Michael Espendiller, January 31, 2024, Foreign Office

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/150, pp. 19170-19171. Right honorable Frau President. Right honorable colleagues. Dear spectators in the hall and on YouTube. And, of course, dear Frau Baerbock. One of my favorite headlines of last week was: “Russian Campaign Uncovered”. The Foreign Office shall have undertaken a data analysis which of course is totally trustworthy, yet …

Michael Espendiller, November 23, 2022, Foreign Minister Baerbock

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/69, pp. 8058-8059. Right honorable Herr President. Right honorable colleagues. Dear spectators in the hall and on YouTube. For 2023, the Foreign Office may rejoice over 7.5 billion euros for expenditures. The Ampel is thus really busting out and others here in the hall applaud. Only we say: It is too much, …

Michael Espendiller, June 1, 2022, Foreign Office

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/40, p. 3952. Right honorable Frau President. Right honorable colleagues. Dear spectators in the hall and on YouTube. On the pediment of this building in which we find ourselves is written: „Dem deutschen Volke“ [To the German People]. It thus must be self-evident that German foreign policy is to be aligned with …

Michael Espendiller, April 27, 2022, Defense Procurement

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/30, pp. 2675-2676. Right honorable Frau President. Right honorable colleagues. Dear spectators in the hall and on YouTube. I have recently read a very pertinent brief analysis of our country. It therein says: Germany outsourced the protection of its security interests to NATO, its production to China and its energy generation to …

Michael Espendiller, March 23, 2022, Defense Policy and the F-35

German Bundestag, March 23, 2022, Plenarprotokoll 20/24, pp. 1991-1992. Right honorable Frau President. Right honorable colleagues. Dear viewers in the hall and on YouTube. The art of government is based on foresight [Vorausschau] and precisely this capability, the capability of foresight, has been lacking in the German defense policy for at least three decades. Now …

Michael Espendiller, June 11, 2021, Research in Germany

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 19/234, pp. 30277-30278. Right honorable Frau President. Right honorable colleagues. Dear spectators in the hall and on YouTube. Distinction and distress [Glanz und Elend] are nowhere so near one another as in the German research policy; for despite all the warning cries, one thing is ever still the case: We have in …

Michael Espendiller, April 22, 2021, Digital Vaccination Pass

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 19/224, pp. 28422-28424. Right honorable Herr President. Dear spectators in the hall and at YouTube. Basically, Herr Sorge, it is quite simple: Point one: No one should be compelled, directly or indirectly, to vaccinate against the Corona virus. Point two: No one should be compelled, as a condition for the exercise of …

Michael Espendiller, October 1, 2020, 2021 Budget – Research

German Bundestag, October 1, 2020, Plenarprotokoll 19/180, pp. 22745-22746. Right honorable Frau President. Right honorable colleagues. Dear spectators in the hall and on YouTube. Today concerns the estimate [Etat] of the Federal Ministry for Education and Research for fiscal year 2021. It is the same for this estimate as for the entire budget: Where is …

Michael Espendiller, July 2, 2020, Digitalization Education

Michael Espendiller Digitalization Education German Bundestag, July 2, 2020, Plenarprotokoll 19/170, pp. 21257-21258 [Michael Espendiller is an Alternative für Deutschland Bundestag member from the western German state of Nordrhein-Westfalen. He is a mathematician.] The magenta socialists of the FDP have again carved out a motion on the cutting edge [hippen] theme of “Digitalization in Education”. …