What Mathilde spoke about.

Mr President, working, paying bills, filling your fridge: in France, this should be normal. For too many of our compatriots, it has become a struggle. On the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, I refuse speeches of compassion without a future. The French and Europeans expect to be able to live with dignity. Behind the crumbling purchasing power, there is a mother who gives up a meal,

Mr President, this new debate on the application of the Nature Restoration Regulation is an opportunity to denounce the ideology that inspired it. To want to return to nature what man would have taken from it is to consider that human activity would by its very nature be harmful. Above all, it means organising the erasure of man and the degrowth desired by the left and implemented by the European

Mr President, a tax on the windfall profits of polluters: the word is attractive, the measure is illusory. Taxing companies capable of relocating their capital, their headquarters and their jobs in a few months is not to make polluters pay, it is to scare away taxpayers. And in the end, the bill always falls on the same: households, pensioners and our businesses. Yes, in times of crisis, everyone

Mr President, for months the escalation in the Middle East has demonstrated what is produced by the lack of compromise. On the one hand, an American strategy whose political outcome remains uncertain. On the other, an Iranian regime that continues the confrontation and expands it through the action of its allies, including the Houthis. This war is a human tragedy, but what happens in Ormuz and the

Madam President, six days of heatwaves in June in France, 2,025 dead. And while some are still talking, others are acting. In Madrid, the metro is air-conditioned. In Barcelona, climate refuges can be reached in a few minutes on foot. In Greece, employers need to provide refreshed spaces for their employees. These countries have understood one simple thing: protecting people from heat is not a lux

Mr President, individualism is destroying our social ties in Europe. Yet there is a whole category of the population that works in the shadows to make those around them better off. It is these nearly 100 million caregivers, who are obviously, most often, caregivers. While this population of caregivers is a real lever to fight against the excesses of individualism and suffers from a lack of conside

Madam President, women in rural, island and overseas territories are often referred to as an audience to be helped. They are much more than that; They are often the ones who hold up our territories. In all the overseas territories, they support farms, shops, markets, family businesses, crafts, tourism and community life. But what is their reality? Impossible files, European standards above ground,

I will answer your provocative question with the example given by your colleague, Mrme Scuderi, that of this eleven-year-old child whose rapists, in fact, were not convicted, on the pretext that she was consenting, and this was heard and validated by the judges. In fact, the problem of consent is the problem of definition, demonstration and evidence. One cannot demonstrate a lack of consent or con

Mr President, the European Parliament now wants to impose a harmonised definition of consent in rape trials, as if the Member States had waited for Brussels to understand the seriousness of these crimes, as if their courts were not condemning rapists - not enough, indeed, I concede to you. Each State shall have its own criminal law, procedures and judges, in complete independence and sovereignty.

Madam President, having decent, sustainable and affordable housing throughout the European Union is the unmitigated challenge of a Commission that cannot help but take care of what does not concern it. So leave it to the Member States to manage their housing policy sovereignly. In France, housing accounts for 30% of constrained spending. The financialization of real estate has created a surge in p

Madam President, on the occasion of the International Day of Education and the Fight against Inequalities in Access to Education, it is urgent to recall an obvious fact that is all too often forgotten: The school no longer fulfils its mission of social justice. In our cities, in France, as elsewhere in Europe, access to quality education is becoming a luxury. Discontinued classes, closed establish

Madam President, deepfakes and online sexual exploitation are not mere abuses; These are crimes. A fake video can ruin a reputation, destroy families or push harassed teenage girls to suicide. As for sexual exploitation, it is the new drug of the cities and it pays better, while being a less risky trade. Platforms can no longer hide behind the excuse of neutrality when they monetize attention. The

Madam President, on Christmas Eve, I would like to express a wish for hope: peace for the 45% of Christians in Nigeria. Since the beginning of 2025, persecution has resulted in more than 7 000 deaths, or 35 deaths per day. Violence, child abductions, church fires, priests murdered in the middle of Mass, discrimination, land confiscations: everything has been getting worse for years. In December 20

Mr President, unsurprisingly, COP 30 in Belém was yet another disappointment, yet another demonstration that this kind of high mass is not the right tool to solve global climate problems. Too expensive, too polluting, too entangled in ideology, it must now be noted that the problems generated by globalization can never be solved by more globalization. Saving the environment means saving what surro

Madam Speaker, while DJ Barbara Butch has managed to get her cyberbullyers heavily convicted, other victims of death threats or violence have their complaints left unaddressed or their victim status denigrated. Because yes, to violence against women is added this institutional and media violence that selects its victims according to their political etiquette or the supposed populism of the context

Mr President, a stab in the back of our farmers: This is what Emmanuel Macron brought to COP30. While our farmers are struggling to make a living from their work, he is now rather in favour of the agreement between the European Union and Mercosur. In other words, it is ready to open the doors of our market wide to unfair competition from Brazil or Argentina, where environmental standards are non-e

Madam President, for too long the European institutions have been drifting towards a gender ideology, which denies natural gender differences, blurs benchmarks and threatens women's rights by suggesting that every man can be a woman. The European institutions claim to focus on people’s problems without ever providing real sustainable solutions – here it is a report on gender equality. However, the

Madam President, the COP 30 to be held in Belém, Brazil, in the heart of the Amazon is already shaping up to be a new high mass of climate hypocrisy. Thousands of politicians, NGOs and lobbyists will take a private jet to explain to people that they need to change their behaviour. Meanwhile, the major powers will continue to massively exploit their fossil resources. China will build coal-fired pow