What Nicolas spoke about.

22 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)

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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)

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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…

21 Oct

2025

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Recent peace agreement in the Middle East and the role of the EU (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we can obviously welcome the progress made by Donald Trump in the Middle East, the significant progress towards peace, the return of hostages, the return of bodies and a ceasefire, albeit fragile, but real. And we can a contrario regret, worry about seeing Europe totally absent while the Middle East is on our doorstep and we share with it the same civilizational…

7 Oct

2025

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This is Europe - Debate with the Prime Minister of Luxembourg, Luc Frieden (debate)

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Madam President, Prime Minister, you referred to a Europe of concentric circles to meet the challenge of agility and speed that European decision-making today requires in the international context. Indeed, we must stop wanting to do everything at 27. Effectiveness is also about respecting nations and their democratic choices, and freeing oneself from a kind of Brussels Jacobinism that characterize…

8 Sep

2025

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Governance of the internet – renewal of the mandate of the Internet Governance Forum (debate)

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Mr President, we are talking about internet governance, but the internet needs to be protected more than governed. This space, while of course it can sometimes be misused, is above all a formidable tool for the freedom of citizens, the freedom to be informed, but also, and perhaps first of all, the freedom to express oneself. Now, what do we see now in France and in Europe? Well, we see the same w…

9 Jul

2025

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Democratic Republic of the Congo-Rwanda peace deal agreement (debate)

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Mr President, on 27 June, Donald Trump succeeded where the European Union failed, chairing a peace agreement between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. We look forward to that, of course. The carnage taking place in the eastern provinces of the DRC is deeply destabilising an entire region. The crimes of the M23, supported by Kagame, and the Islamist abjections of the Group of the Allianc…

9 Jul

2025

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 26 June 2025 (debate)

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Madam President, war is on our doorstep. The world is always more unstable and we are wasting time. The Council has touched on a few hot issues that are essential to our interests and our security. Ukraine, first of all, for which a just and lasting peace must be achieved swiftly, which can only be achieved through balance of power and negotiation. We also welcome the announcement yesterday that P…

18 Jun

2025

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Freedom of assembly in Hungary and the need for the Commission to act (debate)

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You know, I think when we talk about children's rights, he's actually opposed to some kind of children's right, which was artificially built by LGBT lobbyists. We are told that we would have a right to the child, a right to adopt a child, etc. In reality, the fundamental rights of children are to protect them from propaganda. And in any case, we can. Again, these are democratic choices of sovereig…

18 Jun

2025

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Freedom of assembly in Hungary and the need for the Commission to act (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the European Treaties make a clear distinction between the competences of the European Union and the competences of the Member States. Hungary’s 2021 legislation states that it is not possible to ‘promote’, I quote, ‘to minors homosexuality and gender change’. So, of course, everyone is free to agree or disagree with this law, but public order and the protection…

17 Jun

2025

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The Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law report (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, are you aware that this annual rule of law report is actually a joke that totally discredits the European institutions? Your report says, and I quote: Free, independent and pluralistic media are an essential element of the rule of law. Yet the Commission remains silent when the Tusk government shuts down opposition media outlets and has journalists expelled from thei…

7 May

2025

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Resilience and the need to improve the interconnection of energy grid infrastructure in the EU: the first lessons from the blackout in the Iberian Peninsula (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, a few days ago Spain fell into the dark and Europe almost fell into chaos. Why? Because Mr Sánchez's Spanish socialist government wanted to play the best pupil in the European eco-class. In 15 years, Spain has gone from less than 30% to more than 50% of renewable energy and, of course, infrastructure has not followed suit. What prevented contagion on a contin…

3 Apr

2025

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110th anniversary of the Armenian genocide

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, one hundred and ten years since the Armenian people were subjected to a terrible genocide by Turkey, and the executioners have never recognised this genocide. Turkey and its vassal, Azerbaijan, still dream of rebuilding a great Ottoman empire and see Armenia and the Armenian people as an obstacle to this disastrous project. Their will has always been, without in…

1 Apr

2025

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 20 March 2025 (debate)

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Madam President, everything happens! Finally, Brussels sees that the Green Deal is a disaster for our competitiveness, our economy and our businesses. But you don't know how to get rid of it without losing face... Awareness is slow and action is even slower. Suspending the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive is not enough: It simply needs to be repealed. It is not a short respite that our…

13 Mar

2025

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Unlawful detention and sham trials of Armenian hostages, including high-ranking political representatives from Nagorno-Karabakh, by Azerbaijan (RC-B10-0177/2025, B10-0177/2025, B10-0178/2025, B10-0179/2025, B10-0180/2025, B10-0181/2025, B10-0182/2025, B10-0183/2025, B10-0184/2025) (vote)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in connection with this resolution on the detention by Azerbaijan of Armenian hostages, including political leaders from Nagorno-Karabakh, you know that Baku has acknowledged and assumed to have carried out destabilization operations and interference, particularly in French overseas collectivities, in the West Indies and in New Caledonia, where the Baku regime s…

