Speeches

Madam President, yes, there is foreign propaganda from Russia and elsewhere, but the Commission's so-called Democracy Shield does not defend our democracy against outside threats. Your shield protects your narrative from internal opposition. You want to control and steer public debate. And for that purpose, you fund fact-checking networks, you pressure platforms through the DSA by threatening them with fines in the billions. You smear the opposition, dismiss legitimate questions as conspiracy theories and brand descending views as hate speech or disinformation. What you call protection of democracy is, in fact, protection of your illegitimate power grab. Citizens are sick of this, so you jail them for speaking their mind. Your idea of defending democracy destroys democracy. Without free speech there is no democracy. Without free speech, there is only tyranny and totalitarianism. Well, congratulations, you are well on your way to totalitarianism. But the good news is you will fail. The people will stop you, and the day they do is the day that I will rejoice.

Mr President! In Soviet communism, too, stockpiling was carried out – huge secret warehouses full of grain, fuel and medicines that were often left unused. Now, under the guise of resilience, the European Commission wants to build up stocks, inaccessible to citizens, managed by unelected elites, according to guidelines that no one voted for. Already the Russian dissident Vladimir Bukowski warned against this emerging EUSR, a bureaucratic superstate with economic planning following the Soviet model. Just think of the mRNA injection debacle. 215 million doses of this mRNA were disposed of. €4 billion is simply a hit, thanks to the European Commission. As always, the bill pays taxpayers – families, workers, farmers – as inflation soars and supply chains collapse. Europe needs freedom to build, trade and prosper. Crisis preparedness yes, but for God's sake no warehouse management under Brussels incompetence. Only the Member States are in demand here.

Mr President! In Soviet communism, too, stockpiling was carried out – huge secret warehouses full of grain, fuel and medicines that were often left unused. Now, under the guise of resilience, the European Commission wants to build up stocks, inaccessible to citizens, managed by unelected elites, according to guidelines that no one voted for. Already the Russian dissident Vladimir Bukowski warned against this emerging EUSR, a bureaucratic superstate with economic planning following the Soviet model. Just think of the mRNA injection debacle. 215 million doses of this mRNA were disposed of. €4 billion is simply a hit, thanks to the European Commission. As always, the bill pays taxpayers – families, workers, farmers – as inflation soars and supply chains collapse. Europe needs freedom to build, trade and prosper. Crisis preparedness yes, but for God's sake no warehouse management under Brussels incompetence. Only the Member States are in demand here.

Madam President, I base my point of order on Rules 131 and 178. A motion of censure against the Commission has been tabled by over 72 individual Members, not by political groups. Yet, the Conference of Presidents decided to allow only one round of group speakers. Madam President, this cannot be reconciled with Rule 131, which specifically foresees a genuine debate followed by three days of reflection, and it only makes sense if the Members who initiated this motion are allowed to exchange arguments, not just listen to scripted statements by the presidents of the groups – not to mention the non‑attached Members who are excluded entirely. This format also fails to reflect the seriousness of the issue and certainly leads me to believe that this House is once again trying to sweep under the rug the numerous allegations against Ursula von der Leyen. Madam President, our job is not to protect Ursula von der Leyen. Our job is to hold her accountable. I therefore respectfully request a full and substantive debate.

Madam President, what in God's name is wrong with you? Your ritual of prosecution against Hungary is really getting ridiculous. Hungary's parliament – the legitimate representation of the Hungarian people – has decided to protect their children. They reject to expose their children to sexualised performances during these 'Pride' parades. All Hungary is saying is, 'You want to protest? Fine. But put on some darn clothes, for crying out loud.' Where you see scandal, I see reason, common sense and decency, and that's why you call for the Brussels Inquisition: infringement procedures, Article 7, financial sanctions. All that just because Hungary is saying, 'Our country, our laws, our children, our decision.' Let's be clear: your demand for diversity and 'Pride' is really a demand for the public display of perversion and depravity, which not even the most beautiful symbol there is on the planet – the rainbow – can conceal. Your concept of diversity …

Mr President! Pegasus was just the tip of the iceberg. For a long time now, they have not shied away from spying on critics, journalists and opposition figures – with military software, just like in authoritarian states. When civil liberties fell into series production during Corona through lockdowns, QR codes and bans on thinking, you were all at the forefront and celebrated the totalitarian behavior of the state. Pegasus condemn you, the COVID surveillance apps, but you celebrated them. The systematic persecution of the opposition has not been a marginal phenomenon for a long time, it has long since become everyday political life. During the coronavirus years, the opposition was flatly defamed, excluded and destroyed by the media. Whoever had questions was considered a threat, whoever disagreed was considered an enemy of democracy. This is what we are witnessing today – at Marine Le Pen, in Romania and in Germany, where there is open talk of a ban on the biggest opposition party, the AfD. Write one behind your ears: Democracy is not threatened by the opposition, but by those who fight the opposition. I'll say it again: You're not afraid of democracy, you're afraid of democracy, and you should be ashamed of that.

