What Christine spoke about.

8 Oct

2025

EN Speech

Promoting EU digital rules: protecting European sovereignty (debate)

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Mr President, five years ago, the Commission promised a Europe fit for the digital age. We were to have world‑class chips, sovereign clouds and 10 000 green data centres humming in harmony. The Chips Act, the Data Act, the AI Act: the Commission seems convinced that if only they regulated innovation hard enough, it would just magically come into existence. Today, the dream of chip sovereignty rema…

8 Oct

2025

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United response to recent Russian violations of the EU Member States’ airspace and critical infrastructure (debate)

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Yes, the point is quite simple: The EU Commission interferes in everything, and where it might have been needed, there is silence in the forest. And by the way, I can only say: The political death, the political death of this EU Commission is a mandatory prerequisite for peace, freedom and security in Europe. Ursula von der Leyen should be measured by this. Unfortunately, it does not – all the wor…

8 Oct

2025

DE Speech

United response to recent Russian violations of the EU Member States’ airspace and critical infrastructure (debate)

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Madam President, It is a pity that Mrs von der Leyen has left the plenary just before I take the podium. Maybe she was afraid of me, I don't know. But nevertheless: Of course, if the President's plane loses the GPS signal, Brussels will immediately call: “It was Russia” even before any data were available. You don't hear about it anymore. Why? Well, it wasn't Russia. Then it was probably a blatant…

10 Sep

2025

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Need for a strong European Democracy Shield to enhance democracy, protect the EU from foreign interference and hybrid threats, and protect electoral processes in the EU (debate)

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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…

9 Jul

2025

DE Speech

Presentation of the Stockpiling Strategies - strengthening response capacities for a changing risk and threat landscape (debate)

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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 a…

7 Jul

2025

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Motion of censure on the Commission (debate)

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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 reflect…

18 Jun

2025

EN Speech

Freedom of assembly in Hungary and the need for the Commission to act (debate)

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(start of speech off mic) ... I will not give more time to the Rainbow Mafia. (The speaker declined to take a blue-card question)

18 Jun

2025

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Freedom of assembly in Hungary and the need for the Commission to act (debate)

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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 pu…

16 Jun

2025

DE Speech

State of play and follow-up two years after the PEGA recommendations and the illegal use of spyware (debate)

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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 beha…

21 May

2025

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Improving mental health at work (debate)

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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 …

3 Apr

2025

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European Action Plan on Rare Diseases (debate)

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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 le…

1 Apr

2025

DE Speech

EU Preparedness Union Strategy (debate)

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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 possi…

12 Mar

2025

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100 days of the new Commission – Delivering on defence, competitiveness, simplification and migration as our priorities (topical debate)

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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…

11 Mar

2025

DE Speech

Roadmap for Women`s Rights (debate)

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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. Wh…

10 Mar

2025

EN Speech

Order of business

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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, th…

12 Feb

2025

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US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, the World Health Organisation and the suspension of US development and humanitarian aid (debate)

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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, wh…

12 Feb

2025

DE Speech

Commission Work Programme 2025 (debate)

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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 …

10 Feb

2025

DE Speech

Order of business

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(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 c…

23 Jan

2025

DE Speech

Major interpellations (debate)

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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 repel…

21 Jan

2025

EN Answer

Geopolitical and economic implications for the transatlantic relations under the new Trump administration (debate)

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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 ridiculo…

21 Jan

2025

EN Answer

Geopolitical and economic implications for the transatlantic relations under the new Trump administration (debate)

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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, h…

21 Jan

2025

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Geopolitical and economic implications for the transatlantic relations under the new Trump administration (debate)

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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 lobb…

21 Jan

2025

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Need to enforce the Digital Services Act to protect democracy on social media platforms including against foreign interference and biased algorithms (debate)

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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. Factchecking…

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)

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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…

17 Dec

2024

DE Speech

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

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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, mi…