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8

Oct

2024

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The crisis facing the EU’s automotive industry, potential plant closures and the need to enhance competitiveness and maintain jobs in Europe (debate)

Madam President, what a surprise to hear our colleagues from the Greens, since just now, offer their condolences to all the employees in the car industry who are now losing their jobs. What a surprise, because for our part, we have been raising the alarm for years and we were already doing so when, with the Socialists, with the Members of Renew and the extreme left, you imposed on the European car…

8

Oct

2024

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Escalation of violence in the Middle East and the situation in Lebanon (debate)

Mrs. Hassan, you just used the phrase "apology of Hezbollah and Hamas," as if in reality they were pretexts that Israel would use to wage a war against the Lebanese people or the Palestinians in Gaza. But the truth, Mrs. Hassan, you know, is that Hezbollah and Hamas attacked Israel. The question is very simple: Do you recognize Israel's right to defend itself and Israel's right to guarantee, in ac…

8

Oct

2024

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Escalation of violence in the Middle East and the situation in Lebanon (debate)

I would not like to be in your place and the one that will be retained for you in the history books. The truth is that this spiral of violence that is causing so many civilian casualties, indeed, in Gaza, but which is also at the origin of the biggest anti-Semitic pogrom of the 21st century, all this was triggered by Hamas, that is to say by the political force that you are unable to denounce beca…

8

Oct

2024

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Escalation of violence in the Middle East and the situation in Lebanon (debate)

Madam President, for almost 40 years now Hizbullah has taken Lebanon hostage and Europe has been slow to hear the courage of the Lebanese political forces in denouncing this threat, which is of direct concern to us, through terrorism, drug trafficking and large-scale corruption. What a shame! What a shame that political leaders in our countries, such as Jean-Luc Mélenchon, dared to deplore the dea…

17

Sep

2024

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The future of European competitiveness (debate)

Madam President, thank you to Mario Draghi for coming here to present his report. A slow agony is what it promises to our continent, economically but also politically, of course, if we do not manage to get out of the torpor in which we find ourselves, in view of the speed at which our main competitors are advancing. A slow agony is also the feeling with which I come back from these months of campa…

16

Sep

2024

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Need to prevent security threats like the Solingen attack through addressing illegal migration and effective return (debate)

Mr President, Mrs Strada said earlier: How to make the link between immigration and insecurity? The real question is: How can we not make the link between immigration and the violence that is rising in our countries? The illegal immigration that is at issue in Solingen, because we are talking about Solingen. And what happened there? He is an Islamist who entered our countries illegally, denied the…

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Apr

2024

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The attack on climate and nature: far right and conservative attempts to destroy the Green Deal and prevent investment in our future (topical debate)

Mr President, Mrs Roose, I share your feeling. Today, in this aberrant debate, we are under attack because we have managed to get Europe to finally support our farmers. We are indicted because we would attack the climate. The truth, ladies and gentlemen of the Greens, ladies and gentlemen of the Left, ladies and gentlemen of the Macro, is that the attack comes from you: attack on our jobs, which h…

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Apr

2024

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

Mr President, even if the de-escalation that we all hope for is confirmed, the fact remains that Iran is a threat and will remain so. An existential threat to Israel that it has sworn to wipe off the map. A threat to Lebanon that it is taking hostage through Hezbollah. A threat to our countries, because yes, our countries are also targeted by Iran-funded Islamist terrorism. And of course, a threat…

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Mar

2024

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Energy performance of buildings (recast) (debate)

Mr President, between 2015 and 2021, house prices in Europe rose by 40%, and according to Oxfam, this acceleration is four times faster than that of household income. This terrible situation in housing in Europe affects first and foremost the most vulnerable. The Abbé Pierre Foundation warns that the share of modest households that can no longer afford to pay their rent or borrow has increased by …

28

Feb

2024

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Regaining our competitive edge - a prosperous EU in a fragmented global economy (topical debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, in 2023, US GDP grew five times faster than European GDP. We started from the same situation in 1980. Today, GDP per capita in France, in my country, is 40% lower than in the United States. We see that Europe is bogged down in economic stalling and the causes are very easy to know. They're simple. First of all, demographic fragility, but also the dropout from our educat…

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)

Mr President, yesterday, 26 February, the Ambassador of Azerbaijan to the European Union, Vaqif Sadiqov, wrote: “Since 1992, Armenia has been ruled by bloodthirsty fascists. They will remain fascists until they end up in Erablur.” Erablur is the Armenian military cemetery to which Azerbaijani violence has condemned thousands of 20-year-olds in recent years. They asked for nothing but to live in pe…

7

Feb

2024

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Empowering farmers and rural communities - a dialogue towards sustainable and fairly rewarded EU agriculture (debate)

Dear colleague, you say right now that the subject of agriculture should not be polarised, but do you remember when you voted for the Nature Restoration Act? And we were criticised in the EPP by you or by your colleagues because we were warning that this text would reduce the useful agricultural area in Europe by 10%? Do you remember when our delegation alerted you to the Farm to Fork Strategy, wh…

