Speeches

Madam President, no, Mr Kadis, an integrated ocean diplomacy at European level will neither save nor make fisheries competitive. Indeed, what is killing our fisheries is European technocracy. What kills our fishing is the centralization and standardization of decisions, which trample the diversity and specificities of our territories, instead of anchoring them in reality. The reality, ladies and gentlemen, is the nations, it is our nations. In passing, I would point out that France owns 40% of the 25 million ² km in question, or 10 million ² km. That is, if we are very concerned. These waters, which we owe in large part to our overseas territories, from Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon to New Caledonia, are a tool of cooperation for France, which allows us to weigh in the global debates on the oceans. They are also an essential part of our national power and sovereignty. Then the European Commission would arrogate to itself diplomatic competence or a fictitious power in international summits to decide in our place. No, no! These waters are the future of our fisheries and food sovereignty. It is therefore, excuse me, too serious a subject to abandon to the European Commission.

Mr President, 2019: Abidjan; 2022: Brussels; 2025: Angola. At each summit, the European Union gives us a new agreement to renew its relationship with the African continent. And it pretends not to see that African States do not need our help, but a balanced cooperation between sovereign peoples, respectful of their specificities, their identity and their interests. On immigration, on food sovereignty, on protecting the oceans and biodiversity, we have so much to do together. As you know, we are fighting here in Brussels for respect for the sovereignty and independence of France and its people. That is why we also defend the independence and sovereignty of the African peoples. For us, sovereignists and patriots, the defense of the right of peoples to self-determination applies to all peoples.

Madam President, yes, ladies and gentlemen, we are witnessing the spread of mosquitoes and ticks, which is leading to the spread of infectious diseases in our country today. However, this spread is due as much to climate change as to the intensification of trade and human flows organised by the globalist system and, let us not forget, by the European Union. Putting proliferation solely on the back of climate change only serves to distract from the real problem: the unrestricted movement of men and goods. So we cannot just deal with the consequences without addressing the causes of the problem. Let's look at our overseas territories. Global warming there has not caused epidemics, malaria or otherwise. This is poverty; This is good – as you said, Madam – for example, the problem of waste water and our refusal to pursue a serious policy of developing our territories that makes them so vulnerable. The real cure for infectious diseases transmitted by these parasitic insects is not the decline advocated by ecofanatics; it is economic growth, material prosperity and research, as we saw in Montpellier, where a researcher, by sterilising male tiger mosquitoes, managed to eradicate this epidemic. That, ladies and gentlemen, is what we need to work on.

Mr President, Brussels technocracy is killing. By focusing on our peasant world, it has deprived us of the means to fight fires effectively and preventively. In 1981, we had 13 million sheep clearing our territories free of charge 12 hours a day and 365 days a year. Today, we have 6 million. We lost 7 million brushmen who, preemptively, maintained our territories and our risk areas. From 65,000 breeders, we have grown to 35,000. We lost 30,000 permanent, non-stop lookouts on the ground. Not to mention the special status of the volunteer firefighters that the European Union is challenging and the financial means it is depriving us of to renew our Canadairs fleet. Agricultural abandonment, rural desertification, budgetary austerity, disconnection from reality – Brussels technocracy is killing.

Mr President, yes, the peace agreement negotiated in Washington between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo under the aegis of the United States is tragic in more ways than one. First, because he is twisting his arm in Congo by committing it to endorsing the suffering of its people and supporting the Rwandan dictator Kagame. Secondly, because it infers the European Union from the four wills of the United States, putting us out of the game in a region that is crucial to our strategic interests. Why? How? Because after 30 years of Rwandan aggression and abuse and 6 million Congolese deaths, the European Union has looked elsewhere, hiding behind two-speed indignation and supporting an aggressive and invasive power vis-à-vis its neighbour – a situation that it is so quick to denounce elsewhere. So, from this agreement and these 30 years of resignation, it will simply be remembered that nothing is settled. In other words: Everything remains to be done.

