Speeches

Mr President! The EU has been planning a single sky for 20 years, but little has happened. We share airlines' criticism of the Commission's proposal on the Single European Sky. It will lead to higher taxes, more bureaucracy, more reporting obligations – all of which we do not want. Europe is already a very safe airspace. So why bend and break the competences of national air navigation services and throw everything into the EU pot? Not everything needs to be harmonized or certified uniformly. On the other hand, it would be important for us to abolish sanctions, e.g. against Russia. Then airplanes could fly faster and, above all, more environmentally friendly to Asia and thus CO2 Reducing. But ever new taxes and regulations drive airlines out of Europe and make flying more expensive unnecessarily. We want the worker to be able to afford his well-deserved holiday flight in the future, and not just the Eurocrats. In our opinion, the Commission could deal with important issues, such as migration, or perhaps there will also be thousands of deportation flights to be organised in the future – we would like to hear a nice proposal. We cannot agree with this proposal, which we have here.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen! It goes without saying that the EU is helping with the floods in Bosnia and Herzegovina. European solidarity makes sense here. It is also irrelevant whether Bosnia and Herzegovina is a candidate for EU membership or not. In such weather events, humanitarian aid is paramount. Nevertheless, at this point a critical remark: It would be fair to tell the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina clearly that EU accession is not on the agenda for a very long time. This also applies to the other candidates from the Western Balkans with the exception of Serbia and, of course, even more so to Ukraine and Moldova. In this context of aid, the EU should not pull the China card again with the question ‘Who helps more?’, especially since in the end it is mostly German tax money anyway. Floods are all about providing concrete help to people who are already living in poverty, especially in rural areas. Money for civil protection is also always useful. But other billions that the EU distributes around the world need to be countered. This is particularly true for forms of a junktim with so-called EU values in aid of all kinds. Control of the use of funds is also important for all aid, including for the poor people in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A follow-up check on the use of funds is very important for us. In the case of a flood, the use is clear, in the case of other subsidies not so – especially in the case of millions of our European taxpayers for NGOs of the so-called civil society. NGOs need to be much more closely monitored when they receive EU funding, including on this issue.

Madam President, In the opening speech this morning, you spoke of the special role of the Council Presidency and citizens expect something special from the Council Presidency. That's what you did. And you were talking about the House of Democracy. Madam President, I do not know your house: Here parts of this Parliament in the House of Your Democracy are excluded from the formation of the will. I just want to mention that. Prime Minister, I'm glad you're still here. Mrs. von der Leyen has sought the space here, because she shies away from the discussion. I would like to tell you: Personally, I would like to thank the Hungarians and the Hungarian people. It has been talked about several times in 1956. Hungary was once, where the Iron Curtain still existed, the longing place of millions of people. And for that I would like to thank the Hungarian people from here. What is the situation in Germany today? There, the opposition is persecuted, opponents of the regime are imprisoned, professional bans are renewed. Prime Minister, today you are once again the guarantor of hope for many people in Europe. I would like to thank you for that. Don't go...

Madam President, Commissioner! Following in the footsteps of future German Chancellor Alice Weidel and former President of the Czech Republic Miloš Zeman, the question is allowed: Is this country run by idiots? I don't think so. This Commission is only killing the European, the German automotive industry intentionally and intentionally, and only because it is infested with the green climate madness. This commission is thus plunging millions of hard-working workers from the car manufacturers and the supplier industry in our home countries into misery. Keep in mind that every pen you use, every business trip you take, every salary of too many Eurocrats – for everything, hardworking people work in our home countries. That brings me to the question: Why is the Commission accepting this mass misery? The answer is quite simple: This commission declares freedom to be the enemy and challenges individual mobility. This commission wants to lock us up in 15 minute cities. This commission wants us to eat grasshoppers and maggots. This commission wants to monitor us 24 hours a day. This Commission is not building a mobile, free and peaceful Europe. This commission is building on a disgusting dystopia.

Madam, thank you very much for allowing the question. I listened very carefully to your execution. They refer to a period from 2009 to 2015. Are you aware that when it comes to today's border controls, the technology is certainly a little more advanced than it was 15 or 20 years ago, so that today we essentially ensure border controls with modern technology, without in principle calling into question the free movement of persons?

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen! An early European, Bishop Augustine, coined the phrase in the fourth century: Take away the law, then what is the state but a large band of robbers? If you look at this EU today, you can only say: Augustine was a wise and foreseeable man – God bless him. The much-vaunted EU law is being applied more and more, if at all, only selectively: The climate religion is above all else, eco-terrorists are canonized. A good example of this is the case of Paul Watson. This eco-terrorist has sunk several cutters, accepted the deaths of seafarers, and broken pretty much every international shipping rule that exists; Ships were blocked and boarded. Nevertheless, the left-green so-called civil society is demanding his release – even the Commissioner I have understood in this sense today, but French President Macron is also calling for the release of the terrorist Watson, even together with the left-wing radical Mélenchon. That's unbelievable! Japan, of course, has the right to demand the extradition of terrorist Watson. There is no difference between Paul Watson and bin Laden. Denmark, Greenland must immediately extradite Watson. But Watson is just a small fish, and we know that the fish always stinks from the head. In this EU, very different criminals belong in court. That is why I am asking President von der Leyen from this panel: What about your coronavirus vaccine procurement corruption? What is this €7.4 billion for Egypt – allegedly to curb migration? Where is the investigation into the golden Visa, which von der Leyen apparently continues to approve? If Augustine were to be taken as the standard, von der Leyen would today be the head of a band of robbers. She belonged in a cold prison, but not in the warm chair of the Commission. Mrs von der Leyen is a disgrace to Europe, especially to my fatherland Germany. Incidentally, I am of the opinion that my German homeland will only get better when the Alternative for Germany rules in Germany. With this in mind, I wish my colleagues in Brandenburg all the best for the election on Sunday, 22.

Mr Waitz, you were just talking about things that you noticed, which seems to have been missed in some Member States. If I have seen it correctly, you are a Green and you govern in some European countries – not always for the good of the countries, of course. Why haven't you already started or implemented measures that you just criticised? If you are still in government – fortunately, that's not long in many countries, the Greens are being voted out everywhere, which is happening, thank goodness – why are you not doing these things that you have criticised long ago?