Mr President! First of all: Suffering from mental stress in the workplace is terrible. Burnout, anxiety, depression – this is a bitter reality for many people. A reality that is also the result of a culture of uprooting – without family, without faith, without community. First, however, the EU does not have the power to regulate mental health in the workplace. This again violates the principle of subsidiarity. Secondly, the EU institutions in particular are the worst possible example on this issue. For civil servants and employees in the public sector and especially in the Commission bureaucracy, cases of psychological stress are above average. This is not least because the fight against paper tigers and the lack of meaningful work make one thing above all else, namely sick. In short: How can the European Commission even dare to become a savior right here? An institution that is not only sick, but also makes you sick should really not act as a therapist.

Mr President! Millions of people in Europe live with rare diseases and deserve our sympathy, respect and help. The call for a central EU action plan therefore sounds good. But is he really that in the end? The division of competences between the EU and the Member States is not an end in itself. The EU Treaties clearly state that health policy is assigned to the Member States. There, at national level, it is also much better off – because the closer to the citizen, the better. So why should the EU coordinate on rare diseases? Coordination always boils down to control and dictation. Anyone who wants to move more power to Brussels under the pretext of wanting to help the sick and the weak does not act for the people, but against the people. Ladies and gentlemen, real help does not come from the bureaucracy hell of the EU. No, it comes from sovereign states that take responsibility for their citizens and actually act in their best interests. We should just leave it at that.

Madam President, Having food, water, food and batteries in the house is called prepping or common sense. Citizens who were so prepared for the emergency have so far been ridiculed by you as aluminium hats or doomsday fanatics. Now what? Now you're suddenly demanding exactly what you banished to the realm of conspiracy theory last year. But your proposal is not about smart precautions for the possible emergency: You're doing politics with fear again. During COVID, you learned that the citizens you frighten will agree to implement your politically illiberal agenda. With awareness campaigns, Europe-wide Preparedness day, with curricula for children, not least with language, make the state of emergency a permanent state. By constantly alerting you normalize the state of anxiety. Frightened citizens are so much easier to control, aren't they? Above all, however, citizens are better distracted by who is responsible for the energy crisis, the depreciation of money and the growing threat of war, namely you, the EU Commission. Thank you very much for this! Hopefully someday people will know how to pay you back.

Mr President! 100 days of the Leyen – 100 days of empty promises policy. The Christian Democrats promise to de-bureaucratize. They promise improvements for the automotive industry. They promise a tougher right to asylum. Dear colleagues from the EPP, none of this will be possible without the three right-wing conservative groups in this House. Without us, there is no migration. Without us, there is no preservation of the incinerator. Without us, there is no reduction in regulation. Without us, there is no majority in this House for a policy in the interest of the European peoples. And yet you hold on to your self-destructive firewall in a masochistic manner, both in Brussels and in Germany. What Franz Josef Strauss, whom I value very much, once said about the FDP, he would formulate today in this way: In the case of the CDU, one can rely on one thing, namely a predictable component – its lack of character. Finally come to your senses! They need us for a policy in the interests of the European peoples. We are ready for that.

Mr President! The left-wing Von der Leyen Commission wants to tell us the lie that a founding value of the EU is to establish equality between women and men. In fact, Article 119 of the Treaty does not contain any of these provisions; It mentions only the principle of equal opportunities and equality between men and women. Equal opportunities and equality are completely different from equality. When EU Commissioners speak of equality between men and women, they twist the EU Treaties into their opposite. In addition to this distortion of the law, there is also a distortion of the facts, because men and women are not the same. Women can give birth to children and men cannot. Every kindergarten child can tell the difference between a man and a woman with the naked eye. This is a recognition that you are persistently denying here. If one assumes wrong ideas and wrong facts, then of course a roadmap for women's rights can only be wrong. This belongs knocked into the bin as disinformation, along with the unspeakable gender ideology. Just stay out of our women's lives! That would help us the most.

Madam President, Romania has now barred Călin Georgescu, as my colleague Mr Piperea just pointed out. This is unprecedented in the EU Member States. Ladies and gentlemen, if democracy were to effect change, that is the sole reason for having a democracy. You can effect change. But what we are seeing now is actually that people can vote for whoever they want and if they don't like the candidate, they just bar him or put him in jail. As democrats, we cannot stand for this. The European Commission states that in a healthy democracy, citizens can freely choose their leaders. If the Romanian people choose Georgescu, why do we interfere and why do we stop it? This has nothing to do with democracy. We need to have a debate on this to get back to our senses. I urge you to vote for this proposal.

