What Jordan spoke about.

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Nov

2023

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State of the Energy Union (debate)

Mr President, the world is convulsing, the Middle East is flaring up and the shockwave that is spreading to Europe is adding to the daily tumults of our fellow citizens, whose anxiety about discovering their energy bill has never been more palpable. Since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, our continent has been facing an unprecedented energy crisis, plunging our states into difficulties that we …

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Oct

2023

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Islamist terrorist attack on French schools and the need to protect people and promote social cohesion (debate)

Mr President, his name was Dominique Bernard. He was a professor in Pas-de-Calais. It embodied words, knowledge, transmission, culture, the French Republic. It embodied everything they hate and fight. Three years ago, Professor Samuel Paty also paid the price. France has become that country where, in the 21st century, one can die of teaching. The murder of a professor is undoubtedly ‘the most terr…

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Oct

2023

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A true geopolitical Europe now (topical debate)

Madam President, Mr High Representative, ‘History is tragic’, wrote Raymond Aron. And it is indeed the return of the tragic of history that we are witnessing. Everywhere we see the convulsions of a conflict-ridden world. Everywhere, the embers of old hatred are rising and threatening to bring to the fire the precarious balances that still maintain a semblance of an international order. In this con…

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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)

Madam President, Madam President of the European Commission, on 7 October, Israel was struck in the heart and suffered the deadliest attack in the history of the Jewish state. Our thoughts are with the families of the victims, the missing and the 199 hostages being held right now in the Gaza Strip. This Islamist attack, the shockwave of which has affected our societies, proves to us to be a warnin…

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Oct

2023

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Need for a speedy adoption of the asylum and migration package (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the tragedy of Lampedusa is our future if we do not take back control of our French, national and European borders now. This is evidenced by the words of Mrs von der Leyen, who called on the Member States to welcome migrants from Lampedusa, even though virtually none of them meet the criteria of the right to asylum. This is evidenced by the European case-law whi…

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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, where have Europe's values gone? Tearing images reach us from Nagorno-Karabakh where, day after day, the region empties of its inhabitants, thrown on the roads of exodus by military force, that of an Azeri state that has decided to make all Armenian life impossible on its soil. This tragic outcome was not inevitable. It is only the product of the renunciation to support the right …

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Sep

2023

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State of the Union (debate)

Madam President, Madam President Von der Leyen, the time has come for the assessment. There has never been such a gap between the words that make up your speech and the reality experienced by millions of Europeans. You see, as president of a respected world power, you are at the head of a cold, weakened administration in which the peoples of Europe no longer believe. You swear by enlargement at al…

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Jul

2023

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Resumption of the sitting

Madam President, I would like to make a reminder of the Rules of Procedure, on the basis of Rule 133, to expressly ask you to invite the President of the European Commission to come and justify the appointment of Fiona Scott Morton to the Directorate-General for European Competition. It was recalled that Ms. Morton is an American who was, during her professional life, a consultant for the GAFAM an…

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Jul

2023

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Resumption of the sitting

Madam President, I would like to make a reminder, please, of the Rules of Procedure, on the basis of Rule 132 of the Rules of Procedure of the European Parliament. I regret the absence of President Charles Michel this morning during the debate on the conclusions of the European Council. Charles Michel, whose latest press statements on Turkey’s European future deserve clarification before Parliamen…

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Jun

2023

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

Madam President of the European Parliament, Mr President of the Republic of Cyprus, thank you for your presence in Parliament’s Chamber here in Strasbourg. While the issues of national sovereignty, independence and military occupation have been legitimately at the heart of the debates since February 2022, they have been an everyday struggle for the Republic of Cyprus for more than half a century. …

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Jun

2023

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Order of business

Madam President, Protection of citizens in the face of an uncontrolled migration policy: This is the title of the debate that we would like to put on the agenda of this parliamentary session. The tragedy of Annecy, which has moved Europe, is the direct consequence of the migratory disorder that reigns everywhere on our soil. You can no longer dodge the debate on the weakness and laxity of the Euro…

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May

2023

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Strengthening social dialogue (debate)

Mr President, we are gathered here to talk about a chimera, a fantasy that exists only in the brains of European technocrats, an illusion of the Commission: Social Europe. For several decades now, social Europe has been the horizon that you sell to the peoples of Europe and that has been steadily drifting away from the policies that you have implemented. This social Europe, which should rather be …

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May

2023

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Protecting and restoring marine ecosystems for sustainable and resilient fisheries - Agreement of the IGC on Marine Biodiversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (High Seas Treaty) (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, you are driving our fishermen to ruin. In recent weeks, the French fishermen’s protest movement has resonated across Europe. As in France, German, Dutch, Belgian and Irish fishermen are issuing a distress call to EU leaders. They expressed their dismay at a veritable avalanche of standards and prohibitions that threaten the survival of an entire industry. The latest Com…

