What Helmut spoke about.

24

Nov

2025

DE Question

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Existence of a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is founded (debate)

24

Nov

2025

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Existence of a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is founded (debate)

24

Nov

2025

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Existence of a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is founded (debate)

13

Nov

2025

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 23 October 2025 (debate)

Mr President! Mr Vilimsky of the non-patriots first talked about corruption in Ukraine. Yes, there are. But it is enlightened there, while it is not enlightened in countries such as Hungary and others where the non-patriots are. But it's about people. This week we again had representatives from Ukraine who told us in detail about the 20,000 kidnapped children who suffer in Russia, about young boys…

22

Oct

2025

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Allegations of espionage by the Hungarian government within the EU institutions (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, There are courageous and less courageous – that's the way it is. Mr Orbán – to be with Orbán – is, of course, one of the less courageous. And he is one who neither likes Europe nor likes a community. And that is why it is quite logical that he, of course, also spies against our European Union. And it is also logical that he is looking for enemy images. And, o…

22

Oct

2025

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Request for waiver of immunity

President Metsola, dear colleagues, I know there are some people in this House who support a war criminal and support Russia, but what one of our colleagues, Ms Şoşoacă, did recently in Moscow is even more. I quote the Kyiv Post, she said, 'If President Zelensky was to speak in my Parliament, I would break his legs'. So it's an announcement of physical violence against the person, it's an announce…

8

Oct

2025

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10th anniversary of the detention of jailed Swedish publisher Gui Minhai in China

Madam President, Commissioner, dear colleagues, October 17 marks ten years since the Swedish author and publisher Gui Minhai was kidnapped by Chinese agents while visiting Thailand. What is he accused of? Writing and selling books, which I think is very important, and especially when you write and sell books about the dictatorship. And China is a dictatorship, and they prove to be a dictatorship, …

8

Oct

2025

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Humanitarian and security situation in Haiti, in particular the rising power of criminal gangs and the recent massacre in Cabaret

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Haiti is not only facing a crisis. The state is failing, institutions are collapsing and big criminals now rule with impunity. The Cabaret massacres, where innocent lives were brutally mown, are not an isolated tragedy. This is a symptom of a country where the rule of law has disappeared and justice no longer exists. What to do? First, the peopl…

8

Oct

2025

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EU strategy with regard to Iran’s nuclear threat and the implementation of EU sanctions resulting from the snapback mechanism (debate)

First of all, it was Iran financing Hezbollah and Hamas. They told Hamas to do the terrible crimes of 7 October. And then Israel reacted. No, I am not in favour of bombing Gaza. But Israel has a right to exist, and it is our job to do everything so that Israel has the possibility to exist. And Iran does not have the possibility to erase all Jews and all Israelis, because that is their plan. And th…

8

Oct

2025

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EU strategy with regard to Iran’s nuclear threat and the implementation of EU sanctions resulting from the snapback mechanism (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, Minister! Iran must never have nuclear weapons. I hope we agree on that. This is a terror regime that not only terrorises the opposition, the people who kill women in their own country and does not allow them to live a normal life, but - and Mr Botenga does not want to understand this - also promises to murder all the people in Israel and to annihilate Israel. That's…

8

Oct

2025

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United response to recent Russian violations of the EU Member States’ airspace and critical infrastructure (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner! We have seen today in this discussion not only that Putin threatens us with hybrid war, but also that he has friends and puppets sitting here. At least two parties in this House, the Austrian FPÖ and the Italian Lega, have a contract with the Putin Party, and it says, among other things, that the youth should be educated together to strengthen the friendship of the y…

7

Oct

2025

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Rising antisemitism in Europe (debate)

Mr. Colleague, I wanted to ask you if you were aware of what your Party colleague Mazurek did at Auschwitz. I would also like to ask you what you say about the fact that a party friend of yours wants to be the friendly face of National Socialism. How will you deal with these many forms of anti-Semitism and racism in your group - because you want to govern, you just said - and how do you stand with…

7

Oct

2025

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Rising antisemitism in Europe (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner! Anti-Semitism existed in Europe long before the Holocaust. I know this from my friend Ari Rath, born in Vienna in 1925. He had to go to a so-called Jewish class in elementary school, at a time when the Christian socialists had led a very authoritarian, a dictatorial regime. He also always said that he had just gotten away – then, of course, before the Nazis. But it s…

10

Sep

2025

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Rule of law and EU funds management in Slovakia (debate)

Madam President, one of the first memories of my life was the Iron Curtain, you know, as a little boy, and I saw the Iron Curtain to Hungary and to Czechoslovakia, as it was called, and I couldn't believe it, you know – the towers with the soldiers and their guns. And then I was so happy, like all the others, when it was open, and we had our friends and we could live together. And it's still, by t…

