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Jul

2026

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2025 Commission report on Ukraine (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen! Ukraine is increasingly threatening to become the EU's coffin. The opening of accession negotiations paves the way for billions more to go to corrupt Ukraine. According to EU studies, Kyiv's accession to the EU will cost EUR 186 billion. Who's gonna pay for this, please? The population in Europe and especially in Germany is asked to pay for this madness. While s…

19

May

2026

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Political repression and humanitarian situation in Cuba (debate)

Madam President, The Hamburg-based shipping company Hapag-Lloyd and the French shipping company CMA CGM are now stopping all orders to and from Cuba. The background is the extension of a decree by US President Donald Trump; It is now also aimed at foreign companies. I ask you: What is the EU doing about the brutal US starvation policy against Cuba, which is nothing more than a crime against humani…

19

May

2026

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Europe's response to reduced US military deployments in Europe, particularly at its Eastern flank in the light of the latest US decisions (debate)

Madam President, One has the impression that some in Europe have completely lost their minds with the war in Ukraine. You, Mrs Kallas, want to smash Russia. The German CDU MP Kiesewetter wants Europe to work towards the surrender of Russia. And Nico Lange from the Munich Security Conference rejoices: Yes, Russia can be defeated. It almost seems as if some in Europe wanted to continue the campaign …

29

Apr

2026

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Danger of normalising relations with Russia, including its participation in major cultural and sports events (debate)

Madam President, The US and Israel are waging a war of aggression against Iran in violation of international law. Are athletes and artists from the US and Israel excluded from sports and cultural events? No, of course not. Germany is supplying weapons to Israel, despite the genocide of the Palestinians and the policy of expulsion in Lebanon. Are German athletes and artists excluded? No, of course …

25

Mar

2026

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Madam President, U.S. policy toward Cuba is inhumane. Cuba should be starved to achieve regime change. What 65 years of U.S. economic embargo have failed to achieve, President Trump now wants to achieve by cutting off Cuba's energy supplies completely. There has been a nationwide power outage on several occasions. This does not only mean that public life, traffic and production come t…

10

Mar

2026

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Tackling barriers to the single market for defence - Flagship European defence projects of common interest

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen! If the European Commission were serious about peace, it would do everything possible to end the wars in our neighbourhood diplomatically. But it has not launched a single initiative – not in Ukraine, not in Gaza, not in Iran, where the unprovoked war of aggression by the US and Israel is now raging in violation of international law. Instead, Ms von der Leyen …

24

Feb

2026

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Four years of Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine and European contributions to a just peace and sustained security for Ukraine (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen! The horror in Ukraine is entering its fifth year – the war must finally stop! The EU has failed completely in Ukraine. There has not been a single peace initiative, and the 2022 Istanbul negotiations have failed in the West. And now Europe wants to prolong the war. It can't be! There must finally be an unconditional ceasefire. Anyone who rightly condemns Russ…

10

Feb

2026

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Building a stronger European defence in light of an increasingly volatile international environment (debate)

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Jan

2026

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Territorial integrity and sovereignty of Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark: the need for a united EU response to US blackmail attempts (debate)

Mr President! Ladies and Gentlemen! President Trump wants Greenland. US imperialism stands worldwide for wars of aggression in violation of international law, and the EU Commission wants to resolve the crisis through an economic war with the US. That's laughable. No, Europe must no longer be the vassal and bridgehead of the United States. Clear steps are needed now. US troops stationed in Europe m…

17

Dec

2025

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The deepening democratic crisis in Georgia (debate)

Mr President! Ladies and Gentlemen! What would happen in Brussels if a group of protesters violently tried to storm the seat of the government? What would be the reaction if politicians from the vicinity of a former governing party promised every policeman $200,000 who refused the order to take action against the overthrowers? That's what happened in Tbilisi. And here in the house it's celebrated.…

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Dec

2025

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Mr President! Ladies and Gentlemen! The EU wants to commit the biggest theft of all time this week. The EU wants to use EUR 210 billion of frozen Russian assets as collateral for a coercive loan to Ukraine so that the war can continue. What von der Leyen and Kallas are planning is nothing more than a despicable expropriation that will both shake confidence in the EU financial centre and call for a…

25

Nov

2025

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Escalation of the war and the humanitarian catastrophe in Sudan (continuation of debate)

12

Nov

2025

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen! European NATO states will spend €470 billion on military and armaments this year, up 15% on the previous year. The U.S. is concentrating its troops in the Indo-Pacific and calling for Europe to be upgraded. The Europeans follow the dictates like the lemmings into the abyss, because the rearmament destroys the social systems. There is less and less money for educ…

21

Oct

2025

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Stepping up funding for Ukraine’s reconstruction and defence: the use of Russian frozen assets (debate)

