What André spoke about.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, while technological mastery is powerful, critical materials are a determinant of sovereignty. Unfortunately, Europe has long favoured the price criterion at the expense of its own producers. Community preference must become a reality again. Security of supply and traceability in European public procurement must take precedence again. New Caledonia, a French OCT

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the normative drift that afflicts Europe is particular in the outermost regions, where the application of directives is a matter of economic and social sabotage. Companies, farmers and fishermen are suffocating under environmental constraints and phytosanitary regulations designed for the European continent. So how could ultramarine companies be competitive i

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I knew Brooklyn Rivera in 1985 in the maquis of Nicaragua during the civil war. He was the historical and charismatic warlord of Misurasata, the movement of the people of the Miskito Indians, persecuted and displaced by the communist dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, against which they led a guerrilla war. He was a brave man, and we had become friends. I had welcom

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the EU legal framework for sustainable biofuels needs to be revised to better guarantee the energy sovereignty of our Member States. We measure the need for this adaptation by looking at the situation in the French departments of America: Guadeloupe and Martinique. Since 2011, these outermost regions have been confronted with strandings of sargassum algae pollut

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the examination of the EIB's 2024 annual report should also be an opportunity to focus better on the strategic direction of its financing. A strategic metal essential to defence technologies, electronics, battery manufacturing and the entire energy transition, nickel directly determines our industrial future and, therefore, our autonomy. However

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the European Union cannot deny the failure of its migration policy. Having abandoned the idea of making Frontex a tool for migration control, it has given up protecting its borders. However, re-establishing migration control is crucial, especially in our outermost regions. Guyana, Mayotte and the West Indies are gateways to illegal immigration from Suriname, Com

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the recent attack on Sigfrido Ranucci is serious. To attack the press is to attack democracy. Beyond this drama, let us denounce the hypocrisy raging in the French media; freedom of expression and freedom of the press are variable in geometry. Christine Kelly, a great CNews professional working on this freedom of expression, reports in her latest book that she s

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I am speaking tonight as an alternate member of the Delegation for relations with the Federative Republic of Brazil, which represents 91% of Mercosur’s trade. The European Union's political strategy towards Latin America, which is in fact only an exposition of short-term commercial interests, needs to be rethought. Latin America and Europe, united by links of

Dear colleague, with regard to climate change, you give me the opportunity to talk about the specificity of tropical climates, which are most often those of the outermost regions of the French overseas territories, whether in the Indian Ocean or in the Caribbean. I note that European standards are not at all adapted to these climates, particularly as regards agriculture or fisheries. Commissioner

Madam, I am sorry, but as a French citizen, I speak and understand French, and I did not understand your question.

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, adapting the European Union’s cohesion policy to the new challenges of the times is a legitimate ambition. We are all the more sensitive to this because our outermost regions – I am of course referring here to the French overseas territories – combine the handicaps of insularity and remoteness. The richness of their cultural heritage, added valu

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Bosnia and Herzegovina is a state artificially kept alive by the Dayton Accords and in which only the Republika Srpska operates. However, the conviction of President Dodik by a contested and questionable court of justice is fuelling centrifugal tensions in Bosnia. Yet it would be illusory to think of promoting a unitary Bosnian state without damage. Its emerg

My dear colleague, as you can see, I am a French Member of Parliament and my first concern concerns French territorial waters, which are the object of lusts not of the United States, but of China and many other great powers. So let's not be naive, these great powers have in mind to exploit the seabed and submarines in order to recover rare metals, polymetallic nodules, which will be in the 21st ce

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, Nice has just hosted the United Nations Ocean Conference. While we must salute the role of France, a great ocean power, we deplore a lack of discernment about the lusts aroused by the French Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs). These risks that weigh on our EEZs, the second largest in the world, are as well proven in the scattered islands as in the

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, let me welcome Mr Nesci's excellent report. While it covers 4/5 of the European Union, rural areas remain disadvantaged, receiving three times less funding than urban areas. However, it performs essential functions: spatial planning, food security and the transmission to rising generations of our historical, cultural and biodiversity heritage. T

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, while Europe claims to be building a resilience strategy for water, let us recall a little-known reality: in 2025, a large number of French overseas residents live without regular access to drinking water. This is particularly the case in Mayotte, where water is inaccessible every third day and the public authorities are slow to set up the secon

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the French people are sovereign. That must be the case. Therefore, allow me to rise solemnly in the face of the attack on democracy that is the political judgment pronounced last Monday against Marine Le Pen. That being said, ladies and gentlemen, the European Ocean Pact must be a lever for asserting the maritime interests of European states. We must therefore,

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, representatives of the Parliament of Bosnia and Herzegovina, ladies and gentlemen, the request that the President of the Serbian entity, Milorad Dodik, be questioned by the Federal Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina is not only an infamy; It's also a serious fault. In the already troubled context of our continent, the duty and responsibility of the Eu

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, this evening we are debating administrative simplification. The outermost regions that make up our overseas territories in France are directly concerned by this need for simplification. They face a bureaucracy that hinders their economic development and prevents local actors from thriving. These administrative burdens, often imposed by the European Commission

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, hostility to civilian nuclear power and the war in Ukraine have created the conditions for a serious energy crisis. Households and businesses pay a high price for the European electricity market. Nuclear energy is therefore the only one capable of ensuring the energy independence, competitiveness and decarbonisation of our economies. The ITER artificial sun p