What Mounir spoke about.

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2025

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Targeted attacks against Christians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo – defending religious freedom and security (debate)

Madam President, I shall take two lessons from the negotiation of this resolution. The first is that blind ideology: Obsessed with the protection of Christians alone, the right and some far-right groups almost invisibilized hundreds of thousands of civilian victims. The second is that the influence reveals the look: A few weeks after pointing out here the responsibility of Rwanda and its armed ext…

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2025

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Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2024 (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the High Representative, the world is collapsing, silently, before our eyes, and Europe is silent. Faced with imperialism and populism, the European Union gives the impression of apologising instead of resisting. We hesitate to denounce Trump for fear of provoking a whim or an unhealthy reaction. On the contrary, the European Union should proudly set itself u…

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2025

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Signature of acts adopted in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure (Rule 81)

Madam President, My point of order is based on Article 40 and compliance with Articles 2 and 6 TEU. This week, Viktor Orbán has planned to welcome Benjamin Netanyahu to European soil. I recall that Mr Netanyahu is under investigation and is subject to an arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court – the ICC – for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Hungary, as a State Party to the Rome …

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Mar

2025

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Deteriorating situation in Gaza following the non-extension of the ceasefire (debate)

Madam President, even in the absence of our High Representative, I would like to address her. Ms Kallas, you recently held an Association Council with Israel. But how could you? How could you maintain this agreement unconditionally, without demands, without a word for humanitarian law? How could you close your eyes when the European Union had a lever, a weight, a voice? From this abdication, let's…

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Mar

2025

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White paper on the future of European defence (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the world we have known is no more. The one that the European project dreamed of will not be born by magic, even with €800 billion in investment in armaments. Money is essential, but not in any way. It must not come from the structural funds or the agricultural funds. It must finance a European defence industry and ensure the interoperability of ou…

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Feb

2025

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Protecting the system of international justice and its institutions, in particular the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice (debate)

Madam President, never since the Second World War have we needed so much international justice. And yet, with terrible brutality, Trump has just undermined, attacked and perhaps even ended the International Criminal Court. And what does Europe do? She deplores, she regrets, she condemns. But these are just words. When are we gonna do this? We have a tool that allows us to preserve the Internationa…

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2025

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: the need for the European Union to contribute to resolving the humanitarian crisis of persons missing in wars and conflicts (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, behind every disappearance there are families and communities who suffer from uncertainty about the fate of their loved ones. However, depending on where it happens in the world, the problem may become secondary to the international community. These disappearances are commonplace in all conflicts: This is the case of Ukrainian children torn from their families b…

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2025

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Ceasefire in Gaza - the urgent need to release the hostages, to end the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and to pave the way for a two-state solution (debate)

Mr President, finally a ceasefire. A relief for the hostages, as well as for the people of Gaza, but it is far too late: 15 months, not only of war, but of genocide. Fifteen months of moral bankruptcy of the European Union and our Member States. Fifteen months of international law with variable geometry and denial of our values. These 15 months, which have brought absolutely nothing to the goal of…

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Dec

2024

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Use of rape as weapon of war, in particular in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan (debate)

Madam President, through rape, through the use of sexual slavery, women’s bodies have become a battleground, both in Sudan and in the DRC. It is a real weapon of war. Rape is used to humiliate and leave physical scars, to psychologically destroy women and their communities. Girls are not spared. In Sudan, 8-year-old children are being raped. In the DRC, the number of minors giving birth as a resul…

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Dec

2024

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Toppling of the Syrian regime, its geopolitical implications and the humanitarian situation in the region (debate)

Mr President, High Representative, a special envoy and EUR 160 million in European aid is fine, but it is still insufficient in view of the situation of chaos in Syria. We are talking about a country that has been battered by half a century of oppression. We are talking about a people forced into exile to escape arbitrariness, torture and death. We are talking about crimes against humanity that ne…

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Oct

2024

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Situation in Tunisia (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, we are in the aftermath of a presidential election that has left a profound mark on Tunisia. Tunisian democracy is over. We have seen the collapse of all its pillars: its constitution, its assembly, its legal system, its civil society, its journalists. Kaïs Saïed was re-elected with more than 90% of the vote: A normal score for a dictator who has eliminated all his oppo…

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2024

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Urgent need for a ceasefire in Lebanon and for safeguarding the UNIFIL mission in light of the recent attacks (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Israel's violation of Lebanese territory is unacceptable. There is an urgent need to return to the path of international law and to condemn war crimes by judicial and non-military means. There is an urgent need to recall the essentials: No one has the right to do justice to themselves. Repeated Israeli attacks overwhelm the entire Lebanese population. They ar…

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Oct

2024

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The rise of religious intolerance in Europe (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, the ability of a person to freely practise his religion is a fundamental human right. It is enshrined in international law and in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. So far, in principle, I think, finally I hope, that we can all agree. Yes, but here I regularly hear certain political groups opposing each other's rights. Some groups – and I am particularly targ…