Madam President, this pact for the oceans is a direct attack on our European fishing industry, which the Commission has decided to sacrifice to the interests of free trade and globalisation. First, it tries to arrogate to itself power over all the territorial waters of the Member States. Secondly, no concrete measures are proposed against illegal fishing or against the privatisation of our maritime areas by wind turbines. Thirdly, it is based on NGOs that are engaged in a real campaign of disinformation towards our artisanal fishermen, who are not the problem but the beginning of the solution. Finally, the defence and preservation of our oceans requires cooperation between free and sovereign nations. In Nice, at the United Nations Ocean Conference, an Oceanian ambassador called on us, called on you, Mr. Kadis: You tell us to save the oceans, we tell you to respect us and save our way of life and our identity.

Madam President, we could consider that this report on strengthening rural areas in the European Union through cohesion policy contains good measures. That's right. The problem is that the European Commission degrades and destroys everything it touches. Whether on land, in our countryside, at sea, vis-à-vis our peasants, our fishermen or rurality as a whole, they are always the same mistakes, the same obsessions and the same contempt: prohibition to move, to work, to fish, to produce, to cultivate, to rent, to sell. What is unforgivable is that it always insists on the same ones and that it systematically imposes the most precarious fines and contributions. Under the pretext of making these populations happy in spite of themselves, the globalist and eco-fanatic ideology of Brussels standardizes everything, destroys our sovereignty, our traditions and our identity. It is obvious that the European Union does not like the people. She doesn't like her story, she doesn't like her civilization. So if the European Commission wants to revive our campaigns, instead of imposing and strengthening its model that has still led us to where we are, let it respect our campaigns, its inhabitants, and leave the place, let us live here, at home, in complete freedom.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, in ten years food prices in France have risen by 34%, electricity by 150% and diesel by 132%. These constrained expenses, which particularly affect the most modest families, are in line with the policy imposed by Brussels, even though the average salary of the French has not followed. This debate should not be entitled "High retail prices of food products and consequences for European consumers", but "Consequences of European policy for 30 years on food prices and families in need". Let me say one more thing: behind the label "consumers" - uprooted, globalised, globalised - there are men, women and families in need, here at home. For them to consume, they would have to have a remunerative job. For them to have a gainful job, it would be necessary to allow entrepreneurs to create wealth, to create jobs here, at home. Allow, protect, produce, that is, the opposite of your policy for 30 years.

Mr President, the European Ocean Pact is exactly following the technocratic drift that is plaguing our institutions and the European Union. It is not a question here of organising or imagining cooperation between nations that takes into account the needs and specificities of each. No. The Commission has chosen to sclerose, regulate and standardise everything – but for what purpose? The Commission thus supports the disinformation and slanderous denunciation campaigns of NGOs such as BLOOM, whose sole purpose is to destroy our fisheries sector for the benefit of interests that remain to be known, moreover. In fact, the Commission in Brussels, the NGO BLOOM around the world, the submission of our governments – as we see today, with the political process in France to eliminate Marine Le Pen, the favourite candidate of the French – all have as their ultimate goal to sacrifice our peoples and our nations, to sacrifice our fishermen, to eliminate political opponents. Defending and protecting our peoples, nations and oceans: This is our fight!

Mr President, feeding humanity is the major challenge of the 21st century. That is why we must not only rethink, but support the production model. The sea is an integral part of this challenge, with a powerful, sustainable fishing industry associated with sustainable aquaculture. For this, we must create all the conditions to promote synergy between the nurturers of the sea and the nurturers of the earth. Like algoculture, whose development already offers decisive advances in the field of sustainable and recycled fertilizers for our agriculture, our independence from chemical inputs, much of which comes from Russia, would thus be ensured. While the free trade agreements you sign and the obsession with greening imposed by Brussels, normative and punitive, simply contribute to weakening our food sovereignty, by focusing on our farmers and fishermen. Feeding humanity will be the major challenge of the 21st century. It is with them, not against them, that we will rise to this challenge.

