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2023

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Mr President, how is it that there is a Member State, Spain, where there are demonstrations of a million people, where an opponent is the victim of an assassination attempt and you can remain silent? To stay in power at all costs, Pedro Sánchez's socialist government is waiting for the Spanish Constitution. He decides on an amnesty for fugitive, factious criminals, some of whom are in Brussels, wh…

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Outcome of the SDGs Summit (18-19 September 2023, New York) – transformative and accelerated actions leading up to 2030 and beyond (debate)

Madam President, how can we fail to subscribe to the joint will of the European Union and the United Nations to work for the happiness of humanity? The problem is that you have taken the side of viewing man as a predator. Based on this premise, at least simplistic, you have developed a system of thought and action that aims to limit human activities, all human activities: activities that cause nui…

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2023

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Commission Work Programme 2024 (debate)

Madam President, the presentation of the Commission programme for 2024 should be an opportunity for the Commissioner to take stock of his trajectory. For you, the Commission, there are two priorities: deepening and widening. There are two major projects: the Green Deal and the Migration Pact. However, on all these issues, just as there is a profit warning – a ‘warning of results’ – in the cases, y…

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2023

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Madam President, as a Member of the European Parliament, I went to Lampedusa to see the situation. What I have seen is beyond comprehension. The centre, which had welcomed 7,000 migrants the day before, was empty. All arrivals, without exception, had left it to reach the mainland by air or boat. You have organized between Tunisia and Lampedusa a real sea bridge. No refoulement, no serious control,…

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Sep

2023

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Ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe (debate)

Mr President, the European Union has a know-how that it has raised to the level of an art: Turning a beautiful idea into hell. Under the title seller – it must be said, sympathetic – to improve air quality, who might not subscribe to it, you reserve for us your decreasing obsession. It is not a question of reform but of prohibiting, not of improving, but of punishing. This text, like all those we …

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Global Convergence on Generative AI (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, artificial intelligence, AI, is a great revealer. A revealer of the movement of the world and, by comparison, a revealer of your inertia. You have not seen the digital revolution coming and now, with artificial intelligence, the cognitive revolution. As China and the United States increase each day by mastering machine intelligence, their search capabilities, yo…

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2023

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Delivering on the Green Deal: risk of compromising the EU path to the green transition and its international commitments (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, no one here is indifferent to the fate of the planet and everyone is aware of the need to reform a system based on unbridled consumption. Europe, the European Union wants to be the best pupil in the world class. With the Green Deal, she embarked on a race in which radical environmentalists set the rules, stages and objectives. Your approach is not pragmatic, …

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2023

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Artificial Intelligence Act (debate)

Madam President, the digital revolution – and even the cognitive revolution – is on its way, and we support the EU’s willingness to make the necessary regulations. However, this normative response is not sufficient. Experts predict that the machine will surpass human intelligence in 2029 and that by 2045 it will be a billion times smarter than all human brains. The European Union has missed all th…

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2023

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, France is preparing to set up a super electric battery factory in Douvrin, France, in Pas-de-Calais. This is to be welcomed. This installation, which came out of the forceps, is in a way a catching-up action, since the European Union has embarked on the ‘all-electric’ without having thought about the sector and, above all, without having…

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The need for European solidarity in saving lives in the Mediterranean, in particular in Italy (debate)

Mr President, no one can be insensitive to the tragedies taking place at sea, whether in the Mediterranean or in the English Channel. However, there is only one aspect to the question: rescues at sea. These tragedies, which we deplore, are the result of the lack of anticipation of immigration, which calls for cooperation with the countries of emigration, the installation of host cities around the …

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Mar

2023

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Mr President, after Qatargate, which concerned elected officials, the press is now echoing the travels that a senior European official could have benefited from and is in charge of negotiating a very important air agreement with Qatar. This announcement is all the more disturbing given that the agreement in question seemed lean in the light of Europe's interests. The European Commission, which cam…

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Feb

2023

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CO2 emission standards for cars and vans (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, when it comes to punitive ecology, the European Union is characterised by ‘always more’. The ecological transition cannot resemble the Chinese Cultural Revolution. As far as motorists are concerned, this is all the less justified given that it is not cars that are the main cause of pollution. By hounding them, you are in the logic of the scapegoat. You cannot ac…

