EU Parliament, Strasbourg, P10 CRE-REV(2025)06-19(4-0038-0000).
Herr President.
Germany is bankrupt. The Pension Insurance is bankrupt; sickness and care insurance – bankrupt, unemployment insurance – bankrupt. We Germans pay with the highest taxes worldwide 1,000 billion euros per year and despite that, it is lacking everywhere. Bridges and streets decay, schools are unfit, over 7 million pensioners have less than 1,000 euros per month, residential property is scarce. At the same time, we also pay the highest contribution for the EU by far, almost 30 billion euros per year, even though we, according to the European Central Bank, are one of Europe’s poorest countries.
Yet instead of relieving the German taxpayer, you want to
impose ever new burdens on us. Moldavia, Albania or the Ukraine shall now
become a member of the European Union because Frau von der Leyen hopes for more
weight on the world political stage. That will not work; we Germans will no
longer let ourselves be plundered. We will turn off the your megalomania at the
money spigot. You can rely on it, since for that my party was elected. Please
say to your Commission President: We who shall fall down, he first becomes
proud, and pride comes before the fall.
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