What Valérie spoke about.

10 Sep

2025

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State of the Union (debate)

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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…

10 Sep

2025

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State of the Union (debate)

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Madam President, Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Madam President, we are losing Europeans. We may be among the richest in the world, we may have the highest social standards on the planet, we may be champions of individual freedoms, but we lose Europeans. We lose the Europeans because the Europe that was supposed to protect them seems weak to them. Weak in the face of Trump. Weak against Pu…

9 Jul

2025

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 26 June 2025 (debate)

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Madam President, Madam President von der Leyen, Mr President Costa, ladies and gentlemen, one word has come up in recent years: that of crisis – cgeopolitical rise, trade crisis, democratic crisis, but also climate, economic, social, health or migration crisis. Fortunately, it is said that Europe advances only in crises. This has been demonstrated in recent years, with the way we have responded to…

7 Jul

2025

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Motion of censure on the Commission (debate)

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Madam President, Madam President von der Leyen, we have just listened to Nicola Procaccini. We can see that Mr. Procaccini is embarrassed, because half of his group wants to bring you down. Then there are the Patriots. So there is no ambiguity, because they, for their part, want to bring down Europe. But what world do they live in? A world without the horrors of Ukraine and the Middle East? A worl…

18 Jun

2025

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Upcoming NATO summit on 24-26 June 2025 (debate)

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Madam President, High Representative, dear Kaja, ladies and gentlemen, we owe Europeans a truth. The global balance between great powers is often based not on understanding, but on fear. And in international law, this fear has a name, deterrence. To quote Raymond Aron, deterrence is based on the certainty for the opponent that the risks he takes are greater than the benefits he could hope for. Det…

22 May

2025

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Choose Europe for Science (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, "global warming is a hoax invented by the Chinese to harm American industry", "the noise of wind turbines causes cancer", "the European Green Deal is a communist manifesto", "a disinfectant is more effective than a vaccine against COVID-19", "cod liver oil reduces measles-related mortality", "teachers are the enemy, we must aggressively attack u…

7 May

2025

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Resumption of the sitting

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Madam President, I would like to raise a point of order regarding the Rule 11 on the Rules of Conduct, on integrity and transparency. Dear colleagues, last week, the Bulgarian party Revival, of the ESN Group, signed a cooperation agreement with the party United Russia, of Vladimir Putin. Secondly, we were informed that some extremist MEPs in this House – again – may accept an invitation to attend …

6 May

2025

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A unified EU response to unjustified US trade measures and global trade opportunities for the EU (debate)

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Mr President, Mr Vice-President, Mr Minister, ladies and gentlemen, 'the old world is dying, the new world is slow to appear and in this darkness monsters appear': This quote from Antonio Gramsci is the perfect metaphor for the challenge posed by Donald Trump's trade war. This trade war questions the very identity of the European Union. It is, beyond the immense danger it represents for our econom…

1 Apr

2025

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

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Madam President, Madam President of the Commission, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, ladies and gentlemen, the world is flickering. In the West, old alliances are being challenged. In the East, aggressiveness supplants diplomacy. At home in Europe, some are attacking what is the foundation of our society: our democratic model. The moment we live in is decisive for our future. Attempts to des…

13 Mar

2025

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A Vision for Agriculture and Food (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, our farmers needed it. So thank you, Commissioner, for your vision this morning on agriculture and food. I'll tell you right away: I'm going to say hello to her. The challenges of the agricultural world are immense: climate change management, geopolitical instability, generational renewal and, what our farmers have been demanding for a long time, f…

11 Mar

2025

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European Council meetings and European security (joint debate)

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Madam President, Mr President, Madam President of the Commission, ladies and gentlemen, Minister, who could have thought a few weeks ago that the United States would support a Russian resolution against Ukraine at the UN, together with China and North Korea? Who would have thought that his president would one day say that he would recover Greenland, a European territory, ‘in one way or another’? W…

12 Feb

2025

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Commission Work Programme 2025 (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, thank you for presenting the Commission's work programme. You know that my group will support you, but the subject I am going to talk to you about this morning is the method. I could have reminded you this morning of my group's position on European defence, on simplification, on competitiveness, on the Green Deal, but you already k…

22 Jan

2025

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

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Madam President, Commissioner, Prime Minister, I am returning from Poland. I went to Warsaw last week with the members of my group. And what we have seen on the ground is that, indeed, Prime Minister, every day, with your coalition, which includes members of Renew, you are mobilised to restore the rule of law, which has been unravelled for years by your predecessors. We know how difficult this is …

