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The Hungarian government’s illegal espionage of EU institutions and investigative bodies (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, You may be familiar with the world-famous film ‘And daily greets the marmot’, where a person is trapped in a time loop and experiences the same thing over and over again. We see the same thing here in Strasbourg, where from plenary session to plenary session the political left, the Greens, the Communists, the Socialists live out their hatred of the Hungarian people and the Hungarian government. This time, referring to an anonymous source, they are referring to a thing more than ten years ago, uncovered by a magazine published by the George Soros Society.Bubble was funded – Direct36 – without providing any evidence that any Hungarians had spied on any EU officials. It really isn't like that. Then a debate will be held here to harm the Hungarians. I almost suspect that someone from the Open societyy fell asleep here, maybe before an agent film, somewhere experienced his Mister Evil aspect and wrote that down to start here on the Hungarians. This is really not the way to go, and so we do not have to treat someone here in a form of this kind who deserves a dignified place in the European family of peoples and who also has the support of the majority of his own population. In addition, we should rather make sure that the secret service of the European Union is subject to appropriate control and not further expanded. There is a lot in the arrogance here. I don't see anything disgraceful in Hungary about a fictional story that dates back ten years.

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Preparation of the European Council of 19-20 December 2024 (debate)

Madam President, Ladies and Gentlemen, At the end of the year, and in preparation for what is likely to be the last Council meeting of this year, let us briefly recall the two most important events: The first, the elections to the European Parliament, where we as Patriots Having been able to found us and being the third strongest force in the House at European level with 86 members of parliament, and in preparation to be able to climb to the next level and perhaps become the second strongest and strongest, that has the power to change a lot. The other is the election in the US, where the Biden-Kamala option was voted out and in a Trump administration the chance is finally here to get away from the war here in the world, to enforce anti-globalization as an economic concept, and thus a Western axis of positive reform stands. There I am on another point, which will also be the subject of this Council meeting, that is Syria and the refugees, where it must now be natural that the persons who pretended to have fled from the Assad regime should now quickly return to their homeland and that we should not fall into the mistaken belief of leaving the persons here and then perhaps bringing in the Assad friends. That would be wrong. The second, which is very, very important: Finally, and for this, there are the chances with Trump to ensure peace between Russia and Ukraine, to ensure a ceasefire, to stop dying and thus to have the option of going into a good future, especially in this Christmas phase.

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Presentation by the President-elect of the Commission of the College of Commissioners and its programme (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen. In the direction of the Left, the Greens, the Marxists, the Leninists, whatever is crunching around with you: I no longer like you bringing my political group here close to extremism. It was they who Bella Ciao have tinted. It is you who have in your ranks a violent woman who has attacked people with a hammer. Here we stand for democracy and the rule of law, and that's what you write in your family register! Ladies and gentlemen, we have not fraternized with Mrs von der Leyen and her Commission. We reject this Commission. Not a simple no – a triple, a five-fold no, because this Commission stands for mass migration, it stands for deprivation of liberty, it stands for warmongering, it stands for deindustrialisation and the decline of Europe. For the rest, I would like to point out that: The European treaties stipulate that there should be 18 Commissioners, and only with the unanimity of the Council can you inflate this broadband, this 16:9 Commission, to 27. Completely unnecessary at a time when we have economic problems. You could have saved money. They could have deregulated. You could have omitted your commissioners with any orchid sections here and used this money for European citizens. That would be the right way. What you're doing is the wrong way.

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2024

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EU-US relations in light of the outcome of the US presidential elections (debate)

Madam President, What could be better for someone like Donald Trump than the left, the greens, the extreme left and the left-wing rabies of this House – the last time in Strasbourg Bella Ciao sung when Viktor Orbán was there – to be criticised? I think that's a lot of praise for someone like Donald Trump. Learn, ladies and gentlemen from the left, democracy. The American people have expressed a clear vote – against all the woken madness that prevails there, against LGBTIQ, against wokeness in all its forms. They voted against the fact that multiculturalism, illegal migration and abuse of the right to asylum are increasingly taking on a negative development. They voted against globalism robbing jobs in the US, the same problem we have here in Europe. They spoke out against it. Deep state. You have spoken out against fake news. They have spoken out against the influence of big tech companies. They have spoken out against a politicized judiciary that has also tried to keep Trump out of office. What is forming now between Donald Trump in the US and Viktor Orbán here is the future – whether you like it or not.