18

Jan

2024

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EU Action Plan: protecting and restoring marine ecosystems for sustainable and resilient fisheries (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, this may be one of the last debates we will have on fisheries during this mandate. Sad moment. Everywhere in Europe, fishermen, like farmers, say they can no longer work because of the current constraints, the avalanche of complexity that has been imposed on them. But the Commission, which refuses to listen, continues in the same direction, while in three days the Bay o…

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Jan

2024

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 14-15 December 2023 and preparation of the Special European Council meeting of 1 February 2024 - Situation in Hungary and frozen EU funds (joint debate - European Council meetings)

Mr President, I should like to go back to the substance, since the Council's conclusions refer to the reform of the Treaties, which is indeed indispensable. Let us return to the vote that our Parliament had a few weeks ago on a draft reform of the Treaties of the European Union. Le fait est que nous nous engageons, je le crois, exactement, dans la mauvaise direction, en voulant d'abord transférer …

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)

Mr President, I am taking the floor because, following this debate on the ‘Qatargate’, I am amazed to hear our colleague Mr Engerer, from the Socialist Group, attack the EPP, the European right, in the lead. I would just like to ask a few questions to Mr Engerer, who has conveniently left the Chamber: Which group belonged or belonged to all the persons now mentioned in the legal inquiry into ‘Qata…

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Nov

2023

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Threat to rule of law as a consequence of the governmental agreement in Spain (debate)

Mr President, what an absolute sadness that we are now seeing Spain, such a great country hostage to such miserable and dangerous manoeuvres. In my country also, in France, we had an amnesty law after immensely painful historical divisions. But it was announced ahead of elections, not improvised after. It was debated in public with the citizens, not agreed in secret with condemned people. It was f…

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Nov

2023

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Framework of measures for strengthening Europe’s net-zero technology products manufacturing ecosystem (Net Zero Industry Act) (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, this is a great day, because finally the European Union, which had long focused on the issue of competition and the regulation of the internal market, is committed to a common industrial strategy towards the decarbonisation of our continent. I believe that this vote will be an important moment and a moment, let me say, quite revealing too. We heard our colleague from…

18

Oct

2023

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The despicable terrorist attacks by Hamas against Israel, Israel’s right to defend itself in line with humanitarian and international law and the humanitarian situation in Gaza (debate)

Dear colleague, it is not for me to ask the question. Ask the colleagues in your group why they refuse to say that Hamas is a terrorist organisation, why they refuse to say, again this morning, that on 7 October, what we witnessed, outraged, was a large-scale terrorist attack. Why don't you say that word? Why refuse to say what is obvious, namely that when we see Jews targeted today because they a…

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Oct

2023

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The despicable terrorist attacks by Hamas against Israel, Israel’s right to defend itself in line with humanitarian and international law and the humanitarian situation in Gaza (debate)

Mr President, Israel has been touched in the heart. Repeated attacks are bereaving our continent and, again this morning, there are modesty of expression that is cold in the back. This morning again, we heard our colleagues from La France Insoumise speak of Hamas' crimes as "war crimes". But words make sense, colleagues: If we talk about ‘war crimes’, then Hamas is a regular army and its victims a…

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Oct

2023

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Water scarcity and structural investments in access to water in the EU (debate)

Mr President, Mayotte is thirsty. In one French department, a department in Europe, there are now residents who cannot turn on the tap for several hours a day or several days a week. People who cannot drink tap water without fearing for their health. Today, there is a French department where children need to be treated because they became ill for drinking supposedly drinking water. This is the rea…

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Oct

2023

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Order of business

Madam President, three years ago today, Samuel Paty was murdered. Just a few days ago, a teacher was killed in his high school for what he embodied: the work of transmitting a culture, a legacy, which obliges us today. These killings did not take place by accident. They are motivated by an ideology, and this ideology, we have to name it. That is why we have proposed a change to the title of this d…

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Oct

2023

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Need for a speedy adoption of the asylum and migration package (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, on 13 September last 120 boats landed in Lampedusa; within a few hours, thousands of people enter European soil without right. On 21 September, the Court of Justice of the European Union replied to the French Council of State: a Member State shall not have the right to return a person seeking to cross its borders illegally. Before considering a possible expulsion, be su…

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Oct

2023

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

Mr President, does the European Commission now finally understand why we keep warning about the seriousness of the threat in Nagorno-Karabakh? Do the leaders of our countries realize that inaction, hollow words, the "we call each party," the ever-new pretexts to always turn a blind eye, that all this has allowed a dictator to overthrow international law at the gates of Europe, impose an accomplish…

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Sep

2023

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State of the Union (debate)

Madam President, in referring to the Commission's record, you are talking about the strength of Europe and its effectiveness, but the reality sometimes seems far removed from this Chamber. As we speak, the Secours populaire announces that 20% of French people live in the open. Across Europe, one in three people miss a meal to hold. Millions of households, craftsmen and businesses are no longer abl…

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Jul

2023

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Delivering on the Green Deal: risk of compromising the EU path to the green transition and its international commitments (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, yes, it must be said clearly, to use the title that the Greens wanted to give to this debate, Europe risks jeopardising environmental protection and failing in its international commitments in this area. But this is not at all because the EPP would oppose the protection of the environment, ladies and gentlemen. This is because today, with 12 votes, this Parliament has c…