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Sep

2023

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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 …

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Jul

2023

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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 someti…

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Jun

2023

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This is Europe - Debate with the President of Cyprus, Nikos Christodoulides (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I am delighted that this series of debates will continue to run under the title ‘This is Europe’. Because if illegal migration continues, as has been the case here towards Europe since 2015, this series of debates will soon be called ‘This is Arabia’ or ‘This is Africa’ and no longer ‘This is Europe’. More than 7 million people have come to Europe since the Arab…

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May

2023

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This is Europe - Debate with the Chancellor of Germany, Olaf Scholz (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, About a year before the upcoming European elections is also a good time to take stock, because in the past four years pretty much everything has been done wrong, which you can only do wrong somehow. From the coronavirus phase, where a wave of bankruptcies, unemployment and psychological suffering was produced with a ludicrous lockdown policy across the contin…

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Apr

2023

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This is Europe - Debate with the Prime Minister of Luxembourg, Xavier Bettel (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, It takes a decent amount of black humour to step on the lectern like my previous speakers and praise the state of Europe in the sky. The fact is that the two major factions of the House are in veritable trouble here. In the case of the Social Democrats, the authorities invade, arresting quasi-mandates more or less from the hemicycle. Cash stocks are found at …

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Mar

2023

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 23-24 March 2023 (debate)

Madam President, We are writing in 2023, and since 2015 when the migration crisis began with the so-called Arab Spring, the European Union has not yet proved competent in any area to solve this problem accordingly. We had one million asylum applications in the European Union last year. We know that more than half of them will not be granted protection status – neither under the Geneva Convention n…

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Mar

2023

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Conclusions of the Special European Council meeting of 9 February and preparation of the European Council meeting of 23-24 March 2023 (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, It's nice, it's nice, it's cute, if you cheer here the beneficial effects of the EU measures on the Inflation Reduction Act. The fact is: In real life, inflation is completely out of control. In my home country Austria it is officially around 11 %, in real terms, if it had been calculated on the basis of an actual shopping cart, probably in the direction of 2…

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Feb

2023

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One year of Russia’s invasion and war of aggression against Ukraine (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I also listened to Mr Zelensky's speech last week in Brussels here in plenary, and I have two comments on that. The first one: I find it somewhat strange that no debate has taken place on this, because a parliament is the place of the culture of dispute, where argument and counter-argument should meet and the attempt to find out the best somewhere should take pl…

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Feb

2023

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Preparation of the EU-Ukraine Summit (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, What I do not understand is the fact that all those speakers who work for peace-building measures, for peace negotiations, trigger such an ice storm of outrage among you. As of November of last year, we have about 200,000 soldiers killed or injured. This figure, which is not so easy to figure out, comes from the US General Staff. If you add two-and-a-half mon…

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Jan

2023

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

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, First of all, I would like to express my joy at the fact that in Sweden there is now a government at the helm that has renounced the left-wing course, which has brought Sweden into a real problem for many years, and that good development is now also guaranteed here with Sweden as chairman of the Council. I have known the Sweden Democrats for many years as a p…

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Dec

2022

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 15 December 2022 (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, They are debating the Council meeting for the 15th. December, and there is also the question of Ukraine-Russia and the possible aid payment here in the room. You have strongly criticised the Hungarians here who have blocked this because, it has been said, corruption may be prevalent here in Hungary. I feel that during the debate today you completely deny the cur…

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Nov

2022

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The need for a European solution on asylum and migration including search and rescue (debate)

Mr President! Ladies and gentlemen, I can no longer hear the complaints of the political Greens and leftists, who have been lobbying for mass migration for many years and are really causing the problems that Europe is facing today. I have been a member of this House since 2014, and in 2015 we experienced the strongest year of migration problems to date, and it has gotten worse every year. Today, 2…

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Nov

2022

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 20-21 October 2022 (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, It has been almost a year since Putin attacked Ukraine in a manner worthy of condemnation. And within this year it has not been possible to implement peace-building measures here, but the EU has heard the call for heavy weapons and money towards Ukraine accordingly, and this conflict has also been fuelled. In my view, this is an absolutely wrong path. Today, eve…

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Oct

2022

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 20-21 October 2022 (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, First of all, let me express the joy that in Italy a centre-right alliance is now entering the target straight of a government and that our political friend Matteo Salvini, who is regarded as one of the patrons of European identity in Europe, is also on board here. I am equally pleased that in the north of Europe, in Sweden, a centre-right alliance can now fo…

