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Every year, the European Commission publishes its Rule of Law Report, which checks whether Member States sufficiently respect the values enshrined in Article 2 of the EU Treaty, such as human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality and the rule of law, when implementing EU law. Of course, this moral hygiene is one-sided and applies only to the Member States, not to the EU itself. While we are talking about the independence of the judiciary in Poland, I would like to remind you of the following: Since the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon in 2009, Member States have issued 461 reasoned opinions to signal, in line with Protocol 2 to the Treaties, that they consider a legislative proposal by the Commission to be contrary to the principle of subsidiarity. In all cases, the European Court of Justice ruled in favour of the Commission. The concerns of the Member States are never taken into account by the ECJ! Does this sound like an independent judiciary? I think on the contrary. Let's not fool ourselves: When the EU speaks of the rule of law, it actually speaks of the rule of links. In fact, I believe that the rule of law is better off at the constitutional courts in Hungary and Poland than at the Eurocrats in Brussels or Berlin.

The EU’s Ukraine Facility is yet another credit line of EUR 50 billion for Ukraine, despite growing concerns and overwhelming evidence of widespread corruption in Kiev. Even former Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker acknowledged in the German media that Ukraine is a cesspool of ‘corruption at all levels of society’. Earlier this year, two high-ranking Ukrainian officials were arrested on suspicion of embezzlement involving the procurement of humanitarian aid, while the defence minister was forced to resign over his reluctance to tackle rampaging corruption throughout the Ukrainian military. Even the chief justice of the Ukrainian Supreme Court has been detained on suspicion of taking bribes from oligarchs. On the one hand, it is positive that the European Public Prosecutor’s Office signed a working arrangement with the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine to facilitate cooperation in investing corruption cases. One the other hand, to prevent is better than to cure. In times of raging inflation and dwindling economic growth, these EUR 50 billion can be better spent on European working people and families. The EU needs to put the interests of the Europeans first.

Mr President, Commissioner! Under the pretext of money laundering and the fight against terrorism, this is essentially about the introduction of a cash payment ceiling of EUR 10 000. In addition, the acquisition of gold and crypto is to be made more difficult and thus opportunities to hedge against high inflation and euro currency losses. All German cartel parties support this act of further financial repression. At the same time, German politics and top justice are blocking the fight against major financial crime. The senior prosecutor in Germany's biggest tax scandal, the Cum-Ex scandal, resigned this week. Your statement of reasons: Small ones are hanged, big criminals make and shape politics. Cash and investments in crypto and precious metals are freedoms to escape government surveillance and wanted inflation. With what right do you deprive us of these freedoms?

Mr President! When the EU decided on the euro, it said it would become a hard currency modeled on the low inflation D-Mark and a central bank that protects savings and small fortunes, forcing governments to take responsibility. Strict fiscal rules and an inflation target of less than 2% were agreed. But 30 years after Maastricht, we have high inflation, sick banks and record debt. Almost every state disregards the Maastricht rules, including the new Germany. Therefore, the breaches of law in the eurozone should now be legalised – on the proposal of the Leyens and supported by all German parties except the AfD. This is to be done by permanent and inflationary borrowing at EU level contrary to the Treaties, following the model of the ineffective NextGenerationEU debt programme and financed by high taxes and inflation, especially from Germany and Northern Europe. However, German funding does not come free of charge, as the money raised is to be channelled into green fantasy and social projects that further undermine our competitiveness because costs are rising relentlessly. In other words: What you are debating here are the final intricacies of a suicide pact for our common song on Europe's role in the global economy. Because the rest of the world is striving for growth and not for degrowth.

Madam President, If the Dublin asylum regime had been strictly applied, Europe would hardly have had to take in illegal migrants and Germany would not have had to. This is why the Commission wants to replace Dublin with the Pact on Migration. The first aim of the Pact is to: Frontex to become a sea rescue agency for migrants. Secondly: extend the family influx to uncles, half-siblings and life partners found on the run. Thirdly: Simplify and speed up asylum procedures. Fourthly: Westernizing Eastern Europe through a distribution mechanism. And fifthly: replace the term ‘illegal’ with ‘irregular’ or ‘disorderly’ migration. However, the Pact on Border Protection and the Return of Undocumented Migrants says nothing at all, and migrants should continue to be allowed to enter without identification. The reason is obvious: The EU wants more migrants – legal or not.

