Speeches

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.

Madam President, Since 2010, the EU has been falling further and further behind North America, Australia and the Far East. Obviously, the EU responds to any crisis – be it COVID, Ukraine, energy or the so-called global climate crisis – with more excitement but less success than the rest of the world. What are your priorities until the European elections? Firstly: By the end of 2023, almost one million asylum applications will have been lodged in the EU. Nevertheless, you are planning a new EU migration pact that will bring even more unqualified migrants from Africa and the Orient here. Secondly: The war in Ukraine and our sanctions have plunged the EU into stagflation. Nevertheless, you want to continue to invest tens of billions in foreign conflicts, while millions of Europeans can no longer pay their heating and household costs. Thirdly: Their experimental energy policy, which makes our economy uncompetitive and ruins our citizens. Nevertheless, you want to accelerate the green transformation. All of this costs more money that you don't have and our citizens first have to work out with jobs that put your policy at risk. Instead: Please focus on the essentials! We need more competitiveness for more prosperity, because compared to the world leaders, the EU currently only plays in the upper third of the second league economically.

Mr President! EU sanctions against Russia should be swift and painful – indeed, they do us more harm than Russia. This is precisely why the EU is undermining its own sanctions and continues to import large quantities of Russian gas at higher prices via Azerbaijan. For the same purpose, the Commission just approved a low-interest loan of EUR 400 million to Bulgarian gas company Bulgargaz, which it had imposed fines of almost EUR 80 million in 2018 for antitrust offences, but which is now allowed to supply Russian gas. In order to cover up the origin of the natural gas transported through the Southern European pipeline, there is a confidentiality clause. Their hypocrisy shows: Their sanctions fail. Finally, put an end to this farce and take care of peace and prosperity in Europe, because this is what the EC was founded for.

Madam President, More than 800 000 asylum applications have already been lodged in the EU in 2023. In addition, there are millions of Ukrainians, family laggards, visa recipients and countless newborns of child-friendly migrants, who usually become EU citizens by birth and thus secure asylum for their parents. According to an INSA survey by my group, three quarters of all Europeans want only qualified non-EU immigrants. But with the EU Migration Pact, the Commission is creating new secure access routes, rapid asylum procedures and extended family reunification, especially for the unqualified. Germany and Italy are smuggling migrants across the Mediterranean, and the CJEU is violating the law by declaring internal border controls in the EU illegal, so that illegals can travel unhindered to their preferred destination in the EU. Two questions arise: First of all, why do you never listen to the citizens here? Second, why do you want to turn Europe into Africa?

Mr President! Since the beginning of 2022, the ECB has raised its interest rates ten times minimally. Nevertheless, the euro interest rate level remains well below the German inflation rate of 6.4%. On the other hand, it is clearly above Spanish inflation of 2.4%. In a way, Europe is on its head. In the traditionally high-inflationary south, inflation is falling, while energy and food prices are exploding in the previously healthy Germany. The reason is clear: Germany has the stupidest energy, climate rescue and migration policies in the world. The Bundesbank is therefore calling for further interest rate hikes in order to reduce inflation, the southern states want the opposite. A dilemma for the ECB, because it has to make a choice in the straitjacket of monetary union. Either it protects the savings of German taxpayers, who already finance the lion's share of the EU budget and the 800 billion euro NextGenerationEU gift basket for the Mediterranean, or it keeps interest rates low to make bankrupt banks and highly indebted countries in southern Europe feel bad. But let's not fool ourselves. The ECB will no longer raise interest rates significantly, not only to save southern Europe, but also to finance the EU's global climate rescue and mass migration projects, which are largely co-financed by the expropriation of German savers and taxpayers via the ECB. As the EU speaks to the world, the financial markets are already reacting. The euro share of global SWIFT payments fell from 38% to 23% this year alone, while US dollars and China's currency continue to gain weight. Europe's decline is not only tragic, it is above all self-inflicted. The rescue would be so simple: Just do the opposite of what is decided here almost every day.

