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Jun

2025

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Protecting bees: advancing the EU's New Deal for Pollinators (debate)

Madam President, thank you for the word you have received. I would like to refer briefly to Mr Waitz. Mr Waitz has just indicated that the right is somehow to blame for the bees dying; You didn't prove it somehow. That is why I would like to prove something to you, namely that there is a study by the Center for Aerospace Technology (DLR), written by Dr. Franz Trieb, and Dr. Franz Trieb found in this study that on average around 1200 tons of insects die from wind turbines every year. We're talking about billions of insects dying from wind turbines every year. In this respect, I would like to state at this point: Green politics is not only deadly for the economy, but unfortunately also for bees.

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Jun

2025

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Freedom of assembly in Hungary and the need for the Commission to act (debate)

Mr President! In one of the previous speeches, the Hungarian popular uprising of 1956 was addressed. At that time, Hungary defended freedom for all of Europe, and Hungarians can still be proud today to defend freedom for all of us. The question is whether communist tanks are the greater enemy than the woken left in this Parliament, because at least adults were able to defend themselves against tanks at that time, and even children must be defended against the protagonists of the EU. Hungary is the bulwark for the defence of Europe. Don't give up, because Hungary is defending us all!

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Jun

2025

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Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience Facility (debate)

Yes, you see, we basically reject debt on the part of the EU. And you cannot look at it in isolation, but, of course, as an EU, you have to look at the debts that the EU makes and the respective Member States. In this respect, it is a fundamental concern for us that debt-financed programmes should not take place within the EU.

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Jun

2025

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Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience Facility (debate)

Madam President, What does the financing of photovoltaic systems for property owners in southern Europe have to do with Corona? True, nothing at all, but nevertheless such measures were financed by the ARF, popularly known as the Corona Fund. Houses were refurbished 100% tax-financed in a climate-friendly way, with 10% for the banks on top of that. Fiscal madness, which German taxpayers had to finance with 133 billion euros. The EU can borrow up to EUR 750 billion in total in debt for which all Member States are liable. Corona obviously only served as a cover for establishing common debt. The EU always sets precedents, which should be a one-off exception, but this usually becomes a permanent mechanism. Not only the Draghi report has already called for permanent joint debt, which is also mentioned positively in this report. Those responsible are not interested in the fact that this is to the detriment of the fiscal stability of the Member States and, above all, of future generations. The EU Commission has apparently long since agreed internally that only tax-financed growth can contribute to a transformation, to a so-called green economy. The European Parliament now wants to lay the foundations for this. That it is a dairy human calculation that ignores all economic principles is obvious to everyone. Interest rates on this fund are so exorbitant over the next few years that they will tie up 15-20% of the current budget. In order to compensate for this, of course, own resources, i.e. EU taxes, are demanded again. Responsible budgeting is very different. And it is precisely in this notch that the report strikes. It claims that the communitisation of debt is fundamentally correct. There is also a call for EU taxes to be levied. We do not do all this, so we reject the report.

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Jun

2025

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Resumption of the sitting

Madam President, I refer to Rule 10(1) of the Rules of Procedure – Code of Conduct. I would ask you to examine in detail the statements made publicly by the Vice-President of the European Parliament, Ms Katarina Barley, in the article in the Allgemeine Zeitung of 12 May 2025. Ms. Barley is openly in favour of a ban on the largest opposition party in Germany, the AfD. The statements made by Mrs Barley are clearly contrary to the fundamental democratic principles and values of the rule of law to which the European Parliament is committed. As there are growing doubts in several Member States about the respect of democracy and the rule of law of the EU, such an approach seriously damages the reputation and credibility of the European Parliament. The Bureau will therefore ...

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Jun

2025

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Mr President! In Germany, fundamental rights are trampled underfoot. There it is now normal that you are spied on if you are not compliant with the government, or the police enter the door if you criticize a green minister. Now the powerful in Germany have taken something new out of the poison cabinet – occupational bans. Is it justified to deny a talented writer access to his profession just because his opinion is controversial? In Germany it is. For example, a lawyer is currently denied a career as a judge or lawyer because he has written a novel that does not suit the authorities. Not enough: Uli Grötsch of the SPD demands that AfD members be thrown out of the police service. The SPD, which is at a historical low and degenerates into a splinter party, acts according to the motto: If we are so bad that no one wants to vote for us anymore, we are simply destroying the existence of the opposition. Teachers who are not willing to indoctrinate their students to the maximum have already been pressured. Germany is becoming a little less free every day. We will fight for the freedom of the German people, and the old parties will lose.

