What France spoke about.

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Jan

2024

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Implementation of the Common Fisheries Policy and future perspectives (debate)

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 Maurita…

13

Dec

2023

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EU strategy to assist young people facing the housing and cost of living crisis (topical debate)

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 p…

12

Dec

2023

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European Economic Security Strategy (debate)

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 …

12

Dec

2023

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European Economic Security Strategy (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, no, the European Union has not defended and does not defend our economic security. The hubris of the Brussels technocrats led us straight into the wall, ruining our industrial fabric and contributing to the escape of our excellence and our living forces. Delocalisation, deindustrialisation: Globalist ideology has caused the misfortune and decline of the peoples …

11

Dec

2023

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Role of tax policy in times of crisis (debate)

Madam President, hell is paved with good intentions, and I would nevertheless like to solemnly reiterate here a principle: Tax consent is the basis of our democracy. Tax cooperation can only be done on a voluntary basis. It is the people who decide. It is up to the people to decide. The principle that the European Union would seize any legitimacy to guide, guide or decide the tax policy of the 27 …

16

Oct

2023

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Fisheries control (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I see little reason to welcome these new measures, nor does Mr Sinkevičius – the proof: he is not here to celebrate. This crucial vote on fisheries control comes at a time when the crisis is in full swing: the fishing industry is under threat from all sides. Instead of helping our fishermen and under the pretext of modernising their fleet with digital tools, …

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Oct

2023

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European green bonds (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, informing investors who wish to invest their savings in sustainable activities is commendable. However, the introduction of that additional green label, even if it is public, even if it is free of charge, will in no way make it possible to identify the virtue of those products. Indeed, it will be based on a partial and partial perception of the sustainable or…

12

Sep

2023

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Iran: one year after the murder of Jina Mahsa Amini (debate)

Mr President, a year ago, in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Jina Mahsa Amini was succumbed, arrested by the morality police for not wearing her hijab properly. No, to all the Islamo-Leftists in the world and in this Chamber, and to the European Commission which hammers it: The Islamic veil does not emancipate women. Nor is it a voluntary choice. Jina Mahsa died. But do you know that a survey in 201…

11

Jul

2023

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Financial activities of the European Investment Bank – annual report 2022 - Control of the financial activities of the European Investment Bank - annual report 2022 (joint debate - European Investment Bank)

Mr President, the European Investment Bank should be a tool for the prosperity of the peoples, nations and vital forces of Europe. In fact, it is only a tool for political communication, a tool that essentially promotes a mad anti-nuclear ideology misguided by the far left. And to do what? Swap EUR 350 million in maritime wind energy in Calvados, with the effect of expelling our fishermen from the…

10

Jul

2023

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Management, conservation and control measures in the area covered under the Southern Indian Ocean Fisheries Agreement (SIOFA) (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, as a symbol of French maritime power, located in the heart of a 30 million square kilometre high seas area, our magnificent Reunion Island has been designated as the seat of the organisation resulting from the SPAOI agreements on fisheries in the South Indian Ocean concluded between the European Union, France and six other maritime states. And I can only rejo…

14

Jun

2023

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Lessons learnt from the Pandora Papers and other revelations (debate)

Madam President, Mr Reynders, ladies and gentlemen, if tax scandals are multiplying and robbing our citizens of hundreds of billions of euros, it is because you have made all this possible with the abolition of borders and the promotion of the free movement of goods, capital and people. We could even add a strange dependence on nomadic investors, shell companies and trusts, against which the gover…

12

Jun

2023

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Competition policy - annual report 2022 (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, while globalisation is a reality in which economic, energy and industrial crises multiply, the globalist ideology is a dogma, with which this annual report on competition policy refuses to break. By explicitly rejecting even a part of protectionism, the European Union condemns us structurally, economically, socially and even ecologically. Without protectionism, …

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May

2023

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Towards a strong and sustainable EU algae sector (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, the priceless value of blue gold is well established. The problem is that our public policies are struggling to hear it. This is evidenced by the untapped potential of algae in Europe today, which accounts for only 1% of global production. Our algoculture is in the embryonic stage, while scientists, nutritionists and industrialists agree to praise the interest of aquati…

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Apr

2023

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Markets in Crypto-assets (MiCa) - Information accompanying transfers of funds and certain crypto-assets (recast) (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, ten years ago no one knew about cryptoassets. Today, these are investments, quasi-currencies and money laundering. However, the potential of these innovations must not over-emphasise the risks to our citizens and societies. Their volatility and the high level of financial risk they entail require us to be cautious. The FTX case was mentioned earlie…

