Debate contributions by Krzysztof BREJZA

Mr President, thank you very much. The High Parliament! Georgia must serve as an example for all of us – an example of what ends the destruction of values. Now, two hours ago, the Georgian parliament, dominated by Russian puppets, passed an electoral law that stripped thousands of Georgian patriots living abroad of their right to vote. This is an example of the direction in which the entire information war of the Putin empire, the pro-Russian empire, is heading – the creation of a Russian governorate from Georgia, but also the creation of pro-Russian governors from countries such as Hungary, Slovakia. The BBC's investigation revealed the shocking truth about the use of chemical weapons during World War I against citizens. It was a substance coded UN3439, the so-called kamit. This is how pro-Russian authoritarianism works in Georgia. It destroys the opposition, beats journalists, activists. Pro-European opposition leaders are imprisoned under fictitious charges. Let's name them: Zurab Japaridze, Nika Gvaramia, Nika Melia or Mikheil Saakashvili. These are the heroes, the prisoners who fought for a free, pro-European Georgia. But Georgia has always belonged to Europe, it has never been the footstool of the Kremlin, and never, whether it was 1802 or 1920-22, has Russia succeeded in crushing the Georgian people, because Georgians are true Europeans and love freedom.

Madam President, I'm sorry. The High Parliament! What we see today is the best example of the theory of Jean-Pierre Faye, who as a French philosopher constructed the horseshoe theory. The extreme right, the extreme left, is on Putin's side today. And history repeats itself, because you are on Putin's side today, just as the extremes were on Lenin's and Stalin's side in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. It was then that extreme ideologues, extreme leftists, intellectuals defended the policy of the Russian Empire. Today you are stepping into the shoes of the far left, the far right. You meet in one. You are spreading Putin's lies during the war. And let us remember that Russian aggression has always been based on strength, but also on propaganda. And today you are the carriers of Putin's missiles, of the fakes, of the lies, of the bots that are destroying our infoosphere, our social media. Let us all be aware of this. Don't do that. Don't be on the side of the Russian Empire.

Madam President, I'm sorry. Ladies and Gentlemen, Today, Russian drones fell on my country, Poland. We are in the European Community, in the European Union. It was created jointly by countries loving values and principles. It is a community of democratic states. Today we see Slovakia's leader, Mr. Fico, flying to the Kremlin to pay tribute to Putin in the Kremlin. Dear Slovaks, we were together for 45 years under a Russian, Russian boot. This is a sign for all of us that the leader of the European state is betraying European values, democracy, the rule of law, attacking free media, oligarchizing the state, destroying free courts, a free prosecutor's office. He does this in order to reach the Kremlin's orbit, to be in the Kremlin's zone. But the rule of law is more than that. The rule of law is a sign of freedom. How does a country with the rule of law differ from a country without the rule of law? The difference is that a country with the rule of law is a country of free citizens. And where there is no rule of law, as in this Russia, as in the Kremlin, as in Belarus, there is no freedom. Therefore, dear Slovak brothers, fight for your rule of law, fight for European values. S. Fight for the rule of law. We're with you.

Mr President, thank you very much. I am sorry to the European Parliament that you must witness such a denunciation of Poland as my previous speaker presented, and a comparison of the European Union with Russia, and a comparison of the fact that the European Union is supposedly acting like Russia. It's bullshit, isn't it? This is the voice of the Russian populists, the pro-Russian puppeteers who are attacking the European Union. What is Moldova fighting for? Moldova, Mr. Wąsik, is fighting to join the European Union, to those values which include the rule of law. Ladies and Gentlemen, today, how clear all this is, how visible all this is. How many such anti-Moldovan, anti-European voices we could hear at the head of you, probably from the SOS Romania party, which attacked Moldovan aspirations, but before that his party repeatedly advocated Russia, even making territorial demands on Moldova. Moldova, we are with you, we keep our fingers crossed, because you are a great nation, small territorially, but great spirit.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Last month I was on a mission in Georgia and we can no longer talk about Russian influence, it is a copy of the Russian system. When I hear the voices of Orban's people, AfD people, supported by Putin, who want Georgia, young Georgians, European Georgia to leave it to Russia, we have to be clear: You are acting in the interests of the Kremlin and Putin. There will be no agreement on this in the European Union and in Europe. I will tell the Georgians that we are with you, we see your struggle, but we also see the people who are destroying you. We see the officers of the regime. I want to name you Judge Nino Galustaszwili. Nino Galustashvili is a judge of the Georgian regime who sentenced a 21-year-old boy Metedewizi to 4.5 years in prison for organising a pro-European demonstration. This is the reality in Georgia and I would like this woman not to have the right to come to Italy for holidays. I would like every official of the pro-Russian regime not to be allowed into the countries of the European Union and not to do business here. We need tough sanctions, we need the isolation of those pro-Russian bandits who will Russify Georgia.

