What Nicolas spoke about.

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Jul

2026

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Ongoing persecution of Christians in Nigeria, notably the Kawel village massacre

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the bloody persecution of Christians is spreading in sub-Saharan Africa, and Nigeria is particularly affected by this tragedy. In the last two years, 3,490 Christians have been killed – more than 40,000 of them have lost their lives since the start of the Boko Haram Islamist insurgency in 2009. These populations are being killed, raped, displaced and treated …

17

Jun

2026

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Protecting children’s safety and mental health from the risks posed by social media – our duty to act now (debate)

Madam President, Lyhanna was 11 years old. She was killed by a paedocriminal who had already been reported by several victims, but who was never summoned or charged by the courts. The murderer was also acting online. Behind the screens lies harassment, sexual predation, hypersexualisation and algorithms that lock the youngest into destructive spirals. But let us also have the courage to look at id…

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May

2026

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Recruitment of children by organised crime (debate)

Madam President, a few days ago in Nantes, a 15-year-old boy was shot dead in a drug-related shooting. Two other minors aged 13 and 14 were injured. This is the reality of today's Europe. For too long, some have wanted to believe that the recruitment of children by cartels was a problem specific to Latin America or parts of Africa. But that's not true. This phenomenon is now rampant in our Europea…

19

May

2026

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Political repression and humanitarian situation in Cuba (debate)

Of course, as always, the far left confuses executioners and victims. It was not the US administration that executed the political opponents in Cuba. It was not Donald Trump who tortured his own people. It was not the Americans who deported the recalcitrant people to labor camps. You claim to be defending the people and you stand with the bloodthirsty Cuban regime against the Cuban people. And as …

19

May

2026

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Political repression and humanitarian situation in Cuba (debate)

Madam President, for 65 years, the Castro regime has turned Cuba into an open-air prison: Thousands of opponents executed, 35,000 people sent to forced labor camps, more than 2 million Cubans forced into exile. Even today, 1,300 political prisoners are arbitrarily imprisoned, including children. In the name of Marxist ideology, the Castro regime plunged Cuba into shipwreck and economic chaos. The …

28

Apr

2026

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The Commission’s 2025 Rule of Law report (debate)

Mr President, first of all I would like to thank our colleague Mr Arvanitis, who has sought consensus on this text, a dialogue with all the political families, including those furthest from his own. It's all the more appreciable because it's rare. Every year, the same ritual begins again. The Commission shall publish its Rule of Law Report. Some, immediately, seize it to make it a political instru…

27

Apr

2026

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Control of the financial activities of the European Investment Bank Group – annual report 2024 (debate)

The geographical proximity to Turkey does not justify paying billions to Turkey for years. I would remind you that it is not just the funds of the European Investment Bank; there are pre-accession funds, which Turkey continues to receive; there are funds under immigration control, which it does very badly. In total, over the last twenty years, Turkey has received 50 billion euros of European money…

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Apr

2026

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Control of the financial activities of the European Investment Bank Group – annual report 2024 (debate)

Madam President, the European Investment Bank, despite its name and its role, often intervenes both far from our financial needs and even far from our European soil. While our farmers suffocate under the standards, while our industrialists face unfair competition, while our SMEs struggle to finance themselves, the EIB mobilises billions outside our borders. First example: Turkey. According to offi…

26

Mar

2026

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Global Gateway – past impacts and future orientation (debate)

Madam President, the world is undergoing an unprecedented geopolitical recomposition, Africa is experiencing a demographic explosion and Europe urgently needs to reassert itself as a great world power. The Global Gateway plan must be reoriented in this perspective: to enable our strategic autonomy, to defend our interests through mutually beneficial partnerships with the African continent…

11

Mar

2026

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Rise of political violence, notably by far-left organisations (debate)

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Mar

2026

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Rise of political violence, notably by far-left organisations (debate)

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Feb

2026

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Building a stronger European defence in light of an increasingly volatile international environment (debate)

21

Jan

2026

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Restoring control of migration: returns, visa policy and third-country cooperation (topical debate)

