Alexander Sell, June 19, 2025, Germany Is Bankrupt

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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Alexander Sell, March 12, 2025, Automobile Industry

EU Parliament, Strasbourg, P10 CRE-REV(2025)03-12(3-0110-0000). 

Frau President. 

Five years ago, Frau von der Leyen presented here the Green Deal; Europe should become the first climate-neutral continent. Greta Thunberg would now say: We are on a good way. For years declines the CO₂ output in Germany. Yet that is primarily due to the regressing industrial production. The steel, chemical and automobile industries are no longer competitive on account of higher duties and much too expensive energy. 

The result is massive profit breakdowns and job cuts. Thirty percent less profit at Mercedes and Volkswagen, 35,000 positions eliminated at Volkswagen, up to 300,000 workplaces in the entire automobile industry. Especially wrong is: As a result of the EU’s arbitrarily set climate goals, European automakers will be forced to buy CO₂ certificates from Chinese competitors so as to avoid penalties from Brussels. We thus finance the rise of China and the sell-out of our industry. 

The Commission is responsible for this industrial policy harakiri of Europe. Frau von der Leyen and her CDU are a danger for the competitiveness and prosperity of Germany and Europe. Here helps no course corrections, here helps only voting out of office.

 

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