What Gilles spoke about.

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Jul

2025

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EU-US trade negotiations (debate)

Mr President, the European Commission's software is has been, cheesy, overwhelmed. Clinging to the dogma of free trade and open borders, the European Union does not see that the world has changed. Great powers, such as China and the United States, have ended liberal globalization and are protecting their economies. Meanwhile, the Commission is negotiating free trade treaties with Ukraine and Merco…

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Jun

2025

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Electricity grids: the backbone of the EU energy system (debate)

Madam President, the offshore wind farm of Saint Brieuc, in Brittany, France, has been entrusted to the multinational Iberdrola, which charges EDF the megawatt hour at €155 while production by a French nuclear power plant is €65 per megawatt hour. To this must be added the connection, the network, which costs a fortune: 20 € per megawatt hour. France also announced a $37 billion multi-year plan to…

17

Jun

2025

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

Madam President, the European Commission gives grades, good grades, bad grades. Its members are judges, jurors and why not executioners? But does the European Union not violate the rule of law when it stifles the scandals of Pfizergate, Qatargate that affect its highest authorities? Does the European Union not violate the rule of law when it intervenes illegally in the electoral processes of Roman…

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May

2025

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High levels of retail food prices and their consequences for European consumers (debate)

Madam President, it is the fault of others, it is Putin's fault, it is the fault of COVID, it is Trump's fault, it is China's fault if food prices rise. In reality, the European Union refuses to look at its own responsibilities. If many food prices soar, it is also due, for example, to this inefficient and dramatic European energy market, which means that electricity is indexed to gas and that all…

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Apr

2025

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Threat to freedom of expression in Algeria: the five-year prison sentence of French writer Boualem Sansal (debate)

Mr President, Algeria is not a democracy. Some seem to be discovering it today. This tyrannical regime has despised and persecuted freedom of expression for 63 years. This regime, which has completely failed, which is a veritable economic and social bankruptcy and which hides behind a memorial rent to the detriment of France, is now in the spotlight because it has locked up in its prisons a great …

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Apr

2025

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

Madam President, people across Europe are rising up to challenge the authoritarian drift of the European Union and the authoritarian drift of Ms von der Leyen. In the face of this, as in all dictatorships, there is a stiffening, a surge of authoritarianism and liberticidal excesses. We saw this at the European Council of 20 March, where some, including in this parliamentary assembly, challenged wh…

13

Mar

2025

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A Vision for Agriculture and Food (debate)

Mr President, everyone in the Chamber is interested in agriculture. We even saw, just now, the president of the Renew Group talking about agriculture, even though she has never set foot, as a full member, in the AGRI Committee. Commissioner, you met a lot of farmers and actors at the Agriculture Show. They all told you the same thing: They told you that they did not want Mercosur, that they did no…

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Mar

2025

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Adoption of the proposal for a Parenthood Regulation (debate)

Mr President, the European Parenthood Certificate, included in the official programme of the European Commission for 2025, confirms its willingness to impose this regulation, like a dictatorship, despite the opposition expressed by several Member States (Italy, Sweden, Slovakia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Romania) in the Council in June 2024. Why are the Commission and the European Parliament persevering …

13

Feb

2025

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EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, I would like to talk to you about a Breton chicken farmer named Patrick. He works long hours all day and in the evening he spends many hours on his computer dealing with the tsunami of your standards: the 160 pages of rules that the European Union has imposed on the poultry sector. He saw his production costs rise, his income collapse. He learns one day that Pedro, a Br…

13

Feb

2025

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EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement (debate)

Dear colleague, you have presented us with all the good points that the EPP Group sees in this agreement with Mercosur, but I would like to ask you a simple question: How will you, when you go home, explain to our farmers that this agreement with Mercosur is good? How are you going to tell them that they are not competing unfairly? How are you going to explain to them that you're putting them in c…

12

Feb

2025

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Commission Work Programme 2025 (debate)

Madam President, the European Union faces three challenges: the first, the migratory flood that threatens the identity, freedoms and security, and finances of Europeans. And you are responding to them with this pact on migration and asylum, which, of course, will accelerate this flooding. The second challenge facing Europe is, of course, competitiveness and the lack of competitiveness. You are res…

