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23 Oct

2024

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

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Mr President, during this debate, another hundred and thirty asylum seekers will be arriving in Europe. Every hour of every day of every month. More than 3,000 asylum seekers a day, and half of them are asylum fraudsters. They abuse the right of asylum to migrate and four out of five of these fortune seekers do not return at all. During the debate, 50 illegal immigrants will be added to Europe. Th…

9 Oct

2024

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

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the European Union once started as a positive project for peace, prosperity and security. But that hasn't been the case for a long time. Instead, the EU wants to unify, centralise and bureaucratise everything. Those who are not in line threaten them with political intimidation and financial blackmail. This European Union is completely derailing. The climate madn…

7 Oct

2024

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The reintroduction of internal border controls in a number of Member States and its impact on the Schengen Area (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, before the elections, they claimed that the Vlaams Belang programme was unrealistic, unfeasible and illegal. That was, of course, a pure lie. Because what turns out? More and more countries are simply implementing our programme. Even Germany is reintroducing border controls and sending Afghan criminals back to their home countries. This is because the population…

17 Sep

2024

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Global measures towards social media platforms - Strengthening the role of DSA and protecting democracy and freedom in the online sphere (debate)

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Mr President, what I warned about two years ago has become a reality: the European Union is threatening freedom of expression on social media, undermining the very foundation of our democracy. The Digital Services Act It was presented as protection and so-called security. However, the actual agenda turns out to be censorship and control. The policy makers of the European Union want to determine wh…

10 Apr

2024

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Screening of third country nationals at the external borders - European Criminal Records Information System - Third Country Nationals - Common procedure for international protection in the Union - Establishing a return border procedure, and amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1148 - Asylum and migration management - Addressing situations of crisis and force majeure - Establishment of 'Eurodac' for the comparison of fingerprints for the effective application of Regulation (EU) No 604/2013, for identifying an illegally staying third-country national or stateless person and on requests for the comparison with Eurodac data by Member States' law enforcement authorities and Europol for law enforcement purposes (recast) - Union Resettlement Framework - Standards for the qualification of third-country nationals or stateless persons as beneficiaries of international protection - Standards for the reception of applicants for international protection (recast) (joint debate - Migration and Asylum package)

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Well, Mrs in 't Veld, I did not receive any reprimand at all, because a reprimand is an official sanction of the European Parliament. I think it is illustrative that liberals like you want people's representatives not to use words to describe what exactly the intention is. These are the words of Commissioner Johansson himself. There are now 3.5 million non-European foreigners entering each year an…

10 Apr

2024

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Screening of third country nationals at the external borders - European Criminal Records Information System - Third Country Nationals - Common procedure for international protection in the Union - Establishing a return border procedure, and amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1148 - Asylum and migration management - Addressing situations of crisis and force majeure - Establishment of 'Eurodac' for the comparison of fingerprints for the effective application of Regulation (EU) No 604/2013, for identifying an illegally staying third-country national or stateless person and on requests for the comparison with Eurodac data by Member States' law enforcement authorities and Europol for law enforcement purposes (recast) - Union Resettlement Framework - Standards for the qualification of third-country nationals or stateless persons as beneficiaries of international protection - Standards for the reception of applicants for international protection (recast) (joint debate - Migration and Asylum package)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, millions of unwanted asylum seekers are flooding us. Our people have more than enough of that. But what does the European Union do? Exactly the opposite. With the EU Migration Pact, she wants to be able to oblige us to take in even more asylum seekers. It also wants to import 4.5 million non-European foreigners per year. The EU migration pact is not at all about…

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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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, once the European Union was about prosperity and peace, working together with respect for identity and sovereignty. However, this European Union is increasingly concerned with denying this basic principle of subsidiarity. Instead, they want to centralize, bureaucratize and unify. With their EU climate madness they want to define our entire lives, with their EU m…

16 Jan

2024

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

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, with the EU Migration Pact, they claim to counter illegal migration. That's a total lie. After all, there is no upper limit on the number of asylum seekers and there is no return mechanism for asylum fraudsters. The asylum crisis will continue. Illegal migration is therefore not what this EU migration pact is about. The real goal is more migration. Commissioner …

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, Mr Verhofstadt, I know that liberals have a hard time with freedom of expression, as your colleague has just illustrated. In committee too, Madame would like to silence me and refuse to allow an elected representative of the people to express themselves as he wishes. You can keep calling here, Mr Verhofstadt. You're just proving my point. I find it rather sad for a man who is already…

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, the right to asylum is being abused as a migration channel. Millions are trying to enter Europe illegally. A total asylum chaos is the result. Everyone knows the problem, but no one wants, can or should act. And that seems to be exactly the intention. Because what does the European Union actually propose? She wants more migration. She wants to do this by transfo…

12 Jul

2023

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The need for EU action on search and rescue in the Mediterranean (debate)

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Mr President, asylum law is being abused as a migration channel. Millions are trying to enter Europe illegally. Once inside, they enjoy all kinds of rights and social benefits without ever having contributed to it. That's why they pay smugglers. That's why they're risking a dangerous crossing. This is where the business model of smuggling was built: to the naivety, laxity and refusal of the Europe…

