What François-Xavier spoke about.

Madam President, Commissioner, so much has been said about the riots in France over the last few days, so I thought to myself that, in order to open this debate, it was probably the easiest way to give the floor to one of the victims. His name is Wim, he owns a shop in Montpellier and here is what he says: I was with my father, my brother and a colleague. We saw that the shop opposite had given in

Madam President, tomorrow marks the third anniversary of the attacks of 7 October. 1,180 victims, including dozens of European citizens, and the entire Israeli people, like the Palestinian people, drawn into horror by Hamas Islamists. Yesterday, at an event organised by our colleague Hildegarde Bentele, you recalled that Rima Hassan attacked the Israeli flag and the European flag she threw on the

There is only one answer to this strategy: We have a duty to protect our rule of law. And the rule of law is the fact that we do not change the population through illegal immigration. No one is fooled by the maneuver being played out. If we talk about immigration, we are talking about security, we are talking about protecting the identity of our countries. And we must say it again today with all t

Mr President, Ceuta has become a proof of the suffering of the existential catastrophe of illegal immigration. More than 140 dead, hundreds of victims of violence in the population of Ceuta. A colleague here told us that we must not defend walls, but defend human dignity. Who sees today that when we do not defend our borders, they are lives that we destroy? Ladies and gentlemen, I do not think it

Madam President, Commissioner, the last European Council was an opportunity to come to a successful conclusion – finally! – on the fundamental subject worked here for many months: the Return Regulation, the last piece of the European immigration strategy and more specifically the fight against illegal immigration. The media echoed the debates that took place around the Council table between Heads

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we are here. Tomorrow will be the final vote on the return settlement. It is the end of several decades of powerlessness in the face of illegal immigration and eight long years of blockage in the revision of the Return Directive, which will finally disappear in a few days. The law protected only those who had broken the law. Now we're putting the rule back in pl

Madam President, Commissioner, ETS. When this system was created to charge companies for the carbon they emit, more than twenty years ago, it was in the spirit of creating a global carbon market that was never formed. It was to give a price signal that would impose decarbonization. But the price signal, today, already exists. We see what is playing out in the world around us and just look at the p

Mr. member, you can scream as long as you want, the truth is that every civilian victim is obviously a tragedy. The only amazing thing is that you do not see war crimes where international humanitarian law explicitly condemns them. When Hezbollah - like Hamas, which you have also covered - goes into hiding among the civilian populations, precisely to make them human shields, that is a war crime, M

Israel has no territorial claims to Lebanon, none. Israel would not have set foot in Lebanon and would not have fired a single shot at Lebanese territory if Hezbollah had not decided to attack Israel. Recognize the reality, dear colleague; You refuse to see her, but that's the reality. Let me say one simple thing, dear colleague: All the civilian victims that you deplore, they are linked to this I

Mr President, Florian Montorio, Anicet Girardin, two French soldiers who died a few days ago under the French flag and under the blue helmet to defend the Lebanese people. Only a few days later, the French government put Israel and Hezbollah on the same footing, declaring that it cannot accept either the IDF or Hezbollah. What more worrying symptom of French and European myopia, when it comes to u

Mr President, today, Commissioner, we have just achieved an essential victory to finally protect Europe from illegal immigration. And yet what is the Spanish socialist government doing, showing that it has understood nothing of what citizens expect in all our countries? It constitutes a monumental air call by deciding to publicly regularize at least half a million illegal immigrants in Spain. Mayb

Mr President, Madam Vice-President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to reply to Mr Lent, who has just asked the EPP and the Republicans about the frightening situation. diary of the radical right that would represent the fact of wanting to implement a policy of return finally effective in Europe. Mr Lent, I would like to tell you about the exchange we had with the United Nations High Commission

The question, Mr Botenga, is, in fact, "are we really in solidarity with the Iranian people?" To support this regime is indeed to endanger the Iranian people. But you supported all his allies, Mr. Botenga. You supported Hamas, which is Iran's ally. You support Hezbollah, which is Iran's ally in Lebanon. You have supported all the militias that today, piloted from Iran, oppress and destroy the Midd

Mr President, High Representative, how many are there? Thousands, thousands of Iranians killed. Unarmed men, women, too many children, dead only because the regime that oppresses them has decided that it survives only by terror. By terror and with a mixture of European complacency and impotence. Complacency of some of Europe's political forces. I am thinking of the extreme left which, since the be

Mr President, Commissioner, the murder of Mehdi Kessaci is not a miscellaneous fact. It is not even just another crime committed by drug trafficking. It is not even just one innocent victim too many. This is the alarm signal that should wake up all of France and all of Europe. Mehdi Kessaci had nothing to do with drugs. He wanted to become a policeman. He died for one reason: He was the brother of

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, yes, it must be remembered today that our countries are under threat. Yes, history is tragic and, yes, war is returning to the dangerous world that is emerging before our eyes, and it is our duty to look it in the face. It is astonishing that during this discussion we have heard the denial of reality that continues to be displayed with pride. I am

Madam President, ten years ago, Islamist terrorism claimed more than 130 innocent lives in Paris. We have a duty to remember, of course, and to think of all those who are still grieving today that nothing can fix. But it is not enough to remember, we still have to look at how far we have come and everything that has not been done. The threat still exists against our countries, and all the vulnerab

Mr President, Commissioner, I will never forget the day on which the ban on combustion engines was voted in this Chamber a few years ago in 2035. I will never forget the celebration of so many elected representatives to whom I objected – as did the EPP Group, which opposed this deleterious measure – that Europe had just made the biggest gift to China and committed the biggest crime against its own