What Gilles spoke about.

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Jul

2026

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2025 Commission report on Ukraine (A10-0172/2026 - Michael Gahler) (vote)

Mr President, the prospect of Ukraine joining the European Union would pose a major threat to the agriculture of our nations. Our farmers have already been suffering the consequences since 2022. The liberalisation of Ukrainian agricultural imports, which only the Patriot Group has fought against from the outset, has led to the massive arrival of sugar, cereals and poultry on the European market, t…

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Jul

2026

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EU-Mexico (joint debate)

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Jun

2026

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Preparation of the European Council (joint debate)

Mr President, farmers are used to the bad news from Brussels. The announced reduction of the future CAP budget, free trade treaties, constraints. They have just learned of the formalisation of the start of negotiations for Ukraine's entry into the European Union. Ukraine is an agricultural giant, as we all know, which is already favoured by the European Union, by an association contract that cause…

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May

2026

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Presentation of the Fertilisers Action Plan (debate)

Madam President, while the degrowthists who sit in this House and have influenced the European Commission so much, our farmers need fertilisers to ensure our food security. We know the current crisis, it is very serious. The European Union bears a huge responsibility for the soaring price of fertilisers. We sanctioned Russian gas, we learned no lessons from the 2022 crisis, we did nothing to creat…

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Apr

2026

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How to secure a sustainable future for the EU livestock sector in light of the need to ensure food security, farmers’ resilience and the challenges posed by animal diseases? (debate)

Mr President, first of all, congratulations to Mr Fidanza on his report. He tells us that for this sector, which is essential for our food sovereignty and the preservation of our landscapes, we must turn our backs on the policies pursued for years in Brussels. We must put an end, for example, to absurd standards, those which, for example, equate livestock buildings with industrial installations. T…

29

Apr

2026

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EU strategy in response to the ongoing Middle East crisis, its implications on energy prices and the availability of fertilizers (joint debate)

Madam President, this international crisis once again highlights the flaws in the European Union's energy policy. As Germany has demanded – is it not, Mr Weber? – relayed by some Heads of State such as Emmanuel Macron in France – isn’t that right, Mrs Hayer? – you have sabotaged and weakened the role of nuclear power, which is a stable and decarbonised source of energy. You have therefore increase…

25

Mar

2026

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 19 March 2026 (debate)

Madam President, in the conclusions of the European Council of 19 March, it is stated that we must, I quote, 'reduce our dependencies'. Who are we kidding? After the disastrous Mercosur treaty imposed by a coup de force on 1 ᵉʳ May by the European Commission, the free trade treaty with Australia was signed on 24 March. As in the treaty with South America, it is our agriculture that …

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Mar

2026

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Multilateral negotiations in view of the WTO’s 14th Ministerial Conference in Yaoundé, 26 to 29 March 2026 (debate)

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Mar

2026

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Cutting red tape to enable a competitive and clean transition – the urgent need to shorten and simplify permitting (debate)

Mr President, the reduction in the share of nuclear power was a strategic mistake on the part of the European Union – statement byme von der Leyen, President of the Commission. Definitely, backpedaling seems to be the norm, it is the case to say, in the corridors of the European Union, because we have the same exercise today with administrative standards. Indeed, who has covered our companies and …

12

Feb

2026

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Cooperation among enforcement authorities regarding unfair trading practices in the agri-food supply chain (debate)

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Feb

2026

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Cooperation among enforcement authorities regarding unfair trading practices in the agri-food supply chain (debate)

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Feb

2026

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Amending Regulations on agricultural products as regards market rules and sectoral support measures in the wine sector and for aromatised wine products (debate)

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Jan

2026

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Preparations for the EU-India summit (debate)

Yes, of course, I agree with you. And that's why I say stop these free trade treaties. I say stop this madness that makes us open all our borders to countries that do not have the same social and environmental rules as our companies. So yes, you are right, I think it would make our deficit worse. This does not prevent European states from cooperating bilaterally with this major country, which is v…

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Jan

2026

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Preparations for the EU-India summit (debate)

