What Nicolas spoke about.

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Sep

2024

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Need to prevent security threats like the Solingen attack through addressing illegal migration and effective return (debate)

Madam President, a few years ago Angela Merkel opened the German borders wide to bring in more than a million migrants. Today, in haste, his successor, Olaf Scholz, is calling for the suspension of Schengen and the restoration of national borders. At the end of August, the Solingen attack revealed once again the dramatic and bloody consequences of this crazy migration policy. And this attack exten…

12

Mar

2024

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Council and Commission statements - Preparation of the European Council meeting of 21 and 22 March 2024 (debate)

Mr President, the Minister representing the Presidency of the Council told us earlier that it was essential to increase farmers’ wages and simplify administrative burdens. But the European Union cannot constantly play firefighters. Today, we have farmers, most of whom are not employees. They are independent. They just want to be able to live decently from the fruits of their work and feed our coun…

28

Feb

2024

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Report on the Commission’s 2023 Rule of Law report (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, this annual report is a reissue of the previous one, an endless litany of political attacks against your opponents, against those who refuse the European Commission's injunctions. As always, you take advantage of the rule of law and pretend to act on behalf of this vague concept, which remains variable in geometry, according to your interests and enemies of the …

27

Feb

2024

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Closer ties between the EU and Armenia and the need for a peace agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia (debate)

Mr President, a few days ago, at the Munich conference, dictator Aliev said that he considered the border between his country and Armenia to be conditional. Clearly, it is preparing its next military offensives and invasions. There is, as we know, a hegemonic desire of Islamist Turkey and its Azerbaijani vassal, with clearly two objectives, to annex Armenian territory and annihilate the Armenian p…

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Feb

2024

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Conclusions of the European Council meetings, in particular the special European Council meeting of 1 February 2024 (debate)

Madam President, in the face of the anger of our farmers, Emmanuel Macron has trumpeted having interrupted the negotiations for the trade agreement with the Mercosur countries. Unlucky, the Commission has assured that this is not the case. It will continue to negotiate and even hopes to conclude before June. One more free trade agreement, which will contribute to the death of French and European a…

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Jan

2024

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Presentation of the programme of activities of the Belgian Presidency (debate)

Madam President, Prime Minister, less than a month ago the Spanish Presidency of the EU concluded with an agreement on the migration pact. While the invasion of Europe continues with 270 000 illegal immigrants arriving on our shores and more than one million asylum applications in 2023, this agreement is obviously unacceptable. The distribution of migrants remains the keystone of this disastrous p…

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Nov

2023

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Threat to rule of law as a consequence of the governmental agreement in Spain (debate)

Mr President, in recent days, the Spanish people have been on the streets protesting against the treason of their Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, a minority in the ballot box, who is openly violating the Constitution by allying himself with Catalan separatist criminals to stay in power. The Commission and Parliament keep talking about the rule of law in Poland, Hungary and everywhere else in the wo…

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Nov

2023

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Continuing threat to the rule of law, the independence of justice and the non-fulfilment of conditionality for EU funding in Hungary (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, there is still a debate on Viktor Orbán’s Hungary, with the same rhetoric, the same imaginary threats to the rule of law, to activist journalists and to LGBT activists. Nothing has ever been demonstrated, as I was able to see when I visited Budapest two years ago as part of an official mission of our Parliament. And there is obviously nothing new. So what, th…

18

Oct

2023

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A true geopolitical Europe now (topical debate)

Madam President, if you want a Europe that has the geopolitics of its civilization and its interests, start by stopping your hollow speeches, your moral lessons to the whole Earth, your innumerable haughty and sufficient resolutions that make us alienate the rest of the world. Stop humiliating us to those who despise or threaten us, because today the list is endless, your servility towards Biden, …

18

Oct

2023

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The despicable terrorist attacks by Hamas against Israel, Israel’s right to defend itself in line with humanitarian and international law and the humanitarian situation in Gaza (debate)

Mr President, Hamas jihadists have attacked Israel at horrific heights: massacre of young people in a festival, rape and torture, kidnapping of families and murder of children. However, some in France, and right here in this Chamber, refuse to say that Hamas is a terrorist movement. They must be understood: Hamas supporters are their voters, the millions of unassimilated, unassimilable immigrants …

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Oct

2023

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Situation in Nagorno-Karabakh after Azerbaijan’s attack and the continuing threats against Armenia (debate)

Madam President, a few days ago, Azerbaijan invaded Armenia, annexing Nagorno-Karabakh and forcing 100,000 Armenian refugees to flee today from theft, rape, looting and death. Azerbaijan, which, as always, is behaving in the armed arms of Turkey. Turkey, which, after the genocide of 1915, tirelessly pursues its desire to build a great Ottoman Muslim empire with the key to the outright eradication …

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Oct

2023

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Interim report on the proposal for a mid-term revision of the Multiannual Financial Framework 2021-2027 (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, like other economic areas in the world, the European Union is affected by inflation and the consequences of the war in Ukraine. But while any household would simply think of cutting spending, the Commission has a magic formula: ask for more and more money from the Member States, i.e. from European taxpayers and in particular from France, since France is one o…

