What Pierre-Romain spoke about.

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May

2025

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Protecting Greenland's right to decide its own future and maintain the rule-based world order (debate)

Madam President, in proposing to buy Greenland and its people, the US administration has not only shown that it does not understand indigenous aspirations, nor has it merely adopted a brutal attitude towards a loyal ally. Donald Trump is in fact part of a long succession of American desires to acquire this island so strategic as resources are discovered, maritime traffic intensifies nearby and it …

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Apr

2025

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110th anniversary of the Armenian genocide

Mr President, it is in conquest that empires are born, and it is in massacres, wars of eradication and genocide that they end up dying. What is the Armenian Genocide but the expression of Turkish supremacy within an Ottoman Empire that could no longer support the diversity of its whole? The Armenians, like the Pontic Greeks or the Assyrians, were crushed in the infernal imperial gear, the one that…

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Apr

2025

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CFSP and CSDP (Article 36 TUE) (joint debate)

Madam President, the international context in which we live is in the process of being reconstituted. European nations no longer have the right to weakness and naivety. Beyond the necessary military rearmament that each state must provide, it is moral rearmament that we must carry out. We know it, the XXIe The century will not only be the century of power, it will also be the century of identity, …

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Mar

2025

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The need for EU support towards a just transition and reconstruction in Syria (debate)

Madam President, Europe’s biggest problem is never doing things at the right time: too early, too fast or too late and too little. It was not until the invasion of a European country that we became aware of the weakness of our military stockpiles and the extent of our dependencies, too late or almost so. In Syria, the opposite is true. Some people’s Manichean reading grid led them to believe that …

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Mar

2025

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White paper on the future of European defence (debate)

Mr President, Minister, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to express my concern and doubt. The concern is that of a transient European excitement, without a future; Doubt is about the real determination to ensure that Europe does not depend on anyone for its defence. The US administration’s statements have caused a state of amazement on the continent. A historical parenthesis is abo…

12

Feb

2025

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One year after the murder of Alexei Navalny and the continued repression of the democratic opposition in Russia (debate)

Madam President, Navalny writes in his memoirs that the biggest mistake Westerners make is to confuse the Russian state with the Russian people. Navalny was fiercely fighting the Kremlin and the corruption of a system of which, according to him, the people are not the primary concern. His enemies have happily portrayed him as a puppet in the service of the foreigner. Yet Navalny was a fervent patr…

11

Feb

2025

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Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggression (debate)

Mr President, as seen from the European capitals and their views, the war that has been raging for almost three years is framing the struggle between good and evil, between democracy and autocracy or, for others, NATO's war on Russia. Beyond diplomatic and strategic considerations, the deeper meaning of this conflict has been overlooked. This war unleashed by Moscow is, for Ukrainians, a war of na…

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Jan

2025

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Geopolitical and economic implications for the transatlantic relations under the new Trump administration (debate)

Mr. Speaker, are we ready to speak the language of force? Are we ready to swap the diplomacy of values for the grammar of power? It is to these questions that the new US administration invites us to answer. Not just because Donald Trump is going to put global pressure on us, but because America is going to move away from multilateralism and shake up the liberal order that once dominated. This is E…

17

Dec

2024

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Russia’s disinformation and historical falsification to justify its war of aggression against Ukraine (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the fact that Putin devoted an entire article and televised messages to the history of Ukraine on the day before and on the day of the invasion, as well as an hour-long interview with journalist Tucker Carlson, was anything but trivial. It was an undertaking to deny the history of a Ukrainian nation that we witnessed. The invasion of Ukraine was preceded and the…

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Dec

2024

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

Mr President, the horror and darkness of the Assad regime is giving way to the joy of colourful Syrian crowds. On the faces of the children, the smile is wide, where, thirteen years earlier, the repression began with their horrible mutilation. How can we not wish this country, these ethnic and religious minorities, these peoples who make up the long Mediterranean memory, harmony and lasting peace?…

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Nov

2024

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Enhancing Europe’s civilian and defence preparedness and readiness (debate)

Madam President, security is the basis on which everything is built. Mr President, that is a welcome formula. A few years ago, to those who shared the idea, it earned them contempt, mockery and especially indifference. But let's move on, rehashing mistakes is not in anyone's interest. This report contains proposals against which our group will always be opposed, particularly when national sovereig…

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Nov

2024

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, a Frenchman should not say that, but the first military power in Europe is not France, it is not even another European nation, it is the United States. The military weakness of the Europeans at the beginning of the Cold War had led them to beg for American involvement in Europe from the time of peace, contrary to Washington's diplomatic tradition, which never ta…

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Oct

2024

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Situation in Azerbaijan, violation of human rights and international law and relations with Armenia (debate)

Mr President, before and after the storm, there can be a calm that makes you lose your guard. In the South Caucasus, displaying Soviet maps in front of them, Armenian and Azerbaijani authorities discuss the treaty of their borders. And yet, it is an endless war against the Armenians, started more than a century ago by the Turks, now pursued in other forms by the Aliyev regime. Artsakh has fallen, …

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Oct

2024

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Strengthening Moldova's resilience against Russian interference ahead of the upcoming presidential elections and a constitutional referendum on EU integration (debate)

Mr President, more than a century ago, on 6 February 1918, the Moldavian Democratic Republic of Bessarabia was proclaimed. Then, very quickly, faced with the demands of the Bolsheviks, the young Republic voted to join Romania. Let us dive back into the context of this Europe that emerged from the First World War. Borders are disputed everywhere, against the backdrop of the decomposition of empires…

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Sep

2024

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Continued financial and military support to Ukraine by EU Member States (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, calls for unconditional military support for Ukraine have met with little support in Europe, except sometimes in this Chamber, on benches which, even a few years ago, were busy liquidating our means of defence. By laying down certain conditions, by reflecting on the purposes of this aid, would no one really want to help the Ukrainians? Rather, the answer lies in…