What Nicolas spoke about.

Madam President, my point of order is based on Rule 22 of our Rules of Procedure, which provides, I quote, that 'the President of a sitting may speak in a debate only in order to present the state of the matter and bring it back to it'. Monday evening, during the debate on the violence in France, Belgium and Italy, the President of the sitting, Mrme Katarina Barley, allowed herself to interrupt me

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of the ECR Group, I would like to table an oral amendment to insert, after paragraph 27, a new paragraph 27 which reads as follows: "Recalls the position expressed by the European Parliament in its resolution of 8 October 2026, at the last plenary, on the need for the EU to develop a strategy against Islamist entryism and the influence of the Muslim

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, every year Brussels demands more and more money. But to do what? We want a budget that protects Europeans, our internal market, our borders and our people, not a budget that fattens bureaucracy and finances networks that fight our civilization. Because the figures are dizzying: in recent years, 12.4 million euros for the European Network allegedly against rac

Of course, I respect human beings, but, you know, the situation requires telling the truth about what's going on. Yes, the truth is simple, it is indeed rattles, mainly of foreign origin – it is undeniable and established by the facts – that commit these abuses in France and in other European cities. And the left will not prevent us from telling this truth that jumps to the figure of all those who

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, in many European cities, urban riots are multiplying with unprecedented violence. In France, the toll is overwhelming: more than 1,000 police and gendarmes injured, hundreds of shops looted, town halls and police stations burned. Faced with this disaster, the French president spoke eight long minutes on the television news, to say nothing. No measures, no obj

Madam President, Mrs von der Leyen, I heard you here five years ago, almost to the day, say exactly the opposite of everything you have proposed to us today. You were at the time in the ideological obsession of renewable energies by refusing nuclear energy, you are now promoting it. You imposed on us the Green Deal and its avalanche of standards that weaken our industries and our farmers, you are

Mr President, when we have been listening to the European left for a while, we are told that we must show solidarity with Ceuta. Obviously, we stand in solidarity with the people of Ceuta. But you betrayed them. It was the European left, the government of Sanchez, with 500,000 regularizations, that sent the most disastrous signal, that of migratory laxity. This signal was received five out of five

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the bloody persecution of Christians is spreading in sub-Saharan Africa, and Nigeria is particularly affected by this tragedy. In the last two years, 3,490 Christians have been killed – more than 40,000 of them have lost their lives since the start of the Boko Haram Islamist insurgency in 2009. These populations are being killed, raped, displaced and treated

Madam President, Lyhanna was 11 years old. She was killed by a paedocriminal who had already been reported by several victims, but who was never summoned or charged by the courts. The murderer was also acting online. Behind the screens lies harassment, sexual predation, hypersexualisation and algorithms that lock the youngest into destructive spirals. But let us also have the courage to look at id

Madam President, a few days ago in Nantes, a 15-year-old boy was shot dead in a drug-related shooting. Two other minors aged 13 and 14 were injured. This is the reality of today's Europe. For too long, some have wanted to believe that the recruitment of children by cartels was a problem specific to Latin America or parts of Africa. But that's not true. This phenomenon is now rampant in our Europea

Of course, as always, the far left confuses executioners and victims. It was not the US administration that executed the political opponents in Cuba. It was not Donald Trump who tortured his own people. It was not the Americans who deported the recalcitrant people to labor camps. You claim to be defending the people and you stand with the bloodthirsty Cuban regime against the Cuban people. And as

Madam President, for 65 years, the Castro regime has turned Cuba into an open-air prison: Thousands of opponents executed, 35,000 people sent to forced labor camps, more than 2 million Cubans forced into exile. Even today, 1,300 political prisoners are arbitrarily imprisoned, including children. In the name of Marxist ideology, the Castro regime plunged Cuba into shipwreck and economic chaos. The

Mr President, first of all I would like to thank our colleague Mr Arvanitis, who has sought consensus on this text, a dialogue with all the political families, including those furthest from his own. It's all the more appreciable because it's rare. Every year, the same ritual begins again. The Commission shall publish its Rule of Law Report. Some, immediately, seize it to make it a political instru

The geographical proximity to Turkey does not justify paying billions to Turkey for years. I would remind you that it is not just the funds of the European Investment Bank; there are pre-accession funds, which Turkey continues to receive; there are funds under immigration control, which it does very badly. In total, over the last twenty years, Turkey has received 50 billion euros of European money

Madam President, the European Investment Bank, despite its name and its role, often intervenes both far from our financial needs and even far from our European soil. While our farmers suffocate under the standards, while our industrialists face unfair competition, while our SMEs struggle to finance themselves, the EIB mobilises billions outside our borders. First example: Turkey. According to offi

Madam President, the world is undergoing an unprecedented geopolitical recomposition, Africa is experiencing a demographic explosion and Europe urgently needs to reassert itself as a great world power. The Global Gateway plan must be reoriented in this perspective: to enable our strategic autonomy, to defend our interests through mutually beneficial partnerships with the African continent

Mr President, Frontex announced this on 1 January: In 2025, we had 178,000 illegal entries into Europe. A figure that is certainly declining, but which obviously remains very high, especially since everyone knows very well that most clandestine entries are actually not officially accounted for. These illegal migratory flows, they jeopardise Schengen as an area of free movement, and this anarchic a

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, in the face of decades of repression by the mullahs’ regime against its own population, and while popular protests are now being suppressed in blood, our Parliament has a moral and political duty to clearly reaffirm its support for the Iranian people and to condemn such crimes unambiguously. That is why I propose this oral amendment, after paragraph 9: "Recal

Mr President, at this last meeting, the European Council addressed, in particular, the issue of competitiveness. This is one of the most important challenges that the Council does not seem to take seriously. A year and a half ago, Mario Draghi made a very severe diagnosis. The European Union is lagging behind worryingly economically and technologically, a real decommissioning, while its growth is

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, our group of European Conservatives has always supported the withdrawal of this directive by the Commission, and our position remains unchanged. First of all, this proposal poses a major problem: it never clearly defines what is covered by the concept of discrimination. However, we know very well why the left is asking for this debate: it seeks to add more and m

Mr President, these things are beyond us, let us pretend to be the organisers: this adage could perfectly apply to the speech that President von der Leyen gave us earlier. Indeed, behind this discourse is the claim that the European Union, the European institutions, should intervene in all areas. Even though there is no common vision of the Member States and even though there is no strategic indep