10 May

2023

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Externalising asylum applications and making funding to third countries conditional on the implementation of return agreements (topical debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we are overwhelmed by unwanted migration. Millions are coming to Europe. They are not at all fleeing war, because at least two-thirds of them are asylum fraudsters. They come here because they can receive all kinds of social and financial benefits without ever having contributed to it. The result is an asylum chaos that perpetuates the perfidious business model …

20 Apr

2023

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Decision to enter into interinstitutional negotiations: Screening of third country nationals at the external borders (A9-0149/2023 - Birgit Sippel) (vote)

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Mr President, the European Union is apparently doing everything it can to push the EU migration pact through silently. In the LIBE Committee, MEPs were denied the rules in sufficient time to thoroughly examine this plan. We now want Parliament to give a mandate, without a vote and without debate. Why is this Parliament not allowed to play its part? This EU migration pact does not provide a solutio…

15 Mar

2023

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Deaths at sea: a common EU response to save lives and action to ensure safe and legal pathways (debate)

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Mr President, colleagues, in 2022, Frontex reported more than 330 000 illegal crossings into Europe. 90% of them paid smugglers. After all, once in Europe, one can enjoy the social security that our ancestors built up and finance our taxpayers without ever having contributed to it. All you have to do is apply for asylum. These are not real refugees at all, but economic fortune seekers and asylum f…

1 Feb

2023

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Preparation of the Special European Council meeting of February, in particular the need to develop sustainable solutions in the area of asylum and migration (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we are literally overwhelmed by unwanted migration. This is not a natural phenomenon that happens to us, but the result of deliberate political choices. They refuse to secure Europe's external borders and effectively return illegal immigrants. Asylum law is being abused as a migration channel and that creates insecurity, undermines the right of asylum for real r…

10 Nov

2022

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Racial justice, non-discrimination and anti-racism in the EU (debate)

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Mr President, according to the report, racism is at the heart of our unique European civilization and is ingrained in our society, and even in who we are. This creates a true ‘white problem’: Our universities, our companies and our culture are too white and too black prisons, crime or unemployment are the fault of the whites. There is only one real form of structural and systemic racism, namely po…

18 Oct

2022

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Keep the bills down: social and economic consequences of the war in Ukraine and the introduction of a windfall tax (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, this energy crisis is not just happening to us. It is the result of a deliberate political choice, the consequences of which were also predictable. Due to ecological dogmatism, nuclear power plants were shut down. From liberal moralism a rash economic war was unleashed. One sanction package after another was promulgated. The idea was to stop the war and put Russ…

14 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)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Hungary is a free country that makes its own choices. They reject unwanted mass immigration and opt for safe borders. They reject forced multiculture and choose to preserve their identity. They reject gender ideology and opt for the normality of the family where a mother is a woman, a father is a man, and a child can still remain a child. We may agree or disagre…

22 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)

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Mr President, the Russian war of aggression has deeply shocked us all. But this emotion must not lead to madness. Yet that is exactly where the European Union is taking us. Its economic sanctions lead to rising energy prices, skyrocketing inflation and collective impoverishment. They do not stop the war, but even have the opposite effect. Putin is getting stronger and we are getting weaker. As if …

5 Apr

2022

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EU Protection of children and young people fleeing the war against Ukraine (debate)

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Mr President, Vlaams Belang has always defended the right to asylum as a fundamental human right, on two conditions: it must be about genuine war refugees and the reception must take place in their own region. According to the United Nations, due to the terrible Russian war of aggression, we can expect up to 12 million women, children and vulnerable people in the coming week who are seeking help a…

8 Mar

2022

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The deterioration of the situation of refugees as a consequence of the Russian aggression against Ukraine (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we can only condemn the Russian aggression in the strongest terms, but the Ukrainians have very few words at the moment. Deeds must follow! The slogan of my party is: First our people. That does not mean: Only our people. We have always defended the right of asylum for genuine war refugees and fought against asylum abuse as a channel for unwanted mass migration.…

16 Feb

2022

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The Rule of Law and the consequences of the ECJ ruling (debate)

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Mr President, the institutions of the European Union are taking on more and more power that no one has ever given them and for which they do not have to answer to anyone. The European Commission was originally set up as a college of officials to carry out what the Member States agree, but is increasingly acting like a kind of European government that wants to dictate policy in the Member States. C…

19 Jan

2022

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Digital Services Act (continuation of debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in our modern democracy, a large part of the social debate takes place on social media such as Facebook. These digital platforms are modern marketplaces of information. But there are no alternatives to this. They are monopolists, and that gives these companies great power, too great power. Because they abuse that power. They control, block and censor anyone who …

14 Dec

2021

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Digital Markets Act (debate)

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Mr President, Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple and other tech companies have simply become too big and too powerful to be healthy. That is because they are monopolists for which there is no competition. This allows them to accumulate unlimited capital, concentrating uncontrolled power, manipulating both the market and our democracy. They are companies that want to do business everywhere, but do …

23 Nov

2021

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Situation in Belarus and at its border with the EU and the security and humanitarian consequences (debate)

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Mr President, thousands of illegal immigrants are storming our external borders. This weapon of illegal migration is being misused by autocratic leaders like Lukashenko to undermine the stability of Europe and threaten the security of our citizens. Countries like Poland are on the front line and are asking for our help. Now is the time to show European solidarity. But what does the European Commis…