Mr President, Frontex announced this on 1 January: In 2025, we had 178,000 illegal entries into Europe. A figure that is certainly declining, but which obviously remains very high, especially since everyone knows very well that most clandestine entries are actually not officially accounted for. These illegal migratory flows, they jeopardise Schengen as an area of free movement, and this anarchic a…

21

Jan

2026

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Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2025 (A10-0262/2025 - Francisco Assis) (vote)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, in the face of decades of repression by the mullahs’ regime against its own population, and while popular protests are now being suppressed in blood, our Parliament has a moral and political duty to clearly reaffirm its support for the Iranian people and to condemn such crimes unambiguously. That is why I propose this oral amendment, after paragraph 9: "Recal…

21

Jan

2026

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European Council meeting (joint debate)

Mr President, at this last meeting, the European Council addressed, in particular, the issue of competitiveness. This is one of the most important challenges that the Council does not seem to take seriously. A year and a half ago, Mario Draghi made a very severe diagnosis. The European Union is lagging behind worryingly economically and technologically, a real decommissioning, while its growth is …

17

Dec

2025

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The urgent need to combat discrimination in the EU through the horizontal anti-discrimination directive (topical debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, our group of European Conservatives has always supported the withdrawal of this directive by the Commission, and our position remains unchanged. First of all, this proposal poses a major problem: it never clearly defines what is covered by the concept of discrimination. However, we know very well why the left is asking for this debate: it seeks to add more and m…

17

Dec

2025

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 18-19 December 2025, in particular the need to support Ukraine, transatlantic relations and the EU’s strategic autonomy (debate)

Mr President, these things are beyond us, let us pretend to be the organisers: this adage could perfectly apply to the speech that President von der Leyen gave us earlier. Indeed, behind this discourse is the claim that the European Union, the European institutions, should intervene in all areas. Even though there is no common vision of the Member States and even though there is no strategic indep…

16

Dec

2025

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Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural products (A10-0254/2025 - Gabriel Mato) (vote)

15

Dec

2025

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Breeders' protests following a lumpy-skin-disease outbreak in France: implications of the EU approach on sanitary and on animal health (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the spread of lumpy skin disease is another scourge that jeopardises farming and the balance of many farms. In France, every two days, a farmer commits suicide. In the face of this new health crisis, the only response from the state is strength and violence, where farmers expect dialogue, anticipation and effective health responses. We must not take lightly t…

15

Dec

2025

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Murder of Mehdi Kessaci - urgent need for ambitious European action against drug trafficking (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, France and Europe are plagued by drug trafficking, and – it is no secret – this scourge is a direct threat not only to the health and safety of our fellow citizens, but also to the stability of our entire societies. On our continent, 40% of criminal networks and 50% of homicides are directly linked to drug trafficking. In France, drug-related violence left 110 p…

26

Nov

2025

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The situation of Christian communities and religious minorities in Nigeria and the Middle East, and Europe’s responsibility to protect them and guarantee freedom of conscience (topical debate)

25

Nov

2025

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Effective use of the EU trade and industrial policy to tackle China’s export restrictions (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, China controls more than 60% of the world's rare earths extraction and 90% of their refining. As we have known for a long time, it has a quasi-monopoly on resources in this area. These raw materials are essential for the production of a wide range of modern technologies, particularly in the automotive sector, semiconductor production and the defence industry.…

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Nov

2025

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30th anniversary of the Barcelona Process and the new pact for the Mediterranean (debate)

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Oct

2025

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General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sections (A10-0192/2025 - Andrzej Halicki, Matjaž Nemec) (vote)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, last Sunday, 19 October, the Louvre, the most visited and arguably one of the most illustrious museums in the world, was the victim of a burglary. Jewels of the French crown, worth an estimated 88 million euros, were stolen. This national shame, resulting from risky political choices and particularly questionable budgetary choices of the director of the Louvr…

21

Oct

2025

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Commission Work Programme 2026 (debate)

Mr President,me von der Leyen has just spoken to us about 2026 prosperity and competitiveness. But it was she who stifled our competitiveness with her Green Deal. He had to green the European economy, he only makes it pale. Like Macron who gives in on his pension reform to stay in place, she is now unraveling her own achievements to save face. But it doesn't go far enough or fast enough. We urgent…