What Valérie spoke about.

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Jul

2026

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

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Jun

2026

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Protecting children’s safety and mental health from the risks posed by social media – our duty to act now (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, our children are in danger, and that danger is social media. For a long time, we watched their development with fascination; Today, we have to face reality. Anxiety disorders, depression, addiction, cyberbullying, impaired sleep and self-esteem: risks to children’s mental health and development are now documented. We know; and, as we know, inaction is no longer an op…

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Jun

2026

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Preparation of the European Council (joint debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, Minister, ladies and gentlemen, this European summit is being held as the United States and Iran sign a peace agreement. This absurd war, with disastrous consequences for the security of the world and the purchasing power of Europeans, has come to remind us of the challenges facing Europe. Because, what is happening in the world today? What explains the actions of Trump…

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May

2026

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High time to deliver on the Single Market, providing certainty and predictability for EU businesses and quality jobs (debate)

Madam President, Mr Vice-President, ladies and gentlemen, a few days ago I was listening to what Arthur Mensch, the co-founder of Mistral, our only artificial intelligence giant in Europe, said. He explained to us that today, European talents, which are very numerous, go abroad to found companies. Because the European Union is too complex and because its market is too fragmented. Colleagues, Arthu…

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Apr

2026

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Topical debate requested by a political group (PfE) (Rule 169) - Commission interference in democratic process and elections (topical debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, if I speak today in this debate, it is to denounce the hypocrisy of the extreme right. Because here she dares to denounce, I quote, the 'interference of the European Commission in the democratic process and the elections'. The interference of the European Commission? Seriously? Are you at that level of indecency? Because, if we have to talk about interference – …

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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, Madam President of the Commission, the purchasing power of Europeans is in arrears. So, of course, we can blame Donald Trump. Of course, we can talk about the Strait of Hormuz. But in the end, it is we who make our own choices, and what is happening in Iran today is by no means an excuse, because Europeans have been dependent on energy produced outside Europe for more than 50 year…

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Mar

2026

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

Madam President, Commissioner, Mr President, you recalled the major progress made on the competitiveness roadmap. I want to tell you, and even repeat, the full support of the Renew Group on this issue. But tonight I would like to focus on the defining fact of this Council. This European Council should have been one of clarity, firmness and unity. In the face of our geopolitica…

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Mar

2026

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EUCO and situation in the Middle East (joint debate)

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Feb

2026

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Four years of Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine and European contributions to a just peace and sustained security for Ukraine (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, what is the European Union? What does it mean to be European? Our Europe is the continent that has decided to make peace a political project. Since February 24, 2022, history has forced us to feel it with new intensity. Since the total invasion of Ukraine by Russia, these words have a new dimension, a face, a voice, a courage, that of the Ukrainian people. Fe…

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Feb

2026

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State violence in Minneapolis and the rule of law in the United States (topical debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the oldest modern democracy, the United States, is moving towards an authoritarian regime. In a year, since Donald Trump's re-election, American counter-powers, which were thought to be among the strongest in the world, have been trampled on. And in this emerging authoritarian regime, the immigration police – the ECI – plays a central role. Toda…

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Feb

2026

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Urgent actions to revive EU competitiveness, deepen the EU Single Market and reduce the cost of living - from the Draghi report to reality (debate)

Madam President, Madam President, Minister, ladies and gentlemen, once again we are talking about the Draghi report. Again, we are talking about Europe's competitiveness. I must have been, since the beginning of this mandate, perhaps in my fifth speech on the subject of competitiveness. And every time I say the same thing: We're too slow. We need to do more. Imagine, ladies and gentlemen, that in …

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Jan

2026

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European Council meeting (joint debate)

Madam President, Madam President, Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to begin this speech with a message of support and solidarity with Iranian women and men. Protests against the regime have given way to repression of unprecedented violence and massacres. This regime must fall, but it must fall by the will of the Iranian people alone, that is, without external interventionism, witho…

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Dec

2025

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 18-19 December 2025, in particular the need to support Ukraine, transatlantic relations and the EU’s strategic autonomy (debate)

Madam President of Parliament, Madam Minister, Madam President of the Commission, the forthcoming European summit will be decisive. Determinant for Ukraine and for the credibility of the European Union. Our leaders have an obligation to assist Kyiv on the central issue of frozen Russian assets. So, you know it: Renew has been asking the Council for months to make progress on this solution. First o…

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Dec

2025

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Murder of Mehdi Kessaci - urgent need for ambitious European action against drug trafficking (debate)

