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Mrs. Loiseau, I'm just as legitimate as you are. First of all because I am elected by the French. I would even have the weakness to say that, when I see the score of the party I represent compared to the one you represent in supporting Mr Macron, I am perhaps at least as legitimate. Finally, have I been to Crimea often? Of course. I knew Crimea under Ukrainian sovereignty. As you probably know, in

Madam President, these attacks that deliberately target civilian vessels are unacceptable, wherever they come from, whether from Russia or Ukraine, and it is vital that a de-escalation finally begins on the Black Sea. But this tragedy must not be used as a pretext for Europe to persevere in error. What did NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte tell us this week? That there is no immediate military thr

Madam President, 24 October will mark the 30th anniversary of the start of the war in Congo. Since 1996, the country has experienced 30 years of woes, massacres, looting and suffering. This drama has a name: genocost. In reality the massacre, the genocide, even, of an entire people for reasons of economic predation. We know that the first culprit of this genocost is Paul Kagame's Rwanda, which has

Madam President, Africa is the continent of youth and an overflowing demographic, whose economies are only looking to grow. Its needs are immense in all and Europe has the qualities to meet them, in particular by skilfully targeting our investments and giving more flexibility to our companies, in the face of competitions whose speed is the main asset. However, the European Union is locked into a t

Madam President, I am here because I have to participate in the following debate, but in the end it is an interesting debate, which I have just attended, and I candidly say to my colleagues: I do not understand the meaning of this debate. I have the impression that it is a debate, in reality, a kind of executory of our impotence. Do we have to deal with Mr. Putin or with someone else? Mr Putin is

Mr President, all war crimes must be condemned without any reservation or ambiguity. This is the case for Ratko Mladić, whose actions justified his conviction before the International Criminal Tribunal. But, Commissioner, a unanimous condemnation that the European Union forgets to brandish when Mr Zelensky's Ukraine celebrates notorious Nazi and anti-Semitic collaborators like Stepan Bandera or An

Madam President, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, people are already suffering the ravages of war. Now they have to face a new disaster: Ebola – more than 1,500 cases, more than 500 deaths. But it has to be said: This virus also spreads because it reaches regions, Ituri and Kivu, destroyed by the war. Since 2021, eastern Congo has again been ravaged by the attacks of the M23, supported by

Madam President, the debates that this Parliament imposes on us today are at times reminiscent of colonialism. We do not have the quality to judge the past, let alone the present, of Burkina Faso. However, what is the future of Burkina Faso and the Sahel if the European Union contributes, through its resolutions, to further destabilising a power that is now at the forefront in the face of the rise

Madam President, every month Parliament takes over the judicial affairs of a sovereign state with the same mechanics. We identify the culprits, we listen to only one version of the facts, that of the NGOs, and we adopt a resolution that often has no follow-up. Today, for Belarus, I hear that it was teenagers who simply made graffiti. When you read the local press, they were building explosives. Wh

Madam President, in 1997, Levon Ter-Petrossian, the first president of independent Armenia, the very one who won the Karabakh War, published a founding essay. He asked questions whose answers conditioned the future of the entire region: Should the Karabakh issue be resolved through war or negotiations? Is it possible to maintain the status quo in the long term? And above all, who will be the defea

Mr President, this agreement with Uzbekistan is a good thing: a good thing for the European Union, a good thing for Uzbekistan. Central Asia is a booming economic region, a trade route and a strategic lock in globalisation where Europe and our businesses need to strengthen their presence. This country, Uzbekistan, has changed profoundly with the arrival of President Mirziyoyev in 2016. On the othe

Madam President, the only action plan for fertilisers that the Commission should implement is to bring down prices and not to add bureaucracy to the bureaucracy. Because since 2021, the European Union has been accumulating strategic mistakes on fertilisers by imposing sanctions against Russia and Belarus. These countries account for 20% of the world’s supply of nitrogen and 40% of potash. This is

Mr President, yesterday, Tuesday, France paid tribute to its third French soldier who died in Lebanon. Let's have a thought for Master Corporal Girardin, he was 31 years old and had a child. French soldiers are in Lebanon for peace. They help to maintain a fragile balance in this country in the face of the war-like upheaval of all the actors in the region. No one can today hide the reality of the

Madam President, (some inaudible words) The Global Gateway, the €306 billion communication operation, embodies the European Union's development aid policy. Even this report, which is very consensual, acknowledges this. The methodology of the program is completely opaque. Project selection criteria, incomprehensible. Evaluations are non-existent, with a board of directors that met,

Madam Speaker, for the past twelve years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has consolidated the foundations of Indian democracy and made his country the greatest emerging power of the 21st century. A country of 1.4 billion people, where growth is driven by phenomenal domestic consumption, massive public investment, robust services and a huge industrial and technological market. For Europe, weakened on

Madam President, while Azerbaijan and Armenia have been in conflict since 1994, these two countries have been conducting peace negotiations for the past five years, which are about to be concluded. This is evidenced by the signing of a joint peace declaration in Washington on 8 August by Armenian Prime Minister Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Aliev. This historic diplomatic effort is made poss

Mr President, Georgia has been under unprecedented media pressure from the European institutions for months. These attacks call into question the legitimacy of Tbilisi's institutions, its judicial system and the sovereign choices of Georgian voters. This is interference by foreign NGOs and political networks, which the European Parliament relays and voices zealously. Commissioner, as I understand

Madam President, on the basis of Rule 209: in February 2025, this Parliament adopted a resolution on the dramatic situation in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. In accordance with Rule 209 of our Rules of Procedure, this text has been published, recorded and transmitted to all the European institutions, and in particular to the Commission. This resolution was clear: it called for sanct