Debate contributions by Anja ARNDT

Mr President! Yes, we had a heat record in 2024. The global average temperature was 1.6 degrees above pre-industrial levels. Well, what? A warmer climate has always been a blessing for humans. Only technical inventions make it possible for us to survive in colder regions. Cold is the killer for people, not the heat that is at stake today. Due to the current severe cold, the German authorities have issued warnings. Citizens should be prepared for a persistent cold, which keeps emergency services on high alert. The frost leads to a significant increase in gas and electricity consumption. In 2023, 5.5 million people lived in Germany, who considered that they could not keep their house and apartment adequately warm due to financial reasons. In Germany, power outages are also to be expected – a cruel fiasco. In earlier times, there were significant climate fluctuations even without human carbon dioxide emissions. In the medieval warm period, it was about as warm in Europe as it is today. The warming in the last 20 years has to do with the fact that the sun shines longer. Sunshine hours in Europe alone have increased by 250 hours a year. Since 2020, the International Maritime Organization has banned the use of high-sulfur fuels for ships. NASA scientists found that cloud formation decreased as a result, and warming since 2020 has been about 80 percent due to this measure. This is all part of the climate debate. But these findings are being suppressed because governments are turning their attention to CO2 emissions.2enrich taxes, emission allowances and other things. This money is withdrawn from the citizens and diverted through subsidies from wind turbines, solar systems, heat pumps and partly dubious climate projects. There is a lot to uncover here. Germany needs the AfD...

Mr President! If you want to completely change a house, you tear down the old one and build a whole new one. The House of Europe has been deliberately demolished for years. The Green Deal is the demolition ball. The peoples of the European Union are at the mercy of this destruction without protection. We must finally grasp the agenda behind it and immediately end this generally dangerous policy based on scientific lies. Why does this happen? Who and what is behind it? What should be rebuilt here in Europe after the demolition of the economy and agriculture? The European Commission continues to justify its climate policy with scientific errors that have long been refuted. This is a scandal, dear citizens. They are first made poor for this agenda and then expropriated. The claim that humans are to blame for climate change is false. Your green deal, Ursula von der Leyen, doesn't just belong in the trash can. It's time for a new committee of inquiry. Germany needs the AfD, and the European Union needs the ESN.

Mr President! A French short story about a simple shepherd in Provence. At the beginning of the 20th century, in a completely desolate region, he decided to plant 100 oak trees every day. Over many years, it plants not only oaks, but also other trees, and over time, a lush forest grows. The trees hold the groundwater, and the land becomes fertile again. People are returning, the villages are flourishing, and the region is coming back to life. Climate policy, on the other hand, destroys our competitiveness, corrupts our landscape with wind turbines and solar parks. Our citizens, businesses and farmers are financially ruined by climate taxes, overwhelmed by conditions and regulations, and made ill by scaremongering – even our children. This must be stopped immediately! Planting trees is the scientifically proven, simplest, most natural, most humane and most effective environmental protection. Germany needs the AfD, and the European Union needs the ESN.

Mr President! Today we are talking about the organised destruction of our economic livelihoods – we are finally sounding the alarm. Even Draghi warned about mass poverty in the EU two weeks ago. Yes, against mass poverty due to regulatory madness here in the European Union. In the last five years alone, 13 000 legal acts have been adopted here, many of which can only be implemented with the greatest effort. A single example: The Coffee Association in Germany has calculated that 160,000 hours are needed for the manual input of data relating to the new Deforestation Ordinance on the PC alone – only for typing. Everything has to be put to the test here, we can't continue like this. The goal of sustainable development based on a competitive market economy was completely missed. Germany needs the AfD, and the European Union needs the ESN.

Madam President, In Europe, anti-Christian hate crimes are on the rise on a frightening scale. Who are the perpetrators? The OSCE reports that the majority of these cases originate from far-left political groups such as Antifa, radical feminists and LGBTIQ groups. And this is shameful and indicative of the loss of democracy in Europe and the increasing intolerance in the left-wing political spectrum. An example shows what it's all about: Ben Dybowski said in a mandatory diversity training that he believes in traditional marriage, that life begins with conception, and that he opposes stoning homosexual men under Sharia law. The next day, he was fired for hate speech. We from the AfD and the ESN call on the Commission to fully restore and protect the right to the free expression of fundamental Christian positions. Germany needs the AfD and Europe needs the ESN.

Madam President, Commissioner! What we are witnessing here in the European Union is an unprecedented battle against the car. Or is it a struggle for the 15 minute cities and against the freedom of movement of our citizens? So far, the fight against the car has been hidden behind opaque CO2limit values. These have been established by the European Union since 2010. Currently, a limit value of 95 grams of CO applies.2 per kilometre for newly registered cars. For each additional gram in the fleet average, the car manufacturer must pay a fine of 95 euros per new car directly to Brussels. In order to reduce fleet averages, many electric cars have to be sold, which are arbitrarily sold by the European Union at zero grams of CO.2emissions have been determined. Now, however, sales of electric cars have slumped brutally. The fines are in the billions. In the year 2035 comes the death blow of the combustion car, because then a value of zero grams of CO2emissions per kilometre. Who hasn't paid attention in this house? This must be reversed immediately. We at the AfD voted against this regulation from the outset. Germany needs the AfD, and Europe needs the ESN.

Mr President! Our economy in the European Union is on fire. In Germany, agriculture and the automotive industry are being buried. Competitiveness is still being destroyed for an absurd climate rescue policy based on false climate models. The European Union is just getting rid of itself. This is why the European Council must now address this issue this month. The real causes are the Green Deal and climate laws. This is where the solution is obvious. These must be terminated immediately! You're wrong. We at ESN call for a return to evidence-based real environmental protection. By the way: The AfD had voted against the climate laws from the outset, and now it is clear how right we were. Germany needs the AfD, and the European Union needs the ESN!

Mr President! Today we are talking about a serious topic, namely droughts and extreme weather events. The current flood reminds us of the catastrophe in Germany three years ago in the Ahr Valley. 135 people were killed, and they could still be alive. The European Flood Warning Authority (EFAS) had already sent a serious warning to Germany days earlier; No authority took them seriously, the population was not warned. Another policy failure is that the Ahr valley was densely populated near the river, where there had already been a similar flood in 1804 and 1910. In addition to the terrible experiences, billions of dollars of damage are done to local communities every time. Weather and political failure are the cause here, not climate change. My ESN group strongly refuses to speak of a global increase in extreme weather events caused by climate change. We also refuse to constantly scare and scare the entire world's population. Now it gets really interesting: In the IPCC's current assessment report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) states in its twelfth chapter on page 1856 that there is no increase in floods, heavy rains and droughts worldwide due to the data available so far. And this report also shows that no increase is to be expected even by the end of this century. How does all this fit together? What has actually increased are baseless claims by politicians falsely linking global warming to extreme weather events. The climate has always changed. The hope for a perfect, stable climate is just as pointless as the idea that the weather can be the same every day. Climate change cannot be controlled by humans, let alone global temperature. Even if we do not have any CO2 emissions in the EU from 2050 onwards2If we were to emit more emissions, that would not change anything at all about the climate and weather events. But climate laws are ruining our economy and destroying the livelihoods of millions of families. Anything to change the climate? Or is it about power and profit interests? That is the crucial question here.