What Julien spoke about.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I am from Toulouse, the European capital of aeronautics, where Airbus represents thousands of jobs, families and exceptional industrial know-how. But today I want to sound the alarm, because the directorates of finance, human resources, commercial aviation and defense are now headed by Germans. If the next president of Airbus, appointed in a few months, is al

Madam President, after thirteen years of discussions and hours in trilogues, nothing new under the Brussels sun – under pressure from the Council. In the end, for a delayed flight, passengers will benefit from the same compensation thresholds as in 2014, regardless of inflation – the good deal! Yes, this text includes some progress: the digital boarding pass, the guarantee for children to be seate

Mr President, we are being told about the resilience of transport: Well, good. But resilience is not decreed in Brussels relations: it flows into concrete, it lands on rails, it is built in ports, tunnels, roads. At home, in Occitanie, in the south of France, we know exactly what these promises without steel are worth. France invented the TGV. We were the pioneers of high-speed rail in Europe. So

To vote for the measures you propose, we will never be by your side.

I will answer you simply: Let us take responsibility and you will see us at work. We will raise the bar and allow the European people, and in particular, as French people, the French people, to have oxygen and be able to live decently.

Madam President, Commissioner, today you claim to be fighting poverty in Europe. But how can we fail to see that it is precisely the policies pursued by the European Union over the years that have impoverished our peoples? Your free trade agreements have deindustrialised our countries, destroyed thousands of jobs and put our workers in competition with the world. Your Green Deal then aggravated th

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the war in Ukraine has settled the debate. Drones have become a central tool in modern conflicts – inexpensive, massive, decisive. But this observation should not be used as a pretext to resurrect an illusion: European defence. We are against it. Defense is the responsibility of the nations, of their army, of their sovereignty. On the other hand, it is essential

Madam President, today, thanks to Jordan Bardella, this Parliament is finally debating lumpy skin disease. I come from Occitania, from an angry and distressed rural area. Last Thursday, in the Bordes-sur-Arise region of Ariège, I was the only member of parliament alongside the farmers, facing mobile gendarmes, drones, a helicopter, tear gas, to prevent the execution of nearly 200 cows. When a powe

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, today we are debating a possible European ban on fur farming and fur products. It is a sensitive subject and nobody here disputes the importance of animal welfare. But we need really effective measures. First, do not confuse prohibition with progress. European farms are subject to strict and controlled rules. Closing them would not eliminate demand, it would

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, twice a year, the French, like millions of Europeans, move their watch forward or backward. Twice a year, we are imposed a measure that no one understands and that everyone rejects. This, in my opinion, is the perfect illustration of what has become of the European Union, a technocratic machine deaf to the people, obsessed with absurd, useless a

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, today there is something profoundly ironic about the Renew Group, founded by Emmanuel Macron, claiming to give lessons in the rule of law and democracy to Bulgaria. Because finally, who in France concentrates power in a few hands? Who bypasses the popular will? Who governs in contempt of the people? Well, it's the same Emmanuel Macron. And now its representat

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Europe is now discovering that it is no longer protected. Diseases from elsewhere are spreading, carried by mosquitoes and ticks, which the borderless globalisation you have created has brought about. In France, Italy, Portugal, Romania, every summer becomes a calvary: locals barricade themselves, tourists flee and diseases advance. This is the

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the European Union is about to deny one of its greatest industrial successes: the automobile. The ban on thermal engines in 2035 is not progress, it is strategic folly. Under the pretext of ecology, you weaken our manufacturers, destroy hundreds of thousands of jobs and deliver our markets to China, the world's biggest polluter. That's the reality. Everywhere on

Madam, all European and world leaders must come together to engage in de-escalation and prevent war. For it is not the people sitting on these benches, in these cozy lounges, who will go to the field to take bullets. It is our children, children from France, Italy and all over Europe, who will go on the pitch and take bullets from the buffet, unlike you. We must do everything possible to preserve

Madam President, Mrs von der Leyen, ladies and gentlemen, the recent intrusions of Russian drones into the European space must alert us, but they must not precipitate us into a logic of escalation. While Brussels is agitating and dreaming of a Europe of defence, it is unable to protect our borders and prevent more than 380,000 illegal entries in a single year. My country, France, knows that peace

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the allocation of European funds today is a real scandal. France contributes massively to the EU budget and yet our territories are too often forgotten. At home in Occitania, the reality is simple. Transport infrastructure is deteriorating. Our rural areas remain landlocked. Water is missing a little more every year and every summer our countryside burns, whi

Mr Pellerin-Carlin, we will never go into your environmental delusions, which kill our territories. The first environmentalists are the farmers, and we, unlike you, defend them, and, in the face of forest fires, winegrowers are the first defenders.

Mr. Allione, I do know your fight and your support for firefighters. You yourself have been a firefighter in your career, and this fight is strong and remarkable. But, you know as well as I do: you are here, in this Chamber, the representative of Emmanuel Macron. You know as well as I do that the park is aging and that there are thirty years of delay in France. Today, firefighters are on the front

Madam President, as every summer, southern Europe and southern France are on fire. And like every summer, the French state, however obsessed with the issue of global warming, is outdated. At home in Occitanie, in one week, 4,000 hectares went up in smoke in Aude, despite the heroic courage of our firefighters. In Marseille, it is the same tragedy. And what is the French government doing? He notes,

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, farmers in our mountains can no longer do this. Bears, wolves, vultures: predators are multiplying, and the European Union is turning a blind eye. It finances predation and lets pastoralism die. This afternoon, in the Pyrenees, two calves were eaten alive by vultures under the eyes of their breeder, and during this time bears proliferate (83 adults, 16 cubs t

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, once again the European Commission is waving promises to hide its failures and impose new standards on us. She tells us about the review of passenger rights, but, as always, she forgets the essential: protecting European citizens from the abuses of an excessively liberalised system. The Single European Sky has failed. The u