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Jun

2025

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Combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child sexual abuse material and replacing Council Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA (recast) (debate)

It seems to me that the protection of children from sexual abuse is too important a subject to be transvested in absurd divisions. This is a subject that must bring us all together. And I would just like to say that, on this major issue of children's exposure to pornography, there is no political divide that holds. Today, we have a historic opportunity to finally force pornographic platforms to ge…

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Jun

2025

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Combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child sexual abuse material and replacing Council Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA (recast) (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, today we are going to vote on this essential text for the protection of children against sexual abuse, a cause that transcends all divisions in this Chamber. Our duty is to guarantee their integrity, and there is a threat to that integrity which we propose to add to this text today: It is that of exposure to pornographic content, which today represents a reality for …

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May

2025

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The fine against TikTok and the need to strengthen the protection of citizens’ rights on social media platforms (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, there is a silent epidemic going on across Europe and it is particularly affecting young people in our countries. This epidemic has a name, it's called TikTok. Today we have a duty to call it by that name. You spoke, Commissioner, about the risks to data security. But the risk is even wider. There is in reality today, and all teachers in our countries know it very we…

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May

2025

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Resilience and the need to improve the interconnection of energy grid infrastructure in the EU: the first lessons from the blackout in the Iberian Peninsula (debate)

Mr González Casares, I know that you are interested in industrial matters and I know that you are right to address them. Let's look at it together: tomorrow, if France did as Spain does, as your government proposes, and shut down all its nuclear power plants - because that is your government's plan and that is what Mr Sánchez repeated today - if that happens, then it would be a problem for the who…

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May

2025

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Resilience and the need to improve the interconnection of energy grid infrastructure in the EU: the first lessons from the blackout in the Iberian Peninsula (debate)

Madam President, together with several colleagues from the EPP, I was in Valencia, Spain, the day this power cut occurred. A very special experience, it must be said. For a day, more grid, more electricity, more contact with what makes our daily lives. The situation could have been absolutely tragic and it has already been catastrophic: in a single day, 450 million euros of economic activities des…

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Apr

2025

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Presentation of the New European Internal Security Strategy (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, it is not very far from here: In Saint-Ouen, a city in the suburbs of Paris, parents of pupils will have to decide whether or not to move from primary school classes because drug trafficking has made life so impossible and so dangerous for children that their school cannot stay there. Commissioner, you are presenting your new strategy for internal security, and I would …

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Apr

2025

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 20 March 2025 (debate)

Madam President, today is an important day for our Parliament, because here we are: we will vote together to suspend the effect of the Directives on corporate sustainability reporting and sustainability due diligence, which were a major issue for our companies and their competitiveness. This is a key issue, a key geopolitical issue, since our debates this morning, Mr President-in-Office of the Cou…

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Mar

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) (vote)

Mr President, the time for having the floor will be longer than the time for taking the floor. I just wanted to say that with our EPP Group, we are asking our Parliament to go for an urgent procedure on the European Defence Industry Programme. This will allow us to work, of course, in a very inclusive manner. With the rapporteur of the SEDE Committee, we are very much looking forward to working wi…

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Mar

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, Commissioner, the height of indecency has been reached. Aliev attacks Nagorno-Karabakh. Aliev is attacking a population that was asking for nothing but to live in peace on its land, on the land on which it has been living for millennia now. Aliev deports civilian populations. Aliev uses cluster bombs and jihadist mercenaries. At the end of all this horror, what does he do? He's indic…

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Mar

2025

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Cutting red tape and simplifying business in the EU: the first Omnibus proposals (debate)

Madam President, the first problem for all businesses in Europe today is not to satisfy their customers or manage their competitors, but to face the burden of regulation. During the last mandate – which is why, together with the EPP Group, we kept warning about this – the European Union adopted 13 000 new acts – between 2019 and 2024, and Eurostat indicates that this administrative burden now cost…

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Feb

2025

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Collaboration between conservatives and far right as a threat for competitiveness in the EU (topical debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in this surprising debate, some, for their small partisan political interests, have decided to confiscate our European Parliament to accuse us of increasing populism. But who is driving up populism, ladies and gentlemen? It is the leaders who refuse to listen to the concerns that are rising all over Europe. It was the left and the Greens who, for years, consider…

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Feb

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, Commissioner, 50 years after Turkey's invasion of Cyprus, hundreds of Cypriots are still formally missing. Their families have not only lost those they loved, they have been deprived of the truth, and without that truth, they cannot grieve. It's not an abstraction. Our colleague Fidias Panayiotou has just given us a very concrete example of what these missing people can mean in a lif…

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Jan

2025

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Presentation of the programme of activities of the Polish Presidency (debate)

Madam President, Prime Minister, a month ago, together with Andrzej Halicki, we were on the border between Poland and Belarus. For years, Poland, like other countries, has been carrying the security of Europe and the protection of the external borders of our entire continent. And for years you have warned, Prime Minister, that the migration crisis, which you have called a "hybrid war", is a securi…

