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Jul

2026

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The EU’s role in the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip and the accountability of Israel under international law (topical debate)

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Jul

2026

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

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, The motto of the Irish Presidency of the Council, Strength with unity, Strength through unity, as an oppositionist, invites me to reproach the fact that this unity is a adherence to a failed policy. And it is precisely the otherwise very EU-friendly Ireland that is now suffering from this misguided policy. Two examples: Firstly, for example, migration policy,…

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Jun

2026

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Preparation of the European Council (joint debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, In German, there is a wording that reads: Are you the crispy prey of madness? I would like to call this on the EU when the first accession chapter with Ukraine was opened two days ago for EU accession. Ukraine is a country at war. Ukraine is going down in corruption – I'm just saying keywords: Gold-plated toilet facilities, millions of dollar and euro bills weld…

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May

2026

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High time to deliver on the Single Market, providing certainty and predictability for EU businesses and quality jobs (continuation of debate)

I am not so powerful of the Italian language now, but I am pleased that you are protecting the system here in such a way that those who are controversial here To speak, to stop talking, to elude yourself - which may also be your right - is democracy ...…

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May

2026

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High time to deliver on the Single Market, providing certainty and predictability for EU businesses and quality jobs (continuation of debate)

Madam President, Ladies and Gentlemen, A brief preliminary comment on democracy: This is the so-called Key Debate of the week, and Mrs von der Leyen, President of the Commission, who spoke here and attended, has not even managed to listen to René Aust, President of the Sovereignists and the AfD, and is openly afraid to make any arguments ... (Commissioner Stéphane Séjourné, present, waving his att…

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Apr

2026

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EU strategy in response to the ongoing Middle East crisis, its implications on energy prices and the availability of fertilizers (joint debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Today we are discussing the EU ‑ Strategy on the ongoing crisis in the Middle East. I think it should be noted after the debate: There is no EU ‑ strategy for this crisis. It's even worse: Not only do they not have a strategy, but most of the countries of this European Union are enriching themselves in an indecent way by the increased prices for energy. One side…

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Mar

2026

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 19 March 2026 (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Whether this is the debate on the Council, whether it is the parliamentary debate here – one thing determines the action and the speeches: how can we – and if I say ‘we’, I mean the European Commission and the left-wing majority here in the House – prevent Viktor Orbán from being re-elected at all? How can we make it possible to transfer 90…

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Mar

2026

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EUCO and situation in the Middle East (joint debate)

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Mar

2026

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Order of business

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, On 5 March – four days ago – Volodymyr Zelenskyy threatened Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in an incredible way. It was a threat to life and limb, a threat of violence against a head of state of the European Union. Let me remind you of what Zelenskyy said, literally: "Otherwise, we will give the address of this person to our armed for…

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Feb

2026

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Urgent actions to revive EU competitiveness, deepen the EU Single Market and reduce the cost of living - from the Draghi report to reality (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased: Finally, it is not a rainbow issue that is being debated here, at last it is not a matter of spending valuable parliamentary time listening to your Orbán and Trump bashing, but finally what is really bringing Europe into problems here, namely the price situation, the cost of living, and it is not possible to solve this problem without pinpointin…

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Jan

2026

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European Council meeting (joint debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I don't want to spare you some irony. For all the geopolitical muscle games you are playing here, I would like to remind you that for many, many years this European Union has not even been able to provide hot water here in Parliament in Strasbourg or in Parliament in Brussels. And I continue with the irony: What do you do with your muscle games? Are you sitti…

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Dec

2025

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 18-19 December 2025, in particular the need to support Ukraine, transatlantic relations and the EU’s strategic autonomy (debate)

Madam President, Ladies and Gentlemen, Let me begin by wishing you a merry Christmas across all party boundaries and differences. It is the time now at the end of the year for contemplation and also for contemplation. Perhaps one or the other has the right attitude when it comes to politics. And the right way can only be to bring about peace and not further war, just as, Mr. Weber, we are not cele…

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Nov

2025

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EU position on the proposed plan and EU engagement towards a just and lasting peace for Ukraine (debate)

