What Bernhard spoke about.

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Mar

2023

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The functioning of the EEAS and a stronger EU in the world (debate)

Mr President! The European External Action Service should therefore be given more powers. This means, first and foremost, more money and fewer rights for the Member States, although the EEAS's record so far is truly a testament to poverty. On the question of the fate of our continent, mass migration, the EEAS has failed across the board. Although a large proportion of illegal migrants come from Af…

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Feb

2023

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EU funding allocated to NGOs incriminated in the recent corruption revelations and the protection of EU financial interests (debate)

Madam President, Non-governmental organisations are always positively represented in the media, but this has little to do with reality. The corruption scandal here in this House was only made possible by NGOs, which, by the way, were funded by the EU. This allowed mafia structures to be established. Especially some socialists here in the house have accepted sacks of cash from states that support I…

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Feb

2023

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Preparation of the EU-Ukraine Summit (debate)

Madam President, Despite all sanctions, the Russian economy continues to grow unabated, at least faster than the German economy, according to the IMF. Our citizens, on the other hand, are impoverished due to high energy prices and inflation. Nevertheless, an extension of the sanctions is called for, although almost only China, Turkey and of course the USA benefit from it. How resistant are we to l…

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Jan

2023

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Terrorist threats posed by far-right extremist networks defying the democratic constitutional order (debate)

Madam President, In the failed coup attempt in Turkey in 2016, the prosecutor's office assumes the participation of 8,000 soldiers with 35 fighter aircraft, 37 helicopters, 74 tanks and 246 armored vehicles. If only the putschists had taken an example of the Reich citizens in Germany! Here, according to the official reading, a few dozen, mostly with crossbows and old long arms, have put the whole …

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Jan

2023

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The establishment of a tribunal on the crime of aggression against Ukraine (debate)

Madam President, I expressly welcome the establishment of a tribunal that condemns the Russian war of aggression and investigates all war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Ukraine, regardless of whether committed by Russians or Ukrainians. However, we do not do ourselves any favours in making these demands at the present time. It's not just anticipating the outcome of the war, which …

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Jan

2023

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Implementation of the common foreign and security policy - annual report 2022 - Implementation of the common security and defence policy - annual report 2022 (debate)

Mr President! No one needs an EU army that would represent the incompetence of the EU in all its facets. For many years, the EU has been trying to introduce precisely this EU army through a common foreign and security policy, thereby undermining the sovereignty of the Member States in another area. Centralisation is all that the EU knows, where it has failed so far in all areas and has failed mise…

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Dec

2022

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Defending democracy from foreign interference (debate)

Mr President! Russia is always in the spotlight when it comes to ‘external influence’. Why does no one have a problem with other actors? Why does no one have a problem with the so-called think tanks such as the Atlantikbrücke, in which journalists are a member of virtually all German leading media? Here, influence is exerted on supposedly objective and neutral media. This is a disgrace to democrac…

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Dec

2022

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Annual implementing report on the EU association agreement with Georgia (debate)

Madam President, Bringing Georgia closer to the EU is another attempt to extend the external borders to Asia. The problems in Europe have not yet been solved. The new expansion project will put even more strain on the forces. There is no land connection to Georgia. For this, an admission would move the EU borders to Russia, Turkey and Azerbaijan. Not only is the potential for conflict with such ne…

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Dec

2022

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Turkish airstrikes on northern Syria and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (debate)

Mr President! Since 2016, Turkey has conducted three major military operations against Syria. Anyone who has closely followed Erdoğan's actions there knows: The latest airstrikes are the test balloon for a ground offensive. That the Turkish president threatened two days ago with missiles on Athens must therefore get us all the more. Where is the EU's much-vaunted solidarity with a Member State lik…

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Nov

2022

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The Human rights situation in Afghanistan especially the deterioration of women´s rights and attacks against educational institutions

Mr President, Commissioner! This is now felt to be the one hundredth debate on the situation of women in Afghanistan. Nothing has changed – 20 years of unsuccessful value export. We must finally accept that there are other cultures and value systems. Afghanistan will always be foreign to you. For example, in a 2015 World Bank survey, 80% of Afghan women gave their husbands the right to beat them i…

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Nov

2022

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Situation in Libya (debate)

Madam President, Legalising illegal migration, as requested here for Libya, is by no means a solution – on the contrary, the migration problem is only exacerbated further. There would be a simple solution, which I would like to explain briefly. Firstly: The private sea rescue, this extended arm of the tugboats, simply prohibit. Secondly: Temporarily establish a state maritime rescue service that b…

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Oct

2022

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EU-Western Balkans relations in light of the new enlargement package (continuation of debate)

Madam President, We are constantly talking about the planned accession of the Balkan countries to the EU. And every time I have to state that not a single one of these states even barely meets the necessary criteria for admission. The Balkans are still the main route for illegal migration. Most illegal weapons still enter the EU via these countries. They are still highly corrupt. Even the European…

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Oct

2022

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Continued internal border controls in the Schengen area in light of the recent ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union (C-368/20) (debate)

Mr President! In Austria, 75,000 illegal migrants were apprehended this year. That's as many as in the years 2017 to 2021. More than 150,000 asylum applications have already been lodged in Germany by the end of September. At the same time, the reception capacities of the seven and a half million Ukrainians in Europe – about one million in Germany alone – are already completely overloaded. In the d…

