Speeches

Mr President, let us stop lying once and for all and tell the truth. EU leaders have never wanted peace in Ukraine, they have never wanted to help the Ukrainian people live normally. The only thing these people want to do is harm Russia. And in the name of this goal, they most cynically use Ukraine and turn Ukrainians into smoked meat. Immediately after taking office, the new US administration appointed two special envoys who began working to achieve peace in Ukraine. For more than three years of war, the European Union has not come up with a single peace initiative, nor has it appointed a single special envoy to settle the conflict. Instead, EU leaders pumped money and arms into the Zelensky regime and did everything they could to continue the war. In key positions in the main European structures were appointed people in whose heads instead of a brain there is toxic anti-Russian hysteria. This absurd strategy of Brussels continues today. The militarization of the European Union is going at a murderous pace, and the European leaders are like sleepwalkers who are stubbornly marching towards the abyss of the nuclear apocalypse. And the most tragic thing is that they take the whole of Europe with them. To justify their senseless militarism, the EU bosses made up a nonexistent Russian threat, they keep scaring us that if we don't arm ourselves to the teeth, the Russians will take Berlin tomorrow, march the day after tomorrow on the Champs-Elysees, and all Europeans will be beaten with sticks while forcibly studying Russian. No one in their right mind would believe such nonsense. Unfortunately, the EU today is not run by normal people. These individuals believe that hatred and fear will finally make Europe an indivisible whole. In the same way, Napoleon and Hitler reasoned, and in the end decided that the best remedy for all their problems was an attack on Russia. We all know what happened to Napoleon and Hitler. However, it seems that today's leaders of the European Union are extremely keen to repeat their fate.

I voted against this report because it seems to have been written by people who hibernated in early 2022 and have no intention of waking up. Neither see Ukraine's losses on the battlefield, nor are they aware that the United States and Russia are negotiating to end this war. You have to be totally detached from reality to write that the European Union will help Kiev in every way, I quote "until Ukraine wins". There seems to be no brain in your head, as you recall, I quote President Zelenskyy’s ‘10-point peace plan’. This is something that no one in the world takes seriously anymore. In general, the whole report is made up of ideological dogmas that have long been catastrophic in the clash with reality. There is only one meaningful thing in this majestic report, and it has to do with the reminder that diplomacy must play a fundamental role in conflict resolution. A good reminder, but the EU in the last 3 years has not come up with a single diplomatic initiative to end the war in Ukraine. Overwhelmed by anti-Russian hysteria, the so-called European diplomats did not want to hold peace talks at all. It is because of this insane militarism that the United States and Russia will now resolve this conflict on their own, with no regard for the European Union at all.

Colleagues, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance recently said that the greatest threat to Europe comes not from outside actors, but from the fact that it is giving up its core values. Yes, the EU is trampling on both freedom and democracy. The EU leaders constantly practice writing resolutions against Russia, China, Belarus and at the same time do not respect human rights in their own countries. In Romania, which Brussels says was an ultra-democratic country, the elections were cancelled and an awkward candidate, Calin Georgescu, was banned from taking part in the new vote. In France, they used the court to eliminate the most likely winner of the next election, Marine Le Pen. In Moldova, the head of the Gagauz autonomous region Evgenia Gutsu, who is not afraid to criticize Brussels' beloved Moldovan President Maia Sandu, was arrested. Citizens of Member States of the European Union are also being prosecuted simply because they dared to oppose the Brussels propaganda. So, dear EU leaders, do not look at the straw in the eye of Russia or Belarus. Look at the beams in your own eyes.

Dear colleagues, during the Cold War, when my country Bulgaria was ruled by the Communist Party, radio stations such as Free Europe and the BBC embodied for me pluralism and democracy. They were the antidote to the radio and television totally controlled by the then Bulgarian authorities. But today, media such as Free Europe, the BBC and CNN are not a symbol of freedom, they are a tool to destroy dissent and impose a single point of view. These media serve the interests of globalist elites who want us all to think the same and speak the same. These are not media, these are propaganda tools of the Brussels War Party. Before 1989, Bulgaria's ruling Communist Party silenced Free Europe and the BBC so as not to hear fair criticism of the then regime. Today, the globalist power in Brussels suppresses and bans alternative media so that we do not hear fair criticism of the insane policies being imposed by European leaders. However, the censorship is the same, despite the fact that we used to call it communist, and today it is Brusselsian.

