What Nathalie spoke about.

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Nov

2025

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Communication on the Democracy Shield (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, there are elected representatives in our house of democracy, yes, elected representatives, who do not want democracy to be protected. Fortunately, they are in the minority, but they give voice, as we have just heard. They wouldn't want you to do anything. But there is a majority in this House, and I am concerned about the relentless attacks on our democracies. I ask you…

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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, ladies and gentlemen, I hesitated when I came this morning about what I was going to say: Congratulate me or get impatient. There is indeed something to be satisfied with, with modesty of course, but also something to question. Let's start with the half-full glass. Today we are putting to your vote a good text, a text that makes it possible to move away from the urgent logic with …

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Nov

2025

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Commemorating the 10th anniversary of the islamist attacks of 13 November 2015 in Paris (debate)

Madam President, I refer to Rule 150 of our Rules of Procedure. Ladies and gentlemen, you asked in January for the release of Boualem Sansal, and today, as we speak, Boualem Sansal is free. I would like to thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for having all, as Europeans, wished for the release of this Franco-Algerian, this writer whose place had never been in prison. I would like to thank and congrat…

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Oct

2025

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Allegations of espionage by the Hungarian government within the EU institutions (debate)

Madam President, I complain to the Hungarian people. I pity him because he is a great people and Viktor Orbán misrepresents him. I pity him because he learned, like us, that Viktor Orbán had the European institutions spied on, as if Hungary were the enemy of our Union. I pity him because he learned, like us, that drones from Hungary had flown over Ukraine, as if Budapest was Kiev's enemy. The Hung…

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Oct

2025

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The need for a united support to Ukraine and for a just and durable peace concluded on Ukraine's terms, with Europeans and without surrendering to Vladimir Putin's conditions ahead of the foreseen Budapest summit (debate)

Mr. President, Donald Trump deserves a Nobel Prize, but only one, that of inconstancy. We can't count on him. Ukraine cannot count on him. One day Russia is a paper tiger, another he had a very good conversation with Vladimir Putin and wants to meet him in Budapest. And then he doesn't want to anymore. But enough about Donald Trump. Expecting him to make the right decisions, we waste our time. Let…

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Oct

2025

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Composition of committees and delegations

Mr President, I would like to make a point of order under Rules 10 and 183 of our Rules of Procedure. These articles specify that a Member of the European Parliament must preserve the dignity of Parliament, not damage its reputation and that he may be punished if he fails to fulfil his obligations. We knew that our colleague Rima Hassan had shown no compassion for the victims of the October 7 pogr…

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2025

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The decision to impose a fine on Google: defending press and media freedom in the EU (debate)

Mr President, in technocratic language, what the European Commission accuses Google of is an abuse of a dominant position. The context is actually much darker. The very existence of quality press and professional and verified information is now threatened by the tech giants. They chose to monetize just about everything except what should count as a priority: the integrity of the information. It is…

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2025

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Order of business

Madam President, we learned a few days ago that President Putin had called President Trump and that President Trump had found it to be a very good conversation. We then learned that President Trump had received President Zelensky and refused to deliver Tomahawk missiles to him, and that it had actually gone very wrong. We are now learning that President Trump wants to meet with President Putin in …

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Oct

2025

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United response to recent Russian violations of the EU Member States’ airspace and critical infrastructure (RC-B10-0419/2025, B10-0419/2025, B10-0421/2025, B10-0422/2025, B10-0423/2025, B10-0424/2025, B10-0437/2025) (vote)

Madam President, while Russian drones were flying over our countries, drones from Hungary were flying over Ukraine. It is the same provocation, the same denial of sovereignty. Moreover, Viktor Orbán dared to deny Ukraine’s sovereignty. It must be denounced in our resolution. I am surprised, Madam President, that your services have objected to my tabling a written amendment. That is why I am tablin…

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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, who would want a nuclear-armed Iran? Let's be clear: No one. For decades, the Iranian regime has pursued two obsessions: the destruction of Israel and access to nuclear weapons. Obviously, we can't let him do it. On that basis, Europe has acted responsibly. Without the Europeans, there would have been no negotiations and the Vienna Agreement would have lacked firmness. Thanks to t…

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Oct

2025

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United response to recent Russian violations of the EU Member States’ airspace and critical infrastructure (debate)

Ms Furet, your political party has a privilege to have a long-standing and privileged relationship with the Russian authorities. Many trips, many financial relationships, make you have their phone number. If you think appeasement is useful – ‘appeasement’ is a funny word if we know a little about its history – I urge you to call on the Russian authorities and ask them to stop the continuous provoc…

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Oct

2025

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United response to recent Russian violations of the EU Member States’ airspace and critical infrastructure (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Europe is no longer only threatened today; It's provoked. It is no longer just hybrid attacks that target us. Flying over sovereign airspace by fighter jets or military drones is not a hybrid act; this is a deliberate violation of sovereignty. Given the gravity of the situation, I express my full solidarity with all the European states that have been provoked…

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Jul

2025

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Urgent need to protect religious minorities in Syria following the recent terrorist attack on Mar Elias Church in Damascus

