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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, the European Commission has just invented the concept of ‘selective independence’: We will cut our ties with Russia for gas, but increase our dependence on the United States. If, in addition, it increases production costs for our industry, it also risks weakening Europe, by the way. There is also selective outrage over foreign interference: Russian, Belarusian and other interferen…

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Dec

2025

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Recent developments in Palestine and Lebanon (debate)

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Dec

2025

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EU Defence Readiness (joint debate)

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Dec

2025

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Incentivising defence-related investments in the EU budget to implement the ReArm Europe Plan (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, what is being proposed here is a robbery: A whole range of European funds – our money – which should be used to improve the daily lives of European citizens, will be diverted to the service of the big multinationals and the war, to the benefit of their shareholders. Taxpayer money, public funds for technology: at the service of multinational armame…

15

Dec

2025

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Order of business

Madam President, Articles 11 and 213: European newspapers have just revealed, based on Israeli documents, that Israel is piloting what journalists call a ‘true war machine’ to influence cabinets of ministers, courts in different European countries. It is a direct interference in our societies by a third country, and I wonder what the situation is at the level of the European Parliament, because I …

15

Dec

2025

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Order of business

Madam President, yes, I would like to talk a bit about what can almost be called the new ‘Pirate of the Caribbean’. We're not talking about Jack Sparrow or One Piece, but of Donald Trump, who first extrajudicially executed dozens of people in the Caribbean Seas – UN experts have spoken of ‘extrajudicial executions’, so this is extremely serious. We did not talk about it. Today you tell me: ‘This i…

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Nov

2025

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Escalating repression of the Baha'is in Iran

Mr President, dear colleagues, it's good that we're here all this together to condemn discrimination, unjust imprisonment or, of course, the death penalty. But in order to be credible, I want to address an oddity here, because many of you claim concerns for the right of a religious minority, which is discriminated against or unrecognised in many Middle Eastern countries – Qatar, Yemen, Egypt, Jord…

26

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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Escalation of the war and the humanitarian catastrophe in Sudan (continuation of debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, the situation in Sudan has obviously been horrible for years: tens of thousands dead, hundreds of thousands at risk of starvation, and more than 13 million displaced. I see that everyone here has words of compassion, and I rejoice. I have even heard that you are now condemning the Rapid Support Forces, which are responsible for horrific massacres. But it would have b…

25

Nov

2025

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European Defence Industry Programme and a framework of measures to ensure the timely availability and supply of defence products (‘EDIP’) (debate)

First of all, dear colleague, when you do not understand the language, please don't attack the language itself. I mean, once you study French, you will understand it. But indeed, I do believe that accepting, from the Social Democratic side, working days that are over 13 hours or working weeks that are over 48 hours a week, that is a betrayal of the working class. That is a betrayal of the working …

25

Nov

2025

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European Defence Industry Programme and a framework of measures to ensure the timely availability and supply of defence products (‘EDIP’) (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, what a nerve! All united, happy to celebrate here a text that tells workers that they may have to work more than 13 hours a day, more than 48 hours a week. And all this for the military, in a sector where it is already, thanks to the war in Ukraine, the jackpot for the bosses and for the shareholders. Do you know what fatigue is when you work in…

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Oct

2025

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Renewing the EU-Africa Partnership: building common priorities ahead of the Angola Summit (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, for decades Europe has been Africa's main partner. European leaders after European leaders have made great promises: Africans have been promised peace, they have seen war, they have been promised prosperity, they have seen poverty and they have seen underdevelopment. For years, we have imposed unfair economic agreements and neoliberal reforms on Africans with great prom…

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Oct

2025

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General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sections (debate)

Mr President, Minister, Commissioner, 'I never go on holiday', 'I skip meals so that my children can eat', 'In winter, I die of cold between my medicines and heating': These are some of the messages I have received from people, and it is the reality of part of Europe, about 100 million Europeans who are now at risk of poverty. So on one side you have this Europe and on the other side you have a di…

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Oct

2025

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Recent peace agreement in the Middle East and the role of the EU (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Israel has killed more than 70 000 Palestinians in Gaza. In total, with the wounded, 200,000 people were affected. That's 10 percent of Gaza's population. Israel now occupies more than half of the Gaza Strip, which is already not very long, it is 42 kilometers long, it is approximately Brussels-La Louvière or Brussels-Antwerp. And what do you co…

8

Oct

2025

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EU strategy with regard to Iran’s nuclear threat and the implementation of EU sanctions resulting from the snapback mechanism (debate)

