What Thierry spoke about.

18

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, in Afghanistan, women have ceased to exist. This is the last horrific find of the Taliban who have just completed their entry into the cabinet of nothingness and hell. In 114 pages and 35 articles of a surrealist law, they have just imposed this summer a new human madness, that of the enslavement of Afghan women. I say it with gravity, the gravity of impotence, the one that the West …

25

Apr

2024

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Pre-enlargement reforms and policy reviews (debate)

Madam President, you have decidedly only the enlargement of the European Union in your mouth. After trying to bring Turkey into the forceps, you are now proposing Ukraine, the Balkans and soon the non-European Caucasus. The founding countries of the European Union continue to pay the high price of successive enlargements, such as France, of course, which sees the European Union turning away from t…

23

Apr

2024

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

Mr President, Egypt is a key partner for France and the European Union in Africa. Cairo now faces immense challenges. Egypt must aim for food, energy, economic and financial sovereignty in the midst of a particularly degraded neighbourhood. The European Union therefore has everything to gain from being at its side. While everyone sees Cairo's decisive action in the search for peace in the Holy Lan…

23

Apr

2024

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Withdrawal of the Union from the Energy Charter Treaty (debate)

Madam President, France has chosen to withdraw from the Energy Charter Treaty. The Member States did the same collectively a month ago. We will therefore vote in favour of an exit from the European Union decided by the sovereign choice of the Member States. However, contrary to the broad statements we hear here, the withdrawal from the Energy Charter Treaty is neither an ideological advance nor an…

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Apr

2024

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Mr President, after due diligence for European companies, this week the European Parliament will discuss a text to combat forced labour. At the same time, many in Africa accuse the European Union of hypocrisy. For example, the signing of an agreement with Rwanda for a partnership on rare metals raises the worst concerns. On 22 February, the announcement of this agreement provoked the reaction of t…

11

Mar

2024

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Energy performance of buildings (recast) (debate)

Mr President, on 19 February, Bruno Le Maire announced that he was withdrawing EUR 1 billion from the MaPrimeRénov’ tool for the coming year. This week, in the European Parliament, the European Union of Emmanuel Macron and Ursula von der Leyen is voting on a recast of the directive on the thermal performance of buildings, whose objectives are absolutely unattainable. In Paris, the Minister of Econ…

11

Mar

2024

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Order of business

Madam President, the renewal of the customs exemptions granted to Ukraine for agricultural products is raising a huge protest movement, both in France and elsewhere in Europe. The European Commission validates, for example, unfair competition in the poultry sector, even though Ukrainian chicken is exploited by a company headquartered in Cyprus whose profits fatten a tax-exiled oligarch in London. …

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Feb

2024

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EU/Chile Advanced Framework Agreement - EU/Chile Advanced Framework Agreement (Resolution) - Interim Agreement on Trade between the European Union and the Republic of Chile (joint debate - EU-Chile agreements)

Mr President, as the whole of France turns to the Agricultural Fair, our Parliament is once again discussing a free trade agreement that this time sounds like a provocation for our farmers. 9 000 tonnes for pork, 2 000 tonnes for beef, 4 000 tonnes for sheepmeat and 18 000 tonnes for poultry, the new import quotas granted to Chile will be a new step in the descent into the abyss of French farmers.…

28

Feb

2024

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Deepening EU integration in view of future enlargement (debate)

Mr President, the French are opposed to the enlargement of the European Union and further abandonment of sovereignty to the benefit of the European Union. France is a member of the UN Security Council and France has nuclear weapons. France cannot see the independence of its foreign policy abandoned in favour of nations that have a history and interests that are simply different from our own. The f…

27

Feb

2024

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The current situation in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (debate)

Madam President, disgust is the prevailing sentiment in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in many African countries about the European Union’s double standards policy. While we should welcome the fact that we are finally debating the situation in eastern DRC, I cannot forget that we are doing so after the European Commission announced a few days ago the signing of a shameful partnership wit…

27

Feb

2024

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Recommendation to the Council, the Commission and the EEAS on the situation in Syria (debate)

Madam President, thirteen years! Thirteen years since the European Union and successive French governments persisted in making mistakes about Syria. I remember the time when Laurent Fabius explained that Jabhat al-Nusra should not be put on the list of terrorist organisations. I remember when Brussels, like Paris, praised a Syrian opposition that was either fantasized or already powerfully Islamis…

7

Feb

2024

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The fight against hate speech and disinformation: responsibility of social platforms within the Digital Services Act (topical debate)

Mr President, a few weeks ago, the Identity and Democracy Group proposed that Elon Musk be awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Expression. His name was not retained by the other political groups. We are not surprised, but it is a shame, because the Twitter boss’s fight for freedom of expression has never seemed so necessary to us. Today, in the European institutions, freedom of expression is…

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Feb

2024

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State of play of the implementation of the Global Gateway and its governance two years after its launch (debate)

