Speeches

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 is sick of unwanted migration, illegality and crime. More and more Member States are no longer able to explain the asylum chaos for which the European Union is responsible to their populations and are therefore taking back control. Because this European Union offers no solutions at all. What was once called impossible, unfeasible or illegal has now become inevitable. Like Denmark, any Member State with an opt-out should be able to take back control of its asylum and migration policy.

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 what the truth is and what citizens can still say and hear. Anyone who criticizes their forced mass migration criminalizes them as hate speech. Those who do not believe their climate religion, put them away as climate negationists. With the Digital Services Act, they are trying to silence opposition to their crazy policies. Those in power do not like to be contradicted and always want to remain in power. In a democracy, all voices must be able to be expressed and heard, because no one holds the truth and citizens are free. After all, which Democrat is afraid of other opinions? The Vlaams Belang is therefore of the opinion that freedom of expression must be as broad as possible and that matters that are legal offline must also be legal online.

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 and she says: This is too little. An extra 1 million must be brought in, because the population of Europe is decreasing. So replacing the population with migration is repopulation, ma'am. Whether you like it or not. This is a perfectly normal term to describe what the European Union intends to do.

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 defending our borders against this asylum invasion. It is about the deliberate and organised replacement of the European population, the colonisation of Europe, the suicide of our unique European civilization. We need to close our borders. By definition, asylum must be in our own region, because our people do not want more, but above all less migration. This EU migration pact is pure madness and for that the people will present the bill to you. (The speaker accepted to answer a blue card question.)

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 migration pact they want to bring millions of Africans to Europe every year without anyone ever asking for it. As if that were not enough, they now even want to impose EU taxes and dig EU debt pits. Countries that are not in line threaten them with political intimidation and financial blackmail. This European Union is totally derailing and therefore we must and will take back control.

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 Johansson openly admits: There are too few European births and they want to replace them with the import of four and a half million non-Europeans. Per year. Deliberately organized population. This European Union is completely derailed. We never signed up for this. And for De Croo as Prime Minister of Belgium, no one has ever elected. Your party is at 7%. Your political game is over and so, like Charles Michel in 2019, you are trying to decorate an international runway. Just like then, you are pushing a migration pact through the throats of our people. And just like then, the people will present you with the bill for that. Because our people do not want more migration, but above all less migration. In 2024, we will take our country back.

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 a bit on his political return to interrupt politicians. Having said that, I would like to point out that the term ‘population’ is replacement migration. Deployment of migration. Why? To conquer the people of an indigenous people. And I object to that, ma'am.

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 transforming illegal migration into legal migration. Millions of Africans want to bring them to Europe every year, because we need migration, Commissioner Johansson claims. Because there are too few European births, Commissioner Jourová claims. Deliberately organised populations, the colonisation of Europe, the subjugation of Europeans, the suicide of our unique European civilization. This EU migration pact is pure madness.

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 European Union to defend our external borders. Another policy is possible and necessary. We need to close our external borders. Anyone who illegally enters Europe must lose all right to asylum and be sent back. Asylum law must, by definition, be in our own region and not with us. This is the only way to break the business model of human trafficking. Just like Australia: Do not have a welcome policy, but a return policy. Do not undertake search and rescue, but drive them back. This is the only humane response to the asylum crisis.

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 of human smuggling, means insecurity for our people and undermines our social system. This is untenable. The European Union refuses to protect our external borders. On the contrary. With the EU Migration Pact, she deliberately wants to bring millions to Europe every year. That's not sustainable. Asylum is a humanitarian mission. Making that right of asylum sustainable and sustainable again requires a fundamentally different migration model. The right to asylum does not mean a right of residence. Therefore, by definition, care must be provided in one's own region. Anyone who illegally enters our home countries must lose all right to asylum. We must make development cooperation and trade conditional on the readiness to take back illegal immigrants and actively contribute to the fight against migration. A sustainable, sustainable and above all humane asylum policy is indeed possible.

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 solution to the migration crisis at all, but on the contrary will exacerbate the asylum chaos. The present screening regulation gives all kinds of procedural guarantees to economic fortune-seekers, while depriving Member States of the right to protect their borders. We can't even talk about illegal migration anymore. We must now apparently call it ‘irregular’. Member States can no longer determine how they protect our borders. Biometric security is prohibited. Illegal migration is replaced by legal migration. Citizens have a right to know what awaits them with these insane migration plans of the European Union. This is the century of demographics. Africa's population goes from one billion to four billion. We are only at the beginning of a migration invasion that could destroy our unique civilization. Instead of offering concrete solutions, the European Union literally says: “We need migration”. The European Union does not want to slow down migration but, on the contrary, to encourage it. We must at least have a debate on this as it should be in a parliamentary democracy.

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 fraudsters. What is the European Union doing to protect our people? Nothing at all. On the contrary, they want to make it easier to come to Europe. There is certainly an alternative to this failing and immoral policy. Anyone who illegally enters Europe must lose all right to asylum and be banned from entering our territory for life. Asylum law does not mean a right of residence. By definition, care must be in the region of origin, and not with us.

