What Jérôme spoke about.

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Apr

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, Israel is a democracy, Hamas is a terrorist organization. Israel is a democracy, Hamas is a terrorist organization. ‘To name things incorrectly is to add to the misfortune of the world’, wrote Albert Camus. Israel is a democracy, Hamas is a terrorist organization. The fighting in Gaza after the atrocities perpetrated against civilians in Israel on 7 October is not a war between Is…

14

Jun

2023

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 29-30 June 2023, in particular in the light of recent steps towards concluding the Migration Pact (debate)

Mr President, the debates chosen by the majority before the Council meeting sing the same nagging tale. If, slowly, in the face of the growing anger of the people, you condescend to talk about immigration, this always remains an opportunity to better justify it and to imagine restrictive and brutal methods of distributing migrants throughout our territory, which nevertheless refuses this submergen…

13

Jun

2023

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Situation in Lebanon (debate)

Mr President, as Auguste Comte said with talent: As a French parliamentarian on Lebanon, I cannot ignore St Louis’ promise to protect Christians in the East. This promise obliges us, even if it is too often ignored. Lebanon, which has long been presented as a model for successful multiculturalism, is dying out today. From multicultural it has become multi-conflictual. It is an example, but it is a…

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May

2023

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Breaches of the Rule of law and fundamental rights in Hungary and frozen EU funds (debate)

Mr President, this House should return to what Pascal called the ‘spirit of finesse’. It has its principles, he wrote, in common use and in front of everyone’s eyes. These principles, we barely see them, we feel them rather than we see them. There are endless pains in making them felt by those who do not feel them on their own. Clearly, here in this assembly, this spirit of finesse, you don't feel…

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Apr

2023

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Energy storage (debate)

Mr President, the Greeks promised the revenge of Nemesis to men who transgressed all boundaries, followed the path of outrage or imperialism. This messenger of justice, Plato and the tragic tell us, sanctioned excessiveness and incompetence with appropriate punishment. We have been moving away from Greek mythology for a long time, but on the subject of energy, as on many others, a certain wisdom s…

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Mar

2023

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Deaths at sea: a common EU response to save lives and action to ensure safe and legal pathways (debate)

Mr President, if the reality were not so dramatic, if many people had not drowned in these perilous crossings, we could safely say that we are once again in a debate that denies reality, as the majority of this House is blinded by its dogmatic immigrationist positions. Our countries, and France in particular, suggest to tens, hundreds of thousands of foreigners that by trying to migrate illegally,…

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Mar

2023

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Failure of the Silicon Valley Bank and the implications for financial stability in Europe (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, fifteen years after the 2008 financial crisis, which shook the world economy, the failure of the SVB, the bank for start-ups and the new economy, sounds like a warning against the dogmatic excesses of the banking system. While the rapidity of the wave of withdrawals is linked to the weight of social networks, we do not exempt ourselves from analysing the reas…

14

Feb

2023

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Establishment of an independent EU Ethics Body (debate)

Mr President, an independent ethics body in response to the corruption scandals in Parliament, elected representatives who are honest, free and at the service of the common good of the peoples who elected them: Who could oppose it? I welcome this initiative. This is a win-win situation for our institution. Ethics, synonymous with integrity and freedom, requires strict compliance with the law, and …

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Jan

2023

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Implementation of the common foreign and security policy - annual report 2022 - Implementation of the common security and defence policy - annual report 2022 (debate)

Mr President, the European Union is not a nation but an international institution. Just because it has a flag and an anthem – oripels of an era you hate, where patriotism was culturally obvious – does not mean that the European Union is delusional. And it is because you have understood it, Mr McAllister, that, disregarding the Treaties, without even pretending to worry about the views of the peopl…

14

Dec

2022

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Defending democracy from foreign interference (debate)

Mr President, while a serious scandal uncovers foreign interference through corruption in the Bureau of the European Parliament, restraint and decency are definitely not what characterises our Assembly. While the Commission is setting itself up as the guardian of an order that would be incriminating, and spends its time reprimanding Member States that refuse to align, its outrageous interference i…

14

Dec

2022

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EU response to the US Inflation Reduction Act (debate)

Madam President, in this House, where the word protectionism is so banished as to be considered rude, it is surprising that a country, the United States in this case, can protect its industry, its jobs and its people. However, this is the primary mission of a State. As always, the EU idealises the transatlantic relationship, whereas the US approach is above all pragmatic. French President Emmanuel…