Mr President, Max Weber 100 years ago wrote, ‘Every bureaucracy seeks to increase the superiority of the professionally informed by keeping their knowledge secret and by hiding its action from criticism’. One year ago, I asked the European Commission to grant me access to EIOPA’s report into the revocation of Euroins’s business licence in Romania. The Commission stated it never received the report. EIOPA eventually sent me a heavily redacted version, citing commercially sensitive information as a doubtful reason. Why did EIOPA really withhold information? Might it be the fact that Superbet, the company standing to profit from the liquidation of Romania’s last motor insurer, is chaired by the Commission President’s own brother? The Euroins Romania case is a shocking reminder of Weber’s words and of the Commission’s colonisation by private and business interests. A reminder because the proof was delivered by the Pfizer contracts three years ago.

Mr President! The Commission expects stagflation for Germany this year and hardly any growth next year. Germany's inflation remains above the EU level and above the asymptotic 2% that the ECB claims to be aiming for. In fact, Germany has the lowest economic growth of any OECD country except Argentina. Even unemployment in Germany is only seemingly low because millions of sudden migrants are not registered as unemployed. In the EU as a whole, the economic situation is hardly any better. As a result of Russia's sanctions and the Green Deal, production costs are rising, and domestic demand and living standards are falling. There is no fiscal leeway because of priceless mass migration and debt-financed green fantasy projects. The whole world, even Britain, looks amused at Europe, the first voluntarily de-developing continent. Their policy is aimed at civilizational regression. The fact that the German Foreign Minister describes a total political reversal as a 360-degree turn is proof of how far we have already come in this way.

Madam President, In 1633, the Inquisition excommunicated Galileo for heliocentrism – that is, for his departure from the ecclesiastical dogma that the sun revolves around the earth. Last month, ECB Director Elderson threatened to dismiss all employees who, according to the quote, "deny the reality of man-made climate change alone, or that climate change threatens price stability". As a Conservative now, I am happy about anyone who believes that in the past, much was better. But the ECB should rather exchange its climate inquisitors for good economic historians who know that it is not climate change that spurs inflation, but the expansion of the money supply, as Hans de Witte and Wallenstein did so unrestrainedly at Galileo's time. Because their climate dogmas and monetary policy are the biggest hocus-pocus in Europe since the geocentric worldview.

Mr President! The ID Group has requested a major question on EU migration policy. We ask for information on the exact number of illegal migrants entering Lampedusa every day, broken down by country of origin, gender and age. Because all this information would have to be determined on arrival. Under international law, no state is obliged to simply let illegal migrants ashore, and immediate repatriation is almost always possible. Therefore, we would like to know on what legal basis illegal entry is permitted and return is not even considered. To the background: Today, Germany alone has at least six million more people – from the Orient and Africa – than in 2010. In addition to three million asylum seekers, more than one million came through family reunification, plus up to 1.5 million descendants of the asylum migrants and an unreported figure of about half a million. According to calculations by Jan Van de Beek of the University of Amsterdam, each asylum migrant and each of his descendants costs a modern welfare state an average of around 625,000 euros for life. Including the immigrant Ukrainians, the total fiscal costs of asylum migration for Germany since 2010 have already amounted to around 107 billion euros per year, and are increasing. No state in the world can afford such an asylum policy, especially if asylum does not mean asylum, but immigration without return. That is why we want to know how many more people you want to bring here and why you do not understand asylum as provided for by the Refugee Convention, namely as a temporary shelter.

