What Virginie spoke about.

7 May

2025

FR Speech

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

Watch

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the fine of EUR 530 million imposed on TikTok for breach of the GDPR and the cancellation of the Romanian elections in November 2024 for alleged manipulation by TikTok are deeply disturbing. TikTok is accused of amplified candidate Georgescu's campaign through coordinated accounts, but without evidence of foreign interference. Yet these allegati…

5 May

2025

FR Speech

Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2023 (debate)

Watch

1 Apr

2025

FR Speech

Safeguarding the access to democratic media, such as Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (debate)

Watch

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the Trump administration wants to cut costs and stop funding Radio Free Europe, a Cold War propaganda tool – and it is right. One hundred and forty million dollars per year: As Trump no longer wants, you want to pay for him – with our money, of course. Why should we finance an old Cold War relic when our national needs require concrete investments? The European …

13 Mar

2025

FR Speech

European Schools Alliance: potential to achieve the European education area by driving innovation, enhancing mobility and championing inclusivity (debate)

Watch

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, to talk about strategy and alliances is also to talk about balance sheets. Education in Europe is collapsing. This is the crash of schools in France: The 2022 PISA exams prove this. The results are collapsing, while the countries of Asia are progressing. Singapore peaks at 575 points, while France drags to 474; It's a huge gap. The OECD tells us that children wi…

10 Mar

2025

FR Speech

Establishing the Reform and Growth Facility for the Republic of Moldova (debate)

Watch

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, as you celebrate your return on investment in Moldova, the Romanian people are on the streets because you are complicit in a huge anti-democratic scandal. You don't like a candidate? You eliminate him. Those who follow you, you feed them with loans and grants, as is done in mafia countries. For you, everything is bought – with the money of Europ…

12 Feb

2025

FR Speech

US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, the World Health Organisation and the suspension of US development and humanitarian aid (debate)

Watch

Madam President, in one day, Donald Trump ridiculed the army of bureaucrats in Brussels. It has done more in one day for Americans than all your stacks of papers for Europeans in 50 years. Finished punitive ecology. Finished the WHO and humanitarian fraud. Americans will no longer be taxed to pay for this circus, to fund Pfizer, Bill Gates and manipulate the media. We are far from the bag of rice:…

10 Feb

2025

FR Speech

One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Watch

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, thanks to Donald Trump, we learn that the BBC is financed by the Americans, but also by Brussels: £1.3 million in 2023. An invisible figure in the Commission's financial transparency system, which shows 39 million euros paid to the English channel since 2014. Why does Brussels finance media? Can Reactive, a Europhile media outlet, criticise the Commission if it …

21 Jan

2025

FR Speech

Need to enforce the Digital Services Act to protect democracy on social media platforms including against foreign interference and biased algorithms (debate)

Watch

Madam President, Commissioner, Mr Szłapka, ladies and gentlemen, coincidental timing: While Ursula is with the globalists in Davos, we are still talking today about the Digital Services Act, which many want to use for political purposes. Elections cancelled in Romania, contested elections in Georgia, election deadlines this year in Germany, Poland, Hungary, Denmark: This is panic in the ‘good camp…

17 Dec

2024

FR Speech

Misinformation and disinformation on social media platforms, such as TikTok, and related risks to the integrity of elections in Europe (debate)

Watch

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, you talk about 'democracy in action', 'house of democracy', 'shield for democracy', but who are you laughing at? How do you look at yourself in an ice cream? In less than a year, you have turned the DSA, this regulation on digital platforms, into a tool for censorship, for violating democracy. Thierry Breton was in the crosshairs X. Now it is Ur…

16 Dec

2024

FR Speech

Activities of the European Ombudsman – annual report 2023 (debate)

Watch

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Ms Emily O’Reilly, Commissioner, first of all, I would like to pay tribute to the importance and quality, dear lady, of the work you have done over the past ten years, and especially since 2020, the year of the COVID-19 madness – in this regard, I welcome the 393 investigations you have opened for 2023 alone. Maladministration has become the system. This is h…

27 Nov

2024

FR Speech

Election of the Commission

Watch

(start of non-microphone intervention) ...Immunity for Ursula von der Leyen. We are a week before the criminal trial of hidden text messages for the purchase of COVID vaccines. This interference is inadmissible. Will the clan around Ursula use this vote of approval from the Commission to put pressure on the judicial process? Couldn't we wait a week before validating a clean, competent and consensu…

23 Oct

2024

FR Speech

Presentation of the Court of Auditors' annual report 2023 (debate)

Watch

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, I would like to thank the President of the Court of Auditors for this excellent report, which is very useful here for all of us. In France, it is the fiscal shower, the country is ruined, but here in Brussels, we continue to enjoy ourselves, and I will give you three examples. Do the French know that our money is being used to build bicycle garages…

21 Oct

2024

FR Speech

A stronger Europe for safer products to better protect consumers and tackle unfair competition: boosting EU oversight in e-commerce and imports (debate)

Watch

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, here we are on the road to five more years of teutonries. It had been hoped in 2019 that the first von der Leyen term would reflect sound and honest management. But we had the motorists bludgeoning, a budget slippage and Pfizer's tricks. So tonight we are talking about the European monitoring of e-commerce markets, while our local shops close one a…

21 Oct

2024

FR Speech

Signature of acts adopted in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure (Rule 81)

