Speeches

Today, Europe teaches Saudi Arabia as if it were a role model. And it's not. Saudi Arabia is a sovereign state. Your own culture, your own way, your own decisions. Europe has no mandate to educate the world. Each country has the right to choose its own path of development, and external criticism cannot replace dialogue and mutual respect. Facts from the report show that Saudi Arabia has a strong economy, long-term planning and is not facing a demographic collapse. Meanwhile, Europe is facing an energy crisis, a fertility crisis, a crisis of trust. This is not a picture of an ideal state that could instruct others. Imposing a single ideology, including renewable energy sources, as a universal recipe, leads to the export of European errors instead of realism and pragmatism. International cooperation should be based on partnership or mentorship. One excludes the other. Europe must choose: To be a partner, not a teacher of the world, who criticizes others without seeing their own limitations.

Madam President, I'm sorry. Oh, Mrs. Spokesperson! It is a pity that even when discussing such a report, the left side always tries to push its ideology into every document and instead of showing that black is black and white is white, it would like it to be green everywhere, and in fact, if you look closely, it is red. And I regret that we cannot really discuss here what the ombudsman did, and we have to argue about some obvious things. As a Member of Parliament, I like to talk to people both in Poland and abroad, as I am on a delegation or during a mission. And few people praise the European Union, and many complain – first of all, that the law is complicated and silently introduced, and that no one listens to the voice of ordinary people, whether employees or pensioners, small entrepreneurs. But people point out that big corporations always have their doors open to the European Commission and it's somehow easy for them to lobby for changes to the rules. And this report also shows that, in fact, many citizens have sought help from the Ombudsman. And if so many interventions are needed, it means that this EU administration is extensive and too often slips out of control. He's going somewhere in his own country. It detaches itself from reality, from human affairs. We are looking at the issue of vaccine negotiations, at the famous Pfizergate, which was really a test of the credibility of the European Union. The European Court annulled the Commission’s refusal to disclose information relating to those negotiations. Citizens have the right to know how billions of euros are decided and whether there were adequate safeguards against conflicts of interest. The biggest concern today is not just the lack of paperwork, but the lack of access to the right information. We get hundreds of reports, analyses, websites, and then we get obscured by procedures when we ask for documents that are vital to the public interest. Mrs. Spokesperson, not every hero wears a cape. Your work doesn't happen in the light of cameras, but it's a tedious fight against bureaucracy. And on behalf of the citizens, I ask you to step on the heels of every authority, every institution. Do your own thing, and dishonest people will start to be afraid of you, and thanks to that maybe something will change for the better. Good luck to you!

Mr President, thank you very much. Enough of this madness – not for Ukraine in the European Union. You are talking more and more loudly about the admission to the EU of a country in which the head of the president's office flies for corruption, the minister of justice flees by train from the prosecutor's office, and the former prime minister pays MPs for votes. And these are not incidents, this is the whole system. After all, they even made the supply of eggs for the army a corruption scandal. It's like paragraph 22. Ukraine is the 104th most corrupt country in the world - between The Gambia and Sri Lanka. Are these our European standards? One state-owned energy company was bailed out of $100 million during the war, and the economy is dominated by oligarchs. Agriculture is an international holding company with thousands of hectares of land. This is not a fair competition for ours, for Polish farmers and also for European farmers. To this day, this country has not accounted for its history. Fortunately, today in Europe we do not see Nazi symbols anywhere on the streets, and in Ukraine we still worship Stefan Bandera, responsible for the Volhynian slaughter of Poles. Do you want to accept into the EU a state that tolerates the cult of chauvinist, Nazi collaborator and genocide organizer? At the same time, what are we seeing today? President Zelensky threatens the prime minister of a member state because he has a different opinion. Let's also tell the truth - if it weren't for Poland, Ukraine would no longer exist. We are responsible for helping Ukraine. But that does not mean accepting Ukraine into the European Union. Not for Ukraine in the European Union.

