AfD Kompakt, May 16, 2024.
The lifting of the immunity and the search of the office and private space of Petr Bystron are a serious proceeding. So far, no evidence has been presented for the accusations raised for weeks against Herr Bystron. The AfD delegation therefore hopes for a speedy conclusion of the investigations so that the suspicion does not arise that here officials and instructed state prosecutors are attempting to influence the European election campaign.
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German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/131, pp. 16398-16399.
Right honorable Herr President. Dear colleagues.
We speak here today of the worst case of organized criminality since the Second World War. For it is an octopus which entwines billions, which costs human lives. It is no rescue at sea; it is human trafficking [Menschenschlepperei], and it is criminal.
Lamya Kaddor (Greens): Yes, what
then do you dream at nights?
It begins with you enticing the migrants onto the high seas and plainly inducing them into an emergency at sea.
Jamila Schäfer (Greens): Would you please for once read a
scientific study? That would be total super!
This occurs with the aid of an app, which is called Alarm Phone. No one is so dumb as to climb into a rubber boat
Jamila Schäfer (Greens): Shame on
you!
with benzine for 10 kilometers and to believe that he thereby comes 400 kilometers to Europe.
Lamya Kaddor (Greens): What do you believe, where you live? Have you once made an impression of it? Quite honestly, it is shameless how you come forward here.
The migrants do it just then when they see they are fished out of your boats 10 kilometers from the African coast.
Sebastian Fiedler (SPD): Who are
desperate! Only one here is dumb!
And this app is financed by whom? By the Heinrich Böll Foundation, the Robert Bosch Foundation and Soros. For that alone ought the common use be withdrawn and the money eliminated.
Julian Pahlke (Greens): Aha, and now even anti-semitism! That you are not ashamed, Herr Bystron! You are an embarrassment!
This year alone – you yourself have said it – this has cost the lives of 2,000 people.
Point two: Maritime law. What is the maritime law? To bring those rescued to the nearest harbor.
Derya Türk-Nachbauer (SPD): Secure
harbor!
These trafficking boats do exactly the opposite: They do not bring them to Africa; they bring them 400 kilometers to Europe, intentionally, with announcement. That is trafficking.
These inhuman doings are best documented by the incident of 2022. The migrants were already rescued by the Libyan coast guard. Then Sea-Watch came around and the migrants jumped into the sea because they wanted Europe. Twenty people thus died, among them children and women. For those deaths, you are co-responsible.
If these ships would bring the migrants back to Africa –
Lamya Kaddor (Greens): For your
sake! They will certainly not be asked!
for my sake to Algeria, Tunisia or Egypt, then thirty times more people could be helped for the same money than in Germany. Yet the salient point is: You do not want precisely that, because you want these people as care cases for your asylum industry. So it is.
Lamya Kaddor (Greens): You have no
idea!
Vera Lengsfeld of the CDU has already worked this out wonderfully. She has shown that the Red Cross alone has more employees than BASF – and BASF is the world’s largest chemical concern – and Caritas more employees than BMW. Yet all these people produce nothing, do nothing constructive, build no autos; yet they cost, and for that you need the money.
Clara Bünger (Linke): What? Caritas?
The costs for one refugee approach 57,000 euros per year. You are hereby creating care cases and tax money for them. That is the case.
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German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 60/66,
p. 7578.
Right honorable Herr President. Dear colleagues.
The CDU/CSU has now suddenly discovered the term “sovereignty”
and feels that the German sovereignty is threatened by China. Quite honestly, I
ask myself: What is the cause of that? We in Germany for 50 years have the best
of relations with China. It was German Foreign Minister Walter Scheel who was
the first to travel to China, a year before Kissinger, and took up diplomatic
relations with China. We have profited from that. Nothing of that has changed
other than that the U.S.A. now has chosen China for its enemy. And now here you
are in the wake of the Americans and want to build up China as a threat.
Herr Wadephul, you have even interjected: Hamburg, critical
infrastructure! How laughable is this argument! Here, China wants to purchase
not even 25 percent of one terminal – not of a harbor but of one terminal – and
you puff that up into a threat to the sovereignty of Germany! COSCO has
participations in ten such harbors in Europe: 100 percent in Greece, in the
Netherlands, in Belgium, in Spain over 51 percent. Is the sovereignty of these
countries in any way threatened? Of course not! That is complete nonsense, what
you have told here!
Andreas Beck (AfD): Keiner klatscht!
We are an export nation. We produce goods which we export to
all the world. And we need goods which we must import. China is our largest
trade partner; you know that exactly as well as do we.
Our German firms besides do the same: Hapag-Lloyd has ten participations in harbors in the entire world, Fraport in ten airports in the entire world; in an airport in Shanghai even with 50 percent. We need the trade, we need the exchange of goods, and that which we claim for ourselves in foreign countries we must also make possible for our partners here in Germany.
Besides, it is your colleagues in the CDU and the CSU who
rejoice over China’s investments in Germany. It is, for one, Hendrik Wüst, CDU
Minister-president in Nordrhein-Westphalen, who praises the cooperation in the
area of the Silk Road. Your CSU colleague has certainly praised the KUKA
investments. And if you look at the results: KUKA last year celebrated the second-best
year in its history. That is the result of good cooperation between China and
Germany.