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May

2025

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Dear Mr President, We are talking a lot about the rule of law in this House, so I wonder: What does the rule of law mean when socialists rule? In Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, this is as follows: If you are SPD chairman and interior minister at the same time, you are publicly motivating the secret service to spy on the opposition, in this case the AfD. So that your executive arbitrariness is legally valid, you then go to your SPD parliamentary group, find the little-gifted SPD lawyer Lars Brocker and ensure that he becomes chairman of the Constitutional Court. Then your SPD loyalists, such as former Prime Minister Dreyer, can rush against the AfD because SPD judges with reference to SPD sources find that the SPD is somehow doing everything right. In your SPD youth, you then draw in a Robin Dautermann, who wants to knock out AfDlern's teeth. For example, the SPD in Rhineland-Palatinate has dependent constitutional courts to secure its power, dependent spies against the opposition and just a few thugs – all for the preservation of democracy, of course.

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May

2025

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The Hungarian government's drift to Russia-style repression: legislative threats to freedom of expression and democratic participation (debate)

Mr President! We could have talked about a lot of interesting things in Europe today. We can talk about the fact that in Romania elections are manipulated and repeated until the result eventually fits. We can talk about the fact that in France, the strongest candidate is simply excluded from the election. We can talk about reprisals in Germany, where the US Secretary of State Rubio says: This is tyranny. Instead, we are talking about an unadopted, harmless law in Hungary – this is ridiculous. All this we do only to push a party called TISZA. A party initiated by abroad and controlled in Germany, among other things, by Merkel's disciples. And I'll tell you one thing: The only thing you can expect in Hungary if you are controlled by Merkel’s disciples is mass migration, terror – and may the Hungarian people be saved from it.

21

May

2025

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The Hungarian government's drift to Russia-style repression: legislative threats to freedom of expression and democratic participation (debate)

You have fantasized about the fact that in Hungary an opposition is threatened. I'd like to ask you a question. You are a member of the PPE, that is, you are a lapdog of the Merkel-CDU. In CDU circles, it is currently the case in Germany that the largest opposition party – the largest party in the polls – the AfD, is currently monitored by a secret service. That is, there are people who lose their professional careers when they are in the AfD. There are people in the CDU who are trying to ban the largest opposition party in Germany. Explain to me why this is less an attack on democracy than what you are fantasizing about Hungary?

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May

2025

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Order of business

Madam President, I refer to Rule 12 of the Rules of Procedure: Internal investigations by the European Anti-Fraud Office. The former press spokesman of the German Greens in Rhineland-Palatinate raises in the magazine Tichys insights Accusations against a former Green MP and today's leader of the German Greens. A former Green leader reports that MEPs used their staff illegally for campaign purposes, among other things. The accusations made there far exceed those made against Madame Le Pen, for example. The allegations made there far exceed those in which Madame Le Pen – wrongly – lost her right to stand as a candidate in a totalitarian act. I therefore call on OLAF to open an investigation into Mrs Franziska Brantner, a Green Party politician.

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May

2025

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Competition policy – annual report 2024 (debate)

Madam President, In today's debate, we have talked a lot about big companies. In this respect, when we talk about competitiveness, I would like to take a look at what is happening in small and medium-sized enterprises. I come from a region that is strongly influenced by agriculture and viticulture. In other words, we are talking about a lot of family businesses. And when you talk to them, what's your main problem? – and then they speak very clearly: It is over-regulation. They are family businesses that almost all now say they need a whole labour force just to be able to regulate the bureaucratic madness – the bureaucratic madness that has largely been created by the EU. The second point that keeps coming up is that you say: We have completely different requirements. If we have regulations on viticulture, they are much stricter than those we have outside the European Union. This is an unbelievable competitive disadvantage. This means: Small and medium-sized enterprises, especially in the field of agriculture, especially in the field of viticulture, need deregulation to make them competitive. And that should be the EU's main concern.

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May

2025

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A revamped long-term budget for the Union in a changing world (debate)

Dear Mr President, What is presented to us here by the European Parliament as an alleged vision for the future of Europe about the financial framework borders on a farce. It adopts a vision for an EU budget that is nothing more than an additional burden on citizens. One wonders: In what reality do you actually live here? We, as the ESN Group, are clearly saying that we do not want to create a financial framework in which we have resources that exceed 1% of gross national income. The EU budget should shrink and not keep growing. The positive thing is that you have a problem with the financing, because nobody wants to pay for all the stuff. The introduction of own resources: difficult. Other expenditure, other resources by Member States: Not so easy either. Do we really want to promote more EU bureaucracy while people in Germany and many other countries are in recession? Do we really want to burden these people even more with levies? Namely, that's exactly what it is. When we talk about own resources, in the end we are talking about an additional burden on citizens, even though we already have an incomprehensible tax burden in Germany, for example. I also wonder: In the end, who wants to scream "here!" when it comes to raising these funds? So far, it has always been the Germans who were stupid enough to say – not us from the AfD, but the other parties – that of course we are giving more funding to the EU, but that is clearly difficult at the moment. Merz might be a point of contact, but we are seeing the CDU right now, and its loser king Merz is not in a position to form a government. And then we are also good things that he will not be able to bring even more German money to this EU.