Mr President, thank you very much. In fact, in 1990, one-third of Europe's electricity was produced from nuclear, today only 15%. But will we wait another few decades for the European Commission to admit that it was a mistake to focus on renewable energy sources and gas? It's a bit late, because the changes will no longer be undone. The energy market remains incoherent and inefficient. The Green Deal does not work at all and putting everything on renewable energy sources is crazy. We see the effects of this policy: expensive energy, energy poverty is increasing, factories are closing and we are losing the industry that is moving out of Europe. In addition, there was also talk of energy security. What kind of security is that? Are we to depend on the gas that flows to us from distant, dangerous seas? After all, we can see how it affects the price, which flies like a roller coaster. Or, on the other hand, we focus on renewable energy sources, for which we need raw materials, masses of critical raw materials that we do not extract on the scale that we should extract, and even if we extract, we are not able to process. We need cheap, stable energy, strong nuclear power and access to our own raw materials.

Mr President, thank you very much. Ladies and Gentlemen, Gas prices have soared due to the conflict in the Middle East. But this did not sober anyone, because in Poland, as in the whole of Europe, multi-billion investments in the construction of gas power plants are planned. This gas is supposed to give stability with all the green, unstable energy on which the European Union plans to base energy. But gas prices have always been like a rollercoaster. After all, one conflict or exporter's decision is enough for gas prices and also energy prices across Europe to immediately go up. Safety built on such an unstable raw material is a serious risk. Let's take a look: Qatar accounts for 20% of global exports. And tensions in the Middle East or the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz immediately affect gas prices and energy prices in Europe. This shows how dependent we are on imports, which should not be the case. At the same time, the EU still treats gas only as a transitional fuel. It is normally covered by the ETS and will become more expensive over time due to climate policy. As a result, we are building too many billions of power plants, which we will be decommissioning in a few years' time, just as we are decommissioning coal-fired power plants today. This is sick. It doesn't make any sense at all. This is not a bridge. It is a very expensive and unstable bridge.

Mr President, thank you very much. Ladies and Gentlemen, Poverty cannot be eradicated by law and inequality cannot be eradicated by any resolution, directive or debate. You just can't do that. Moreover, no politician can lift a person out of poverty. But there are politicians who are able to drive a lot of people into poverty with their irresponsible decisions. And that is what the European Commission and the majority here in the European Parliament are doing. After all, it is because of you that more workplaces fall, and not only the big ones, but we are looking at hundreds of dramas, at the fact that people who have worked hard for many, many years lose the job from which they supported their family or lose the company with which they have cooperated for many years, providing parts of it or providing services. It is because of you that millions of Europeans are paying more and more for electricity in the name of climate policy. It is because of you that people who cannot afford expensive cars cannot enter the city centers and are still forced to buy a new car, which is soon planned. It is because of you that millions of poorer Europeans will have to renovate their homes to meet some EU standards again. It is you who drive people into poverty, and then you debate about inequality and wonder how to eliminate it. Stop disturbing people, restore people's freedom, and then inequality will be much better.

Madam President, I'm sorry. We have heard many arguments against the death penalty. We have also heard arguments that criminals can be rehabilitated. On the other hand, how are we to punish and prevent such serious crimes as premeditated murders, with particular cruelty, murders of children? And here it is not enough even the death penalty itself, but the reconstruction of the entire system. Because at some point in Europe, I have the impression that we have trusted that we can actually raise criminals, and yet all the statistics confirm that this is completely impossible. The law should be strict, not focused on rehabilitation. It is the European Union itself that has led to the fact that crime in Western Europe is on the rise today. Mass, uncontrolled migration is associated with an increase in crime, especially very violent crime, rape and murder, with the use of firearms, with the use of sharp tools. We need to stop this so that Europe is safe and we don't have to think about what to do to make life safer in Europe.