12 Mar

2025

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100 days of the new Commission – Delivering on defence, competitiveness, simplification and migration as our priorities (topical debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, 'simplification', 'protection' and 'competitiveness': one would think that the von der Leyen Commission is still in the election campaign, while forgetting that it will obviously be judged on the acts, not on the words. You claim to simplify: then, repeal the Green Deal and its procession of delusional standards, which are plaguing our industry, our businesses a…

11 Mar

2025

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Presentation of the proposal on a new common approach on returns (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner Brunner, for decades now Europe has been living in a time of urgency, and even chaos, of migration. Legal and illegal immigration combine, and today the loopholes in the current law and the Pact on Migration and Asylum, voted a few months ago, are such that 85% of expulsions that are pronounced by judges are not executed on the territory of the E…

10 Feb

2025

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Escalation of gang violence in Sweden and strengthening the fight against organised crime (debate)

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Madam President, criminal gangs are ravaging Sweden. After decades of irresponsibility and migratory laxity, the Swedish population is now paying the price of blood with two sad records: the first is that of being the first country in terms of firearm mortality in the whole of Europe, the second is that of having 20% of its population that is foreign, or two million immigrants out of ten million i…

22 Jan

2025

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Links between organised crime and smuggling of migrants in light of the recent UN reports (debate)

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Madam President, a few moments ago in Germany, a 41-year-old man and a 2-year-old baby were brutally murdered by an Afghan migrant who should never have entered Europe or remained on European soil, and who should, of course, have been expelled for a long time. We see here the whole failure of the policies that have been carried out by many Member States – it is true – but also by the European inst…

21 Jan

2025

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Geopolitical and economic implications for the transatlantic relations under the new Trump administration (debate)

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Dear colleague, you announced yesterday that you are leaving social network X – we have the acts of resistance that we can – and I hear the deluge of whining in the face of the election of Donald Trump. Trump announced it: He's going to defend American interests, he's going to do America First. It's up to us to make Europe first! It’s up to us to stop shooting ourselves in the foot! It is up to us…

18 Dec

2024

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Preparation of the European Council of 19-20 December 2024 (debate)

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Madam President, the European Council will be largely devoted to the situation in the Middle East, and I believe that any form of naivety must be avoided. Who can reasonably believe that the troops and leaders of Al Qaeda, who have committed the worst atrocities in Syria in recent years, have turned into kind democrats with whom we could work and cooperate. This is obviously completely illusory, a…

17 Dec

2024

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The situation in Mayotte following the devastating cyclone Chido and the need for solidarity (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, tonight we are concerned about the fate of our compatriots in Mahora, about Mayotte, a small island 8,000 kilometres from us, but which today needs our support and solidarity. Mayotte has suffered from Cyclone Chido, which has devastated and bereaved it, as we already have dozens of deaths – and probably hundreds more in the coming days – thousands of wounded an…

17 Dec

2024

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Misinformation and disinformation on social media platforms, such as TikTok, and related risks to the integrity of elections in Europe (debate)

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Mr President, on Friday, two days before the second round of the Romanian presidential election, the Constitutional Court simply annulled the election. In question, a massive and methodical action on social networks, in particular TikTok, for the benefit of Călin Georgescu, candidate who came first in the first round and visibly supported by Russia. The desire to influence the election seems obvio…

25 Nov

2024

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Condemning the illegal unilateral declaration of independence of the secessionist entity in Cyprus and all efforts to legitimise it and reaffirming the need for European solidarity - 41 years after (debate)

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Mr President, 50 years ago, during Operation Attila, Turkish forces invaded Cyprus, depriving this sovereign state of 37% of its territory, causing the death of more than 1,000 Europeans, the disappearance of 1,600 others and the displacement of nearly 200,000 civilians. These are 50 years of occupation, 50 years of suffering for the Cypriots; 50 years of impunity for the authoritarian regime of S…

22 Oct

2024

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General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sections (debate)

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Mr President, as every year, Parliament is asking for more money for the EU budget. It is the money of taxpayers, and in particular of French taxpayers. Only nine countries are net contributors to the EU budget. France paid more than €27 billion in 2023 to recover only half of it. A few budget lines are of course welcome: to protect our borders or support our industry. But the money to finance the…

21 Oct

2024

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A stronger Europe for safer products to better protect consumers and tackle unfair competition: boosting EU oversight in e-commerce and imports (debate)

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Mr President, what is the point of having the highest and most demanding standards in the world if it is to let our market be flooded with imports that do not respect them? What is the point of suffocating our producers with paperwork, taxes, rules, if it is to let their competitors cheat? In the face of unfair competition, the EU must protect its consumers as much as it must defend its businesses…