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Mar

2026

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Housing crisis in the European Union with the aim of proposing solutions for decent, sustainable and affordable housing (debate)

Madam President, the debate on housing is a very important one. A political debate that certainly needs to be held, but not in this chamber. Firstly, because the European Union does not have jurisdiction over housing, and this is yet another example of the Commission's misuse of jurisdiction. The second reason, which is not legal, but political, is that you play firefighters. While you deplore the…

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Feb

2026

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Violence in the Great Lakes Region, particularly in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (debate)

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Jan

2026

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Restoring control of migration: returns, visa policy and third-country cooperation (topical debate)

Mr President, at the end of your previous term of office you voted on the migration pact. This pact, drawn up in an immigrationist climate, is now completely out of step. An increasing number of countries are expressing their intention to reduce their immigration, such as Germany, or even not to implement the Pact, such as Poland or Hungary. Others discard themselves by asking for derogations. It …

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Dec

2025

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EU Defence Readiness (joint debate)

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Nov

2025

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Development of an industry for sustainable aviation and maritime fuel in Europe (debate)

Mr President, having missed all the technological shifts of the 21st century, Europe is about to miss a new turning point, that of sustainable fuels. The EU imposes binding biofuel production targets on both the air and maritime industries, and that is fortunate. But it gives no way to achieve them. It regulates, overregulates, but does not plan. She throws goals in the air, but doesn't invest. Wi…

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Jul

2025

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Democratic Republic of the Congo-Rwanda peace deal agreement (debate)

Mr President, the recent agreement between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, although fragile but welcome, underlines the European Union’s negligence in this appalling war. Insurrection, because you have diplomatically disarmed member countries such as France or Belgium which, for historical or linguistic reasons, were legitimate to act. You neutralized them without doing anything on yo…

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May

2025

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Winning the global tech race: boosting innovation and closing funding gaps (topical debate)

Mr President, under the tutelage of the European Union, the countries of Europe have missed all the technological turning points: mobile, screens, electric vehicles, nanotechnologies, space, robotics, cloud, digital, artificial intelligence, semiconductors, and so on. The problem lies in the principles that drive you: the globalist vision, when the whole world has embarked on the path of protectio…

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Mar

2025

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

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, built on an alleged promise of peace, the European Union is gradually turning into an actor of war. Even before consulting the Parliament, whose activity is in reality cosmetic, the Commission barricades itself in a warmongering posture when circumstances demand peace. Worse, you maintain wars in the world, for example by making you the recipient of raw material…

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Feb

2025

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The need to address urgent labour shortages and ensure quality jobs in the health care sector (debate)

Mr President, if immigration were the only solution to the trades in tension, it is good news that there would be no more trades in tension. Believing that immigration could address the health workforce shortage is an illusion. It is even the worst solution, because the exploitation of a foreign workforce that is not very attentive will only have the effect of maintaining unattractive wages, diffi…

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Feb

2025

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Mr President, alternative fuels are an illustration of a certain inconsistency on the part of the European Union. You issue rules, impose them on our sectors, in this case air and maritime, then you let the market decide. The result is sectors that do not know which technical processes to devote themselves to, infrastructure, for example at airports, which you do not care about, but above all prod…

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Jan

2025

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Links between organised crime and smuggling of migrants in light of the recent UN reports (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, you have made immigration a religion because the criminal activity of smugglers served your ideological purpose. You have turned a blind eye to their misdeeds and even decriminalized any complicity with them. You have almost made them auxiliaries of your migration project, distributing the roles with the complicit NGOs. This is Cologne syndrome, or mass rape …

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Dec

2024

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Challenges facing EU farmers and agricultural workers: improving working conditions, including their mental well-being (debate)

Mr President, everyone will welcome the fact that the Commission is finally deigning to take an interest in the lives of farmers, in their well-being, or rather in their professional, and often personal and family ill-being. It is clear that you are largely responsible for this real human disaster. When you embarked on the green transition, you responded to demands that were more ideological than …

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Nov

2024

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Topical debate (Rule 169) - Budapest Declaration on the New European Competitiveness Deal - A future for the farming and manufacturing sectors in the EU (topical debate)

Mr President, after five years of the Green Deal, which is the modest name for degrowth, now, faced with the industrial, energy and agricultural collapse of our countries, you are brandishing the idea of competitiveness under the enlightened influence of Hungary. It is true that there is urgency: With his watchword "MAGA", the new US president is confronting Europeans with a power challenge. This …

