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Oct
2022
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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 20-21 October 2022 (debate)
Madam President, Commissioner, dear colleagues, first of all, I agree, of course, most of you were saying that we have to help Ukraine, Russia has to lose, there’s no clue. You’re absolutely right. Also to comment, some socialist friends who are blaming about the elections in Italy, I have to say that they are a free democracy also in Italy and the people can choose whoever they want to, like it or not. And democracy can be like all different ways. They can choose from the right wing, from the left wing, and it can’t be controlled, that it is a right democracy only if the socialists are winning. And also for the good colleague from Germany, I have to remind that, unfortunately, Greens were together in the government in Germany with socialists, and that was your political choice to depend more and more on Russian gas. And that’s the result now why we are in the problem. That’s your choice. You were together on the 20s, together with the socialists, also with Gerhard Schröder in the government, and now we know that he was a Russian puppet. So don’t blame our far right here, because, you know, I am also for you far right, but I’m the most anti-Russian guy also, here in this House. I’m conservative, I’m normal conservative, but you’re also like the left wing. I don’t like the left wing. I like normal conservative values, and I’m very different from you, but about the Russia policy, I am the most anti-Russian guy here, just to answer for you. But about now the crisis, what we will see in this winter, the problem is that we can’t win two wars at the same time – the war against Russia and a war against so-called climate change. Because the plans now from the Commission, what it is like, just to hope for the renewable energy, it means that for the sun and wind, the problem is that it will not work in the short term, probably also not in the long term. So the problem is that we really need to support the nuclear energy. We really need to support like the normal energy technologies that we have, that we have used, to secure our own companies, our own people in Europe for this winter or for the next winters. That’s the only solution for how to save our economy in Europe and how to win Russia.