Tuesday, March 15, 2022

Nicolaus Fest, March 8, 2022, Poland, Hungary and Refugees

European Parliament, Strasbourg, P9 CRE-PROV(2022)03-08(2-149-0000).

Frau President. Frau Johansson. Frau Klinkert.

You have said that the EU had acted rapidly and effectively. Na ja, so to say; applying a guideline is certainly not what is understood as rapid and effective action. The Poles, the Roumanians, the Slovaks and also the Hungarians have acted rapidly and effectively, and indeed without inquiring of the EU as to the details.

For the EU, before all the Poles and the Hungarians were, until yesterday, nevertheless the cold racists who allegedly had no heart for refugees. Now, Poland alone has taken in 1.2 million refugees. Were the U.S.A. to do something similar, it would now be approximately eight million. When – and this would be a decisive question – does the EU Commission actually apologize for this persistent slander of the Poles and Hungarians? The sometime or other is now.

It is right: The Poles, Slovaks and Roumanians take in primarily women and children. The Ukrainian men of course defend their country. And the Ukrainian women and children do not want a long asylum. Most of them seek out relatives or friends with whom they can shelter. They thus also want no state benefits. And that, Frau Johansson, is a fundamental difference with the other, primarily African migrants. They are for the most part not refugees – who traipses through 30 peaceful countries is no longer a refugee – but are social migrants who want to immigrate into the social system. Countries like Poland and Hungary do not want them, and also not most other countries. The only ones who want them are, I believe, you and the EU Commission.

These migrants are now unfortunately obstructing the reception capacities in many countries, especially in Germany, and in my hometown of Berlin. Berlin needs now create new spaces, yet does not find them. And why is this the case? On account of your, Frau Johansson, failed, erroneous, blind-to-reality migration policy.

Thus, my appeal: First, stop with the slandering of the Poles and the Hungarians. Second, stop with your wretched migration policy. And third, Frau Johansson, at best stop yourself. In this house here, that would be best of all.

 

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