Madam President, Sweden's bloody gang war seems to be moving the European Union today. What surprises the political class, in fact, is that Sweden is a prosperous country, with one of the lowest crime rates in the world. But it was the angelism of the Swedes that led them to a completely crazy migration policy, which exploded organized crime. So, we could consider this as a warning, as in Brussels, Dijon, Berlin, Italy, Marseille, Seine-Saint-Denis, Montpellier: The list is long. The reaction time too, by the way. Because, faced with this, our rulers, under the rule of the European Union, took the side of criminals and delinquents. Sclerosed by political correctness, petrified by the European courts, they decided to look elsewhere. It is the misuse of the rule of law by the European Union that has undermined our sovereignty in our territories, our courts, our borders, our prisons, our daily lives. It is the dealers and the bigots who today impose their laws with Kalashnikovs on our streets and even in front of our schools. So yes, it's time to end it. It is time to finally defend the safety of our compatriots and their interests, before those of criminals, illegal immigrants, starting with supporting our police forces.

Mr President, 30 000 people. 30,000 people died trying to cross the Mediterranean, chasing a fictional eldorado, chasing an eldorado you sold them. These tragic deaths are not to be blamed on the fight against illegal immigration, but on your borderless ideology, the suction pumps you have put in place and your leniency towards the mafia networks of smugglers. We see in Mayotte, on our soil, today, the result of this laissez-faire policy. So it is true, building infrastructure to stop this migratory pressure, which weighs on our public accounts, our economy and the security of our compatriots, will not be enough without a legal arsenal and political will. For this, we must first have the courage to say: Know that if you enter our territory illegally, it will be expulsion and return.

Mr President, desertification is a major threat, but there is one that is not talked about enough, and that is the desertification of our seabed. Deploring the acidification of our oceans, warming waters or rising sea levels is not enough. We must also denounce the causes of this disaster. In France, for example, in Morbihan, they are found in the sterilizing construction of offshore wind farms or in the ravages of non-frontierist factory boats. Two harmful activities, two activities however encouraged by the European Union, which testify to the general hypocrisy, even the pseudo-ecological imposture on the preservation and sustainability of our ecosystems. For fifteen years, we have seen the alarming degradation of our oceans, which threatens our maritime wealth, the trades that depend on it, first and foremost our fishermen, and our food resources. This fragile balance, aggravated by land pollution pouring into our seas, also has an impact on our climates and on land desertification. The saving rain that our farmers and drought-affected populations expect, this saving rain does not fall from the sky, it comes from our oceans. Then all these pious wishes and other declarations of intent will not solve anything if we do not question the globalist ecosystem that you have set up, based on a deregulated free trade to the detriment of a reasoned and national localism.

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, it is good that the negotiations on an international treaty setting binding targets on plastic pollution are now about to be concluded. All this would seem to go in the right direction. However, will this text actually have an impact in the end? Because, if everyone seems to have understood the consequences of this disaster, is everyone really and sincerely ready to approach the problem from the bottom up, without cleavage? Yes, 80% of plastic pollution in the marine environment comes from South Asian countries and China, but can we finally say that this is also the responsibility of Western countries? Because, after all, who promoted globalism? Who relocated our factories to these countries? Sacrificing our jobs and destroying our economy? It is the European Union. By relying on abusive regulations, the European Union has simply destroyed our industry, our agriculture, our fisheries and shifted pollution elsewhere. Because, finally, who wanted to use these countries as open dumps? The European Union. Between 2004 and 2024, exports of waste from the Union to third countries increased by 72 %. Waste exports! So some here can split big statements about the climate emergency, biodiversity, ecological disaster, but the reality is there. It's you. It is you, blissful Europeanists, who have promoted this ultraliberal model that puts us in this calamitous situation. When the wise man points to the moon, the fool looks at the finger. It's a Chinese proverb. We won't be useful idiots. So if this meager initiative is still to be taken, let us not forget that it is not only a question of binding legal objectives, which have little chance, in the end, of prospering until you have changed paradigm. We must change this nomadic and deadly policy that the peoples of Europe have massively rejected recently. The key to the problem is simple, it is localism, it is the re-rooting, it is the relocation of our productions, it is the respect of the nations of the South, it is the respect of all nations, it is the respect of the peoples.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the European Commission, by means of a delegated act, has prohibited fishing in the Bay of Biscay for our fishermen on the pretext of protecting cetaceans. She based this decision on a report by the Pelagis Observatory, which established this data by simply doing 3% of necropsies. It is in the light of these questionable data that the Commission has chosen to put our fishermen out of work: more than 100 million losses, shortages in auctions and the suffocation of maritime cooperatives that constitute the economic lung of our coastal territories. Our fishermen do not have to be the variable of adjustment of the ideological decisions and whims of the Commission. Indeed, between free trade agreements, bans on working for our fishermen and the explosion of standards, the Commission is doing nothing but destroying our food sovereignty. That is why, ladies and gentlemen, I invite you to vote on Wednesday in favour of the motion for a resolution objecting to this delegated act, in the interests of fisheries and in the interests of our food sovereignty.

