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Turkish President Erdoğan has the 1000th. Condemn the opposition. And what does the EU do? It continues to send billions of euros to the Bosphorus because Turkey is a candidate country. A country where human rights are systematically violated, where there is no political opposition, no independent media and no free judges, is a candidate for EU membership – it does not matter that it occupies part of a member country and regularly threatens it. The EU's human rights debate is a huge theatre. Everything you say about it: . The EU treats different countries very differently – for reasons of political opportunity. Your dealings with Turkey are a declaration of bankruptcy of what you announced in 2004 at the beginning of the accession negotiations. At the time, you were talking about the fact that the accession negotiations would improve the human rights situation and the overall political situation in Turkey. Turkey would embrace the values of democracy and the rule of law. How naive can you be? So many years and billions later, it is obvious to everyone that your project has failed. Nevertheless, you stick to it. This is the real scandal.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. Today we are once again talking about the European pillars of social rights. I always say the same thing. According to the Treaties, the EU is not responsible for social policy. But the treaties have not interested anyone for a long time, just like the fundamental values of this EU. It was about prosperity, peace and democracy. Prosperity: The Green Deal It is de-industrialising our country, destroying millions of value-added jobs and driving Europe into poverty. Peace: Sanctions against Russia are hurting us, not the Russians. Weapons for Ukraine do not create peace. They don't create peace, they prolong death. Ukraine cannot win this war. And democracy: This is a democracy simulation. For me a huge theatre, unfortunately the most expensive theatre in the world. I came here five years ago as an EU critic, and I am leaving today as an absolute EU opponent. If you want prosperity, peace and democracy for Europe, you have to get out of this EU.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. Today we are talking about sexual violence in the workplace; and what is particularly important to the Greens: that the LGBTIQ community and migrants are particularly affected. What the Greens don't want to talk about is Malte Gallée. Malte Gallée, the youngest member of the Greens, who has mainly noticed walking through Parliament in a clown costume – this green clown is not really funny. This green clown has harassed women; A dozen cases are now known. And these courageous women have spoken, these courageous women have entrusted themselves to the leadership of the parliamentary group. Terry Reintke has known for six months, and Terry Reintke has done nothing. It was only when Stern made this case public and reported on it that Malte Gallée actually resigned, pointing out that he had nothing to blame – and the group has still not responded. Now there are 100 Greens – 100 employees! – made serious accusations to the top of the group and also made serious accusations to Terry Reintke. And nothing happened: Terry Reintke is silent. And today, in this important debate, no one is addressing this case – the most massive MeToo scandal in the European Parliament. And today no one is talking about it! Terry Reintke has to step down.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. Today we are talking about combating inflation, food prices and their social consequences and root causes. Food prices have actually risen by a dramatic 29 percent in the last two years. Crass examples: Sugar 74 percent, wheat flour 69 percent, margarine 50 percent. What does that mean? People are driven into poverty. Poor people are starving. Particularly affected: our pensioners, the people who have worked for prosperity in our country. By the way, those who remedy this situation are volunteers on the German boards in Germany. We now have 1,000 boards, and they take care of almost 2 million people in need. The tables must alleviate the greatest distress. That's what politicians have taken care of. What are the real causes? Interesting is: Food prices are falling globally, they are only rising in Europe. Globally, they are now back to 2021 levels. A 2020 study by the U.S. Department of Agriculture predicted: Putting Europe on the Green Deal Per capita food prices are increasing by $150. They predicted that in 2020. If you want to reduce food prices, you have to Green Deal Throw on the heap of history!

