What Tomasz spoke about.

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May

2025

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Arrest and risk of execution of Tundu Lissu, Chair of Chadema, the main opposition party in Tanzania

Madam President, Germany has been paying around 160 million euros for good governance in Tanzania for four years. The EU put 107 million euros on it over the same period – a lot of money. When Socialist President Samia Suluhu Hassan took over government in 2021, we became more generous. Too generous, because too naive. Opposition figures in Tanzania are kidnapped, arrested, tortured and murdered –…

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May

2025

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2023 and 2024 reports on Türkiye (debate)

Mr President! Turkey is not a liberal democracy, nor does it have to be. It is a sovereign state with remarkable national strategy, and it goes its own way between tradition and modernity. We respect that. You don't respect that. They criticize Turkey because it rejects gender ideology. But that's her right. They criticise Turkey's withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention, but even six EU Member St…

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May

2025

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Apr

2025

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Verification of credentials

Madam President, I also refer to Rule 188 of the Rules of Procedure. You declared my amendment 2 inadmissible on the grounds that Lukashenko's use of migrants against the EU's external border and Poland had no direct link with the text. I see it differently, and I ask for verification. If we are allowed to decide in this text to counteract operations by Belarusian intelligence services and Belarus…

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Apr

2025

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Recent legislative changes in Hungary and their impact on fundamental rights (debate)

Madam President, In Germany, a ban on the AfD is being considered. In Romania, democracy has just been buried. In Poland, Mr. Tusk hunts oppositionists. In France, a political death sentence is imposed on Marine Le Pen. But you're not interested in all this. You're bothered by Hungary again. Why? Because Viktor Orbán wants to protect children from the woke virus and therefore prohibits Pride parad…

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Apr

2025

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Targeted attacks against Christians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo – defending religious freedom and security (debate)

Madam President, 400 million Christians are persecuted worldwide. Christians are the most persecuted religious community in the world. Hardly anyone knows that. Christians are often second-class victims. This is no different in Congo. Only in February more than 70 Christians were beheaded there. Their bodies were found in a Protestant church, and this is unfortunately not an isolated case. Christi…

12

Mar

2025

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Unlawful detention and sham trials of Armenian hostages, including high-ranking political representatives from Nagorno-Karabakh, by Azerbaijan

Mr President! The Armenians are a proud people who can only feel sorry for you: Poorly governed by Nikol Pashinyan, attacked by Azerbaijan and abandoned by the EU, but also by Russia. In recent years, Baku has created facts: Attack on Nagorno-Karabakh, dissolution of the Republic of Arzakh, hundreds of dead, over 100,000 Armenians fleeing, many prisoners, many hostages – to this day. In addition, …

12

Feb

2025

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Continuing detention and risk of the death penalty for individuals in Nigeria charged with blasphemy, notably the case of Yahaya Sharif-Aminu

Mr President! I am a Christian believer. And as a Christian believer, I reject any form of blasphemy. It doesn't matter who it's targeting, whether it's Christians or Muslims. Blasphemy is wrong. Blasphemy is disrespectful. At the same time, freedom of expression requires that blasphemy, or what one considers blasphemy, is not punishable by death. This is exactly what is happening in Nigeria. Yaha…

12

Feb

2025

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Repression by the Ortega-Murillo regime in Nicaragua, targeting human rights defenders, political opponents and religious communities in particular

Mr President! Socialism always fails. It destroys private property, tradition, family, religion and culture. Various thinkers such as Igor Schafarevich and Friedrich August von Hayek have already worked out this decades ago. The story proved them right: The black books of socialism now fill entire libraries. And it is terrifying how many Members in this House still haven't understood this. This is…

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Jan

2025

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Case of Jean-Jacques Wondo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, The EU has transferred billions in development aid to the Congo for decades. This money was used, among other things, to improve the judicial system there – this improvement has clearly not been achieved. 37 people were sentenced to death by a military court for an attempted coup. Among those convicted is Jean-Jacques Wondo, a Belgian citizen who previously t…

22

Jan

2025

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

Madam President, thank you very much. Prime Minister Tusk, I think you understand German better, so I will give you this pleasure. Mr Tusk, politicians like you are the greatest threat to European nations. When you were in the opposition, you attacked the sovereignty of your own country with the help of the EU. Now that you are ruling again, you are destroying the rule of law in Poland. Opposition…

21

Jan

2025

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Further deterioration of the political situation in Georgia (debate)

Mr President! The EU constantly complains of foreign interference, and has been interfering in Georgian affairs for months. It threatens to impose sanctions on Georgia. It supports a coup d'état in Tbilisi reminiscent of the bloody Euromaidan in Ukraine – incited protesters, foreign-funded NGOs, mass protests on the streets. We know the result – it is not a good one. The EU does this because it ca…

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Jan

2025

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Madam President, I'm sorry. Ladies and Gentlemen, The Volhynian massacre is one of the greatest crimes in human history. It is an act of Ukrainian aggression against the Polish people. More than 100,000 Poles were murdered. The families of the victims after more than 80 years have the right to dignified bury their ancestors. This is a prerequisite for good relations between Poland and Ukraine. Unf…

