Speeches

Colleague, you said two things. First, that you hope that the United States of America will continue to support the war in Ukraine, and then that we should be in solidarity and use the Russian money here in the European Union to support Ukraine. You haven't read a new one National Security Strategy United States of America? There it is clearly stated that NATO will not expand in Europe. And you can see that President Trump has been trying to end this conflict since the beginning of his administration. Then how can you expect it? The second question is: Do you want to give away our taxpayers' money?

Mr President, but my colleague, how do you explain this? We have listened here for a long time, precisely from Mrs von der Leyen and their colleagues, that Europe is fighting in the interest of Ukrainians. And now surveys, independent surveys in Ukraine show that over 70% of Ukrainians already want an end to this war. And the very people who told us here that we actually stand up for the Ukrainians, so now, despite the fact that the Ukrainians want to end this conflict, they are telling us here now that the conflict needs to be prolonged, that we have to finance it with the money of our taxpayers. How do you explain that?

I will ask in German. Dear colleague, can I ask you in German? It's great! You have just stated that Belgium does not want to deal with this injustice on its own, the Russian assets to confiscate. And you are talking about a just solution, because you are already waiting for us to lose a legal dispute with the Russian Federation, which you simply want to distribute to everyone. Is this the socialist way of thinking that if we commit injustice, the others should just pay for it?

Mr President, dear disciples, I would like to quote the new national strategy of the United States of America. A large European majority wants peace, but this desire is not implemented by the governing politicians because they ignore the democratic will. Yes, this is for everyone who wants to upgrade here. I wonder: Why do you want to upgrade so massively? We haven't had an opponent in Europe in 30 years. Since the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, there has been no threat to Europe. And you have successfully – successfully through NATO enlargement – built Russia into the new enemy. You keep trying. That is why, by the way, you also want to continue the war and continue to finance it, so that you can simply maintain this enemy image. (Remark by Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann when microphone is switched off) Do you speak for your associations, which you represent, the military industry? As a lobbyist? Or are you sitting here as a member of parliament? I quote the official American government. And she's right, and that's what hits you in the Mark. I am telling you that the only threat we have in Europe is illegal migration. And you better build for the 250 billion...