Mass rape and subsequent beheading of women: We must be able to speak openly about this, including in this European Parliament. Because I'm not willing to tolerate such a thing.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. Today is the International Day for Combating Violence against Women. And as every year, we find warm words – but they do not help, because things are getting worse. More domestic violence, more murders, more rapes, much more gang rapes, more genital mutilations. And who are the perpetrators? Yes, they are men; But unfortunately, far too often these men are migrants. The same migrants who took to the streets in Germany and celebrated Hamas. They have celebrated Hamas for mass rapes followed by beheadings of women. Even before the murder of babies, these beasts did not stop. And these people are being celebrated! In my hometown of Essen, there were 3,000 Islamists on the street. 3000 who have made it clear that they hate Jews, who have made it clear that they hate homosexuals, and who have made it quite clear that women are completely worthless to them. If you want to protect women, you must finally deport them consistently, because these people have nothing to look for in Germany and in Europe with their attitude. (The speaker agreed to answer a question on the blue card procedure.)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Today is the International Day of the Rights of the Child, and I would like to focus on a topic that is particularly important to me: child poverty. This is so important to me because as a child I was affected by child poverty myself. I know what it means to have no money for the cinema, for the swimming pool. I know what it means to be bullied because you can't afford the branded clothes. I was born in Gelsenkirchen. Gelsenkirchen is now the city in Germany with the highest child poverty rate: 42 %; In Germany it is 24%. This makes us 20th in the European ranking. This supposedly rich Germany ranks 20th in the ranking of child poverty. What are we talking about in total? 2.2 million children. And now a number that particularly affects me: Of these 2.2 million children, 933 000 have come to us since 2015, as refugees, as migrants. Out of 2.2 million 933 000 children. We must finally be honest: When we talk about child poverty, we also talk about migration. We celebrated St. Martin last week, a celebration that I love very much. St. Martin shared his coat. We're not sharing here, we're giving our last shirt. If you want to fight child poverty, you have to save the welfare state. And in order to save the welfare state, we must finally end illegal migration.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. We have Thursday, October 19th, it's a quarter past three and we're discussing the future of the social industry today. And only ten MEPs have asked for speaking time, and not even these ten are all there. To tell the audience out there: We are here in Strasbourg, we have week of sitting. This week of meetings starts on Mondays at 5 p.m. and ends on Thursdays at 1 p.m. after the vote – then everyone runs away – so, very, very predominantly. But there is still a debate at 3 p.m. pro forma – that is the debate where you always get speaking time and even today I have two and a half minutes. I'll get at most a minute. So everything is exciting, how this is going on, and above all exciting, how the topic of the social economy is dealt with here and what value it seems to have, namely that this important topic is discussed in the debate, of all places, where the fewest Members are present. This is very important to me, I even wrote a book on the subject: ‘Docked up. Hypocritical policy of social coldness." The book was funded by the European Parliament. So not everything is nonsense. Why do I think this policy is hypocritical? Because what is this really about? So the social economy in Germany, which operates hospitals, day care centers and care facilities. And what are we talking about now? Are we talking about improving the conditions for customers, patients or employees? No. Unfortunately, we are talking about the social economy being climate neutral in the future. Again, many hundreds of millions of euros are to be invested to establish the climate neutrality of the social economy. My wife works in the care, I can assure you, they have completely different worries. And all employees in the care sector have completely different concerns than climate neutrality. This EU and this Parliament are once again impressively showing how completely different, unworldly and also anti-social action is being taken here. Because other things are much more important. Another hint: What are we talking about in the social economy? We are talking about Germany’s largest employer – 2 million employees, with a turnover of EUR 20 billion. Incidentally, this has almost doubled in the last ten years, and there are also new sources of income. There is suddenly housing for refugees, there are migration measures and there is the fight against the right, which is very generously funded. So all of this is insanity. Costs are exploding. And if we want to help the welfare system, we need to end illegal migration, and we need to finally give our support to the staff – and the patients.