Speeches

Madam President, Commissioner, any excuse goes to attack governments that do not like Brussels or to put in place mechanisms for monitoring, supervising and sanctioning the Member States. It may be that a national parliament decides to pass laws to protect children's innocence from the activism of gender ideology. It may be that some Member States decide to protect their borders against the massive and illegal entry of migrants. It may be that a national Parliament decides that it does not want to ruin its businesses and families by destroying its car industry in the face of the crazy demands of the Green Deal. It may be, as in this case, that the United States imposes sanctions on a number of citizens of a Member State who have committed corruption offences. Any excuse is valid to interfere in the exclusive national competences and to impose its ideological roller. Today a Spanish Socialist MP brings us this question: What approach will the Commission put forward in the fight against corruption at national level? What role will the Commission play in protecting the rule of law in the Member States? For I say to them: nothing; Don't do anything. Respect national parliaments, governments and judges. That is what we must do, because, if not, what would we do with the Government of Spain, which has been convicted of illegally confining 47 million Spaniards by the Constitutional Court? Don't do anything. Respect national institutions. The fight against corruption has to be done – and harshly – from the public prosecutor’s offices and the national courts, not from the Commission. We are facing a new attempt at political interference and abusive assumption of competences. I repeat what I said yesterday: it must be clear that the EU institutions are at the service of the Member States and their citizens, and not the other way around. Master Tolkien would not rewrite a single comma of his trilogy: Middle-earth is in danger; The Eye of Sauron in Brussels is very much alive... But, look at you, in Middle-earth we only aspire to live in freedom, to respect our ancestral traditions and customs, our institutions and our freedoms. It's just about that. Is that going to be respected or do they directly want to eliminate it?

Mr President, Mrs von der Leyen, despite your triumphalist speeches, Europe is in crisis. And this time they can't blame anyone. The price of electricity rises non-stop due to its climate agenda, as it increases the costs of companies and consumers. And you announce a new 55% emission reduction target. The entry of illegal immigrants into Spain breaks historical records. And you announce a new migration pact that will not protect Europe's borders and will continue to encourage the mafias that execute the disembarkation. The Chinese Communist Party remains unresponsive internationally to its responsibilities in relation to the Chinese coronavirus crisis. And you continue to encourage those investment agreements that will destroy European industry. They are launching a Conference on the Future of Europe that is only intended to give Brussels more power, but they hide the cost of that Conference from us. They lecture the Member States, but punish the Hungarian and Polish people, forgetting that the Commission is at the service of the States, and not the other way around. They call for saving Afghan women from the Taliban after having ridiculed the entire international community, but, meanwhile, our wives and daughters are walking insecurely through those neighborhoods in Europe already taken over by jihadism. We will continue to cry out in the desert despite their insults and mockery. You remain in the service of the elites. We'll still be on the street.

Mr President, any European knows that a homosexual walks more calmly in the streets of Budapest or Warsaw than in Molenbeek, Gaza or Tehran. But you prefer to submit to the lobby's agenda and spend the whole day ranting about Hungary or Poland. How dare they give lessons in democracy to Hungary or Poland? How dare they teach lessons about the rule of law and human rights to those who have fought and defeated the best-known and most brutal totalitarian movement in Europe, which is communism? Precisely you, those of the health cordons, those who threaten to cut off European funds to anyone who does not submit to their ideological straitjacket. How can a Maltese socialist sentenced to two years in prison for spreading homosexual pornography about his ex-partner talk about gay rights in Hungary? With you it is always the world upside down. But they don't scare us. The wave of patriotism and common sense that runs through Europe is here to stay. Those who founded the Union are turning in their graves to see what they are doing with their project, with the ideological dictatorship that the Community institutions use not to serve the Member States, as mandated by the Treaties, but to threaten, harass and give orders to them. They look desperate. We continue with common sense.