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Oct

2024

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One year after the 7 October terrorist attacks by Hamas (debate)

Madam President, on 7 October, my thoughts are with the hostages, who have been waiting for their release for a year. They go to the families of the victims, for whom this day of commemoration is tragic, for whom October 7 will be an indelible mark. Hamas's appalling attack on Israel on that day must be remembered. October 7 is also the beginning of a spiral of violence throughout the region and o…

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Sep

2024

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The deteriorating situation of women in Afghanistan due to the recent adoption of the law on the “Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice”

Mr President, yesterday in our Chamber, this temple of European democracy, Afghan women testified. They also reminded us that from there, they speak to us every day. Because when they stand up to their executioners, they are not talking to them, but to the international community. They know that the executioners will remain deaf to their demands. They ask us not to forget them. They ask us to reac…

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2024

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Iran’s unprecedented attack against Israel, the need for de-escalation and an EU response (debate)

Mr President, Mr High Representative, with this resolution we had a rare opportunity, a dream opportunity to get out of double standards. Yes, our honor is to firmly condemn the Iranian regime. But we should have condemned with the same force, with the same commitment, the behavior of Netanyahu's government. We missed this opportunity. What must prevail for Europeans, what must prevail for us MEPs…

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2024

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EU-Egypt strategic and comprehensive partnership and agreements with key third countries (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, it would seem that Parliament defends human rights a little too much for the Commission. The anomaly is that after two resolutions voted here condemning the action of the government of Sisi, you decided to contract for 7.5 billion. As this institution’s standing rapporteur on Egypt, I have consistently called for strong and precise conditionalities on this regime. At yo…

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2024

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EU’s response to the repeated killing of humanitarian aid workers, journalists and civilians by the Israel Defence Forces in the Gaza Strip (debate)

Madam President, is there a limit to impunity? It is with this question that Netanyahu challenges us every day, with every bombing, with every new regional escalation: 35,000 dead, 10% of journalists killed in Gaza, humanitarians and hospitals targeted, mass graves, famine and this siege that reduces all hope. Every day, the government of Israel seems to confirm its genocidal will a little more. I…

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2024

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Prohibiting products made with forced labour on the Union market (debate)

Madam President, forced labour is not a crime of the past. Dictatorship regimes use it every day and find a way to make human rights violations profitable. Companies go so far as to build their entire business model on the exploitation of poverty. That's 28 million victims worldwide and millions of products flooding our markets. An NGO has shown that since 2017, 600 million tonnes of fish from for…

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2024

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The immediate risk of mass starvation in Gaza and the attacks on humanitarian aid deliveries

Mr President, it has been five months. Five months of total siege in Gaza. This seat, it has a name: it is a war crime. To the deaths under the bombs are now added the deaths of hunger. So I welcome the small step forward that this resolution represents, which finally denounces the humanitarian situation and calls for a ceasefire. But hypocrisy must be stopped. This Parliament still refuses to cle…

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Mar

2024

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The adoption of the Special Measure in favour of Tunisia for 2023 (debate)

Madam President, the absence of Oliver Várhelyi from this debate is an insult to our Parliament. At the passage in force, he adds the lie. He tells us that he paid EUR 150 million to the Tunisian Treasury under the EU-Tunisia Memorandum of Understanding. This is not true: these 150 million were planned for a long time to finance digital, governance and economic projects. It pays these 150 million …

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2024

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Horizontal cybersecurity requirements for products with digital elements and amending Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 (A9-0253/2023 - Nicola Danti) (vote)

Madam President, the behaviour we have just experienced is intolerable. As chair of the meeting, you have the rules of procedure with sanctions. I am not satisfied with the co-worker's forced exit. I ask that the President be kept informed of this unacceptable behaviour. It is not tolerable to accept this behaviour, and the Rules of Procedure should lead to sanctions against the colleague. Disrupt…

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2024

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Order of business

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, last week the Commission announced that it would pay EUR 150 million to the Tunisian government, outside any democratic process. This 150 million is an unconditional check for a dictator who consolidated his power in a coup. On this payment, the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Development, at a joint meeting, adopted by a large majority an o…

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2024

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War in the Gaza Strip and the need to reach a ceasefire, including recent developments in the region (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, in fact the bombings in Gaza are already leading to despair. You are all talking here, ladies and gentlemen, about the Rafah attack as in the future, but that is already a reality. Israel is already bombing Rafah and the civilian population it had displaced. In Gaza, humanitarian aid is blocked by Israel and Egypt, and we are hesitant to support th…

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2024

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Increased number of executions in Iran, in particular the case of Mohammad Ghobadlou

Mr President, torture, enforced disappearances, unfair trials, executions: there is arbitrariness in Iran. On 23 January, Mohammad Ghobadlou and Farhad Salimi were executed. Tomorrow, so many more are at risk of being subjected to the regime’s bloodthirsty folly. Faced with her own people and the power of the peaceful movement "Woman! Life! Freedom!", the Islamic Republic of Iran wavers and sinks …