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the protection of our oceans is a crucial economic, environmental and geopolitical issue, particularly for France, which has the second largest maritime domain in the world. But the proliferation of marine protected areas does not guarantee their integrity. Financial fishing is globalized and prosperous, without respect for the resource, from Mayotte to our coasts, in all legality. Illegal fishing is ravaging our maritime territories, from New Caledonia to Guyana, with impunity. Beyond these declarations of good intentions and other unilateral bans, we need a real ocean protection strategy to support the defence of our national food sovereignty and to upgrade our maritime domain and the blue economy.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the 2008 crisis revealed the flaws of collusion capitalism, putting the US federal state and major investment banks in the same bag. Despite some efforts, nothing has really been done to restore finance to its primary purpose: find capital for our businesses and entrepreneurs, who create wealth and jobs here at home. The multiplication, for example, of ESG (environmental, social and governance) criteria in banking management does not contribute in any way to serving the real economy. To fight against collusion between the leaders of the big banks and the top civil service, to limit the leverage effects of banks and to ensure that they do not create speculative bubbles, as we saw in 2008, we must put our economy back at the service of people and territories – really, concretely, seriously and quickly.

Mr President, budgetary and fiscal sovereignty, a founding principle since 1789, is the sacred basis on which France has built its social and democratic pact. However, your Stability Pact is in breach of this. Is there a need to clean up the accounts? Yes, yes. Are we in debt beyond reason? Also. However, to say that this pact provides any solution is a mirage, because it consists in imposing on France, from Brussels, an austerity that the French refuse, a sacking of public services and the lack of reflection necessary to recover balanced public accounts, namely on the end of the migratory chaos and the fight against tax and social fraud. So no, Commissioners - because France's historical depth and density goes far beyond your technocratic and deadly pact against the people.

Mr President, descriptive and contradictory: descriptive because this report on the European Semester merely describes the economic aspects that have led to a deterioration in living conditions in the European Union, aspects that our citizens had already understood – they are experiencing this deterioration on a daily basis, with a collapsing standard of living and purchasing power and a persistent rise in prices, which does not give a positive sign for tomorrow –; This is contradictory, as it is claimed, for example, that we want to increase the EU’s energy efficiency in order to put an end to dependence on Russian gas without calling into question the European Union’s policy, which has methodically sabotaged our French nuclear sector, despite the fact that it guarantees abundant, affordable and efficient energy. The tragedy is that it is the living forces of our country – our SMEs, our farmers, our fishermen – who bear the brunt of these political choices that serve the delusions of Brussels, globalism and multinationals. In conclusion, we must change the rule. The economy must be put back at the service of people, not the other way around.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, deregulated finance has been the cause of many crises. There is a need for a robust framework for speculative activities. The revision of this regulation is part of this, but it does not go to the end of its logic, since even today companies are bought by funds whose purpose is to cut them and then resell them with maximum profit. These practices have deleterious economic and social consequences and must be very severely controlled, because they destroy a company’s raison d’être: create wealth at the service of men. A company is much more than a capital or a financial return. They are employees, customers and territories, which it helps to make richer and more alive. This is why it is necessary to balance the financial rating with a territorial rating. Finance must regain its rightful role in our economy, i.e. raising capital to support long-term projects and enable us to recover our economic sovereignty. In a word, it must be at the service of nations and peoples. If we were to have one goal, one goal, one course, it would be to empower nations to make the investments needed to weigh in on the world of tomorrow by funding our ex-cel-len-ce. Because above-ground finance, which breaks the links between the company and its stakeholders, is the worst threat to prosperity. Economic freedom must benefit everyone, otherwise it is self-destructing.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the introduction of instant payments in the euro area should undeniably be a step forward for users and consumers in the European Union. But let us not be mistaken: However, we have not come out of financial dependence on the United States. How is it that we are not able to agree our 27 Member States towards the same objective, even though the BRICS, however different, have managed to agree on a common political objective: reduce their dependence on the US for financial transactions? Of course, neither the de-dollarization nor the end of US domination of the international monetary system is for tomorrow. But everywhere – everywhere! – With the exception of the European Union, which aligns itself with the United States, to the detriment of the national sovereignty of States, the first steps are being taken. It is strange that we cannot pursue the same objective – 27 Member States – within the framework of this Union, which, I remind you, was created precisely to influence the world stage. So either the method is wrong or we can question the real political will of the European Union as regards our independence from Washington.