Mr President! A Chinese ship is said to have cut a telecom submarine cable in the Baltic Sea in October. I am talking about alleged sabotage. The Commission is now calling on Member States to ban Chinese telecoms companies from accessing the EU or to stop granting them authorisations to install submarine cables. Let's talk about real sabotage: According to the Nord Stream sabotage files, some states ordered so-called investigations. Sweden found nothing. The Danish investigation ended with the finding that it was clearly sabotage, but that – one hears – was not a criminal offence. German authorities have so far found only evidence of pro-Ukrainian amateur divers who allegedly placed the massive explosive device. No expert thinks such an individual action is possible. Immediately after the attack, the Pentagon-affiliated Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski thanked the US for the sabotage attack. Since then, journalist Seymour Hersh has provided detailed research to support Sikorski's remarks. Perhaps you should first think about the protection of really critical infrastructure. Instead, light fog candles.

Madam President, Already in 2017, after the murder of a Maltese investigative journalist, this Parliament called for more legal protection for journalists and whistleblowers. Now you can put your words into action. Julian Assange, who has exposed war crimes in Iraq, runs the risk of being extradited to the United States, where he faces 175 years in prison on questionable espionage charges. As early as 2016, the AfD voted in the European Parliament to grant Assange asylum in the EU. This gives you the opportunity to finally grant asylum to someone who really deserves it. This morning you rightly condolenced to Navalny's widow. Therefore, my request: Act before it's too late. Take action before Assange faces the same fate as Navalny in U.S. custody.

Mr President, in 2008, the EU economy was still noticeably larger than that of the US. Today, the US economy is more than a third larger. Year on year, the gap is widening because growth paths have been diverging. Even struggling post-Brexit Britain is easily outperforming Germany and France. So, why is Europe so manifestly and collectively failing? First, because of the Green Deal which assumes that the EU, with a share of about 8% of worldwide CO2 emissions, can singlehandedly limit global warming. The Green Deal is saving nothing, but it will certainly make poor people even poorer. Secondly, an inflationary monetary policy which sustains a vicious spiral of stagflation. Third, self-defeating sanctions and the dumbest energy policy in the world, which harm us more than Russia and which have replaced Germany’s dependence on cheap Russian gas with dependency on high-price Russian energy re-exported via India or Azerbaijan. Fourth, a truly fantastical migration policy which relies on unqualified mass migration as a replacement for tens of millions of native skilled labourers on the verge of retirement. The result of this suicidal policy mix, I sadly but confidently predict, will be the collapse both of the European economies and of our welfare states. Europe’s decline is often compared to that of the Roman Empire, but Rome declined over five centuries and was undermined by all-too-human decadence and overwhelmed by external forces. Modern Europe, by contrast, is experiencing the strangest death ever. It’s the first intentionally de-developing civil civilisation, both intellectually and economically. We have lost faith in everything except the woke ideology, which is defying the laws of nature, of scientific inquiry and of economic progress all at once. The whole world is secretly laughing at the closing of the European mind. So, the EU today, I’m sad to say, is making history for Chinese and Russian historians to record.

Mr President! The sick man of Europe is a title that has been awarded to Europe's weakest major economy for 150 years. Now, as the actually Germany-friendly Guardian writes, Germany is preparing to secure this title for all time. Stagflation, industrial and human capital flight and open-job records for millions of unqualified migrants are the symptoms of the insane climate and migration policy with which the German government opposes the natural laws of the economy. Germany, that's how he moans. Daily Telegraph On Ash Wednesday, there is no need for a carnival. Because the fools sit in the Bundestag and distribute the hard-earned money of the Germans all over the world. German politics has forgotten that the people are not a raw material, but the sovereign and politics his servant. But in the fool's ship Germany, the lunatics still believe they can find India in the West.