Mr President, the European strategic gateway could be an excellent idea. Indeed, we can only support the fact that European nations are coming together to better defend the interests of their peoples in a multipolar world. The whole problem is the place of the European administration in the development of this strategy. While the presentation of this strategy provided, I quote, 'to forge links and…

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Jan

2024

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Tajikistan: state repression against the independent media

Madam President, since its independence, Tajikistan has made tremendous efforts to ensure the economic progress that is essential for its people. After suffering the tragedies of a civil war, Dushanbe established himself as an essential actor for all of Central Asia. An actor who has also managed to advance dialogue about their border tensions between Kyrgyzstan and Uighur Islamists in the east, t…

17

Jan

2024

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Situation in Serbia following elections (debate)

Madam President, I participated for fifteen years as a French Member of Parliament in OSCE observation missions. And one thing I learned is that we can know the balance sheet when the report is delivered. Now, today, you are all discussing an election where there is no ODIHR report. This report will be in a month or even a month and a half. You're talking about testimonials. I do not question them…

16

Jan

2024

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Role of preventive diplomacy in tackling frozen conflicts around the world – missed opportunity or change for the future? (debate)

Madam President, it is paradoxical to discuss preventive diplomacy in a Parliament that is distinguished by its constant rejection of realism in foreign policy. The best way for the European Union to carry out preventive diplomacy is to support peace efforts. To say the least, Brussels has done nothing to enforce the Minsk agreements and avoid the war in Ukraine. Worse, the European Union imposes …

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Jan

2024

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EU-India relations (debate)

Madam President, President Modi’s India is a key player in the multipolar world. As a guest of honour at the celebrations on 14 July in France, the Indian Head of State is now recognised as a major player in international diplomacy. Moreover, States always have more wisdom than the European institutions. A few months ago, our Parliament increased the number of attacks on the Indian President. It i…

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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, there is something rotten in the European Parliament. It is not, first of all, a ‘Qatargate’: it is our Parliament that is at the heart of the scandal. There are a majority of honest people here, regardless of the party. But what we have learned is that in the political group that gives the most lessons to the whole world, some have monetised their indignation. For some foreign power…

12

Dec

2023

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EU-China relations (debate)

Mr President, in January 1964, through General de Gaulle, France recognized China. On 31 January, Mr de Gaulle stated: "In truth, it is clear that France must be able to hear directly from China and also be heard. And why not talk about what can be fruitful in the relations between the two peoples thanks to the relations between the two states?’ This Gaullist view of our relations with China is je…

12

Dec

2023

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EU-US relations (debate)

Mr President, the United States is our best ally, but also our worst competitor. We should all know this historical lesson. In France, American industrial predation is constant. We followed with dismay the acquisition of the French flagship Exxelia by the American Heico, without the government of Emmanuel Macron intervening to repatriate this company under French capital. This buyout is just anoth…

12

Dec

2023

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Need to release all hostages, to achieve a humanitarian ceasefire and prospect of the two-state solution (debate)

Mr President, Hamas' Islamist terrorism has once again demonstrated its barbarism. Women, children, elderly, hostages: None of the moral barriers that make up our common humanity have been respected in Hamas’ evil fury. Israeli society is permanently traumatized. Since then, the Israeli government has pursued the objective of destroying Hamas. We can only share this project and regret that the Eur…

11

Dec

2023

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Small modular reactors (debate)

Madam President, finally. Finally, the European Union realises that the nuclear crusades were one of the Commission’s most fatal mistakes. At the same time, in France, Emmanuel Macron understood that his commitments of 2017, where he announced that he wanted to drastically reduce the share of nuclear power in our electricity production, were an economic suicide for France. While the French economi…

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Nov

2023

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30 years of Copenhagen criteria - giving further impetus to EU enlargement policy (debate)

Mr President, for France, the enlargement of the European Union in 2007 was not only a disappointment, but the accelerator of an exit from history. As the European Union wants to continue on the path of obesity, it is important to remember that the promises of peace, social progress and increasing our influence in the world were misleading. The anniversary of the Copenhagen criteria is, moreover, …

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Nov

2023

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EU/New Zealand Free Trade Agreement (debate)

Madam President, 18 534 km separate Paris from Auckland. This free trade agreement with New Zealand is not a new generation agreement, but a continuation of old mistakes. Worse! Your text is not an opportunity. This is an aberration. Ideological first. This shows that your Green Deal is quickly forgotten when it comes to free trade. Agricultural aberration then, since European agriculture is open …

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Nov

2023

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Madam President, a year ago, our Parliament passed a resolution calling for support for Congolese displaced persons in the Kivu region. In that resolution, we encouraged Rwanda not to support the M23 rebels and called for the command of this bloodthirsty terrorist group to be placed under sanctions. Since then, the M23 has continued its crimes and its situation is still tense in Kivu. While 200,00…