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Today we are talking about adequate housing for all, an important issue, because rents are exploding, and housing is becoming increasingly scarce. In Germany, 11 million households have a residence permit, but only 10 percent of them have a social housing. The traffic light government has promised to build 400,000 new apartments. It's been 20 so far, and it won't be any more, because housing is collapsing. What's that for? It is, of course, due to the questionable climate protection measures, to the requirements, and it is of course also due to the fact that we afford the highest energy prices in the world. Building is no longer affordable. At the same time, we see that the number of homeless people has doubled in the last year. Today, 370,000 people in Germany are homeless. What's that for? The number of illegal refugees is now back to the level of 2015. At the time, Angela Merkel said: ‘We can do it.’ But what have we done? We haven't done anything! We don't have the apartments, we don't have the daycare places, we don't have the school places. Integration is almost non-existent. The vast majority of these people have never arrived on the housing market - and especially not on the labour market. We didn't do anything. If we want to create something, then we must finally manage to effectively protect our external borders. We have to deport rigorously, and we have to switch from cash benefits to benefits in kind. Then we can do it with affordable housing.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Only 28% of Roma youth achieve upper secondary education, compared to 83% on average in Europe. Why is that so? Roma children are discriminated against. That is what the Roma say, and that is what the majority in this Parliament believes. That's why a lot of money has been invested in the past to solve this problem. Did we solve it? No. We have failed completely. What about the rainbow country of Germany? It's hard to believe – even there, Roma feel discriminated against. And I have now found a report from Zeit, a very left-wing German newspaper in which primary school teachers speak at focal schools, for example in my home country, in Gelsenkirchen, who report on the problems. So these students come to school, can not speak a word of German because they were not in kindergarten, are very behavioral and just come very, very rarely. So education can't work and parents just don't play along. The problem is not too little money and the problem is not warm words. The problem is this 1,000-year-old highly criminal culture, and we have to put pressure here, pressure for the benefit of these children, otherwise we will never solve this problem.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Today we are talking about improving the working conditions at the fire brigade. An important topic, and a lot of right things have already been said. But no problem was raised. A problem we didn't know before. I am talking about acts of violence against the fire brigade and emergency services: in 2021, 2,160 acts of violence against firefighters. 42% of firefighters and rescue workers say they have been victims of violence. Why is that so? This has now been dealt with by the Association of Firefighters. A few days ago a congress took place, and at this congress the question was asked: Where does hatred come from? A speaker there, a psychologist with Palestinian Arab roots, said the following: “If we do not mention the migrant background, we refuse to debate”. This hatred is imported, this hatred is a direct consequence of illegal mass immigration. And when we solve this problem, we need to address it. And the president of the fire brigade has said quite clearly: "We must finally rigorously punish these acts of violence".

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. Today we are talking about the social system of the future. And what a surprise – after the Social Climate Fund, we are now also talking about a green social protection system, which should be developed. Unfortunately, green and social do not fit together. Green means the loss of trillions of high-paying jobs, rising rents, rising energy costs and rising food costs. Green politics is not social, it is stupid and antisocial. An example from Germany: The Germans are to be forced to heat with heat pumps from next year. Now apart from the fact that these heat pumps do not exist and they are very expensive and unable to heat old buildings, these pumps work with electricity, supposedly green electricity. It's just stupid that people have to heat up in the winter. There's no such thing as green because you don't know that. But most heat in winter, and in winter there is the least green electricity. So this policy is stupid and antisocial.

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! It's getting crazy. Last month we decided to phase out the internal combustion engine, which means the loss of 600,000 well-paid jobs in Germany alone. Yesterday we decided on the energetic forced renovation of real estate, which makes living unaffordable, older buildings practically worthless and expropriation, i.e.: Forced mortgages are possible. Today we are talking about more Europe and more jobs. We are building tomorrow's competitive economy for the benefit of all. So far the imagination, now to reality: Schaeffler is cutting 1 300 jobs in Germany, Borgas 800, Ford 3 200, ThyssenKrupp 2 200, BASF 3 000. The Institute of the German Economy expects a job loss of 330,000 by the end of the year. That is the reality. This is the result of the Green Deal, this is the result of the climate-socialist planned economy that is operated here. I would like to remind you very clearly once again: At no time and in no country in history has socialist planned economy led to prosperity and freedom, but only to poverty and unfreedom. We have to prevent that. That's why we need to stamp out the Green Deal. We finally need a common sense policy and a policy for the people.

