Martin Hebner
Brexit
German Bundestag, January 17, 2019, Plenarprotokoll 19/74, pp.
8600-8601
[Martin Hebner is an
Alternative für Deutschland Bundestag member from the southern German state of
Bavaria and is an information technology consultant. Foreign Minister Heiko
Maas was German Justice Minister in the summer of 2017 when the Bundestag
passed the German internet enforcement law (NetzDG) which places substantial
financial liability upon social media firms which fail to achieve a required
degree of censorship on the internet. Edmund Stoiber is a former Bavarian
Ministerpräsident and chairman of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria who
subsequently served as an advisor to the EU Commission.]
Herr President. Ladies and gentlemen.
All contracts must be announced, including those of marriage. For
all are there rules, already made known before concluding the contract. Not so
for EU membership! A separation for the EU was unthinkable, a sacrilege as
formerly was divorce. And now we are experiencing a quite unpleasant, frankly
dirty divorce.
Herr Minister Maas, the British know what they want. They want not
to be defined by foreigners [fremdbestimmt]!
Over 60,000 bureaucrats work in Brussels, of whom 30,000 alone are
engaged by the EU Commissioners. Naturally, they will at no price surrender
their power and position. The Brussels bureaucrats will not allow their
institutions and authorities to be questioned or be seen to be questioned. Yet
the EU bureaucracy is not without alternative, exactly so, Frau Merkel, as the
euro rescue policy.
Reinhard Houben
(FDP): Like the European Parliament!
We therefore want to help the British. The EU commissioners in
Brussels direct us with their thousands of employees and lord over the
citizens, who know not even one of the names of the EU Commissioners, with the
possible exception of Herren Juncker and Oettinger.
Herr Minister Maas, you are responsible and known; one sees you at
least occasionally. Here, when a minister, to put it crudely, makes a mess,
then he is dismissed –
Franziska Brantner (Bündnis90/Grünen):
The Commissioners also, Herr Hebner, by the European Parliament.
- insufficiently, I am sorry to say, in the case of the internet
enforcement law [Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetzes,
NetzDG]. The EU Commissioners however can do, or not do, whatever they
want. They are infallible, like the Pope or the religion.
Franziska Brantner (Bündnis90/Grünen):
No, that’s not right. They can be voted out by the European Parliament, which
you want to abolish!
In this situation, the goal of many British is to “Take back
control”. The British wish the return of the direction of their own country.
The 28 EU Commissioners also have no interest in giving
consideration to justifying their existence, either to themselves or to the
citizens. In this house has there been much too little said in regards this
matter. It would be immediately denounced as if it were a blasphemy. But with
the Brexit, the Götterdämmerung has
begun.
And Brussels wants to delay this Götterdämmerung with the mud-fight over the separation, over
Brexit. Prolongation is the means. That is definitive not only for the British,
Herr Maas, but also for the EU negotiations management…And thus the two year
duration of negotiations and the intractability now come to the present point,
the only point to be properly arrived at, ladies and gentlemen: other nations
are to be intimidated from such a step.
All EU reform proposals put forward by Herr Cameron have run out
in the sand. He was, sorry to say, not really supported by the federal
government. Herr Stoiber had also once called for the dismantlement of the EU
bureaucracy.
Florian Hahn
(CDU/CSU): He had also done it, Herr Hebner.
After he had entered the EU Commissariat, nothing more was seen of
him. The EU was and is un-reformable. And that is something which disturbs many
of the British: the EU Commissioners command with ever further expansion of
their authority.
“Take back control” is the motto of the British. What you have not
understood – what we have in fact heard from Herr Brehm – and do not want to
understand, is that many in our country, like us, are in no way enemies of
Europe.
Alexander Lambsdorff (FDP): Herr
Gottschalk has in fact said that the EU belongs on the dung heap!
We are against this EU bureaucracy and against this excessive
centralization. We are convinced Europeans but not centralists. And the EU
bureaucracy is in now way without alternative.