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May

2023

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Discharge 2021 (continuation of debate)

Madam President, on the occasion of the vote on Frontex’s budget discharge, let me say what I saw in Menton, on the border between France and Italy. What I saw in Menton was a double bankruptcy: first, that of the French Government, and then that of the European Union, which has emptied Frontex of its initial role in combating illegal immigration. In Menton, residents and public authorities are fa…

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Apr

2023

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IPCC report on Climate Change: a call for urgent additional action (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, our planet is facing a climate time bomb: Here are the latest findings from the IPCC scientific report. The rise in temperatures over the last 50 years is brutal and leads our societies to a clear rise in uncertainty – a banal discussion with a French farmer is enough to realise this. Today, almost half of humanity lives in areas that are extremely vulnerable to climate…

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Mar

2023

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 23-24 March 2023 (debate)

Madam President, Mr President Charles Michel, for General MacArthur, the battles lost can be summed up in two words: Too late. For two decades now, our dependence on China has been growing steadily. Initially confined to the role of craftsman of a cheap economy and low-end products, the Chinese empire has now become the unavoidable global one. Since we were talking about energy, it is a must for t…

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Mar

2023

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Conclusions of the Special European Council meeting of 9 February and preparation of the European Council meeting of 23-24 March 2023 (debate)

Madam President, Madam President von der Leyen, Mr President Charles Michel, while the state of energy emergency is declared throughout Europe, the first freedom of our compatriots, that of moving, is more than ever called into question. But what have motorists done to you to deserve so much hate? After the carbon taxes that triggered the anger of the yellow vests in France, after the malus of all…

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Feb

2023

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

Madam President, in view of President Biden's massive support for American companies and for China, you have finally decided to react. The establishment of a support plan, the European Industrial Green Deal, is an awareness: a lip service to the protection of our economy, which we have defended so much, over time, in front of the singers of the global village. Unfortunately, three big oversights w…

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Feb

2023

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Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence: EU accession (continuation of debate)

Madam President, the Istanbul Convention is an important text in the fight against violence against women, and we obviously support its cause. Throughout its recent history, Europe has been that civilization that has allowed women to take their full place in society, by sanctifying their rights, by sanctifying their freedoms, by tending to offer women and men the same opportunities to rise in soci…

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Feb

2023

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Preparation of the EU-Ukraine Summit (debate)

Madam President, a political leader should constantly aspire to two fundamental objectives: peace inside and peace outside; peace in the nation and peace among nations. In the absence of either, freedom disappears or is only a fragile asset, which can be broken at any time. For almost a year, Russia has invaded Ukraine, violated its borders, committed acts of war against civilian populations and i…

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Jan

2023

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 15 December 2022 (continuation of debate)

Madam President, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, his name is Olivier, artisan baker of the Marne, and he has not been paid a salary for months. Her name is Estelle, a restaurateur in the Vaucluse, and she has taken the radical decision to close her establishment. These testimonies, these tragedies, among many others, are those of thousands of business leaders across Europe, bakers, butchers…

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Dec

2022

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 15 December 2022 (debate)

Madam President of the European Parliament, Madam President of the European Commission, ladies and gentlemen of the Council, ladies and gentlemen, it is not good at this time to be a European company. Not only are our companies suffering from the hellish rise in energy prices, to which you offer no lasting solution, but they are now facing US protectionism that is taking on itself without any fals…

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Dec

2022

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Suspicions of corruption from Qatar and the broader need for transparency and accountability in the European institutions (debate) (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, the religion of human rights therefore stops where the suitcases of tickets begin. While the European Union has established itself as a model of virtue, a lecturer and a moralising judge of all the regimes in the world, here it is presumed to be corrupted at its highest level by the money of an Islamist state. Today's democratic scandal in the European Parliament, one o…

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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, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to warn you that this will be a bit different from the speeches made by previous speakers. Europe cannot allow its immigration policy from the sea to be dictated by human traffickers, whether they are called NGOs or smugglers’ mafias. Nor can Europe rely on solidarity to distribute the world’s people on our soil, in violation of the will expressed b…

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Nov

2022

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Situation in Libya (debate)

Madam President, open civil war, migratory surge, human trafficking, modern slavery. Since its destruction in 2011, following a disastrous Franco-Otanian military campaign, Libya has been struggling to recover and causing tremors throughout the region and to our continent. With geopolitics abhorring the vacuum, it is Turkey in the lead that, in Libya for several years, has been shooting down its c…