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Breaches of EU law and of the rights of LGBTIQ citizens in Hungary as a result of the adopted legal changes in the Hungarian Parliament - The outcome of 22 June hearings under Article 7(1) of the TEU regarding Poland and Hungary (continuation of debate)

Rightly, the overwhelming majority of Council members were outraged by the anti-LGBTQI law introduced by Orbán in Hungary. Orbán has already crossed red lines in the past, but now he has fallen lower than ever. I welcome the reaction of most Heads of State and Government, but that should not end there. The Council must trigger Article 7 against this Hungarian government. All legal means must be implemented in order to show Orbán that he has gone too far. We are a Union of values, whether Orbán likes it or not. He does not want to hear reason, so he must assume the consequences. Hungary's anti-LGBTQI law goes against everything the European Union stands for. When you are a member of the EU, you adhere to our values. This is not an à la carte menu. We must speak out against the deteriorating situation of LGBTQI rights in Hungary. We must act and hold the Hungarian government to account. It is about protecting what is most precious, the freedom of our citizens.

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2026

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Commemoration of the genocide of Armenians and Greeks in Pontos and Asia Minor (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the word genocide should never be used lightly. I know that in this Parliament, the emotion of killing civilians was quickly confused with the invocation of genocide. Yet, ladies and gentlemen, the response to Hamas’ terrorism is brutal and disproportionate, but it is not genocide; Russia’s deadly war against Ukraine either. You have to be serious with the words you use. But if you don’t have to talk wrongly and through, you can’t turn a blind eye to genocide when it happens. The fate that the Young Turks reserved for the Armenians, Pontic Greeks and Assyrians is not simply part of the horrors of World War I. This is quite another thing that happened: the intentional, methodical and systematic search for the elimination of one people, or rather three. Genocide, then. Denying it does not exonerate, does not grow. It is by looking one’s past in the face that one builds one’s future with dignity. Looking at the past also makes it possible to understand that, even when the genocidal machine is at work, action can be taken to try to stop it. Proof of this, among many others, is the rescue of 4,000 Armenians near Mount Moïse by a squadron of French ships whose commander, Admiral Dartige du Fournet, did not wait for orders to save lives. The story of this triple genocide also tells us something else: Such a tragedy does not arise out of nowhere. Massacres were committed against Armenians as early as 1909, before they suffered the first genocide of the 20th century. Nothing was done. Countless killings preceded the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda. Nothing was done. As for the Holocaust...

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May

2026

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Europe's response to reduced US military deployments in Europe, particularly at its Eastern flank in the light of the latest US decisions (debate)

Madam President, Donald Trump is right. Yes, you have heard: Donald Trump is right. It is time for Europe to take charge and defend itself. This is the least we owe to our citizens: be able to deter external aggression and defend them if necessary. This is the choice that France has made for 60 years, that of strategic autonomy; This is what it has been offering Europe for almost a decade. Nevertheless, Donald Trump is wrong. Instead of helping to set up European defence, it is working hard to hinder it. Worse, it weakens NATO at a time when the Russian threat has never been more egregious, and at a time when no military alliance is as robust or respected as it is today. But enough about Donald Trump. Let us seriously work to make NATO’s European pillar the core of the Alliance’s reactor and to tie Ukraine to the defence of our continent. This is in our interest, this is our urgency. There is no longer a minute to lose. We have lost the certainty that tomorrow we can count on the United States to defend us. So let's make sure we have to rely on Europe.

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May

2026

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Question Time with the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy - EU’s strategy to address the current crises in the Middle East

Madam President, thank you Mrs Kallas, you are so right: it is our role as MEPs to say that this is unacceptable. And I note at the moment that part of this Chamber, which is so quick to defend, supposedly, the Christians of the East when it suits it, is completely absent from our debate this afternoon. Eastern Christians deserve the respect of all, all the time. They need us to serve their cause whenever they are threatened, not just when it suits us.

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May

2026

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Question Time with the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy - EU’s strategy to address the current crises in the Middle East

Madam High Representative, there is much to be said in this debate. First, on the overwhelming responsibility of the Iranian regime and its vassals for the Middle East outbreak, but also on the blatant lack of American strategy and on our European impotence. All this is sadly true. But I would like to tell you about other victims of the current situation, who have been present in the region for 2,000 years, who do not threaten anyone, but who are constantly being attacked. I would like to speak to you about the fate of Christians in Lebanon and the Holy Land: Today, a French nun attacked in the middle of the street; the Armenian quarter, witness to repeated humiliation and harassment, in Jerusalem, the city of Christ's tomb; priests, monks, church gates on which they spew; razed Christian villages in southern Lebanon, displaced populations, vandalized crucifixes. By what right? For what purpose? Who can believe that the legitimate struggle against Hezbollah involves the gratuitous humiliation of Christians in the East? And what is the European Union doing?

