Showing posts with label Malte Kaufmann. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Malte Kaufmann. Show all posts

Monday, July 1, 2024

Malte Kaufmann, June 26, 2024, Eco-socialism

AfD Kompakt, June 26, 2024. 

The mood in the German economy is long since desolate. The situation becomes further critical. The energy costs are much too high, the bureaucracy insanity is no longer to be endured. Who does not flee to a foreign country, needs in Germany to either struggle for survival or close the business. The overall conditions are no longer suitable; they were for years consistently run down.   

I do not believe that a call to reason by Economy Minister Habeck could in any way suffice and put in motion a turnaround. He has much too far set out on his wrong way and thereby fantasizes of beautiful numbers far from reality. In the view of the AfD delegation, Germany urgently needs to forsake the path of the destructive eco-socialist transformation, and for that requires a capable Economy Minister. The free market economy alone creates the correct overall conditions for business, secures workplaces and increases prosperity. Habeck’s eco-socialism destroys them – we will rebuild them. 

 

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Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Malte Kaufmann, September 28, 2022, Russia, Weapons and Diplomacy

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/56, p. 6179.

Frau President. Right honorable ladies and gentlemen.

Let me at the beginning over and over again quite clearly say: The AfD delegation most sharply condemns Russia's war against the Ukraine. We have ever again given expression to this, here in plenary session as well as in the committees. This war is dreadful for all people participating; it produces unspeakable suffering and indeed on both sides. Each additional day of this war brings with it much suffering and death. We therefore must do all that is sensible so that this military confrontation stops as soon as possible.

The way by which the Union wants to go with its motion for ever more intensive weapons deliveries is however wrong.

It leads directly to additional military escalation and it contradicts the decades-long, established strategy of Germany to deliver no weapons to areas of acute crisis. Those who want to walk along this incendiary path sadly do not know what they in reality are thereby preparing. They believe that Russian President Putin is meantime “weakened”, it soon comes to an “overthrow” there, and then all will be good again. I recommend to these oblivious ones an interview appearing yesterday with Professor Baberowski who is one of the most renowned German historians of eastern Europe. He in all clarity said that the ranks around Putin have meanwhile closed and the war aims will adhered to with more determination by the Russian government the greater is the affliction from outside. Thus as the military pressure which the NATO states build up in favor of the non-NATO member Ukraine becomes greater, the more incalculable will be the reaction, to the point of a nuclear dimension which needs be urgently prevented. 

So as to not now allow the war to further escalate but to end it as quickly as possible, the hour of diplomacy has now come.

            Sara Nanni (Greens): Diplomacy for six months, 24 hours a day! It hasn’t                                worked!

Unfortunately, Germany has lost its earlier achieved position as a nation which maintains good relations with all countries of this Earth. 

            Götz Frömming (AfD): Weapons, weapons, weapons!

Today we have a Foreign Minister who flatters herself in rhetorical rearmament. Russia will be “ruined” by means of the sanctions – thus for example spoke Frau Baerbock with complete self-assurance to the running cameras. Oddly enough, the energy prices for us nevertheless climb to the unmeasurable while energy concerns in Russia take in record profits.

We of the AfD are committed to diplomacy. The resolution motion put forward by the CDU/CSU is drawn up for military escalation. In your motion, valued colleagues, on scarcely two and a half pages, the words ‘weapons” or “weapons systems” are to be read 19 times – 7 times the formulation is “heavy weapons” – yet not a single time the so important word of diplomacy. How can that be? In this regard, the aim of diplomatic efforts must be to bring about an immediate end of combat operations followed by peace negotiations for a long-term, stable co-existence of Russia and the Ukraine.

Instead of a further escalation, we desire a peace initiative – you could for once propose that to the Federal government – for example in the context of the OSCE as well as of humanitarian assistance.   

            Sara Nanni (Greens): Spoken with the OSCE?

Let us do everything so as to reconstruct peace in Europe!

Many hearty thanks.

 

 

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Wednesday, July 13, 2022

Malte Kaufmann, July 7, 2022, CETA

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/47, pp. 4953-4954.

Herr President. Right honorable ladies and gentlemen.

Already in the first deliberation on the CETA [Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement] theme – that was on March 18 – I was allowed to refer to that, for example, our French and Italian friends on the average go essentially earlier into retirement and at the same time clearly have more assets than we Germans. Those are facts verified by, among other things, the ECB’s data. And despite that, Germany just recently shouldered over 130 billion euros of the so-called Corona assistance funds of the European Union.

Julia Klöckner (CDU/CSU): What does that now have to do with CETA? Are you in the wrong debate?

In any case, it is a decades-long abuse of German policy not to defend our own interests against the greed of other countries.

            Julia Klöckner (CDU/CSU): Wrong theme!

That applies at the European level exactly so as at other international levels. And exactly here is it called to be just so on the alert in regards CETA. International trade is basically a good idea, since it promotes the sum prosperity of the participant states. And we of the AfD also want that. What we however do not want is the hollowing out of our country’s sovereignty. And plainly, exactly that is to be feared in regards CETA. The February 9th ruling of the Federal Constitutional Court indicates a certain doubt as to what concerns a further transfer of sovereign rights to CETA’s tribunal and committee system. Namely, the Constitutional Court holds it be conceivable that – I cite – “German officials will be in so far as entirely excluded from possibilities of direct influence so that a personnel and material legitimization of committee activity by means of the co-working of German sovereign authorities would be even so impossible as their responsibility to the citizens”. In clear text: There arises the danger that in the backrooms decisions with wide-ranging consequences for our country will be arranged [ausgekungelt] without Germany being able to take influence, all the same as to what the voters in this country have decided. That is the exact opposite of democracy in the sense of a government [Herrschaft] of the people. That is the government of the backrooms, and that we do not want!

            Verrena Hubertz (SPD): What rubbish!

What we also do not want is that such a free trade agreement can be used for the ideological wrong way of the Greens. We have certainly heard that in the spoken contributions. Yet exactly that is now to be feared when your draft law is looked at. Green ideology through the back door shall now be tricked up and transacted in the free trade agreement. What then remains of residual free trade if here the Greens meddle in this way can each one imagine for himself.

            Sebastian Roloff (SPD): Climate defense sure is annoying!

Yet there is hope. The Constitutional Court itself apparently reckons with an immediate complaint against the CETA assent act – and it will well be known why.

Despite our fundamental affirmation of free international trade, we will not be able to agree to the law put forward in this form, but we will abstain.

Many hearty thanks.

Manuel Höferlin (FDP): How then would you alter the law put forward? Have you once read the law which we decided on? A mere two paragraphs!

 

 

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Thursday, November 18, 2021

Malte Kaufmann, November 17, 2017, Home Office Obligation

AfD Kompakt, November 17, 2017. 

The proposal for the re-introduction of the home office obligation for employees reveals the lack of orientation of the Ampel coalition presently in formation, as well as of the Corona and economic policy.  

A home office obligation is epidemiologically completely senseless and economically harmful. The companies have long since developed and implemented the workplace hygiene concepts according to the Federal government’s prescription.

If the home office obligation is necessitated, since the Corona restrictions bring nothing to the workplace, questions need arise as to their meaningfulness. The companies and the co-workers will as a result of the Corona policy be heavily burdened anyhow. An additional regulation contributes to an unnecessary, further intensification.

 

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