Debate contributions by Irmhild BOẞDORF

Madam President, The Left is lying to us. When we talk about violence against women, they say: Men are the problem. If we clearly name groups of perpetrators, they insult us as right-wing extremists. And if we want to make a hearing on the really important issue of violence against women in the Women's Committee, we will be presented with marginal data and figures on cyberbullying. Let's be honest: Violence against women has exploded for years. Over 135,000 crimes against women were committed in Germany last year alone. More than 300 women have been victims of murder and manslaughter. The curve in violent crime knows only one direction: steeply up. A second curve points in the same direction: the legal and illegal mass immigration to Western Europe. Men from archaic cultures, who have a significantly different image of women than Europeans, ensure that women are displaced from the public sphere. Not even half of all women dare to take to the streets in the evening, and far more than 80% have adapted their behaviour in public spaces. If we want to stop the violence against women, then we must first stop the uncontrolled mass immigration to Europe. And if I'm here today... (The President withdrew the floor from the speaker.)

Madam President, honourable Members! It is unbelievable with what arrogance women who are pregnant or have just given birth are incapacitated by this application. They should be able to withdraw from their free mandate. This has nothing to do with achieving gender equality, involving mothers in politics or even institutional fairness. Pregnancy is not a disease. Pregnant women, including MEPs, are well able to exercise their democratic rights until the day of delivery and beyond. And when and where they want to resume their work is entirely their decision. They do not need a ward to take over their voting rights for a certain period of time. As a mother of many children, I can only certify: What you want to resell here as an alleged gender equality is in reality a disenfranchisement of the free mandate of female MPs. You should be ashamed to make such a request.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen! More than 30% of all cohesion funding from 2021 to 2027 will be spent on gender equality, a total of €110 billion, but what will such a strategy bring? To date, the EU Commissioner for Gender Equality has not even been able to define what a woman is. Your answer: Europe is diverse. So the question arises as to who or what is actually to be supported with these billions of euros. If we want to talk about a gender equality strategy, we need to be honest. Non-women, non-transgender persons, lesbians or non-binaries are left behind, and a single group – mothers – is left behind. All those who take responsibility for future life, who do care work, who forgo careers for their family. Let's finally call it Gender Equality Strategy in Parent-equality strategy Um. Let's finally stop using the watering can principle to distribute money wherever someone feels like a female. Let's finally support those who really need support – mothers and fathers.

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen. Our cityscape has changed drastically. In Offenbach am Main, more than 66 percent have a migration background, in Heilbronn 58 percent, Hanover and Nuremberg only come to just over 50 percent. Chancellor Friedrich Merz simply said what each of us can see on a daily basis. He rightly notes that you only need to ask the daughters what he means by that. 82 percent of women in Germany have adapted their behaviour in public spaces. Fifty-five percent have been buried or kissed against their will. More than half of all women in Germany no longer dare to take to the streets alone in the evening. And it is of no use if 2 000 ‘daughters against the right’ declare that they are taking to the streets and do not understand what the chancellor might mean. Violence against women is increasing dramatically, not by old white men, but by young, not white men. In the group rapes in NRW, half of the perpetrators were migrants, half of the German perpetrators had a foreign first name. In 2025, there were 130,000 crimes against women in Germany alone. If we are serious about our fight against violence against women, then we must have the courage to call the child by its name. Only then can we protect our daughters and mothers. Our women have a right to feel safe and comfortable in Europe.

Mr President! Man and woman - there is nothing more. There are only these two genders. No parliament, no court or EU Commission will change that. This decision, which Slovakia made three weeks ago, seems courageous to us. Above all, it is one thing: normal. Slovakia has sent a clear signal: National sovereignty is above ideological experimentation. Family, culture and identity are the responsibility of the peoples and not the hands of EU bureaucrats. It is precisely for this reason that we will reject the Socialists' motion for a resolution, because this motion stands for ideologisation, for the dissolution of natural and social foundations, for the patronage of Brussels. We have drafted our own resolution, in which we clearly support Slovakia's line. All men, male or female, are equal before the law and equal in value. Let's finally fight for real gender equality!