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Oct

2024

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

Mr President, the issue of product safety is not always about legal development or standards, but about controls. She raised the question of the gateways to Europe, and the gateways to Europe were the ports. On Le Havre, out of 6,000 containers, only 5 are checked. In general, all European ports tend to be taken over by the mafias, either through fear and threat or through corruption. Nobody cares…

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Oct

2024

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The crisis facing the EU’s automotive industry, potential plant closures and the need to enhance competitiveness and maintain jobs in Europe (debate)

Madam President, two years ago you decided to end the marketing of combustion engines in Europe and, in fact, to end combustion engines. An industry that loses its domestic market loses any chance of being powerful at exporting. You have done so in the name of decreasing ideology and you have committed our countries to the all-electric impasse. You made this decision without an impact assessment o…

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Sep

2024

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Organised crime, a major threat to the internal security of the European Union and European citizens (topical debate)

Madam President, I would like to raise a serious issue here, but one that seems to be a blind spot in the European Union's thinking on transport, the safety of goods and people, and sovereignty. I am referring to the control of ports, i.e. the gateways to Europe. At the port of Le Havre in France, one container out of every 5,000 is checked. One container in 5,000. We know that most drugs enter Eu…

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Sep

2024

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Mr President, never has a document been so badly named as the Strategic Dialogue for the future of EU agriculture, presented last week. It is more a monologue than a dialogue, since your so-called consultation is, as usual, a Potemkin democracy. In agricultural matters, the EU has no strategy, but simply the obtuse application of a decreasing and anti-speciesist ideological vision from which you a…

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Apr

2024

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The attack on climate and nature: far right and conservative attempts to destroy the Green Deal and prevent investment in our future (topical debate)

Mr President, as the unpopularity of your Green Deal grows across Europe, you are trying to impute, I quote, to the far right the revolt of European opinions against your green follies. I see it as a form of conspiracy that is ready to smile, since it emanates from those who have made this term the mechanical response to any revelation of their turpitudes, even proven. I see this as an inability t…

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Apr

2024

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Mr President, after the ban on the sale of thermal cars in 2035, we discover over the days the amateurism that led you to the ‘all-electric’: the lack of sufficient electricity production, the unresolved lack of vehicle autonomy, the problem of battery recycling and dependence on China. Associations are now alerting us to the planned obsolescence of electric vehicles: increasingly complex software…

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Mar

2024

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Type-approval of motor vehicles and engines with respect to their emissions and battery durability (Euro 7) (debate)

Mr President, the European Union had to be an organisation between nations. Its Parliament has become the standards office of a centralised unitary state. After the ban on thermal cars in 2035 and the banning of vehicles in urban areas, the European Commission had planned, with this Euro 7 standard, a new screwdriver allegedly ecological and in reality directed against our automotive industry. You…

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Feb

2024

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Mr President, the ACP meeting in Luanda was a total political failure. Let us be clear, I am not calling into question the work of Parliament’s staff or our Angolan hosts, who deserve all the praise. The first day showed a state of unpreparedness that manifested itself in public recriminations by several African delegations and the worst difficulties in simply approving the Rules of Procedure. The…

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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, when you talk to us about preventive diplomacy, it is not a question for the European Union, out of pacifism or humanism, of avoiding conflicts in the world. It is for you to extend the competences of the European Union in international relations. Your agenda is determined by what you want to be or appear to be, that is, a state recognized on the international scene. We challenge …

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Dec

2023

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European Economic Security Strategy (debate)

Mr President, it is the practice of thugs to denigrate those they meet. This is exactly what the US is doing by applying the principle of extraterritoriality of US law, i.e. the application of its right to the entire planet. This is the western. All the pretexts are good for bringing the companies they have targeted under their jurisdiction, prosecuting them and convicting them. Under the pretext …

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Dec

2023

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Madam President, in a few months you have seen two election warnings coming from the Netherlands. First in April, with the victory of the Citizen Farmers’ Movement, the BBB, and more recently with the victory of Geert Wilders’ PVV. This major shift, with the crushing defeat of Frans Timmermans, the promoter of your Green Deal, is interpreted as a disavowal of your ‘decreasing’ policy. In France, a…

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Nov

2023

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Packaging and packaging waste (debate)

Mr President, everyone agrees with the idea of combating over-consumption, waste, unnecessary production and, from this point of view, the tracking down of packaging, which is both ephemeral and useless, can only win support. In principle, no objection, but it is the implementing text that causes problems. As every time, you are in the "all or nothing". You are sinking into absurd normative madnes…