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2026

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

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 first is hidden to protect citizens, the second was hidden to protect Brussels from citizens. So rather than commenting on American or Chinese advances, we should, finally, invest massively in artificial intelligence here in Europe. Arthur Mensch, the founder of Mistral, explained last week to the National Assembly wanting to invest 1 billion euros in research and development. By November 2025, OpenAI had already surpassed $14 billion in investments. The real danger is not just these models; The real danger is the dependence that Brussels organises. This is indeed the dependency that Brussels organizes, but I do not even talk about gold-plating that still dominates, despite official speeches on simplification. The bureaucracy is holding up. And I will end with this example that you know very well, ladies, which would be comical if it weren't so tragic. I was the Patriots' rapporteur on the "AI" omnibus. For six hours, we debated what a "nudifier" was. and from what percentage of buttocks an image became illegal. Some have even wondered if a T-shirt Wet could become a "nudifier". In fact, Europe will not have the artificial intelligence revolution. She knowingly avoids it, she looks elsewhere. And to realize the strength of China and the United States, just look at the number of patents filed in 2024. (The speaker shows a graph) China deposited almost 50%, the United States 16%, and Europe 5.4%. So if we're not at the table, we're on the menu. I will end with this sentence, even if I do not share it in the United States, but I share it here, it is: Make Europe great again.

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2026

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Joint debate - Discharge 2024 (joint debate)

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' rapporteur, who is closer to NGOs than to voters. In short, a liability of more than 300 billion euros, a debt that will reach more than 900 billion euros in 2027. Factual: Arranged sale of Commission buildings for €1 billion; hundreds of millions of agricultural subsidies diverted to politicians in Greece; subsidies for yachts, vodka bars or a swinger club in Poland; the consciences of the media and NGOs bought with millions of euros to save the narrative of Brussels; The commissioner and his million lottery tickets... Anyway, it doesn't stop anymore. Pfizer is fined €2 billion in the US, but is suing Member States – Poland and Romania will have to pull their chequebooks. So I say yes to independent audits and yes to transparency, but for all political parties. And then, as we can see, an error rate that decreases, but always an error rate, because the error is human, so yes, we must continue this work. Finally, I would like to say that, normally, when the auditors refuse the accounts, Parliament should also automatically refuse discharge.

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Mar

2026

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

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 Brussels. Your answer: bureaucracy with 27 sherpas to reshuffle friends and Theodul committees that will serve no purpose. For Brussels, dropping out is never his fault. And, as if that wasn't enough, you want to further centralize with yet another supervisory authority. For you, Mr Séjourné, Brussels is never responsible for the sinking. Your software is: We need more Europe. Since 2010, the wealth of the United States has jumped by 34%, that of the European Union by just 21% – this is in the Draghi report. Thirteen points apart. And you dare to say that it is because there is not enough Europe? I want to tell you: Tell it to the car industry, which is collapsing. The solution? Simplification of course, but you also have to get out of "I regulate, so I am".

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Mar

2026

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

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2026

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

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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)

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 also interference, it is the Commission's desire to interfere in electoral processes here in Europe, in our countries and throughout the world. Yes, we did it in Slovakia, Romania and we will do it again in Germany if necessary. Remember when Ursula came to a party meeting of Emmanuel Macron in October 2023, or when she pushed back the Russian oil embargo so as not to push up fuel prices before the presidential election in France. So stop with your rule of law tremolos: Brussels interferes, Brussels interferes. Read the American report. We discover this enormous machination: 90 meetings organised in two years by the Commission with subsidised left-wing NGOs to put pressure on major platforms. They refused me this information. Objective: reduce the visibility of populist or anti-elite content, anti-immigrant sentiment and even political satire, via the guidelines of the EU Internet Forum, via the anti-disinformation code smuggled into the DSA last year. In the end, TikTok admits that they censored 45,000 topics on immigration or climate change during the European elections, and that they censored publications calling to stop the sexualization of children during the elections in Slovakia in 2023. Finally, what are Europe's values? I'm asking you.

