What Pascal spoke about.

If I believe the tone of your question, I think my opinion is the same as yours, i.e. it is absolutely outrageous. That is why I do not want to target a particular institution: I think that we need to get out of the "between ourselves", and we need to stop making sure that, in a kind of jar with friends, ultimately, we judge the importance of conflicts of interest or not. There must now be indepen

Madam President, Commissioner, if I may, I would like to start by quoting a thinker, now a century old, who has seen a lot happen in a century. This is Edgar Morin. And this one said, I want to read it so as not to be mistaken: “By sacrificing the essential for the urgency, we ended up forgetting the urgency of the essential”. And the most important thing, Commissioner, as you said, is the trust t

Mr President, you said earlier – and I thank you very much for that – that the principle of the veto is contrary to democratic principles. You were right to point that out, because the principle of the veto comes from a long way in our history. It was often in the hands of monarchs, who tried to oppose the power of parliaments and the expression of the general will. I would simply like to turn to

Madam President, I was rethinking when I listened to the fact that it was not necessary to declare too much, etc. I was thinking of a phrase from the Nobel Prize for Literature, Albert Camus, which said that ‘misnaming an object is adding to the misfortune of this world’. I believe that the text that you have proposed to us, the text that we are voting on today, the text that the Council has appro

Madam President, first of all, I would like to start – because we often keep it for the end, and then forget, we are taken by the time – by thanking all those who have worked on this file, with a specific word for the assistants who have worked in absolutely incredible emergency conditions, and also by thanking all the shadow rapporteurs and shadow rapporteurs whom I see present tonight in the roo

Mr President, Madam Vice-President, thank you for your words. My dear Guy, you said earlier that Europe is not ready to face the world of tomorrow. I am sorry, but I think it can be said that she is already not ready to face the world of today. I imagine – and we should all imagine – what would be the situation within Europe itself and in Ukraine if Donald Trump had been re-elected in the US. If,

– Mr President, thank you for your reminder on the Conference on the Future of Europe. First of all, I am very happy to speak after my friend Paulo Rangel, because it is always very clear and we have principles that we are reminded of. I am then happy to speak before you, Commissioner. You know how much we share a number of values: I know that the terms democracy and transparency are two words tha

Madam President, we have the right from time to time to be happy, we have the right in this Chamber to rejoice at some of the opportunities available to us. A year ago, when we opened the conference, we didn't really know what was going to happen. Let's be honest. It was something new, it was a new democratic process. The Commission said it would try to be a facilitator. The Council was already on

So, if I understand correctly, the question is: Why is there no European citizenship in addition to national situations? That is to say, why would we not have a European passport in addition to identity cards? Why should we not have Texan and Californian citizens who are at the same time US citizens? Well, I share your proposal 100%. And yes, I defend the fact that we have a European passport and

“- Paulo, I repeat, Europe is not a state. Europe is a democratic construction sui generis and we have the need to create a European corpus, a European citizenship, to share. We have values, we have an extremely rich, extremely important European history. She's thousands of years old. We have to create this body and we can do it through elections. And what we do not have and what the United States

Mr President, I thank Mrs Jourová for saying what she said on behalf of the Commission. I want to thank you. Obviously Domènec and all my colleagues know how much I greet them and I salute their work. But I would like to thank the Commission because you said from the outset of the Conference on the Future of Europe that you made respect for what was to be proposed by European citizens the conditio

Madam President, may I turn to you to say that I am particularly pleased to see you at this seat and to congratulate you on your election and the renewal of your election? I may say it with a little tone, but I think it is necessary to recall it. Today we are at a particular moment in human thought. We are at a new crossroads, perhaps as important as the Enlightenment or the Renaissance. We have a

– Mr President, Commissioner, what a disappointment to hear again and again from the Commission that there is no problem, that all this is a matter for the decision of the Member States, and that, finally, Europe does not have to worry about the torture that these animals undergo in the transport, in purely commercial and purely recreational conditions, of wild animals in circuses, displaced, trai

Madam President, Commissioner, in May 2020, we saw the European Commission asking BlackRock to define the criteria for green investments in banking. It had something to surprise and it surprised. It surprised the Ombudsman, at first it surprised this Parliament and it surprised a large part of civil society. So we tried to understand how this type of conflict could be avoided, and when we turned t