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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, ten executions a month is the sinister pace of the Iranian regime. In Iran, just asking for food on the street can be worth torture, jail, and, all too often, the death penalty. The war launched in February by Trump and Israel has also not liberated the Iranian people: it offered the regime a pretext to repress it further. The Iranians do not need to wage war on

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Mrs Imart, once again you were going with your far-right friends to impose on us your Islamophobic speeches – I have no other words –, this time under the guise of a resolution on Islamist entryism in Europe. Religious fundamentalisms, let us be clear, all pose a real threat. Their interferences must be combated, wherever they come from. But, Mrs Imart, your

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I welcome the fact that we are adopting a resolution against corruption which sends strong messages, stricter preventive rules on the parallel activities of Members, for example, on the financing of political parties, conflicts of interest, revolving doors and a strengthening of the European Public Prosecutor's Office to increase the means of tracing the corrupt

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, 25 years ago, China was allowed to join the World Trade Organisation, even though it has never complied with any rules since then. And the result is today before our eyes: European industry is gradually decimating. Our trade deficit - as you said, rapporteur - with China is EUR 1 billion per day. So, while we were talking at the time about comparative advanta

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, in Gaza the ceasefire exists only on paper. The strikes continue. They kill 125 Palestinians every month. The Israeli army did not withdraw; It controls 60% of the Gaza Strip. So in this Parliament, our group must insist at every plenary session that we can just debate what is happening in Palestine. All discussions are systematically blocked by ri

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, this weekend, a fire of rare virulence left my family’s village, Lédenon, in the Gard. He devastated 500 hectares of scrubland in a matter of hours. Families have been confined, residents evacuated. Other fires are currently ravaging France and other countries in Europe. These fires arrive a month early, they are more intense, more uncontrollable because of t

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, 868 political prisoners languish in Belarusian prisons. Among them – as we have all mentioned – is Aliaksandra Poulinovitch, who was arrested at the age of 16 for a simple graffiti that denounced Putin’s war in Ukraine. This young woman, who is now 18 years old, will spend 10 years in prison. It is the emblem of this Belarusian youth turning to Europe, suppor

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in the face of the challenges of the twenty-first century, we have never needed international cooperation so much. Yet the greatest powers openly free themselves from collective rules and marginalise the UN institutions inherited from the 20th century ᵉ and its lessons. Nationalism is war. At his summit with Xi Jinping a few days ago, Trump suggested that the US

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in a world where authoritarianism is advancing, can our Parliament still be a compass in the struggle for democracy and the rule of law? When LGBT rights are attacked in Hungary, when journalists are targeted by spyware in Italy, when women's freedom to abort and dispose of their bodies is threatened by a new nationalist president in Poland, or when a few billio

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for this debate. In conclusion, I would like to reiterate the essential point: in the face of a geopolitical recomposition marked by brutality, we must choose another path for the Global Gateway initiative, that of cooperation based on justice, reciprocity and respect; in short, on European values. I want to respond here to the cr

Mr President, Mr Vice-President, Commissioner Síkela, dear Hildegard, ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to co-present this morning the European Parliament's first report on the European Global Gateway initiative. "Global Gateway" is a pharaonic infrastructure investment initiative across the world, launched in 2021 by Europe, to try to compete with the Chinese project, in particular

Madam President, Commissioner, dear Raquel, ladies and gentlemen, three years ago the "Qatargate" scandal hit the reputation of the European Parliament deeply. More than a million in small cuts were found at the home of a vice-president of this institution. Three years later, today we finally adopt the first major European directive to combat corruption throughout Europe. It w

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, dear Tobias, who will be our allies tomorrow? In a world shaken by the return of brutal force, Europe must regroup with countries that have the courage to challenge imperialism, whether Russian, Chinese or American. Canada is one of those countries. When Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke in Davos in January 2026, he said out loud what many Europeans thin

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, this Parliament is about to vote for the first time on a key issue of security, sovereignty and democracy: I'm talking about transnational repression. Transnational repression is when a state pursues opponents, human rights defenders and journalists across its borders to silence them. It is a mafia practice, of unheard-of violence, outside of any judicial procee

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, in Bulgaria, the Russian destabilisation machine is running at full speed and threatens to cause this country, after a few years of building its democracy, to sink into illiberalism. There are worrying signals, such as the arrest of the mayor of Varna, an opponent. There are also laws that discriminate against the LGBTQIA+ community. This drift must be stoppe

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we observe with concern that the ceasefire in Gaza is very fragile. This weekend, 54 Palestinians were killed, humanitarian aid was blocked again, and two Israeli soldiers were also killed. In the West Bank, settler violence continues, an 11-year-old child was killed by Israeli army fire. Then we knew very well that we could not count on the Israeli governmen

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, in Afghanistan, the ordeal of women under the Taliban regime continues. On August 31, a terrible earthquake ravaged the country and women were intentionally forgotten under the rubble. The injured were isolated, deprived of care in the affected areas. NGOs did not even have access to women's camps. This is where religious obscurantism leads. What w

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, two years ago, the terrorist attacks by Hamas on 7 October plunged us into dismay. Today, I am thinking of the 1,219 dead, the 251 Israeli hostages and their families. I am also thinking of all the Israeli justice and peace activists who are trying to pull their country out of a spiral of revenge. For the past two years, the European Union has been powerless

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, it was in Ukraine, Belarus and now it is in Moldova: When citizens declare their commitment to democratic values, to the European project in a referendum like the one that took place in Moldova in 2024, Vladimir Putin unleashes his imperial madness. Vexed, frantic, manipulative and ridiculous, he agitates and interferes where no one had invited him. These are fa

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, for almost a year, the citizen movement against corruption and for democracy in Serbia has not weakened. This non-violent movement is led by youth: Young workers, students who occupy their faculties, sleep on the floor in their classrooms, organize the largest demonstrations in the history of the country, travel their country, even by bicycle, to the smallest

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the real face of the far right is corruption. A few months ago, Marine Le Pen was convicted in the case of the fictitious assistants of the RN. This very morning, in France, the headquarters of the Rassemblement National were raided as part of a new investigation into the financing of its last election campaigns. Just last week, the EPPO opened another investiga

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, sometimes I wonder: ‘Which world are we living in?’ While Benjamin Netanyahu nominates Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, while these two are in Washington right now and they are again discussing the forcible transfer of Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip, the nightmare persists in Gaza: bombing, hunger, thirst, death. Since humanitarian aid has been man