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May

2025

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Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2023 (debate)

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May

2025

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Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2023 (debate)

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Apr

2025

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European Action Plan on Rare Diseases (debate)

Mr President! I am pleased with this issue today, because this is indeed one of the few positions where the European Union can do something reasonable, namely in this cooperation in the fight against rare diseases. But I would also like to address briefly Mr Kulja, who has just spoken, who has sharply criticised the health system in Hungary. And I'm just telling you one thing, Mr. Kulja: I really hope you don't learn from the CDU here, too. You are a Merkel disciple – your party – so hopefully you will not only learn from the CDU how to bring terror to Germany, how to make mass rapes come to Hungary, but I hope that you are not responsible for establishing a marauding health system in Hungary. I hope that the Hungarians will be spared Merkel's disciples like you.

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Mar

2025

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Guidelines for the 2026 budget - Section III (debate)

Dear Mr President, The budget seems to see itself as a savior, but the truth is that chaos and failure are hidden behind the colorful slogans. The EU has embarked on a wrong path, closing its eyes to the real problems. Thus, the guidelines refer in detail to Russia's war of aggression against the EU, they speak of an alleged defence capability, climate change, biodiversity. This is all your programme, but it is not the main problems of our citizens. An EU-induced energy and economic crisis, uncontrolled immigration and the loss of freedom of expression – that is what employs EU citizens. And let me say one more thing about the EPP. What just made me smile was Mr. Simon from the CDU. Mr Simon has just said that we cannot solve problems with debt, we should pay attention to budgetary discipline. Those CDUs who now want to make debts in Germany in the three-digit billion range, to a degree that the socialists never dared to do, are now telling us something about budgetary discipline, about the fact that one has to repay debt after all. This is hard to beat in ridicule. You have lost all values. The CDU is worthless in the truest sense of the word.

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Mar

2025

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Frozen Russian assets (debate)

Mr President! Frozen Russian assets are nothing more than pouring oil into the fire. This is a clear signal that the EU is increasingly becoming a war union. While the US and other countries are seriously working on peace negotiations to contain the conflict, the EU envisages sanctions, arms deliveries and asset confiscation. The EU would have to come back to its senses and act as a negotiator, not a would-be warrior. Please consider one thing: The measure punishes all Russian citizens collectively and brings them against the EU; That cannot be the goal. Another one: Mr Gahler has just carried out a very large legal analysis, and he has said exactly the right thing in the subordinate clause: We're on very thin legal ice here when we freeze those assets. We will have legal action against us here, and we will lose those legal actions. Again, we have only risks and no chances. True support for Ukraine means resolving the conflict at the negotiating table, not through weapons and confiscated money.

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Mar

2025

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European Council meetings and European security (joint debate)

Dear colleague, you have hardly spoken on the agenda item; You have actually used your speaking time above all to take action against your own government. But I ask myself the following question: They always want this greater European integration. You are here promising that your delegation stands for bringing Hungary back to the heart of Europe. What do you really want to achieve? Do you really want a Hungarian army to be sacrificed so that there is a European army that will certainly no longer want to defend Hungary? Do you mean with the heart of Europe what your group colleagues from the CDU are responsible for, that there are mass rapes in Germany, that there is terror in Germany? Do you want this to happen in Hungary? Do you think that's the point where you say that the heart of Europe is leading you back there?

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Feb

2025

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EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement (debate)

Thank you, Mr. Colleague, for accepting the question. You just quoted Lenny Kravitz. I wish you had listened less to Lenny Kravitz and more to what our own farmers would have said. But I can do that at this point. I would like to quote the German Farmers’ Association – the chairman of the German Farmers’ Association, Mr Joachim Rukwied. He says: “We farmers were not heard. This agreement is unilaterally to the detriment of European farmers and massively weakens our farms in competition. This is the opposite of the EU Commission's commitment to strengthen European agriculture. The envisaged mechanisms to protect European standards for agriculture and food are insufficient." What do you say to this gentleman and the German farmer?