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Managing migration in an effective and holistic way through fostering returns (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen. The entire absurdity of the so-called migration and refugee issue can be seen in a current example in my hometown of Vienna, where a Syrian family receives the sum of 4,600 euros net monthly from the public sector. And in addition to this 4,600 euros that this Syrian family receives in Vienna, there is also a climate bonus, which was paid once last month in the amount of over 400 euros, and also a so-called rent subsidy, so that in total this Syrian family receives 5,500 euros from the public sector, and that is more than twice what a normal worker earns here in my hometown. This means that a very large discussion has arisen here about the fact that those who pay taxes that contribute to the general well-being, on the other hand, finance people who have come to us under the title of worthy of protection and two-thirds - and all statistics show this - are not worthy of protection, do not receive Geneva Convention status, do not enjoy subsidiary or humanitarian protection status. The only solution can be to help these people in their homeland, to keep them on their continent and not let them go to Europe.

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

Madam President, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, feel most welcome here, and please excuse the quarrels, the meanness, the insults and the lies that are being thrown at you by a left-wing, left-wing, green and socialist side. They do not represent this Europe that makes this continent great. They represent desperation because voters are running away from them. I thank you for being one of Europe's saviors here trying to fend off illegal migration, and for being someone who wants to promote peace here as well. I would also like to thank the Hungarian people, who have given you a majority in order to strengthen your course of reform, and I also apologize to all the Hungarians for the nasty things that have come from them. Madam President, I would also like to address you directly. We are a parliament. This can be done with hard reasoning. Only: I do not see that an incumbent prime minister here is called a dictator, a liar, an idiot and a corruptionist, and that the presidium of the House is silent on this. This is unacceptable to the highest...

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Statement by the candidate for President of the Commission (debate)

Madam President, Mrs von der Leyen, there is a point in every person's political life where they say: "It's enough, it's over." For you, this point is more than reached. I can only appeal to you: Take the hat. I'll give you three examples. Number one: the COVID-19 madness, which you are responsible for, where 1.8 billion doses of vaccines were bought for 35 billion euros and which is now the work of the courts and the work of medicine. I am pleased that someone like Gerald Hauser, as my new colleague in the European Parliament, will lead the education work here. Point two: This is the story of Ukraine-Russia, where we made the 14 packages of sanctions with which we only met ourselves, where we perpetuated dying and where the only person – Viktor Orbán, who now holds the Presidency of the Council for Hungary – who advocates peace, visits Zelenskyy and Putin to explore how to end dying, is sabotaged by you, boycotted and disadvantaged. All I can say is: Ms von der Leyen, take your hat off – time is up – and give someone a chance to lead Europe into a bright future. They have led Europe to the brink of the abyss.

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Ongoing hearings under Article 7(1) TEU regarding Hungary to strengthen Rule of Law and its budgetary implications (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, One already has the impression that here large parts of the house are imprisoned in a very absurd and distant reality. The only offense that the Hungarians really committed: To have expressed confidence in a majority of the population of a person who is not doing what a left-wing majority of the House wants here, namely Viktor Orbán. Yes, he does not participate in the left-wing migration madness. Yes, he is also one who advocates peace like the Pope, and not a warmonger like a majority here in the house. These are the offenses, nothing else. One can only apologise to the Hungarians for what a majority of this House is doing to the Hungarian people in a way that is unacceptable here. For example, you have attacked Hungary for corruption – in the same breath of a second as the European Public Prosecutor’s Office is investigating the President of the Commission for €35 billion. How absurd can you be, how hypocritical can you be? I can only appeal to you to treat the Hungarians with respect here, and if the upcoming election is that the Hungarians again have more friends officially than they do.

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Council and Commission statements - Preparation of the European Council meeting of 21 and 22 March 2024 (debate)

And be democratically clean accordingly! So, number one. And number two: As the Council debate reverts to the issue of Ukraine: Now there was the visit of Hungarian Prime Minister Orbán to the US with Trump, who will probably be the upcoming US President. You can think about both, whatever you like – they speak for peace. And there is also something that I very, very much welcome at the moment, namely the head of Christendom, Pope Francis, who also speaks out for peace on this issue. I demand that we finally go seriously towards negotiations, to end the dying and also to ensure for Europe that there is security of supply with energy here and that the EU is no longer considered a war project here.

