What Angéline spoke about.

Madam President, today we are debating the 2027 budget, marked by the explosion of the French contribution, which is now close to EUR 31 billion. But this astronomical figure hides a much more serious maneuver. A real democratic robbery took place behind closed doors last week. As France embraced the violence of the riots, Emmanuel Macron made the choice to desert our country. He fled reality to s

Mr President, the European Union is desperately looking for gas to compensate for the Russian embargo. However, the solution is before our eyes: the Eastern Mediterranean. Under the waters of Greece and Cyprus lie the immense deposits of Aphrodite and Calypso. This gas is strictly European. It can guarantee our energy sovereignty and lower our citizens' bills. But what is going on? Erdoğan's Turke

Madam President, the Vautmans report illustrates our submission to Beijing with figures. China already controls 50% of shipbuilding and will soon capture 45% of global industrial production. We have organized our own vulnerability. The International Energy Agency warns us: A simple cut in Chinese exports of permanent magnets would cost our economies $3.5 trillion a year. Faced with this blackmail,

Madam President, in the face of the joint resolution tabled today, we strongly condemn China, which is jailing a bookseller in Hong Kong for selling books that displease the regime. But before giving moral lessons, the European Union and France would do well to look at their own drifts. Here you have the word "democracy" in your mouth, but you are flouting the vote of millions of Europeans with yo

Madam President, our continent is picking up. Faced with unfair competition from China and the United States, our industry is shrinking and our companies are suffocating under the weight of your standards. In the face of this economic decline, what does this report propose? Another bureaucratic find: the creation of a 28th tax system. We are being sold a so-called optional framework to simplify th

Madam President, in France alone, 60 000 small businesses and craftsmen went bankrupt last year; 100,000 farms have disappeared in ten years; our factories close, rolled by unfair competition; our entrepreneurs can no longer borrow. What is the European Investment Bank doing in the face of this hecatomb? She turns her back on our fellow citizens. Originally created to finance the real economy, bui

Madam President, the formal notification of Azerbaijan's withdrawal from our EuroNest Assembly should not be treated as a mere procedural hazard. It is the factual sanction of a strategic decommissioning, that of a European Union that persists in playing with the states. The analysis of this crisis reveals a bankruptcy articulated around three realities that you refuse to face. Diplomatically, we

Mr President, it is better late than never. We welcome your awakening in the face of the steel crisis. But the culprit for this collapse is not in Asia: This is your dogmatism. You have created this disaster in all its dimensions. Economically first. The Commission's report on international trade proves this: The costs of our producers have exploded by 35% since 2022, crushed by your carbon market

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, behind the great declarations of COP 16 – the World Conference on Biodiversity – which recently met in Colombia, is preparing a real racket against the European economy. The outcome of this international summit bears a name: the Cali Fund. Under the pretext of protecting the environment, the United Nations has simply created a new global tax on the study of n

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, when Brussels speaks of democratic resilience in Armenia, it masks a brutal reality. What is at stake today is not just a political issue; It is the existential survival of the first Christian state in the world, a true outpost of our civilization, whose security remains tragically fragile. The European Union is setting itself up as a lesson giver, but its cy

Madam President, Commissioner, in Iran in recent days two young men have been hanged. Sometimes in public, sometimes after confessions extracted under torture. On 18 and 19 March, several executions were confirmed and dozens of other prisoners await their turn, sentenced to death in expeditious trials. Yes, this regime uses the death penalty as a political weapon. But a question arise

Mr President, this recommendation on strengthening cooperation between the European Union and Canada seems at first sight to be consensual. But behind this text, what this Parliament is really asking for is full ratification of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, CETA, by all Member States. CETA, remember? In France, Belgium and Germany, thousands of farmers and citizens took to the st

Mr President, in a democracy, the political struggle is settled at the ballot box, not in the courts. In Turkey today, justice is being used to dismiss the main opponent of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu threatened with ineligibility. Journalists were arrested for simply reporting these facts and foreign Christians banned from the territory because of their faith. But at the v

Mr President, drones and new war systems have profoundly transformed conflicts. They are fast, inexpensive, sometimes autonomous and capable of hitting strategic targets. The European Union needs to adapt to this. But this adaptation should not be used as a political pretext, because, under the guise of security, the Commission is pushing a gradual shift towards federal defence, by multiplying pro

Mr Gražulis, dear colleague, I fully agree with you that we must all combat all forms of violence. However, it seems to me that what we are talking about today is a criminal matter, and therefore not a matter for the Commission, not for the European Union, but for the Member States. And once again, it is a silent coup by the Commission over national prerogatives.

Mr President, what is happening today in Spain is not an accident: it is the result of a political system that speaks a lot of morality and assumes its responsibilities very poorly. For months, socialist leaders have fallen one after another after revelations of sexual harassment. Serious facts, resignations, and often warnings that already existed, but that nobody wanted to see. And yet, they are

Mr President, Commissioner, this joint draft budget for 2026 is not the result of negotiation, but of a democratic masquerade. We had an all-night meeting to discuss 0.2% of the European budget, 0.2%. All the rest, the 99.8% were already tied, already recorded, already locked. And we call it a compromise, we call it a democratic debate. No, it is an institutional framework to validate choices that

Mr President, today we are debating the renewal of the partnership between the European Union and Africa, 25 years after its creation. A partnership that is presented to us as renewed, but which, in fact, has produced nothing but empty statements and real frustrations. On the ground, African people want electricity, roads, jobs; Brussels talks to them about carbon neutrality and the green transiti

Madame Loiseau, I do not know what to say in the face of your defamations and the pathetic side of your accusations. You are well aware that no one here has the number of any Russian politician. Moreover, your party has long been a hidden child of the USSR. Don't be in politics and keep the level of debate, ma'am. For your age and responsibility, I find this very disappointing.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, air sovereignty is an integral part of national sovereignty. This is an essential principle of international law, which Mme Loiseau, affirmed by Article 1 of the 1944 Chicago Convention. Each State shall exercise complete and exclusive control over the airspace over its territory. If the incursions in Estonia, Poland or the Baltic region are found to be hosti

Madam President, the Capital Markets Union, Mr Mario Draghi, presents it to us as the miracle solution to save Europe from bankruptcy, but what is it concretely? It is as if we take the savings of all Europeans to put it in a single common pot. Except that it will not be the people who decide how to use it. No, it will be the big financiers and foreign funds. And, behind all this, there is Ursula

Madam President, today we are talking about the future European budget. This is fundamental, because it is the money of Europeans, especially the French. We are already hearing, in Brussels and here, voices calling for more and more. More debt, more taxes and, above all, more green budget, using the false pretext of an alleged climate emergency. Let’s be serious, please! Ms von der Leyen and her s

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, today we are asked to examine the 2023 and 2024 reports on Albania. Billions of euros: for what? Or rather to make what? To finance a corrupt regime, a justice system and a muzzled press? European taxpayers' money deserves better than that. And I'll be more specific: the money of French deserves better than that. Let’s stop financing the illusion, let’s stop

Mr President, today we are presented with the 2024 Annual Report on the European Investment Bank: EUR 76 billion financed in Europe, of which only 13% for France. We could say to each other: But let’s be clear, France is a net contributor to this bank, that is to say that we give much more than we receive. And what exactly does the European Bank invest this money in? In the famous ecological trans