Madam President, Paris Climate Agreement ‑ afuera! We need to end the man-made climate change hoax. USAID afuera, a government agency that fraudulently wastes taxpayers' money, engages in money laundering and acts as a CIA front to manipulate public opinion abroad, to affect regime change must be taken down. USAID has even indirectly funded the Wuhan lab from where the Chinese virus was leaked, which then ushered in the COVID totalitarianism. WHO ‑ afuera! These people are fed up with these unelected bureaucrats of this lobby organisation for Big Pharma, who are unaccountable to no one, except maybe to their Chinese donors. President Trump is showing us the way. And unless we want to go down in history as complete idiots, we should follow his lead. Green Deal development aid, WHO, take it all down and give us Doge instead, so we can fight these despicable, globalitarian misanthropists.

Madam President, It is not surprising that this Parliament cannot even vote on the Commission's work programme. But why? The Christian Democrats have long since set the course until 2029. And the Parliament: superfluous, just as chair circles of spirit-ethical world-saviors are. But then there are no more excuses. Everything that this von der Leyen Commission decides or does not decide, then just goes to the account of the Christian Democrats. That's what we're going to measure you by, dear colleagues! What Europe needs, but you persistently refuse to deliver, would be: less EU, getting burners, ending supply chain law, ending sustainability reporting, ending nature restoration law and, most importantly, ending the unspeakable Green Deal. Where is this actually EU Department for Government Efficiency? Of course you don't want that. Instead, your Christian-democratic EU in 2029 will be economically weakened, bureaucratically inflated and politically even further away from the citizen. And the receipt? Yeah, she's coming. She'll be at the ballot box sooner or later. They are not looking forward to it – I am all the more in favour of it.

(Start of speech with microphone switched off) ... would like to add an item on the agenda under which this House can speak out united against any political violence. The occasion is an attack on one of our campaigners on Saturday, who was bombarded with a steel ball by means of a twinkling. In Hanover, 250 attackers surrounded a polling station. The police were only laboriously able to keep the crowd in check with protective shields. Later, the mob moved on and threatened a stand of the CDU. A member of the CDU reported that he was afraid for his party members. Dear colleagues, we must not tolerate violence in the election campaign. So with a debate, let us take a stand together against all forms of violence! We owe it to our democracy. Let us demonstrate that this House stands united against all forms of political violence, no matter who it originates from, and no matter who it is directed against! Thank you very much!

Mr President! Europe is under attack – not by tanks or missiles, but by the migrant onslaught on our borders, which is being used as a weapon against us. And that works because we've been fooled by left-wing spinners into thinking pushbacks are illegal. Pushbacks, i.e. the consistent rejection of migrants at the borders, are the most effective means of preventing illegal border crossings and repelling this attack on our home countries. That we are not allowed to use them is due to massive lobbying by pro-migration NGOs, funded by eccentric billionaires who act as a moral authority. In fact, their agenda endangers not only Europe's security, but Europe itself. Every sovereign country has the right, yes, the duty, to protect its borders. The claim that this is illegal is a brazen lie that deprives Europe of any possibility of self-defense. And, of course, we need physical barriers at the external borders – they work, they protect, they are legal and they are legitimate. These fences and walls are nothing more than a pushback poured into barbed wire and concrete. So we're finally building them, these physical barriers, and we're finally protecting our homelands and our citizens. You too, Commissioner Brunner, should have noticed by now that the political landscape is changing. Their Christian Democratic party will soon be a junior partner of the FPÖ. You will have to change your course anyway. Why not now? And if not now, when? But the next elections will show anyway that citizens will no longer vote for parties that refuse to protect the borders. They will no longer vote for parties that sacrifice the security of their own citizens on the altar of imaginary rights and claims of millions of backward mass invaders and, even more so, relentlessly charge them with food. Finally come to your senses. Act decisively and now!

Number one, Donald Trump is not against us. The people Donald Trump is against are the globalitarian misanthropists. On the question on how much gas and oil Germany has, the answer is: unfortunately nothing. But when Donald Trump pointed that out at the UN, that we were dependent upon Russian gas, the entire German Government that was present laughed their butts off because he made such a ridiculous statement. Well, it turns out he was right, wasn't he? We were dependent upon Russian gas. Yes, we are dependent on that. I'm confident Donald Trump will be solving these issues. By the way, the Russian gas was not shut off by the Russians, it was shut off by ourselves – stupid us!

First of all, I reject the premise of your question, in which you slandered me with such a term that is unbecoming of the dignity of this House, and which is certainly unbecoming of you being a member of this Parliament. If you just stop for a single second and look what we have been doing in the past decades in our countries, like I said, disenfranchising people, censoring free speech – I mean, had there been free speech during the COVID madness, millions of lives would have been saved because people would have known that this mRNA injection was not helpful – not at all; it was dreadful, actually!