Dear colleagues, the only thing the European Commission has done in 100 days of existence is to intensify to the extreme the decline of Europe. The European Union is conceived as a union of peace. Turning him into a military scarecrow, burying him in debt for rearmament, as the current European Commission does, is the way to nowhere. While the new American leaders are making real efforts to stop the war in Ukraine, the heads of the European institutions, including the European Commission, are committed to the opposite. They want the war to continue not only to the last Ukrainian, but also to the last European. The EU is run by people possessed by obsessive ideology and totally devoid of common sense. Yesterday, the representatives of the militaristic majority in this House, headed by the President of the European Commission, flooded us with verbal follies such as "peace by force". Both the previous and this European Commission are nothing but parties of war, because for these three years they did not come up with a single peace initiative. From the European leaders we hear only warlike groans that do not bode well for Europe. European countries, the European Union, need wise and courageous leaders, leaders who are not servants of globalist elites and Soros' networks. The future of Europe should be determined by sensible politicians, not by hysterically bouncing pinchers like Macron, von der Leyen, Kaja or Merz. The sooner the current Commission, which is the embodiment of Euro-decline, is gone, the greater the chance of a renaissance of Europe.

Madam President, the political use by the West of the death of Alexei Navalny is terribly shameful. People who were unable or unwilling to find out who blew up Nord Stream in two years organised an investigation in just two minutes, made a trial and found the culprit for this tragic event. Without any evidence, they ruled that Putin killed the Russian opposition. Now let's see what the Russian leadership would gain from Navalny's death. First, in that period, the Russian army advanced into Ukraine and captured the city of Avdeevka, considered impregnable. Secondly, Putin gave his famous interview to Tucker Carlson back then, and it was a great success for the Kremlin. And third, there were presidential elections in Russia, which were expected to be won by Putin with a big victory. Just like it did. Well, with all this success, why would the Russian leadership kill Navalny? To target someone who has never had an electoral weight in Russia? Any normal person understands that the Kremlin had no interest in Navalny's death. But normal opinion has long since left the confines of the collective West, as has this parliament.

Mr President, normal people have been repeating for a long time that the war in Ukraine can only be brought to an end through peace negotiations. To this very reasonable thesis, the American Democratic Party, its blonds in the European Union and the politicians, journalists and analysts bought by USAID responded with the slogan: “War to the full victory of Zelenskyy!” The good thing is that after the presidential elections in the United States, normality prevailed there and there will probably be real peace talks soon and the war in Ukraine will stop. However, the more normal thinking prevails in the United States, the more anti-Russian hysteria increases in the European Union. Ms Ursula and Ms Kaya and the like will continue to insist on ‘unconditional support’ and ‘war to the last Ukrainian’. And before long, these ladies, as well as the other inadequate European officials, will wonder why they are not invited to the peace talks. And even if they are invited, they will be in the role of a meaningless object, kicked with annoyance by the main actors. This happens to anyone who tries to replace the truth with foolish illusions.

Madam President, honourable Members, in recent years the European Union has been writing the most shameful pages in its history. From a union of strong and independent states, he has become a little puppy, a poodle of globalist forces. The constant imposition of the principle of anti-selection within this Union has led to the fact that the vast majority of EU leaders are people with no qualities and no ability to make independent decisions. The average European boss is not even a person in the true sense of the word. It's a HomUnculus. From Latin comes this word and means little man, artificially created, alchemical transnational laboratories. These little people are not even aware of the damage they are doing to European countries. They do not even understand the simple fact that the war in Ukraine is not at all about freedom and democracy. This war is being waged to deprive Europe of cheap Russian energy resources and make it pay for the much more expensive American ones. Precisely because they do not think, these Eurohomunculuses will ruin our countries, and therefore we must liberate Europe from the current model of the European Union as soon as possible.