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Apr

2026

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Topical debate requested by a political group (PfE) (Rule 169) - Commission interference in democratic process and elections (topical debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the Patriots Group has a lot of time to waste. He chose to prank us by demanding a debate on the European Commission's alleged interference in elections in Europe. Forgive me for telling you, but we're insane. Who brought down Viktor Orbán, your friend, if not the weariness of the Hungarian people in the face of the poverty of the country, the corruption of the government, the stifling of freedoms? Yet your friends in power in Moscow and Washington have not skimped on interference, the real ones, to try to save their ally. But that's not what you're talking about. No, what you are talking about is a report by the MAGAs of the American Congress, as if they were the arbiters of our democratic elegances and it was to them that we had to turn to find out what to think. But to what level of vassality are you going to go down? Interference and attacks against our democracies are one of the worst scourges of our time. This Parliament has understood this, which has extended the mandate of the special committee that I chair. I thank all those who renew their confidence in me. As for the Patriots for Europe, who opposed it, I tell them that they make very little effort to deserve their name and everything to convince us that they systematically drive against Europe and against their homeland.

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Apr

2026

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Supporting democratic resilience in Armenia (debate)

Madam President, Armenia is a miracle. Please note: The Armenian people have continued to be attacked, from massacre to genocide, and again recently through ethnic cleansing of the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh. Yet the Armenian people are still standing, legitimately proud of their culture, civilization and religion, and determined to make them shine. The spectacular development of Armenia in recent years bears witness to this. Armenian democracy itself is a miracle. Take a card: Not one of Armenia's neighbors is a democracy, nor is Iran the guardians of the revolution, nor Azerbaijan and its hereditary dictatorship, nor Erdoğan's authoritarian Turkey, nor, alas, Georgia sinking into arbitrariness. Yet since 2018 and the Velvet Revolution, Armenia has enjoyed true democracy, pursued courageous reforms and fought corruption. This is what Armenia wants to protect, and this is what Russia wants to destroy. A few weeks before the elections of June 7, Russia multiplies the interferences, as before in Moldova, to impose its line in Yerevan. To prevent it, it is not enough to believe in the miracle. We must help the Armenians to decide their fate freely, without anyone preventing them from doing so. Armenia is increasingly trusting Europe. Let's not disappoint her.

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Mar

2026

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Case of Elene Khoshtaria and political prisoners under the Georgian Dream regime

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Mar

2026

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The arbitrary detention of President Mohamed Bazoum by the junta in Niger

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Mar

2026

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EUCO and situation in the Middle East (joint debate)

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Mar

2026

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Tackling barriers to the single market for defence - Flagship European defence projects of common interest

Madam President, everything shows us that we need to increase our defence efforts and our strategic autonomy. And yet, it seems that we are looking for all the pretexts to not be up to the task. The US is mistreating its allies and devoting its military resources to waging war in the Middle East, rather than supplying the Europeans or helping Ukraine; Yet there are some here who are fighting European preference. Our industries remain too fragmented, our arms orders poorly synchronized, our purchases too dispersed and our transfers too complicated; Yet there are still those who think that everything is fine, that we must remain in the status quo and whose ultimate crusade is to prevent a single market in defence, agitating the fear of a European control of arms exports that is neither planned nor desirable. China is investing heavily in its defense equipment, including a new generation of fighter jets. At the same time, industrial quarrels and Franco-German political rivalries put the SCAF project at risk. There would be hopelessness. Fortunately, a few days ago, France proposed a new vision, that of an advanced nuclear deterrent that could meet both the concerns and expectations of other Europeans. Fortunately, this proposal has been well understood and welcomed everywhere and by everyone, except by those who continue to want to understand nothing because they prefer a weak, divided and disarmed Europe. Let's not listen to them.

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Mar

2026

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Order of business

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Feb

2026

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Regulation implementing enhanced cooperation on the establishment of the Ukraine Support Loan for 2026 and 2027 (vote)

Madam President, Ukraine has never needed us so much. In a biting cold, Russia bombs cities, power plants and civilians every day. The United States no longer helps Ukraine. The Kyl Institute alert, today, and we know that it refers. Support for Ukraine is based on a small number of countries and it is Europe that assumes the main responsibility. It is our honour and it is in our interest, because our security is at stake and that is why we must adopt the support loan to Ukraine as soon as possible. And this is the moment that ESN chooses to enjoin us to wait. If one needed more proof that AFD or Reconquest are in the service of Russia's interests, we have it. I urge you, ladies and gentlemen, to vote against the dilatory manoeuvre of the Kremlin's small telegraph operators. (Long applause)

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Feb

2026

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Situation in Northeast Syria, the violence against civilians and the need to maintain a sustainable ceasefire (debate)

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Feb

2026

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Building a stronger European defence in light of an increasingly volatile international environment (debate)

