What Nicolas spoke about.

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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)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, by 2050 Africans will be 2.5 billion and 52% of their youth have the ambition to come to Europe. More than 7 million have applied for asylum since 2014, the equivalent of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in France or Bulgaria as a whole. Each manifestation of weakness pushes them to try their luck, to leave their country and their roots to throw themselves into t…

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Jan

2023

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

Madam President, Prime Minister, the right is back in power in Sweden and already the Europeans are the beneficiaries. Stockholm made this clear very quickly: its presidency of the European Union will not be that of the distribution of migrants. After decades of unrestricted openness and reception, to the point that one fifth of the country’s population was born abroad, it is now clear: the explos…

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Dec

2022

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This is Europe - Debate with the Prime Minister of Slovenia, Robert Golob (debate)

Madam President, Prime Minister, some of our colleagues are not with us this morning because they are sleeping in prison. Officials and, above all, several MEPs are suspected of corruption and of having received money from Qatar to influence EU policy. All come from the ranks of the moral left. All are actors or relays of these NGOs that claim to dictate the good and the just to the legitimately e…

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Nov

2022

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The need for a European solution on asylum and migration including search and rescue (debate)

Mr President, the Ocean Viking is made up of 234 illegal immigrants, only 23 of whom are women, staying in a hotel at the expense of the French. 123 have already been denied asylum, but almost all are now at liberty because the French government is unable to deport them. 26 of the 44 so-called unaccompanied minors, who are mostly neither, also fainted in the wild. And now, how many of them are goi…

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Nov

2022

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Racial justice, non-discrimination and anti-racism in the EU (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, for decades now the so-called anti-racism has become a true religion, designed to make Europeans feel guilty and accept what no other people accept anywhere on the planet, that is to say massive, anarchic immigration, whose flows are increasing and against which it is now forbidden to speak out. We are asked to push ourselves and make room for newcomers, asked t…

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Oct

2022

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Presentation of the Court of Auditors' annual report 2021 (debate)

Madam President, on the annual budget, it is time to have a discussion that the Commission is systematically trying to avoid. The budget of the European Union, the money of Europeans, that is to say our money, is now being used to finance Islamism. At least €36 million paid between 2014 and 2019 to networks linked to the Muslim Brotherhood or Hamas or supporting jihadist groups. More than €1 milli…

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Sep

2022

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Existence of a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is founded (debate)

Madam President, once again you condemn Hungary. Why? Because it does not submit to your moral injunctions, to the so-called values that you constantly have in your mouth. Diversity, openness, inclusivity, LGBT propaganda, deconstruction of our history... All these harmful concepts, Viktor Orbán's Hungary rejects them and she is right. She is proud of her history and identity. She protects her chi…

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Apr

2022

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Ongoing hearings under Article 7(1) TEU regarding Poland and Hungary (debate)

Madam President, yesterday, Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission, announced a new series of sanctions and a new procedure against Hungary. But what crime did Viktor Orbán commit? He was re-elected on Sunday with an absolute majority, the most comfortable in Europe. He is the best-elected head of government in the entire European Union. And of course, on this occasion, the…

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Feb

2022

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EU-Africa relations (debate)

Madam President, Mr High Representative, last week in Dakar, Ursula von der Leyen announced more than EUR 150 billion for Africa over the 2021-2027 period, in addition to EUR 29 billion for sub-Saharan Africa under the new Neighbourhood and Cooperation Instrument. What is the counterpart to all this money? Commercially, the volume of trade between the European Union and Africa has been stable for …

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Jan

2022

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

Madam President, Mr President of the Republic, we remember September 2017, your speech at the Sorbonne, the display of a certain European ambition that has proved, every day of your mandate, increasingly empty and often very arrogant. Today is the dawn of a new election. President but above all candidate, you use, although you defended the French presidency of the European Union as a communication…

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Dec

2021

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 16-17 December 2021 - The EU's response to the global resurgence of Covid-19 and the new emerging Covid variants (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, with rising energy prices, many Europeans will find it difficult to warm up this winter. The green madness that has taken over Brussels and is likely to worsen with the new German government wants to exclude nuclear energy from the energy needed to combat carbon emissions, despite the fact that it is the Commission’s single reading grid – and indeed a reducing f…

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Nov

2021

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Situation in Belarus and at its border with the EU and the security and humanitarian consequences (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we are once again debating the crisis at the Belarusian border. Let's be clear: Chartering charter flights to bring migrants home is arguably the most responsible and humanitarian policy. To expel is to protect. Protect migrants, first instrumentalised by the Belarusian authorities and pushed towards the border. Of course, no one forced them to embark from Baghd…

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Nov

2021

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The escalating humanitarian crisis on the EU-Belarusian border, in particular in Poland (debate)

Madam President, for several months now, Lithuania and Poland have been subjected to the migratory pressure and blackmail methodically organised by Belarus, which is implementing a real air bridge between the Middle East and Minsk in order to dump tens of thousands of illegal immigrants on our doorstep. Lukashenko acts as Erdoğan did before him, who was never sanctioned. On Monday, I was in Lithua…

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Oct

2021

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The Rule of law crisis in Poland and the primacy of EU law (debate)

Mr President, Madam President, Prime Minister, ladies and gentlemen, where does legitimacy lie? Who defends freedom? Is the rule of law severable from national and popular sovereignty? Is an array of Commissioners, civil servants and elected officials from other countries legitimate to dictate to a people what their way of life and governance should be? This is the whole issue that brings us toget…

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Oct

2021

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European Union Agency for Asylum (debate)

Mr President, when it comes to asylum, it would be reasonable to finally return to the strict definition of a refugee, as set out in the Geneva Convention. I quote: ‘any person who has a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion’. Today, we see hundreds of thousands of refugees who claim to be flee…

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Sep

2021

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State of the Union (debate)

Mr President, Mrs von der Leyen, you have given us an endless speech, as usual, on the state of the Union. It is remembered that you are happy with yourself, but you are the only one. On immigration, 2015 had already marked the mistakes and failures of the European institutions. Today, the situation is increasingly catastrophic and the pressure at our external borders is increasing. Lithuania and …

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Jul

2021

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 24-25 June 2021 (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, an additional EUR 3 billion for Turkey is the decision taken by the Council which, Mrs von der Leyen, you were very pleased to announce. You may hope that Erdoğan will be grateful by reserving a seat for you at your next meeting. This new envelope extends the EU-Turkey agreement on migrants. While Ankara is supposed, in return for this money, to control migratio…