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 refugees and maintains the business model of human smuggling. That is not sustainable, unsustainable and completely immoral. We can and should make different political choices. Asylum law does not mean a right of residence. By definition, care must be provided in the region of origin. Countries that do not take back their illegals must be punished with economic sanctions, and we must stop all development aid. Our people do not want more, but above all less migration.

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 positive discrimination. In doing so, the original European population is structurally and systematically discriminated against on the basis of skin colour and Europeans become second-class citizens in their own country. This is called inclusion and diversity, but there is nothing positive about it. This is racism against whites and it goes against our European values. All citizens must be equal before the law.

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 Russia without money. The reverse happened. Energy prices are exploding, giving Putin exactly more money to finance his horrific war machine. High inflation is the result. Savings and purchasing power go up in smoke. Industry delocalises. Pension funds are at risk of collapse. Europe is committing economic suicide. Ordinary people pay the price. A Flemish family already pays four times more for energy. They are forgotten and abandoned. And what does the European Union do? More sanctions. More gun shipments. The European Union was once created to bring peace and prosperity. Unfortunately, this has become war and collective impoverishment. They have dragged us into the swamp of this war and have no idea how long it will last and how we will ever get out of it again. This European Union is leading us to economic ruin, if not to the trenches. This madness must stop.

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 disagree with those choices, but it is above all a democratic choice that the Hungarians themselves make in complete freedom. And we have to respect that. After all, is ‘united in diversity’ – i.e. respect for difference – not the slogan of the European Union? But that is not in the interests of the globalist elite. Diversity in Europe stands in the way of their imperial plans. They want to transform the European Union into a centralised superstate. That is why they want to dismantle the sovereignty of states and erase the identity of peoples, ultimately subjecting free citizens to the will of unelected bureaucrats. Not Hungary, but the European Union is violating European values. Not Hungary, but the European Union does not respect the democratic rule of law. The European Commission's punitive expeditions against that country are a warning to all other Member States. Someday they'll come after you. Hungary and Viktor Orbán are just standing in their way.

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 that were not enough, they now want to join the European Union after Albania and Turkey. This country does not meet the necessary conditions in any way. Indeed, the Copenhagen criteria require a well-functioning market economy and a stable democratic rule of law. Ukraine has neither, but is the most corrupt country in Europe after Russia. Moreover, that accession will cost us many billions, which we do not even have. Finally, we all risk being dragged further into the swamp of this war. Ukraine does not belong in the European Union. Either you tell them that, or the European Union is close to total madness.

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 and need protection. There is a strong will for solidarity and responsibility across all political parties and Member States. This should not be taken lightly. We cannot contain this humanitarian catastrophe if we continue with the current catastrophic asylum and migration policy. Eurostat's figures are clear. In recent years, more than five million asylum seekers came to Europe, mostly single young men from African, Asian and Arab countries. Two-thirds of them were rejected. These were not real asylum seekers fleeing war at all, but economic fortune seekers who have nothing to look for here. We can't help the whole world, so it's time to make choices and take action. It is time for realism and a rational asylum policy. That is why we need to temporarily suspend the right of asylum in Europe for people without Ukrainian citizenship, so that we can maximise the help to those who need it most and those who are most vulnerable: The Ukrainian children. We must make room in our asylum centres by speeding up the ongoing asylum procedures of asylum seekers from outside Europe and sending them back firmly. After all, the figures show that it is mainly about asylum fraudsters who unlawfully take up our reception capacity. We must provide maximum support to Ukraine's immediate neighbours with European Union funds. After all, with the same euro, we can help many more people in neighbouring countries than in densely populated areas such as Flanders. Poland and Hungary – so often criticised in Parliament – are already hosting three million asylum seekers, embodying our cherished European values like no other. We can't let them down. Finally, we must structurally move towards a completely different asylum model that is feasible, humane and sustainable. It must, by definition, be in its own region. We need Asians in Asia, Africans in Africa and Europeans in Europe.

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. Of course, we cannot solve the problems of the whole world. That is why we advocate for reception in our own region. Well, Ukraine is our own region. Here we must fulfil our humanitarian mission to the maximum. Millions of real war refugees, women, children and vulnerable people are on the run. Hungary is already hosting 200 000 people, while Poland is already hosting one million. Just as both countries recently protected us from the illegal invasion of single young men from mainly African and Arab countries, they now open their hearts and their borders and offer shelter to real war refugees. We don't know how many millions of people we will have to take care of and we don't know how long we will have to take care of them. We know that neighbouring countries cannot do this alone. All European countries have a fundamental humanitarian mission in this tragedy. In addition, we must use all diplomatic energy to stop the senseless bloodshed in Ukraine as soon as possible. Every dead person is one too many. Always someone's father, always someone's child. The longer this war lasts, the more losers there will be, because in the long run this war can also cause a global food crisis, collective impoverishment and uncontrollable hyperinflation, regardless of the potentially uncontrollable consequences of further military escalation. This is no time for partisan games. I hope that everyone does not take lightly their historical responsibility to neutralise this conflict.