Mr President! Corrupt Polish officials and politicos have sold up to 250,000 Schengen visas to illegal migrants who immediately left for Germany, according to Polish media. The Polish government - ostensibly an opponent of the replacement migration to Europe promoted by Germany and the Commission - must immediately investigate the case and severely punish those responsible. If this does not happen, the Commission must intervene. This would actually have to be demanded by the German government, which instead operates state-sponsored German ferry services for illegal migrants in the Mediterranean and currently, as we know from Giorgia Meloni and Elon Musk, finances at least eight distress tugboats, which take in thousands of migrants every day 20 miles off the coast of Libya, in order to then set them back ashore in Italy more than 300 miles away. The same goes for Italy's coast guard, so that the population exchange does not rest for a day. According to Foreign Minister Baerbock, the Germans wanted this comprehensive ferry connection from Africa to Europe. The truth is: None of the senses wants this, and according to an INSA opinion poll two years ago, 80% of all Europeans want secure - not open - external borders. Because every African they bring here costs a modern welfare state an average of 14,000 euros each year.

Madam President, An EU state may not deport illegally entered migrants apprehended during checks at its borders. This was decided by the European Court of Justice on 21 September. The Return Directive, which is specifically aimed at terminating the residence of persons without a right of residence, thus becomes the Entry Guarantee Directive. The judgment is a prime example of judicial creation – that is, the arbitrary amendment of the law by a creative judiciary. Article 2 of the Return Directive clarifies: The protection against immediate removal applies only to illegal persons in a Member State and not at the external border of that Member State. The EU is taking measures against Member States for alleged deficiencies in the rule of law. With what right if one's own highest court openly breaks EU law?

Madam President, In March 2000, the Commission announced the Lisbon strategy to make the EU the most dynamic and competitive economy in the world by 2010. In 2010, the strategy passed, was postponed by ten years and failed nevertheless. In 2020, you conceded here, Madam President, that from now on you would care more about our well-being than about our prosperity. For Germany, this objective has been achieved: 6.2% inflation, well above the OECD average, little productivity growth, the halving of Germany’s export surplus, an 80% year-on-year decline in foreign direct investment, and –0.3%, the IMF’s worst growth forecast. As never before, German companies are relocating production abroad in order to escape high energy prices. I admit, Madam President, that you are achieving your goals, but the failure of your predecessors has always been more beneficial to our well-being than your success.

Mr President! The ECB calls for the introduction of the digital euro. The ECB Director and Banca d'Italia CEO Panetta said that the digital euro offers users anonymity, allows offline payments and is truly European. But we can pay offline for thousands of years, cash, or centuries by check or bank transfer. And if you have to pay digitally due to inner coercion, you can do so for years with private digital currencies and services. And the cash flows remain anonymous only as long as the ECB does not identify the parties involved, although it could easily do so at any time. We, as a European institution, could trust the ECB. I'll take this as a joke. After all, the ECB has given us Germans priceless real estate prices, record inflation and 15 years – at least 15 years – of falling living standards. Trust, please remember, arises from trustworthiness.

Mr President! In 2020, the European Commission bought millions of defective COVID masks. The Commission refused to investigate, citing the economic interests of the parties. In 2021, Commissioner von der Leyen negotiated vaccine contracts with Pfizer for 4.6 billion vaccine doses for at least 71 billion euros. Again via SMS, as she did as Secretary of Defense with U.S. consulting firms such as McKinsey. As more people are now afraid of vaccine damage than COVID and vaccine protection is limited, hundreds of millions of vaccine doses remain unused and are to be destroyed. But Pfizer cashed in his $71 billion. In the case of the Bundeswehr, the waste of money was still ten figures. The SMS, however, according to the Commission, with which von der Leyen drafted the contracts with Pfizer, were unfortunately all deleted, just as before in the Ministry of Defense. Then there are allegations of a conflict of interest, because von der Leyen's spouse is the owner of a biotech company that develops mRNA vaccines and receives millions of subsidies. Here too, reconnaissance is blocked. Mismanagement and administrative failure and corruption – not my words, but those of EU Ombudsman Emily O'Reilly.