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Mar

2023

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Deaths at sea: a common EU response to save lives and action to ensure safe and legal pathways (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, finally take up your responsibilities. It is because you encourage migrants to make this dangerous journey from hiding that they tragically die at sea. With your continuous calls for immigration, your support for the principle of non-refoulement, the assurance given to illegal immigrants that they will never be returned to their country – 90% of OQTFs in France …

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Mar

2023

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European Semester for economic policy coordination 2023 - European Semester for economic policy coordination: Employment and social priorities for 2023 (debate)

Madam President, under the guise of economic coordination, the Brussels European Semester pursues its ultra-liberal objectives and imperial aims. For example, the Commission ‘recommends’ – soft euphemism – to France to ‘harmonize’ – another euphemism – our pension system. In other words, to abolish our schemes specific to certain professions which are justified by the hardship of these professions…

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Feb

2023

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European Central Bank - annual report 2022 (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, this has been said several times this evening: The ECB’s role is primarily to ensure monetary stability and strengthen Europe’s strategic independence. Today, the ECB’s policy of ideological greening, as understood by the European Union, diverts it not only from its objectives, but also from its role. On the other hand, our monetary stability and strategic in…

13

Feb

2023

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REPowerEU chapters in recovery and resilience plans (debate)

Madam President, we were told that this plan was intended to strengthen Europe’s strategic independence by allowing Germany to do without Russian gas in 2027. Today, we are dependent on US shale gas. I told you, I repeat: the categorical inclusion in this plan of decarbonised, abundant and affordable nuclear energy would have allowed us to contribute to our reindustrialisation, a condition for our…

18

Jan

2023

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Small-scale fisheries situation in the EU and future perspectives (debate)

Madam President, the future of small-scale fishing is under threat because it is, to its greatest misfortune, the exclusive competence of the European Commission. It is against these directives, which impose deadly European centralism and dogmatic pseudo-ecolos that our fishermen must fight to survive. Thus, most of the European funds are paid to intensive and predatory fishing without the small-s…

16

Jan

2023

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Rules to prevent the misuse of shell entities for tax purposes (debate)

Mr President, ‘God laughs at men crying about the effects of the causes they cherish’. I often repeat this sentence, here, of Bossuet, but the facts are there, they are stubborn: the European Union does not know how to fight, the European Union does not fight tax evasion. We should already put an end to the globalist model, but you refuse to do so. The failure of the black and grey list policy is …

14

Dec

2022

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Tackle the cost of living crisis: increase pay, tax profits, stop speculation (topical debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, God laughs at men who cry about the consequences of the causes they cherish – unless the European Union tries to make us believe that it is fighting in good faith against what it has built with such perseverance. Indeed, who favored the economic model that allowed these drifts? Who gave all the power to speculation, doing more and more for banks and high fina…

13

Dec

2022

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This is Europe - Debate with the Prime Minister of Slovenia, Robert Golob (debate)

Madam President, one in three French people who give up medical care, a middle class that is collapsing, laminated and downgraded, an increasingly violent precariousness that affects more than 11 million of my compatriots, our companies that are relocated, social dumping institutionalised by posted work, a pension reform at 65 imposed by Brussels, a dizzying increase in the bankruptcies of our SME…

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Nov

2022

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System of own resources of the European Union (debate)

Mr President, going from a budget of 1% of euro area GDP to 10% shows only one thing: The European Union wants more power. And to achieve this, it strips the Member States of control over the tax levied on our people and businesses and, more importantly, on our strategic energy choices. As proof of this, Commissioners Dombrovskis and Gentiloni confirmed yesterday that the REPowerEU plan would not …

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Nov

2022

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Assessment of Hungary's compliance with the rule of law conditions under the Conditionality Regulation and state of play of the Hungarian RRP (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, today we are debating the state of play of the negotiations between the Commission and the Hungarian government on whether it qualifies for the recovery plan that all other states have already benefited from, i.e. whether, according to Brussels, there is indeed a rule of law in Hungary, which the Commission and some seem to deny it. No, no, no. …

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Nov

2022

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REPowerEU chapters in recovery and resilience plans (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, for decades a falsely ecological ideology has systematically undermined the energy independence of our nations and tried to make us give up nuclear power. However, this decarbonized energy, in which France has been able to invest and excel, has proved its worth. Until now, it has been the most effective, both from an environmental and an economic p…