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Nov

2025

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 23 October 2025 (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, If you are debating Ukraine and your favourite politician Zelenskyy again today – yesterday’s events alone: A gold-plated toilet, millions of bundles of US dollars welded into plastic. We have resignations from the Minister of Energy and the Minister of Justice. We have investigations in the immediate vicinity of Mr. Zelensky. We have 400 billion dollar energ…

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Oct

2025

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Allegations of espionage by the Hungarian government within the EU institutions (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Whenever a debate about Hungary and Viktor Orbán is broken off by the left here and the accusations are already turning into absurdity, I ask myself whether I should not contact the medical services here in the house. Maybe there is help for you. Maybe there's a puff for you completely losing control of your political reasoning. I have the feeling that some o…

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Oct

2025

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Polarisation and increased repression in Serbia, one year after the Novi Sad tragedy (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Yesterday a very important meeting took place in Budapest. Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić was invited by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. And I think they both have something in common, because they both have very strong support from their respective populations. Both are proud patriots, and both also compete against the woken mischief that is curre…

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Oct

2025

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This is Europe - Debate with the Prime Minister of Luxembourg, Luc Frieden (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Madam President, I would like to start right away with you, and I would like to thank you unexpectedly for allowing a minute of mourning to take place here yesterday for the brutal killing of Charlie Kirk. I believe that this is the right way to deal with each other and that this European Parliament is simply gaining more balance outwards – and I would like t…

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Sep

2025

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After 10 years, time to end mass migration now - protect our women and children (topical debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen! About ten years ago, Angela Merkel carried out what is probably the most fateful blow ever to Europe in the last decade, when she said ‘we can do it’ and over 10 million people came to us from Arabia and Africa – people where two thirds have no need for protection, neither the Geneva Convention, nor humanitarian or subsidiary protection rights. And this wave …

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Sep

2025

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State of the Union (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, May I ask you briefly to pause and reflect on what happened here today? The European Union is probably in one of its most difficult hours ever in the post-war period: We have war at our gates and the situation is that we are also fueling this war with 19 packages of sanctions and with money and weapons. We have a situation where we deliberately – apparently –…

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Jun

2025

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Freedom of assembly in Hungary and the need for the Commission to act (debate)

Madam President, Ladies and gentlemen of the political left, and this includes the European People's Party in particular, you are on the road like a political party. Titanic towards the iceberg. You drive the continent politically into the abyss with your politics and now put your heart and soul into the rainbow parade. And I can already imagine how 70 out of 100, as announced by you, are now trav…

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Jun

2025

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Upcoming NATO summit on 24-26 June 2025 (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, When you look at the debate here, you get the impression that you are sitting in a kind of narrow-gauge pentagon rather than in the European Parliament. This EU, or European Community before it, was created to generate peace, freedom and prosperity, not to generate itself as a kind of military alliance. In this context, I see it more than positive that today …

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May

2025

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The Hungarian government's drift to Russia-style repression: legislative threats to freedom of expression and democratic participation (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Some situations are so unreal, so insane, so filled with political madness that they rarely occur. Today we have a situation – this so-called Pfizer scandal, where €35 billion was ordered by the President of the Commission, where the text messages on judicial decisions are finally to be disclosed. Nobody cares. It is also of no interest to anyone that we have…

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May

2025

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EU support for a just, sustainable and comprehensive peace in Ukraine (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, The epochal change and breakthrough in today's debate on Ukraine is that for the first time the word "peace" is here as the title. If I may draw your attention back to the time when this unfortunate war began and people like me came to the lectern and said: “Let's do everything we can to prevent this death from escalating! Let's do everything we can to bring abo…

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Apr

2025

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 20 March 2025 (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Before I come to the Council meeting, three current issues that are really more than worrying. Number one: what is happening in Romania, where a number one in elections about an attack of the local deep state It is simply being taken out of the race and taking influence in elections here, which in my view is more than worrying. For me, what happened yesterday…

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Mar

2025

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European Council meetings and European security (joint debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, For the course of the European Union, the saying applies in a modified form: Every time you think you can't do it anymore, the next madness comes along. And in concrete terms, it is now the plan to earmark an enormous sum of 800 billion for upgrading this continent. And if you convert this sum to the number of inhabitants of Europe, you come per capita - as i…