has to do it. For those who are critical of European cooperation and a European Union that is moving towards a centralised unitary state to the detriment of the …

21 Nov

2023

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Proposals of the European Parliament for the amendment of the Treaties (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, today we are going through yet another chapter of the commedia dell’arte, referred to in the professional jargon of European Union enthusiasts in this Parliament as the ‘Conference on the Future of Europe’. Our view of this federalist dragon is the following: this so-called Conference on the Future of Europe was a failure. No fewer than 13 Member States have alr…

17 Oct

2023

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Statement by the President

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, it is with great sadness and sadness that we learned that Sweden was murdered in the Belgian capital, Brussels, because of their Swedish origin. And it is with great shame that I, as a Belgian citizen, have to point out a failing immigration policy here. Belgium is a country where, if you are allowed to stay, you can stay, and if you are not allowed to stay, too…

3 Oct

2023

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Situation in Nagorno-Karabakh after Azerbaijan’s attack and the continuing threats against Armenia (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, when I think about what is happening now with Artsach ... With military power and the threat of – and the memory of – centuries of genocide and ethnic cleansing, let the entire Armenian population in that part of the Caucasus be driven away, and let that happen without much more than a few empty words because of gas supplies. To impose and allow to be imposed th…

13 Sep

2023

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State of the Union (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we already knew after Brexit that this Commission would not act calmingly with the European factor, but that on the contrary there would be a radicalisation, an EU fanaticism, an EU extremism that had never been seen. And this Commission has again underlined here today that this programme is continuing. You have begun to acquire powers that do not belong to you:…

12 Sep

2023

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Composition of the European Parliament (debate)

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Mr President, I would just like to remind you how cynical this Parliament can be. We had already seen that yesterday, with the installation, after Qatargate, of a ‘Comité de salut public’ created under the impulse of socialists, which is going to monitor the behaviour of MEPs here without proportionality and supplemented by experts. We see that today too. I would like to remind you that instead of…

14 Jun

2023

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 29-30 June 2023, in particular in the light of recent steps towards concluding the Migration Pact (debate)

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Mr President, we are talking about the upcoming meeting of the European Council. I quote from your title: “in the light of recent progress on the conclusion of the Migration Pact”. The use of the term ‘progress’ is, in my opinion and in the opinion of my party, the Vlaams Belang, a higher form of cynicism. In your dream world, this bubble of green-left complacency, you may be thinking of making pr…

31 May

2023

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Breaches of the Rule of law and fundamental rights in Hungary and frozen EU funds (debate)

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Mr President, whether European cooperation was ever originally intended to impose some form of social model on the Member States does not even need to be debated. No, that was not the intention of European cooperation. The intention was to bring more stability and prosperity, and then very reluctantly. It had to be a unity in diversity. Because in that European diversity was precisely the power of…

19 Apr

2023

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Digital euro (debate)

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Mr President, we do not think that the reasons why the European Central Bank wants to introduce this digital euro are part of the various fallacies put forward by the European elite, but part of the further steps that we as citizens have seen our governments take over the past decade towards the absolute control society. Today, this digital currency with a political decision, even more so than bef…

15 Feb

2023

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European Central Bank - annual report 2022 (debate)

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Mr President, this annual report on the ECB is one of the many mandatory numbers that are being used in this hemisphere to keep the institutions afloat by handing out a blank cheque with Parliament's approval. For a moment, this report incorporates sentences in which Parliament ‘expresses its concern’, this year more specifically about the historically high inflation, which is pushing so many Euro…

23 Nov

2022

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A truly interconnected Energy Single Market to keep bills down and companies competitive (topical debate)

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Mr President, if it were not so serious, I could call it ridiculous: the way in which you, ladies and gentlemen of the politically correct majority in the European Parliament, all collectively jump on the scene at every crisis to say that the only solution to the crisis is more power for the European Union. We have actually been seeing this since the beginning of the century. Do we have a banking …

14 Sep

2022

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State of the Union (debate)

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Mr President, I have heard in recent days that more and more people are supposedly expecting a solution from the European Union. I don't know if the translation will be able to convey this, but in Dutch we have an expression for that: They go to confession to the devil. In this way, we express in our language that the victims are throwing themselves into the arms of the one who caused their proble…

4 Jul

2022

NL Speech

One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Mr President, we all know that the Islamic Republic of Iran is a safe haven for terrorists. The Iranian regime is using its embassies and international terror groups to undermine our security in the West. We saw this, for example, in the planned attack on political opponents near Paris, organised by the Iranian diplomat Assadollah Assadi. He is currently being held by Belgium, but the Belgian gove…