Madam President, Donald Trump's inauguration speech – what a breath of fresh air – marked the beginning of a golden age. Donald Trump will restore inner security by closing the border and deporting all illegal immigrants. He called out climate change as the hoax that it is, and he will end this gigantic taxpayer‑milking machine called the 'Green Deal'. He will stop the overreach of the farmer lobby posing as the WHO by withdrawing from it. In short, Donald Trump will undo all of the freedom‑, democracy‑ and rule‑of‑law‑undermining measures that you have been working so hard on imposing on the people. The EU has robbed the Member States of their sovereignty, destroyed their economic power, devalued their currency, disenfranchised their citizens. All of this needs to stop. We need to go back to the foundation of democracy: rule of the people, for the people, by the people. And the beautiful sound of freedom ringing throughout the entire world yesterday should inspire us. Let us make Europe great again. And if the EU refuses, then guess what? We will just do it without you. But it will happen. Let's make Europe great again.

Madam President, They therefore want to protect democracy and consider it an effective means of regulating freedom of expression. The instrument created for this purpose – the DSA – does not protect democracy, on the contrary! It is your desperate attempt to secure control of the opinion corridor and ensure that your disinformation remains unchallenged. End Facebook, Google, X and Co. FactcheckingThey no longer want to censor their platforms according to government regulations, and they hyperventilate. In doing so, you express what you fear the most – freedom of expression. They fear it as much as the devil fears holy water. You fear them, because they threaten your power-preserving power of interpretation. But the prerequisite for democracy is freedom of expression. That's why this unspeakable DSA has to go, ladies and gentlemen. Because these beautiful new clothes of the emperor exist only where there is no freedom of expression. The emperor is naked with freedom of expression, just as you are – naked with splinter fibres.

First of all, I welcome the fact that you have a small, humorous undertone in your Blue card have built in. Of course you are right: Kemmerich did indeed resign as an elected prime minister a few days after his election, and of course that did not happen voluntarily, but because of the pressure that was put on him. After all, another democratically elected party, which sits in the Thuringian state parliament, co-elected him, and this was obviously not meant to stand still – and this is also a blatant violation of the will of the electorate. As I said, I find it very interesting that you take up the word sulphur stench again. But even you should have realized that, of course, figure of speech It was and, of course, is not to be taken seriously. But really think about whether you actually still sit here in the interest of the people and also serve their interests or whether you do not serve completely different masters.

Madam President, In a democracy, all power comes from the people. But what do we see? In Romania, elections seem to be reversed by courts even in violation of constitutional law – the rule of judges is being established. And this is not an isolated case. Thuringia, 2020, Germany: A democratically elected prime minister was forced out of office by pressure from Angela Merkel – from South Africa, mind you. In both cases, the will of the electorate was annulled and replaced by power from above. This is the arrogance of globalist misanthropes. This is the arrogance of their power, the sulphur stench of which also runs through the hallways in this house. Bertolt Brecht once asked sarcastically: “Wouldn’t it be easier if the government dissolved the people and chose another one?” Ladies and gentlemen, the continued disregard for the will of the people and the facade democracy you are trying to build are all exposing you as anti-democrats. And if it were up to me, you'd be ashamed of it every day in the ground.

Madam President, I am relying on Rule 150 of the Rules of Procedure, the restriction of which to third countries is, in my opinion, an inadmissible restriction on the wording of our Rules of Procedure, given that flagrant violations of democracy and the rule of law are taking place in the Member States. I am referring here, for example, to the moron affair around Robert Habeck in Germany. Using AI, social media is systematically searched for insults, displayed to citizens and thus overlaid with disproportionately repressive measures – in the present case, a house search. With such an approach, one leaves the soil of the free democratic basic order. However, a federal minister who instrumentalises the rule of law in calling it ‘weakhead’ is primarily totalitarian and only secondarily a giant weakhead. I therefore call for a review of the interpretation of Rule 150 of our Rules of Procedure.

Mr President! It's getting better and better: Now the EU even wants to ban smoking outdoors, for example in swimming pools and amusement parks, but also at bus stops or in beer gardens – all over Europe. Although it has no competence for this, there is also a lack of scientific justification. But the EU's regulatory craze simply knows no boundaries anymore. Your paternalistic approach is a disenfranchisement of the citizens and shows once again what image you have of the citizen. You regard the citizens as subjects, as naughty children, whose lives you presume to determine down to the smallest detail. Citizens are therefore right to say: The hell with this EU. Their way of thinking is not liberal, it is authoritarian and has meanwhile clearly totalitarian traits. Why don't you just leave the people alone?