Madam President, Mr Commissioner, Your Excellency, Romania’s motor insurance industry has been in turmoil in recent years: 12 companies providing motor insurance have been driven out of business in just 12 years. A total of 12 insurance fails in 12 years should raise serious concerns about the regulatory environment in the Member State. In 2019, the Romanian insurance regulator ASF asked Euroins Romania to buy the then-failing City Insurance. Just three years later, ASF suspended Euroins’ insurance license in Romania, apparently for questionable reasons. This was Romania’s last motor insurer gone. Last year, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development raised questions with the Romanian Finance Minister about the actions of ASF and submitted a resolution proposal to your predecessor to the effect. The European insurance watchdog, EIOPA, wrote a report about the Euroins affair. In a reply to my written question, the Commission claims it never saw the report. To date, I’m denied access to the full details of the EIOPA report. What are ASF and EIOPA trying to hide from the Commission and Members of Parliament? One observation following the decision to strip Euroins of its licence: ASF awarded a licence to Eazy Asigurări, a subsidiary of Superbet. And who’s the chairman of Superbet? One of Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s brothers. Your Excellency, Romania is one of the largest net recipients of EU money. You are receiving EUR 10 billion from the European budget and the NextGenerationEU fund. According to the Corruption Perception Index of Transparency International, you are the second most corrupt country in the European Union. Now, none of this is ideal for a country hoping to attract foreign investors. What, I am asking, are you proposing to do about it?

Madam President, You may have a pistol, but we have the bazooka – this is how the London Financial Times described the EU’s stance towards Hungary at the last EU summit. The EU threatened Hungary with further sanctions, the end of all public and private investment and the collapse of the Hungarian currency. For example, Viktor Orbán was blackmailed to give the green light to the €50 billion financing package for Ukraine. This blackmail, Ursula von der Leyen tweeted, was a good day for Europe. It was really good that day that thousands of Belgian farmers loudly blocked access to the European Parliament. After all, the 50 billion could have been spent on farmers suffering from EU climate policy, or on the many families who are faced with the choice of either heating or eating healthy because of high inflation. Instead, the 50 billion now flow into the pockets of mostly American arms companies, at least until – hopefully – a new and perhaps also old US president puts an end to the unequal fight. Also on this supposedly good day for Europe, the EU approved tens of billions of cohesion funds for the rapid reception and distribution of further millions of illegal migrants and thus indirectly for the destruction of our welfare systems. According to Bernd Raffelhüschen and Jan van de Beek of the Universities of Freiburg and Amsterdam, the welfare state cannot survive open borders. A good day for Europe is every day – at least for you – when you bring Europe one step closer to the abyss. I've been following EU policy closely for 20 years, but I don't remember you making policy for Europeans here at some point.

Mr President! Since 2014, Germany has taken in between 6 and 7 million illegal migrants. According to Professor Raffelhüschen of the University of Freiburg, these migrants will cost the Germans at least EUR 5 800 billion or EUR 116 billion every year, because the migrants are underqualified, hardly work, but receive the same social benefits as nationals. We have a choice here: Either we follow the Leyen, get half of Africa here and destroy our welfare state, or we change our policies. 80% of Europeans reject their open borders policy, according to a 2021 INSA survey. So why don't you do what 80% want and everyone thinks is necessary for their senses?

Mr President! With the introduction of the euro, the EU opted for a hard currency modelled on the German D-Mark, with low inflation and a central bank that protects savers and pensioners, complicates debt and promotes growth. They agreed on clear debt rules and an inflation target of less than 2%. Frankfurt became the seat of the ECB. After 25 years of the euro, we have record inflation and record debt. The Maastricht debt rules are disregarded. Europe is in stagflation, with the lowest economic growth in the developed world. The standard of living of the majority is falling faster than ever. The euro has been lirafied and debt is rampant. And as with the Dublin asylum rules, which fail only because they are ignored, the debt rules should now be relaxed because they were never applied for political reasons. In the future, each state should receive its own tailor-made, flexible debt rules. The result: The debt spiral is further fuelled by the fact that all are jointly liable for even higher individual debts – through higher inflation, which devalues savings and incomes across the euro area. Debt can create growth if it encourages investment in future technologies. But your debt policy here finances climate rescue and mass migration – with exponentially rising costs – without added value. Ex-ECB boss Draghi once said that the euro is a miracle – just like the bumblebee that is flying, although it is not allowed to do so under the laws of aerodynamics. The bumblebee really flies, but not out of willpower, but in accordance with the laws of nature. Your euro... (The President interrupted the speaker.)

