Speeches

Thank you very much, Mr. Colleague. You have pointed out very well that remigration is an important pillar of the solution to the problem. But I would like to return to the supply side, to another aspect: It is true that many new buildings are so expensive because the construction costs are so high, and one of the major drivers is energy prices and thus a homemade problem for the European Union. Perhaps you could also present a solution here.

Dear Madam President, I refer to Rule 22 – Duties of the President – paragraph 5: security. It has been a few weeks since I have addressed the security risk posed by the Left Group. At that time it was about serious bodily injury. Now we know: Anyone who goes to an event of the left-wing extremist parliamentarian Rima Hassan and has a dissent from her will be beaten to death by her environment. How many attacks by parliamentarians of the left and their environment still have to happen before action is finally taken? Worse still: In the Presidium there is a representative of the LFI, Younous Omarjee. We must therefore assume that information on Parliament's security will be sent directly to the dishonorable cowards and murderers of the Jeune guard to be transmitted? The Bureau must finally take action against this left-wing violence, and Mr Omarjee must resign!

Madam President, Where are the EU's peace efforts? The European Union, which sees itself as a peace project, is failing miserably. Instead of promoting diplomacy and negotiations, it pumps billions into weapons that only prolong the war or simply disappear in a corrupt administration of Ukraine. In addition, Ukraine is sabotaging the EU's energy supply. Hungary's position is particularly commendable in this context. It is true that Hungary is blocking EU aid to Ukraine and sanctions against Russia as long as fundamental problems such as stopped oil supplies are not solved. Hungary shows that you don't have to participate if the course is wrong, and that deserves our respect. Against the background – in Ukraine – of the lack of rule of law and, above all, of corruption in the country, EU accession must be strictly rejected.

Madam President, On International Education Day, we must remember one thing: Education needs freedom, and that also means freedom from indoctrination. This is a huge problem in Germany. In Brandenburg, they called for demonstrations against the right in schools, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the headmaster denounced a supposedly right-wing student at the Gymnasium in Ribnitz-Damgarten, and there was even a police operation against the little girl. The network against alleged racism is a playground of left-wing radicals with a great influence on German schools. The good is one thing: They state that: The students in Germany are getting more and more right, and they are getting more and more right, because they do not trust their teachers, because they no longer listen to what the radical left teachers say to them, and because they have rightly lost faith in the left. That's why students turn right, and that's a good thing.

Madam President, The EU and its elites have been telling people for years that foreign policy is about so-called values. People have long since understood that these buzzwords are only camouflage words to obscure the obvious national interests of states. Donald Trump uses a different language. The difference to our elites: He is honest with his constituents and the world. Let me say very briefly, Mr Gerbrandy of RENEW has just said: We have long laughed at Donald Trump's incompetence. Let me tell you one thing: Anyone who treats the President of the United States with such disrespect should not be surprised if the United States no longer wants to communicate with this EU. So the real question is: How does Europe feel about the transatlantic alliance when interests are honestly communicated and not hidden behind moral lies? The answer: The days of a soft left-liberal foreign policy are over. It is time for a right-wing Europe that finally becomes capable of action in foreign policy and recognizes the American doctrine. The future Europe must create a new principle of order – honest, courageous and reality-oriented.

Mr President! Freedom of the press in Germany is under attack. David Bendels, editor-in-chief of the German courier, was dragged to court just for posting a critical meme against the government. The local court sentenced him to seven months in prison on probation. Only the court acquitted him. This shows that the established want to prevent criticism of themselves and criminalize every free word. The totalitarian dreams of CDU politician Daniel Günther make it quite clear: He defamed news as an enemy of democracy and demanded regulation and, if necessary, bans from independent media. In Leipzig, the car of the streamer ‘Weichreite TV’ was destroyed by left-wing extremists, discs smashed, tyres punctured. Politicians on the left celebrated it. CDU politicians, left-wing extremists and public service broadcasters – all united by hatred of new media opposing their hegemony. However, freedom of the press is at the heart of our democracy and it is our duty to defend it.

Yes, thank you very much for this question. In fact, I believe that we are enforcing ever more totalitarian mechanisms across the EU in many countries. We note this in particular by reversing elections, by not admitting candidates to elections in France, by not admitting candidates to elections in Germany. And you are actually noticing that these totalitarian structures, which are taking up more and more space in Europe, originate from Western European countries. And that's the real problem. Totalitarian structures can be found mainly in Germany and France and not in Hungary.

Thank you for this request. I think we can emphasize at this point that we have a whole series of large German companies that produce very well in Hungary. And because the circumstances in Germany are so bad, and your party is responsible for that, among other things, there are more and more German companies thinking about going to Hungary. This is something that speaks for Hungary and against Germany. If you look at economic development in Germany, I think we have no right at all to judge how other countries are building their economies.