Madam President, utterly ignoring the anger and emotion caused by the Mercosur Treaty among our farmers, among the people of many European states, Mrs von der Leyen is not even waiting for this Mercosur Treaty to be really decided to announce new free trade treaties with India, Malaysia, etc. While the major powers of the world, such as the United States or China, are protecting their economies, t…

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Dec

2025

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2030 Consumer Agenda (debate)

Mr President, this ‘2030 Agenda’, supposedly intended to strengthen consumer protection, is in reality only a new technocratic construction of the European Commission – as it has the secret – and an additional attack on the sovereignty of nations. Your ambition – I quote – is to ‘complete the single market’, that is to say, to launch a new offensive against national borders, which will only aggrav…

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)

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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 Speaker, the footage we saw this weekend on TV is unacceptable. The French government's response to a serious crisis is unacceptable. While this government is unable to restore order in the suburbs and around the Eiffel Tower, it is sending armoured vehicles and helicopters in the face of suffering people, in the face of a world of livestock in distress, already overwhelmed by the bad news o…

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Nov

2025

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

I have the impression, dear colleague, that you are an ambassador of the Chinese economy. That's not my case. Let me remind you that China emits 30% of greenhouse gas emissions, the European Union 7%. And you continue, with your policy, the one you support, to penalize our companies that suffer unfair competition. So, yes, you defended China, I defend the European Union and France.…

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Nov

2025

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

Madam President, until some time ago, the supporters of happy globalisation, the supporters of ultra-liberal globalisation who sit on the European Union's bodies, told us that we had to open our borders with China. They would sell us t-shirts, bad toys, but we would keep high technology, planes, cars. Where are we today? It is the bankruptcy of the software of the European Union. The European Unio…

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Oct

2025

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UN Climate Change Conference 2025 in Belém, Brazil (COP30) (debate)

Madam President, Europe has been the cradle of democracy. From Archimedes to Einstein, she invented the great scientific discoveries. From Aristotle to Voltaire, she irrigated the world of her philosophy. It was the cradle of the Industrial Revolution. It has always been at the forefront of the pioneering spirit. Today, Mrs von der Leyen's Europe is nothing more than a technocratic machine that pr…

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Oct

2025

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 23 October 2025 (debate)

Madam President, immigration will once again be on the agenda of the European Council. But do its leaders listen to the peoples of Europe? They say it everywhere. The peoples of Europe no longer want mass immigration, they can no longer do so. This massive immigration threatens their freedom, their identity, their portfolio of course, and especially their security. Because this is the trial in Fra…

8

Oct

2025

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Europe’s automotive future – reversing the ban on the sale of combustion cars in the EU (topical debate)

Mr President, two years ago, in this Chamber, a majority of Members voted to end thermal cars in 2035. In an outpouring of collective blindness inspired by the Khmer Greens, Europe was actually sealing the fate of its industry and denying one of the most vivid expressions of its genius: the automobile. Two years will have been enough to measure the extent of this suicidal choice. The visible and o…

7

Oct

2025

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Common agricultural policy (joint debate)

Mr President, we must defend the farmer's place in the supply chain; On this point, of course, we fully agree. But it is a tree that hides the forest, a very hostile forest for our farmers. They ask us and they ask you, Commissioner: Why are you abandoning them? Why are you weakening the future CAP budget and future direct aids? Why do you continue to impose on them the disastrous Green Deal, uniq…

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Sep

2025

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China’s unjustified decision to impose duties on imports of pork products from the EU and the need to support European farmers and workers (debate)

Mr President, the collapse of the CAP budget, the disastrous Mercosur Treaty, the capitulation to US wine and spirits taxes, the inflation of standards and constraints on our farmers and now, as we have just seen, a soft reaction to Chinese taxes on our pork exports. I am originally from Brittany, where I live, the main French pig farming region, and our breeders are excessively worried. They are …

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Jul

2025

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Post-2027 Common Agricultural Policy (debate)

Madam President, the agricultural crisis is deep, and it is getting worse. The current CAP, which broke with the spirit of 1962, is the main cause. We must therefore turn our backs on our choices, which are often guided by ideology. Farmers will never live off their jobs as long as you organise unfair competition, as illustrated by the disastrous deal with Mercosur. They will never live off their …