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! The EU wants to introduce a European minimum income. This is surprising, because each Member State already has its own legislation. In Germany it used to be Hartz IV. Hartz IV was introduced to enable the long-term unemployed to return to the labour market. It worked very badly: In 2022, only 1.6% of Hartz IV recipients made it. This is also exciting, as workers were urgently needed in 2022, e.g. at German airports. It is sad that not a single Hartz IV receiver has managed to put a suitcase on a conveyor belt. It is also exciting: 5.5 million people moved to Hartz IV in Germany, including 2.5 million foreigners. The number has increased by 45% since 2016. It is also exciting: 66% of Syrians in Germany receive Hartz IV. And now there is something new: Now there is citizen money. So there's another shot at it. For me, this is a slap in the face for the many people who work in the low-wage sector, and these are many, many millions in Germany. If we want to fight poverty, we must help these people; We need to support these people, and we need to give citizens' money recipients the opportunity to work, to work in a charitable way, to be appreciated. No one is allowed to rest in the social hammock.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen. Today we are talking about the accession of the EU to the Istanbul Convention; This is about protecting women against violence. This is an important issue because it is getting worse and worse: Violence, murder, rape, gang rape, genital mutilation – everything is getting worse all the time. And we talk about it. We are talking about the victims – quite rightly so. But we also need to talk about the perpetrators. Who are the men who do this? And most importantly, where do they come from? And now some countries do not want to participate. And one wonders why? Everyone wants to protect women. Poland, Hungary, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Latvia do not want to participate, because they quite rightly believe that this is not really about the protection of women, but once again about gender ideologies. And this ideology is fundamentally to be rejected, because to define gender not biologically, but ideologically – how a person feels or what he wants – I do not think so. Early sexualisation – many countries do not agree with this, and neither do I. And marriage for all – many countries don’t think so either. It is also different in the Constitution, in the German Basic Law, by the way, but nobody cares. And in the Bible this is also very well defined, but nobody really cares about it here in Europe anymore. So whoever wants to protect women must stop mass migration, and he must finally deport offenders. And I don't hold it with ideology, I hold it with biology, and I stand by the Bible.

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! Today we are talking about strengthening European works councils. A topic that is very close to my heart, because I was a works councillor. I was elected as a youth representative in my first year of apprenticeship, later as a youth spokesperson with responsibility for 10,000 trainees – there were so many trainees in mining in Germany in the early 1990s! I know how important works councils are because they are the link between the workforce and management. I'll go even further: I believe that works councils – good works councils – are even better managers, because they have in mind not only the well-being of employees and social peace, but also the success of the company. Because only a successful, strong company can pay its employees decently. This success of the works councils has two reasons: On the one hand, the German Works Constitution Act, the best law in the world in terms of co-determination. If someone in Europe wants to do something for co-determination, then he should adopt German law. But this is a national task and not the task of the EU. And then works councils are also so important because they are very close, because they come from the company, because they are practitioners. Quite the contrary to the officials of the DGB unions in Germany. For the most part, they no longer come from the company, and they play politics. They play political goals and they support the Green Deal. In doing so, they betray the interests of German workers. Thank goodness the workers don't do that. I am in contact with many works councils: with works councils of the automotive industry, the chemical industry, the steel industry, with works councils of glass, paper, ceramics and cement factories. All these works councils reject the Green Deal in principle, because they want to preserve jobs. They want to maintain well-paid, value-added jobs. Works councils are reasonable people, they come from practice, and that is why it is important to strengthen the rights of works councils in order to prevent the Green Deal.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Today we are talking about promoting the competitiveness of the industry and creating quality jobs. Thank God there are still quality jobs at the former export world champion Germany, for example in the automotive industry and in the chemical industry. But above all, industry needs affordable energy to be successful. Unfortunately, she no longer has it. This is the fault of the EU's climate policy and no one else. Now, once again, the EU wants to solve problems that it has created itself. Once again, through a fund, billions will be made available to industry to compensate for the competitive disadvantage – billions that we once again do not have, billions that are produced. Nor will this prevent these companies from migrating to the US and China. I wonder why this fund at all? Actually, exactly what the Greens want is happening, exactly what the Green Deal is supposed to do. We want the transformation of the economy. We want de-industrialization. We don't want those jobs where people work with their hands and earn well for them, people who get dirty. The Greens do not want these jobs. The Greens want jobs for people who haven't learned anything, can't do anything, know nothing, and make a lot of money telling each other some nonsense. These jobs are only available from the Green Party. In real life, there are no such jobs, and we want jobs for ordinary people – people who work decently, who want to feed their family. We need jobs like this, not jobs for the Greens. They already exist in the Green Party and in this Parliament, and unfortunately far too many.

