Speeches

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, after the election of Donald Trump, let's face it: Europe's security will be harmed if we sponsor American armourers and wage foreign wars. The Czech Republic has paid hundreds of billions for American F-35 fighters, which the world has not seen, because they will be delivered to us maybe in five, maybe in ten years, and in the meantime they will be even more expensive. Is that what we're supposed to be indebted to? Should we take money from pensions or health care for this? Now that we're armed, let's at least shop in Europe. When it comes to wars, we have no reason to fight foreign wars, as we did in Ukraine, which started with a coup in 2014 fueled by billions of dollars from the United States. If it weren't for the British, the war would have ended two years ago. Ukraine's neutrality and the restoration of normal relations are the best solutions for Europe's security. This is the only achievable solution. Our security will not benefit or support the coups in Georgia or Belarus and destroy these countries in the same way that Syria was destroyed. Please take this into account when we are talking about the security of Europe in the years to come.

Madam President, my colleague, I will speak Czech, we are Czechs. If foreign interference bothers you, it is not the right tool to introduce the equivalent of American interference. Foreign Agents Registration Act So that everyone who speaks for foreign interests has to declare that they are paid from abroad? We don't mind. We don't have foreign money behind us, even at the best audit, but it would show exactly who is speaking for Trump, for Musk, for the Chinese, for the Russians, or for George Soros. Isn't that a better idea?

Madam President, dear Commission and Rado - partly absent - you support the colour revolution in Georgia and you are pouring billions into Ukraine, but you are failing desperately in economic policy, which is your main task. Citizens don't care what you send to Zelensky, citizens care that automakers are going bust. The European Union was supposed to be the strongest economic unit in the world, but unfortunately, under your leadership, it fell under both the United States and China. Your regulation is choking the industry. You have brought a price to households, debts to Member States. Mrs von der Leyen, there are zero points for talking about geopolitics. You are not NATO, and without the consent of the national parliaments, you do not have a single soldier anyway. You better do what you're paid to do. Work for prosperity. Revise the Agreement Green DealBring energy back to reality. Yesterday was too late. To you, colleagues from the mainstream factions, I would like to draw your attention: This is your Commission, not ours. Either you bring her to her senses, or you answer to the citizens in the next election!

Mrs. MEP started again with misinformation, because I am not a communist, even though the communists are our esteemed coalition partners. In international affairs, I am of the opinion that we are moving from a unipolar world to a multipolar world and should be concerned with European affairs, not meddling in matters between non-member states.

Mr President, fellow Members, this Parliament has decided in its resolutions that it knows better than Venezuelans who is to rule in Venezuela and better than Georgians who is to rule in Georgia. For a while, we even knew better who was supposed to rule America. Now we have to keep this embarrassment to the Allies quiet. On the contrary, no one minds that he organized a campaign for the Czech president and is still advised by a lobbyist of an American company. No one cares that social networks in Slovakia are full of hate speech from nonprofits paid by the end of the Biden administration, nor the assassination of the Slovak prime minister, which was the fruit of this hatred. My suggestion is: "Let's leave foreign countries alone. In the Member States, let’s protect freedom of expression.” People are not stupid and know better than Jours or Nerudas or Gregors what they might think. If we want to improve something, let's adopt FARA as in the United States or Georgia. Let everyone say what they want, but let them be seen when they are paid from abroad. For many nonprofits and many democrats, this will tell us everything we need to know.

You were elected as a pirate. I was with the Pirates for a while, too, and the only real theme that the party had was internet freedom. Does it not seem to you that you are now completely denying this idea, rather you are trying to regulate the Internet and limit what people are free to learn from the Internet? Doesn't that seem a little absurd to you?

Mr President, colleagues, as a citizen of a country that has supported Syria in its development since Czechoslovakia, I must express my regret at its fate. The Syrian regime under the two Assads was certainly not ideal, but at least it was secular, ensuring some stability and functioning of the country. In 2009, the International Monetary Fund praised Syria's GDP growth, declining government debt, and reform efforts. The interference of the great powers, the support of the jihadists, the attempted coups and the crushing sanctions have led the country into catastrophe. Hundreds of thousands of people died, millions had to flee. The economy was destroyed. And now powers like Israel and Turkey have made a ripping calendar of Syrian sovereignty and state borders. What have we done to Syria? When I say we, I mean both the European Union and NATO member states. We too have contributed to the war, misery and decline of Syria, but also to the subversion of other states in the region. It won't be surprising if the people there hate us. Mrs. Kallas, let's help, let's do less harm! We don't support coups, we don't support terrorism! Let's promote peace!

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, rising energy prices and energy poverty are a demonstration of the decline of the European Union. My country joined the European Union as a self-sufficient energy superpower. Now the industry is escaping due to expensive energy abroad. People look at the bills and it's not enough to be surprised. This sad state of affairs is due to nothing more than stupid regulations and politicking under the leadership of the Commission, which, unfortunately, we have just re-elected. We are disposing of coal, shutting down nuclear power plants, buying gas expensively from the United States or three times resold from the Russians. We are raising prices with emission allowances that do not help nature, but only the pockets of speculators. Countries that export electricity are becoming net importers. But where will they import if there is no one to export? Let's get some clean wine. The political agendas of Commissioners such as Teresa Ribera are a dead end. Renewables are not ripe to feed industry, to feed households, and electromobility to do so. Regulation has overtaken technology, and that's wrong. Let's stop this, let's let the economy recover, and in ten or fifteen years we'll see if technology has progressed to make green dreams feasible. Otherwise, citizens will curse us over energy bills, elect realists instead of lunatics, and the European Union will fall apart.