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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)

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 even shut down Network X, following the bikini imagery case highlighted by a study by AI Forensics. This organization, like others, benefits from public and private funding, which does not invalidate its work, but calls for a serene and proportionate debate. We seem to discover that some users fantasize about deeply problematic uses of these technologies. Let's be clear, the revenge porn and any production or dissemination of sexual images without consent is intolerable and must be severely repressed. But banning entire tools because of their misuse would be a mistake. We did not prohibit drawing or photography because they could be used for illicit productions. There is a risk of hypocrisy and morality with variable geometry. Some online commercialized sexual practices arouse little indignation, while emotion is immediate when it comes to new technologies. The law must remain consistent. So let's find the right balance: platforms must clearly indicate when images are artificial, victims must be protected and the law must be applied rigorously, without hypocrisy or excess. Yes, anyone using any artificial intelligence tool for the purpose of harassment or sexual assault must be liable to prosecution. It is individual responsibility and not blind technological prohibition that must guide our action.

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Jan

2026

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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 European policy choices: free and distorted competition as dogma, the abandonment of any real industrial policy and blind submission to the strategies of large groups and globalised markets. While Europe imposes standards, meansless transitions and absurd fiscal rules, our factories close, our territories desert, and our workers pay the bill. Strasbourg cannot only be the capital of European discourses, it must be the capital of protecting jobs and industry. If the European Union is unable to defend its industrial sites, secure its strategic sectors and protect its workers, then it is betraying its promise. Europe must choose: markets or people, finance or industry, speeches or deeds.

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Dec

2025

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

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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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Nov

2025

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Defence of Democracy package (joint debate)

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Nov

2025

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Digital Package (debate)

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 denounce the legislation of artificial intelligence. That said, I am pleased to read that the Commission services have also carried out several reality checks. You need these reality checks because this 800 billion euro European market deserves better than these permanent windows and pop-ups. On artificial intelligence, yes, companies need security and legal stability. And what do these companies tell us? Too many rules, too much confusion, too many duplicates, too many statements, in short, constraints that are expensive and that above all prevent innovation and competitiveness. The Commission admits that unnecessary administrative costs cost tech companies €1 billion a year. These confusions, these contradictions, these sticks in the wheels suffocate our companies without protecting our personal data. It is therefore also necessary to take advantage of this omnibus to question Ursula's agreement with the United States on computer data transfers between Europe and the United States, the famous data protection framework. Because data is our oil. On this issue of data sharing, let us give priority to our European companies. It is 2025 and unfortunately the words "European company" are still missing from the Brussels vocabulary. As we know, in Ursula's Europe, the only data protected are criminal convictions. Let's change that.

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2025

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Order of business

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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)

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 for? Instead of hunting down and banning illegal products, he censored the Patriots. We block sovereigntist accounts, track down misguided tweets, but let Shein sell girl sex dolls for pedophiles. What are the priorities of Brussels? Repressing freedom rather than protecting our children? There, hypocrisy reaches its peak. Remember Christophe Castaner, Macron’s former interior minister, who fought hard against the ‘yellow vests’? Well, the same Christophe Castaner, from December 2024 to June 2025, received a salary as a CSR advisor at Shein... Shein prospered thanks to deindustrialization, customs holes, and the complicity of large-scale distribution. The BHV even opened its doors to him by splitting off one of the following: ‘Everything that was reproached to Shein will no longer be valid.’ That the Digital Services Act protects our internal market from illegal and dangerous products! Protect our children and our jobs, in France and in Europe!