Mr. Sieper, not at all, because the Czech secret service did not do that at all. What they say does not exist. I asked them to do it, they never did. You should know – it has now been published several times – that it was a campaign financed by NATO circles to discredit several politicians who opposed the war in Ukraine. Meanwhile, it is also known that the media that drove this campaign are tied up in the OCCRP and that they were secretly paid. So, you should do more justice to your party's name and exercise sanity and do some research before asking questions.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. The EU Commission now wants to oblige providers of chat services to search messages, photos, videos on users' devices. And that is what you call the defence of European sovereignty? I think I'm falling from the chair, dear colleague. If you want to defend Europe's sovereignty, then defend the external border or defend our infrastructure, which was blown up with Nord Stream 2, but don't try censorship laws. What you are proposing here is the end of confidential digital communication in Europe, and the mainstream media now sees it that way. The FAZ has even criticized that it is worse than the Chinese control system, and you should keep that in mind. They are violating the fundamental rights of our people. When chat control comes, it's the end of privacy in Europe. In conclusion, I just want to say: An EU Commission President, who does not want to push out her own chat protocols to the billion-dollar deal with Pfizer, now calls for total surveillance of all 450 million EU citizens. Good thing we have a vote of no confidence against them tomorrow – twice.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. I come from Munich and I drive a BMW – not because the company is in my constituency, but simply because it builds the best cars. And I drive a diesel, not because a commissioner prescribed it to me, but because it is a supertechnology: economical, environmentally friendly and absolutely indestructible. In the same way, millions of citizens across the European Union have decided that they want to drive a combustion engine. And what do you do? They want to force them to use an inferior technology like the electric car. Under flimsy explanations, you forced it on them. And what is the result? In Germany alone, 50,000 jobs were destroyed in the automotive industry last year and more than 120,000 jobs have been destroyed since 2019. This is the result of your policy. Citizens don't want that. We don't want that. And now it's over! Tomorrow there will be two votes against Ursula von der Leyen - motion of censure. That's what you harvested.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, Maia Sandu, President of Moldova, said here in this House this morning: Moldova is already thinking and acting like the EU. Our Czech colleague Ondřej Dostál was able to see what this means in practice just a few weeks ago. He wanted to attend a conference in Moldova, and he was detained at the border for several hours, not admitted and expelled despite a diplomatic passport, although he is an elected representative here in the European Parliament. The same thing happened to American journalists. Yes, the oh so democratic pro-EU government in Moldova is actually already thinking and acting like the EU: She doesn't want a discussion, she doesn't want people at an EU-critical conference, she just wants to lock away uncomfortable voices. What is the EU doing now? The Commission has just now had to admit that it paid EUR 600 000 to a highly controversial network of journalists – OCCRP – right after the EU elections. Just that you know what OCCRP is: The head of this organization, Drew Sullivan, has said that this organization has helped overthrow five governments. The media in this network have carried out the impeachment against Donald Trump, they have broken the Ibiza affair in Austria just before the EU election from the fence, thereby influencing the EU elections and the last EU election by the European Parliament. Voice-of-EuropeThe affair. So, dear Moldovans, welcome to this EU! Here the preservation of power is celebrated by abuse of power. Tax money is misused, institutions and the media – this is the only way to govern against your own people.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. I am very surprised by what you have said here and, above all, by the unworthy event you have held here in the House on Serbia today. They have here carted in opposition from a country that should beg for it – against corruption. Should the EU help against corruption in Serbia? Hello, please! Here: The head of the EU Commission is under suspicion of corruption, against which is being investigated, and someone should help! Next point: Oppression of the opposition, and you want to help the protests. Where were you when the people of Bulgaria protested against the government for refusing them a referendum, to which they have a right? Where were you when the Romanians demonstrated because the presidential elections were stolen from them? You are total hypocrites, you always pick out only those countries where there are no pro-EU governments yet. And Vucic is a strong leader who wants a strong Serbia, and that stinks to you, and that's why you support his opponents.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. The European Parliament is campaigning for freedom of speech and for an NGO activist who has attacked a police officer and is therefore in prison. If you really care about freedom of speech and independent journalists who are in prison, then first look into your own ranks, into the EU. We have a David Bendels, an editor-in-chief in Germany, who got seven months' imprisonment on probation just because he published a collage on which the then Interior Minister Nancy Faeser wrote: "I hate freedom of expression". This is the state of freedom of expression here in the EU, in Germany. Or Shlomo Finkelstein – 12 months sentence, 9 months in prison. A YouTuber who hasn't beaten any policemen has only spoken out in favor of freedom of expression. Or let us return to the door of the EU: Tommy Robinson, a real journalist working for freedom of expression; He was also imprisoned for several months, only so that he did not show his film ‘Silenced’. So please, really stand up for journalists! Don't support non-governmental organizations abroad that only have one regime change to serve!

Mrs. Strack-Zimmermann, I will ask in German, I think we get along. You just attacked the president of the United States. They accused him of undemocratic behavior. I find this very strange. The United States has been our best ally for many years. It is the largest democracy in the world. Right now there is a government in power that criticizes the oppression of the opposition in Germany, in which your party also participated when it was in government. So you might be able to concretize what you are actually accusing Donald Trump of?