Madam President, I'm sorry. Mr. President, I'm sorry. I am listening to this debate and I have the impression that we are a little detached from reality here, because this Presidency started with a big scandal, pushed to the knee the signing of the agreement with Mercosur against the position of some Member States, against the citizens, without the consent of Parliament. Parliament was completely omitted from this procedure. And this is a big scandal. And today, the real Europe is really there, in front of the European Parliament, where farmers, once again in despair of losing their jobs, are protesting and we are debating here as if nothing had happened. This is a mockery. This is Europe above the heads of the people. This is a Europe that does not serve its citizens and I very much do not want the European Union to change in this direction. And I hope that Cyprus will also do everything to reverse this, so that Parliament has a chance to speak out on this agreement, to withdraw it. And from a completely different barrel I have one request to the President, Poland has recently built a vessel. Unfortunately, there is one problem. This ship is flying the Cypriot flag and I would be very grateful if our government could get some guidance on how to make it profitable to register ships in Poland too, and not to make it cheaper everywhere, but not with us in the country.

Madam President, I'm sorry. (beginning of speech outside the microphone) It's not even a debate about money. Because you are talking about power – the power to judge which state is obedient and which is not, and which can get some money and which is not. Why didn't you invite former Commissioner Reynders to this debate? He is an outstanding expert on the rule of law. He was the rule of law commissioner. For years he taught the Polish government what is law-abiding and what is not. Do you know what he was doing in the breaks? He was an incredibly happy man. He was just lucky. He's been buying lottery scratch cards for years, and that's how he won. He bought them for cash and got the winnings on the account. Of course, it is an absolute coincidence that he was also the president of the Belgian lottery, where he bought these tickets. And it is also an absolute coincidence that, at the time when he was commissioner, anti-money laundering laws were enacted, which incidentally did not cover this lottery. Do you want to teach? Do you want to study the rule of law? After all, behind the Commissioner sit entire orders of ghosts of former Commissioners, who are suspected of various corrupt elements. You really don't want to judge the rule of law. Take care of yourself first and leave you alone.

Mr President, thank you very much. Europe is getting ready to celebrate Christmas and, at the same time, is increasingly ashamed of being Christian. Even in this building passing, you can trip over Hanukkah candles, but you can already see the nursery impossible, and somewhere in the corner there is a Christmas tree. What's that supposed to be? Christianity is the foundation of Europe. Without it, there would be no law, no culture, no freedom and no human rights, even the EU flag is the Marian flag. In fact, today you are ashamed of all this. Today, in fact, you promote worldview neutrality, and in fact, it is the promotion of atheism. Christmas disappears from the calendar, we hear a wish Happy Holidays Everything is allowed except a public confession of the Christian faith. At the same time, the European Union is silent and is only making some sham movements against the persecution of Christians around the world. Finally, I wish you all a blessed Christmas, peace, courage and fidelity to what Europe is built on.

Madam President, I'm sorry. All of you who want to ban fur farming are big hypocrites. You are talking about the need to regain competitiveness in Europe, and you are debating the killing of an industry in which my country, in which Poland is at the forefront of the world and employs tens of thousands of employees, paying many, many hundreds of millions of taxes to the Polish budget. You say that fur farming is inhumane and barbaric, but for you, abortion, euthanasia and surrogacy are a fundamental human right. At the same time as we are debating a ban on fur farming here, an initiative calling for safe and legal abortion across Europe will be discussed. Does the life of a chinchilla mean more to you than the life of a very old or very small man? Well, that's not fair. I do not believe that Europe wants to go this way. We must defend human life, not deal with the lives of other creatures. You challenge me and my colleagues very often from Russian agents. And don't you see that banning this industry, the fur industry, in Europe will make these plants where they will move? They will move to Russia and Belarus and they will pay taxes there, there they will contribute to the fact that these countries will benefit from it, they will employ workers there and strengthen the local economy. No one's health, freedom or property is safe when Parliament is sitting. With a single hand gesture, you can plough up any industry that you do not like at the moment. What's next? The deforestation regulation, the woodworking industry, agriculture, all those industries related to products from the tree - in the name of its stupid ideology, which will reward only large corporations at the expense of small producers - has already been ploughed up since its entry into force. What's next? You're going to ban hunting, you're going to ban meat? Is that your way? I remind you that you have just loudly boasted about the restrictions on the sale of cars with an internal combustion engine, and then quietly withdraw from it. You don't learn from mistakes at all. We will not build European economic power with this approach. And there was already a system that fulfilled all dreams, that promised to set everyone free, that it would lift everyone off their knees, that everyone would be fine – and we remember well how it ended. And you're trying to squeeze everyone in again. It is not possible to build a community on ideology, it is not possible to build a healthy economy.

