German Bundestag, June 26, 2024, Plenarprotokoll 20/177, pp.
22860-22861.
Right honorable Herr President. Right honorable ladies and
gentlemen. Dear countrymen.
We need security and cooperation on the continent of Europe.
To create and maintain peace – that will
be the duty of the coming years and decades. For that, cooperative structures
and alliances are required which delineate and represent the interests of the members.
It is precisely these interests which are changing.
It is the national interests which the peoples formulate
vis-à-vis their state and inter-state actors. The maintenance and observance of
these interests are the foundation for a successful and trustworthy cooperation
at bilateral and multilateral levels. Only when the citizens are called upon,
and feel themselves attended to, will they accept the institutions and the
actors behind them. That is the reason for the slap, Herr Scholz, which you
received at the European election; for that is precisely your problem.
We are thus well into the midst of themes of today’s debate
on the European Union and the North Atlantic pact. Both institutions should
cooperate and guarantee security, freedom and prosperity in Europe. For both
institutions in the time of their formation, there were counter-proposals on
the other side, thus in the East. These presented a counter-proposal, but also
a counterweight.
In the time of the Cold War was placed right in the middle
mutual deterrence – and by means of nuclear weapons. Today we need to
re-evaluate whether these measures of force still present a promising and,
before all, a negotiable [vermittelbar]
strategy for pacification of conflicts. I think that is at least questionable.
What nevertheless still remains for us, and what we should
much more vigorously use, are the possibilities of diplomacy. Exchange,
understanding and the willingness of individuals to understand, as well as opposed
interests, will decide on war and peace. He who stops negotiating has already
lost. For months, we of the AfD delegation seek to recruit for diplomacy and negotiations.
Why do you not, as Chancellor and as Federal government, actively push this
forward, Herr Scholz? Even today in your speech was there little of this to be
heard.
As a result, valued colleagues, both institutions – the EU
and NATO – in their present form need to ask themselves the warranted question
of their right to exist [Daseinberechtigung].
For quite a while, this question could be suppressed. The current security and
economic policy problems in Europe however demand a discussion of precisely
this problematic.
The war still continuing in the Ukraine shows how urgently Europe
needs a military alliance – no question – which represents, before all, our
interests. In this difficult time becomes clear who with foresight formulates
and represents our interests. A NATO in its present form can unfortunately no
longer do this. Yet we are part of this alliance. Why does not the Federal
government use this present status to pursue German interests? Why do not the partners
help us to bring about a clarification of
the terror attack on our critical energy infrastructure? That would be the
first demand that should be directed to authentic partners and friends – as we
name them. That would besides, Herr Scholz, increase the credibility of which
you always speak. Instead, the Ampel
promotes the arming of Europe. In that regard, not a word on the NATO headquarters
for the Ukraine in the middle of Germany, neither from Herr Scholz nor from you,
Herr Merz. Thus is asked: To whom in that regard did you give the
acknowledgement [Bekenntnis]?
Exactly: To those who still have not withdrawn their nuclear weapons from
Germany. You thereby fasten us still more to the maintenance of their military
outposts. Better use the EU Council presidency of Viktor Orbán, and invite all
warring parties to peace negotiations in Germany. That would be a sign of
sovereignty.
And in this connection: We need a Bundeswehr which can
defend our country. You have bullied from the Bundestag a special fund – that is,
special debts – in the sum of 100 billion euros. Much was promised, but nothing
much has been realized. Quite the opposite: You prefer to demand the delivery
of weapons in a war zone. Yet German weapons may serve the self-defense, not
the support of foreign wars.
The citizens were once made to believe that our freedom can
be defended in the Hindu Kush. With which results? Destruction, suffering and a
flow of migration which primarily endangered Germany’s domestic security. In that
regard, you were often guilty of resolute action. The goal needs to be the
immediate stop of uncontrolled immigration. Secure borders and consistent
refusals are thereby indispensable. Simply look at the criminal statistics. There
you see which problems we have with immigrants direct from Afghanistan. And we
need no trivialization of the facts, as Federal Interior Minister Frau Faeser
does almost weekly. The consistent deportation of culpable persons must be a
consensus even so as for the rejected asylum applicants, ladies and gentlemen.
The basic prerequisite for that is maintaining diplomatic
relations with these countries; whether or not you wanted to recognize the governments
is quite another matter. Yet so long as you apportion governments into first,
second and additional classes, you will thereby run into scant success. As a
result, you will again be disembarked, or left standing in the airplane. That is
meanwhile the disastrous picture of Germany in the world which you leave
behind. We are meanwhile simply ridiculed in foreign countries.
Lamya
Kaddor (Greens): On account of you!
Those are the present facts of your foreign policy.
Year after year, you manage a sell-out of German interests.
Your short-sighted policy disarranges growing bilateral relations and even divides
the European Union without which you could not implement your policy in
Germany; keyword: “Heating law”, or also the so-called climate policy.
With the EU’s assistance, NATO’s security interests shall be
implemented through the backdoor in the Ukraine and in Moldavia. I ever again
say it: The European Union is not the extended arm of NATO, and is never
allowed to become it. With all understanding for the individual interests, an
escalation of the conflict and a prolongation of the war cannot be excluded. That
applies to avoiding it.
All of these are your duties. We would support you in that
regard. You have the responsibility for Germany and its citizens. Finally do
justice to this!
Many thanks.
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