What Julien spoke about.

I know, Mr Freund, that you like communist regimes and that you are nostalgic for them and that, in these regimes in general, justice does not exist. We are, once again, committed to the rule of law. I think you talk about it a lot. The rule of law is precisely to allow there to be fair trials. In this case, there are cases, which are not yet finalized, and I believe everyone will have the opportu

Mr President, the conclusions of the Court of Auditors’ annual report for 2025 are serious. The Court delivers an unfavourable opinion on the legality and regularity of the Union's budgetary expenditure. The estimated error rate of expenditure is 3,8 % and for ‘Cohesion, resilience and values’ we even have an error rate of 6,6 %. Mme von der Leyen will tell us that everything is fine. But the real

Mr President, this draft budget for 2027 is, as every year since the beginning of this mandate, a disgrace, with record debt as a result of your mismanagement. It is first and foremost a socialist budget. Indeed, rather than choosing an alternative majority, the European People's Party has chosen to establish here a majority composed of the Socialist Party and Renew. The right is therefore here th

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the European Union is today debating a strategy for its outermost regions. But does the EU only know what is really going on there? In Mayotte, almost two years after the devastating passage of the terrible cyclone Chido, reconstruction is a national and European disgrace. In this French department, tens of thousands of European citizens survive without any a

Madam President, there is a terrible administrative burden on our SMEs. Let's be honest, the texts voted here are often disconnected from reality, even totally crazy. This is the case of the Green Deal, a harmful text that my group of Patriots for Europe has fought tirelessly because it organizes European degrowth. But some states are making things even worse: In France, Parisian technocracy sabot

Madam President, for almost three years, a project for a very high-voltage line has been revolting the south of France. For connection needs in 2030, not all of them certain, and for the decarbonisation of the industrial port site of Fos-sur-Mer, the French State wishes to install a very high voltage line between Jonquières-Saint-Vincent and Fos-sur-Mer. While everyone is of course in favour of re

Madam President, because it ignores the basic principles of public accounting and still does not know that we only spend what we have, the European Union – which forecasts its expenditure before knowing whether it will have the revenue in front and which has massively indebted itself in recent years in an outrageous way – has been talking for months about introducing new own resources, in other wo

Madam President, the European Commission is now wondering how to combat poverty in Europe. We believe that the debate is misplaced. We would rather talk about combating the poverty of Europeans, because they are Europeans that we have to deal with here. Yes, fighting European poverty should be a priority. Unfortunately, in addition to preferring to take care of non-Europeans, you also impose a dou

Mr President, of the 95 amendments tabled on this interim report on the MFF 2028-2034, a very important part comes once again from our Patriots for Europe Group. This proves that we have worked, proposed and alerted; However, despite this, we will clearly vote against this text. Why? Because it embodies everything that Europeans no longer want: more centralisation, more debt, more bureaucracy, mor

Madam President, the Commissioner has indeed just said: The adoption of this report is important, because there are recommendations that are totally factual in this report and that are important to recall the real subject. I would like to thank the speakers who spoke a few moments ago, in particular the right-wing groups, who spoke to explain that we need to look at the substance of the matter, be

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, after several months of work, I am delighted to be before you today as rapporteur for this text on the protection of the Union's financial interests for the financial year 2024. This annual report is, in my view, an important report. It is not only a report that talks about the past, it sets out areas for improvement through concrete proposals to b

Mr Gotink, another usual defamation of a sovereign government: Mr. Orbán was elected, re-elected. I hear that this is a problem for you because it is not your political family, but the greatness is to respect the ballot boxes, to respect the choices. Sir, you make 3% in your country, respect the result of the polls!

Madam President, you claim that the rule of law conditionality regime would protect EU values from EU enemies. But what are we actually talking about? We are talking about discrimination that you use arbitrarily against a single Member State, Hungary, because it has the extravagance to resist your harmful and deadly policies, because it has, for example, the nerve to resist your immigration/invasi

Mr President, it was important for the Socialist Group to hold a debate on discrimination here. However, I have heard no one here today stand up for discrimination. We are therefore looking for the usefulness of this debate, if we all agree; Unless some here are lying. Because, yes, some in this Parliament claim to fight discrimination, but defend what they call ‘chosen’ discrimination on a daily

Madam President, you propose that we take the floor on the outcome of the 2026 budgetary conciliation. I will simply say that this conciliation is a masquerade. Indeed, the European Commission, the Council and Parliament meet every year for a sham conciliation on a tiny part of the annual budget, making a photo all smiles at the end by self-congratulation, while they have discussed during all thes

Madam President, my colleagues each had an extra minute, and I hope to have the same kindness. On 16 July, the European Commission put forward its draft multiannual financial framework 2028-2034. In presenting the EU's fiscal and financial trajectory to the press before presenting it to elected officials, the tone was set: No elegance, no respect. From the very beginning, the Patriots for Europe h