What Arno spoke about.

13 Nov

2024

DE Question

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

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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…

23 Oct

2024

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

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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…

23 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)

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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…

10 Oct

2024

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Consequences of the devastating forest fires in the Amazon and the importance of the Amazon for climate change (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen. The rainforest is burning and the greens are alarmed. But how do we want to react to this? Greta Thunberg as the top climate rescuer falls out, because she has been looking for a new radical topic. Thousands of young people on a Friday flying out of the classroom to go on climate strike in Brazil is also not possible – too expensive, bad for CO2Balance sheet.…

8 Oct

2024

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The crisis facing the EU’s automotive industry, potential plant closures and the need to enhance competitiveness and maintain jobs in Europe (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen. Low range, few charging stations, high electricity price. No problem for the green do-gooder, as long as the state has promoted the purchase of an electric car with a chic premium. This redistributive insanity has already cost taxpayers in Germany many billions of euros. But then the highest German court came and stopped this so-called environmental premium. …

18 Sep

2024

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The Hungarian “National Card” scheme and its consequences for Schengen and the area of freedom, security and justice (debate)

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We just mentioned the zoo killer: He was sent back to Moscow by the German government. You just said that the rule of law works for the most part. We had a debate here on Monday on the Solingen murders, which were an expression of the fact that the Dublin Agreement does not work. How much would you quantify the damage that the German government has done to the European population in recent years w…

16 Sep

2024

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Outcome of the Strategic Dialogue on the Future of EU Agriculture (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. When thousands of farmers in Brussels and in many countries of the European Union loudly demonstrated for their rights at the beginning of the year, a political change was within reach: Away from the Failed Green Deal, away from the distortion of competition caused by cheap grain imports, away from burdensome bureaucracy, towards agriculture that can sustainably…