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"Mr President, Mr Schulz, I would, first of all, like to congratulate you on the election deal struck two and a half years ago, thanks to which you now find yourself sitting in that seat. I must congratulate you on that, on behalf of my group. I find it unfortunate, though, that we have not had a debate about your election. We would have liked to have had one, but all right, it seems that the outcome was determined in advance. You have emerged the winner at the ballot box, so you are the person that we will be dealing with.
Around a year ago, you unfoundedly denounced a member of my group as a fascist in this Chamber, which is conduct unbefitting a democratic parliamentarian. You have never attempted to distance yourself from those words. You said that loud and clear in this Chamber and that kind of rhetoric is not to your credit. I find that really unfortunate and I hope that you now want to take those words back because, Mr President, a democracy is only a democracy if dissenting opinions are allowed to be heard unimpeded. There is, obviously, no reason to call someone a fascist and there is no place for such words in this Chamber. We have all been democratically elected and we are also democrats at heart, and, as such, we must also respect each other.
Mr President, this European Union is bankrupt. The citizens have never had so little faith in the future of the European Union. More and more people want sovereignty returned to Member States. Small countries can definitely be prosperous and cooperate peacefully – because that is precisely where Europe’s strength lies – under the military flag of NATO. Therefore – sorry, Mr President – but all that war rhetoric is inappropriate. Fortunately, we have had decades of peace in Europe, at least in our part of Europe.
Ladies and gentlemen, the megalomaniac Europe of the social democrat Schulz is bankrupt. Europe is lagging far behind, it is corrupt and wasting money. We all need to do something about that. Mr Schulz, I hope that you will also be, or rather become
president, that you will leave your Social Democratic past behind you and that you will stand above all the group divisions. I hope that you will show yourself to be a worthy President and that you will show respect for all the democratic currents represented in this Parliament. While the non-attached Members do not belong to any one group, they have been democratically elected and are entitled to equal treatment from our President and everyone else in this House.
Mr President, although we do not share your vision of a European social-democratic utopia – for we believe in the power of sovereign nations – we still want to get our cooperation with you off to a good start. I therefore wish you success in your new role. You would make a very nice start if you finally delivered on a long cherished wish of this Parliament, namely, the abolition of the travelling circus, that wasteful travelling circus that shuttles between Brussels and Strasbourg. Mr President, that is what I wanted to convey to you. It would be a nice touch if you could clinch that at the next summit. I wish you every success in your new role as President. We will do our best to get your presidency off to a good start."@en1
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