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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 welded into plastic. The Ukraine He hasn't held elections in years and has democratically legitimized himself. With this step, the EU is overstretching its own capabilities and is undermining itself even more than it already does. Yes, Ukraine should have the option of a trade partnership in the medium and long term – no question at all. But here, in preparation for the Council meeting, to bring Ukraine into the European Union is a No-go It should not and should not happen.

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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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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 attention.) Yes, yes, fine, that's wonderful that you're here, but you're not the President of the Commission, as far as I'm able to visually identify you. But the President of the Commission will have the courage to face a parliamentary culture of debate in such a way that she at least listens and is ready to enter into a political discourse here too – number one. Point two: It is good that today we are talking about the question of the European economy and also about quality jobs. Yesterday we wasted the day giving any orders to political – I say this quite deliberately – frightening figures, which did not interest anyone, where in the back rows of this house there were paid claqueures, because half of the house did not even have an interest in attending. And people like Angela Merkel, who has brought over 10 million people from Arabia and Africa, who have also plunged this continent into an economic disaster.

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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 is that energy prices are going up. But the other side of this problem is that taxation is still allowed in the form. I'm blinding back: A few weeks ago, there was a military intervention in Tehran. Tens of thousands of people were slaughtered there. Yes, the Israelis, along with the US ‑ Americans, intervened here. Yes, this war was a little out of control. But please understand that there are disruptions in the energy market. And for that, I would now need a large community like the European Union, which repeatedly postulates in itself that it can solve the big problems. You just don't solve them! What I need here is to intervene on the tax side. Down or away with the VAT, down with the mineral oil tax. It would be easy to offer people cheap energy prices. They just don't do it. And that's the failure you have to stand up for. (The speaker rejected two questions on the ‘blue card’ procedure by Lukas Sieper and Niels Fuglsang.)

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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 billion to our friend Zelenskyy as quickly as possible? This is the completely wrong way! And the accusations made against Viktor Orbán and the Hungarians are increasingly absurd, such as the Hungarian Foreign Minister having contact with other foreign ministers. Yes, of course he must have these contacts! It was also none other than Hungarian Prime Minister Orbán himself who maintains contacts with the White House. Do you remember the pictures of Viktor Orbán sitting in the White House at an exclusive meeting with the US President, while all the other heads of state – von der Leyen, Merz, Macron – sat in the White House like a school class and were hardly taken seriously? I appeal to you: stop manipulating the Hungarians and the Hungarian voters. Stop withholding money from Hungary. Allow free and uninfluenced elections. No one knows better what is good for the Hungarians than the Hungarians themselves.

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EUCO and situation in the Middle East (joint debate)

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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 forces, our guys. Let them call him and speak with him in their own language.’ What does that mean? That here the armed units of Ukraine should receive the address of Viktor Orbán, to talk to Viktor Orbán afterwards in their own way with weapons. And even the EU ‑ Commission, which is usually very, very Zelenskyy ‑-friendly, has said: You can't do that anymore! I can and should appeal to you: Please allow a debate here! Let us put ourselves in a protective position in front of a head of state of the European Union. Let us put ourselves in a protective position against Viktor Orbán and the Hungarian population. But let's also show that we are in favour of the rule of law, democracy and against violence.

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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 pinpointing the causality in the milestones of your policy. It started with the coronavirus era, with a lockdown wave, with vaccine procurements that can all be dumped on the garbage dump today; It has continued with Ukraine, with Putin's invasion, where the day after the Commission President flew to the US and agreed to provide a gigantic amount of much, much more expensive US LNG gas for Europe. They put their heads in the sand when Nord Stream 2 was blown up by a Ukrainian special commando. They are pushing ahead with the Green Deal, which is putting the European automotive industry in a death zone. They are the ones tormenting Europe with regulations and numbers. This one-in-one-out rule, which normally applies to the Commission, is not adhered to. Finally, a one-in-ten-out principle would have to apply in order to free European companies from this burden of bureaucracy. I believe that Europe can only go into a good future if you finally refrain from this policy of bureaucratization, of ideologizing, but turn again to the real problems of the people.

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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 sitting down – or are you instructing any soldiers in electricity-powered tanks, with a rainbow flag, with an EU flag, to declare war on Putin and Trump alike? It all goes into the ridiculous. From my point of view, you should rather orient yourself to what there are concrete problems. For example, which of you was here in front of Parliament yesterday when hundreds or thousands of farmers protested? They were people who didn't want anything bad. They were people who weren't against anything. These were people who only asked to continue to allow their own existence in the face of this Mercosur agreement, which is likely to bring the death blow to domestic and European agriculture. This is the wrong policy. While Mercosur is not yet in force, it is already heading towards India. This is deceit for deceit the death of the European economy and also agriculture. And also the Green Deal, which entails the death of the European automotive industry, is something that inwardly weakens the power of Europe more and more. But they still exist, the sensible voices in Europe. Whether this is a Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, whether this is a Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, whether this is a Mr Fico, whether the other will soon be the ones who are going the right way in this alliance of centre-right parties – that is the future. But allow me to say this directly: Not in the path of self-destruction you are embarking on.