17

Dec

2024

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Misinformation and disinformation on social media platforms, such as TikTok, and related risks to the integrity of elections in Europe (debate)

Mr President! Lose elections, then annul elections, then censor social media, and then shut down an opposition television station. Whoever does this does not save democracy. Whoever does such a thing abolishes democracy. This is what is happening in Romania. The biggest electoral scandal in the history of the EU, backed by Brussels, concealed by the media – simply shameful. This election fraud is …

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Dec

2024

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Toppling of the Syrian regime, its geopolitical implications and the humanitarian situation in the region (debate)

Mr President! The Assad era is over. A reason for joy? This will only become clear – doubts are warranted. The new strong man in Damascus is Muhammad al-Dschaulani, an Islamist terrorist and hopeful of progressive globalists at the same time. This shows the moral bankruptcy of Western elites. You cheer for the new ruler, to whom you have previously offered 10 million US dollars bounty. What awaits…

13

Nov

2024

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EU-US relations in light of the outcome of the US presidential elections (debate)

Madam President, Political show trials, voter insults, an assassination attempt – Trump's opponents wanted to take him out, imprison him, chill him. But instead of being in jail or in the grave, he now sits in the White House again. What a comeback! Trump's victory is particularly embarrassing for the arrogant left-liberal establishment. They laughed at Trump. Trump laughed at her. The one who lau…

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Oct

2024

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Findings of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on Poland's abortion law (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. It annoys me that Polish abortion law is referred to as the hell of women. It annoys me because the issue of unborn children is completely overlooked. They are condemned to death. And that's why this abortion fanaticism disgusts me so much. Restrictive abortion laws do not discriminate against women, abortion is not a human right, and the UN and the European Unio…

22

Oct

2024

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Situation in Tunisia (debate)

Mr President! There is not much left of the Arab Spring in Tunisia – Tunisia tends towards autocracy, the elections there are a farce. We may lament this, but we will not change it, and we should not try, because the instability in Tunisia is also the result of our willingness to intervene. The balance sheet is fatal. In all the attempts of nation-building In the end, you are usually at the beginn…

22

Oct

2024

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Urgent need for a ceasefire in Lebanon and for safeguarding the UNIFIL mission in light of the recent attacks (debate)

Madam President, Hamas' attack on Israel must be condemned, and of course Israel also has the right to self-defense. But Israel does not have the right to destroy the Middle East. The question is: When does defense stop, and when do crimes begin? In Lebanon, patients burn alive. Civilians, women, children are dying. Entire villages are wiped out. UN peacekeepers are under attack. No, dear colleagu…

9

Oct

2024

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Iraq, notably the situation of women’s rights and the recent proposal to amend the Personal Status Law

Madam President, Child marriages with nine-year-old girls, female genital mutilation, legal marital rape – in Iraq, customs are brutalised. Of course, this has a lot to do with the cultural practice there, but also with Western intervention policy. Sometimes Saddam Hussein was the good villain, sometimes the bad one. In the 1980s, Iraq was supported in the war against Iran, and in the 1990s, sanct…

8

Oct

2024

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Situation in Sudan (debate)

Mr President! Famine, poverty, displacement, persecution of Christians and mass migration – Sudan is in a catastrophic state. This is nothing new, this was the case in the time of Omar al-Bashir, and this has not changed to this day. When al-Bashir was deposed, many civil society groups, the students in Sudan, but also the West, cheered. Only: The West has made a mistake: Protests have been suppor…

8

Oct

2024

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Escalation of violence in the Middle East and the situation in Lebanon (debate)

Madam President, In Lebanon, innocent civilians are dying, and in Lebanon, children are dying. Humanitarian institutions, hospitals, schools, places of worship, even Christian churches are being bombed. No, these are not all weapons depots of Hezbollah. Anyone who says that is nonsense. Of course, Hezbollah bears massive complicity in this escalation – there is no doubt about it. We are currently …

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Sep

2024

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The severe situation of political prisoners in Belarus

Madam President, Acts have consequences, and I do not mean the deeds of the detainees condemned by Lukashenko. This is a very bad thing, no doubt about it; This is absolutely to be condemned. But I also mean the actions of the West and also the actions of the EU. Because in some respects, they also share responsibility for the fact that opposition members are in Belarusian prison. This is the high…

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Sep

2024

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The deteriorating situation of women in Afghanistan due to the recent adoption of the law on the “Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice”

Mr President! Child marriages, forced marriages and honour killings are on the rise, almost 800 gang rapes in the last year alone, around 14,000 knife attacks – the trend is rising sharply – and over 100,000 female genital mutilations: These are not figures for Afghanistan, these are figures for Germany. They show: Whoever receives half Kabul does not help Kabul, but becomes Kabul himself. We don'…

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Sep

2024

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The Hungarian “National Card” scheme and its consequences for Schengen and the area of freedom, security and justice (debate)

Madam President, The hypocrisy of this House is truly impressive. Where there are terrorists, close your eyes. Where there are no terrorists, you suddenly sense a security risk. It is not in Budapest that terrorist bombs explode, it is not in Budapest that women are raped in groups, and it is not in Budapest that the caliphate is proclaimed, but in our cities: in Berlin, in Brussels, in Paris. And…