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Council and Commission statements - Preparation of the European Council meeting of 21 and 22 March 2024 (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Before I talk about the Council debate here, I would like to make reference to something up-to-date. Unfortunately, the President of the Commission is no longer here, but last week she was elected as the lead candidate by the conservative bubble. This is in fact perfectly fine when a political force nominates a top candidate; In this case, it's election fraud. You know, there's no majority here for a transnational list. You know that there are no candidates who could be elected beyond the 27 Member States. You know that this European election does not elect a Commission President or a Commission President, but 720 MEPs. What you are doing with this lead candidate model is lying to the European public that there is this transnational approach that does not exist. Please take note of this. (The President interrupted the speaker.)

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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)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, It's good to talk about Europe's defence strategy here. First of all, a sentence that you should let melt on your tongue: You want war? Then send weapons. Do you want peace? Then send diplomats. I have the feeling – in view of what is being discussed here – that a war scenario is deliberately not fuelled here, but at least kept simmering, which is something completely wrong. I recall that we are now having a discussion about sending EU troops into Ukraine. I would remind you – which I think is absurd – that we are now having a discussion about equipping the European Union with nuclear weapons. I recall the absurd situation, from the point of view of an Austrian politician, Sky Shield We want to implement what would be two billion euros in burdens for us. As an Australian, I say: Better, I take the two billion euros, put them in the Austrian army to secure our neutrality, instead of further advancing this warlike history here. I'll stick with it: Austria is a neutral country, and we could, should and should actively offer ourselves here as a place of peace. That would be the ten times better way to advance this saber race here.

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Conclusions of the European Council meetings, in particular the special European Council meeting of 1 February 2024 (debate)

– So I don’t believe you or I don’t believe myself now – whoever believes what is completely foolish. It is about the political objective that this Europe, which was built on the principles of generating peace, freedom, prosperity and security for as many people as possible, offers serious peace talks here in such a situation. The negotiations that took place were in Turkey, in a NATO country – perhaps not the optimal ground to bring about these peace negotiations in a NATO country. I'm from Austria. Vienna is the seat of the UN and the seat of the OSCE. We could have tried to bring the parties to the conflict together. Whether peace is really possible or not, whether a negotiation success can be achieved or not, is once secondary. It is primarily about preventing this death and doing everything possible to bring about peace here... (The President withdrew the floor from the speaker.)

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Conclusions of the European Council meetings, in particular the special European Council meeting of 1 February 2024 (debate)

Madam President, Meine sehr geehrten Damen und Herren, es ist schon bezeichnend, dass von Grüner Seite hier Orbán als der große Verlierer der Ukraine-Politik dargestellt wird. This may be a technical discussion as to whether he is now a loser or not. Do you know who is the loser of this whole case for me? It is the mothers, it is the children, it is the parents, it is the bereaved and families of an estimated half a million people who have already lost their lives in this conflict. And that's what I said and meant and asked for from the beginning: not with one wave of sanctions after another, not with money and even more money and more and more billions to spur this belligerent situation here, to pour oil into the fire, but to strive to do everything possible to bring about peace – at least to try to advance peace negotiations here on European soil in such a way that this dying can be ended here. More than 130 billion have already flowed to Ukraine; From my home country it is down to 3.5 billion. Now, with the future 50 billion, it will be around 5 billion for Austria. It's a huge tax reform that could have been done in the country. Americans have only paid half of what Europeans pay. The Americans are doing the business of this more than condemnable war with liquefied natural gas – that is wrong. If you want to pursue your policy in this way, then you also take the US into responsibility for providing more money than you do yourself. In this context, let me also briefly mention what happened last week in Brussels: 1400 tractors, farmers from all over Belgium and from France, who have come not to cause trouble here, but to be asked by a European administration to be able to survive no more and no less than farmers. Please approach these people and make sure that Europe's agriculture has a dignified livelihood and an income to survive. (The speaker agreed to answer a question on the blue card procedure.)