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Jan

2025

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Heat record year 2024 - the need for climate action to fight global warming (debate)

Mr. Speaker, climate change exists, it has always existed. On the other hand, what is unacceptable is this climate catastrophism of the ‘Green Khmers’, because it makes it possible to justify tsunamis of constraints, standards and regulations that penalise the European Union’s economy, the most virtuous in the world. The EU has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 33.9% since 1990. China has in…

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Dec

2024

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Challenges facing EU farmers and agricultural workers: improving working conditions, including their mental well-being (debate)

Mr President, one evening my children come home from school and say to me: “My friends weren’t at school today.” They weren’t there because they heard that their dad had put an end to his life in the farm building. This dairy farmer actually committed suicide, as happens every other day in France. He did not end his life because of the physical difficulties of his job, or because of remoteness or …

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Dec

2024

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Restoring the EU’s competitive edge – the need for an impact assessment on the Green Deal policies (topical debate)

Mr President, the Green Deal was born in the brains ravaged by the ideology of a few pseudo-ecologists, those whom I personally call the ‘Green Khmers’, because they want to destroy everything, starting with the economic power of the European Union. What is regrettable is that the European Commission persists in this ideological delirium. I note that, from the very beginning, this Green Deal was i…

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Nov

2024

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Topical debate (Rule 169) - Budapest Declaration on the New European Competitiveness Deal - A future for the farming and manufacturing sectors in the EU (topical debate)

Mr President, under the leadership of Viktor Orban and following the Letta and Draghi report, the European Heads of State have only noted what we have been denouncing for a long time: the loss of competitiveness of the European Union and the widening gap with China, the United States and the world's major powers. Whose fault is it? Whose fault is it? No one's telling us. It is the fault of this Eu…

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Nov

2024

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Enhancing Europe’s civilian and defence preparedness and readiness (debate)

Madam President, in a deteriorating security and strategic environment, the European Union is unable to anticipate crises. But on the other hand, we notice that it takes advantage of them, in each crisis, to grant itself competences that the Treaties do not give it. As we have already said, among the key threats that are forgotten in this report are migration flooding and Islamism infiltrating eve…

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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)

Mr President, of course we in the Patriots for Europe Group can only welcome the intention to protect European consumers. However, the Letta report shows us that we are witnessing an increase in fraud, an increase in unfair competition and these famous imports of dangerous products. So certainly, we talked a lot about toys. I would also like to talk about medicines, for example, which are extremel…

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Oct

2024

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Preparation of the European Council of 17-18 October 2024 (debate)

Mr President, on a historical scale, Europe is experiencing massive immigration, an unprecedented migratory flood. The peoples of Europe no longer want it, the peoples of Europe no longer can. They have demonstrated this in the last elections, European of course, but also national. This massive immigration has, everywhere in Europe, a very high cost. It threatens our identity and our way of life. …

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Sep

2024

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Droughts and extreme weather events as a threat to local communities and EU agriculture in times of climate change (debate)

Mr. Speaker, extreme weather events have always existed, but in the past our farmers, who had solid wages and stocks, faced them. Today, this is no longer the case. The solution, of course, is not agricultural degrowth. On the contrary, we must ensure our food sovereignty and, contrary to what environmentalists want, increase scientific and technical progress. In the field of drought the solution …

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Sep

2024

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Mr President, the prospect of signing a free trade agreement with Mercosur was one of the main reasons for the major farmers' demonstrations in France and in many countries a few weeks ago. President Macron lied to the French by telling them that these negotiations were stopped. We learn that, since the beginning of September, the Commission has been negotiating at a slow pace and is preparing to …

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Sep

2024

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Outcome of the Strategic Dialogue on the Future of EU Agriculture (debate)

Mr President, this 110-page report already raises legitimate concerns in the French and European countryside. The anger of the farmers and their legitimate demands of the beginning of 2024 have not been heard at all. We are being asked for even more agricultural degrowth, i.e. to reduce production. We are asked for even more environmental standards, and then, of course, we stigmatize breeding and …