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Oct

2022

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Russia’s escalation of its war of aggression against Ukraine (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, With the madness of sanctions, which is once again evoked today by a left-conservative majority here in the House and the Commission, consisting of Greens, Social Democrats, Conservatives, this continent is also being driven to the wall train after train. Why don't you open your eyes to how the people outside are doing with record inflation, with bankruptcies, w…

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Sep

2022

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Existence of a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is founded (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I have met many Hungarian politicians in the course of my international political activity and I can say that the bank is a very cultured, educated and above all friendly people who do not deserve the way you treat them – number one. Point two: I have often been a guest in Hungary, and Hungary is an excellent country, and Budapest in particular, a crystallizatio…

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Sep

2022

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State of the Union (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, It is good that today we can talk about the state of Europe. Because it hasn't been so bad, so pathetic, so foreign-shameful, as European politics currently presents itself for a long time. And I thought, after Jean-Claude Juncker, things can only get better. But we are being taught every day how bad politics can actually be. One almost has the impression tha…

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Jul

2022

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 23-24 June 2022 (continuation of debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, In view of what happened at the last Council meeting, the parallel events in the Commission and also the majority here in the House give the impression that you are navigating this European Union towards the iceberg more or less like the Titanic. Just as the rules of navigation were obviously disregarded at the time, today all the rules of the European Union are…

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Jun

2022

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 23-24 June 2022, including the meeting with Western Balkan leaders on 23 June - Candidate status of Ukraine, the Republic of Moldova and Georgia (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, In preparation for the forthcoming Council meeting, I ask for some self-reflection. You can make mistakes in your political life here and there. This is human. But what is happening here on the part of a majority of the European nomenclature makes this majority of European politicians serial perpetrators of political wrong decisions. They have now imposed six sa…

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Jun

2022

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Conclusions of the special European Council meeting of 30-31 May 2022 (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Since the Ukrainian-Russian conflict is once again the subject of a special meeting of the Council and the general situation is not improving, but only worsening, I can only once again appeal to the prudence of all to pursue all efforts aimed at peace and no longer aim at fuelling this belligerent conflict. It is, in my view, a wrong way to sustain this war with…

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May

2022

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The REPowerEU Plan: European solidarity and energy security in face of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, including the recent cuts of gas supply to Poland and Bulgaria (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, It is always said that the European Union is not very effective, the European Union does not achieve anything, the European Union fails because of the great things. But that is not true at all, because if you look at the European Union's sanctions policy in this current conflict Ukraine-Russia, then the European Union is master at shooting itself in the knee. It…

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Apr

2022

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 24-25 March 2022: including the latest developments of the war against Ukraine and the EU sanctions against Russia and their implementation (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, In advance: What Putin is doing here is unacceptable in any form and condemnable in any form. As a representative of a party that many years ago also had a so-called Memorandum of Understanding with the United Russia Party, which served cultural exchange and economic revival, I can only say today: This friendship is over. It is unacceptable what is happening …

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Mar

2022

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Debate with the Prime Minister of Estonia, Kaja Kallas - The EU's role in a changing world and the security situation of Europe following the Russian aggression and invasion of Ukraine (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, What my previous speakers have read from the papers taken with me is far too much saber rattling for me and also not useful for the current situation. Let me make one thing clear: What the Russian regime and Putin have done here, namely to wage a war of aggression, where there is also a blood duty on the civilian population, must be condemned in every form. W…

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Feb

2022

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EU-Russia relations, European security and Russia’s military threat against Ukraine (debate)

Mr President! Ladies and gentlemen, when we discuss the Ukraine-Russia issue today, I think it would also be helpful to recall 2003 – 2003, when then-US President Bush, then-US Secretary of Defense Powell and British Prime Minister Blair lied to the world public and drove them into the Iraq war. Let us also remember the year 2014 after the Maidan, where Ukraine was reorganized here and the son of …

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Dec

2021

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 16-17 December 2021 - The EU's response to the global resurgence of Covid-19 and the new emerging Covid variants (debate)

Mr President! Ladies and Gentlemen, In the German-speaking world, there is a saying: In the evening, the lazy gets busy. And that could be the motto of this week's Council meeting. Because in view of the flood of topics that are being dealt with here on the one hand, and on the other hand the inability to achieve corresponding successes in the central areas, this seems to be the right saying. From…