What Jean-Paul spoke about.

15 Sep

2026

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Devastating heatwaves, wildfires and droughts in Europe: lessons from summer 2026 (debate)

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Madam President, this summer again, Europe, particularly France, was hit hard by the fires. Nearly 100,000 hectares went up in smoke. A sad record, while thousands of families had to be evacuated. First of all, I want to pay tribute to our firefighters. They once again risked their lives to save ours. In France, four of them lost it in the exercise of their mission. They deserve our respect and re…

16 Jun

2026

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2025 Commission report on Türkiye (debate)

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Mr President, this report contains observations. In fact, Turkey does not share, at all, the values of our democracies. Loss of freedoms, repression of the opposition, repeated attacks on the rule of law, interference in the affairs of Cyprus, the list is known, it is growing, and yet we continue, session after session, to maintain the fiction of a frozen but theoretically reversible accession pro…

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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Order of business

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10 Feb

2026

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Situation in Northeast Syria, the violence against civilians and the need to maintain a sustainable ceasefire (debate)

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20 Jan

2026

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Brutal repression against protesters in Iran (debate)

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Mr President, in Iran, a courageous people stands up against a dictatorship of relentless violence. Women and men face death for an elementary requirement, freedom. Faced with this demand, the mullahs' regime opposes only one response, terror, and thousands of unarmed Iranians are massacred. Meanwhile, Europe is not reacting. This diplomacy of complacency has failed. It only consolidates a regime …

19 Jan

2026

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Motion of censure on the Commission (debate)

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Madam President, Mrs von der Leyen has just signed with a smile the death penalty for our agriculture. It signed the agreement after more than 25 years of negotiations, a sign of widespread resistance to the treaty. Why? Because there are still people who want to preserve their agricultural world, the world that has shaped our nations over the centuries. For Ms von der Leyen, Mercosur is one of th…

17 Dec

2025

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Implementation of the rule of law conditionality regime (debate)

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Madam President, for years, the European Commission has been attacking countries like Hungary on the basis of an alleged failure to respect the rule of law. However, there is no clear legal definition of this concept at EU level. I have never received a satisfactory answer to my questions to the Commission regarding this definition. This mechanism, invented and implemented by the Commission, is no…

26 Nov

2025

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The situation of Christian communities and religious minorities in Nigeria and the Middle East, and Europe’s responsibility to protect them and guarantee freedom of conscience (topical debate)

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22 Oct

2025

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Allegations of espionage by the Hungarian government within the EU institutions (debate)

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Madam President,me Is von der Leyen obsessed with Hungary? Brussels' political relentlessness against Budapest is no longer a drift, it is an assumed strategy. Viktor Orbán leads a legitimately elected government. It is the Hungarian people who have decided, whether you like it or not, and this people is proud of its history, its identity, its traditions, its sovereignty, in short, everything that…

8 Oct

2025

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Europe’s automotive future – reversing the ban on the sale of combustion cars in the EU (topical debate)

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Mr President, by banning the sale of thermal vehicles from 2035, the European Union has signed one of its most absurd and suicidal laws. Under the guise of a dogmatic ecological transition, Brussels offers on a plateau the European automotive market to Chinese and American manufacturers. While they jealously protect their industry, we sacrifice ours. Asian giants produce low-cost electric cars, of…

10 Sep

2025

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After 10 years, time to end mass migration now - protect our women and children (topical debate)

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Madam President, Liana. Lisa. Two first names. Two broken destinies. Two young European girls, one Ukrainian, refugee in Germany, the other Dutch. Both victims of a barbarism that our societies should never have allowed to settle. Two names we must refuse to forget. Liana was 16 years old. She had fled the war. She was looking for peace. What she found was death. Last summer, an Iraqi migrant, und…

8 Jul

2025

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Presentation of the programme of activities of the Danish Presidency (debate)

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Madam President, Denmark now holds the Presidency of the Council of the European Union. If your government remains marked, Prime Minister, by left-wing policies, it must be acknowledged that in the area of migration you have changed your position in the right direction. But let us do justice to those who have prepared this evolution. It was our allies in the Danish People’s Party who first denounc…