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, We are talking here today in 2025 – 21st century – in the European Union about blackouts, about the fact that hospitals had no power supply for 24 hours, about the fact that police officers had to be on alert because of this technical failure. Dear friends, this is, of course, a total failure of your policy. This is due to the energy transition. Because what you, Commissioner, are asking for here – safe, cheap, environmentally friendly energy – is what we have had in Europe since the 1950s. We also had a network that worked very well until we put in an energy for which, you are right, this network has not been developed. We need a base load, we need reliable electricity, we need electricity from coal-fired power plants, from nuclear power plants. That's what we need. We have to go back there.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, ‘Make America Great Again′′ is, of course, a declaration of struggle to the whole world, to the EU, to Europe. Why? The American president, of course, takes care of the Americans – oh wonders! He wants jobs in the United States. He wants prosperity back in the United States. He wants to bring the industry back to the United States. And what do I hear here? Trump, Trump, Trump! A single man is enough to upset the European Parliament. Dear colleagues, instead of whining and pulling over Trump, you should think about the old parties: What did you do? When was the last time you fought for your constituents like Trump did for his American ones? The question is justified, because Trump's reaction is only a logical development of the last decades. Jobs, not only from the US, but also from Europe, have migrated to low-wage countries. This has been felt by our people, our workers, as well as by the Americans. First in the steel industry, then in the electronics industry, in the automotive industry, and now finally it's even our farmers' turn. What is our reaction? Do we want to enter into a trade war? Do we want to react by artificially increasing the price of imports? Of course not! We need free trade, we want free trade. And Europe – and I do not mean the EU – can take up this competition. We have the better-educated workforce, we have an innovative industry, we have raw materials on this continent, we can take up this competition, but we have to break the shackles that are holding us back here. We have to do it Green Deal We have to stop, we have to lower taxes, and we have to smash the bureaucratic monster of Brussels. ‘Afuera’ is the motto of the times and then our motto can be: ‘Make Europe great again“.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner! Today we commemorate the courageous women and men who opposed totalitarian systems in the last century – National Socialism, Communism. This remembrance is very important, and we bow to the courage of these people. They often risked their lives. But why do we make this remembrance? Is it just a matter of planting a few gardens? Putting down flower wreaths? I don't think so. And, Commissioner, you said that very rightly. The point is that these people are role models for the young people of today. But this also means that we are becoming vigilant for the totalitarian tendencies of today, for the dangers to democracy that lurk here today. That we also remember the courageous people who oppose totalitarian tendencies today. There would be, for example, Tommy Robinson in England, who is currently in prison, in solitary confinement, being subjected to very unworthy treatment – recently he had to undress naked after a visit – and where the prison management even prohibits him from being visited by Members of the European Parliament. Or a Michael Ballweg, the leader of the extra-parliamentary opposition in Germany, who fought against really totalitarian actions, including the police against demonstrators in the coronavirus era, where even the UN Commissioner for Torture, Professor Melzer, wanted to investigate. Michael Ballweg was in prison for nine months without a court ruling. These people are the brave ones of today.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, We are talking today about violations of human rights and threats to democracy, and that is a good thing, that is a very important issue. Mrs Wiseler-Lima, the rapporteur, has also said that all these violations should be punished. But we are not the United Nations, we are the EU Parliament, so let's just focus on our territory first; There are also some things that go wrong here. The judiciary is often abused to suppress the opposition – a colleague has already mentioned this here; Marine Le Pen is the most recent example in France. But the Tusk government in Poland is persecuting his colleague Marcin Romanowski in such a way that he had to apply for asylum in Hungary. In Germany, we had Michael Ballweg, the leader of the extra-parliamentary opposition, in prison for nine months without a court ruling, and recently in Romania, Călin Georgescu was prevented from taking part in the presidential election. We should work this out.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, While we are discussing here, hundreds of thousands are demonstrating against this EU and for its candidate, especially in Romania. For the candidate of the people to whom the election was stolen because he was against the war, against further arms deliveries to Ukraine. How has the EU reacted? How has this Parliament reacted? The debate on this issue was prevented. That's a shame! Instead, you have invited representatives of dubious NGOs from Ukraine and Belarus, who have rushed against Russia here. What do they have to look for in this House? They are not elected by anyone, they are not democratically legitimised by anyone, and their countries do not even belong to the EU. Whoever is responsible for this is trampling democracy underfoot. Yeah, who betrayed us? The Christian Democrats. The CDU votes here with the socialists, communists and with the Greens, although there are right-wing conservative majorities here. And this is betrayal of the electorate, my dear colleague. Merz wants to do the same in Germany; They even want to change the Basic Law because of 800 billion new debts – 300 billion for weapons, 500 billion to make the infrastructure suitable for weapons and armor. They want to drive us to war. That is it – and it is completely illegal, because Merz even wants to do this with the old, de-elected Bundestag, because he does not have the majorities in the new Bundestag at all. This is truly unconstitutional. There is no urgency at all. People don't want warmongering, people want peace. Because that's the case, you have to play games like in the morning with these NGOs. That's why you're building Russia into an enemy here. Because of Russia wants to attack us; That's utter nonsense. What will Russia want if they occupy us here? We have nothing but debt - 2.5 trillion debts. Do you think the Russian people want to pay this for us? And the $800 billion on top? Certainly not.

