What Harald spoke about.

11 Mar

2025

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European Council meetings and European security (joint debate)

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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…

12 Feb

2025

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Commission Work Programme 2025 (debate)

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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…

22 Jan

2025

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

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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 …

21 Jan

2025

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

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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 peo…

18 Dec

2024

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

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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, …

27 Nov

2024

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

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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, …

13 Nov

2024

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

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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 cl…

23 Oct

2024

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

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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 t…

9 Oct

2024

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

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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 sa…

18 Jul

2024

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

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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 …

10 Apr

2024

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

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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…

12 Mar

2024

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

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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, na…

12 Mar

2024

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

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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. Y…

28 Feb

2024

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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)

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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 c…

6 Feb

2024

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

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– 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 – pe…

6 Feb

2024

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

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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 …

17 Jan

2024

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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)

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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 ques…

13 Dec

2023

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

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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 i…

13 Dec

2023

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Review of the Spanish Presidency of the Council (debate)

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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 i…

22 Nov

2023

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

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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…

21 Nov

2023

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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)

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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 imp…

21 Nov

2023

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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)

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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 ordina…

18 Oct

2023

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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)

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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 th…

17 Oct

2023

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Effectiveness of the EU sanctions on Russia (debate)

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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.…

4 Oct

2023

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

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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 attes…