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Feb

2023

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Madam President, the biggest failure of the European Union is to have missed the digital revolution. You have not seen the arrival of data, laptops, tablets and AI. Europe does not have the GAFAMs or the BATXs, and in terms of technology, you only have to present the pitiful and endless Galileo dossier. Your response, strictly normative, does not make us catch up digitally. The emergence of ChatGP…

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2022

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New EU strategy for enlargement (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, this debate on enlargement reflects your inability to take account of reality and evaluate the policies you are implementing. You cannot work at 27 and you still want to expand. You're in a leak forward. With Schengen, which you want to expand, you have made Europe a sluggish continent, which, from the Frontex migrant reception agency to the Ocean Viking, sho…

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2022

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Sustainable maritime fuels (FuelEU Maritime Initiative) - Deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, if the subject was not so serious, we could have fun seeing you debate your contradictions. The proposal for a regulation on the use of more environmentally friendly fuels for maritime transport is obviously commendable and we will vote for it. But how not to highlight the inconsistencies, not just of your approach, but of your model? You are struggling to find …

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2022

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The EU's actions in the field of freedom of religion or belief worldwide (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, you invoke religious freedom. I do not think it would come to anyone’s mind here to challenge this freedom, which is so essential to man. However, you go astray when, under the pretext of a misguided inclusive policy, you promote the Islamic veil – and I would even say the veil Islamist – throughout your corporate communication. Women and even girls appear ve…

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Sep

2022

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EU response to the increase in energy prices in Europe (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the energy crisis is just pointing. It is a good war for you, if I may say so, to invoke the Ukrainian conflict to justify the situation. But crises, as we know, reveal loopholes more than they create them. The EU-led Europe is now bearing the brunt of three mistakes. A fault in energy choices, by collapsing the nuclear industry. When you make us dependent on…

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2022

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Future of EU-Africa trade relations (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, while we share the desire expressed in the report to combat poverty and hunger and to establish respectful and fruitful relations with the African continent, it seems to us that your ideological presuppositions lead you astray. You reason in terms of big global trade when the solution lies in the creation of local supply chains – what we call localism – in fo…

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2022

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The Commission's proposal for "Attracting skills and talent to the EU", particularly the Talent Partnerships with North African countries (topical debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, there is no good policy that is not evaluated. What does it cost? What does it bring? It is an upstream and downstream assessment to measure cost-benefit. The principle you apply is this one in all areas except immigration. This is Cologne syndrome: When it comes to immigration, you don't want to see the reality. Why impose labour immigrati…

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2021

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EU response to the transport poverty (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, when you raise the issue of energy poverty, you are discussing a real problem: the current explosion in the cost of energy – gas, electricity and fuel – is giving rise to a legitimate climate of revolt in my country. But it is not enough to talk about problems when ideological presuppositions, at best forbid you to provide answers, at worst contribute to making them wor…

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2021

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State of the Energy Union (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, when it comes to energy, we can give the European Union at least the credit for continuity; continuity in error. In terms of method, you proceed by objectives, in the form of ultimatums, regardless of the sectors, the economic balances, the histories of each country. You add too restrictive deadlines to your injunctions and thus threaten individuals or states wi…

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Nov

2021

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The European Education Area: a shared holistic approach (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, when the European Union tells us about organising a common area of education, we have a few reasons for concern. First, because the responsibility of the public authorities is not, in the first place, to meet the problems of education, but of instruction. This question arises in particular for my country, France, where the school system is difficult to transmit …

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2021

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Pushbacks at the EU's external border (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, your position on the issue of refoulement at borders is emblematic. It is emblematic of your political, political and ideological objective, which is not to preserve our countries, but to organise their migratory flooding. A flood that is not a problem for you, but a project. It is emblematic of your methods since, as in the time of the Soviet Union with communism, y…

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2021

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Implementation report on the EU Trust Funds and the Facility for Refugees in Turkey (continuation of debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, you are wondering today whether the public money paid by the European Union to Turkey is well used and well controlled. The answer is no. Gradually, secular Turkey, which was an ally of the free world, became, let's say, a proselytizing Islamist country with an imperialist aim. We see this on the international stage with a neo-Ottoman policy or even at home, …

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2021

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Commission Work Programme 2022 (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, there is at least one area where the European Union is struggling not to measure the budgetary impact of its decisions, for itself or for the Member States: This is immigration. On 23 September 2020, the Commission presented the outlines of its Pact for Asylum and Immigration, which is based on a coercive logic towards nations, including forced relocations or th…