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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 celebrating Easter now, but Christmas. And I think it's important to use this time to find the right way to do it. And when I come to my two previous speakers, Mrs von der Leyen and Mr Weber, these were mere speeches of war. It was not in a subordinate clause, not in a fibre of your political will, that you could see that you were seeking peace here. And with all the different approaches, if I take the lowest figures, we have the 350,000 dead that this unfortunate war has brought. We have to the 2 million injured, we have prisoners, we have children who have lost their parents. We have tragic situations. And now I know it's important to condemn Putin for what he did. Only 19 packages of sanctions that have come to nothing, that have only hit us Europeans, that cannot stop this war a millimeter somewhere, should now at the latest be the time for contemplation to take a different path. I am pleased – and this will also affect the Council tomorrow – that the voices for peace are getting bigger, stronger and more powerful. I am happy about all the callers, especially from the Renew circles. I would also be happy if you would disclose your depots from Rheinmetall to BlackRock to know why some are here for war. I'll get back to the Council tomorrow. There are voices like Viktor Orbán, who speaks out clearly for peace, thank you for that. There is now someone in our alliance like Andrej Babiš, Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, who speaks out for peace, thank you for that. There is a Robert Fico who speaks out for peace, thank you for that. Hopefully soon there will be a chancellor in Austria, Herbert Kickl, who will strengthen this alliance, in Germany there will be an Alice Weidel, who will strengthen this alliance, and so on and so forth. I think, and now I'm at Christmas and at the end of my speech: Only peace is a path that is a right path. War can and should never be a solution. And I expect a Europe that you will raise your voice to end this dying and not to continue pouring oil into the fire. Nevertheless, Merry Christmas!

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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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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 energy deals and 10 to 15% kickbacksThose who are in the room. The European Union has now pumped the 200 billion to Kyiv and, according to the forecast of the renowned institute, another 400 billion are necessary in the coming years to keep Ukraine running here, while here people have less and less money available, while inflation is exploding with us. I can only say: Stop it! Stop the energy deals of Ukrainian oligarchs. Let's make sure the money stays in the country. Let's make sure that peace finally arrives and that we can generate prosperity again.

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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 of us have something like a political tourette syndrome, where, completely without control here against Hungary and Viktor Orbán, we are pursuing a policy that is devoid of any reality. You know this espionage story that has such a beard is a nonsense, I know it, we all know it's a nonsense. They stage this a few months before the election to harm Viktor Orbán and Fidesz. But you won't be able to do that. Let me tell you one thing: If you want to do something about espionage, do what is happening here on European soil to take away people's freedom. Do something about it Digital Services ActIt restricts people's freedom. Do something about it European Media Freedom Act and courageously oppose the tendencies in the European Commission to snoop into the chat messages of all European citizens. This is where espionage actually takes place. But please don't come up with a story that has such a beard and only such a thing as obviously serves to help your art candidate Péter Magyar, this desired candidate of the Brussels elites, instead of actually pursuing a clean, decent and honest policy here. (The speaker rejected two questions about the ‘blue card’ by Moritz Körner and Lukas Sieper.)

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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 currently developing here in many other countries. But both are probably also in the sights of the Brussels elites and the Brussels nomenclature. When I think of Hungary, for example, where this figure of art, this Péter Magyar, was created, only to harm Viktor Orbán in the elections. I can say: That won't work. Viktor Orbán is more popular than ever, and the attempt to overthrow him will not succeed. And the same is the case in Serbia at the moment, where staged mass protests – probably partly financed from abroad – are attempting to harm Vučić in his successful course. I wonder: What is the responsibility of a president if, as tragic as the accident may be, people are harmed here? I regret it from the bottom of my heart. But what can he do for it? That would be the same as if an accident happened here in Strasbourg at the station and I held the Bureau of the House responsible for it. No, it can't be. If you complain here about freedom of the media and freedom of expression in Serbia, I would like to answer you: Digital Services Act, Media Freedom ActWhat you plan to do with chat controls, there's catching up to do. But not in Serbia. The Serbs are a very proud people...