Dragi gosti! Madam President, Dear colleagues! The riots in Serbia are the last twitches of a globalist network that has organized such protests around the world for decades. Donald Trump and Elon Musk are breaking it. They are smashing the CIA forward organization USAID. It has financed protest movements, destabilized governments and regime changes brought about. We have seen it recently in Georgia and Ukraine. Now we are seeing it in Slovakia and Serbia. Serbs have little cause for real displeasure. The country is far better economically and politically than other countries in the Balkans. Serbia is clearly committed to EU accession, but does not close itself to Russia and China, attracting foreign investment that others can only dream of. This is exactly what is a thorn in the side of the globalists. They do not want independent nations, but obedient vassals. Serbia is a proud, sovereign country. The Serbs do not allow themselves to be dictated how they should govern their country and with whom they maintain friendly relations. Therefore, no interference, no destabilization, no forced regime change. Those who are dissatisfied with the government should show this in democratic elections, not in externally staged protests.

Mrs Juknevičienė, you know, you are also spreading fake news here. I was the foreign policy spokesman for our parliamentary group in the Bundestag. I was on an official trip to Lithuania, and I was on an official trip to Belarus. And the trip did not take a week, but three days. That's it. (intermediate calls) Yeah, yeah, yeah! And if you Correctiv Believe me, then you're sitting on fake news – that's how it is! Don't be a part of this propaganda machine. Open your eyes and see what the truth is. We are happy to continue the dialogue.

Madam President, Dear colleagues, you have been here two years ago. Russia today Banned throughout the EU. Funny that today, two years later, we still have to talk about Russian propaganda. Maybe it's because you've been artificially raising the issue over and over again? How stupid do you think we are? Everyone sees what you're trying to do here: Distract from the actual propaganda and election influencing. (intermediate calls) (Interruption by the President: Please, colleagues, please don't shout when there is a speaker.) Best example of this year: Voice of Europe, a website of exiled Ukrainians in Prague who liked the contributions of a handful of people and of all people this website should influence the elections throughout the EU in the sense of Putin. Not Voice of EuropeThe campaign against Voice of Europe It affected the entire election campaign. They manipulate public opinion. You, Mrs. Strack-Zimmermann, want war. They want more weapons. You defame anyone who stands in your way as an agent of Moscow. (intermediate calls) And it's interesting who we're being defamed by: from the real agents of a foreign power – and it is not Russia. Dear colleagues, did you know that the major European media has been secretly funded by the US government for over 20 years? Among them: mirrors, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Le Monde, Guardian, El País, Repubblica and others – they are all members of the OCCRP network. The network has received $47 million from the U.S. government since its inception. Payments are disguised. American funding is not mentioned in the articles. And journalists are not allowed to investigate U.S. affairs for the money. Through this network, the US has defamed people and entire countries for decades, possibly even with illegally obtained information, justified illegal wars and influenced elections. And you are seriously discussing Russian websites and a few bots on TikTok? Okay, then let's take a look at the content – the oh-so-dangerous content – that you've already censored. Voice of Europe He denounced the corruption of the Zelensky government. And what was the most respected contribution on Russia today in Germany? A video about the alleged chases of Chemnitz that exposed the mainstream lies. (intermediate calls) You are not afraid of disinformation, you are afraid of the truth!

Thank you for accepting the question, this is very nice of you. You have described TikTok as a major threat to democracy. Democracy was allegedly undermined. Now my TikTok channel has been shut down as a democratically elected member of the German Bundestag. And when we asked why, the Chinese operator told us: under pressure from the German government because I criticised the German government in my contributions. Don't you think that would be a greater threat to democracy if a government censored a free platform?