What Alexandr spoke about.

24

Mar

2022

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The Power of the EU – Joint European Action for more affordable, secure and sustainable energy (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Russian gas and oil are stained with Ukrainian blood, and we must put an end to this. Right now! And to correct the error of RePower EU, when, unfortunately, we sent Putin the following message: “We'll depend on you for seven more years like cocaine, and then, blush!” He started playing with us again. He said: “I don’t want euros, I want rubles”. So now we have a chance to finally say to him: “We do not know the rubles, it is not a currency. And if you don't want euros, we'll send them to a special account, escrow accounts, you'll get nothing. It will be a means of reparation for Ukraine when the damages for your war crimes are added up.” Let's not waste this chance!

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Mar

2022

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Rising energy prices and market manipulation on the gas market (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Putin is a criminal and a blackmailer. And we need to reduce our dependence on it. And the document issued today by the Commission: like fine, but to say so transparently in German that we need someone for another 3 to 5 years or 7 years and then no more, so it's a mistake, we're just recording for him. It's just like when we say to a girl: ‘I sleep with you four more times and then I don’t care about you anymore’. Otherwise, I appreciate that there is gas as a strategic commodity, that we have to have reserves. But otherwise it's weak tea, nothing about the core, nothing about coal and the crown, so everything that we want to replace Russian gas with biogas for the next 3 years. So we will plant twice as many corn fields at a time when there will be huge shortages of grain imported from Ukraine and Russia. Well, congratulations, Timmermans-Einstein had to come up with that.

8

Mar

2022

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The deterioration of the situation of refugees as a consequence of the Russian aggression against Ukraine (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I will start with the numbers, 2 million in 10 days, not 1 million per year. Of the 2 million in 10 days, 1 200 000 to Poland, 191 000 to Hungary, 140 000 to Slovakia, 87 000 to Romania and 105 000 to the Czech Republic, which is not even bordering Ukraine. Do you remember how you moralized us here five to six years ago, the states of Central and Eastern Europe, when we asked who was in that wave of that million a year? Whether it's those fleeing the war or those going for the better, young people with stones. Now these young people, Ukrainians, are coming back from our labor market, tens of thousands, back to fight for freedom. And of those 2 million, 55% are small children, the rest of adults are 80% women, and the rest are seniors. So we do what we can. We do this with love and respect. We're not moralizing. Of course, we welcome any logistical, financial or other assistance, but we do not ask for any quotas.

15

Feb

2022

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Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2021 - Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2021 (debate)

Mr President, I would say that the report we are discussing here is not bad at all - by the standards of this Parliament. Thanks for that, but it's still just words. And what we need in this tense situation – probably the worst security situation I have ever remembered – we need to be able to act, we need to be able to spend 2% on defence, every country in Europe, almost nobody does it. We must be able to send troops to protect the eastern part of NATO. We must be able to stand up for Ukraine as a free and sovereign country, and we must also be able to agree that if Russia crosses the red lines, we will disconnect it from that SWIFT. We can't even agree on that. So we must not be in a situation where bastards make fun of us, but have respect for us, and we can only do that by actions, not by talking about European architecture. Oh, thank you.

14

Dec

2021

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Situation at the Ukrainian border and in Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine (debate)

Madam President, Theodore Roosevelt once famously said you speak softly but keep a hammer in your hand, and our problem is that occasionally we are behaving otherwise. We have nice speeches, yes, we should support Ukraine independence, we should support their right to decide about their future. We also rightly criticise Putin and his aggressive behaviour, but we do nothing to deter him from action. This is our problem. We should be able to deploy strategic weapons in the Eastern theatre. We should be able to declare sanctions that would hurt him, not sanctions which produce just his laugh. But our problem is that occasionally we are rather putting our heads right into Putin’s throat, with our increasing dependence on Russian gas, with our inability to support nuclear energy. This is our problem and until we change that, nothing will happen.

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Nov

2021

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Outcome of the COP26 in Glasgow (debate)

Mr President, the House of Representatives, one thank you and one warning. Thank you – we have finally made a commitment to end deforestation soon. We have remedied what this House ruined 15 years ago, when, in the name of biofuels, we encouraged all countries to start cutting down forests. Now we've finally made it right. And one warning – we came to Glasgow as the European Union with Fit for 55, but where is China, where is India, where is Australia, where is Russia? Where is the United States of America? Where are the billions of dollars to develop infrastructure, highways, railways? And we come with belt tightening. But I think of those who are fifty-five years old or older and do not live in a rich country like Holland, but in the poorer ones and are about to make the biggest energy price increase in history and do not know how to deal with it. Let's think about them, please.

23

Nov

2021

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Situation in Belarus and at its border with the EU and the security and humanitarian consequences (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we have a consensus on the cause. Lukashenko is behind this, the villain with his cynical hybrid warfare playing into Putin's head. But that's talk, it's hard to find a match for actions. Unfortunately, the solution is not naive humanism, albeit well-meaning, which some here recommend. We're just sticking our heads in the noose of those bastards. Ladies and gentlemen, Lithuanians, Poles, Latvians are fighting for us here too, and we have a duty to help them in this struggle for border control. The European Union is supposed to help them with money to improve border protection. If we can help Turkey, why can't we help Poland? We as Member States are also supposed to offer assistance by sending police officers, by sending soldiers so that Poles, Latvians, Lithuanians are not alone in protecting the borders.

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Oct

2021

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UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, the UK (COP26) (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we have two options for what will happen in Glasgow in relation to the EU. Either we show that our EU policy is relevant, it can serve as a model, or we laugh at others. I am afraid that the adoption of this resolution, which we are discussing here, will lead to the second option: We'll be laughing. Once again, my colleagues have broken loose and included in the text a number of issues that go far beyond the Council's position. Do you really mean to remove support for all fossil fuels, including natural gas, as soon as possible? Where is your assessment of the impact on the inclusion of climate neutrality among the constitutional obligations of the Member States? If we are serious about decarbonisation, we must define a credible timetable and not draw up a wish list without any basis in reality, especially if we are to get developing countries on our side, which will find it more difficult to implement the Paris Agreement than we do. Vote against.

19

Oct

2021

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EU-Taiwan political relations and cooperation (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, first of all, I would like to thank our colleague Charlie Weimers, because he has prepared a report for which we do not have to be ashamed this time. Taiwan has shown us the way many times. The last time during the coronavirus crisis and I think it can again. We all know the challenges we've been facing in the semiconductor market lately. The automotive industry is practically in ruins. I am deeply convinced that it is far more profitable for us to establish and deepen industrial, economic and scientific-technical cooperation with a democratically minded partner than to be dependent on resources from authoritarian countries. Let us show that we are proud partners of the people of Taiwan, and let us not let continental China destroy it, as it did with Hong Kong. China's aggression undermines stability and peace not only in the Southeast Asian region, but throughout the world, and we have to do something about it. Taiwan is the correct answer.