Member of the Commission. - Mr President, honourable Members, the main division in today's world is between the forces that want individual nations to solve the issues that matter to them on their own and the forces that demand the total intervention of supranational institutions in the lives of states. In Georgia, we see exactly this opposition. The good thing is that the current power in Tbilisi, elected by the majority of Georgians, had and continues to have the courage to resist the extremely strong pressure coming from Washington and Brussels. The collective West very much wants to apply the Ukrainian scenario of decades ago in Georgia, that is, to overthrow with a coup the elected legitimate government. The rulers in Tbilisi stop these attempts because they know that if this happens, the next step is to force their country into another military meat grinder, just as it was done with Ukraine. If parties sponsored by Western power centers come to power in Georgia, the priests of war will sacrifice Georgia in the same way that the former Aztec priests offered countless human sacrifices to their bloodthirsty gods.

Calling the truth "Russian propaganda" is a rather cliché that I have often heard in the European Parliament. I have one piece of advice for you: the next time you speak, think with your own head and not with the intellectual semi-finished products that bring you down from Brussels or Washington. Yes, this is easier, it is more difficult to think with your own head, but at least once try to be independent.

Mr President, only a historically unsaved ignorant person can claim that Crimea belongs to Ukraine. Crimea has always been Russian since the time when Empress Catherine the Great included it within the boundaries of the Russian Empire in 1783, to this day. Even in the years when Nikita Khrushchev gave Crimea to the Ukrainian SSR, most of the people there felt Russian. And quite naturally, after the coup in Kiev in 2014, the majority of Crimeans voted for its return to Russia. And Crimea is inextricably linked not only to Russian politics, but also to Russian culture. In the 19th and 20th centuries, some of the greatest Russian artists lived and worked there. I will mention only Anton Chekhov, Marina Tsvetaeva, Leo Tolstoy, Anna Ahmatova, Ivan Aivazovsky. The ingenious Alexander Pushkin has wonderful poems dedicated to the beauties of Crimea, and today the regime in Kiev is tearing down its monuments. Kiev's claims to Crimea are as absurd as claims that the Russian army fought with the help of refrigerator chips. Crimea is an integral part of Russia's political and cultural history and will always remain so.

on behalf of the ALDE Group. - Madam President, disinformation about the war in Ukraine is enormous, and it comes mainly from Western power centres, including this European Parliament. The denunciation of Western lies goes through the clear utterance of the following facts. For the first time an independent Ukrainian state was established only in 1991, and since then the collective West has done everything possible to turn Ukraine into its anti-Russian puppet. Remember Victoria Nuland with her Fuck the EU, who admitted to the billions poured into Ukraine precisely for this purpose. Zbigniew Brzezinski quite openly wrote in his book The Grand Chessboard that in order to weaken Russia, its ties with Ukraine must be severed. The last thing Western leaders are interested in is Ukraine's democracy, freedom and prosperity. This state is important to them only in so far as they can use it in their war against Russia. The West orchestrated the coup in Ukraine in 2014. Again, the West banned Ukraine from concluding a peace agreement with Russia at the start of the war. That is why it is the West that bears the greatest blame for today's Ukrainian tragedy.

Mr President, honourable Members, I do not know if you have noticed, but the State of Syria has died. In its place there is a boiling cauldron, where militant jihadists, Kurds, Druze and all sorts of agents of foreign interests are bubbling. This explosive mixture was mixed by the United States, Turkey, Israel, Great Britain. In general, every time a civilized state decides to fix uncivilized states in its opinion, a total collapse occurs and many people die. Twenty years ago, the United States promised to democratize Iraq, and instead obstetrically created the Islamic State. Then the West decided to democratize Libya, and instead opened the way to Europe for hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants. Today, these same Western civilizers took a jihadist Mohammed al-Jolani, took off his sheeted clothes, cut his beard, and proclaimed him the liberal Mother Teresa. And they're telling us how civilized he's become. Once upon a time, the United States treated Osama bin Laden in the same paternal manner, because it was sure that he would always carry out their orders. We all know what that led to then. I don't think it's going to be any different today.