Watch

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, dear democrats, dear legalists, I would like to make a point of order. Rule 219 provides for respect for gender equality in the composition of committee bureaux. However, this equality is not respected, nor is the result of the ballot box, i.e. democracy. Indeed, Madam President, you have agreed not to respect democracy by granting a derogation from the princ…

7 Oct

2024

FR Speech

Facing fake news, populism and disinformation in the EU - the importance of public broadcasting, media pluralism and independent journalism (debate)

Watch

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, do you remember one of the biggest fake news stories of recent years, during the COVID-19 crisis, with 'All vaccinated, all protected'? We knew quite quickly that this was not true and it was forbidden to say it, says this weekend a journalist of CNews. "Forbidden to say it," outright. The media has long been under control, owned by billionaires…

19 Sep

2024

FR Speech

Possible extradition of Paul Watson: the danger of criminalisation of environmental defenders and whistle-blowers, and the need for their protection in the EU (debate)

Watch

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, today we are debating anti-whaling activist Paul Watson, who was arrested in Greenland on 21 July 2024 and is awaiting extradition to Japan. This extradition request will be examined on 2 October. The arrest is related to events in the Southern Ocean in February 2010. Watson is charged with complicity in assault and intrusion on a ship, two charges…

17 Sep

2024

FR Speech

Global measures towards social media platforms - Strengthening the role of DSA and protecting democracy and freedom in the online sphere (debate)

Watch

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Digital Service Act or rather Digital Surveillance Act. While your friend Mario Draghi, the man who helped Goldman Sachs and Greece by concealing deficits, paints a disastrous picture of the European Union in terms of technology and innovation, France handcuffs the director of Telegram in the middle of the summer and the Commission hunts down Twitt…

25 Apr

2024

FR Speech

Interinstitutional Body for Ethical Standards (debate)

Watch

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I want to make this last statement and I dedicate it to Michèle Rivasi, who has fought hard for ethics and morals. Following the scandal of bags of tickets or free travel of Qatar, dubious contracts with Pfizer, after having paid a director convicted for rape €18,000 for seven years, the Commission announces to establish a body in charge of ethical standards …

22 Apr

2024

FR Speech

Common rules promoting the repair of goods (debate)

Watch

Madam President, Commissioner, dear rapporteurs, ladies and gentlemen, as a French member of the Rassemblement National, I obviously support this proposal to promote the repair of goods. Yes, the era of disposable everything and planned obsolescence has led us nowhere. It is not our project of civilisation and it is not our model. Recycling and repairing are also local jobs, here in France, here i…

13 Mar

2024

FR Speech

Allegations of corruption and misuse of EU funds in Spain during the pandemic (topical debate)

Watch

Mr President, allegations of corruption and embezzlement of EU funds in Spain during the pandemic: Thank you for adding this item to the agenda. But let’s go further than Spain and the masks. Some individuals in ministerial cabinets are suspected of corruption. We are told about socialists, we are told about EUR 53 million of COVID-19 masks allocated under the urgency procedure to a company that k…

11 Mar

2024

FR Speech

Substantiation and communication of explicit environmental claims (Green Claims Directive) (debate)

Watch

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, today we are not talking about green algae, but about green claims. These unsubstantiated, imprecise and ambiguous claims are indeed liable to mislead consumers. All of you here are familiar with these greenwashing allegations. Moreover, they apply perfectly to this biodegradable Commission in Brussels: President von der Leyen, who calls herself ‘z…

28 Feb

2024

FR Answer

European Digital Identity framework (debate)

Watch

This is a big topic! Surveillance is important. And indeed, today we have legislation at national level that already regulates this surveillance aspect. The problem is the drift associated with the use of these new tools. Biometrics may be useful for some services, especially at airports, to facilitate passage, but it needs to be regulated. We also have to see which company uses this type of data …

28 Feb

2024

FR Speech

European Digital Identity framework (debate)

Watch

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, you wanted to include the QR Code in the body of our fellow citizens. No transportation, no medical care, no nightclubs, standing cafes, sitting, lying down or dynamic beach. July 12, 2021 will remain for France a black day for our freedoms. This temptation of the QR Code and social credit in the Chinese way, some dream of it here. The temptatio…

27 Feb

2024

FR Speech

Unitary supplementary protection certificate for plant protection products - Unitary supplementary certificate for medicinal products - Supplementary protection certificate for plant protection products (recast) - Supplementary protection certificate for medicinal products (recast) - Standard essential patents (joint debate - Patents)

Watch

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, some of you met with lobbyists here in Strasbourg last month with Moderna and BioNtech and this week you will probably see others. FleishmannHillard works for Pfizer and has 63 lobbyists with an EP badge. Medtech Europe, a new lobby for the digital health market, has already met with the Commission 40 times. This von der Leyen commission thus ends …

8 Feb

2024

FR Speech

The case of Dentsu tracking and the lack of transparency of the European Commission with regard to the tobacco industry (debate)

Watch

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the von der Leyen presidency will have been the mandate of the moral slide, and, as you well know, when morality slides, public debts unravel. Some here tell me that I talk too much about Pfizer-BioNTech’s €71 billion vaccine contracts, that I talk too much about hidden text messages, hidden prices and, today, wasted doses. But it was your parties …