Mr President, let me say a few words about the elections, about democracy and about hypocrisy. The Union economy is failing desperately against both China and the United States, but this Parliament has nothing to do but to interfere in elections both in foreign non-member states, as we have heard, and in its own. We will also vote on Georgia this week. The voters there are not anti-European, they want peace and prosperity, they do not want war and decay. They remember the bitter times of Saakashvili, they look at Zelenskyy Ukraine, they see how it turned out, and they don't want to have another battlefield out of their country, another sacrificed pawn. I was in Georgia personally, talking to politicians from both sides. Let us please leave the review of the Georgian elections to the Georgian electoral judiciary and show respect. If we want to fix something, let's start here with ourselves, here in the Union. Negotiations on the Commissioners took place behind the scenes. The President of the Commission has still not faced the case Pfizergate. Most of them are completely undemocratic. cordon sanitaire denies the opposition the opportunity to participate in parliamentary work. We can be glad that, for example, the Georgian Parliament does not approve critical resolutions about us. Let's make this right this week.

Madam President, thank you for opening up this topic. We live in a country where pro-government activists on networks wished death or COVID concentration camp to anyone who refused to wear masks in the forest or who wanted to run in the park in the evening. We live in a country where there is no punishment for saying that old people voting for the conservative left have to die out in order for the right progressive forces to win, that old people are stupid and uneducated and should vote under the supervision where the video "Persue Granny, Persuade Grandpa" was shot. We live in a country where the government has hired an army colonel for strategic communication, a rude and vulgar one who calls opponents swine and scum, and where even the smiling members of this parliament speak of opposition MPs as brooms, Mrs Neruda, or dirt, Mrs Gregor. We live in a country where the British and American embassies, including National Endowment for Democracy They fund nonprofit organizations that deliberately defame opponents of the pro-government narrative. All this translates into an extreme environment on social networks, where democratic debate is almost impossible. Older Czechs are resistant to propaganda thanks to history, but unfortunately young people are radicalizing. I would therefore like to call on the Czech Government, embassies of foreign powers and fellow MEPs from this place to spread the word. hate speech they're done.

Mr President, ladies and gentlement, you speak a lot about Russian interference in Georgia, but EU leaders are now conducting a huge intervention in the Georgian election themselves, questioning the results before it even happens, questioning whether the right party wins. That means if Georgian Dream wins, it is wrong. If opposition loses, it is wrong. Isn't this a hypocrisy? I doubt that the EU should intervene in the internal politics of its Member States, like Hungary or Slovakia. I am completely sure that the EU should not interfere in domestic affairs of Georgia. Most Georgians want to cooperate with the EU, but they also do business with China. They also do not want to get in war with Russia. It was it would be very destructive for them, like in the case of Ukraine. I think instead of meddling into Georgian affairs, we should understand that the Georgians know their interests better than we do.

You called the laws pro-Russian. What's wrong with foreign influence laws? The United States has had FARA since 1938, Australia has had FITS since 2018. The European Commission wanted to prevent foreign influences and prepared legislation to do so. How is this legislation being prepared by the European Commission less pro-Russian than what Georgia has done?

My colleague, I understand your position, only what you will say about the position of the two high courts - both the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice in The Hague - which quite unequivocally labelled what some Israeli government ministers are unfortunately doing as incitement to genocide?

Madam President, we should be careful when we hear 'disinformation' or 'fake news', because it is usually only a nicer word for censorship. Some politicians just don't like it when people express opinions. Do you remember public TV in times of COVID? We were told that we must close schools and churches. We were told that we must segregate the unvaccinated. We are still being told that buying vaccines from Pfizer was the best idea. Due to suppressing critique, the governments were able to make and keep wrong decisions. In democracy we cannot have governments or unelected commissioners saying what is right and what is wrong. It is up to the people. Hillary Clinton said recently that social media must be regulated or we will lose total control. This shows what it is really about. It is about control. It is a power grab by failing mainstream parties carrying out an attack on the right to disagree.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the majority here is critical of Hungary's national card programme for workers from eight countries who are undergoing strict pre-accession checks. Critics, however, immediately assume that those of these workers who are Russians or Belarusians pose a security risk. This is the application of the principle of collective guilt. For me, given the history of our region, completely unacceptable, unfortunately now again common among the so-called liberals. This criticism comes at a time of irregular and irregular migration, when the borders of the European Union are being crossed by masses of people who are completely undocumented, completely unchecked. This also applies to the recent wave of refugees, when, according to a report by the Czech Ministry of the Interior, organized criminals, the so-called. rafts at the root They're not mafia bosses. This makes it much easier than a work visa for any terrorist or spy to enter the European Union. Let us therefore abandon the politically motivated bullying of Hungary and try, in the interests of the security of our voters, to control all migration to Europe at least as well as Hungary intends to implement its programme of work visa recipients.

Mr President, colleagues, the conflict in Ukraine does not have a military solution, but only a diplomatic one. Two years of war after the failure of the Istanbul negotiations brought nothing but hundreds of thousands of deaths and trillions of dollars of damage. Further military support, including the currently considered use of long-range missiles, creates a threat of escalation and direct participation of European Union states in the war. Citizens have not given us a mandate to do so. Our delegation Enough! was elected on the basis of a clear peace programme, and the parties with a clear anti-war stance also succeeded in other recent elections. Even hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians in the European Union are now not interested in returning and fighting at the front. Others, on the other hand, are trying to flee Ukraine from recruiters. War escalation is the worst of the bad solutions that now remain. The best thing is to negotiate peace, to restore economic cooperation in Eastern Europe, because only this can bring the prosperity necessary, among other things, to rebuild Ukraine. That is why we should support, not criticize, the Hungarian Presidency and Prime Minister Orban, who is able to act both in Kiev and Moscow, both in Washington and Beijing. The way forward is diplomacy leading to peace, not arms supplies and not war escalation. This is the opinion of our constituents.