What Nathalie spoke about.

12 Mar

2024

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Question Time with Commissioners - Preparedness of EU governments to combat foreign interference, including from Russia

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Mr President, if there is one area in which Europe is a sieve, it is in the face of interference from its adversaries – Russia first. Strangely, this sieve, neither the RN nor the AfD ever denounce it. It is true that, in this area, they are at the top of smugglers' networks. Europe needs to defend itself better, and to do so, it needs to give itself the means to do so. In the US, UK and Australia…

12 Mar

2024

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Council and Commission statements - Preparation of the European Council meeting of 21 and 22 March 2024 (debate)

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Mr President, in a few days the Council will meet and it has a more urgent priority than all the others: European defence. It is no longer time for procrastination and it is certainly not time for European disunity, the only one to benefit from which would be Vladimir Putin. No, now is the time for determined action to defend Ukraine. Because defending Ukraine means defending Europeans. We are not…

28 Feb

2024

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Strengthening European Defence in a volatile geopolitical landscape - Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2023 - Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2023 (joint debate - European security and defence)

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Madam President, our continent is now at a tipping point. The war is raging there through the choice of a man, Vladimir Putin, who wants the capitulation of Ukraine and our enslavement. The United States could make an isolationist and fatal choice in November. Today, it is up to us to choose. Or we take the risk of Russia winning in Ukraine and the United States turning its back on us, and that ri…

27 Feb

2024

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Recommendation to the Council, the Commission and the EEAS on the situation in Syria (debate)

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Mr President, thirteen years of bloodshed, half a million dead, 14 million civilians displaced or refugees, an entire country in a humanitarian emergency. This tragedy has a name: Syria, and it has one culprit: Bashar al-Assad. It has accomplices, Russia and Iran. It has consequences, the Syrian chaos has made possible the rise of Daesh terrorism, a terrorism that has also hit Europe. This same ch…

27 Feb

2024

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Closer ties between the EU and Armenia and the need for a peace agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia (debate)

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I do not know if happiness will be complete, Mr Lacapelle, but I heard you defending Armenia with vibrant accents. I heard you criticise Azerbaijan. So I wonder how the meetings of the National Rally delegations are going and if you can talk to Thierry Mariani, who has been constantly and recently showing his unwavering support for the Baku regime, his many trips, his very special interest in the …

27 Feb

2024

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Closer ties between the EU and Armenia and the need for a peace agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia (debate)

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Mr President, I have just returned from Armenia. I saw a people who only aspire to live in peace with their neighbours and leaders who know their country is under threat. Azerbaijan’s appetite was not satisfied by its brutal takeover of Nagorno-Karabakh. His army occupies plots of Armenian territory and Baku claims more, more and more. Russia’s abandonment of Armenia is no longer in doubt, nor is …

7 Feb

2024

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Need to fight the increase of antisemitism and anti-Muslim hatred (debate)

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Madam President, Ilan Halimi, 24, abducted, tortured and completed in the Paris suburbs in January 2006 because he was Jewish. Jonathan, 30 years old, Gabriel, 3 years old, Arié, 6 years old, Myriam, 8 years old, murdered on March 19, 2012 in Toulouse because of Jews. Mireille Knoll, 85, Holocaust survivor, stabbed to death on March 23, 2018 in Paris because she was Jewish. Every time we cried, we…

6 Feb

2024

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Russiagate: allegations of Russian interference in the democratic processes of the European Union (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, remember – and if you have forgotten, I remember and can refresh your memory. Remember that after the ‘Qatargate’, both on the far right and on the far left of this Chamber, there was a maneuver to talk only about that, Qatar, to try to put an end to the special committee on foreign interference in the broad sense, not to mention Russian interference in our Parl…

6 Feb

2024

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The need for unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after two years of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the European summit on 1 February was a success, as it confirmed our financial assistance to Ukraine. But let's not veil our face: when it comes to our military aid, this summit is a failure, and in many ways. The eighth tranche of European military aid has been blocked for months because of Hungary. The future of a visible and predictable European Peace Facilit…

16 Jan

2024

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Humanitarian situation in Gaza, the need to reach a ceasefire and the risks of regional escalation (debate)

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I see, Ms Aubry, that you are talking about a world that does not exist. You have Hamas that doesn't want a ceasefire, you have an Israeli government that doesn't want a ceasefire, and you give yourself a good conscience by calling for a ceasefire. It’s free, it doesn’t eat bread. You are good, you are in the European Parliament. I went to Israel, to the kibbutz where people were massacred, tortur…

16 Jan

2024

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Humanitarian situation in Gaza, the need to reach a ceasefire and the risks of regional escalation (debate)

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Ms Aubry, I note that Hamas, far from calling for a ceasefire, is calling on Muslim countries to supply it with more weapons. So my question, Ms Aubry, is: Do you call on Hamas to finally stop martyring the Palestinian people, and to demand a ceasefire that the Palestinian people so desperately need?…

16 Jan

2024

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Humanitarian situation in Gaza, the need to reach a ceasefire and the risks of regional escalation (debate)

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Mr President, what is Gaza's name? A war started on 7 October by Hamas, which knew the consequences and chose to make the Palestinian people a martyr. Prior to 7 October, there were no Israeli troops or settlements in Gaza. There was Hamas and it did nothing for its people. We were responsible for helping the Palestinians in Gaza. Meanwhile, Hamas devoted its energy and resources to its one projec…

16 Jan

2024

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Keeping commitments and delivering military assistance to Ukraine (debate)

