What Hermann spoke about.

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May

2025

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The EU's response to the Israeli government's plan to seize the Gaza Strip, ensuring effective humanitarian support and the liberation of hostages (debate)

Madam President, I hope you will be as generous with me over time as with this lady. Less hypocrisy, because what we're seeing is what they want: an Israel that cannot be defended. That's what they're looking for. This Parliament will today play bottom in its moral drift with a debate that is not going to be about Gaza but against Israel, of course. There they have Macron and Starmer arguing with …

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May

2025

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Violations of religious freedom in Tibet (RC-B10-0248/2025, B10-0248/2025, B10-0251/2025, B10-0253/2025, B10-0254/2025, B10-0256/2025, B10-0259/2025) (vote)

Mr President, thank you. It would be as follows: 'Is deeply concerned about the increasing levels of attacks, coercion, discrimination, harassment, violence and repression against religious freedom as a global phenomenon under CCP rule in Tibet; in particular, condemns in the strongest possible terms the persecution against Christians, the most persecuted religious group in the world.'…

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May

2025

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80 years after the end of World War II - freedom, democracy and security as the heritage of Europe (debate)

Mr President, eighty years ago the military defeat of German National Socialism closed one of the most monstrous pages in the history of humanity, generated, remember, in Europe and by Europe. It was the nation of poets and thinkers that caused the industrialized genocide that was the Holocaust of the Jewish people and the burning of the entire continent. It was the arrogance of totalitarian ideal…

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May

2025

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An urgent assessment of the applicability of the Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement (PDCA) with Cuba (debate)

Madam President, Madam High Representative, I really don't know who wrote you the paper on Cuba, but it is certainly embarrassing to hear it after what is happening. The European Union, whose leaders always fill their mouths with moral superiority and lessons from the rest of the world, has many corpses in its closet, but few infamies are greater than those committed by the European Union against …

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Apr

2025

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Safeguarding the access to democratic media, such as Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (debate)

Mr. President, I remember when the Socialists still called Radio Free Europe and the Voice of America provocation. Trump's arrival at the White House has not pleased either the Commission or the dwindling majority in this Parliament. Their way of ending the abuse of public money to make ideological propaganda they like much less. And now they intend to use European public money to continue making …

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Apr

2025

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Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2024 (debate)

Madam President, Madam High Representative, once again the report on human rights, which is already a sarcasm today. Let's see, what lessons are we going to give of human rights now, to the world when governments and the Commission are already systematically strangling freedom of expression, when they censor and impose cordons of harassment on democratic parties that denounce the failure of their …

12

Mar

2025

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Frozen Russian assets (debate)

Mr. President, the criminal Russian invasion of Ukraine has caused colossal devastation throughout the assaulted country. Ukraine is going to need massive plans and a titanic investment effort. It is logical that many countries want the deposits of the aggressor, of Russia, to be used to compensate the aggressor, which is Ukraine. By the end of 2023, some $335 billion in Russian deposits had been …

11

Mar

2025

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Deteriorating situation in Gaza following the non-extension of the ceasefire (debate)

Madam President, fortunately, Israel has a society with an instinct and a will to survive far superior to today's Europeans. If some Israelis had forgotten, the Hamas savages of October 7 refreshed them. And Hamas, that's clear, will once again be that huge terrorist base that it was and that, in a way, it still is. That is why the Arab population of Gaza should have understood that their only cha…

12

Feb

2025

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US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, the World Health Organisation and the suspension of US development and humanitarian aid (debate)

Madam President, well, well, well... How much hate —hate speech, It's said up there, how much I hate and how much fear of Trump I see around here. And all because he fulfills what he promised. Trump abandons the multilateral forums that socialist globalism - which they share here from the People's Party to the far left - has turned into ideological agencies for their social engineering, their gags…

27

Nov

2024

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Hong Kong, notably the cases of Jimmy Lai and the 45 activists recently convicted under the national security law

Madam President, the arbitrary detention of journalist Jimmy Lai and the forty-five activists who have been condemned by the so-called National Security Law, like all the repression in Hong Kong, is very symbolic, because what it leads us to is a conclusion: the People's Republic of China is not trustworthy. That is the conclusion we draw from all this repression. The People's Republic of China ma…

26

Nov

2024

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Reinforcing EU’s unwavering support to Ukraine against Russia’s war of aggression and the increasing military cooperation between North Korea and Russia (debate)

13

Nov

2024

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Deplorable escalation of violence around the football match in the Netherlands and the unacceptable attacks against Israeli football fans (debate)

Mr President, the truth is that the title of this debate is a disgrace, but if we look at what the left is saying about what happened in Amsterdam, on the anniversary of the European Union pogrom. Kristallnacht, it's really terrible what we have in Europe: an alliance of the anti-Semites we have imported, the Muslims we have brought to every city and who have been around for a long time, certainly…

13

Nov

2024

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EU-US relations in light of the outcome of the US presidential elections (debate)

Madam President, how much I fear and how much I hate Trump and how much I insult the American people who have elected him massively. Of course, a little more respect would be fine. But fear is what's here. The June elections already gave a big scare: The dream of that eternal easy life of the single social democratic party of popular, socialist, liberal and green, of the paralyzing pact of this ho…

