Debate contributions by Irmhild BOẞDORF

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.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Today is another day set by the United Nations, the International Day against Violence against Women. These days of remembrance are indeed suitable to be honest at least once a year, to address things once a year that we do not want to experience in Europe. And so today would be appropriate to name the true causes and the terrible effects of violence against women. And then – this would be the logical consequence – to say clearly and unequivocally why violence against women has not diminished but increased in Europe in recent years. In Germany alone, 360 women were victims of femicide last year – that is, killed because they are a woman. In addition, there are nearly 600 attempted killings. Every day, the Federal Criminal Police Office counts 25 sex crimes committed against women by refugees and those seeking protection. Compared to the previous year, this is an increase of almost 27%. And so it is not surprising that now more than half of all women in Germany say that they no longer dare to take to the streets alone in the evening hours. But not only the public, but also the domestic violence is exploding. More than 180,000 cases were reported last year in Germany alone, with an increasing trend. About a third of the suspects in connection with this domestic violence do not have a German passport. The women's shelters in Germany are overcrowded and more than 13,000 places are missing. More than two-thirds of women seeking shelter in women's shelters have a migrant background. But what happens in Germany on the day of violence against women? A demonstration against violence against FLINTA, women, lesbians, intersexuals, non-binaries, transsexuals and agents will be held in Düsseldorf – for all those who would like to be a woman but are not always one. Let us finally name the real causes, the real perpetrators, and demand remigration, millions of remigration.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen! We mourn with the bereaved of the dead of the storm disaster of Spain. More than 220 people have died in the devastating floods. But we are also angry – angry because we have seen again in Spain that the population has not been warned in time of a massive storm. How can it be that already at half past eight in the morning the national weather authority declares red alert and then nothing happens? Only after another ten hours came the request of the civil protection authority in Valencia not to leave the house under any circumstances. For more than 220 people, this call came too late. We experienced the same thing in Germany three years ago: Despite a strong warning from the weather authorities, the civil protection authorities reacted far too late. Nearly 200 people died at the time. The consequences can still be felt and seen in the Ahr Valley today. Our national governments must finally take the protection of the civilian population seriously. We need a quick and, above all, unbureaucratic mobilization for such emergencies. This is the only way to protect our people in the long run.

Mr President! Today we are talking about taxing billionaires even higher. I think this is a very daring project. So-called rich people in Germany are already paying taxes of 45 percent, and the government has announced that it will increase the tax rate even further next year. But what would I think of instead? Instead of continuing to work on the tax screw, we should finally start to continue taxing companies in Europe. Google, Amazon, Microsoft use tax havens. These companies make billions in profits every year and are not taxed in Europe. Let's finally close these tax havens. Let's make taxes fairer. And if that's not enough, there's a second way: Let us finally fight corruption, which also prevails here in the EU.

Mr President! It is good that the European Parliament has decided to adopt far-reaching rules to protect women from violence. Forced marriages and genital mutilation are to be punished as crimes in the future. FEMM said that Europe should become the first continent to end violence against women. Unfortunately, we are far from that. Every year, more than 3,000 women are killed in Europe, and hundreds of thousands are victims of public or domestic violence. In Germany alone, the number of crimes against sexual self-determination has tripled since 2013. More than 100 gang rapes took place last year in Berlin alone. We must finally have the courage to clearly state why these crimes have increased so much in recent years. We have been experiencing uncontrolled mass immigration since 2015. The vast majority are young Muslim men. We would have to be blind if we did not associate this Islamic mass immigration with the rising violence against women. Let's call the child by name. This is the first step towards making women feel safe again in Europe.

Madam President, Ladies and gentlemen, even if there aren't many left! Representatives of the G20 countries met in Rio de Janeiro to discuss hunger and inequality. An impressive backdrop was the port of Galpão da Cidadania, where the African slave trade was once conducted. It is dramatic that, to date, inequality and poverty have not been effectively tackled. To date, more than 750 million people are suffering from hunger, 150 million of whom are children. But let's look at Europe. We are witnessing that in the EU, through a failed policy, exactly the things are happening that we want to fight in other parts of the world. Pollutant emissions in the rest of the world are rising, partly because we are relocating our production abroad. We produce less food; At the same time, the prices for these products go through the roof. Poverty in Europe is on the rise: 8% of EU citizens are considered poor and one in five are at risk of poverty. Child poverty is particularly alarming, with one in four children being poor. So before we talk about fighting inequality all over the world, let us fight for the fight against inequality in our European countries!