German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/93, p. 11189.
Herr President. Worthy colleagues.
The outcry was great as the former President of the Federal
Constitutional Court Andreas Voßkuhle in 2021 accused the EU Commission and the
European High Court [EuGH] of a collusive, thus illegal, collaboration to erect
“in a cold way”, as he said it, a European federal state.
The stumbling stone was that the Federal Constitutional
Court in the year 2020 had designated a decision of the EuGH on the European
Central Bank’s credits to certain member states and its reasoning thereon as “simply
no longer comprehensible”. Following the Federal Constitutional Court’s
decision, the EU Commission brought an action for violation of the treaty
against the Federal Republic of Germany. An unabashed power demonstration and a
disdain for our democratic state of law, especially the separation of powers.
Instead of backing the Federal Constitutional Court, the grand
coalition of that time, likewise in violation of the separation of powers,
decided to declare that in regards the EU the highest German court, for all
that an organ of the Constitution, has almost nothing to say in EU affairs.
Still more: The Federal government pledged to actively avoid unauthorized, thus
illegal and encroaching, statements [Ultra-vires-Feststellungen]
of the EU and its courts.
Ladies and gentlemen, how nice that you meanwhile install in
the Federal Constitutional Court only party politicians. In the good, old
times, when distinguished jurists still sat in the Senate of the Constitutional
Court, it would likely have pulled itself together.
Völker Ulrich (CSU/CSU): Speak to the issue!
To show how other countries handle this problematic: The
Polish Constitutional Court declared in 2021 the EuGH’s attempts to meddle in
Polish jurisprudence to be incompatible with the Polish Constitution. It
besides likewise violated European law which guarantees the sovereignty of
member states in the European integration process. The Ampel coalition on the other hand has even agreed in its coalition
contract at least in the long-term to be quite willing to give up the Federal Republic and its Constitution. I
cite with permission of the President:
The conference on the future of Europe…should result in a constitutional convention and lead to further development of a federal European state which is decentrally organized according to the fundamentals of subsidiarity and proportionality and which has the basic rights charter as a principle.
Ladies and gentlemen, where is the Constitution Defense when
it is really needed? Such strivings as evidently pursued by the Ampel coalition are of course unconstitutional,
and they are also not wanted by the sovereign, the German people.
All other peoples plainly reject this EU state, as for
example the peoples in Scandinavia. It is no wonder, considering how the EU
meanwhile conducts itself. It becomes ever more overbearing and more frequently
meddles in the smallest areas of the lives of its citizens which actually do
not pertain to it.
A present, deplorable example is the stop for the combustion
engines by 2035. Here, the Ampel
could merely attain that combustion engines which can be operated exclusively
with so-called E-fuels are to be excluded from the ban. That can actually be
called sabotage in the most important German key industry, the automobile
industry. Driving for Otto Normal Consumer, as apparently desired by you, becomes
unaffordable. Hundreds of thousands of workplaces are in play. As a Saaarländer
– we still sound like one there – I can here sing you a song. The closing of
the Ford works in Saarlouis is already decided, the future is unknown.
Alexander Ulrich (Linke): That has nothing to do with it!
Ladies and gentlemen, the democratic national state is not,
as always asserted by leftist powers, at death’s door. It is state of the art;
it is an achievement which the peoples in Europe have won for themselves with
hard and bloody fighting. Not only the Ukrainians have the right to a sovereign
national state. On that account, I ask: Vote in favor of our motion [Drucksache 20/6172]. Germany’s
sovereignty needs to be maintained.
Many thanks and Glück
auf!
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