Mr President! The heat summer has gone down this year. A rainy July was followed by a sunny August and a few late summer days. It is therefore all the more surprising when we talk about housing and health policy today in order to counter the heat summer. Berlin had really prepared itself: 200 cold islands for 20 000 euros each with water point, chair and sun sail were built. Planting with trees would not only have been cheaper, but also more sustainable. The housing crisis, on the other hand, is self-made. Anyone who allows unhindered immigration of non-cultural people creates this crisis himself. Nevertheless, there was a horror summer, which climate experts had also predicted. The bloody balance of left-woker ideology this late summer: Liana, 16, was pushed in front of a train in Friedland, policeman Simon, 34, executed with seven shots by a migrant, Iryna, 23, slaughtered in the train by a black man. And anyone who talks about it will be silenced. Yesterday it hit the fighter for the free word Charlie Kirk. Let us fight together for a Europe where people can feel safe again and the word is free!

Madam President, Climate justice, beautiful housing, thriving landscapes – what else is cohesion funding going to pay for? Let's be honest: A large part of the problems that we now have to solve arduously, we have caused ourselves. No one is forcing us to achieve climate neutrality by 2050; This goal has been set apart from reality. relocation of production, carbon leakage, investment outflows are a first consequence; Hundreds of thousands of jobs are lost. The de-industrialization of the continent has already begun. The housing crisis is also homemade. Anyone who lets millions of immigrants, asylum seekers and foreigners into the continent should not be surprised that housing is no longer sufficient. Cohesion funds are not designed to cure bad policies; Make rural areas worth living again. The simple and straightforward allocation of cohesion funds is the only sensible proposal made here today.

Mr President! According to Ursula von der Leyen, almost 800 billion euros are to be spent on the EU's ability to fight in war. Anyone who has followed her speech during her visit to Bulgaria last week wonders with what tenacity and speed the rearmament is to be launched. The Bulgarian arms industry is not only a reason for Bulgarian national pride, but also for European pride. Almost 60 of the 800 billion announced will come from cohesion funds. Instead of kindergartens, armament factories are built in rural areas; the village rehabilitation must give way to the drone test; At best, there will be infrastructure to transport the tanks still to be built to future war zones. We are preparing here for a war that only the EU wants, no one else. A real strategic challenge would be to strengthen the regions and thus make Europe a sustainable and livable continent again.

Thank you for the question. Why am I not surprised to be asked this question? I would like to make a clear distinction between immigration to a new country and a minority that has actually lived in an area for centuries. That's a big difference. You know that too, and I don't think I need to explain it to you. Immigration is different from a national minority.

Madam President, Poppy cake, tolerance, snowflake: We associate all these terms with Silesia, an ancient cultural landscape. In the Polish voivodships of Opole and Silesia, there are well over 600,000 Silesians – 200,000 of whom have indicated that they speak mostly German in everyday life. And yet the protection of the homeland is not progressing so well. Bilingual place signs are not or only after a long waiting period, the German lessons at the schools are treated stepmotherly. But this is where cohesion funding can help. They should be used to ensure that the expansion of German teaching finally progresses and that the village school infrastructure is secured. They must be used so that Europe's cultural wealth is no longer lost. They are to be used so that the handling of the veils in Poland can become a model for the whole of Europe. We therefore fully support the European Citizens' Initiative.