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Feb

2026

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Order of business

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Jan

2026

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Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2025 (A10-0253/2025 - David McAllister) (vote)

Madam President, the situation is changing very rapidly, in Syria, and in a worrying way. That is why I would like to table the following oral amendment: ‘Expresses its deep concern at the continued fighting in areas such as Aleppo and north-east Syria, which is leading to further displacement and a high number of civilian casualties and creates a serious security risk, in particular due to the flight of Daesh fighters detained in north-east Syria; calls on the international coalition, including the US, to take all necessary and immediate measures without delay to mitigate this security risk;”

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Jan

2026

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

Mr President, High Representative, for years in this Parliament I have heard a part of the left tell us that we should not strengthen our defence, that peace was there and priorities elsewhere. During the same years, part of the right swore that it was enough to rest on the American ally, that he would always be there and that he should be trusted. Even today, on the far right and on the far left, we do not see a Russian threat, we hate NATO and we oppose a European defence. If we add up the vision of each other, it makes a beautiful skewer of visionaries. It is therefore little to say that Europe's defence has often encountered headwinds. Today, war is raging in Ukraine and Vladimir Putin's appetite has no limits. The United States covets Greenland and maligns its allies. While NATO is still standing, the Atlantic Alliance is in palliative care. Tonight, Donald Trump has just retwittered a post designating NATO as an enemy. We're at this point. Vladimir Putin must not return. As for us, we must stop lamenting. It is without hesitation that we must strengthen our strategic autonomy, exercise a genuine European preference over our arms purchases and build a fully European pillar of NATO. Alone, we are weak and vulnerable. United, we will be powerful and respected.

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Jan

2026

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Brutal repression against protesters in Iran (debate)

Mr President, High Representative, the Iranian regime already had a long history: He had suppressed his people's aspirations for freedom, helped Bashar al-Assad, Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis, attacked Israel, developed a clandestine nuclear program, supported Russia in Ukraine and launched cyberattacks in Europe. Now he's turned into a real butcher: The mullahs, unable to offer a future to their people, had him shot by the guardians of the revolution. Terror reigns in Tehran. And yet, there are still European countries, including my own, that are hesitant to classify pAsdaran as a terrorist entity. What do they need? What are they waiting for? That a handful of Revolutionary Guards dissociate themselves from the Supreme Leader and make a coup d'état, to save their backs and maintain their grip on the country? Wouldn't Iran deserve better than that? While Donald Trump has already forgotten Iran and handed over to the regime by abandoning the demonstrators to their fate, let us at least do what we can so that the butchers of Tehran feel the pressure rising on them and that their crimes do not remain without consequences.

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Dec

2025

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EU Defence Readiness (joint debate)

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Nov

2025

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Implementation of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (debate)

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Nov

2025

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EU position on the proposed plan and EU engagement towards a just and lasting peace for Ukraine (debate)

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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 to listen to the voice of this majority that urges you to do more. You promise us to enforce our European laws by the tech giants. This is the least that can be expected of the Commission. But, alas, we are still waiting. Do you want to support the media? So don't wait any longer. Let's demand that news journalism has more visibility online than disinformation content, let's focus on truthfulness over virality. The time has finally come to understand that what we criticise on social networks – not to correspond to our European values – we will always criticise them, and for a simple reason: they are not European, nor X, nor TikTok, nor any. The time has come to promote the emergence of European platforms serving not users, but citizens, not for immediate profit, but for our society and our democracy.

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Nov

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 which we have dealt with defence issues so far, and to start setting up structured European support for increasing our defence capabilities and reducing their fragmentation. I am particularly pleased that we have reached a firm and clear agreement in favour of European preference. This is an important achievement that we must maintain in all the other instruments that we are going to put in place in the field of defence. We have also succeeded, and this is a first, in putting in place an incentive to build up stocks of military equipment and an emergency mechanism in the event of a crisis in the supply of such equipment. All this must be welcomed, and I am pleased that my Renew Group has helped to find the necessary compromises. But still, I would not want to pour into self-satisfaction. While our fellow citizens tell us day after day that they want a European defence, it took us more than a year to adopt this programme. And while the expectations are immense, the ambition of EDIP is great, its budget is unfortunately very insufficient. So, if I want to acknowledge the role of Commissioner Kubilius, if I want to thank all the co-rapporteurs who have honoured our Parliament, I say to all of us, when we see that the account is not quite there, on the resources devoted to EDIP: can do better.

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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 congratulate the French diplomacy and the German diplomacy, which worked together for his release. I would like to recall the fate of French journalist Christophe Gleizes, who is still detained in Algeria for investigating an Algerian football team. A journalist’s place is not in prison. Imprisoning journalists means attacking freedom of expression and democracy. In the same way, those in this Chamber who attack journalists when they have the misfortune of not sharing their opinions are undermining democracy. Long live the freedom of Boualem Sansal! Long live freedom of expression!