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Oct

2025

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

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 justified of course, or even for structural measures. But unfortunately, we also know the music of big ads hiding poorly filed legal files that end up in judicial Berezina. Remember the historic €1 billion fine imposed on Intel in 2009. That was the pride of the Commission at the time. Well, in 2024, after fifteen years of proceedings, the European court definitively annulled this fine. Stronger, the one and a half billion fine imposed on Google AdSense in 2019 was also annulled by the General Court of the European Union. So, should we believe in this fine of 3 billion euros? I'm asking you. Next, should we believe that it will change anything about Google's decisions and the advertising ecosystem in Europe? The truth is that Brussels always has a war of delay. It's been 20 years since Brussels pseudo-investigated Google's self-preference practices. But the initial blindness was when Brussels ignored Google's acquisition of YouTube in 2006. Brussels has been hiding behind financial thresholds, ignoring systemic risk to Europe. However, this acquisition allowed to merge two groups of data, the data of intention, via Google Search, with the data of interest and behavior, via YouTube. They got a 360-degree view of the user, creating this advertising monopoly. And today, it looks like the Commission is discovering YouTube. Let us know if we should be happy about Criteo's alliance with Microsoft. Brussels had no qualms about forcing EDF to part ways with GDF. How do you want to create global European giants under these conditions? Look at China, Google gave up 15 years ago as a result of pressure. So when the Chinese sanction a company, it's one of their champions. That said, let's not forget other threats at the individual level, the Commission's initial complaint revealed that Google passes the full identity of users to advertisers. It looks like Brussels would like other advertisers to have access to it as well. We, too, want this identity never to be accessible. We support contextual advertising that respects anonymity.

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Oct

2025

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Deliberations of the Committee on Petitions in 2024 (debate)

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. This result proves that balanced and pragmatic legislative work is possible, under one condition: that the EPP finally agrees to work with the sovereignist forces, rather than submit to the anti-democratic cordon imposed by the left and the far left. A cordon that deprives more than 18 million Europeans of any representation. Democracy must be respected. By voting on this text today, we welcome a constructive report, free from ideological dogmas and faithful to the primary vocation of this committee: listen to citizens and defend their rights. That is why, without hesitation, we will vote in favour of this report.

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Oct

2025

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Promoting EU digital rules: protecting European sovereignty (debate)

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. Under Macron, we also lost Technip, Lafarge and even Doliprane. Brussels abandoned Nokia, chose Microsoft for its internal messaging and a US service provider for its recruitments. Brussels chose Amazon and Microsoft this year for its cloud and, to a lesser extent, OVH. Why to a lesser extent? Stop preaching European preference, stop going to Washington to receive the holy water of the Atlantic Council or the anointing of Soros. The truth is that since Brexit and Trump, you are afraid of the people who no longer vote for you. Today you want the full regulatory powers to enforce censorship with the Single Market for Digital Services Act and tomorrow the control tower to monitor our private conversations, while we are still waiting for the text messages exchanged between Bourla and Ursula. Gone are Gerard Miller's hypnosis and the subsidized newspapers. The people have regained their voice thanks to social networks. You are the media, Musk said. And that’s what bothers you? Macron screams in Saarbrücken against digital platforms. A new Covid Frankenstein variant for this winter. But people don't listen to you anymore. You presume the protection of digital sovereignty only to censor and stifle a narrative that doesn't suit you. You killed the auto industry. Who can believe here that you want to save the digital one?

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Sep

2025

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Public procurement (debate)

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 much they win with us? Brussels tells us: "Look at the Commission's "Access to market" website." But it's incomprehensible and it's in English. French taxpayers are funding these tools, but in Brussels, no one imagined translating this site into French. A whole symbol... Today, as Europe collapses and the Americans act, here is finally a report that talks about imposing reciprocity and European preference in strategic sectors, as we had always proposed, for that matter. A first step for public procurement, a first small step for Europe, since it would be open to our allies. But let's go further and demand technology transfers and factories in Europe. Again, the Commission must lead by example by first buying from European suppliers.

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Jul

2025

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

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 citizens. Ursula, who should be asking for forgiveness rather than treating the signatories of this motion as plotters. So, of course, it is difficult to monitor all this traffic and ensure consumer safety. So we will support this report on e-commerce, for more security, for more control and for European consumers, of course. But, ladies and gentlemen, I have not heard you denounce the deceit of Pfizer, which pocketed another EUR 163 million from the Commission between 2023 and 2024. The Chinese company Shein is targeted, of which act. What you are not saying is that your friend Castaner, a former macronist minister of the interior, works for Shein. You know, the one who dazzled every Saturday the yellow vests, the "guys" that bother. He's gone from worldly to fashionable. Oddly, this information does not appear in the Commission’s Transparency Register. Nobody in Brussels wants to talk about revolving doors or ‘Pfizergate’. This report avoids noticing that the former German Commissioner for Digital and Anti-Fraud, Günther Oettinger of Ursula’s party, is lobbying for Shein on this very subject and on the Digital Services Act. To paraphrase a quote that led to the resignation of the Santer Commission 20 years ago, it becomes difficult to find anyone with even a semblance of a sense of responsibility.