Thank you for the question. I always think it's good to quote something that you call a source. You didn't do that here. But I would like to state at this point: If you look at the Hungarian economy, you will notice that there are quite a number of German companies located there, especially from the automotive industry, especially from the automotive supply industry. And I can tell you, these companies are very satisfied there. And it goes one step further. There are quite a few companies from Germany who are thinking about going to Hungary because the criteria are better there, because they have better economic criteria there, because they have better rule of law criteria there than in Germany.

Madam President, The conditionality mechanism is not a neutral instrument, but a tool of political blackmail in the hands of a dislodged Brussels elite, reminiscent of authoritarian powers shortly before their natural demise. It is used selectively against progressive conservative governments such as Hungary, which oppose the left-green ideology. And we should all be glad that this strong Hungary does not allow itself to be intimidated by such totalitarian instruments. And as long as a dubious TISZA is not put to power, it will remain so. This left-green minority here in Parliament and other woke institutes claim that the mechanism protects the EU budget from abuse, ensures compliance with the rule of law in all Member States and somehow promotes democracy and transparency. Instead of protecting the rule of law, however, it violates the sovereignty of the nation and serves to centralize power in unelected EU institutions. The alleged violations are often just pretexts for ideological attacks. A clear abuse that divides rather than unites the EU. The conditionality mechanism must therefore be abolished because it itself violates fundamental values of the rule of law and democracy.

(Start of speech when microphone is switched off) ... 10 of the Rules of Conduct, as the EPP colleague has just said: If a company wants to do business in Hungary, it must have letters full of money. This is a slanderous statement and I ask that it be investigated.

Mr President! Defence projects like ReArm Europe have nothing to do with the EU budget. Direct or indirect military financing is a breach of taboo and a misuse of taxpayers' money. Defence is and remains the core task of the sovereign states, not the EU. The new plan includes costly investments of €800 billion by 2030. They run a war economy here. The European Commission says on its website that it wants to secure peace. What is certain, however, is that you are using defence spending and alleged peacekeeping to build a debt union. They talk about peacekeeping, but they finance the continuation of the war. They speak of defense capability, but organize a subsidy rain for the defense industry. They speak of European strength, but squander the money of sovereign states for the construction of an EU war structure. Use the billions of euros for the well-being of the citizens! Or better yet: Give the billions back to the nation-states!

Mr President! More centralism and more self-service: The agreement on the 2026 budget is the quintessence of what has been going wrong in this Union for years. Because this Union has only one vision: more, more, more – more competences for Brussels, more bureaucracy against our companies, more redistribution at the expense of national responsibility, more money from the pockets of our taxpayers. Many of the positions of budgetary compromise are already overloaded today and will have no effect. Once again, funding for programmes such as Horizon, Erasmus+, Creative Europe, LIFE or RescEU will be increased. These are all fields in which the EU is already strongly active, often without providing any corresponding added value for the Member States. At the same time, new budgets are being added, for example for Moldova. Additional positions will be created in various agencies and institutions. This in particular reinforces the structural trend towards ever larger administrative and expenditure blocks at EU level. In addition: Although the EU generates significant additional revenue from fines, penalties or traditional own resources in 2026, the new budget does not discharge the respective Member States’ treasury. Instead, additional expenditure is created and special instruments such as the Flexibility instrument or continue to use EURI to expand the budget. What is missing is a clear focus on efficiency, on accumulating reserves and on limiting spending. In our view, the proposed deal confirms a move towards an increasingly costly and overbearing budget. It is precisely this development that we reject. We are only positive about the process and the great disagreement between the Council, the Commission and Parliament. Thus, it has been evident to everyone that the ideas of the Council and Parliament are increasingly diverging. I promise you one thing: In the coming years, there will be more and more right-wing governments in Europe and thus there will be more and more right-wing councils. And then there will be no more lazy compromises like these.

Dear Mr President, I want to talk about a brave young woman: Naomi Seibt. She recently applied for political asylum in the United States, a move that should shake us all. She flees from political persecution in Germany, from constant surveillance by the secret service and from real death threats by the terrorist organization Antifa. Naomi is afraid of being arrested or attacked on a return just because she advocates freedom of expression and complains about the grievances in Germany. And Naomi's fear is more than justified: During nationwide action days against hate crime, as in June 2025, there were over 70 house searches, often only because of a few harmless memes. In one case, a pensioner was searched because he had only shared a meme about Friedrich Merz. The state no longer protects the people, but the powerful from criticism. Naomi deserves our respect for educating her about this. Thank you for your irrepressible courage, for your love for Germany and your struggle for freedom.