Madam President, Do you want to make Hungary a place you would like to return to? This is what exile Hungarians of the so-called Free University of Budapest ask for, who wish for a left-woke country and have therefore fled to the completely run-down Berlin. Together with leftists from ‘Aktivistenbus’, they drove from Germany to this year’s Pride Parade in Hungary’s capital. Even the dedicated EU Commissioner for Climate and Gender Equality, Ms Hadja Lahbib, is said to have been spotted there, along with 70 left-wing and green MEPs. Was that good? In any case, it was an interference in internal Hungarian affairs. Participation in the Pride Parade will not be punished by Orbán. Orbán had previously stated that the protection of children is higher than the protection of alleged sexual minorities. But there is one thing we should always keep in mind: If you like dragqueens and table dance for children, you will feel at home in Germany. Many Germans don't do that anymore. They flee to Hungary and turn their backs on their homeland forever.

Mr President! Almost 200,000 people with disabilities live in homes in Germany alone, more than 200,000 children do not live with their parents, over 800,000 people in need of care in institutions. The trend is increasing in all areas. This extra-domestic care already costs well over €70 billion per year in Germany. The European Commission therefore rightly wants to remedy this situation. Inclusion should be promoted by a care in the institution. It means a return to family. Sounds good, but it's not that easy. Germany has been doing everything in its power to destroy functioning family structures for decades. Every second marriage is divorced, children barely born. Financial or even ideal support for families? Misrepresentation. We finally need a policy for families that deserves this name – a policy that focuses not on self-proclaimed minority groups, but on those who really need help. We need to support families so that we can live in this inclusion again, so that we can finally take care of our children and grandparents ourselves again.

Madam President, The shop around the corner, good childcare, dwarf schools, spacious living space and employment opportunities within easy reach: This is what families in Europe need and want. In Germany, we have been experiencing a new desire for the countryside since 2017. More and more families are moving to small towns and villages. But rural areas must be developed accordingly in order for them to have a future. 270 billion euros will flow into our rural regions over the next four years. These funds will no longer be used, as in the last legislature, for the fight against the right. These funds are finally being spent on good living conditions. With these funds, we will be able to ensure that it is not only the much conjured up right to stay, but above all the Possibility to stay There is. This gives young families the opportunity to live a good life. Then a new home emerges from Landlust.

Madam President, Baby Sara can't help it: Who gave birth to them is not known. Who are your biological parents, only partially? The only thing that is certain is that two women who have married each other in a Western EU country want to enforce gay marriage in Eastern Europe as well. Bulgaria, the country of origin of one of the two women, does not yet allow such a same-sex marriage. Whether the mother of baby Sara is Bulgarian is unknown. Nevertheless, Sara was granted citizenship there after a ruling by the European Court of Justice. Ursula von der Leyen is pleased. She claims: If you are a parent in one country, you have to be a parent in any other country, only then can the LGBTQ agenda be enforced. Quote: Ursula von der Leyen. Today's debate is by no means about strengthening parenthood across borders, but only about ideology-driven gender mainstreaming: Anyone can declare themselves parents anywhere and at any time. Let us not allow this encroachment on the EU, let us strengthen our families, let us protect our children!

Mr President! Reem Alsalem is not allowed to participate today. The UN Special Envoy for Violence against Women and Girls was invited by our FEMM Committee to attend today's major conference in New York. What is their offense? Years ago, she was so bold to ask what it looks like with a gender-responsive interpretation of Sharia law. But it got worse. After the introduction of the self-determination law in Germany, she addressed Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock in a letter. It marked the potential abuse and erosion of the legally possible gender change in Germany as misogynistic – the receipt now followed. The oh so tolerant comrades-in-arms in the FEMM Committee requested their invitation to tender, which then also took place promptly. So our self-proclaimed female champions are serious about political participation and the same representation of women. Not even in their own female ranks are other opinions tolerated. Reem Alsalem – remember the name of the real fighter for women’s rights!