Mr President, thank you very much. All of Europe looks with admiration at Moldova. A small state, but a valiant state, because Moldova is on the side of values, on the side of the European Union. Moldovan society has won against this Russian miraculous state. Moldovan society has won against Putin's information campaigns, against election rigging, against the oligarch who bribed the elections, against the criminal, pro-Russian groups who were involved in the destruction of democracy there. All of Europe is Moldovan and proud of you, but we must be aware that Putin's information war concerns both Moldova and Georgia, as well as the Baltic states and Poland, as well as entire Western societies. Putin's information war continues, and anyone who stands on Putin's side, such politicians as Orban, Fico, and other Putin collaborators, are the people who weaken Europe and stand on the side of the Russian regime. There will be no Russians in Europe.

Mr President, thank you very much. Ladies and Gentlemen, I am speaking to you as a victim of Pegasus in 2019, when I took part in the elections to the European Parliament and to the Polish Parliament. I've been attacked by these people for six months. By this man who also spoke today, that is, by Polish populists. For six months, ninety thousand messages were stolen from me, falsified, and published on their government-run, populist television in adulterated form. I won five trials in this case, but this is proof of how Pegasus can be used to eavesdrop, to destroy people, to destroy an individual. They even sent us false electoral analyses as a Civic Coalition. Pegasus was used for this. Ladies and Gentlemen, it is not easy for me to talk about this when a man who was in prison in Poland for organizing an illegal operation against his colleague spoke before me. This man, Maciej Wąsik, was in prison. He was convicted, he's a criminal for an illegal operation. He's only here because his populist party colleague, who's the president, pardoned him. This tool was also used by populists in Poland to destroy independent judges, lawyers, politicians, to organize provocations, to eavesdrop on the opposition headquarters, to influence the election results. What they did in Poland cannot be repeated in any European country. And today we know that in Poland their television is publishing Pegasus footage against former President of the European Council Donald Tusk. These are populist methods. We have to be against it.

Madam President, I'm sorry. Ladies and Gentlemen, The truth is that democratic forces have won in Moldova. The truth is that they deserve the most admiration and respect. And the truth is that the people of Moldova resisted Russian hybrid attacks. But the truth is bigger. The truth, dear patriots of Putin, is that there is a civil war going on. There is a war going on with Russopopulists, Russoconservatives, Putin's patriots who want to destroy European civilization. This is not just Moldova's problem. This is the problem of a war of values between people who want to destroy the European Union and those who want to protect the values of the Union that put man, the individual, dignity and respect for man first. And just as in the late 1940s the empire of the East, which wanted to impose eurazianism on Western Europe, bet on communist parties, the French communist party, the Italian communist party, so today they bet on people like you. Shame on you for being on Moscow's side.

Mr President, thank you very much. Ladies and Gentlemen, Today we are talking about the rule of law. The rule of law is not an abstract slogan, as we have heard today. The rule of law is the standard of treatment of human beings by the countries of the European Union. The rule of law is very practical. The question is whether the state is to treat man as a citizen, as an individual, or whether it is to model man on the model of homo sovieticus, depriving him of the right to free media, the right to free courts, depriving him of dignity, indoctrinating him. And I am glad, as a Pole, that the European Commission has noted such a big, huge improvement in the state of the rule of law in Poland. The independence of the prosecutor's office and courts has been restored. The independence of the media is strengthened. Today, Poland is on the path of Western civilization. Because on October 15, Poles united in a record-breaking turnout and, as in 1989, they won full democracy back. And the new government, led by Donald Tusk, is rebuilding the rule of law thanks to record turnout. But this is also an example of how this road to populism leads to the East in fact. Through populism, states are modeled on the Eastern model and sooner or later fall into Putin's orbit. Today we have heard this in this House in the debate on Hungary. And Poland has a great tradition of fighting authoritarian power. It is a tradition of solidarity. And Poles led by Donald Tusk proved it on October 15, because Poles love freedom.

Mr President, thank you very much. Ladies and Gentlemen, In the face of the upcoming presidential elections and the European referendum in Moldova, we must tell ourselves directly that the process of integration with the European Union is a strategic process for the security of Moldova and this region of Europe. But what are we talking about? We are talking about the choice between good and evil, between Western values such as democracy, the rule of law, free media, free courts, and the evil that is now pouring into Moldova in the form of all those hybrid actions typical of Putin's post-Soviet empire: lies, manipulation, espionage, influencing other states to influence elections. It is a choice between good and evil. It is a choice as to how an individual is to be treated. Is the individual to be respected, is man to be treated with dignity, or is man to be treated as Putin's Russia treats Ukrainians today? He's destroying them today. Moldova we are with you, we support you, we stand by your side. The door to the Western community, to the free world, is open to you. Take this road. We will support you.