Speeches

Mr President, dear progressive anti-Russian cockroaches, you have been talking for months about how Russia wants to attack Ukraine. For several months now, liberal media have been writing articles about how Russia is some demon who wants to threaten them all over Europe. A few days ago, U.S. President Biden published a senile prophecy that the Russian Federation was supposed to invade Ukraine today. What happened? Nothing. I will tell you on behalf of more than half of the citizens of the Slovak Republic according to statistics. We have had enough, and this is a message, especially for all American warriors and their minions in Europe, in the European Union, to pack up the American army and leave Europe and not drag us into their conflicts, into their wars. Europe wants peace. Please take good care of these provocations in Ukraine. Look at Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán as in peace, constructively discussing cooperation, cheaper energy prices in Moscow. This is the path that Europe must take. Cooperation, not war.

Mr President. After the unrest in Ukraine and Belarus, we are witnessing another attempt to destabilise another post-socialist country, this time Kazakhstan. Mainstream media first reported that the protesters in Kazakhstan were just ordinary people who were bothered by the 10-cent increase in energy and gas prices. U.S. President Biden even warned the Kazakh government and the Russian Federation against violating the human rights of protesters because otherwise America would have to intervene. But then some of these protesters took up arms and set fire to government buildings, set fire to four television seats, occupied an international airport, and cut off the heads of two young police officers. Terrorists who attempted a coup d'état in Kazakhstan. And I do not consider it right that now the West or the European Union should confirm Kazakhstan just because, with the support of the Russian Federation and other countries, they have prevented this coup d'état. The only ones to be condemned here, and loudly, are the terrorists who unleash, fund and support these coups d'état.

Mr President, after two years of lockdowns, bans, masks, Covid passports and vaccines, the situation across Europe is worse than ever. I think it is quite obvious that these restrictions and measures are no longer a virus and that they will not pull us out of the epidemic. Perhaps 20% of those restrictions are really aimed at fighting the epidemic, but the remaining 80% are politics, the imposition of censorship and control over citizens, and the outrageous pharmaceutical business. Everyone says you need to get vaccinated, get vaccinated, get vaccinated. Anyone who can't get vaccinated is like a criminal. I wonder where the natural immunity has gone. Does it no longer exist? Are there any commissions? Why does the European Union not recognise antibody certificates, such as those recognised in Switzerland? Why is the average age of Covid victims not compulsorily disclosed to make it clear that it is absolutely meaningless to vaccinate young people and children in particular? Ladies and gentlemen of Europe, Mr Šefčovič, do you want to fight the epidemic? So please stop serving pharmaceutical corporations, start fighting the virus, start treating the sick, and stop bullying the healthy.

Madam President, from what I am listening here, it is absolutely freezing. Do you really want a war with Russia? That is exactly what this conflicting policy is all about. You are asking the Russian Federation to withdraw its own army from its own borders. Tell me where to go. They are in their own territory. The U.S. military is 8,000 miles away from Washington, so please tell me who's provoking who here, who's provoking who? The Americans say the Russians need to be pushed back somehow because they are threatening to prepare an invasion. We've been listening to that for the last seven years. We heard in Iraq that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. And where were they? In the end, it turned out to be an ordinary lie, an ordinary lie for another American attack. These provocations that are being shown here are really pure madness. Don't you realize that all this can actually lead to war? To a real war, where people will die even in the territory of Central Europe and where we Slovaks will have to take care of the victims covered with blood? That's on your head, I'm sorry.

Madam President, Commissioner, colleagues, police violence in Europe is not just about the Roma. Soldiers and police across Europe are increasingly being used to suppress human rights and to impose all those totalitarian measures. Governments in both Europe and Slovakia are using police and force forces to push lockdowns so that people can't protest, to push bans so that people can't criticize the government. In Austria, the government wants to make vaccination mandatory with a vaccine that has only conditional approval from the European Medicines Agency. In Latvia, unvaccinated parliamentarians do not get into the parliament building. Europe is literally drowning, drowning in the rise of police regimes. We shout here, we say, we stand up for those people, but unfortunately the leadership of the European Union does not listen. The world's biggest democrats are suddenly deaf and blind. It's terribly hypocritical, terribly hypocritical.

Mr President, it has recently been voted here that Europeans should eat more insects instead of meat, because meat/cattle is said to produce greenhouse gases that cause the planet to warm. This was approved as part of the Farm to Fork European food strategy, and as part of it, the European Commission has already approved some two types of caterpillars or locusts that people should eat. Unfortunately, it is not much better with this agricultural policy, because here too there is a lot of ecological nonsense, and especially this agricultural policy has long been unfair to Central and Eastern European states, which receive several times less support than Western European farmers. Slovakia was once a food-sufficient country. Today, we have to import 1,000 trucks of food a day to have anything to eat. This is also the result of unfairly set subsidies. If you want to call this agricultural policy common, then first of all let's equalize the amount of subsidies.