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 14-15 December 2023 and preparation of the Special European Council meeting of 1 February 2024 - Situation in Hungary and frozen EU funds (joint debate - European Council meetings)

Mr President! I did not understand Mr Tertsch in Spanish because I do not have the power to speak Spanish, but I believe that he was excited about the fact that those who spread critical words here are being turned off by the Bureau and that those who speak here in the spirit of EU centralism are being given more and more time. So let's get to the real issue that I want to address, namely the question of Hungary. I am already a bit suspected of being half Hungarian, after having spoken for Hungary on several occasions, which is not the case. I am 100 percent Austrian, but I also have a high sense of justice, because I believe that the way Hungary and its people are treated here is not honest, not decent. Hungary is a valuable part of the European family of peoples and does not deserve to be treated the way you treat Hungarians. I know that Orbán has a policy against centralisation here. This is a political opinion. I can only agree with him, and that's a good thing! Orbán makes a policy where he speaks out against illegal migration spurts, where he speaks out against asylum abuse. He's right! Orbán makes a policy where he speaks out for conservative values and for the family. He's right! If you want to do something where something is wrong, please dedicate yourself to the things here. Dedicate yourself to the procurement process, for example in the area of COVID vaccines, where communication between the Commission President and the Pfizer CEO is still under wraps...(The President interrupted the speaker.) ... and the hundreds of thousands of euros in the ranks of the Social Democrats, Qatar. Thank you for turning my word off, too.

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2023

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One year after Morocco and QatarGate – stocktaking of measures to strengthen transparency and accountability in the European institutions (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, It has been around a year since a scandal shook this House – to a degree that this House probably has never seen before, and which was hardly the case in any other European Parliament. Hundreds of thousands of euros have been found in plastic bags with mandates in the ranks of social democracy. Here a bribery scandal of the special class has taken place, as it is really to be condemned in the most shameful way. There has been a phased impression that it is less a parliament than more a large Bedouin tent – and I apologise, not to the EU parliamentarians, but to all Bedouins who do not deserve to be compared to it. I already know: The presumption of innocence applies, and this is also very important for me. But still the question is: How does this house deal with such a scandal? For me it would have been necessary, first of all, to conduct a very in-depth investigation with a real committee of inquiry, including a screening, which mandaters here for desert states would have made special lobbying, particularly positive statements, without being able to justify this anywhere with the facts. Secondly: It would be a good sign for me to say that this house is closed to all lobbyists. I know that not all lobbyists here are bad. I know that not all lobbyists are paid, but a good lobbyist is paid, acts on behalf of entrepreneurs, corporations and on behalf of states, and influences political decision-making and parliamentary decision-making, which should not be the case. There are 705 members of parliament and over 30,000 lobbyists registered. And I say: If we manage to make this house just a meeting place for elected representatives of the people and citizens, then it would be a good signal that we should not leave the door open for lobbyists. We also have to investigate what was in Pfizer and von der Leyen and this procurement. We have many things that cause bad and irreparable damage to the House here, and the question of how you deal with them will also be a yardstick for how the citizens of Europe will decide in the coming year.

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2023

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Review of the Spanish Presidency of the Council (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, There is little to say about the Spanish Presidency as such. It's a bit more of the same, or you could describe it with the title of a movie: And every day the marmot salutes. It has not been possible to put emphasis on getting the European Union away from its centralism course. It has not been possible to push forward a reform of the institutions, at least in the discussion, to move the European Union back to the people, to the values. They also failed to set accents. They have failed to put emphasis on the Ukraine-Russia conflict, to bring the parties to the conflict together, to end the dying with negotiations and to ensure the security of energy supply in Europe accordingly. None of this has taken place here. In the coming year, however, I expect many positive accents with the elections to the European Parliament that are imminent. And my hope is that a saturated majority of centre-right political alliances could very well move the European Union towards a better future. And the second is: In the second half of the year, when the Hungarians take over the Presidency of the Council, which many of you do not want, I hope that you will all stand by the rules and accept that our Hungarian friends will be able to move the European Union in a good direction, away from centralism and, if there is still war between Ukraine and Russia, to promote peace. Here are the accents that give confidence, now that was not the case. And allow me to make the following observation: When others talk – from the left-wing groups – the talk time is extended, when we talk, it is turned off. This is also true in a... (The President withdrew the floor from the speaker)

