German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/118,
pp. 14594-14595.
Frau President. Right honorable ladies and gentlemen. Dear
guests in the gallery.
The party is over. This drunkenness, this intoxication of
the left-green money squandering is over. The accounts are empty. We are in the
middle of a recession let loose by means of an utterly failed energy
transition, the cutting off of Russian gas, the de-industrialization of our
homeland and completely nonsensical heating insulation provisions which will
bring the construction industry almost completely to ruin. The concerns
emigrate to foreign countries, the tax revenues shrink. Here, climate and
gender nonsense and a feminist and values-guided foreign policy are certainly
of no moment.
We trace the compulsory savings in this budget: Language
promotion of German minorities in eastern Europe, arms control, German cultural
work, financial support of the Goethe Institute – here, the red pencil will be
applied. Where more money will be expended, it is for the care and feeding of your
own, Frau Baerbock; the personnel costs increase and your administrative costs.
For that, you spend money.
This country has brought forward foreign ministers of the
likes of a Willy Brandt and a Hans-Dietrich Genscher. For these, the
achievement counted; for you, Frau Baerbock, the narrative obviously suffices,
and that often badly told. As for example in your biography – correct me –
which has arrived at its ninth version. Know, Frau Baerbock, that dissimilar to
you, I indeed am not come from international law. Yet I have actually lived in
Great Britain and am to some degree competent in the language of that place. I
say to you: Please save on the tax-financed make-up artists, and preferably invest
in English instruction. Otherwise, we will soon have “more beef” with our
neighbors, which we all do not want, if you understand what I mean.
I am grateful to the Russians in that they have not taken
seriously your declaration of war, “We are in war with Russia”. We of course
are not. This is not our war.
And now once for all for those taking notes: In the
Bundestag election campaign of 1957, Chancellor Adenauer attacked the SPD with
the words: “The policy which the social-democratic leadership wants makes
Germany into a Russian satellite.” And today: We are defenseless and dependent.
Angela Merkel, zu Guttenberg, Steinmeier, Gabriel, Schwesig and many others
from your ranks have driven this country into dependencies and for more than 16
long years brought it to economic ruin.
Apart from a Bohemian corporal, no one has ever brought so
much misfortune upon Germany like this former Federal Chancellor.
Britta
Haßelmann (Greens): Now, that’s enough!
From 2016 to 2020, there were a total of around 2,000 fatal
crimes in Germany in which at least one immigrant was questioned as a suspect,
to say nothing at all of the appalling thousands of those wounded and raped.
Not even the SED had so many people killed at the Wall, the successor party of
which today sits here among us and projects itself as flawless democrats.
In a few weeks we will celebrate the 33rd
anniversary of German unity. 33 years later, Germany in a Europe of upheaval
has developed itself from a refuge of stability into the sick man of Europe, indeed
into a problem child. For a relatively long period of time the re-unified
Germany, as once the old Federal Republic, found its place in Europe in harmony
with its neighbors and to the satisfaction of its partners from Lisbon to
Warsaw. For Paris and Warsaw, we as a neighbor stood quite high. This was
unique in our long history, ladies and gentlemen. Here, steadily decisive were
our credibility and our reliability.
Michael
Brand (CSD/CSU-Fulda): Not yours!
What in more than 60 years Germany acquired in trust with
our neighbors was our most valuable foreign policy good.
What were the bases for that? I say it to you: First, the
German anchoring in Europe; second, the partnership tie to Russia; and third,
the maintenance of the historic bridge across the Atlantic. And today? In
Europe, we are isolated. For Paris, we are the problem on the eastern border,
and for Poland the problem on its western border – borders besides which your
cabinet colleagues, who now already are gone again, do not want to defend. Konrad
Adenauer’s tenet, whereby the best foreign policy is the protection of one’s own
interests, is our incentive [Ansporn].
German interests, Frau Baerbock, you have never yet defended – quite the
opposite.
In conclusion, I want to here indicate that you routinely
violate our right of parliamentary inquiry. We have in committee and in plenary
session asked you in writing when you learned that your house issued an
instruction to endorse falsified Afghan passports, and who was authorized to
name persons from Afghanistan who were to be flown into Germany for a roundabout
provision [Rundumversorgung]. You
have prevented this. We have thereupon submitted a constitutional complaint. We
remain on the ball.
Frau Baerbock, in conclusion, I say to you: With this
anti-democratic state of affairs, you would been thrown out of the polis of Pericles,
Vice-president
Katrin Göring-Eckardt: Herr colleague, your speaking time is past.
the homeland of democracy.
Vice-president
Katrin Göring-Eckardt: Herr colleague.
Many thanks.
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