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Oct

2022

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Question Time (Commission) - Protecting critical infrastructure in the EU against attacks and countering hybrid attacks

(Start of speech when the microphone is switched off) ... not satisfied with your answer. Because this is not only bordering on naivety, which you mentioned in the beginning in a different context, but this is simply a boycott to do your tasks. This is because you need to ensure that our critical infrastructure is protected. And if that's not the case, you need to name the culprits. And if you do …

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Oct

2022

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Question Time (Commission) - Protecting critical infrastructure in the EU against attacks and countering hybrid attacks

Mr President, Commissioner! Nord Stream 2 was attacked, causing serious damage that severely affected the energy supply of Europe and, above all, Germany. Sweden, together with Denmark and Germany, wanted to make a commission of inquiry and investigate this process. Sweden has now withdrawn from this and has not disclosed this information here, citing national interests. So this is European solida…

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Oct

2022

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Access to water as a human right – the external dimension (debate)

Madam President, Access to clean water must by no means be privatised, but this has already happened in many places. Corrupt governments are responsible for making billions in profits for profit-oriented companies on the backs of locals. The solution presented here is, as always, the same: The European taxpayer should play the social welfare office for the world and ensure access to clean water th…

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Sep

2022

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Renewed partnership with the Southern Neighbourhood – a new agenda for the Mediterranean (debate)

Madam President, Once again, more power is to be given to the Commission, this time in the field of foreign policy. The fact that it only stands out in this area through denial of reality and total failure is obviously not an obstacle, but a reason for self-criticism. Let's look at Syria. For years, the war has been over almost all over the country, yet millions of Syrians are in Europe. And in Tu…

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Jul

2022

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The relations of the Russian government and diplomatic network with parties of extremist, populist, anti-European and certain other European political parties in the context of the war (debate)

Madam President, Some colleagues are only concerned with fact-free defamation of the opposition. It is hardly surprising that we right-wing parties are once again being attacked because we are dragging the numerous violations of democracy by the other parties to the light of the public. We can already see this in the many successful lawsuits of the AfD before the Federal Constitutional Court again…

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Jul

2022

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Addressing food security in developing countries (debate)

Mr President! The war in Ukraine and thus Putin should be responsible for a global food supply crisis. But this has little to do with the facts: In the three countries most affected by a supply crisis – South Sudan, Somalia and Yemen – war is the problem, but not Ukraine. With Egypt and Indonesia, only two countries with more than 10% are dependent on Ukrainian grain imports, the remaining countri…

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Jul

2022

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2021 Report on Bosnia and Herzegovina (debate)

Mr President! Bosnia and Herzegovina alone has received around 1.5 billion EU aid and support by 2020. Lastly, there were 250 million COVID-aids on top of that. This requires, in particular, the strengthening of democracy and the fight against corruption. In 2007, Bosnia was ranked 84th in the Corruption Index. After the billions in aid, the country ranks 110th. Just like in the case of Greece, Bo…

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Jul

2022

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Loss of life, violence and inhumane treatment against people seeking international protection at the Spanish-Moroccan border (debate)

Madam President, 2000 illegal and mostly heavily armed immigrants are storming the border with – I quote the FAZ – ‘great brutality’, and here it is seriously claimed that they have sought international protection. This is a slap in the face for the numerous injured border guards who saw themselves threatened in their lives and defended not only Spain, but all of us here. Did some of them overreac…

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Jul

2022

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Order of business

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen. Given the worrying developments in Uzbekistan, with at least 18 dead and hundreds injured, I request that Parliament put a debate on this issue on the agenda tomorrow evening. I call on the European Commission and my colleagues to support the negotiations between the parties in order to secure peace in Uzbekistan. I would like the European Commission to suppo…

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Jun

2022

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 23-24 June 2022, including the meeting with Western Balkan leaders on 23 June - Candidate status of Ukraine, the Republic of Moldova and Georgia (debate)

Mr President! Even considering making Ukraine the official candidate for EU membership clearly shows how far this House has already strayed from reality. The very concept of the rule of law seems to be a foreign word for the highly corrupt Ukraine. Since 2014, the EU has paid over 17 billion to fight corruption and enforce the rule of law. The result: The country has improved by a proud eight poin…

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Jun

2022

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The Commission's proposal for "Attracting skills and talent to the EU", particularly the Talent Partnerships with North African countries (topical debate)

Mr President! The EU wants to make illegal migration legal, as it announced in the EU Migration Pact in September 2020. This time it wants to conclude so-called talent partnerships with highly corrupt countries such as Nigeria, Pakistan and Senegal. As always, the Commission's reasoning is the same. The EU claims that we need migrants to tackle skills shortages and demographic imbalances. This is …

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Jun

2022

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The EU’s Foreign, Security and Defence Policy after the Russian invasion of Ukraine (debate)

So I am now also relying on many experts, and many are of the opinion that this war will not end as Zelensky would like. This means that Ukraine will no longer be the same as it was before 24 February. We have to face the facts: We simply cannot defeat Russia as a nuclear power. Nor can we push it to such an extent that incalculable measures happen and the situation is exacerbated even further. Ru…