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! Today we are talking about the European Child Guarantee. It is therefore a matter of combating child poverty, a very important issue. I do not know child poverty from reports, but I have experienced child poverty in my own body. I was poor, I know what it means to be marginalized and bullied because you're poor. But we've been talking about fighting it for a long time. We find warm words, and we distribute money with the watering can. Unfortunately, all this did nothing: The problems have gotten worse and worse in recent years. In Romania, 40% of children are now considered poor, in Bulgaria 36, in supposedly rich Germany there are 22, but regionally very different. In my home in Gelsenkirchen, 44% of the children are poor. You don't want to worry about the real reasons. As I said, warm words are being found again. However, it is not said that half of all poor children come from families with more than three children, nor is it said that two-thirds of poor children in Germany have a migrant background. We need to get to the root of the problem. We need to give parents the opportunity to work. We need to create incentives for them to work. We need to promote taxation. We need to support the children. Not only does education have to be free of charge: You have to participate in social life. The association, the learning of the instrument – all this must be free for these children.

It is a predominant part of the cultures from the countries of the people who have come to us here. And this is Iraq, Nigeria, Afghanistan, this is Eritrea, Somalia; and again and again Syria – again and again the countries from which the people who seek protection with us come. These people always stand out with incredibly heinous atrocities against women. And that must finally end. And these are figures from the Statistical Bureau of Criminal Investigation.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Today is International Day for Combating Violence against Women. And as always – everything has gotten much worse. And as always, we don't want to talk about the real causes of these problems. On the situation in Germany: Domestic violence increased by 50% in 2013. The women's shelters are completely overcrowded, and 70% of women in the women's shelters are not Germans. They come from Syria, Turkey, Afghanistan and Iraq. Genital mutilation – a particularly disgusting crime. Here, too, there has been an increase of 40% since 2017. The victims are from Eritrea, Somalia and Iraq. Group rape – a phenomenon we didn't know about before 2015. In 2020 alone, there were 704 cases of gang rape, and the perpetrators come from Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq. These are just examples. I could give the figures for the homicides, for forced marriages, for forced prostitution – always the same perpetrators. And now the former SPD family minister Giffey says: We know that immigration confronts us with an image of women that has nothing to do with equal treatment and nonviolent relationships. That's what the SPD family minister says. And if we know all this, why don't we act? If we want to protect women, we must finally deport them consistently, and we must finally end the illegal mass immigration of young men from the most misogynistic culture on earth. (The speaker agreed to reply to a statement using the blue card procedure.)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Today is the International Day to Fight Poverty. It was a very important day for me because I was poor as a child. And my home, the Ruhr area, is the poorhouse of Germany. One in five are poor there, and 40% of the children receive Hartz IV. And Commissioner Schmit, you have raised many problems correctly. More and more workers are poor, more and more pensioners. More and more people can't afford their homes. They can't afford to heat, and they don't have money for electricity. Even when it comes to food, it's getting scarce. The panels in Germany were visited by 1.1 million people in 2020, and now there are two million people. Two million people who depend on the tables in this supposedly rich country of Germany! But you have now mentioned causes. You named the coronavirus crisis as the cause, and I think that's wrong. It was not the virus that drove people into poverty, but the decisions of politicians, the completely exaggerated coronavirus measures. And you named the Ukraine war as the cause. But is it the war? No, it is the sanctions that are driving people into poverty – driving people in Europe into poverty. And it doesn't help the Ukrainians if the people in Europe are poor. It does no harm to the Russians – they are earning themselves stupidly and stupidly. If you want to fight poverty, you have to go to the roots. And the roots are the zero interest rate policy of the ECB, the unbridled mass immigration and the Green Deal – Climate legislation. These are the things that drive Europe into poverty.