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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 to thank you for that. Number two, which was also little discussed here: This weekend Andrej Babiš was elected in the Czech Republic, and if it cannot be prevented by abstruse moves, also here, he will be the coming Prime Minister of the Czech Republic and then be someone next to Viktor Orbán who will once again reinforce this reform alliance, once again make it clear. We have the situation that with the chaos days, a situation can now arise in France, where with Jordan Bardella, Marine Le Pen, a change of policy can take place here. In Austria, we have the situation that our Herbert Kickl, who already has more approval than the other parties in common on the Chancellor's question, can be someone who, from an Austrian point of view, is pushing forward these impulses for reform. We have the situation in Germany with Alice Weidel that someone who is at the top in the heart of the population can take responsibility here. There is, I think, a way. And I know you all don't like this, but please accept that the majorities in the population support this very path. And from your point of view, it would be wise to move towards the ever-increasing circles, the ever-increasing constituencies that support us and the patriots, and not to take a path, as you do, that makes this continent worse and worse in numbers, data and facts.

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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 of illegal migrants has also been accompanied by economic problems, social problems, cultural problems, and terrorism: Bataclan Theatre, Brussels airport, in Strasbourg at the Christmas market and, and, and. And one of the most impressive works for me in this context is a book that has now come out, by a compatriot of mine, Gerald Grosz, entitled ‘Merkel’s work – Our downfall’. He quotes many European statesmen, including the former interior minister and now party leader of the FPÖ in Austria, Herbert Kickl, who says so – and that is exactly what it sums up: One does not care for the interests of the population and only makes what one receives applause from the left-wing Schickeria; This is what has taken place. And further analyses from Viktor Orbán to Tino Chrupalla: I can only recommend everyone to read this book, which is the perfect contra-opinion. ...

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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 – destroy hundreds of thousands of jobs with a Green Deal They are robbing families of their future. We have a situation where we rob people of their freedom with chat controls and similar absurd things. We have culturally completely changed, Arabized, Africanized the situation that we have open borders and illegal migration. And you, President of the Commission, come here in all seriousness and threaten three groups in this House that something will be done against us, the Patriotic, the Sovereign and the Reform Conservatives! I note – and please write this down in your parent book: It is not those who are the enemies of Europe, who stand up for more freedom and peace, who stand up for more rights of their national parliaments, but those who stand up for centralization, who are rampaging the continent.

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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 travelling to Budapest and all the EU propagandists – from a Daniel friend to a Mr Péter Magyar, this new figure of art of the Brussels elites – are going there and politically celebrating the song of all the values that Europe has ever presented in the midst of people in lacquer and leather and in high heels. What you are doing here is politically completely the wrong way. This is not about the freedom of love, this is about the aggressive display of sexuality that nobody cares about. No one cares about sexual orientation, no one cares about the sexual parts of the people there in varnish and leather, this whole hocus-pocus story that is celebrated there. No, Viktor Orbán is right: The protection of children and families takes precedence here.

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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 a voice from Slovakia comes from Prime Minister Fico, who says he does not want to meet NATO's current billion-dollar demands and has invested this money more in his hospitals and streets. Just as Hungarian Prime Minister Orbán says he wants to act as a peace negotiator in the Russia-Ukraine conflict and not participate in more and more rearmament and more and more sanctions and the wrong path. I wonder what the EU has to do at a joint summit with NATO. NATO has made a more than gloomy picture here in Europe. I only remember the attack on the Serbs about 25 years ago. I just want to remind you that NATO, with its utterly exaggerated policy of expansion towards the East, has at least some responsibility for the escalation of the conflict between the Russians and Ukraine. I call for the European Union to reflect on its original values, to make every effort to offer itself as a place of encounter and peace, to actively engage in discussions with the various rival parties, rather than to participate more and more, to be involved in a kind of warlike development and thus to do people anything but good.

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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 an alleged bribery case with Huawei, where a Chinese mobile phone company allegedly bribed parliamentarians – no one is interested either. It is also of no interest to anyone that, I believe, for a good two years now, with the Qatar scandal here in the house, we have had a case where bundles of money have been distributed towards social democratic MEPs and staff. No one cares, this is being swept under the table. What do you have against the Hungarians? You reopen your favourite topic today and go to the Hungarians. What did the Hungarians do to you? What did Viktor Orbán do to you? Is it perhaps that he still has the majority of his population behind him against your political desire? Is it that he stands up for peace, for democracy and freedom and against war? Does that bother you? Stop it! For me, it is perfectly legitimate for a state to say that it refuses to disclose foreign influence on the formation of the will of a democratic election; ensure transparency here, which applies to everyone for us, in a democracy that is necessary and important in free elections. I think Viktor Orbán will win this election. Not because he is a political partner of ours, but because he is a course of the future, of freedom, of peace...