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2023

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This is Europe - Debate with the Prime Minister of Bulgaria, Nikolay Denkov (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, In the German-speaking world, we know the saying ‘In the evening, the lazy man becomes diligent’, and that is exactly what comes to mind when I look at the decisions of the recent past, what we have to decide today and in the past days, and what you still want to decide. But before I come to speak of these political madnesses, madnesses, in my view completely misguided measures, I would also like to say a word about the past of these This is Europedebate. When we started this term of office and you brought chaos all over the continent with an insane lockdown policy, when you caused bankruptcies, unemployment, record debts with this lockdown policy, sometimes hugely added some people in the psychological field, when you hired the European Public Prosecutor’s Office with 1.8 billion vaccine doses and now a good part of these vaccine doses rotted – we have the first capital type of failure of the European Union. It continued with the Ukraine/Russia dispute, where in eleven or twelve waves of sanctions the European Union and this House and a majority here have only shot themselves in the knees and produced massive inflation, massive inflation, unemployment, bankruptcies, etc. That's the wrong way. And now that these two capital total failure measures have to be taken into account here, one madness after the next continues. A Green Deal that sounds nice, but in reality causes Europe to completely lose its competitiveness, that with e-mobility, the nuclear economy, we are actually preparing an energy and business field, which is political madness, where you decide with a majority that insects can be added to our food. The only thing left to do is to look at the direction in which this European Union is headed. And if you ask here as a question: This is Europe?My answer is very clear: This European Union is going completely in the wrong direction, and I hope that next year's elections, 6-9 June, will be a turnaround towards a good, free and peaceful Europe. (The President withdrew the floor from the speaker.)

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Continuing threat to the rule of law, the independence of justice and the non-fulfilment of conditionality for EU funding in Hungary (debate)

Dear colleague, yes, of course Orbán is not the population. But don't forget that Orbán has a majority of the Hungarian population behind him. Don't forget that Viktor Orbán and the Fidesz party have increased in recent elections, and that the trust that Viktor Orbán and his party have in their own people is very, very high and probably unique if you turn your eyes across Europe. That's what's important here. And please note that other political opinions also prevail in this Europe, against which one cannot proceed with Article 7 proceedings or deletion of any funds, but one should seek the substantive and material discourse. This is democracy.

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Continuing threat to the rule of law, the independence of justice and the non-fulfilment of conditionality for EU funding in Hungary (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I am Austrian, so neighbour of the country Hungary, and I can only apologise and be ashamed of the shame and disgrace you bring on the Hungarians. The Hungarians are a valuable part of the European family of peoples and do not deserve to be treated in the way you do here. I have also had a lot to do with Hungary through my political activity here, from ordinary people on the street, in the locals to politics. By the bank decent people, integrity people, honest people; I would like to say: It's often the opposite of what I've seen here. And certainly the Hungarians did not deserve to be treated in the way that it takes place here. Orbán makes three capital mistakes from your point of view. Mistake number one: It opposes EU centralisation. He is right – I do the same. Error number two: Orbán opposes illegal migration. Orbán is right, and he therefore corresponds to a majority of the European peoples who are certainly in favour of it. Mistake number three: Orbán stands up for peace as far as Ukraine and Russia are concerned. You should take an example of what Orbán and the Hungarians are doing instead of continuing the smear theatre that I have to experience here today. (The speaker agreed to answer a question on the blue card procedure.)

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The despicable terrorist attacks by Hamas against Israel, Israel’s right to defend itself in line with humanitarian and international law and the humanitarian situation in Gaza (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Especially to the Greens and Leftists, Hamas and Palestinian understanders here in the house: Do you really think that the right signal is to now triple the payments to Palestine, which then of course also go to Hamas circles, whose rocket camps are filled? No, just as it is absurd that yesterday's President-in-Office Michel highlighted here the great role of the European Union in driving de-escalation forward. This is the same EU that fails to put its officials and mandates on a train from Brussels to Strasbourg, to bring them here, and then ends up in Eurodisney near Paris. Here, too, the European Union as a global player is ridiculous, just as the European Parliament is ridiculous here, because for over eight years, where I am allowed to be a member of this House, it has not even been possible for hot water to be provided here in the house. This is the European Union, and there is total failure at all levels. You can see it in the Ukraine-Russia conflict. You can see it here in the current conflict by indirectly fuelling the conflict, by tripling funds that also end up with Hamas. Speak for peace here. That would be the way to go, and don't pretend you can do things you're not even ready to do in the first place.

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Effectiveness of the EU sanctions on Russia (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, If sanctions were a suitable means of ending death in this conflict, I would have been the first to say: Let's start with these sanctions. If the sanctions had been a suitable means of ensuring energy security and price stability for us, I would have been the first to say: Let's start with these sanctions. I said the opposite from the beginning, and I was right. We have imposed eleven waves of sanctions on the Russians, and the situation has gotten worse again and again. Today we have a gigantic development in the area of inflation. We have an associated gigantic development in the area of poverty in Europe. The business is done by others. The business is done by the Americans, where we now get their energy, the business is done by the Russians via detours, via India, via China. We buy Russian energy anyway. The overall situation is one that cannot be more absurd. So I stick to what I said from the beginning: Please let us work to force peace negotiations here, to ask at the table to guarantee price stability with us and thus to end the dying.