23

Nov

2022

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The need for a European solution on asylum and migration including search and rescue (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, while the peoples of the European nations are never consulted, the Commission and the majority in this Parliament are pushing for a massive influx of migrants – yes, they are pushing. Ten days ago, Mr Borrell said on French television: Europe’s demographic winter is filled by contributions from the rest of the world. This sheds light on your pseudo-reform of pol…

5

Oct

2022

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Russia’s escalation of its war of aggression against Ukraine (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, there is no doubt about the origin of the war in Ukraine. If we can epilogue the root causes of the conflict, it is Russia, led by Vladimir Putin, who has chosen to invade Ukraine, to start a military conflict in Europe. This important and necessary prerequisite, it is essential for those in this Chamber who want a resolution to this war, to recognize the res…

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Oct

2022

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The death of Mahsa Amini and the repression of women's rights protesters in Iran (debate)

Mr President, what hypocrisy on the occasion of the debate this evening in our Chamber. While Iran is torn by the protests triggered by the death of Mahsa Amini, arrested and murdered by the morality police for refusing to cover her head with an Islamic veil, the European Commission, supported by the majority here, continues to promote this same veil, daring to affirm, and I quote, freedom is in t…

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Mar

2022

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Foreign interference in all democratic processes in the EU (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, once again, the hypocrisy of our debates is appalling. The report you are presenting could be a bulwark against disinformation, but it shows the double rejection of values that are supposed to be ours: democracy and freedom of expression. First and most serious rejection of democracy. To read you, elections whose results are not in line with the globalist and…

23

Nov

2021

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Legal migration policy and law (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in a few years’ time, when history will judge our time, it will surely classify it as a dark period during which the European Union has been the crucible of all treachery, of all renunciations in the face of the deadly danger of the migratory invasion. Yes, mortal danger, because this is indeed a war of civilisation that you are allowing to be imported into our …

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Oct

2021

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 21-22 October 2021 (debate)

Madam President, perhaps the most admirable thing about this chamber is the ability we have to debate without taking into account the views of the people, disregarding their choices and pursuing a relentless process of imposing on member countries, nations, an ideological corpus, a legal straitjacket that aims to deprive them of their sovereignty. It is Raymond Aron who evoked an invisible federal…

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Oct

2021

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The Rule of law crisis in Poland and the primacy of EU law (debate)

Mr President, Madam President, Prime Minister, ladies and gentlemen, on 9 June 2009, the Court of Karlsruhe reiterated its judgment of 2009, recalling that ‘there is no European people’. I quote: ‘As long as no unified European people can express a majority will by effective political means, the peoples of the Union constituted in the Member States shall remain the exclusive holders of public auth…

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Oct

2021

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State of EU cyber defence capabilities (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, when it comes to cybersecurity, the political rules and beliefs that drive us are not shaken by this new field of possibilities. Contrary to what the rapporteur claims, the cross-border nature of new technologies is not an argument to justify either a Community leap forward erasing nations or a new transfer of competences at European level. Whet…

14

Sep

2021

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Instrument for pre-accession assistance (IPA III) 2021–2027 (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, 'learning from the past' is a wise formula filled with common sense. And yet, the European Union, which runs behind endless enlargements, is not inspired by it. You want to give more than €14 billion to the candidate countries for the 2021-2027 period. After the Commission’s appalling failures to address the brutal challenges we face – managing the…

14

Sep

2021

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Situation in Afghanistan (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Joe Biden’s debacle-shaped departure from Afghanistan when the Taliban took power is the death knell of a messianic policy initiated by George Bush 20 years ago, putting the entire West in trouble. The first lesson to be learned is the end of the interventionist universalism that has accumulated disasters over the past 20 years, from Syria to Iraq to Libya. I…

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Jul

2021

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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 (debate)

Mr. Speaker, family and societal policies are the sole discretionary domain of nations, and treaties determine that. In trying to condemn Viktor Orbán's Hungary, you want to condemn the sovereign choice of this people who elected and re-elected their representatives widely, with scores that obviously make you pale with jealousy. This condemnation is part of a so-called progressive ideological deba…

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Jul

2021

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EU global human rights sanctions regime (EU Magnitsky Act) (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, under the pretext of embodying the dignity of human rights alone, the European Union is once again seeking to seize powers that are not its own, using moralistic rhetoric to strip nations of their prerogatives. The establishment of a comprehensive sanctions regime, based on an exclusively dogmatic interpretation of human rights, is unnecessary, utopian and il…