Gyde Jensen (FDP): Yes, that makes Xi Jinping happy!
Let us remain at Duisburg. The railroad terminal there, a
junction of the Silk Road, is highly praised. In that regard, there is great
competition. The Chinese are investing 100 billion dollars in the Silk Road
infrastructure. The Poles say: We would gladly have this junction in Poland. –
In Germany, of course, the railway infrastructure is already so decayed that no
secure transport is possible. That, dear Herr Wadephul, is the fault of your
CDU colleagues, your transportation ministers from Wissmann to Andi Scheuer of
the CSU.
Jens Spahn (CDU/CSU): There is still lacking “16 years”.
The best example is the Transrapid, a German leading
technology which we wanted to construct here in Germany. Your colleague
Wissmann and the Bavarian Minister-president
Jens Spahn (CDU/CSU): Now we are even in the ‘90s!
– 2008 that was,
since you have buried it. Instead, the technology was sold to China. The Transrapid
now runs in Shanghai, and the successor to this train, built by the Chinese,
runs at 620 kilometers per hour.
Jens Spahn (CDU/CSU): What has that to do with strategic sovereignty?
All of us here could thus go from Munich to Berlin in an
hour and we need not bother with the continual delays of the Deutschen Bahn or
the Berlin-Brandenburg disaster airport.
Dear colleagues, the Chinese are not the greatest threat for
Germany, the greatest threat for Germany is you, the politicians, who in the
last years have driven this country into the wall.
Thank you.
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AfD Kompakt, July 21, 2022.
Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg’s
declaration that the Ukraine may be ready for the EU, although opposition
parties were forbidden in the country in which opposition politicians were
arrested or need go into exile and the opposition leader Viktor Medvedtschuk
initially was held illegally in house arrest for over six months and later was
imprisoned, is a new low point in the destruction of all previous legal standards
in regards the observance of accession conditions in the EU.
Schallenberg’s statement that the Ukraine “in regards
institutional stability as a guarantee for a democratic and legal order, the
protection of human rights, as well as the respect and defense of minorities
has on the whole progressed far”, can, in view of the massive human rights violations
in the country, only be categorized as bare cynicism.
If the EU certifies a corrupt and decayed state the likes of
the Ukraine as being compatible with the present composition of the EU, it
thereby makes out its own declaration of bankruptcy. In the Ukraine, the
erstwhile European values are being trampled under foot. Yet these are
obviously no longer the values for which the EU vouches. Representatives of the
EU should no longer presume to lay claim to European values.
The AfD delegation is for the strict maintenance of the
accession criteria in regards all countries desiring entrance. The EU now already
finds itself in a difficult crisis threatening its existence. It urgently
requires an internal consolidation instead of a hurried expansion including
additional countries in crisis.
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German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 19/218, p.
27509-27510.
Right honorable Frau President. Excellency. Dear colleagues.
The Linke and the Greens want to pay out to Greece 300 billion
euros of the German taxpayers’ money – today, in the year 2021, as reparations
for a war which ended 75 years ago. In reality, it is not about the Second
World War. It is about here and today. Since as my colleague Dr. Jongen already
has stated: The Germans and the Greeks reconciled after the war. We have long
since found a balance.
Nothing underlines this better than the visit of Konrad
Adenauer to Greece ten years after the war in 1954. He moved freely about the
country, protected only by a handful of police. There were no
counter-demonstrations, there were no demands for reparations, there was no
hatred against him – quite in contrast to the visit of Angela Merkel in 2012.
7,000 police needed to defend the German Chancellor against demonstrations at
which were carried signs with swastikas and inscriptions like “No to a Fourth
Reich!”, “You are not welcome!”, “Imperialists out!”, and “EU and IMF out!”
From where came the Greeks’ rage at Angela Merkel in 2012?
The country lay prostrate and hoped for help, for the European solidarity so
often affirmed by you. Unemployment was at almost 30 percent, and for youths at
almost 60 percent.
Heike Hänsel (Linke): You certainly want no solidarity! Lies! You certainly want no solidarity!
And what did they receive? Aid packages. Of the money from the aid packages, only 5 percent was received by the Greek people.
Heike Hänsel (Linke): You had agitated against the aid!
95 percent of the money went into debt conversion, for banks, creditors, investors; in short: For speculators who had speculated in Greece.
Claudia Roth (Greens-Augsburg): What are you actually speaking on?
In this situation, the Greeks naturally had the feeling that here it was not about a rescue, certainly not about aid and certainly not about solving the crisis, but about a punishment. The idea of reparations had been born at this time. As the first, Dimitris Avramopoulos brought it into play in 2013. In 2015 sprang up the leftist populist Tsipras who in the elections promised to enforce this against Germany. And how high are the reparations? Almost 300 billion euros, somewhat as much as Greece owes us. Just an accident, or not?
Claudia Roth (Greens-Augsburg): My goodness!
Thus you see: It is not about the past. It is about here and
today.
Let us give back to the Greeks their dignity! Let them out
of the corset of the euro! Let they themselves devalue and convert their
currency! Then you need not throw out of the window the money of other people,
the money of the German taxpayer!
Thank you.
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