24

Oct

2024

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Abuse of new technologies to manipulate and radicalise young people through hate speech and antidemocratic discourse (debate)

Madam President, yesterday I was at a dinner of the European Parliamentary Association, in which the majority are all those who govern, those who govern in the Commission, that is, the European People's Party and the left, the losers embraced by the European People's Party to continue to govern. There they were going to talk about the American elections and they were talking about Trump. And sudde…

22

Oct

2024

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People’s Republic of China’s misinterpretation of the UN resolution 2758 and its continuous military provocations around Taiwan (debate)

Madam President, the People's Republic of China has been using Resolution 2758 for too long now to prevent any possibility of entry into Taiwan's international bodies, to marginalise it, to corner it, and on top of that it is multiplying its harassment – at this time also military – against the island, against Chinese democracy, the only Chinese democracy there is. Taiwan is a vibrant democracy th…

22

Oct

2024

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Urgent need for a ceasefire in Lebanon and for safeguarding the UNIFIL mission in light of the recent attacks (debate)

Madam President, after a year of war provoked by Hamas, Hezbollah and the criminal regime of Iran, after immense tragedies aggravated because the terrorist always hides behind the civilian population, with the main leaders of the October 7 massacre already dead and the Hamas and Hezbollah organizations decimated, there is a great opportunity for a stable peace in Lebanon and in the region. To do t…

9

Oct

2024

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The cases of unjustly imprisoned Uyghurs in China, notably Ilham Tohti and Gulshan Abbas

Madam President, one million Uighurs, a Muslim people in western China, are being crushed by the criminal communist regime, in lockdowns and concentration camps where genuine monstrosities are taking place. Ilham Tohti and Gulshan Abbas are symbols of the Uyghur pain and brutality of the communist regime. China is a danger to every free society, and business must not cover up this colossal threat.…

8

Oct

2024

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Escalation of violence in the Middle East and the situation in Lebanon (debate)

Madam President, many now say they are shocked by the entry into Lebanon of Israeli forces. Many, even if they do not say so clearly – right, Mr Borrell? – are very sorry that Israel has had such great successes in its war with Hezbollah, killed the historic leader Nasrallah and all his successors and led an unparalleled leadership of criminals. But no one here has raised their voice at the fact t…

18

Sep

2024

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The Hungarian “National Card” scheme and its consequences for Schengen and the area of freedom, security and justice (debate)

Madam President, Hungary is presiding over the European Union this semester and yet it has not been given a courtesy truce in that indecent harassment to which both that country and its government have been subjected for five years. Non-stop, non-stop, harassing him with anything: anything goes against Hungary, anything, anything. If you take out permits for regular controlled entries by Russians …

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Sep

2024

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Situation in Venezuela (debate)

Madam President, there has been a dictatorship in Venezuela for almost a quarter of a century. A dictatorship that, hand in hand with the criminal communist regime of Cuba, has been hardening and brutalizing every year that passed. It was already like this with Chávez, and with Maduro it already reaches levels of incredible cruelty and homicidal madness. In 25 years it has killed, imprisoned and t…

17

Jul

2024

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The need for the EU's continuous support for Ukraine (debate)

Madam President, the truth is that it is very curious to see here after these two years the interpretations of what happens. The defense of the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of Ukraine, which was attacked by Russia, is a defense that we must all support and, more than anyone else, the sovereigntists, not those who have plans to dissolve nations and make them disappear. It is …

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Apr

2024

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Recent attempts to deny dictatorships and the risk of Europe returning to totalitarianism (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, do you know why the Spanish socialists want to talk about dictatorships of the last century? And why today Sanchez has mounted an absolutely grievous letter, saying that he is considering leaving because he feels harassed by the extreme right? Because they do not want to talk about Begoña Gómez, the wife of the head of government, Pedro Sánchez, an expert in Eur…

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Apr

2024

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Iran’s unprecedented attack against Israel, the need for de-escalation and an EU response (debate)

Mr President, many here are surprised at Mr Borrell's position on Iran, which, at a time like the present, really responds almost by attacking Israel, rather than by talking about what happens to the Iranian attack. I'm going to tell you that five years ago Borrell wrote a thread on Twitter. It was 11 February 2019 - we had not yet had the bad idea of having him here as a high representative of fo…

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Apr

2024

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Attempts to reintroduce a foreign agent law in Georgia and its restrictions on civil society (debate)

Madam President, the road to freedom is very difficult everywhere. It is much more so when you are close to Russia, to Putin's current Russia. The Law on Foreign Agents in Georgia is simply further proof that these hopes for trauma-free development towards Western freedoms are very difficult to achieve and have many setbacks. The Russian temptation is there, and the temptation of all these leaders…

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Apr

2024

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EU’s response to the repeated killing of humanitarian aid workers, journalists and civilians by the Israel Defence Forces in the Gaza Strip (debate)

Mr. President, it is said here: Stop the war and release the hostages. Why don't we do it the other way around? Let them release the hostages, which may stop the war. But here the campaign against Israel is absolutely unbeatable. And, of course, we have his great champion here as well. Unprecedented things have really happened in Europe. In the West we have managed to fill the streets of all our c…