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

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, If I project myself into your political world of thought that only a large entity like the European Union is also able to solve the great problems of our time, then you really can't get out of laughter. Because since 2015 you have been trying to solve this crisis of illegal migration with the same possibilities and instruments, and to this day you can only attest to political total failure. And in today’s debate: "Need for a swift adoption of the asylum and migration package" – where they try to solve the problem with the same tools as then, namely with a forced distribution, you will not get any further today. We have the situation that eight million people have come to the continent more or less illegally, a good part of them have no right to reside here, neither under Geneva Convention status nor for humanitarian, subsidiary or other reasons, and yet these people, even if they lose the residence permit, remain here for more than 80%. Anyone who comes to Europe in any way stays here. That can't be a solution. The only solution? My colleague from the AfD has already said it: One No-way-Politics like Australia and help for the local people, but not bringing them all to Europe.

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European Media Freedom Act (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Whenever the European Union takes up the issue of freedom, you get the impression that you are asking your dog to take care of the sausage. That certainly doesn't work. We have seen this, for example, in the Digital Services Act, where today we are in a situation where chat messages are threatened by a snooping by political authorities, where we are in a situation where the authorities to be created here are supposed to control what is fake news and what is not fake news, what is propaganda and what is not propaganda. I do not know how to come up with the idea of establishing such a thing through political authorities. I am a radical advocate of diversity of opinion, plurality, democracy. This means, however, that authorities can never judge what is true and what is not true. There are the limits of criminal law. In what we are debating today about freedom in the media, I cannot come up with the idea of setting up a European authority to judge whether or not the media have the appropriate freedom of representation. I am afraid that you want to muzzle the alternative media here, that you want to open up even more terrain to those who want to be considered as system media here. I think that's the wrong way. If the EU wants to do something good, it is to secure peace, freedom and prosperity for as many as possible and not to take freedom, as in this case.

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State of the Union (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, In the German-speaking world, there is the saying ‘Eigenlob stinkt’. And what is being celebrated here in terms of self-indulgence is completely out of place in the face of a pitiful factual situation and the disastrous state of the European Union. Give me the opportunity to document the failure in this short period of time only in the three key areas of why European unification took place at all: Peace, freedom, prosperity – the three basic principles of European integration. Peace – after more than 11 packages of sanctions, after a call for more and more belligerent clashes, after weapons ordered there, after a multitude of funds ordered there to keep the war going and after never really putting the word peace in the mouth, never really actively admonishing peace negotiations – is a central failure in this area. Freedom: Take a look at what is happening in Europe right now. Digital Services Act This happens, for example, and with the withdrawal of cash that is progressing. People are to be controlled more and more, chat messages are to be controlled. You want to bring in a truth authority what fake news is and what is actually truth in the eyes of the European Union. Madness, it can't be like that! Last point of prosperity: With inflation in the double-digit range, after a ludicrous lockdown policy we had in the corona phase, after ludicrous payments to the Ukraine area, Europeans are now paying the bill for it. The Americans do the business, the Russians do another business, we pay. So also in the area of prosperity: Total failure. It would be appropriate to remain silent instead of continuing this self-indulgence.

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The need for EU action on search and rescue in the Mediterranean (debate)

Madam President, Ladies and gentlemen, as a representative of a faction that is so demonized by you and critical of migration, let me state one thing clearly and clearly: Everyone has the right to be saved if they are in distress at sea, and we have a duty to save that person. That's not a question at all. Only the political debate we have is different. Should a person who is rescued or can sometimes be rescued be brought back a few kilometers to the Arab-African coast or should he be brought 500 kilometers away to Europe, Italy, Malta or wherever? This is the discussion we have to have here. Since 2015, 7 million people have come to Europe. That's a crowd larger than the state of Ireland, to be clear. From my point of view, especially if I look at the situation in France now, the regulation can only be one: Let's help the people in the regions, let's help the people on the ground! There is no need to bring all these people to Europe. This is the right way, which also means that we no longer have to hold these debates.