Mr President, yes, the seabed is the new Eldorado of the 21st century and today we know the surface of the Moon better than our seabed. However, it is vital, like major powers around the world, to invest heavily in the protection and enhancement of our maritime domain. And I am surprised that, since this morning, little has finally been said about the restoration of our ecosystems and pollution, mining, land and industrial pollution. The cultivation of algae, for example, offers us great prospects that are still unknown, especially in the development of environmentally friendly fuels and fertilizers, and also in their ability to absorb our CO2 emissions. We account for less than 1% of global production. The way forward is to adopt an action plan from algae farming to industrial fishing using a transversal and comprehensive approach to correct the obstacles to our small-scale fisheries, without clarity and indiscriminateness on the part of the Commission, and to make a real contribution to the restoration of our ecosystems, but also to the sustainability of our small-scale fisheries.

Mr President, yes, we are at a decisive crossroads for the future of our small-scale fisheries in the face of rising massive imports and European regulations. But let us not be told about the Green Deal, inspired by globalist NGOs that prohibit our fishermen from practising, from living off their work here at home. At the same time, through fisheries agreements with third countries such as Mauritania or Senegal, the European Union allows sea financiers to plunder their resources and throw entire populations into emigration in order to survive. Because if we have to talk about small-scale fishing and marine resources, we also have to talk about the economy and food sovereignty, here as elsewhere. And if we are to talk about future prospects, we must keep in mind that these small arrangements between friends, these ‘deals’ that seem juicy to you, lead over time to catastrophic changes that lead to chaos on the other side of the world, but which inevitably come back to us, such as the flapping of wings of a butterfly.

Mr. Speaker, for 85% of French people aged 18 to 25, housing has become a real fighter's journey. It is a social and economic catastrophe. This has not escaped anyone, but the European Union has all its responsibility in these daily tragedies, because your pseudo-ecologist whims have excluded from the private rental market millions of homes, which are no longer accessible, because your zero-rate policy has led to an overheating of the real estate market. You were just talking about an increase of 11 to 13%, but in Paris, in 20 years, rents have increased 13-fold. Your political decisions have created inflation that has been unprecedented in the euro area for 20 years. You have thus forced the European Central Bank to raise its disaster lending rates to contain it, which has increased the cost of mortgage credit. In the end, the middle classes no longer have access to property: in the first half of 2023, one out of every two loans was refused. So, quite naturally, these candidates, these first-time buyers, fell back for lack of better on the rental market, more specific to young people: young workers, young students, young households. Housing supply was already insufficient and has become unaffordable. The market was already tight in terms of supply, and you restricted it even more; What was difficult became impossible. This is what a slump your policy has plunged our youth into. Today, I have the impression that you are paying for words, Commissioner, and your wishes are wishful thinking. To take just one example: one billion investments. In France alone, 70 billion a year would be needed for the energy renovation of our buildings. All the rustines stuck on all the financial and real estate bubbles you have created have thrown a whole generation into precariousness. They don't say thank you.

So, ma'am, I'm going to answer you very simply. You come out of the elements of language that actually allow you to exist again for thirty, forty or fifty seconds, perhaps at a late hour, but perhaps some still have the courage to listen. This is a bit of coffee, because we see it all the way through columns, all the way through the media, when you know very well that between the d’Hondt rule and the agreement that exists here to systematically exclude all our applications for rapporteurships, to table amendments... (The Chair invited the speaker to conclude) It is you who are blocking the system, it is you who are preventing us from contributing and being able to work, precisely, to change this Europe.