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Oct

2025

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A new legislative framework for products that is fit for the digital and sustainable transition (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, An insolvency wave of unknown size is currently rolling through Germany. According to the Leibniz Institute, 1,400 companies have recently been insolvent per month. Politicians have recently responded to this insolvency only with intellectual incapacity. Three years ago, a now de-elected green economy minister came up with the idea that companies simply stop pro…

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Sep

2025

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Implementation of EU-US trade deal and the prospect of wider EU trade agreements (debate)

Mr President! The United States is lucky: You don't have to like Donald Trump, but the US president does his job 100 percent. He acts in the truest sense of the word in the interests of his fellow citizens. On the other side of the table, on the other hand, sits Ursula von der Leyen, a woman who did not stand on a single ballot in the European elections, who has already made a negative appearance …

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Sep

2025

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After 10 years, time to end mass migration now - protect our women and children (topical debate)

Mr President! Ten years of mass migration, ten years of suffering and misery for the citizens of Europe. When the then Chancellor Angela Merkel opened the German borders in 2015, the whole of Europe was flooded with partly violent and anti-social refugees. The Dublin Agreement and the Basic Law – Angela Merkel and her cabinet of welcome-stupid, culturally-stupid refugee friends no longer had a rig…

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Jul

2025

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Post-2027 Common Agricultural Policy (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! The number of farms in agriculture is declining and the average age of our farmers is increasing, which is why it is important that we do not make any further cuts in the CAP. Anyone who wants to sacrifice agriculture in favour of arms deliveries, NGO subsidies or green subsidy excesses, for example, must face headwinds here in Parliament. And t…

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)

Yes, Mr Freund, you just said that all members of the AfD are wasting or abusing all funds. I have been a Member of this Parliament for a year now. I want to tell you, I handle it very accurately, I do a lot of events. Where exactly have I abused money? Specifically – I personally! That's what I want to know from you when you make such a blanket conviction here. It's absolutely dishonest what you'…

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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, Congratulations on this debate, because it shows the absurd madness of this European Parliament. Just this week, when the EU Commission and Ursula von der Leyen are about to be replaced because of billions of dollars in waste, just this week you come to a group with this debate that no longer exists. But what are we talking about here, ladies and gentlemen? Even…

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Jul

2025

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Presentation of the programme of activities of the Danish Presidency (debate)

Madam President, Madam Prime Minister. A strong Europe in a changing world is the motto of the Danish Presidency. A strong Europe would be a Europe with secure external borders and further visible measures against illegal migration. Here, the Social Democrats in Denmark have already set some positive accents, so it would be hoped that there will finally be positive impulses for remigration here. H…

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May

2025

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Discharge 2023 (joint debate)

Yes, so I rarely have wet dreams. If I had any, I wouldn't talk about it now. But to answer your question seriously: Of course, any investment in education, any investment in infrastructure is right and important. Precisely because we need money for this, we have to save this money elsewhere – no billions in spending on armaments, no billions in spending on gender representatives, no billions in s…

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May

2025

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Discharge 2023 (joint debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Unfortunately, the budget of the European Union has been dominated for years by ideological projects – whether climate protection, gender insanity or, most recently, massive spending on rearmament. They are destroying our taxpayers' money at dizzying heights. In Germany, a wannabe chancellor has shown how it can't be done. Before the election, the keeper of the …

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May

2025

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Control of the financial activities of the European Investment Bank – 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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Mar

2025

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A Vision for Agriculture and Food (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Farmers in the European Union will receive around 300 billion euros in the current funding period – this sounds like a lot of money at first. However, less and less money has been received by farmers in recent years, and at the same time the frustration of the recipients due to new nonsense regulations is increasing and leads to the abandonment of many farms at …

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Feb

2025

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EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement (debate)

I don't think you understand a lot of things. This also explains your confused question. Please deal with the political landscape of Europe. Then you will learn that the AfD is not a fascist party. I don't know what spectrum you belong to now. I suspect social democracy. All right, all I can tell you is: Previously, your colleague quoted Lenny Kravitz, another well-known song by Lenny Kravitz is F…

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Feb

2025

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EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement (debate)

Madam President, Ladies and Gentlemen! Dear Commissioner, It is a great mistake to make policies against the citizens of Europe. It is an even greater mistake to make policies against those who feed these citizens of Europe, namely our farmers. The high quality of the products our farmers produce is unique in the world. If you look at or listen to what is said here in part, then it is just wrong. …

