Madam President, Iqbal Masih, a slave child murdered in Pakistan, 13 years old, Maria Shahbaz, a Christian girl forcibly converted to Islam, forcibly married to her kidnapper, 12 years old. Hundreds of kidnappings, hundreds of forced conversions, forced marriages of child martyrs, sacrificed in culpable indifference or with the active complicity of the relays of Islamism. This indifference is also
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Spain’s large-scale regularisation policy and its impact on the Schengen Area and EU migration policy (debate)
Madam President, for almost 20 years the European Union has been trying to get its hands on our company law, our tax law and our social law. This is now done with this very dangerous ‘28th regime’. You announce that this project will allow companies to locate in all Member States when they want to operate in Europe. I will now explain to you why all this is both serious and false. You will first p
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Grids package and tackling raising energy prices through robust infrastructure (debate)
Mr President, your democratic shield, Commissioner, is supposed to fight against the polarisation of political life. How dare you, Commissioner, when the division is maintained within this institution? We systematically exclude the members of the Patriotes group from its work in the name of a supposed cordon sanitaire. Commissioner, democracy is elections. And the elections have spoken. Our group
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Certain corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence requirements (A10-0197/2025 - Jörgen Warborn) (vote)
Madam President, I would like to address my EPP colleagues in particular. The business world is watching you. You still have a chance to meet their legitimate expectations. The duty of care and the obligations of reporting, Some of you have given in to the blackmail of socialists who fiercely defend the Green Deal. Yet you know it better than anyone else and your constituents know it better than a
Mr President, let us not be afraid of words, the Commission's work programme for 2026 is schizophrenic and delusional. Schizophrene, because after having stifled European businesses and citizens in a frantic normative intoxication, the same technocrats now propose to go back on their own texts under the inflated pretext of simplification. In reality, the omnibus packages on energy, taxation and th
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Need for a strong European Democracy Shield to enhance democracy, protect the EU from foreign interference and hybrid threats, and protect electoral processes in the EU (debate)
Madam President, the democratic shield is a decoy. It is presented as a bulwark against hybrid interference and threats, but let us not be mistaken. Behind this protective façade lies a far more insidious threat to our fundamental freedoms. Who will decide what constitutes interference? What is a hybrid threat? This shield is actually a massive censorship tool that will muzzle dissenting voices un
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State of play of implementation of the European Media Freedom Act in the Member States (debate)
Thank you for your suggestions, my dear colleague, thank you. I would like to point out that I am a specialist in freedom of opinion under the Soviet regime. I could tell you about it for hours, and from that point of view, it was not the reader who made the media. Fortunately, there were people like Solzhenitsyn, who were hidden, and wrote, and told the truth, and found their readership.
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State of play of implementation of the European Media Freedom Act in the Member States (debate)
Dear colleague, thank you for your question. I have only one answer for you: The only regulator is the reader. And you see, in France as elsewhere, the traditional media, if they did not have subsidies, would not live. Why? Because their content, which is uniform and totally politically oriented, is no longer of interest to readers. That is why it is the media that are on the internet, alternative
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State of play of implementation of the European Media Freedom Act in the Member States (debate)
Mr President, may I remind you that the regulation we are talking about on the so-called freedom of the media is in fact one of the pillars of the European Union’s policy of freedom of expression. By establishing itself as the sole regulatory body for media control, the European Union is equipping itself with a dangerous tool that muzzles opinions that disturb it, as in Hungary or Romania. This Or
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The United Kingdom accession to the Convention of 2 July 2019 on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters (debate)
Mr President, this non-objection procedure is yet another example of a very worrying underlying trend. Once again, the Commission's technocracy is caught in the act of violating the procedures laid down in the European Treaties. This was the case recently for the urgent adoption of the "ReArm Europe" plan. We can also mention the NextGenerationEU recovery plan or the Posted Workers Directive. None
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Institutional and political implications of the EU enlargement process and global challenges (debate)
Mr President, the enlargement of the European Union was to be a catalyst for progress, Ursula von der Leyen promised us. Who can still believe it? If the enlargement of the European Union is a catalyst, it is the squandering of public money. Billions of which we lose track, while we call on the European peoples to tighten their belts. A note from the European Council puts the cost of enlargement a
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The Hungarian government's drift to Russia-style repression: legislative threats to freedom of expression and democratic participation (debate)
Mr President, I naively believed that the European Union had finally understood the urgent need to ensure transparency in political life after the countless corruption scandals that have hit its institutions: ‘Qatargate’, ‘Pfizergate’, Green Deal affairs or Huawei. However, to believe your relentlessness against a Hungarian law that legitimately aims to publish the funding of NGOs and associations
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Resilience and the need to improve the interconnection of energy grid infrastructure in the EU: the first lessons from the blackout in the Iberian Peninsula (debate)
Madam President, at least five dead, several billion euros in damage, a dizzying fall in GDP in a few hours: Here is the result of the giant blackout that hit Spain and Portugal. Here is the exact result of the forced march towards the green transition that the European Commission blindly imposes on us. Last February, in its annual report, the Spanish electricity system operator warned of the risk
Madam President, I have just read it. My amendment is as follows: ‘calls for the exclusion of strategic sectors contributing to European food sovereignty from the EU’s decarbonisation objectives;’.