Madam President, With the coercive loan for Ukraine on the basis of Russian assets in the amount of 140 billion euros, the EU is planning a breach of international law with unforeseeable consequences for its own economy. Three comments: What the EU intends to do will cause lasting damage to the EU financial centre. Even the European Central Bank has warned of this. Who likes to put their money whe…

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Oct

2025

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Madam President, Ms von der Leyen appears to be planning drastic measures if she considers that Member States' pension reforms are not sufficient. According to the magazine Politico In the future, EU payments will be linked to the implementation of the pension recommendations from Brussels. What we are talking about is pension cuts. Because nothing else is an increase in the retirement age. As is …

8

Oct

2025

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EU strategy with regard to Iran’s nuclear threat and the implementation of EU sanctions resulting from the snapback mechanism (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen! The foreign policy concept of Ms von der Leyen and Ms Kallas in the Middle East is to follow the US like lackeys. Now there are new sanctions against Iran. Does anyone seriously believe that the resumption of the suspended nuclear controls can be achieved in this way? No, it is simply a matter of legitimizing the next attack on Iran in violation of internatio…

11

Sep

2025

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Solidarity with Poland following the deliberate violation of Polish airspace by Russian drones (debate)

Madam President, Foreign Representative Ms Kallas would like a strong response in response to the alleged Russian drones – there is conflicting information, by the way – on Polish territory. What you and Commission President von der Leyen are proposing is not de-escalation, but another step on the road to war. Ms Kallas and Ms von der Leyen – the duo of infernals of European politics that pushes E…

9

Jul

2025

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Presentation of the Stockpiling Strategies - strengthening response capacities for a changing risk and threat landscape (debate)

Mr President! We are talking about disaster risk reduction, and that leads us directly to Ursula von der Leyen, because the Commission President is the biggest disaster in the EU. Mrs von der Leyen stands for unenlightened corruption, for gigantic rearmament and for the dismantling of the European social model. Pension à la von der Leyen looks like billions of deals are concluded via SMS – even th…

18

Jun

2025

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Stopping the genocide in Gaza: time for EU sanctions (topical debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen. More than 50,000 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli army. Israel is working with the United States to ethnically cleanse the Gaza Strip. The people of Gaza are starving, they are starving, they are being allowed to starve. What we see in Gaza is a genocide. For what is happening there, the far-right Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is responsible. B…

18

Jun

2025

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Upcoming NATO summit on 24-26 June 2025 (debate)

Madam President, NATO will decide on a gigantic rearmament. US President Trump wants to double military spending to 5% of gross domestic product – that's €3 trillion. This has nothing to do with defence, and certainly not with an independent European foreign and security policy. The tax money that the EU pumps into NATO serves only the US's global hegemony policy. While Europe is to continue the U…

17

Jun

2025

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Situation in the Middle East (joint debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. Let's keep this in mind: Israel is waging a war of aggression against Iran in violation of international law. Israel has nuclear weapons, has not signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty and does not allow international inspections. Iran does not have nuclear weapons, has signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty, allows international inspections and has negotiated its nuc…

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May

2025

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80 years after the end of World War II - freedom, democracy and security as the heritage of Europe (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen! 80 years ago today, Germany was liberated from fascism. Today is the day to thank the liberators from the Soviet Union, the US, Britain and France, as well as the partisans who fought for our freedom. It was the Soviet Union that bore the brunt of the fight against Hitler fascism. More than 27 million Soviet citizens, most of them civilians, died in the Nazi …

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Apr

2025

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 20 March 2025 (debate)

Madam President, "Europe swears by the Leyen for a possible Great War" just headlined a large web portal. With 800 billion, the EU is to be made war-ready. But why, if even US intelligence say Russia isn't planning an attack on NATO states? If it is not defence, then it can only be about preparing for a war against Russia, which the coalition of the EU's war-willing people obviously wants. This ma…

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Mar

2025

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White paper on the future of European defence (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen! The EU, which likes to call itself a peace project, wants to become European NATO – 800 billion euros are to be spent on rearmament. And just like NATO, the EU is neither a community of defence nor a community of values. Where are the European values when it comes to Gaza? Where are they when the EU cheers for electoral fraud in Romania? And why has there never …

11

Feb

2025

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Wider comprehensive EU-Middle East Strategy (debate)

Mr President! Ladies and Gentlemen! The situation in Gaza continues to escalate. In the spirit of the far-right government of Israel, US President Trump wants to expel the Palestinians from Gaza and relocate them to neighboring states, as it is euphemistically said. Instead of a Palestinian state, a luxury Riviera is to be created. These plans are inhumane and belong in the rubbish piles of histor…