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Oct

2023

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Commission Work Programme 2024 (debate)

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 mil…

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Oct

2023

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Effectiveness of the EU sanctions on Russia (debate)

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 …

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Oct

2023

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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 quali…

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Oct

2023

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The 10th consecutive increase in reference interest rates decided by the ECB and its consequences (debate)

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 e…

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Oct

2023

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Corrupt large-scale sale of Schengen visas (debate)

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…

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Oct

2023

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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 – t…

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Sep

2023

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State of the Union (debate)

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 b…

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Sep

2023

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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 privat…

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Jul

2023

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Public access to documents – annual report for the years 2019-2021 (debate)

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 McK…

12

Jul

2023

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Need to adopt the “Unshell” Directive on rules to prevent the misuse of shell entities for tax purposes (debate)

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 b…

12

Jul

2023

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Putting the European economy at the service of the middle class (debate)

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 tentativel…

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Jun

2023

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Lessons learnt from the Pandora Papers and other revelations (debate)

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,…

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Jun

2023

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 29-30 June 2023, in particular in the light of recent steps towards concluding the Migration Pact (debate)

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 imp…

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Jun

2023

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Negotiations on the European Electoral Law (debate)

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…

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Jun

2023

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Madam President, The euro is the most expensive currency of all time. Mass migration brings us millions of foodies, but no skilled workers. And climate rescue leads to deindustrialization and mass poverty. The AfD has been saying this for ten years. The OECD is now making us right and, according to surveys, more and more Germans. Common sense is returning to Germany, it seems. And that is exactly …

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Jun

2023

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Foreign interference in all democratic processes in the European Union, including disinformation - Election integrity and resilience build-up towards European elections 2024 (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner! If elections do not proceed as Brussels wishes, accusations immediately follow that Russia has manipulated or financed the winner. The two biggest cases of foreign interference in our politics here concern the EU itself. Firstly: In the Qatargate scandal, €1.5 million was found among MEPs at home or in suitcases, plus €22 million in accounts in Panama – payments used…

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May

2023

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Mr President! Former Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov promised Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to help Bulgaria bypass the rules for joining the euro. Nothing new, because Mario Draghi, then still with Goldman Sachs, paved the way for Greece with swap transactions in the euro against high fees. Ten years later, we had the never-ending euro crisis. Later, Draghi became the biggest la…

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May

2023

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Impact of the interest rate increase decided by the ECB on households and workers (debate)

Madam President, The eurozone, along with Britain, has the highest inflation rate in the developed world. Rapidly rising energy and food prices mean: The standard of living is falling, citizens have to freeze, and savings are being destroyed. In 2022 alone, German savers were expropriated by around 200 billion euros. But the ECB raises interest rates by a ridiculous 0.25 to 3.7%, with inflation ab…

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May

2023

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

Madam President, If the Germans are crazy, half the world wonders. And the answer is: Yes, because Germany suffers from helper syndrome and belongs on the couch. For 15 years, Germany has been trying to save everything and everyone. You seem to have saved the euro, but at the expense of monetary stability and at the expense of the savers and pensioners who finance your record inflation and debt. T…

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May

2023

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Revision of the Stability and Growth Pact (debate)

Mr President! When the EU gave itself a common currency, it had two options: either a soft currency with high inflation and a central bank printing money simply to keep export industry competitive and keep highly indebted member states from bankruptcy, or a hard currency modelled on the low-inflation D-mark and a central bank firmly behind savers and pensioners, forcing the government to adopt pru…

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May

2023

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Mr President! The European Parliament and the Council of Ministers are negotiating the new EU Migration Pact, which aims to facilitate asylum procedures, create new access routes, expand family influx and abolish the illegal concept of migration. Von der Leyen is even considering a European Union of Migration and Destiny, in which Europe absorbs Africa's population surplus. According to two studie…

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Apr

2023

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Digital euro (debate)

Mr President! Last month, Christine Lagarde was the victim of a joke call. Unintentionally, Lagarde revealed: The digital euro is about total state control over citizens' money. Lagarde literally: ‘We have in Europe a threshold above EUR 1 000, you cannot pay cash. If you do, you take your risk, you get caught, you’re fined, or you go to jail. Our citizens will be controlled, only for very small a…

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Apr

2023

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Markets in Crypto-assets (MiCa) - Information accompanying transfers of funds and certain crypto-assets (recast) (debate)

Mr President, the EU is introducing a new regulatory framework for crypto—assets, which offers some consumer protection, may deter businesses operating from within the EU, but above all raises serious privacy concerns. The new rules impose extensive compliance requirements on crypto—asset providers which need to obtain an EU operating licence. Crypto—asset providers also need to provide real—time …

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Apr

2023

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Guidelines for the 2024 budget - Section III (debate)

Mr President! Germany pays 37 billion euros gross annually and over 26 billion euros net to the EU. This means that Germany pays almost half of the total EU budget net and every German 444 euros of EU gross contribution per year. In addition, Germany's contribution to the EU Recovery Fund of over €200 billion from 2021 to 2026, i.e. €33.3 billion per year or a further €397 per person per year. In …

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Apr

2023

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Mr President! In 1970, Sweden's per capita income was almost 50 percent higher than that of Denmark. Today Sweden is poorer than Denmark. The cause: Almost a third of today's Swedes are not Europeans, but only 10 percent of Danes. A crucial difference, because every migrant from Africa and the Orient costs a Western European welfare state on average almost 700,000 euros for life, according to Dutc…