Honourable Members, the election of Donald Trump as US President gives Europe a unique chance to once again become an important geopolitical factor. At the moment, the European Union is unfortunately a mere subcontractor of the decisions taken by the United States' ruling Democratic Party. The people at the head of the European Union listen to the guidance of their American superiors and rush to carry out their orders. For the past four years, the European Union has been on a path of self-destruction because of blind adherence to the tenets of the Green Deal, because of the abandonment of cheap Russian energy resources and because of the support of Zelensky's government. Thanks to the new administration in Washington, which will be engaged in solving domestic American problems and will not export democracy around the world, Europe has the opportunity to pursue a completely different type of policy. Europe must pursue a policy of peace, not war, and must take care of its own interests, not defend any fictitious transatlantic values. If Europe has enough courage and enough smart leaders, it can once again be a major factor in world politics.

Mr President, all the European institutions have been fighting disinformation for years. Any event or process that EU officials don't like is explained by some sort of hybrid attack that came from Russia, China, Iran. Again, according to the EU leaders, it is the Russians who are to blame for Brexit, as well as for the fact that a number of nationally responsible parties win the elections in European countries. In general, every reasonable voice in Europe is defined as a hybrid attack. Any meaningful criticism of the policies imposed by Brussels is automatically dismissed as disinformation. It is also more than certain that if Donald Trump becomes US president again, the "talking heads" in Europe will say that this happened thanks to the ubiquitous Russian hackers. While such untenable and outright ridiculous explanations are circulating, the highest-ranking European leaders say not only untrue things, which we usually call lies, but also outright nonsense. We remember that Ursula von der Leyen said that the Russian economy is on command breathing and that the Russians are pulling the chips out of the dishwashers and refrigerators to repair their military machines. Today, the Russian economy is much better than a number of Western countries, the Russian army is winning on the battlefield, and Zelensky in his panic has already coveted nuclear weapons. Ms von der Leyen was not just not reprimanded for the nonsense and misinformation she used, but even for the second time she was elected president of the European Commission. I fully agree that the European Union must fight against disinformation. He must especially actively fight against the misinformation that his own leaders spread.

Dear colleagues, the very title of this discussion is wrong, because all journalists should be protected, not just European ones. Unfortunately, in this area too, we are faced with blatant double standards. When a journalist supporting Ukraine is hurt, all the world's media talk about it, but when the same thing happens to a journalist critical of Kiev, the case is completely neglected. How many of you have heard of the Chilean-American journalist Gonzalo Lira? At the beginning of the war, he lived in Kharkiv and was arrested for criticizing Zelensky's government. On January 12 this year, Lyra died in prison from pneumonia, as the authorities said. Russian-Spanish journalist Pablo González was detained in Poland after covering the crossing of Ukrainian refugees at the Polish-Ukrainian border and spent nearly three years in prison. Russian war correspondent Vladlen Tatarsky was killed in central St. Petersburg by an explosive device. More than 30 Russian journalists died during the war in Ukraine, and Ukrainian journalists died. Dozens and hundreds have suffered, and they must all be remembered, and they must not be divided into good and bad.

Dear colleagues, for a long time the powerful of the day explained that when globalization finally wins, when all state borders and all state obstacles to business are removed, we will become rich and happy. We were told that when a millionaire becomes a billionaire, it will also make us, ordinary people, rich. Because according to the postulates of the so-called "trickle down economy" or permeation economy, the tide lifted all boats. But the reality turned out to be very different. Yes, the rich got richer, the millionaires became billionaires, but the boats of ordinary people did not rise, even many of them sank. The more the country went into the background, the more inequalities and poverty increased. There is only one way to overcome this. The government needs to be active again. It should create such rules to help working people live better lives. Supranational institutions will not do this. They take care of the interests of mega-corporations. We need more countries and fewer transnational institutions.

