What André spoke about.

16 Sep

2026

FR Speech

Stop gold-plating, relieve SMEs: Member States must implement EU legislation without adding extra bureaucracy (topical debate)

Watch

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the normative drift that afflicts Europe is particular in the outermost regions, where the application of directives is a matter of economic and social sabotage. Companies, farmers and fishermen are suffocating under environmental constraints and phytosanitary regulations designed for the European continent. So how could ultramarine companies be competitive i…

17 Jun

2026

FR Speech

Political prisoners in Nicaragua – the cases of Carlos Brenes, Salvadora del Socorro Martínez Aburto and Brooklyn Rivera

Watch

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I knew Brooklyn Rivera in 1985 in the maquis of Nicaragua during the civil war. He was the historical and charismatic warlord of Misurasata, the movement of the people of the Miskito Indians, persecuted and displaced by the communist dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, against which they led a guerrilla war. He was a brave man, and we had become friends. I had welcom…

21 May

2026

FR Speech

Need for an adaptation of the EU legal framework on sustainable biofuels (debate)

Watch

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the EU legal framework for sustainable biofuels needs to be revised to better guarantee the energy sovereignty of our Member States. We measure the need for this adaptation by looking at the situation in the French departments of America: Guadeloupe and Martinique. Since 2011, these outermost regions have been confronted with strandings of sargassum algae pollut…

27 Apr

2026

FR Speech

Control of the financial activities of the European Investment Bank Group – annual report 2024 (debate)

Watch

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the examination of the EIB's 2024 annual report should also be an opportunity to focus better on the strategic direction of its financing. A strategic metal essential to defence technologies, electronics, battery manufacturing and the entire energy transition, nickel directly determines our industrial future and, therefore, our autonomy. However…

9 Mar

2026

FR Speech

European Union regulatory fitness and subsidiarity and proportionality – report on Better Law-Making covering 2023 and 2024 (debate)

Watch

10 Feb

2026

FR Speech

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

Watch

21 Jan

2026

FR Speech

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

Watch

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the European Union cannot deny the failure of its migration policy. Having abandoned the idea of making Frontex a tool for migration control, it has given up protecting its borders. However, re-establishing migration control is crucial, especially in our outermost regions. Guyana, Mayotte and the West Indies are gateways to illegal immigration from Suriname, Com…

18 Dec

2025

FR Speech

30th anniversary of the signing of the Dayton-Paris Peace Agreement (debate)

Watch

26 Nov

2025

FR Speech

Fishing opportunities 2026: ensuring the sustainability of fish populations, marine ecosystems and coastal communities

Watch

21 Oct

2025

FR Speech

Criminal intimidation against investigative journalists in the EU: the attempted attack on Sigfrido Ranucci (debate)

Watch

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the recent attack on Sigfrido Ranucci is serious. To attack the press is to attack democracy. Beyond this drama, let us denounce the hypocrisy raging in the French media; freedom of expression and freedom of the press are variable in geometry. Christine Kelly, a great CNews professional working on this freedom of expression, reports in her latest book that she s…

7 Oct

2025

FR Speech

EU political strategy on Latin America (debate)

Watch

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I am speaking tonight as an alternate member of the Delegation for relations with the Federative Republic of Brazil, which represents 91% of Mercosur’s trade. The European Union's political strategy towards Latin America, which is in fact only an exposition of short-term commercial interests, needs to be rethought. Latin America and Europe, united by links of…

10 Jul

2025

FR Answer

European Citizens' Initiative 'Cohesion policy for the equality of the regions and sustainability of the regional cultures' (debate)

Watch

Dear colleague, with regard to climate change, you give me the opportunity to talk about the specificity of tropical climates, which are most often those of the outermost regions of the French overseas territories, whether in the Indian Ocean or in the Caribbean. I note that European standards are not at all adapted to these climates, particularly as regards agriculture or fisheries. Commissioner …

10 Jul

2025

FR Answer

European Citizens' Initiative 'Cohesion policy for the equality of the regions and sustainability of the regional cultures' (debate)

Watch

Madam, I am sorry, but as a French citizen, I speak and understand French, and I did not understand your question.

