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Tom VANDENDRIESSCHE

MEP · Belgium

Plenary speeches · European Parliament

Plenary speeches · EU Parliament

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Since July 1, 2024

Time at the Floor

1.2h

≈ 74 min

Average speech length

1:24 min

≈ 1.4 min · Rank 381/693

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20 Oct

2021

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Pushbacks at the EU's external border (debate)

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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 un…

7 Oct

2021

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European Union Agency for Asylum (continuation of debate)

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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 re…

14 Sep

2021

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Situation in Afghanistan (debate)

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Mr President, research shows that 99% of Afghans are in favour of the introduction of Sharia. Is it any wonder then that the Afghan army went up in smoke and the Taliban took over the country again at lightning speed? The Afghans do not want to fight for Western human rights and democracy at all, because they simply do not believe in it. Why would the hundreds of thousands of Afghans who now live …

7 Jul

2021

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Breaches of EU law and of the rights of LGBTIQ citizens in Hungary as a result of the adopted legal changes in the Hungarian Parliament - The outcome of 22 June hearings under Article 7(1) of the TEU regarding Poland and Hungary (debate)

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Mr President, while LGBT celebrations are taking place in Budapest without hindrance, the police in Istanbul are breaking up the pride parade. Orbán is sentenced, but Erdoğan has recently received another three billion euros. The European Union is hypocritical. Promoting gender ideology to children is a personal choice for parents and a policy choice for voters. This is not the case in the Europea…