What Jean-Lin spoke about.

The leaders of the Western Balkan countries are meeting in Brussels on Thursday 23 June to call on the Commission, the High Representative and the Council to make significant progress in the EU accession process. This acceleration stems from the consequences of the war in Ukraine and responds to the discussion that will take place on the same day, when EU leaders should grant candidate status to U

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the deepening of the European Treaties and the enlargement of the European Union are in reality a double penalty. First, we do not want a revision of the treaties that would remove the unanimity of states for decisions, especially on diplomacy, defence or foreign policy, and that would remove their right of veto, which would be an attack on the will and choic

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, inflation is breaking all records, with electricity prices rising by 43% and gas prices by 37.5% over the last two years in France. I would remind you that France, thanks to nuclear and hydroelectric power, benefits from the lowest costs in Europe. Yet the bills of our compatriots are soaring and are among the highest in Europe. You want to reform the European e

Dear Madam, I would like to point out that you were behind the ban on the sale of combustion engines in 2034, which will, of course, weigh heavily in Europe. 275,000 fewer jobs, and our modest French families will be the most affected. But that is not enough for you: in 2026 we must continue to force our producers – even though this is an important sector, a sector of excellence here – to change t

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the Corporate Due Diligence Directive is a dangerous text, as it obliges European companies to monitor what their suppliers, suppliers and sponsors do around the world, to put pressure on their business partners to change their practices when they themselves do not follow European law abroad, and, in the event of refusal, to break their business relations wit

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, for the first time legislation has come to regulate this new environment, artificial intelligence. This legislation was necessary given the impact force of artificial intelligence in all areas and the dangers it entails. I am thinking in particular of an example, the spokesman for the Renaissance party, Emmanuel Macron’s party, who posted on social

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the agreement with Chile is symptomatic of all the excesses of the European Union that the European Parliament hastened to endorse. This agreement indeed cumulates all the vices. Ecological vice, because Chilean nature will turn into a lithium mine to make batteries in the name of your Green Deal. Agricultural vice because Chile is 11 000 tonnes of olive oil, 9

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we are discussing one last time before the European elections the enlargement of the European Union, which you wish to extend to the Balkan countries, including Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine and even Turkey. So let me, too, one last time, remind you why we strongly oppose it. First, we do not want to revise the Treaties, because you want to remove the unanimity rule

Listen, MEP, I will ask you a double question, because I hear your speech and I can agree with it. But explain to me why you support Mrs von der Leyen, who is going to sign a commercial gas import contract in Azerbaijan, which comes from elsewhere in Russia, what hypocrisy! And secondly, why do you still support Turkey’s EU accession process, since you are constantly supporting the Armenian people

I will reassure you, Madame Loiseau, they are going extremely well. We are very consistent. We are not in Paris to say white and in Brussels to vote black, as you often do. And the agricultural crisis at the moment has given us so many illustrations! So we're very consistent. We are still on the side of the Armenian people. The whole political line, all our positions, all our statements, whether t

What a joy!

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, when we talk in this Chamber about the long martyrdom of the Armenian people, some should lower their heads, starting with Mrs von der Leyen. By concluding a gas agreement with Azerbaijan in July 2022, Azerbaijan granted the Azeri autocrat Ilham Aliev and his Turkish protectors a licence to kill and purify on a large scale in Nagorno-Karabakh. While some questio

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, after yesterday’s ritual debate on Hungary, today we are holding our debate on Twitter, which the European Union has been watching since it was bought by Elon Musk and censorship was lifted there. I am talking about Twitter, because even though our debate today concerns all social networks, everyone understands very well which one is targeted. The evidence, this

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, at the European Council held in Brussels on 1 February, Europeans will mainly hold the farmers’ demonstration in front of the European Parliament. They will remember that, while European farmers were shouting their legitimate anger, Emmanuel Macron and his counterparts stabbed them in the back by granting €50 billion in aid to Ukraine, 8 of which were finance

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the European Parliament is once again holding a plenary session and is once again putting on its agenda a debate hostile to Hungary. This week's pretext is the condition of the prisoners, including Ilaria Salis. As no one among self-proclaimed human rights defenders is going to do so, I will recall what the facts are, so that Europeans know which criminal the

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I am quite outraged by the organisation of this debate on the elections in Serbia, which once again reveals the political bias in this Parliament. What exactly do you blame the Serbs for? The elections were held at the very request of the opposition. The electoral process was the most closely monitored in the history of Serbia with more than 5,000 observers p

Madam President, as every year, the European Parliament examines the human rights situation in the Member States of the European Union. Or rather, the European Parliament approves of all human rights violations when committed by its political friends and considers, on the other hand, that everything that comes from its opponents is in itself a violation of human rights. For example, in Poland, the

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, for years the European Commission has persecuted Poland for ideological disagreements, in total disregard of the independence of states. Now that Poland has changed its government, you suddenly have nothing to blame for it. All the alleged serious violations of Europe’s values disappeared, like this, overnight. Then, in the absence of Poland, the European Uni

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, democracy is the government of the people, by the people and for the people. In a democracy, only the people are sovereign. He alone chooses his political destiny, directly or through the representatives he has elected. There is nothing above him. But the European Union is anything but democratic. I would remind you that it is led by Commissioners who are not

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the Copenhagen criteria which celebrate their 30th anniversary are a list of criteria relating to economic health, stability and respect for democracy, criteria which must be met by all countries wishing to join the European Union. Then I'll take you at your word. Where is the stability of Ukraine under attack by Russia? Where is Moldova’s stability, in the Tran

Madam President, rapporteur, this report, once it is not customary, is a step in the right direction. Unprecedented, it puts in stone the idea of European preference for space launch vehicles and launch sites. And contrary to the usual hollow language of the European Commission, your text proposes a real European autonomy, without dependence either on Russia or on the United States, which already

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, human rights are fundamental principles, but they must not be instruments of blackmail. Yet the EU does not hesitate to use them as a weapon against Hungary. The result was a refusal to give Hungary the European funds, which were financed and guaranteed by all the Member States, including Hungary itself. The reason is that Hungary would not respect the values

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, digitising Schengen visas is a good idea, but of all the revisions to this system, it is surely the least urgent. At a time when France has, once again, been struck by Islamist barbarism, I remember the attacks of 2015, perpetrated by killers from Belgium who had taken full advantage of the ideology of open borders. As for the external borders of the European Un

Mr President, if there are any particular responsibilities in the conflict between Serbia and Kosovo, they are indeed those of both the European Union and the so-called government of Kosovo and Metohija, the object of all your benevolence. Indeed, last spring, the Albanian government, led by your protégé Albin Kurti, decided by one of these provocations of which it is customary, to appoint Albania

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, real ethnic cleansing is taking place on our doorstep. The planned eradication on part of its historical territory of a civilization three thousand years old, that of the Armenian people, the first Christian nation in history. This glorious qualification could only attract the contempt of some Eurocrats who, by their insensitivity to the drama of the populati