What Jordan spoke about.

11 Mar

2025

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European Council meetings and European security (joint debate)

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Madam President, President von der Leyen, you are caught up in the history and reality of a world you have always rejected – a world in which you thought it right and just to delegate our security to the United States, our industries to China and our energy policy to Russia. The lesson of the last ten days is that of all humanity: A nation that does not master its weapons, its economy or its desti…

12 Feb

2025

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Commission Work Programme 2025 (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, why do you hate those who create wealth so much? For the past five years, you have been working with the Commission to make Europe a living hell for our companies. Today, at the foot of the wall, Ursula von der Leyen believes it is good to offer us shock therapy. After decades of mind-boggling commercial naivety, suffocating our business leaders and farmers under a d…

23 Jan

2025

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Composition of committees and delegations

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Rule 133 of the Rules of Procedure on Commission statements!

23 Jan

2025

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Composition of committees and delegations

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...I have 30 seconds left, so I'll go to the end, ma'am, please.

23 Jan

2025

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Composition of committees and delegations

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... Article 133 on Commission declarations!...

23 Jan

2025

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Composition of committees and delegations

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... This is a point of order under Rule 133...

23 Jan

2025

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Composition of committees and delegations

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I would like to make a point of order, please, on the basis of Rule 133 concerning the Commission's statements. Since taking office, President Trump has signed dozens of executive orders, showing his willingness to implement his program without delay and forcefully. The European Commission has been in place for two months.…

22 Jan

2025

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 19 December 2024 (debate)

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Madam President, Madam President of the European Commission, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, from Ukraine to the Middle East, from Moldova to Georgia to Venezuela, the agenda for the last European Council was provided, and there were many concerns about the great unrest in our world. However, it was not considered appropriate to raise the burning issue of Algeria, despite the arbitrary arre…

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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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Donald Trump's return to the summit and the first hours of his mandate sent a clear and uncompromising message to the rest of the world: America first. Its triumphant election is the alliance of the middle classes and the entrepreneurial elite. It is the healthy reaction of a people whose expectations have been forgotten, whose flag has been despised and whos…

18 Dec

2024

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Composition of political groups

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Mr President, I would like to make a point of order, on the basis of Rules 212 and 213 of the Rules of Procedure, to denounce the creation today of four new committees in this Parliament, which already has 20. Four new committees – on defence, health, housing and a so-called democratic shield – are taking away sovereign prerogatives. Ladies and gentlemen, the European Parliament is once again stub…

18 Dec

2024

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

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Madam President, Madam President von der Leyen, will you dare to look French farmers in the eye? A few days ago, on your own initiative, and obviously on behalf of all of us, you went to Uruguay to conclude a free trade agreement with Mercosur, which is about to sign the death of thousands of French farms. The next day, like the admission of an economic and political crime, you hurriedly gave up y…

17 Dec

2024

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Amendment of the agenda

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Madam President, I would like to make a point of order, please, on the basis of Rule 133. We learn from an article from Figaro of 1 December, that the roadmap of the Commissioner for Energy had been modified on the sly after his hearing. This amendment is not trivial since it requires it to increase the share of renewable energy in the energy mix by 2041, and such a target would mechanically reduc…

17 Dec

2024

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Toppling of the Syrian regime, its geopolitical implications and the humanitarian situation in the region (debate)

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Mr President, a bloodthirsty dictator has fallen; the heirs of Daesh and Al-Qaeda prevailed. If the fall of the Assad dynasty opens a new chapter in the country’s history, Al-Joulani’s Syria risks being so bleak. These jihadists would have become freedom fighters, according to the astonished comments of some Western chancelleries, but unfortunately the fate of the Syrian people seems to be part of…

27 Nov

2024

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Presentation by the President-elect of the Commission of the College of Commissioners and its programme (debate)

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Madam President, Madam President of the European Commission, after a mandate marked by many failures and scandals, after elections marked by an unprecedented challenge to the functioning of the European Union, you are today presenting us with the new team that will form the European Commission. These European commissioners are anonymous, unknown to the general public. They were not elected by anyo…

13 Nov

2024

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EU-US relations in light of the outcome of the US presidential elections (debate)

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Madam President, Mr Borrell, on 5 November, Donald Trump was elected the 47th President of the United States of America. By his patriotism, by his voluntarism, Donald Trump embodies the promise to defend America first. This is probably a shock here for the European Commission, but it is nevertheless the primary duty that the peoples entrust to their leaders in all the countries of the world. Becau…

22 Oct

2024

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Situation in Azerbaijan, violation of human rights and international law and relations with Armenia (debate)