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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 about peace here! Let's do everything that this European Union or a neutral country like Austria offers to negotiate so that this death of hundreds of thousands of people does not take place!”, you all shouted that you would unilaterally support someone, that you would be on the side of Putin or whatever, which is utter nonsense. We are on the side of life, and we are on the side of peace, which is very important. In the meantime, a lot has happened. We had the situation in 2022 that we almost had peace and the British ultimately sabotaged that peace. We have the situation that finally, finally, this unfortunate Biden regime had to cede and with Trump there is someone who actively advocates peace. We have Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who is calling for lasting peace here. We have the recently deceased Pope, who has spoken out in favour of finally bringing about peace. Please recognize the signs of the times. Let me tell you one thing as a thesis: It doesn't matter, humanly speaking, whether the Russian mother weeps for her Russian son, the Ukrainian one or perhaps the European one.

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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 in France is not so much a judicial history as an attack by the deep state on the judiciary to the leader in all surveys in France, where the French people want to be deprived of the opportunity to vote for their preferred candidate. The next insanity within the European Union: Look to Germany, where there is serious discussion about banning the AfD, which is in a very, very welcome, great development upwards. I wonder: What are these European values that someone is still defending here? How do you feel about democracy? What if such warnings develop across the continent and everyone puts their heads in the sand? I now come to the substance of this Council meeting – if you have something to say, it is best to come out later. Number one: The big misdevelopments just don't make you smart. Migration since 2015 – the naked catastrophe without any solution, where you want to slowly change the continent towards the second Marrakech or Botswana. The next story – your budget discipline, which means that across the continent, we are moving into a debt situation that is hardly manageable anymore. And thirdly, peace, where you also fail and do not hear the reputation internationally and instead engage in war saber-rattling instead of raising your voice for peace.

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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 it is so nicely said, from baby to old man - to a sum of around 1 800 euros. If you count on the active generation, it will probably cost every European who contributes taxes today an additional 4,000 to 5,000 euros per year. I say: That's the wrong way. Europe needs this money for new and good jobs. Europe needs this money for social activities, for hospitals, for education, for schools, but not to upgrade. And the proposal that is now coming from France, namely to sow the entire continent with nuclear weapons, also comes into the same horn. That's the wrong way. We are currently negotiating with the Trump administration in Saudi Arabia – and now you can think of Trump whatever you want, but it is at least an attempt to bring about peace here at the table. I would have liked the European Union to continue where it was in 2012, I believe, before, namely to have received a kind of Nobel Peace Prize, and now, here in cooperation and in cooperation with the West, to speak out together in favour of finally ending death, finally ensuring that there are qualitative peace negotiations and that we can work again in the future to promote prosperity on this continent, and not to watch as more and more deaths and injuries are generated here.

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Commission Work Programme 2025 (debate)

Madam President, Ladies and Gentlemen, In view of the presentation of the Commission's work programme, one has the impression that one simply wants to stick to misguided concepts, but also to the inflated structure and bureaucracy of the Commission. You know we have 27 Commissioners who are largely unknown in Europe, who produce a variety of regulations that maltreat the continent and its citizens and make life difficult for them. And instead of reforming here, you just keep going. And if I say now that we are reducing the Commission, I am not doing so in a populist way, but I would like to point out that with the Treaty of Lisbon you have here an Actual situation It should have 18 Commissioners and not 27 Commissioners. And only an exceptional decision makes it possible for this completely bloated commission with completely bloated regulations to annoy and torment the people of Europe accordingly and make it difficult for them to work. Or this One-in-one-outPrinciple where you said on the part of the Commission: They are willing to take back a different one for each new bureaucratic measure – even that does not work. They are inflating this Commission with more and more regulations and the problems are getting bigger and bigger. Very short in terms of content: from illegal migration, which has not been resolved in ten years, to the misguided Green Deal, which leads to a de-industrialisation of the continent, to the point that you do not want to learn from the Russia-Ukraine conflict that we finally need a ceasefire and peace negotiations and an end to dying – you are completely on the wrong steamer here. Change your policy, or the voter will vote you out.

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 19 December 2024 (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, You can travel on the highway of geopolitical developments in different ways. You can be too fast on the road, you can be too slow on the road, you can be on the wrong track. But what this European Union is doing with this Commission is to act at high speed as a ghost driver of international developments. And all you have to do is look to the US, where a lot of good things are happening right now with Donald Trump as the new president, and things that are capable of a majority, for example, that all the illegals who are in the US are now being deported to their homeland, while at the same time the European Union is keeping the door open to allow hundreds of thousands more illegals to enter the continent. Another example of WHO: The United States is leaving the WHO. It's a good thing to leave this Bill Gates club, which has only taken on inglorious roles throughout the pandemic phase. Paris Agreement: The United States is getting out; The Paris Agreement, which has led to a wave of de-industrialisation across Europe, is a good thing. And that's why I mean: If the European Union had more of the spirit of Donald Trump or the spirit of Viktor Orbán or what is manifesting itself in Austria with the FPÖ and Herbert Kickl, then this European Union would be well and right on its way.