What France spoke about.

9

Jul

2026

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Evaluation of the Common Fisheries Policy and follow-up (debate)

Mr President, today we have to talk about the common fisheries policy and its evaluation since 2013. It is a vast programme, and what can we really say about it? Should we talk about the Commission's lack of action, which calls for evaluations in meetings, meetings in summaries, summaries in working groups, working groups in evaluations, before starting the infernal cycle again? Because in fact, M…

8

Jul

2026

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The threat of war crimes, the escalating violations of international humanitarian law and the human rights situation in El-Obeid, Sudan

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in El-Obeid, people are being bombarded, executed, raped, forcibly displaced and repeatedly violated international humanitarian law. It seems that we all agree today to make this observation. It should be noted, however, that strangely little is heard of far-left politicians – and I am particularly referring to La France insoumise – on this subject. It must be s…

18

May

2026

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The impact of the implementation of the Maritime Spatial Planning Directive 2014/89/EU on fisheries in selected fishing areas and sea basins (debate)

Mr President, yes, it is clear that our seas are not spaces without rules and borders. And today, it is true, there is less and less space and more and more actors, which multiplies the conflicts of use that are bound to multiply and break out again in the future. But the record of your application of this famous Maritime Spatial Planning Directive, Commissioner, is overwhelming. Let’s start – I w…

27

Apr

2026

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The role of ocean diplomacy for the competitiveness of EU fisheries and aquaculture (debate)

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 g…

21

Oct

2025

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

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 sovereign…

9

Oct

2025

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Public health risks in a Europe affected by global warming: tackling the spread of mosquito- and tick-borne diseases (vote)

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…

9

Sep

2025

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Devastating wildfires in Southern Europe: the need to strengthen EU aid to restore the massive loss of forests and enhancing EU preparedness (debate)

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 br…

9

Jul

2025

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

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 will…

17

Jun

2025

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European Ocean Pact (debate)

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 maritim…

16

Jun

2025

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Strengthening rural areas in the EU through cohesion policy (debate)

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 …

7

May

2025

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High levels of retail food prices and their consequences for European consumers (debate)

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…

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Apr

2025

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European oceans pact (debate)

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 …

13

Mar

2025

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A Vision for Agriculture and Food (debate)

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 th…

10

Feb

2025

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Escalation of gang violence in Sweden and strengthening the fight against organised crime (debate)

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…

23

Jan

2025

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Major interpellations (debate)

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…

23

Jan

2025

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Combating Desertification: 16th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP16) of the United Nations Convention (debate)

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…

28

Nov

2024

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Need to adopt an ambitious international legally binding agreement on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment

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 …

25

Nov

2024

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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 pu…

24

Oct

2024

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Protecting our oceans: persistent threats to marine protected areas in the EU and benefits for coastal communities (debate)

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 Ma…

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Apr

2024

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Amending Directive 2013/36/EU as regards supervisory powers, sanctions, third-country branches, and environmental, social and governance risks - Amending Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 as regards requirements for credit risk, credit valuation adjustment risk, operational risk, market risk and the output floor (joint debate - Banking Union)

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 (envi…

23

Apr

2024

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Effective coordination of economic policies and multilateral budgetary surveillance - Speeding up and clarifying the implementation of the excessive deficit procedure – amending Regulation - Requirements for budgetary frameworks of the Member States – amending Directive (joint debate – Economic governance)

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 F…

13

Mar

2024

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European Semester for economic policy coordination 2024 – European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2024 (joint debate – European Semester)

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 persisten…

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Feb

2024

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Amendments to the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) and to the Directive relating to undertakings for collective investment in transferable securities (UCITSD) (debate)

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 deleteriou…

5

Feb

2024

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Instant payments in euro (debate)

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 …

18

Jan

2024

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EU Action Plan: protecting and restoring marine ecosystems for sustainable and resilient fisheries (debate)

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, m…