10 Jul

2025

FR Speech

European Citizens' Initiative 'Cohesion policy for the equality of the regions and sustainability of the regional cultures' (debate)

Watch

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, adapting the European Union’s cohesion policy to the new challenges of the times is a legitimate ambition. We are all the more sensitive to this because our outermost regions – I am of course referring here to the French overseas territories – combine the handicaps of insularity and remoteness. The richness of their cultural heritage, added valu…

8 Jul

2025

FR Speech

2023 and 2024 reports on Bosnia and Herzegovina (debate)

Watch

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Bosnia and Herzegovina is a state artificially kept alive by the Dayton Accords and in which only the Republika Srpska operates. However, the conviction of President Dodik by a contested and questionable court of justice is fuelling centrifugal tensions in Bosnia. Yet it would be illusory to think of promoting a unitary Bosnian state without damage. Its emerg…

17 Jun

2025

FR Answer

European Ocean Pact (debate)

Watch

My dear colleague, as you can see, I am a French Member of Parliament and my first concern concerns French territorial waters, which are the object of lusts not of the United States, but of China and many other great powers. So let's not be naive, these great powers have in mind to exploit the seabed and submarines in order to recover rare metals, polymetallic nodules, which will be in the 21st ce…

17 Jun

2025

FR Speech

European Ocean Pact (debate)

Watch

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, Nice has just hosted the United Nations Ocean Conference. While we must salute the role of France, a great ocean power, we deplore a lack of discernment about the lusts aroused by the French Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs). These risks that weigh on our EEZs, the second largest in the world, are as well proven in the scattered islands as in the …

16 Jun

2025

FR Speech

Strengthening rural areas in the EU through cohesion policy (debate)

Watch

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, let me welcome Mr Nesci's excellent report. While it covers 4/5 of the European Union, rural areas remain disadvantaged, receiving three times less funding than urban areas. However, it performs essential functions: spatial planning, food security and the transmission to rising generations of our historical, cultural and biodiversity heritage. T…

6 May

2025

FR Speech

The European Water Resilience Strategy (debate)

Watch

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, while Europe claims to be building a resilience strategy for water, let us recall a little-known reality: in 2025, a large number of French overseas residents live without regular access to drinking water. This is particularly the case in Mayotte, where water is inaccessible every third day and the public authorities are slow to set up the secon…

2 Apr

2025

FR Speech

European oceans pact (debate)

Watch

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the French people are sovereign. That must be the case. Therefore, allow me to rise solemnly in the face of the attack on democracy that is the political judgment pronounced last Monday against Marine Le Pen. That being said, ladies and gentlemen, the European Ocean Pact must be a lever for asserting the maritime interests of European states. We must therefore, …

12 Mar

2025

FR Speech

Secessionist threats in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the recent escalation (debate)

Watch

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, representatives of the Parliament of Bosnia and Herzegovina, ladies and gentlemen, the request that the President of the Serbian entity, Milorad Dodik, be questioned by the Federal Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina is not only an infamy; It's also a serious fault. In the already troubled context of our continent, the duty and responsibility of the Eu…

10 Mar

2025

FR Speech

Cutting red tape and simplifying business in the EU: the first Omnibus proposals (debate)

Watch

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, this evening we are debating administrative simplification. The outermost regions that make up our overseas territories in France are directly concerned by this need for simplification. They face a bureaucracy that hinders their economic development and prevents local actors from thriving. These administrative burdens, often imposed by the European Commission…

20 Jan

2025

FR Speech

Powering Europe’s future - advancing the fusion industry for energy independence and innovation (debate)

Watch

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, hostility to civilian nuclear power and the war in Ukraine have created the conditions for a serious energy crisis. Households and businesses pay a high price for the European electricity market. Nuclear energy is therefore the only one capable of ensuring the energy independence, competitiveness and decarbonisation of our economies. The ITER artificial sun p…

20 Jan

2025

FR Speech

Heat record year 2024 - the need for climate action to fight global warming (debate)

Watch

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, a point of agreement with my colleagues from the other groups: 2024 was the warmest year on record by the World Meteorological Organization. Due to their geographical specificity, the outermost regions of the European Union are the first victims of this climate change. The Maroni basin, the largest river in the French department of Guiana, has been suffering fro…

17 Dec

2024

FR Speech

The situation in Mayotte following the devastating cyclone Chido and the need for solidarity (debate)

Watch

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, last night I posted a message of support to our fellow Mahorans and this morning I had this reply in the comments: Thank you, sir. I have no news of my parents or grandparents.” This morning too, I spoke as much as possible, as communications are bad, with my colleague Anchya Bamana, MEP Rassemblement national de Mayotte. She said to me: Andre, …