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Dec

2024

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Preparation of the European Council of 19-20 December 2024 (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, a few days ago, on 6 December, the European Commission signed the agreement with Mercosur. This agreement does not pose a problem, it poses at least two major problems. The first is obviously strategic. Of course, we know that companies and sectors will benefit from this agreement, if it is confirmed tomorrow. But others will lose a lot, and some will even lose every…

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Dec

2024

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The situation in Mayotte following the devastating cyclone Chido and the need for solidarity (debate)

Mr President, I would like to take this point of order under Rule 20 of our Rules of Procedure to express my dismay at what has become of this debate. Politics has its rights, especially here in this House. But I was so happy that we were able to ask for this debate in unison with all our political groups, and I regret that it has given rise to challenges that I do not think are relevant to the mo…

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Dec

2024

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The situation in Mayotte following the devastating cyclone Chido and the need for solidarity (debate)

Madam President, as we speak, Mayotte is facing death on a large scale. How many victims did this cyclone leave behind? We do not know it yet, and since the 14th of this month, since the 14th of December, many of us here, on every bench, live hour after hour with the anxiety of discovering the news that will reach us from the Mahorais archipelago. We are thinking today of all the victims, of all t…

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Nov

2024

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Strengthening children’s rights in the EU - 35th anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Europe is today the scene of a silent tragedy that cannot be seen and yet will produce its effects and produce them today. In Europe, 30 per cent of minors under the age of 12 have already been exposed to pornographic content, with 80 per cent under the age of 17. These contents leave today - psychologists say it, they said it here in a colloquium we organise…

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Nov

2024

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The arrest of the Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal and the call for his immediate and unconditional release, and the repression of freedom of speech in Algeria (debate)

Mr President, Boualem Sansal was arrested by the Algerian regime for one and only reason: for daring to speak, for daring to write. Ladies and gentlemen, if we are meeting this evening - and I am happy, we are happy, that it is at the request of all the groups in the European Parliament, showing the support of all the countries and all the parties in Europe - it is first of all to express our imme…

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Nov

2024

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Topical debate (Rule 169) - Budapest Declaration on the New European Competitiveness Deal - A future for the farming and manufacturing sectors in the EU (topical debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we are talking about competitiveness and, behind this difficult word, there is a concrete reality. This summer, when tourists, especially Americans, came to the Olympic Games in Paris, they were struck by the importance of their purchasing power when they arrived in the French capital, and for a very simple reason: In 2008, US GDP was the same as European GDP. F…

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Nov

2024

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UN Climate Change Conference 2024 in Baku, Azerbaijan (COP29) (B10-0156/2024) (vote)

Madam President, in order to make a constructive proposal and in a spirit of unity, I would like to make this point of order on the basis of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union: I now propose that all our voting sessions take place in Strasbourg.…

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Oct

2024

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Managing migration in an effective and holistic way through fostering returns (debate)

This is of course totally wrong, and those who will be able to listen to what Lena Düpont has to say and follow the work we are doing with our EPP colleagues will see it clearly. We stand up for ending illegal immigration in Europe. We do not want to distribute illegal migrants; we want to make sure they leave. This is the whole point of this work on the Return Directive, which we will be doing to…

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Oct

2024

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Managing migration in an effective and holistic way through fostering returns (debate)

Madam President, we do want to put the return directive back on the table, and because we have imposed this debate, the Left is screaming scandal. I could hear our colleagues in Renew, like Valérie Hayer, immediately shouting populism. Ladies and gentlemen, what world do you live in? Last year, of the expulsions decided by European countries, only 20% were executed on average – less than 10% in Fr…

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Oct

2024

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Situation in Azerbaijan, violation of human rights and international law and relations with Armenia (debate)

Mr President, in three weeks' time, COP29 will start in Baku. At Ilham Aliyev's. Aliyev, the executioner of the Armenian people, whom he has repeatedly attacked in order to drive him out of the lands he occupied historically in Nagorno-Karabakh, and whom he is now also attacking on his own territory, the sovereign Republic of Armenia. Aliyev, who is attacking our countries, who is attacking the wh…

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Oct

2024

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The case of Bülent Mumay in Türkiye (RC-B10-0095/2024, B10-0095/2024, B10-0096/2024, B10-0097/2024, B10-0098/2024, B10-0099/2024, B10-0100/2024) (vote)

Madam President, we have learned that the European Commission, as part of the Erasmus+ programme, has recently renewed its partnership with a university in Gaziantep, whose rector and professors regularly speak in support of Hamas or accuse Israel of being the perpetrator of the worst crimes, I quote, 'in the history of humanity'. We know very well what all this means. We are proud, together with …

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Oct

2024

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Protecting the EU budget and ensuring that EU funds do not benefit entities or individuals linked to terrorist or Islamist movement (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, of course, it is late and we are now few in number, but together with our group we are here and we are proud to have imposed this debate, because it had to be posed, because the European Union today funds a university in Turkey that congratulates the martyrs of Hamas and declares that the Jews are responsible for the greatest crimes in the history of humanity. The le…