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Jan

2025

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The Hungarian government’s illegal espionage of EU institutions and investigative bodies (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Alleged journalists are making serious accusations, and all other media outlets are taking on these accusations unfiltered – in Germany we have seen this practice impressively over the past year. And today, after numerous court rulings, we know that this alleged journalistic research piece of the CORRECTIV network was in fact just an absurd and defamatory play a…

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Jan

2025

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Heat record year 2024 - the need for climate action to fight global warming (debate)

Thank you, Mrs Scuderi, for allowing me to ask you this question. I must say that your Green Minister for Economic Affairs, your Green Party friend in Germany, has more or less executed the European economy – the German economy in particular – in recent years. And I want to ask you a very simple question: From your party, including from the Social Democrats, you hear again and again that you have …

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Dec

2024

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Commission’s plans to include the revision of the outstanding proposals on animal welfare in its work plan for 2025 (debate)

Madam President, Dear Commissioner, Animal welfare should be important to all of us. However, it is also a matter of making a reasonable assessment. Among the representatives from the left-green spectrum of vegan cereal and tofu lovers, the call for better protection of the animals always resonates with the desire that at best no animals are slaughtered and eaten at all. This, however, contradicts…

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Dec

2024

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Challenges facing EU farmers and agricultural workers: improving working conditions, including their mental well-being (debate)

Mr President! Ladies and Gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, Even today – it has just caused some irritation to my group of visitors from Germany – many places in this Parliament are empty. Many places are empty, and now imagine that in a few days it will be Christmas and in your family there would also be empty places. Let's say the father wasn't there. Not because he's out there and maybe sawing an…

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Dec

2024

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Towards a shared vision for European tourism, its sustainable growth and brand Europe (debate)

Dear Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen! Tourism is an important economic factor for our home countries. Especially in economically difficult times, our citizens and their families need their well-deserved holidays to recharge their batteries. It is important that such a holiday remains affordable for everyone and not just a luxury good – or develops into one – for rich people. Even today, despite…

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Nov

2024

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Recommendation on smoke- and aerosol-free environments (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. Obviously, smoking is not healthy, and passive smoking can also cause serious damage to the lungs. Tobacco use has therefore been increasingly banned from the closed public space in recent years. From the point of view of a non-smoker like me, this is understandable, from the point of view of a smoker probably not, but then you just go out the door. A bit of fre…

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Nov

2024

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Critical infrastructure vulnerabilities and hybrid threats in the Baltic Sea (debate)

Mrs. Strack-Zimmermann, you like to peddle here in between. I would like to ask a substantive question. It was repeatedly claimed that Russia was responsible for the demolition of Nord Stream 2. For a few months now, we have known that they were probably Ukrainian citizens. They were often in Ukraine themselves. I would like to know about you: How likely do you consider it that these acts were com…

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Nov

2024

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Topical debate (Rule 169) - Budapest Declaration on the New European Competitiveness Deal - A future for the farming and manufacturing sectors in the EU (topical debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. In the Budapest Declaration, agriculture only gets a short point at the very end. There is talk of creating a stable and predictable framework. Yes, such sentences sound good, but can mean anything and nothing. In any case, it is the opposite of stable if Pillar 1 of the Common Agricultural Policy were to be further reduced. European farmers want to keep animals…

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Nov

2024

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Fight against money laundering and terrorist financing: listing Russia as a high-risk third country in the EU (debate)

Thank you for accepting the question. So I would be interested – you have already made some hints in your remarks on Georgia – how do you think you can end this war in any way, if not with diplomacy? And do you really think that such discussions as today help to somehow bring the Russian people back to the side of the EU? Or is it not rather that it is actually a provocation to make such insinuati…

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Oct

2024

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Need to strengthen rail travel and the railway sector in Europe (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. In December 2022, the Ukrainian ambassador to Germany wanted to visit my hometown of Stendal in the north of Saxony-Anhalt. Although he reached the station in Berlin, he could not leave from there by train for technical reasons. Mayors and guests waited in vain in the Stendal town hall – the ambassador stayed in Berlin. Delays and cancellations are not an except…

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Oct

2024

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The important role of cities and regions in the EU – for a green, social and prosperous local development (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. For Germany alone, 11 billion euros will be allocated between 2021 and 2027 to support cities and regions; So far, so good. The ideological bureaucracy, however, is beginning to work to the detriment of the regions, because a large part of this money is earmarked for a greener and CO2-free Europe – "sustainable and innovative urban mobility" on the EU paper. How…