Mr President! Tax evasion and tax avoidance are issues where European cooperation would actually make sense – probably the very reason why the EU remains so persistently idle here. Letterbox companies are vehicles that serve no economic purpose, but tax avoidance. They cost EU taxpayers at least €60 billion per year. Nevertheless, the political will to do something about it is lacking – probably because Eurocrats and MEPs partly benefit themselves from such constructions, as well as from taking advantage of lively contact with lobbyists and financially strong third countries. As a reminder: According to the Pandora papers Thousands of our politicians, including member states, corporate executives and the super-rich, tax-free invest millions and trillions of assets in the Caribbean, including their special friend Zelenskyy, who has channelled at least 40 million on offshore accounts through his wife Olena. Since most people like to hide this, I can only conclude: The majority of them want it that way and not otherwise.

Mr President! In the past, inflation was high in southern Europe and low in northern Europe. Now Spain has 1.6% inflation and Germany almost 7%. Inflation destroyed around €116 billion of German savings in 2021, up from €200 billion in 2022. The reasons are the disastrous energy and climate policies, the sanctions against Russia, which cut us off from cheap energy, and the ECB, which is tentatively raising interest rates but further expanding the money supply. The result: Savers have been losing 4 to 8% of their savings for years as a result of the difference between savings rates and inflation. The standard of living of the Germans is collapsing. According to Commission data, one in four Germans is at risk of poverty, and the Germans have the lowest median wealth in the euro zone. The EU and the German government have been destroying the entire life performance of the German middle class since the war. Why, I ask, should we fear Russia more than the EU or our own government?

Madam President, Commissioner! The Pandora Papers are leaked documents revealing secret offshore accounts of 35 leading politicians - presidents, prime ministers and monarchs - as well as vast offshore assets of more than 100 billionaires, celebrities and business leaders. Two years after its publication, the European Parliament is now giving its first opinion on the matter. The Danish rapporteur, my fair colleague Niels Fuglsang, deserves to be thanked for keeping a lot of nonsense out of the report, but also for stressing important shortcomings in European tax law. However, he was not allowed to address some sensitive issues: Because the European People's Party and the Renew Group refused to publicly reprimand EU Commissioners and European politicians mentioned in the Pandora Papers. The same applies to Member States with large deficits in tax and anti-money laundering legislation, such as Portugal, Greece, Croatia, Malta, Cyprus and Italy. Even more remarkable, however, is the case of a special EU favourite, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, who has created a spider web of offshore companies in the Caribbean and Cyprus. There, he stows at least $41 million he received from oligarch Ihor Kolomoyskyj, along with EU aid he has secured from the authorities. To date, Maltex Multicapital Corporation, registered in the Virgin Islands, pays untaxed dividends to Olena Selenska, Selenskyj's wife. French moralist La Rochefoucauld said: ‘L’hypocrisie est l’hommage que le vice rend à la vertu‘ Hypocrisy is the tribute which vice must pay to virtue’. This timeless word applies in particular to the EU and its alleged fight for tax justice.

Mr President! The Council of Ministers has agreed on a new EU migration pact. With what result? Europe needs strict ceilings and external reception centres. However, the Council decides on minimum quotas for all Member States and high-speed distribution centres in the EU. We need clear, stricter rules. However, the Pact speeds up procedures and creates many exceptions that make any examination impossible. We need entry bans for illegal migrants. Instead, the term ‘illegal migration’ is abolished. This pact does not facilitate deportations or remigration, but invites the whole world to Europe. In the future, every climate refugee who does not like the weather at home will be accepted. They bring us tens of millions of foodies. According to three Northern European studies, each of them costs us 700,000 euros for life. Your migration plans are just as fantastic as your climate rescue. For they lack any reference to reality and to what they do. They're taking the Third World. We become the Third World.

Madam President, Commissioner! The European Parliament is calling for a new EU electoral law. After that, each voter would have two votes: one for national parties familiar to national politicians and a second for so-called transnational lists. With the second vote, citizens should vote for EU parties such as S&D, Renew and ECR, which no one knows, and for mostly foreign politicians whose language is poorly understood. Germans vote for Greeks or Bulgarians, Poles for Dutch or Finns for Spaniards. In the long term, all MEPs will be elected via transnational lists. The father of political conservatism, Edmund Burke, saw the close relationship and exchange between voters and elected persons as the core of parliamentarism. Their electoral reform has only one goal: To undermine this bond of trust and thus undermine democracy even further.