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. Citizens mainly ask themselves who these people are who have not been elected by anyone. Technocracy is the opposite of democracy. The European Court of Justice was originally established to assess the application of the European Treaties. Through a broad and activist interpretation of the Treaties, the Court takes precedence over the constitutions of the Member States in areas where it does not even have jurisdiction. It gives itself the power to assess the internal organisation of Member States, make policy choices and even rewrite laws against which no appeal is possible. Also in connection with this issue, citizens wonder who are those foreign judges who have not been elected by anyone. Juristocracy is the opposite of democracy. The Commission and the Court then conspire to deprive Member States that do not want to bow to their liberal sharia law of the right to vote and financially blackmail them withholding billions from the Coronavirus Recovery Fund. It is now clear that this was never about corona, but about power and control. This power suspension is then sold as a defense of the democratic rule of law. It really can't get any more hypocritical than this. The rule of law can only be democratic if it respects the sovereignty of the people, and thus democracy. The organization and political choices of states should not be determined by judges and officials of the European Union, but by nation states themselves. After all, they are democratically legitimised by their people; The European Union is not. The European Union is completely derailing and turning into something we have never signed up to. The British have drawn their conclusions and are the first to leave. If we continue like this, however, they will certainly not be the last.

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 disagrees with them. After all, their multicultural model cannot be disputed, or they call it hate speech. Their lies cannot be refuted, or they call it fake news. They are tyrants for whom citizens no longer have rights but are relegated to submissive consumers, depending on the arbitrariness of the anonymous manager and the interests of the rootless shareholder. Free speech is fundamental in a democracy, just as censorship is characteristic of a dictatorship. That is why it is an inviolable fundamental right. Not the big tech user agreement, but the constitution and our European treaties define and protect that right to freedom of expression. That is why we must stop the illegal censorship by big tech and prosecute criminal cases. What is legal offline must also be legal online. Protecting freedom of expression, and not facilitating censorship, should therefore be the starting point of this Digital Services Act.

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 not want to pay fair taxes anywhere. They are companies that violate the privacy of our citizens. They are companies that want to determine what our culture and identity should look like. They are companies that benefit from the hyperflexible global economy, where there will always be someone who is forced to sell his labor for less and less salary and less and less social protection. Those who disagree with this parasitic, globalist model censor and block them from their platforms, because they do not want to be contradicted, because they do not want their interests to be harmed. These soulless multinational companies are owned by an oligarchy of anonymous shareholders who have no culture, identity or nationality and are not accountable to anyone. They want to take over the authority of states and exchange cultures. They want to transform free and sovereign citizens into submissive, disenfranchised, formless and interchangeable consumers. The arrogance of these multinational tech companies that think they can get away with everything must come to an end. The rights of citizens, consumers and small businesses are guaranteed by the democratic rule of law and sovereign popular will, not by the shareholders and the user agreement. That is why I think the Digital Markets Act is a good step in the right direction.

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 Commission do? It simply abandons Poland and refuses to free up the necessary funds to build border protection. Incomprehensible, cowardly and weak. The cynical blackmail with the weapon of illegal migration can only be neutralized if we effectively secure our external borders with legal and also physical barriers. Anyone who enters illegally must lose all right of residence and be returned immediately. By definition, care must be in the region of origin and not with us. It is time for a fundamentally different policy, certain boundaries for a secure future.

Mr President, we are overwhelmed by unwanted migration. Millions try to enter our home countries illegally, then pretend to be asylum seekers and finally let the whole family come across. From the moment these undesirable asylum fraudsters have set foot on European soil, they appear to be able to claim all kinds of rights and enjoy social benefits without ever having contributed to them. That's untenable. But the political elite in Europe is apparently more awake to the so-called human rights of these asylum fraudsters than to the security and future of our people. The open borders model threatens our way of life. That's why we need to protect our borders from these illegal invaders by immediately sending them back to where they came from with totally legal, humane and necessary pushbacks. It is our political and moral duty to protect our citizens.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the right to asylum is being abused as a migration channel. Since 2015, as many as five million asylum seekers have come to Europe, two-thirds of them men, most of them single and of military age. As many as 60% turned out not to be a real refugee, but economic fortune seekers and asylum fraudsters. They don't belong here at all, but two-thirds of them simply refused to leave again. Once inside, we can't get them out. We have no defense against this migration invasion. This is because of the European Union. Our internal borders have been abolished. Our external borders are a sieve. Foreign EU judges forbid defending our borders with pushbacks against illegal invaders and effectively returning these asylum fraudsters. And what do they want now? A new European Asylum Agency. Even more European Union, even more unelected bureaucrats, even more power for themselves, so that they can open up the borders even further. Our people don't want that at all. They want protection, safety and a secure future for our children. That is why we must suspend the right to asylum. We need shelter in our own region. We do not need a new European agency for asylum seekers, but an agency for remigration. In this way, the European Union could finally prove its worth.