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Mr President. Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, after the collapse of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic following the military operations carried out by Azerbaijan in September 2023, Armenia is now the target of the expansionist ambitions of the Aliyev regime. The Azerbaijani regime, enriched by the money it receives from Europe for the purchase of its gas and assisted by Sultan Erdoğan, is stepping…

22 Oct

2024

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Urgent need for a ceasefire in Lebanon and for safeguarding the UNIFIL mission in light of the recent attacks (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, on 10 October 2024, the UN peacekeepers’ contingent in Lebanon was the target of voluntary fire by the Israeli army. I mean here that no country, no democracy can tolerate this kind of deliberate aggression. For almost a year, with the sole aim of ensuring its survival, Israel has been engaged in a legitimate fight to neutralise Islamist totalitarianism in th…

8 Oct

2024

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Resumption of the sitting

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Mr President, I would like to make a point of order, please, on the basis of Rule 73, for a personal questioning on the part of Mr Borrell, who has just left us. On the occasion of the debate on the commemorations of the massacres of 7 October, the head of European diplomacy, Mr Borrell, specifically called me into question by losing his means and calling me a defamer, because I pointed to the mis…

7 Oct

2024

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The reintroduction of internal border controls in a number of Member States and its impact on the Schengen Area (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, this is the end of a myth, that of a Europe without borders, which is supposed to lead us to peace and prosperity. So here is the end of an ancient illusion that dwelt and still dwells in the spirits of this house and this continent for 30 years. During the European election campaign, we proposed for our country, France, the establishment of a double border, which wo…

7 Oct

2024

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One year after the 7 October terrorist attacks by Hamas (debate)

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Madam President, Mr Borrell, on 7 October 2023, Hamas’s Islamist barbarism struck with indescribable horror. Within a few unsustainable minutes, Israel was experiencing both its 9/11 and its Bataclan. This date will remain engraved in our memories, because it changed the face of the world. It has changed the face of the world as much as it has accelerated hatred and liberated a word and violence t…

18 Jul

2024

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Statement by the candidate for President of the Commission (debate)

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Madam President, Mrs von der Leyen, the elections to the European Parliament last June delivered their lessons and no one can ignore them: by strengthening patriotic parties across the continent, by disavowing the centrists, the left and the greens, who are undergoing significant ebbs, the peoples of Europe have voiced their aspiration for protection, for the defence of their identity and, above a…

17 Jul

2024

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The need for the EU's continuous support for Ukraine (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, on 24 February 2022, we witnessed the return of the tragedy of history. By launching an illegal and unjustified war of aggression against Ukraine, Russia has committed a gross fault. She reminded us that peace is a precarious asset that we must constantly watch over. I say it here in all clarity: we cannot let Russian imperialism absorb …

10 Apr

2024

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Screening of third country nationals at the external borders - European Criminal Records Information System - Third Country Nationals - Common procedure for international protection in the Union - Establishing a return border procedure, and amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1148 - Asylum and migration management - Addressing situations of crisis and force majeure - Establishment of 'Eurodac' for the comparison of fingerprints for the effective application of Regulation (EU) No 604/2013, for identifying an illegally staying third-country national or stateless person and on requests for the comparison with Eurodac data by Member States' law enforcement authorities and Europol for law enforcement purposes (recast) - Union Resettlement Framework - Standards for the qualification of third-country nationals or stateless persons as beneficiaries of international protection - Standards for the reception of applicants for international protection (recast) (joint debate - Migration and Asylum package)

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Mr President, we are here. The asylum and migration pact is a moment of truth for all the elected representatives of this Parliament and history is ours. Mass immigration is now everywhere in Europe a threat to our security, to our identity and, obviously, to the stability of our societies. Demographics make history and the rush to Europe is only at the beginning. Faced with this existential chall…

13 Mar

2024

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This is Europe - Debate with the Prime Minister of Finland, Petteri Orpo (debate)

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Madam President, Prime Minister, while our continent is troubled by major geopolitical tensions and the return of war, I want to tell you about energy bills, which continue to rise month after month, penalising difficult end-of-months as much as the competitiveness of our economy. Is Europe doomed to see its factories leave and its producers die? All lucid Europeans are asking this terrible questi…

17 Jan

2024

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 14-15 December 2023 and preparation of the Special European Council meeting of 1 February 2024 - Situation in Hungary and frozen EU funds (joint debate - European Council meetings)

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Mr President, I want to speak to you today about the plight of those who feed us. As a wind of anger rises all over Europe, we must affirm here that agriculture as we love it is not destined to disappear. While one in three French farmers lives on nearly €350 a month, and the number of farms falls year after year, our agricultural model lives on a social plan that doesn't say its name. As we speak…