Mr President! Without more migrants, the EU will starve to death, Commissioner Ylva Johansson said last week. Professor Raffelhüschen, Germany's best-known pension expert, disagrees: As before, migration costs Germany at least 5.8 trillion euros in total economic terms, far more than the German economic output of a year. This sum results from the integration and social assistance costs and the difference between the fiscal contribution of migrants and the benefits they receive. Conclusion: Even the smartest migration policy is priceless. Raffelhüschen literally: "If we continue to do the same, we are stupid as straw." Europe needs an immediate ban on asylum, limited access to the social system only for nationals and comprehensive remigration. The French Parliament has recently made a good start. The new migration law makes naturalisation more difficult and facilitates the deportation of serious criminals and illegal migrants. The European Parliament now wants to deprive the Member States of this right of sovereignty by harmonising national naturalisation law. Von der Leyen and Johansson's mass migration is to be made so irreversible. Whoever brings Calcutta here does not help Calcutta, but becomes Calcutta himself. Their policies make the whole of Europe an emerging country, on the way from the first to the third world.

Madam President, The European Commission wants to protect European democracy from covert influences by foreign rogue states and undesirable regimes. My party and my group look forward to all sensible proposals in this regard. EU-critical politicians and parties are often accused of being financed by non-EU powers – to my knowledge wrongly. Thus, the criticism of the Commission's request does not come from Eurocritics, but from NGOs and so-called civil society, which play an uncontrolled role in shaping the EU's energy, climate and pro-migration policies. Because NGOs are exempt from EU money laundering and anti-terrorism legislation, so that the financing of NGOs and their political interdependencies all too often remain in the dark. So let us gladly bring more transparency into covert political influence, but please not only from unwanted third countries, but also through NGOs and openly commercial conflicts of interest such as Ms von der Leyen's SMS correspondence with pharmaceutical giants such as Pfizer and US consulting companies or the presence of black rock advisers directly in the ECB. Western oligarchs – your so-called philanthropists – such as George Soros, Bill Gates or Klaus Schwab are almost certainly spending more money on EU policies and NGOs than all non-EU countries combined. And please don't be too timid. Theoretically, our judges are not allowed to have any contact with the parties to the proceedings over which they are ruling. So why don't we categorically ban our politicians from any contact with NGOs and lobbyists? If they take their own lip service seriously, that would certainly be a good start.

Madam President, The US business magazine Forbes has named Ursula von der Leyen the most powerful and ECB chief Lagarde the second most powerful woman in the world. The criteria: the extent of power over human and financial capital and global political influence. So power is measured, not performance. So measured, the choice makes sense. Under the Treaties, von der Leyen is a head of administration and the ECB is the guardian of price stability. However, since 2019, both have effectively expanded the Commission to become the European government and the ECB to become its money printer. Abuse of power by breach of contract is also power, and the fullness of power is also to use one's own power not for the benefit of the citizens, but to the detriment of them. Europe is now economically weaker, less European and, according to the latest PISA study, dumber than ever before. The EU has the most powerful women in the world, but they cost us everything.

Madam President, honourable Prime Minister, allow me to congratulate you on your decision to order an investigation into the 2023 Bulgarian-Turkish gas deal concluded by your predecessor. The Southern Gas Corridor, we all know, is used to launder Russian gas via Turkey, and to circumvent EU sanctions, which so far have had little effect on the Russian economy. The European Commission knows this full well, as its EUR 400 million subsidy agreement with the Gas Corridor contains a secrecy clause, which prohibits any probe into the provenance of the gas. In other words, former Prime Minister Borisov was given a free licence to launder Russian gas in return for his loyal support for Mrs Merkel and her party throughout his years in the Council. Moreover, under the gas deal, Bulgargaz has to pay Turkey’s state owned gas company Botaş an annual service fee of EUR 2 billion. Northern European citizens are paying cohesion funds to Bulgaria, which Bulgaria then appears to be handing over to Erdoğan. EU policy, it seems, is riddled with hypocrisy. On Bulgarian accession to Schengen, I agree with the position taken by the Austrian and Dutch governments. We need to reform Schengen before we can talk about Schengen expansion. There’s also the regrettable issue of Bulgarian officials selling Schengen visas to illegal migrants. Of course, the main culprit here is Germany, which is creating pull factors for migrants to enter via southern Europe, and resisting credible rules for pushbacks and comprehensive repatriation of illegal migrants. We therefore call on the Bulgarian Government to help us in the fight for ambitious migration reform in the EU. Then I can’t imagine your application finally to join the Schengen system would pose too many problems.