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Mr President, I hear here and there about a ‘fatigue of Ukraine’ that our countries are suffering from. This expression is obscene. It is the Ukrainians who are fighting, they are the ones who are suffering, they are the ones who are dying. It is the Ukrainians who would have the right to say that they are tired, but on the contrary, they are resisting the deluge of fire imposed on them by Russia.…

13 Dec

2023

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European Defence investment programme (EDIP) (debate)

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Madam President, we have been talking about it for months, that Ms von der Leyen has announced, but still nothing: neither the European Defence and Investment Programme EDIP nor its accompanying strategy are ready. With the war on our doorstep, Ukraine lacking weapons and ammunition, we are reduced to waiting, waiting and worrying. "The ammunition plan is running its course," we are told. Admitted…

13 Dec

2023

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One year after Morocco and QatarGate – stocktaking of measures to strengthen transparency and accountability in the European institutions (debate)

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Mrs Aubry, it is true that we are far too paid if we spend our time on pickets in Paris or disguising ourselves as Rosie la riveteuse, that is true. But for those who work and advance the law for the benefit of all Europeans, every job deserves a salary.…

13 Dec

2023

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One year after Morocco and QatarGate – stocktaking of measures to strengthen transparency and accountability in the European institutions (debate)

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Mrs Aubry, this is land on which I would not have gone, in your place, because I was a member of the Committee on Interference, a committee where your group was represented by a Member who kept saying that this committee had no reason to be, who tabled amendments to remove any reference to Russia’s interference in the work of this Parliament – I wonder why – and, as regards ancillary work, I do no…

13 Dec

2023

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One year after Morocco and QatarGate – stocktaking of measures to strengthen transparency and accountability in the European institutions (debate)

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Mr President, new revelations about the ‘Qatargate’ are stirring up in the press every day like a sad soap opera. I learned that one of our colleagues, charged with corruption, tried to silence me because I was too interested in the plight of migrant workers in Qatar. The good news is that it failed. The bad news is that the behaviour of a few has cast suspicion on all of us. Even before the end o…

22 Nov

2023

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Humanitarian situation in Gaza, the need for the release of hostages and for an immediate humanitarian truce leading to a ceasefire and the prospects for peace and security in the Middle East (debate)

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Mr President, today the entire Middle East is being held hostage. I am of course thinking of the 240 hostages held by Hamas. All men, all women, all children, all have to go home. I am thinking of the 2 million Gazans. They too have been taken hostage by Hamas. It is we Europeans who are concerned about their plight and who are at the forefront of aid to the Palestinians. Hamas is building tunnels…

21 Nov

2023

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Question Time with Commissioners - The state of implementation of the EU’s commitment to provide 1 million rounds of artillery ammunition to Ukraine until March 2024

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Still on the issue of ammunition that does not necessarily go directly to Ukraine: Do you confirm any information that some ammunition produced in Europe would be purchased by the US which would itself send it to Ukraine, which would be a desirable final destination, but would show some form of absurdity in our own system?…

21 Nov

2023

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Question Time with Commissioners - The state of implementation of the EU’s commitment to provide 1 million rounds of artillery ammunition to Ukraine until March 2024

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Commissioner, the European Union was exemplary at the beginning of the Russian war of invasion in Ukraine. It has made its cultural revolution both by adopting sanctions, sending military equipment to Ukraine, and your own efforts have made it possible to implement the ammunition plan. I want to greet them here, but it is a flood of fire that is hitting Ukraine today. And while our target is one m…

18 Oct

2023

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A true geopolitical Europe now (topical debate)

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Madam President, Mr High Representative, Mrs von der Leyen promised us a geopolitical committee. We wanted to believe it, because we knew how much it was needed. The European response to the war in Ukraine has raised real hopes, as everything has been implemented swiftly and coherently, be it sanctions, refugee reception, financial support or military aid. Alas, we may have rejoiced a little quick…

4 Oct

2023

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Human rights situation in Afghanistan, in particular the persecution of former government officials

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Mr President, the world has abandoned Afghanistan, but Afghanistan is not cut off from the world. What this country is experiencing, what its people are enduring, is first of all its own ordeal. But it's also a threat to all of us. The power of the Taliban imposes unrestricted suffering on the Afghan people. Misery, violence, repression, it is difficult to imagine what this people endures. Entire …

3 Oct

2023

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Situation in Nagorno-Karabakh after Azerbaijan’s attack and the continuing threats against Armenia (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, absentees are always wrong. It is regrettable that the High Representative is absent from this debate. This unfortunately reflects another, much more serious absence, that of Europe during all those months when the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh were surrounded, starved and finally attacked by Azerbaijan. Of course, Baku is primarily responsible for the ethnic cleansi…

2 Oct

2023

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Order of business

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Madam President, we are all aware of the appalling situation faced by the Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh, which has been ethnically cleansed since the attack by Azerbaijan. More than 100,000 people had to leave the territory where they were born. That is why we have a resolution this week. But today Armenia itself is under threat. Turkey and Azerbaijan continue to question its sovereignty…

12 Sep

2023

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2022 Report on Türkiye (debate)

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Mr President, the report by our colleague Nacho Sánchez Amor is of very good quality and he rightly notes that Turkey continues to move away from the European Union. Domestically, the repression of opponents, intellectuals and journalists continues. At the regional level, Turkey continues to give ambiguous signals: with Armenia, with Russia, with Syria, Ankara continues to play a double game. With…