10

Sep

2025

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Serious threats to aviation and maritime transport from Global Navigation Satellite System interference: urgent need to build resilience against spoofing and jamming (debate)

Madam President, We often talk here about the different forms of hybrid war. Today we talked about a particularly dangerous form of hybrid war that Putin is waging against us in Europe. I say this so clearly because many people in Austria tell me: We are neutral; If we just keep quiet, nothing can happen to us. Today's debate has shown that, of course, something can happen to all people in Austria…

10

Sep

2025

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Need for a strong European Democracy Shield to enhance democracy, protect the EU from foreign interference and hybrid threats, and protect electoral processes in the EU (debate)

Madam President, Madam Minister, Commissioner! I want to speak in German because people in Austria often ask me: What are you doing in Brussels? What are you doing for us in Austria? And I say: I want to protect you. I want to protect you from poisonous food, from fraudulent financial investments. We decide many things, but I also want to protect you from false, fake information, such as that comi…

10

Sep

2025

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State of the Union (debate)

Madam President, Madam President von der Leyen, as an Austrian, I would like to say to you: You are talking about the internal market; It needs to be expanded, yes. But it cannot be possible that the same products from the same chains are much more expensive in Austria than in Germany! So please, finally make the single market – the Commission can do that. An essential topic: Serbia. I've been to …

9

Sep

2025

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Strengthening Moldova’s resilience against Russian hybrid threats and malign interference (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner Kos, dear citizens of Moldova, your President was very welcome here today. And so are you: you are welcome to the European Union if the negotiations go well. I visited Moldova many times, and I saw this Russian influence firsthand. This time, Russia has reportedly allocated USD 350 million for buying votes, corruption, intimidation and so on. That is a huge sum for a sma…

9

Sep

2025

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Wave of violence and continuous use of force against protesters in Serbia (debate)

Madam President, dear Commissioner, I want to start with some very good news. My group, the Renew Group, will propose the Serbian students for the Sakharov Prize of this year, together with Irena Joveva. Thank you very much, Irena, for working with us for that. This is a very important sign. It was awarded for the first time in 1988 by Parliament to Nelson Mandela. It's a human rights prize, and t…

9

Sep

2025

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Ukraine (joint debate)

Madam President, Madam Vice‑President, dear Commissioner, Ms Kos, you rightly said that it's a strong sign that Ukraine comes to Europe. It's also a strong signal to Moscow. But there are other signals to Moscow from the very left and from the very right. These signals are that they are parrots. They just say the same as Putin, we just heard it. And then, Ms Gál – she already left – talked about h…

9

Jul

2025

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Alleged misuse of EU funds by Members of the far-right and measures to ensure institutional integrity (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. Gergely Karácsony was here with us today – the mayor of Budapest – and he explained the Orbán media system in detail again. Orbán takes EU money to incite against the EU in Hungary, and he threatens all entrepreneurs and media outlets that report somewhat more critically, such as those that advertise in critical media, such entrepreneurs are threatened. That's t…

8

Jul

2025

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2023 and 2024 reports on Bosnia and Herzegovina (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner! I will speak in German, because I am also addressing the many people from Bosnia and Herzegovina who live in Austria, many of whom had to come to us as refugees, who have found a home with us, and who are now so important to me because they can have contact back to their homeland, to their two homelands in Europe. But first of all, many thanks to Ondřej Kolář. Thank …

8

Jul

2025

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2023 and 2024 reports on Albania (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, following this discussion, I had the impression, but I understand now why it is so difficult to have any conversation with the right‑wing extremists. They come out and say, 'If you look at Albania, it's just a gang of drug dealers, and there's only crime'. Yes, we heard about it. There is crime. There are problems. The media situation is not perfect at all. But on th…

8

Jul

2025

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Situation in Belarus, in particular the release of political prisoners (debate)

Madam President, dear Commissioner, dear Minister, when I think about Lukashenka, I don't think of a president. I think of a dictator. But moreover, I also think of a traitor because he sold out his country to a war criminal, to Putin. He told him he can make war against Ukraine also out of Belarus. Of course, we talked about the political prisoners. I was always impressed when I talked to Ms Tsik…

7

Jul

2025

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Madam President, 'Nationalism is war'. It was François Mitterrand who said this to the European Parliament. Now I have to continue in German, because it is also about Austria. There is this warlike nationalism that we are witnessing from Putin, who has the people of Ukraine murdered. There is the aggressive nationalism of a Romanian presidential candidate who says: We own a piece of Ukraine. There…