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, President Costa - welcome to this Chamber. You will see that there is always frank discussion. You will also see that you will find strong allies there, because we know that you will not have the easy task, in the coming months, to reach agreement between the States. But often, very often, you will have the European Parliament at your side to push the Member State…

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, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, in recent hours the United States has had a new president. We all know his passive and his style. So, let's say it: Yes, the United States is and will remain a partner. But a partnership goes both ways. And little brother syndrome is enough. Listen to President Trump's speech yesterday: withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, withdrawal from the WH…

18 Dec

2024

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

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Madam President, Minister, President von der Leyen, ladies and gentlemen, this European summit will be the summit of an ideal that we know to be under attack: freedom. Today I want to talk to you about the Syrian, Ukrainian, Georgian and Moldovan peoples. It is our moral duty as well as our strategic interest to support them in their fight for their freedom. First of all, Syria. Yes, in Syria, the…

27 Nov

2024

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Election of the Commission (vote)

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Madam President, thank you. Madam President, you were elected to lead the Commission on the basis of a work programme. It largely includes our Renew proposals and this is very good news. We are at a turning point. We are facing existential challenges. So you know my family's ambitions – three things. First, freedom. No rule of law, no EU funds. Madam President, we appreciate your support for smart…

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 Commission, ladies and gentlemen, it has not been easy, it has not been easy every day, but we have succeeded. We come out of an intense moment of conviction, negotiation, responsibility. First of all, I would like to welcome all the candidate Commissioners. If your college is approved today, we will work together, hand in hand, for the future of Europe. I w…

25 Nov

2024

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International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (debate)

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Mr President: ‘It is not up to us to have shame.’ These are the words of Gisèle Pelicot at the opening of the so-called ‘51’ trial. Words we need to get as many people to hear as possible. For twenty years, Dominique Pelicot drugged his wife to deliver her unconsciously to dozens of men, who, with him, subjected her to rape of unspeakable barbarity. These 51 defendants are firefighters, local elec…

19 Nov

2024

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1000 days of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine (debate)

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Madam President, thank you. President Zelenskyy, it is a great honour to have you here today. It's been a thousand days. A thousand days that this fierce war lasts. Thousand days your people resist for freedom. In this war, there is an aggressor and an aggressor. There is a leader who for ten years has been attacking your territory and who, faced with the bravery of Ukrainians, is reduced to appea…

14 Nov

2024

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UN Climate Change Conference 2024 in Baku, Azerbaijan (COP29) (B10-0156/2024) (vote)

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Madam President, until the system is updated, I would like us to return to the way in which the vote on imported deforestation took place. It seems that 7 votes on that side of the Chamber could not be taken into account. Some amendments were reduced to three votes. I would ask that we reject, in particular, the first amendments that have been tabled on the 'Imported deforestation' law.…

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, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, on the night of 5 November the American people held the fate of the United States in their hands. But at the same time, it was also part of our destiny, as Europeans, that was at stake. And clearly, this is no longer possible. At a time when Washington's political line is becoming that of Mar-a-Lago, Fox News and Elon Musk, it is up to us to def…

23 Oct

2024

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Managing migration in an effective and holistic way through fostering returns (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, 48 hours: This is the length of time that the twelve displaced migrants will have stayed in Albania. How can we be inspired by such a failure? Across the Channel, the British Conservatives had promised a deterrent effect by signing an agreement with Rwanda; Result: 18% more migrants. In Italy, Mme Meloni had promised a naval blockade to discoura…

9 Oct

2024

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

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Madam President, Prime Minister, Mr Orbán, it must change you to be here. You are not used to being faced with a Parliament that demands accountability from you. That's what we plan to do this morning: hold you to account. Me: I will hold you to account for our values, our money and our geopolitics. Let me start with a question, Mr Orbán: Who are you today? Where is the freedom fighter who commemo…

8 Oct

2024

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

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Mr President, Commissioner, Minister, ladies and gentlemen, Vladimir Putin plans to increase Russia's military budget by 30%. That was 70% last year. We proclaimed it: "we stand by Ukraine", but today there is urgency. While in the east of the continent Russia continues to nibble on its territory, the Ukrainian people are resolutely counting on our support. Support that must be up to the geopoliti…