Mr President, dear Amine Kessaci, drug trafficking has taken away two brothers from you and, with your immense pain, you have fought a battle: a fight against traffickers, a fight against omerta, a fight for consciences. Like Roberto Saviano, you take on the sacrificial role of whistleblower. Your dignity and courage honor you and compel us. We hear your pain, we share it. We also hear your call t…

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Nov

2025

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EU position on the proposed plan and EU engagement towards a just and lasting peace for Ukraine (debate)

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Nov

2025

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

Madam President, we have simplification: a text expected by our companies, a text resulting from a compromise reached by a pro-European majority in the Committee on Legal Affairs. This compromise reduces 70% of reporting obligations and removes 85% of companies from its scope. We will continue to defend this compromise until the last second, because it is good, because Renew stands by the economic…

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Nov

2025

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The new 2028-2034 Multiannual Financial Framework: architecture and governance (debate)

Madam President, Madam President of the Commission, Madam Minister, ladies and gentlemen, Mrs von der Leyen knows this – Mario Draghi told us: We have an investment gap in Europe. However, the budgetary framework for the next seven years is precisely designed to plan public investment. Because simplification is one thing, but if we do not create the right framework, the right business environment …

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Nov

2025

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Commemorating the 10th anniversary of the islamist attacks of 13 November 2015 in Paris (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, ten years ago, on 13 November 2015, at 21.17, France fell into horror. Within minutes, Islamist terrorists murdered 132 people at the Stade de France, on Parisian terraces and in the Bataclan hall. Everyone here remembers these attacks. Everyone remembers the shock and dread that gripped us. Ten years later, this emotion remains intact. Today, I want to salut…

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Oct

2025

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The ongoing assault on the democratic institutions and the rule of law in Bulgaria (topical debate)

Madam President, dear colleagues, dear Commissioner, dear Minister, a democratically elected mayor is jailed for no reason. Blagomir Kotsev, along with others, becomes a political prisoner inside the European Union. This is a warning for all of us. The Mayor of Varna was elected by the Bulgarian people to bring reform, transparency and hope. Today, he sits in a high-security cell without credible …

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Oct

2025

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

Madam President, Minister, Madam President, I have chosen this morning to focus on defence, but I would obviously like to react at the heart of your speech this morning, the link between competitiveness and decarbonisation, because it is sometimes necessary, often, to recall in this Chamber that decarbonisation and competitiveness are not opposed. Quite the contrary. Decarbonisation is the key to …

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Oct

2025

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Commission Work Programme 2026 (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, finally, this document that was expected with the Renew Group, a working agenda for the year 2026, a positive agenda, an agenda of power, independence and sovereignty to be conquered and preserved for Europe. Finally, we will be able to move forward, to produce results for European citizens. And I'm saying, it's more than time. So yes, ladies and gentlemen, w…

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Oct

2025

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United response to recent Russian violations of the EU Member States’ airspace and critical infrastructure (debate)

Madam President, Minister, ladies and gentlemen, we are at a moment of truth for the European Union. We are no longer at peace. We are not at war either. We are in this in-between, which is called hybrid warfare. Every day, Russia leads meddling, cyberattacks, sabotage against us. It flies over us with drones and fighter jets. We know these threats. I'm not teaching you anything. But our reactions…

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Oct

2025

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This is Europe - Debate with the Prime Minister of Luxembourg, Luc Frieden (debate)

Madam President, Prime Minister, welcome to this Parliament. Your country has always been a great European country: from the birth of Robert Schuman the European, to Schengen, to the signing of the ECSC Treaty, and even today, with the presence of strong European institutions in Luxembourg. Luxembourg has marked the history of our Europe. Your country has marked our common history by those men and…

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Oct

2025

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Motions of censure (joint debate)

Madam President, Madam President von der Leyen, two new motions of censure. Two more. Two motions tabled by the two extremes of this House, but which coincide on many points. This has been said by my colleagues: extremists and populists allied with Europe's worst enemies, engineers of chaos who want to bring down the European Union from within. They manipulate the concept of freedom of expression …

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Sep

2025

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State of the Union (debate)

Madam President, I outlined to you earlier the priorities of my political group. I would like to make one remark. One thing that struck me in these debates is the hypocrisy on the far right in this Chamber, on the far right, which is teaching us today about Donald Trump, which is twisting our arm to impose tariffs on us, which is forcing us to buy American, which is undermining our economy. But wh…