Madam President of the European Commission, Prime Minister Morawiecki of Poland, I have only one minute, and that is why I will say this quite frankly and politically incorrectly. Message to Liberals: Please stop bullying Central Europe for intentional failures and mistakes! Whatever those Hungarians and Poles do, you will always find some reason why you want to punish them, why you want to insult them. Let's not complain, let's face it. The European rule of law that you are advocating here is nothing but an alternative tool to push the liberal agenda into the conservative Central European states. And as conservative-minded citizens of the Slovak Republic, I declare that Poland has our full support in protecting its sovereignty. To the liberals of the West: Don't provoke us, don't provoke Central Europe! Let us go back to why the European Union was created, to economic cooperation, to generally beneficial trade, but do not try to impose on us an ideology and a way of life that we do not agree with.

Mr President! Well, we've got it here. The European Union is going to set up another agency. This time, 500 other officials to take care of how immigrants are cared for. The Regulation literally states that, in particular in the context of the expected future Resettlement Framework Regulation. This new European Asylum Agency is to monitor the implementation of asylum procedures in European countries, even to have liaison officers in individual Member States and the possibility to carry out unreported checks on how they take care of emigrants, of asylum seekers. Colleagues, this is not how the Union cares about the rights of Europeans. According to the Agency's work, it should be able to impose or initiate the imposition of fines on states that do not comply with asylum procedures as envisaged by the European Union. I say that in this case it is clearly a matter of depriving the Member States of their competence in the assessment of immigration, in the assessment of asylum. I say a clear "no" to European pro-immigration policy.

Madam President, since 2016, the European Union has sent EUR 6 billion to Turkey. Friends, that is EUR 100 million per month, at a time when European citizens have to moderate themselves when they have to struggle with a lack of money because of the COVID restrictions. We all expected that sending money to Turkey would end. Especially when the geopolitical situation in Syria has improved, and especially when this economic corona crisis has occurred. Nevertheless, this proposal states that the European Union should continue to provide support to Syrian and other refugees and host communities in Turkey. There is also only one sentence on the forty-five pages of the proposal to ensure that Turkey does not use migration flows to blackmail the European Union. Colleagues, I do not agree that this unsustainable state of affairs should be further stretched. Why should we even count immigrants from Asia towards the costs of Europeans? Why should we send billions of euros to Turkey again?

Mr President. European sanctions against the Russian Federation have been in place for seven years. I want to ask you all straight here. What have these sanctions really solved? What did they really help with? Apart from harming European companies, apart from leading to an increase in energy prices, they solved absolutely nothing. Mr President, Commissioner, who is not here, colleagues, honourable representatives of the governments. In my opinion, it is high time to say this clearly. The anti-Russian rage was enough. It's really enough. It is time to take the path of dialogue with the Russian Federation. It's time to stop listening to Americans. Europe is our continent. Europe has a right to decide. Europe has the right to choose good relations with the Russian Federation. On behalf of Slovakia, I appeal and urge, please, let us embark on the path of peace and cooperation. Not by way of confrontation and increasing tension.

Madam President, today's Europe has two faces. On the one hand, we have information on how, for example, Slovak citizens cannot get into their own country without vaccinations or without having to pay for PCR tests, and on the other hand, we have information on how NGO ships rescue migrants in the Mediterranean and bring them to the territory of the European Union. Just yesterday, the non-governmental ship Ocean Viking brought 572 migrants to the European Union. Please, what kind of Europe is this? Which countries are more likely to receive illegal immigrants from Africa than their own citizens? The €10 billion that the European Union wants to allocate to the Asylum and Migration Fund must be spent 100% for the benefit of Europeans and not for the benefit of foreign nationals.

Madam President, this new sanctions regime, following the example of the United States of America, is intended to enable the European Union to impose sanctions on selected representatives of foreign states. Dear colleagues, I ask you in this regard, will this not only serve to escalate pressure on the Russian Federation? Isn't it just a tool to defame Moscow in line with U.S. geopolitical interests? And the European Union will have the courage to apply the same standard to all those who violate human rights, be it Saudi Arabia or the conflict in Palestine, for example. I do not think it is right to try to forcibly export Western-style democracy, including by unleashing military conflicts or unleashing a spiral of sanctions. Let us instead focus on a constructive and balanced foreign policy, with understanding and respect for national specificities.