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May

2025

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Single Market Strategy (debate)

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 the name of disconnected ideologies, such as these ecological standards that lead to factory closures, job losses and dependence on foreign imports. Stop unrealistic regulations, stop unfavourable free trade agreements, and yes to production here in Europe. We must establish a European preference for our companies, which you continue to refuse. Europe must defend its workers and its economic sovereignty, not dogmas, as on the county, cows and diesel cars, imposed by the Greens via NGOs paid for by the Commission. The Commission, the leading supplier of contracts, must set an example by sourcing here from European companies. Amazon, Microsoft, McKinsey, Pfizer: Stop giving billions of euros from Europeans to competing companies.

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2025

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

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 allegations were used as a pretext to cancel an inconvenient vote. After Meta, then X, today, TikTok is your new scapegoat or useful idiot. The GDPR and the Digital Services Act are becoming geopolitical weapons of a dying Union. No one is fooled: This fine is part of a political war. Do you really want to protect the interests of citizens? Start by terminating all contracts with Microsoft. How can we explain to them the conclusion of a data transfer agreement with the United States, entitled "Data Privacy Framework"? Really, stop this hypocrisy! You've just donated $550 million to Amazon Web Services to manage our cloud. In Europe, however, we have nuggets that are questioning each other. With this new Brussels font, you are not giving a good signal, neither to the digital industry, nor to users.

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May

2025

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

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2025

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

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 Union, with its obsession with control and inflationary budgets, seeks to interfere where it has no place, undermining the sovereignty of nations – as with these so-called information verifiers, who, in reality, only serve to promote the European system, at home and abroad. So today you want to talk about how to preserve access to democratic media. Is it an April fish? Where were you to offend those who wanted to shut down CNews? Where were you when C8 closed, with its journalists fired overnight? Go explain to the subsidised press in France that the opposition must be fairly received! Go explain to the French people that political justice prevents Marine Le Pen from accessing elections! No one has given you a mandate to promote yourself with political NGOs, and those here who want to invest in a radio station should do so with their own money!

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Mar

2025

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

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 with a migrant background have even more difficulties. This, it was suspected a little; But, even among the most favored children, we are now very far from Asian countries in math. In American schools, the poorest have better math scores than in France. Here are the countries ahead of France in mathematics: Singapore, Macao, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Estonia, Switzerland, Canada, Netherlands, Ireland, Belgium, Denmark, Poland, United Kingdom, Australia, Austria, Czechia, Slovenia, Finland, Latvia, Sweden, New Zealand, Lithuania and Germany. In reading, we are very far behind the United States. Another number is scary: 13% of children are afraid for their safety by going to school, or more than 1 million children and adolescents who are afraid. I want to tell you to stop with these hollow slogans. Your inclusion is not intended for children with disabilities, autistic or hospitalized; it is for neutral toilets without urinals and LGBT books required at the library; not to say "father" or "mother", but "parent 1" and "parent 2". These are the priorities of the Brussels caste. However, the example to follow is simple. Look at Singapore; This is our program: academic rigour, authority of teachers, priority to essential subjects, end of ideological drifts and support for students in difficulty. Finally, and tragically, we have the result of this deadly ideology, which is pulling schools down. (The speaker refused to answer the blue card questions of Lukas Sieper and Sabrina Repp.)

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Mar

2025

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

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 European taxpayers – when it comes to saving the Brussels speech. Moldova got away with it shortly after the elections narrowly won by the candidate from Brussels. To thank them, billions of euros or dollars are sent from all over the world. For example, Arte claims that NGOs in Moldova received US$2.5 billion – the notorious USAID aid. Today, Brussels still wants to send €1.9 billion to Moldova for two years. To do what? To thank who? To eliminate more local candidates? To buy the voices of whom? To pay pseudo-journalists or fake experts, who chase disinformation while producing fake news? Is this not the definition of interference? Who are you kidding? Moldova, Slovakia, Georgia, Romania: You won't be able to buy all the voices. The people are not corruptible.