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Sep

2023

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EU-Tunisia Agreement - aspects related to external migration policy (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the migration agreement between the European Union and Tunisia is promising, and President Saïed deserves our support. The Maghreb countries are at the forefront of immigration, which is now precipitating an assault on Europe. They too suffer from the poverty and crime brought on by the ever-increasing number of migrants. More than 100 000 in Italy alone since t…

11

Sep

2023

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Renewable Energy Directive (debate)

Mr President, last year, and for the first time in 40 years, the French wondered whether they could heat up in winter. This was the consequence of Emmanuel Macron’s ideological choice to sacrifice nuclear power and close the Fessenheim power plant. Giving up clean, inexpensive and efficient energy in favour of intermittent, expensive energy, which makes us dependent on China and requires the activ…

12

Jul

2023

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Tax the rich (topical debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, endless taxation at ever heavier rates is the only policy the left seems capable of, for which wealth starts from the middle class. Overtaxing does not reduce inequality, but places an unreasonable burden on those who pay taxes without making those who do not pay wealthier. Moreover, this does not increase the State’s resources either. The stifling taxation p…

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Jul

2023

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The need for EU action on search and rescue in the Mediterranean (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, 8.4 million migrants have applied for asylum in the European Union since 2014. This is almost the equivalent of Austria as a whole. And they will continue to come by the millions as long as you continue to welcome them and want to distribute them. It is your fault that some people die at sea, taking all the risks, motivated by your laxity, your blindness, you…

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Jun

2023

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Make Europe the place to invest (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, in order to attract investment to Europe, it is necessary to stop being the most imposed, the most regulated and, at the same time, the least protected economic area in the world. We must not only attract foreign capital, we must first ensure that European economic actors invest in our continent instead of fleeing it. So stop regulation, the endless stacking …

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Jun

2023

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This is Europe - Debate with the President of Cyprus, Nikos Christodoulides (debate)

Mr President, it has been fifty years since Turkey invaded Cyprus. After the conquest by brutality came that, more durable, by demography. Ankara has sent tens of thousands of Turks to populate the northern half of the island, administered by a puppet government, which is not recognised by anyone. This does not prevent Sultan Erdoğan from constantly provoking, regularly calling for the partition o…

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May

2023

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Externalising asylum applications and making funding to third countries conditional on the implementation of return agreements (topical debate)

Madam President, the migratory chaos has been uninterrupted since 2015. Europe and Italy on the frontline are now at risk of submersion. Courageously, Giorgia Meloni is lucid and faces, while only a few months ago Emmanuel Macron was rushing to welcome the Ocean Viking and its illegal immigrants to Toulon. Gérald Darmanin, who dares to do anything, now claims to teach Italy a lesson when he allows…

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Apr

2023

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The need for a coherent strategy for EU-China Relations (debate)

Mr President, what a failure, what a humiliation for Emmanuel Macron, who managed the tour de force to get nothing from Beijing and, at the same time, to offend our closest allies. By going to China to speak on behalf of Europe, without a Council mandate, speaking too much, as usual, asserting positions contrary to those of several of our friends and allies, Emmanuel Macron once again lowered Fran…

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Mar

2023

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2022 Rule of Law Report - The rule of law situation in the European Union - Rule of law in Greece - Rule of law in Spain - Rule of law in Malta (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, as you do every year, you bring us the endless litany of your grievances against democratically elected governments. Poland and Hungary are once again your targets, always in the name of a rule of law with variable geometry. Your permanent simagrées do not actually deceive anyone. These manoeuvres and big words have only one purpose: Punish those who don't think…

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Mar

2023

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Deaths at sea: a common EU response to save lives and action to ensure safe and legal pathways (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, as the United Kingdom finally announces firm measures to combat illegal immigration, while Italy anticipates a real invasion and Europe should do everything to protect its borders, while NGOs are complicit in human trafficking, while your procrastination, laxity and cowardice are responsible for the deaths at sea, you want to go even further, even further. The s…

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Mar

2023

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This is Europe - Debate with the President of Lithuania, Gitanas Nausėda (debate)

Madam President, Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, last Friday in Washington, Ursula von der Leyen submitted to Joe Biden. Without a mandate from the Council, the President of the European Commission announced our full alignment with US interests. She sacrificed our auto industry and promised an agreement on rare earth minerals. It is thus part, without any control, of a dangerous US strategy of…

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Feb

2023

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A Green Deal Industrial Plan for the Net-Zero Age (continuation of debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, for years we have allowed the whole world to benefit from our subsidies in the name of combating global warming. Foreign companies have enriched themselves with our money. Today, the US supports its electric car industry, exclusively subsidises US companies and therefore discards ours. It is an act of trade war. Et vous découvrez, avec une candeur stupéfiante, q…

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Feb

2023

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Preparation of the Special European Council meeting of February, in particular the need to develop sustainable solutions in the area of asylum and migration (debate)

Dear colleague, you only consider official migrants. In fact, in a country like France alone, we have 400 000 legal entries per year, when we count residence permits, plus unaccompanied minors, plus asylum seekers, the vast majority of whom do not meet the criteria for obtaining the right to asylum. And we have this phenomenon in the 27 countries of the European Union, which obviously leads to mil…