What Hermann spoke about.

24 Apr

2024

ES Speech

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

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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…

23 Apr

2024

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

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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…

23 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)

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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…

10 Apr

2024

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New allegations of Russian interference in the European Parliament, in the upcoming EU elections and the impact on the Union (debate)

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Mr President, it is certainly very funny to hear German MEPs from the Greens/EFA Group, the S&D Group or the EPP Group talk about putinising and deputising, when they have been the ones who have putinised the whole of Europe. And they were told very clearly. Who was Schröder? Who is Olaf Scholz? Who's Steinmeier? And who is Mrs. Merkel with Nord Stream, who did what she did and who gave Putin what…

10 Apr

2024

ES Speech

Order of business

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Madam President, it is a real shame that we are talking here about how we are talking about this conflict. That nothing has been said about the real cause... (the president interrupts the speaker) ... of this conflict, which is the hostages and Qatar and Iran, your friends, Qatar and Iran, who pay you... (The Chair took the floor from the speaker).…

13 Mar

2024

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The case of Rocío San Miguel and General Hernández Da Costa, among other political prisoners in Venezuela

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Mr President, today we are thinking of Rocío San Miguel, a great fighter for human rights who was abducted and is unaccounted for at the moment, and General Hernández Da Costa, who has been unjustly imprisoned for no less than six years and who is in absolutely deplorable health conditions. And we have a disqualified one that is María Corina Machado, which means the disqualification of the electio…

13 Mar

2024

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Allegations of corruption and misuse of EU funds in Spain during the pandemic (topical debate)

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Mr President, President von der Leyen wants to re-chair the left-wing alliance of the Partido Popular, Socialistas y Verdes, of which a well-known member of her party, Mr González Pons, is so proud. That alliance that is destroying agriculture, livestock, family heritage, subsidiarity, the freedom of Spain and that of all nations. To fuel this sinister alliance, the Commission has handed over to P…

27 Feb

2024

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Critical situation in Cuba (debate)

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Madam President, we see here again the summit of hypocrisy regarding Cuba, saying that we do regret ordinary prisoners, but we must talk a lot about the blockade. There's no blockage. There's no blockage. There is an embargo that does not prevent the United States from feeding Cuba. Cuba is a shame for the Western world and especially for the European Union, where it has many accomplices, who are …

27 Feb

2024

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War in the Gaza Strip and the need to reach a ceasefire, including recent developments in the region (debate)

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Mr. President, it's a shame. Yes, yes. It is a pity that Borrell is not here, because the same thing would have told us that we must disarm Israel or that we must mount a boycott of Israel, as they asked at the Berlinale this Sunday, which has become a kind of event like "the night of the broken crystals" in miniature. That's what we're seeing on the left: a phobia of Israel and some demonstration…

7 Feb

2024

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Automated data exchange for police cooperation (“Prüm II”) (debate)

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Madam President, at the beginning of this parliamentary term we insisted that in order to protect the Schengen area, it was necessary to improve the mechanisms for police cooperation and reform the Euro-Order. There is no point in having an internal area without border controls if criminals are free to go about their business and there are no rules in place to prevent criminals from absconding or …

7 Feb

2024

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Need to fight the increase of antisemitism and anti-Muslim hatred (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, with all due respect, I believe that there is a trap already in the title here. Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia are presented as existing equally and being the same. That's a lie. There are two anti-Semitisms that make Europe again very dangerous for Jews. We import anti-Semitism with borders open to the illegal and uncontrolled entry of millions of Jew-haters. We hav…

6 Feb

2024

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Further repression against the democratic forces in Venezuela: attacks on presidential candidate Maria Corina Machado (debate)

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Mr. President, Communist criminal dictators do not abdicate. They don't go home voluntarily. Some dictators who have on their consciences not tens of thousands, but hundreds of thousands of dead, tortured, disappeared, and who have created a tragedy like the one created by Nicolás Maduro with all organized crime: those don't abdicate. Barbados was for them the same as it has been on previous occas…

6 Feb

2024

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Russiagate: allegations of Russian interference in the democratic processes of the European Union (debate)

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Madam President, today we know that Latvian parliamentarian Tatiana Ždanoka is a spy for the FSB and Putin's secret services. She has also been very active in my homeland, in Spain. Today we know that, a few years before the criminal invasion of Ukraine, Putin participated in another brutal attack against a European country, this one a member of the Union and NATO: participated in a coup d'état in…

18 Jan

2024

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Recent ecological catastrophe involving plastic pellet losses and its impact on micro plastic pollution in the maritime and coastal habitats (debate)

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Mr President, to clarify matters: on 18 February there are elections in Galicia. It is a Spanish region with a beautiful coast that has now had a spill of pellets, as they are having the coasts of Tarragona, in Catalonia, continuously and that do not make us have a meeting of these here. Quiet, that the title is absolutely wrong. There is no ecological catastrophe, there is a problem that must be …

17 Jan

2024

ES Speech

Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 14-15 December 2023 and preparation of the Special European Council meeting of 1 February 2024 - Situation in Hungary and frozen EU funds (joint debate - European Council meetings)

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I'll tell you something. We have seen how Mrs. Aubry has spoken for two and a half minutes. What about me? He won't let me go for ten seconds.