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, We are talking today about the accession of Romania and Bulgaria to the Schengen area, and many in Germany are now thinking: Yeah, that's the way it is! That's why there are now about ten times as many Romanians and Bulgarians living in Germany as there were ten years ago. And these people often receive social benefits, often receive child benefits for children at home, and they often work in the low-wage sector, like in the meat industry, where they are exploited under slave-like conditions and contribute to wage dumping. Nothing really positive. About half a year ago I went through Romania on my trip to Ukraine, and I got to know Romania. I would like to describe Romania kindly like this: Romania is the Wild West of Europe. Wild West in the middle of Europe! In Ukraine, I have seen a much better infrastructure and much more order. The question is: How could it happen? How could a country with such infrastructure, a country that is so corrupt and so criminal, become a member of the European Union? If no one ever looked at it, did I ask myself, when I drove through this country, was no one ever looking at it? Apparently not. So, and now a lot of money has flowed in recent years. You always think that if you invest money in corrupt countries, everything will get better. No, no! These corrupt structures are using this money. For example, a study by the Centre for Democracy notes: The amount of EU money is comparable to the largest organised crime markets, such as trafficking in human beings, prostitution and smuggling, drug trafficking and illicit fuel. So much money comes from the EU. Roughly 2 billion have been plunged into criminal structures. The Bulgarian-Turkish border was in the hands of the mafia for years. Now she has been recaptured, it is rumored. The mafia now wears uniforms. These are unbearable conditions! That must end. We do not need Romania and Bulgaria in the Schengen area, nor in the EU.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Germany is experiencing the biggest energy crisis in its history. This means: historical inflation, a historical loss of purchasing power. A wave of bankruptcy is rolling towards us, which will cost millions of jobs. Millions of people probably have to freeze. We have to get used to blackouts. Who's to blame? It's not Russia. Germany had the highest energy prices before the war in Ukraine. Germany's crazy energy policy is to blame. If you get out of coal and nuclear energy at the same time and rely on Russian cheap gas as the only baseload-capable energy, you should better not impose sanctions on Russia. Sanctions that do not help Ukraine. Sanctions that use Russia massively – that deserves to be stupid and stupid. And sanctions that destroy our country, Germany. What we need is a renaissance of coal, a renaissance of nuclear power. And we need the exit from the Green Deal for safe energy and for social peace and prosperity for all of us.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. The Commission wants to strengthen the social economy. That is fundamentally correct. But is it about making the social economy more social, making it more humane, for example improving the working conditions of carers? No. The Commission wants to make care climate-neutral. What a surprise! The German workers' welfare is particularly enthusiastic about this. She is now exchanging her outdated vehicle fleet for electric cars, and once again on the shoulders of the taxpayers. Because they have to pay for it again. And what about the social economy in Germany in general? Social economy is for the most part an apron organization of parties and churches, and they enjoy special rights: Special tax rights, special labour rights, and they do not need to be particularly transparent, accountability reports do not have to be published, which leads to massive scandals really popping up on a monthly basis – scandals about the executive floors, where one affords thick company cars, salaries over 150 000. Dear Members of Parliament, the social economy is largely not social, it is asocial. It is robbing the community and we have to fight against it. We finally need transparency and justice in the social economy.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. Forced labour is the slavery of the 21st century and must be fought. A ban on imports of products manufactured under forced labour conditions is a good approach; That is why, of course, I will agree. Nevertheless, a few critical suggestions. Who is it against today? Is this against Bangladesh? Is this against Qatar? These would be good examples. No, it's against China, and it's about supporting the Uyghurs. And the Uyghurs are actually being oppressed and exploited. But nobody really lives free in China, because communism and human rights and freedom are not compatible. And to declare the Uyghurs as saints per se is also not quite right, because in Islamic terror worldwide, Uyghurs are always in the first row, also with Al-Qaeda and ISIS. And all this legislation has been shown to us by the United States, and we have already heard that. The United States is engaged in a trade war with China. And the US in particular does not care – they really work with every rogue state in the world when it comes to their advantage. We shouldn't forget that either.