18 Jun

2025

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Upcoming NATO summit on 24-26 June 2025 (debate)

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Madam President, the NATO summit to be held this June should allow us to recall a few key points. I will focus on one of them, concerning Ukraine. In a context of protracted war between Russia and Ukraine, there are still voices calling for Russia to join the alliance. As I say clearly, Ukraine must not become a member of NATO. It is not that the brave and bruised Ukrainian people do not deserve o…

6 May

2025

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A unified EU response to unjustified US trade measures and global trade opportunities for the EU (debate)

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Mr President, the United States has been imposing a 25% surcharge on imports of European cars for a month. This is a real blow for our automotive industry, already exposed to severe Asian competition. This is neither an accident nor a surprise, Donald Trump had clearly announced his intentions; But above all, it is the direct consequence of decades of lack of European protectionism and the opening…

1 Apr

2025

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 20 March 2025 (debate)

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Donald Trump has just announced a 25% increase in tariffs on European cars. A brutal decision, but, alas, not surprisingly. Why? Because the United States knows that the European Union is still giving in. Far from defending the interests of its members, Europe has locked itself in a technocratic obsession, cut off from industrial realities, unable to protect its factories, its industries and its e…

12 Mar

2025

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100 days of the new Commission – Delivering on defence, competitiveness, simplification and migration as our priorities (topical debate)

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Mr President, a hundred days have passed since the new European Commission was set up, and a sad observation must be made: continuity with the former Commission, which was largely disavowed by Europeans in the last elections. Far from hearing the message of the ballot boxes, the Commission persists in a policy that seeks to impose itself in the face of the will of the people. For example, in the a…

13 Feb

2025

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Resumption of the sitting

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Mr President, Rule 10 of our Rules of Procedure requires Members to preserve the dignity of Parliament, and Rule 17 states that Members are responsible for the acts of their assistants. Those rules were trampled on last night. Under the direction and in the presence of Mme Manon Aubry, group president, a crowd of French MEPs and far-left assistants tried to prevent a conference from being held her…

13 Feb

2025

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EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement (debate)

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Madam President, there is still time to defuse the agricultural bomb. There is still time for the Commission to abandon the free trade agreement between the Mercosur countries and the European Union, against which our farmers have been protesting for months. But you do not want to give up, Commissioner, I have just heard you. This agreement is, however, a misunderstanding, an archaism and a fault.…

12 Feb

2025

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Collaboration between conservatives and far right as a threat for competitiveness in the EU (topical debate)

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Mr President, once again we are witnessing a complete reversal of reality in this Parliament. We are told that collaboration between conservatives and the far right would threaten the competitiveness of the European Union. But who are we laughing at? In his report, Mario Draghi himself, who is not far-right, I believe, sounded the alarm: the competitiveness of the European Union is in free fall. Y…

22 Jan

2025

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Presentation of the programme of activities of the Polish Presidency (debate)

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Madam President, Prime Minister, at the beginning of this year, marked by international crises and crucial challenges, the Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union is of great importance. Prime Minister, you say that you will commit to act for the security and stability of our continent. We can only encourage you to do so, with one priority objective: the fight against mass immigrati…

20 Jan

2025

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Order of business

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If the Greens and the Left are indeed in agreement with us, they just have to vote for our proposal.

20 Jan

2025

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Order of business

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Madam President, we have recently learned that Mr Thierry Breton, former Commissioner for the Internal Market, is going to join Bank of America. He who for years claimed to defend European sovereignty and production, proudly announcing the end of the naivety of the European Union, joins the symbol of American finance five months after his departure from the Commission. The self-proclaimed champion…

17 Dec

2024

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Toppling of the Syrian regime, its geopolitical implications and the humanitarian situation in the region (debate)

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Mr President, High Representative, the fall of the dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad could have been a great hope for the Syrian people, but it risks dragging them into even deeper chaos. The end of the brutal regime that has oppressed Syrians for years has given way to jihadist militias, synonymous with terror and obscurantism. How can we not be horrified at such a situation? These men, these women…

26 Nov

2024

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Resumption of the sitting

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