Debate contributions by Stefan BERGER

Mr President! Ladies and Gentlemen! Europe is in fierce competition. Inflation, high energy prices and above all bureaucracy make us strong. But many problems have also been caused by left-green politics for the first time. In Europe, the SPD and Green Laws – such as supply chain, deforestation regulation, burner-off – have adopted, promoted – and these are massive welfare brakes. Their red-green policy causes people to worry and that the political right-wing edge has doubled under a SPD chancellor, among other things, in Germany. Because you mentioned Friedrich Merz: It is therefore good and right that Friedrich Merz gives Germany confidence in growth again. The conservative center, which shows that it can do it best and can spread confidence and hope and departure. We do not want to vote with the right-wing populists, not in the European Parliament and not in the German Bundestag. But for this, the SPD and the Greens must move back into the political center. They make politics for minorities and not for majorities. The hard questions – migration, security – need to be resolved from the centre, with the exception of extremist margins. This agenda item is actually an appeal to the SPD and Greens: Don't get involved in your minority.Bubble. Show responsibility! Vote with the EPP here, vote with the CDU in the German Bundestag. Show responsibility! No one needs them from the outside.