Today, what is really happening in the Middle East is that Israel is erasing the Palestinian people. Israel is erasing the Palestinian people from the map in Gaza through a genocide, in the West Bank through ethnic cleansing. Are you ready to condemn that? My personal belief is that, yes, we need a Middle East without nuclear weapons. This means take away Israeli nuclear weapons and indeed, get a …

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Oct

2025

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EU strategy with regard to Iran’s nuclear threat and the implementation of EU sanctions resulting from the snapback mechanism (debate)

Madam President, dear colleagues, you say you care about non-proliferation and human rights, but if we look at the Middle East, why do we accept that Israel has a nuclear bomb? This is absolutely unacceptable. You call Iran the main threat, but look at Israel bombing Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Yemen. What else? Qatar recently. Secondly, why did you not condemn or even mention the fact that it was…

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Oct

2025

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The EU’s role in supporting the recent peace efforts for Gaza and a two-state solution (debate)

Yes, first of all, please go back and study international law before you mention it. There's a right of free passage, especially for humanitarian aid, so go study and don't come and waste our time with these kind of ridiculous questions. Secondly, in regard to phones, you have one state that has been developing software to spy on Europeans that is committing a genocide in Gaza. Would you hand over…

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Oct

2025

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The EU’s role in supporting the recent peace efforts for Gaza and a two-state solution (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, in your speech you forgot the phrase 'sanction Israel'. Why do you still not sanction Israel, two years after the explicit request of the International Court of Justice? However, it had indicated that third States were complicit in continuing to finance Israel. Today, the European Union funds Israel through research funds, military funds, the European Investment Bank an…

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Oct

2025

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Time to complete a fully integrated Single Market: Europe’s key to growth and future prosperity (debate)

Madam President, representative of the Council, Commissioner, we are being proposed to further reduce the rules in order to complete this wonderful internal market, as usual. We know the chorus. It's been the same for at least 30 years. I want to take stock here in 30 seconds. 25 years ago, the European Commission promised us that with fewer rules and more privacy, we would have the most competiti…

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Oct

2025

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Intergenerational fairness in Europe on the occasion of the International Day of Older Persons (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, first of all, you are manipulating the figures a bit, anyway, because you have just said that life expectancy is now around 80 years. But you are not saying that it is an average and that, therefore, many people, especially with difficult jobs, will never succeed. And besides, you don't say what your own site says: Healthy life expectancy is only 62-63 years. This me…

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Sep

2025

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State of the Union (debate)

Madam President, Madam President of the European Commission, are you afraid? Are you scared? Do you feel the weight of demonstrations on the street, popular anger? Because after years of anti-social politics, after years of supporting the genocide in Palestine, after years of submission to the United States, all of a sudden, a river speech. Moreover, an hour and a half to save your skin, to answer…

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Sep

2025

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Gaza at breaking point: EU action to combat famine, the urgent need to release hostages and move towards a two-state solution (debate)

You have just accused us of the most horrible things. You should be ashamed. Let me ask you, what are your sources? The International Court of Justice has spoken about a plausible risk of genocide, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Doctors Without Borders, Palestinians on the ground, Israeli NGOs and even Israeli genocide scholars and Ho…

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Sep

2025

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Gaza at breaking point: EU action to combat famine, the urgent need to release hostages and move towards a two-state solution (debate)

Madam President, Madam High Representative, ladies and gentlemen, if there is one thing that is clear, it is that the moral compass of Europe today is not here. The moral compass is among the hundreds of thousands of Europeans who are mobilising against European inaction and complicity - some of you, no doubt - with what is going on in Gaza and what is genocide. It is a genocide that everyone can …

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Jul

2025

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Democratic Republic of the Congo-Rwanda peace deal agreement (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, peace is good. We applaud peace. But you forgot one thing: What did Trump actually say to the Congolese? He told them: If you want peace, you will have to give me your wealth. deal The Congolese, who offer him control of the minerals. This is simply called racketeering. The West – Europe too, for that matter – first ‘sponsored’ Rwanda, the rebels and the war in the East…

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Jul

2025

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Situation in the Middle East (debate)

I think you need to check your history, the Spanish colonial history and the fight with the United States. There were, at the end of the 19th century, concentration camps set up. But this is okay – you will check; let me ask you a real question. Iran replied to an Israeli illegal attack by bombing Israel. It's easy to condemn Iran, as you have done time and time again. But over the last years, Isr…