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Feb

2025

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US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, the World Health Organisation and the suspension of US development and humanitarian aid (debate)

Madam President, When we listen to the debate we have had today, we note: There are actually two things we can limit ourselves to. These are insults to Donald Trump: He was called an autocrat, a capitalist monster, and the US was on its way to the Neanderthals. And it goes on there. We have a Member here, for example, who once said that he no longer has all the cups in his closet. This is Ms. Strack-Zimmermann, who is, after all, chairman of the Defence Committee. Point one. Point two is the endless moaning because he just withdrew from the nonsensical Paris Agreement, because he withdrew from the WHO. And I'm actually wondering: If you actually criticize all this and just insult him all the time, why do you think Donald Trump is somehow listening to this house? Donald Trump finds the EU so unimportant that a Ursula von der Leyen is not even invited to his inauguration. And if that's not even the case, what do you think Donald Trump cares about when any left-wing bigots here in the house insult him? That doesn't interest a Donald Trump. You really don't care about Donald Trump at all.

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Feb

2025

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Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggression (debate)

Dear Mr. Colleague, you have just said that we are responsible for this, that we should, let's say, be for Russia. But this is absolute nonsense, but we are committed to peace efforts. Like President Trump, we are committed to finally having peace conditions so that Russian and Ukrainian soldiers no longer have to die. And tell me: What is your idea for a peace effort? That we're not always just talking about military victories having to be made where more soldiers are dying.

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Feb

2025

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Mr President! Fighting left-wing violence is one of the biggest challenges in Europe. According to the Federal Government, more than half of the violent crimes against politicians in Germany were committed by left-wing extremists in 2024. What this looks like in practice, you could see this weekend. At an AfD campaign stand, a volunteer was shot with a metal ball. But with such left-wing terror, with such left-wing violence, the EU looks away because it wants to look away. This violence is also an outgrowth of demonstrations against the right. Before elections, it is now common practice in Germany for the government to send its own troops and state-funded protesters against the opposition onto the streets. Two days after a two-year-old boy was killed in Aschaffenburg, leading Greens are celebrating a lifestyle demo against the right in Berlin with magicians and smiling cheerfully at the camera. What a mockery of the little boy, what a recklessness towards the bereaved! Was für eine widerliche Charakterlosigkeit von grünen Politikern, denen die Opfer ihrer Politik vollkommen egal ist!

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2025

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European Central Bank – annual report 2024 (debate)

Mr President! Hearing the remarks today sounds a bit like creating a masterpiece of price stability in the EU area. But is it really? No, it is a glare intended to obscure the actual failures of this institution. The ECB has long been acting as a political actor and not as an independent guardian of price stability. One might wonder how the 2% inflation target will succeed if the ECB manipulates markets through endless bond purchases. This is by no means taming inflation, but trampling on the principle of a market economy. Who will pay the bill in the end? They're our savers, they're our pensioners. Another chapter in this tragedy is the digital euro, supposedly an addition to cash, but in truth the perfect lever for total surveillance and control. It is nothing more than a new dimension of state intervention in the self-determined life of the citizens of the European Union. In addition, the ECB is entangled in dubious projects that, like green bonds come along. We are talking about climate protection, but what is really behind it? A hidden redistribution mechanism where our citizens are supposed to bear the costs of other countries' unsustainable debts! It is a breach of European treaties, and it is a clear diffraction of the law in force.

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Cryptocurrencies - need for global standards (debate)

Madam President, I believe that today's debate has once again shown that there are different conceptions of human beings that are represented here in this Parliament. And actually, there are always debates here in this House about the need to regulate things, to control things. Free opinions are restricted via the DSA, and in the case of cryptocurrencies, the goal is also to put this on the short leash if possible. I think we should realize at this point that our human image is that we have free, responsible citizens. And free, empowered citizens are also able to look for a free currency. And that's why, I believe, cryptocurrencies are exactly the means of resisting state repression, of disconnecting from states and a European Union that is becoming more and more invasive.

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Jan

2025

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Addressing EU demographic challenges: towards the implementation of the 2023 Demography Toolbox (debate)

Yes, thank you for allowing the question. I fully agree with you on one point: It is not the fault of women that we have this demographic problem, but it is the problem of society. We no longer allow women to start families. We also no longer allow men to start families. And I believe it is a major fault of the socialists that this nucleus of the family has been actively destroyed for decades. In this respect, I would be interested, after socialists have made sure for years to destroy families in themselves: What is your plan for families to come back into the focus of society in principle?