Madam President, I'm sorry. Brussels is actually creating a new arms superministry, which is to decide from now on who in Europe can produce weapons, how to produce them and to whom to sell them. This is no longer a collaboration. This is taking over the competences of nation states step by step, because it is each state that should decide on its defence policy. After all, the European Union does not deal with defence, and I do not know when this change took place. In fact, every country, including Poland, is supposed to contribute to this fund and count without any guarantee that it will get something in return. And above all, before we took care of our factories, 300 million euros is directed towards the integration of the Ukrainian arms industry with the European one. Once again, we do not remember an important principle: Before we help someone, let's help ourselves first. Because our factories, because of the madness you've enacted here, because of the Green Deal, they're barely going to die, and because of that, the arms industry needs support.

Mr President, thank you very much. There is no more persecuted religion in the world, no more persecuted social group in the world than Christians. Let's look at the great African country of Nigeria, which has been burning for years. Thousands of Christians die every year because they believe in Jesus Christ. The militias are killing people, burning churches, kidnapping clergy and displacing entire villages. This is not a land dispute. This is genocide caused by religious hatred. Hundreds of villages disappear from the map, and unfortunately the world is silent. The West is indifferent to what is happening in Nigeria. The Nigerian government is passive and the perpetrators really go unpunished. The European Parliament has condemned the genocide taking place in Nigeria. On the other hand, unfortunately, the European Commission, I get the impression, is not doing everything that can be done. After all, this is really about Christians, who still make up the majority in Europe. This is about our brothers and sisters in the faith, who must be helped and decisive action must be taken here.

Mr President, thank you very much. I have three problems with this report. The first concerns the income tax itself, which is the most harmful tax. There is no more harmful tax because today, across the European Union, work or profit is taxed more than vodka – and I do not understand it at all. Because if the authorities want to discourage someone from drinking, then they tax alcohol. On the other hand, if they want to discourage someone from working, from developing, from making profits, then income is taxed. In addition, income tax in itself causes that it is the rich who have money to care about it, to invent loopholes, hide income, optimize. And it will always be so, because they have the money for lawyers and advisers, not an ordinary man or a small company. The second problem is that there is no such thing as EU tax law. There shouldn't be such a thing. We should not harmonise tax systems and countries that have better taxes should win over those that have worse taxes. And the third problem I have is that in fact this BEFIT is an introduction to the next own resource of the Union and in this way you will be collecting money from sovereign states.

Madam President, I'm sorry. I don't understand something. We all agree here, even with the Commission, and then this clock and millions of clocks across the European Union will have to reverse or move the hands forward on command. It's time to put an end to this. And I get the impression that the European Union can do anything, as long as it's about small things. Once, a long time ago, it regulated the curvature of a banana, the use of a flush in toilets or the air margin in the package of chips. She even ordered the nuts to be attached to plastic bottles, otherwise no one would be able to handle it. But when 84% of citizens in the Commission's consultation said clearly: ‘raise this time change’, then suddenly the whole EU machine is jammed. It's been six years and silence, because no one can decide whether we prefer the sun at five or six in the morning. If the EU stops on such a simple matter, how can it deal with more serious problems, such as the migration crisis, such as the crisis on the energy market? It's time to end this absurdity. The change of time is a relic from the era of candles and steam locomotives. That's when the energy was saved. Today we have LEDs, we have automatic lighting control, 24-hour production, and official reports from the Commission and the European Environment Agency say clearly: Energy savings are zero, but costs... Twice a year the whole continent gets jet laga without an air ticket. Increased accidents, heart attacks, sleep disorders. Children fall asleep in schools, drivers go semi-conscious, trains have wrong timetables. And why? Just to keep this bureaucratic clock of absurdity ticking. Let us finally put an end to this time change before we debate it again.