Mr President, the horror and dread struck Christians in Syria when a suicide attack killed 25 worshippers and injured more than 60 in the Church of St Elijah in Damascus. Horror and dread had struck the Alawite community a few months ago. The Kurds are worried, the Druze are worried. Here in Europe, the attitude of the new Syrian authorities is being scrutinised. We do well to worry about the fate…

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Jul

2025

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2023 and 2024 reports on Georgia (debate)

Madam President, Nika Melia, Nika Gvaramia, Mamouka Khazaradze, Badri Japaridze, Irakli Okrouashvili, Guiorgui Vacharidze Guiorgui Targamadze, Zourab Japaridze and of course Mikheil Saakashvili: The entire Georgian opposition is now being prosecuted, much of it in prison. Mzia Amaglobeli is in detention. His health is getting worse. She is in detention, like other journalists. Guiorgui Ramichvili,…

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May

2025

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EU support for a just, sustainable and comprehensive peace in Ukraine (debate)

Madam President, "Russia is a military power with dreams of empire": this is not mine, I quote Mme Von der Leyen. I can also quote Kaja Kallas, on February 20, expressing doubts about the American mediation or acknowledging, on February 24, in Kiev, that European aid to Ukraine is not enough. So let me ask you a question: What are we doing here, sitting, debating, when we don't have a minute to lo…

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May

2025

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Preparation of the EU-UK summit (debate)

Madam President, dear British friends. The EU-UK summit gives us the historic opportunity to repair our relationship. There are thousands of good reasons to do it, whereas there was none to damage old ties in the first place. We share the same aspirations and face the same challenges on both sides of the channel. All leaders have expressed political will to work more and better together. Now is th…

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Apr

2025

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110th anniversary of the Armenian genocide

Mr President, I have just over a minute to tell you about more than a million deaths: victims of the genocide committed against Armenians by the Ottoman Empire. It would probably take a minute of silence, but not: There is already too much silence. This silence is the one that has been deplored for so long by the Turkish authorities. In this country, which so often refers to its history, it is imp…

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Apr

2025

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EU Preparedness Union Strategy (debate)

Madam President, "you must always be ready. Make sure you look at things from all angles. If you are not prepared, you will fail.” It is not you, Commissioner, who express yourself in this way, it is Benjamin Franklin. If Benjamin Franklin lived today, his appeal would probably be even more pressing. We have just experienced a pandemic, the war has returned to Europe, our democracies are under att…

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Apr

2025

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CFSP and CSDP (Article 36 TUE) (joint debate)

Madam President, I only have one minute and I will not go four ways. If Europe wants to remain at peace, there is only one way: We need to support Ukraine militarily, massively and immediately. Unfortunately, the time for peace has not yet come in Ukraine. The lame ceasefires proposed by Washington only emboldened Vladimir Putin. If we want a just and lasting peace, we must allow Kiev to negotiate…

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2025

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Unlawful detention and sham trials of Armenian hostages, including high-ranking political representatives from Nagorno-Karabakh, by Azerbaijan

Mr President, we are gathered today to demand the release of the 23 Armenian hostages held by Baku who are facing an unfair trial. I wanted this resolution and I thank my co-sponsors. The current trial has nothing to envy to the Stalinist trials. The accused are deprived of everything and are subjected to ill-treatment. Their only crime is to be Armenians. I would like to address Kaja Kallas, regr…

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Mar

2025

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Frozen Russian assets (debate)

Mr President, we hear a lot about frozen Russian assets, in particular that their confiscation would be illegal. I recommend reading ‘The Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts’, a document adopted by the United Nations Commission on International Law in 2001. That document recognises the right of an assaulted State to take countermeasures against the aggressor State as compens…

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Mar

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The need for EU support towards a just transition and reconstruction in Syria (debate)

Madam President, blood is flowing again in Syria: More than 1,000 deaths between Tartus and Latakia. Supporters of the former regime, suspected to have been armed by Iran and piloted by Russia, cracked the match, and fire caught on. Pro-Turkish militias and foreign jihadists responded with abject ferocity. The violence of the past few days, unashamedly exploited by Bashar al-Assad’s servants, incl…

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Mar

2025

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White paper on the future of European defence (debate)

Madam President, Europe of defence was born last Thursday. It was unfortunately a labor in pain. It took the rapprochement between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin to finally listen to those who have been advocating for European strategic autonomy for years. I will not give in to the ease of reminding you that we told you that, because no one imagined that the United States would turn its back on i…

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Jan

2025

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Case of Boualem Sansal in Algeria

Madam President, 'I do not agree with what you say, but I will fight to the death so that you have the right to say it'. This phrase, no one knows if Voltaire really uttered it, but it has passed through the centuries as a light passes through the night. Today, it is with Boualem Sansal in mind that I pronounce it. I don't always agree with what he said, or where he said it, and it doesn't matter …

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2025

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Uniting Europe against actors hostile to the EU: time to strengthen our security and defence (topical debate)

Madam President, what if Donald Trump was right? What if we had to do more to defend ourselves? The answer is yes, of course. We do not outsource our security, unless we say that we do not take it seriously. It took the Russian aggression against Ukraine for us to start waking up. It may take a second Trump presidency for us to finally get up. Strengthening European defence is not an ideological m…