What Virginie spoke about.

16 Sep

2026

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The impact of the implementation of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) on SMEs, its administrative burden and challenges for the European Single Market (debate)

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Mr President, Minister, Commissioner, everyone knows this expression: Do what I say, but not what I do. The European Commission seems to have chosen another currency: Do neither what I say nor what I do. This is the whole philosophy of the Packaging Regulation, or PPWR for followers. Four letters that smell like above-ground bureaucracy. Four letters that could soon lead to a ban on water pack pac…

14 Sep

2026

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Establishing the Union Customs Code and the European Union Customs Authority (debate)

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14 Sep

2026

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Public Procurement Act (debate)

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7 Jul

2026

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Presentation of the Action Plan on Cybersecurity and AI (debate)

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15 Jun

2026

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Simplification of the implementation of harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Digital Omnibus on AI) (debate)

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19 May

2026

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EU cybersecurity and preparedness in view of advanced AI systems (debate)

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Madam President, Madam Vice-President, Madam Minister, you have come to denounce the risks of Mythos d'Anthropic and ChatGPT 5 of OpenAI, two American companies. Yes, since its launch in April 2026, Mythos has shown its power. Yes, some even feared that it would escape the control of its creators. But this model is not accessible to the public, I would say, much like Ursula's SMS with Pfizer. The …

28 Apr

2026

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Joint debate - Discharge 2024 (joint debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, dear Council, for six years the Court of Auditors has delivered an unfavourable opinion on the legality and regularity of European Union expenditure. Clearly, what is happening in Brussels is neither really legal nor really regular. Yet, the majority here are about to validate the management of Mme von der Leyen with Mr Freund, the Greens' rapporte…

10 Mar

2026

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Single Market: how to move from an incomplete single market to one market for one Europe (debate)

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Madam President, Mr Vice-President, Minister, reading the title of this debate, I believed in a miracle. Finally, I thought to myself that the Commission has understood the harm it has done to our competitiveness. Too much paperwork, as you say today. But the reality is different. You still list ten terrible barriers in our internal market. But the most terrible barrier, well, I want to say, is Br…

9 Mar

2026

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Framework Agreement on relations between the European Parliament and the European Commission (debate)

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9 Mar

2026

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Framework Agreement on relations between the European Parliament and the European Commission (debate)

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11 Feb

2026

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Rule of law, fundamental rights and misuse of EU funds in Slovakia: the need for an EU response (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, you want to debate fundamental rights in Slovakia and you want the Commission to crack down? I am surprised at this angle, since the subjects of the week, it is the Epstein affair, it is the report of the American Congress on the pressures of Brussels exerted on the platforms to help the left caviar against the patriotic parties during the elections. It is al…

20 Jan

2026

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Tackling AI deepfakes and sexual exploitation on social media by making full use of the EU’s digital rules (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, non-consensual sexual images generated by artificial intelligence, as well as sexual exploitation on social networks, are serious scourges that affect women and minors in particular. Courts must resolutely sanction them and platforms must be fully responsive to illegal content reported to them. I hear calls today to ban artificial imaging tools like Grok, or …

19 Jan

2026

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in Strasbourg, a symbol of European democracy, 320 employees at the Dumarey factory have just learned that their work tool will close in 2026. What a cruel irony! Right here, where it claims to protect its citizens, Europe is killing an industrial factory, know-how and hundreds of families. This closure is not an economic inevitability, it is the result of Europ…

18 Dec

2025

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Dramatic global rise in violent attacks against humanitarian workers and journalists (debate)

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18 Dec

2025

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European Democracy Shield – very large online platform algorithms, foreign interference and the spread of disinformation (debate)

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26 Nov

2025

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Defence of Democracy package (joint debate)

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25 Nov

2025

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Digital Package (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, on the digital front, Brussels promised us to put the package together, but it is clear that we are witnessing the usual repackaging of semicolons with a text of more than 60 000 words. This omnibus has a broom car taste, so let's go further. As usual, Brussels publishes a text without an impact assessment, but hastens to launch a new tool to denou…

24 Nov

2025

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Order of business

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12 Nov

2025

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Protecting EU consumers against the practices of certain e-commerce platforms: the case of child-like sex dolls, weapons and other illegal products and material (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, a few days ago the prosecution service was seized by the repression of fraud: Shein sold sex dolls with the appearance of girls at EUR 200 per unit. A whistleblower had reported the scandal on the French government’s website, with no response. It was necessary that 60 million consumers intervene so that it moves. What is the Digital Services Act…

20 Oct

2025

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The decision to impose a fine on Google: defending press and media freedom in the EU (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Madam Vice-President of the Commission, this debate on Google's abuses in the advertising market is the result of a strategic failure in Brussels, I must say. So yes, this threat of a fine of 3 billion euros announced by the commission on September 5 is a positive step. And I say it clearly, during the DMA negotiations, we pushed for heavy fines, if they are jus…

9 Oct

2025

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Deliberations of the Committee on Petitions in 2024 (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, this annual report marks a significant turning point this year: that of rediscovered dialogue and shared reason. Thanks to the rapporteur's listening, twelve amendments tabled by the Patriotes for Europe Group were adopted. These amendments uphold fundamental values: national sovereignty, freedom of expression and transparency of our institutions. …

8 Oct

2025

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Promoting EU digital rules: protecting European sovereignty (debate)

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Mr President, Madam Vice-President, ladies and gentlemen, today's debate is about promoting and protecting the European Union's digital sovereignty. How dare the Commission and the "zero macronists" speak here of European sovereignty, when they were the ones who sold out Alstom, broke EDF-GDF, smashed Atos and shut down the Fessenheim power plant? Macron bequeathed our health data to Microsoft. Un…

8 Sep

2025

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Public procurement (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, in Europe, the bazooka of more than EUR 2 trillion in public procurement spending is scattered to the four winds, since the hatred of the national priority is the DNA of Brussels. Nuclear power plants in the Czech Republic? The Porto Metro? Victory of Koreans and Chinese. How can Brussels ignore whether we win markets with our competitors and how m…

7 Jul

2025

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Product safety and regulatory compliance in e-commerce and non-EU imports (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner for Transparency, 4.6 billion products worth less than EUR 150 were imported into Europe in 2024. But 4.6 billion is also the number of doses Ursula ordered during COVID-19. Ursula, summoned today, 7 July, thanks to 77 MEPs who want transparency and truth about these giant contracts, about these hidden SMS messages – this motion was expected by our …

21 May

2025

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Single Market Strategy (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, have you seen a major leap forward in our economy? No, no. Did you search for Ursula von der Leyen's text messages? No, no. So who can believe that it has a strategy for the European economy, what we call the single market? The truth is, she doesn't care like her text messages. The European Commission must stop sacrificing our national economies in…