17 Jan

2024

DE Speech

Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 14-15 December 2023 and preparation of the Special European Council meeting of 1 February 2024 - Situation in Hungary and frozen EU funds (joint debate - European Council meetings)

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Mr President! First of all, I would say to the German Greens that they should not be so proud of this Kießling government that they have set up in Poland. Without the massive help of Germany and this Commission, this result would never have been achieved – firstly. Secondly: All of Germany was paralyzed, the government in Germany is broken, farmers across Europe are rebelling. Everyone is getting …

16 Jan

2024

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State of emergency in Ecuador (debate)

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Mr. President, the situation of total destabilization of Ecuador has reached insufferable limits and, therefore, the new president, Daniel Noboa, is doing what he has to do: use all the resources of the state to defeat the policy of terror and territorial control of the alliance of organized crime and the subversive forces of narco-communism. Because behind all this use of chaos and terror there i…

22 Nov

2023

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Threat to rule of law as a consequence of the governmental agreement in Spain (debate)

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Mr President, amnesty is unconstitutional, it is illegal, it has no place in our legal system. I don't say it, the far right doesn't say it, no, Pedro Sanchez said it. I quote again: "amnesty is illegal, it is unconstitutional, it has no place in our legal system" (Pedro Sánchez). His minister Grande-Marlaska, on November 4, 2019: ‘Amnesty is not recognised by the Spanish legal system’. Carmen Cal…

22 Nov

2023

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Humanitarian situation in Gaza, the need for the release of hostages and for an immediate humanitarian truce leading to a ceasefire and the prospects for peace and security in the Middle East (debate)

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Mr. President, Golda Meir said that the war in Palestine, in Israel, would end when Palestinians love their children more than they hate Jews. That hasn't happened yet. We're a long way from it. We must also say that we have contributed to this, because we are financing books in the Palestinian territories that only foment hatred of Israel and that systematically foment the whole culture of terror…

8 Nov

2023

ES Speech

Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 26-27 October 2023 - Humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the need for a humanitarian pause (joint debate - Conclusions of the European Council and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the need for a humanitarian pause)

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Madam President, do you know that there is a government in Europe in which Hamas is openly supported? That government exists. That government is the Spanish government of socialists and communists, where pro-Hamas ministers have been parading through the streets of Madrid and Spain. Across Europe, many forces have been manifesting, not just foreign ones, not just those millions that we have brough…

18 Oct

2023

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A true geopolitical Europe now (topical debate)

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Madam President, the geopolitical Europe we are looking for faces very clear adversaries who know what they want. And here we have a geopolitical Europe that doesn't know it. And when proposals come out, proposals come out here praising Mrs. von der Leyen and saying that she is the solution and that is the way. I believe that the way is clear, the way is that there will never again be a Franco-Ger…

18 Oct

2023

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The despicable terrorist attacks by Hamas against Israel, Israel’s right to defend itself in line with humanitarian and international law and the humanitarian situation in Gaza (debate)

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Mr President, Mr Minister, Mr High Representative, we have witnessed the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. That's sparked a war. And now some are complaining about the effects of the war. They blame the Jews. And on top of that they blatantly lie in this House, once again, to accuse Israel of what others have done, as is the case, at this time, of the hospital. What happened in Gaza? In …

17 Oct

2023

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Effectiveness of the EU sanctions on Russia (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, we all very much agree - I think there is a fairly broad consensus in this House - that these sanctions are necessary. It is necessary to avoid escapes and fissures in these sanctions and it is necessary to reinforce them until Russia gives in and, if the necessary weapons are really given to the Ukrainians, they manage to recover their territory. Now, there has been a …

14 Sep

2023

ES Speech

Resumption of the sitting

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Mr President, yesterday something very serious happened in this Parliament. A Spanish socialist, Javi López, abused a false point of order to attack me personally and ask for gags. That socialist asked for nothing less than legal measures against me for a few phrases, all true and defensible: Allende was not killed by the military. Allende was preparing a communist dictatorship. And Allende was he…

12 Sep

2023

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50 years since the murder of Allende and the Coup in Chile: democracy and sovereignty (debate)

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Madam President, we have started with the lie, with the lie of murder, which has been repeated. Salvador Allende was not killed. Salvador Allende killed himself. And the other lie. I heard she was a feminist. Feminist? He was a womanizer, notary. A womanizer who ridiculed his wife to the point of boredom. Tired of it. To public and continuing ridicule of his wife. That said, Mr Borrell, Pinochet's…