Janusz Korwin-Mikke

He believes that women are, on average, less intelligent than men, citing chess results to back up his claims.[12][13] Also, he cites Margaret Thatcher as his political model.[14][15][16] He also stated that the difference between rape and consensual sex is very subtle,[17] even going as far as saying that "Were you to understand woman's nature, sir, you would know that there is an element of rape in every sexual intercourse".[18] He further claimed that: "there is a hypothesis that the attitudes of men are passed to women they sleep with".[19]

On 1 March 2017, Korwin-Mikke sparked controversy by stating that women were paid less than their male counterparts on average due to them being "smaller, weaker and less intelligent", during a debate in the EP regarding the gender pay gap.[20][21] Two days later, Korwin-Mikke would make further comments stating that there was a stereotype that "women have the same intellectual potential as men” and it “must be destroyed because it is not true.”[22] Later he was suspended for 10 days from the plenary sessions of the EP.[23]

In 2014, Korwin-Mikke was fined by President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz for 'expressing himself in a racist manner'.[24] The decision was taken after Korwin-Mikke's speech about EU employment policy on the plenary session on 16 July, during which he said: 'we have 20 million Europeans who are now negroes of Europe'.[25][26] According to him the word 'negroes' was not meant as an offence, but rather referred to the song by John Lennon and Yoko Ono 'Woman is the Nigger of the world'.[27]

During the 2012 Summer Paralympics, Korwin-Mikke wrote that the general public should "not see the disabled on television".[28] On the other hand, in 2007 he set up the "Individual Development Foundation" which helps disabled people develop their skills in chess.[29][30]

Korwin-Mikke has a history of anti-semitic stunts and statements.[31] He promoted a conspiracy theory on Jews in conjunction with reporting on the residents of Pruchnik beating up the effigy of an Orthodox Jew.[31] In 2020 he stated that anti-Jewish pogroms made Jews powerful via natural selection and that rabbis may have engineered this.[31][32] Korwin-Mikke denies being an anti-Semite.[13][33]

Other provocative statements include his claim that there is no written proof that Adolf Hitler was aware of the Holocaust.[17] On 15 April 2015 the Polish news outlet Wiadomości quoted Korwin-Mikke that the snipers that shot civilians and police officers during the Maidan protests were trained in Poland and that they acted on behalf of the CIA to provoke riots.[34]

He proposed that the European Commission's Berlaymont building would be better used as a brothel.[9][35] In July 2015, Korwin-Mikke was suspended from the EP after giving a Nazi salute and saying "ein Reich, ein Volk, ein ticket" during a speech to protest against a uniform EU transport ticket.[36]

In regard to welfare, he claimed that "if someone gives money to an unemployed person, he should have his hand cut off because he is destroying the morale of the people".[19]

On 8 September 2015, Korwin-Mikke was giving a speech in EP about the European migrant crisis, during which he described immigrants unwilling to work and only interested in welfare as "human garbage".[37] His opinion met with critical reaction of other MEPs. As a result of this, Korwin-Mikke was once more suspended from the EP for 10 days and fined €3062.[38][39]