Mr President, we have understood that Ursula von der Leyen and her European Commission will do their utmost to give European citizens the opportunity to have their own homes. This, of course, is a laudable intention, which, however, has a very big drawback. Such promises are hypocritical and false. European citizens will only be able to buy homes when they have enough money to do so. However, it is not possible for most Europeans to have the necessary funds when the economies of the EU member states are ruined, ruined precisely by the leaders of the Union in question. I will recall the two main factors that are destroying European countries. The first is the obsessive passion for the Green Deal, which deprives hundreds of thousands of people of jobs and therefore of money. The second is the abandonment of cheap Russian energy resources. With this type of suicidal policy, it is quite natural for the economies of European countries to decline and for people's savings to melt. That is why they cannot buy homes and will not be able to buy them, despite all the promises of high-ranking Brussels officials.

Thank you for your question. The intervention of the US government in the affairs of other countries is being done everywhere in the world, including in my country Bulgaria and in many other countries. Non-governmental organisations are funded, and most of all this is done through Open Society – Soros, but there are many others who, under the guise of a desire for democratisation, for a civil sector and so on, actually fulfil the interests that come from outside. I have seen this in Bulgaria, I have seen it in many other countries and I know that this mechanism works everywhere. Unfortunately, it is allowed to do so and Georgia is happy to oppose this mechanism because it is destroying democracy and freedom in this country.

Mr President, colleagues, the representatives of the European Union and their American superiors are openly frightening Georgia with sanctions. Why is that? Well, because the Georgian government refuses to be an obedient servant of Brussels and Washington and firmly defends the interests of its country, not those of foreign masters. Georgia's government has passed two very important laws, one on exposing foreign agents and one on banning LGBT propaganda. This exposed the entire network of foreign influence, which, through foreign-funded NGOs, journalists and politicians, works against Georgian national interests. We are talking about structures that promote the influence of the United States and impose the globalist doctrine. Under the guise of democratization, they dismantle the foundations of the nation-state. The task of these structures is to turn Georgia into another Euro-Atlantic protectorate run by a colonial administration. There is no backsliding on democracy in Georgia, as the globalist media trumpets. There are self-thinking rulers, not pawns of Washington and Brussels. I hope that Georgia will not follow the fate of most countries in the European Union, which are ruled by American puppets.

Madam President, the leadership of the European Union is particularly helpless when it comes to the war in the Middle East. In the Middle East, we see Benjamin Netanyahu doing what he wants, and the United States fulfilling all his whims, and the European Union shining with its absence. Yes, sometimes EU leaders issue a declaration deploring the civilian casualties in Gaza and Lebanon. Except that nowhere in these declarations do they mention that these people died as a result of Israeli strikes because they are afraid of angering Netanyahu. And while they are dying of fear, the Israeli prime minister is doing everything he can to get Iran into the fighting, hoping to destroy the leadership in Tehran. And because he knew he couldn't do it alone, he tried his best to drag the United States into the war. And the current leadership of the European Union is doing nothing to stop this conflict, which could lead to World War III. European leaders have no independent vision of what is happening in the Middle East. They're just following Washington's orders. If they are told from there to be critical of Netanyahu, they will be. Otherwise, they curl up like mice in their holes.

Mr President, this war, the war in Ukraine, could have ended as early as March 2022 if the collective West, represented by the United States and Boris Johnson, had not ordered Zelensky to disrupt the peace talks in Istanbul. The collective West knows it cannot defeat Russia. He's just using this war to exhaust Russia. And this is a cynical strategy, a cynical strategy, in the name of which hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians and Russians have died and will continue to die. Every single projectile, every single euro that the European Union and the countries of the European Union send to Kiev, means the continuation of the war, and therefore the death of many more people, both military and civilian. So you, too, MEPs who vote on resolutions with similar content, are directly responsible for these victims. By supporting the Zelensky regime, you have become accomplices in the murder of so many people. The blood of the victims in Ukraine and in Russia is also on your hands, members of the majority in the European Parliament. And no matter how much you pretend to be Pontius Pilate, no matter how much you try to wash your hands, you can't wash them. An ordinary court will not convict you. The court of history will convict you.