Mr President! This House intends to implement the proposals of the Conference on the Future of Europe for an EU State. This includes von der Leyen's EU Migration Pact, which aims to facilitate migration and even accelerate naturalisation, so that fewer and fewer EU citizens will be Europeans in the future. To this end, they want to abolish the Dublin system. But Dublin doesn't have to be replaced, it just has to be followed. The power of the CJEU must not be extended, but should be limited, because Luxembourg is not an impartial court, but the CJEU follows an ultra-flexible legal methodology contrary to the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties and thus prevents law in the interest of the EU and its Member States. woken Ideas. It is precisely for this reason that the primacy of EU law over national law should not be extended, but curtailed. There are currently no appeals against a CJEU judgment. This is perhaps still tolerable on technical legal issues that do not affect the distribution of power between the EU and the Member States. But where vital national interests are at stake, Member States need a jurisdiction of last resort. The lesson of history is: The EC was a success because it was not overpowering. But with Maastricht, our steady economic decline began. We need a separation of powers, because an almighty EU leads us to ruin, especially in the case of migration.

Mr President! The German Constitutional Court ruled last week that €60 billion should not have been allocated to the Climate Fund to deal with the coronavirus crisis. According to the court, debts incurred for an acute emergency must not be misused – this is a breach of the debt brake in Germany. The German traffic light government must now find a new sleight of hand for its shadow budgets. Von der Leyen's illegally debt-financed 800-billion-euro NextGenerationEU and Corona recovery programme, one third of which is already flowing into climate climate change without a purpose, without a purpose, and soon even more. The EU remains true to itself: It creates sham democratic veils to bypass national decisions for fantasy projects that must fail because they lack all measure and reason.

Madam President, According to official figures, the burden of migrants on public budgets in Germany amounts to almost 50 billion euros per year. In fact, it's at least $100 billion. Now the German government wants to accelerate deportations through migration agreements and establish asylum centers abroad. Well-known memoranda of understanding that do not turn into anything because courts prevent it and/or lack political will. According to current law, almost all migrants have entered illegally and would have had their entry through Push-backs can be prevented. But von der Leyen's EU migration pact should Push-backs by legalizing illegal migration. Already today, the costs for migrants amount to at least 2.5% of Germany’s gross national product, with a rapidly increasing trend – a burden that can no longer sustain a leading economy.

Mr President! Large online platforms and search engines such as Facebook, WhatsApp, Google, Apple or Twitter have been subject to the Digital Services Act since August, which aims to control hate speech and disinformation on the Internet. Hate speech includes any critical expression of opinion based on national, ethnic or religious criteria. Ebenso zensurwürdig sind sogenannte Online-Desinformationen, einschließlich der Verbreitung angeblicher Fehlinformationen wie Kritik an der COVID-Lockdown- und -Impfpolitik. The collection of migration-critical statistics according to ethnic criteria could also be banned across the EU. Online companies do not have to monitor the content themselves, but only intervene if they receive a notice from a so-called trusted flagger, i.e. detectors or spies, received. The flagger address undesirable and inadmissible content. If companies fail to act, they face severe penalties. Furthermore, the user only has the costly legal remedy against such censorship decisions. The Digital Services Act also provides for a crisis section. In the event of a pandemic or banking crisis, the Commission can directly instruct groups to flag or delete content. Congratulations to all of you here! With the Digital Services Act, you voted in favour of potentially the most comprehensive surveillance of freedom of expression on the internet outside China.