Madam President, on behalf of the Patriotes for Europe Group, under Rule 187 of the Rules of Procedure, I wish to table an oral amendment to the resolution on energy-intensive industries. Today, and more than ever, ladies and gentlemen, the issue of food sovereignty is at the heart of the concerns of the people of Europe. To guarantee this sovereignty, we must allow farmers to produce and finally
Mr President, after the digital compass in 2021, the strategic compass in 2022, here comes the time of the compass for competitiveness in 2025. Decidedly, the European Union seems to have lost the north, not knowing what it is doing or where it is going. Compasses, shields, other omnibuses will not be enough to turn the eyes of the European peoples away from the collapse they see every day. The cr
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Escalation of gang violence in Sweden and strengthening the fight against organised crime (debate)
Madam President, out-of-control organised crime, shootings, racketeering, criminal activities of all kinds, everywhere, without any part of the territory now being spared. This is a real descent into hell for Sweden, while the European average of gunshot deaths is 1.6 per million inhabitants, it is four killed in Sweden. 363 shootings in 2023, ten dead in a single shooting six days ago. The Swedis
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Links between organised crime and smuggling of migrants in light of the recent UN reports (debate)
Thank you, dear colleague, for these two questions, which I will take pleasure in answering. The first answer is that, precisely, Fabrice Leggeri had to leave Frontex because he intended his agents not to be distributors of asylum application forms. The second question, dear colleague, is that, in my former life, I was a magistrate, and that I was in charge of an administrative detention centre fo
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Links between organised crime and smuggling of migrants in light of the recent UN reports (debate)
Madam President, it took several decades of a Europe open to all winds for the European Council and the Commission to officially declare that there is indeed a link between organised crime and migrant smuggling. One might have thought that this first discovery of the real would herald a salutary reaction; Well, that's not going to be the case. The fact that torrential flows of migrants are exploit
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Need to ensure swift action and transparency on corruption allegations in the public sector to protect democratic integrity (debate)
Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, do you mean corruption? So let's talk about corruption, and let's not pay ourselves words. Since 2023, Ursula von der Leyen has multiplied anti-corruption texts, with a proposal for a directive, the creation of an interinstitutional ethics body, and the harmonisation of rules on transparency of interest representation. Only one question arises: Wil
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Closing the EU skills gap: supporting people in the digital and green transitions to ensure inclusive growth and competitiveness in line with the Draghi report (debate)
Mr President, after having been President of the Central Bank and so closely involved in the guidelines of the European Union, Mario Draghi points out the total ineffectiveness of European policies, carried out with broken sticks to the detriment of the peoples. As we know, our continent is no more than a shadow of itself in terms of industry, trade and migration. Does Mario Draghi make a mea culp
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Strengthening the security of Europe’s external borders: need for a comprehensive approach and enhanced Frontex support (debate)
Madam President, Commissioner Schinas, 10 000 or 30 000 agents, that is not the question; Frontex should not be a host agency. The external borders of the European Union must not be the sieve of migratory flows that the peoples no longer want. This is precisely what the French no longer want. This is precisely what other European countries no longer want. In her speech of 18 July 2024, reiterated