Mr President! Dreamy beaches, tropical climate, volcanic landscapes, lively music, Creole dances, delicious food – who doesn’t want to go on holiday to the Vanilla Islands? One of them is the island of Reunion. It is located in the Indian Ocean and is a French enclave. A holiday there is breathtaking – the island advertises on its website. But – this is also reported there – the island is characterised by cyclones. These are fascinating and feared, but also not infrequently, and therefore the rules of conduct for the occurrence of cyclones are graduated into five escalation stages – from yellow to blue – supplied immediately on this page. Just one such cyclone searched the island last week. Wind speeds of over 200 kilometers per hour caused floods, power and water outages, and in fact, unfortunately, five deaths are to be lamented. But what does the EU make of it? Instead of helping unbureaucratically, as France immediately did, the EU is hurrying to establish a link between this weather event and man-made climate change. Instead of simply accepting that cyclones have always shaped the island, we hear the eternally same lyre of man-made climate change. The climate is always changing. None of us can say exactly or even calculate how great our influence is on it. None of us can answer the question whether our measures to supposedly protect our environment, our weather, our homeland do not even harm. In any case, we will be harmed if we allow democratically elected prime ministers such as Călin Georgescu in Romania not to take office and even to be excluded from re-election. There is a storm coming up in Europe, and this is the storm that Europe must fear, because it can very quickly develop into a cyclone, the consequences of which are likely to be dramatic.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen! It is good and right that the European Commission, with the RESTORE programme, will be able to provide faster and less bureaucratic assistance in the event of natural disasters in the future. We have seen devastating flooding across Europe in recent years. Hundreds of people drowned in these floods. In this case, this has not always been the direct result of the changing climate, but of the failure of the authorities: The population has not been protected, although there have been sufficient warnings from the weather authorities. RESTORE funds must also be used to bring the people of Europe to safety in such extreme weather. This was missed in both the Ahr Valley and Valencia. The Hurricane On the French island of Mayotte, countless people have died. Only after the debris has been cleared away will their number be known. Here, too, we demand quick, unbureaucratic help. But on the positive side: The extensive resources of the RESTORE programme can be used in the future to restore Europe's biodiversity, which is no longer found in some regions. The funds can ensure that conservative economic principles regain their weight. Sustainability, resilience, domestic agriculture - all this has been lost in recent years. In rural areas, we can succeed in revitalising municipalities and small towns, but also in rural agriculture – and become the job engine here. This would allow us to slow down the ongoing rural exodus and finally make rural areas home again.

The fact that the state intervenes where children are abused and where children are neglected by their own parents is perfectly correct. But when we see the numbers – from Norway, or I just mentioned the example of the Netherlands, where 2,000 children were taken out of the families because the parents allegedly wrongly received a child supplement, and the government backtracked and said: We were wrong, but you were right to receive the child allowance, which was a supplement to the child allowance. These children did not return to their families. These were mostly families who lived in cramped housing conditions and where it was simply said: Well, the kids are gone now. They've been out of the family for three or four years now, and they're not coming back to the family. This is the injustice that has happened to the children.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen! Anchoring special children's rights is always a dangerous thing. The State shall have powers which are the primary parental right; And if he doesn't get them voluntarily, he just takes them. We have seen many examples of this in recent years. In the Netherlands, almost 2,000 children have been taken from families as part of the so-called child surcharge affair. Their whereabouts remain unexplained to this day. Even if the parents were subsequently informed that the whole state concerted action had been wrongly carried out, the children have not seen their parents again to this day. Let's look at Norway. The state authorities have now taken more than 7 percent of all children from families, in more than 70 percent of all cases without the consent of their parents. Here – in Norway – it may be sufficient that the children were raised in traditional gender roles or, for example, do not have their own children’s room. In Germany, too, more than 65,000 children do not live with their parents, and the trend is increasing. The self-determination law, which came into force in Germany on 1 November, and the heated discussion about children's rights in the Basic Law will only exacerbate this situation. Each of us wants children to be able to grow up protected and protected. And only where this is not the case can the state intervene. In all other cases: Hands off our kids! Raising children is a parent's first concern. Let us strengthen our families, let us create the material and ideal conditions so that children can stay with their parents, and let us defend ourselves against the encroachment of the state, which has lost nothing, but also nothing, in the education of our children.