What Jean-Lin spoke about.

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 23-24 June 2022, including the meeting with Western Balkan leaders on 23 June - Candidate status of Ukraine, the Republic of Moldova and Georgia (debate)

The leaders of the Western Balkan countries are meeting in Brussels on Thursday 23 June to call on the Commission, the High Representative and the Council to make significant progress in the EU accession process. This acceleration stems from the consequences of the war in Ukraine and responds to the discussion that will take place on the same day, when EU leaders should grant candidate status to U…

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2024

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Pre-enlargement reforms and policy reviews (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the deepening of the European Treaties and the enlargement of the European Union are in reality a double penalty. First, we do not want a revision of the treaties that would remove the unanimity of states for decisions, especially on diplomacy, defence or foreign policy, and that would remove their right of veto, which would be an attack on the will and choic…

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2024

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Internal markets for renewable gas, natural gas and hydrogen (recast) - Common rules for the internal markets for renewable gas, natural gas and hydrogen (recast) - Union’s electricity market design: Regulation - Union’s electricity market design: Directive (joint debate – Reform of the energy and electricity markets)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, inflation is breaking all records, with electricity prices rising by 43% and gas prices by 37.5% over the last two years in France. I would remind you that France, thanks to nuclear and hydroelectric power, benefits from the lowest costs in Europe. Yet the bills of our compatriots are soaring and are among the highest in Europe. You want to reform the European e…

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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)

Dear Madam, I would like to point out that you were behind the ban on the sale of combustion engines in 2034, which will, of course, weigh heavily in Europe. 275,000 fewer jobs, and our modest French families will be the most affected. But that is not enough for you: in 2026 we must continue to force our producers – even though this is an important sector, a sector of excellence here – to change t…

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Mar

2024

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State of play of the corporate sustainability due diligence directive (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the Corporate Due Diligence Directive is a dangerous text, as it obliges European companies to monitor what their suppliers, suppliers and sponsors do around the world, to put pressure on their business partners to change their practices when they themselves do not follow European law abroad, and, in the event of refusal, to break their business relations wit…

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Mar

2024

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Artificial Intelligence Act (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, for the first time legislation has come to regulate this new environment, artificial intelligence. This legislation was necessary given the impact force of artificial intelligence in all areas and the dangers it entails. I am thinking in particular of an example, the spokesman for the Renaissance party, Emmanuel Macron’s party, who posted on social…

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Feb

2024

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EU/Chile Advanced Framework Agreement - EU/Chile Advanced Framework Agreement (Resolution) - Interim Agreement on Trade between the European Union and the Republic of Chile (joint debate - EU-Chile agreements)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the agreement with Chile is symptomatic of all the excesses of the European Union that the European Parliament hastened to endorse. This agreement indeed cumulates all the vices. Ecological vice, because Chilean nature will turn into a lithium mine to make batteries in the name of your Green Deal. Agricultural vice because Chile is 11 000 tonnes of olive oil, 9 …

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Feb

2024

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Deepening EU integration in view of future enlargement (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we are discussing one last time before the European elections the enlargement of the European Union, which you wish to extend to the Balkan countries, including Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine and even Turkey. So let me, too, one last time, remind you why we strongly oppose it. First, we do not want to revise the Treaties, because you want to remove the unanimity rule…

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Feb

2024

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Closer ties between the EU and Armenia and the need for a peace agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia (debate)

Listen, MEP, I will ask you a double question, because I hear your speech and I can agree with it. But explain to me why you support Mrs von der Leyen, who is going to sign a commercial gas import contract in Azerbaijan, which comes from elsewhere in Russia, what hypocrisy! And secondly, why do you still support Turkey’s EU accession process, since you are constantly supporting the Armenian people…

27

Feb

2024

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Closer ties between the EU and Armenia and the need for a peace agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia (debate)

I will reassure you, Madame Loiseau, they are going extremely well. We are very consistent. We are not in Paris to say white and in Brussels to vote black, as you often do. And the agricultural crisis at the moment has given us so many illustrations! So we're very consistent. We are still on the side of the Armenian people. The whole political line, all our positions, all our statements, whether t…

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Feb

2024

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Closer ties between the EU and Armenia and the need for a peace agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia (debate)

What a joy!

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Feb

2024

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Closer ties between the EU and Armenia and the need for a peace agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, when we talk in this Chamber about the long martyrdom of the Armenian people, some should lower their heads, starting with Mrs von der Leyen. By concluding a gas agreement with Azerbaijan in July 2022, Azerbaijan granted the Azeri autocrat Ilham Aliev and his Turkish protectors a licence to kill and purify on a large scale in Nagorno-Karabakh. While some questio…

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Feb

2024

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The fight against hate speech and disinformation: responsibility of social platforms within the Digital Services Act (topical debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, after yesterday’s ritual debate on Hungary, today we are holding our debate on Twitter, which the European Union has been watching since it was bought by Elon Musk and censorship was lifted there. I am talking about Twitter, because even though our debate today concerns all social networks, everyone understands very well which one is targeted. The evidence, this…

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Feb

2024

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Conclusions of the European Council meetings, in particular the special European Council meeting of 1 February 2024 (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, at the European Council held in Brussels on 1 February, Europeans will mainly hold the farmers’ demonstration in front of the European Parliament. They will remember that, while European farmers were shouting their legitimate anger, Emmanuel Macron and his counterparts stabbed them in the back by granting €50 billion in aid to Ukraine, 8 of which were finance…

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Feb

2024

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Situation of prisoners in Hungarian jails, including the case of Ilaria Salis (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the European Parliament is once again holding a plenary session and is once again putting on its agenda a debate hostile to Hungary. This week's pretext is the condition of the prisoners, including Ilaria Salis. As no one among self-proclaimed human rights defenders is going to do so, I will recall what the facts are, so that Europeans know which criminal the…

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Jan

2024

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Situation in Serbia following elections (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I am quite outraged by the organisation of this debate on the elections in Serbia, which once again reveals the political bias in this Parliament. What exactly do you blame the Serbs for? The elections were held at the very request of the opposition. The electoral process was the most closely monitored in the history of Serbia with more than 5,000 observers p…

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Jan

2024

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Situation of fundamental rights in the EU in 2022 and 2023 (debate)

Madam President, as every year, the European Parliament examines the human rights situation in the Member States of the European Union. Or rather, the European Parliament approves of all human rights violations when committed by its political friends and considers, on the other hand, that everything that comes from its opponents is in itself a violation of human rights. For example, in Poland, the…

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Dec

2023

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Planned dissolution of key anti-corruption structures in Slovakia and its implications on the Rule of Law (continuation of debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, for years the European Commission has persecuted Poland for ideological disagreements, in total disregard of the independence of states. Now that Poland has changed its government, you suddenly have nothing to blame for it. All the alleged serious violations of Europe’s values disappeared, like this, overnight. Then, in the absence of Poland, the European Uni…

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Dec

2023

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Defence of democracy package (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, democracy is the government of the people, by the people and for the people. In a democracy, only the people are sovereign. He alone chooses his political destiny, directly or through the representatives he has elected. There is nothing above him. But the European Union is anything but democratic. I would remind you that it is led by Commissioners who are not…

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Nov

2023

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30 years of Copenhagen criteria - giving further impetus to EU enlargement policy (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the Copenhagen criteria which celebrate their 30th anniversary are a list of criteria relating to economic health, stability and respect for democracy, criteria which must be met by all countries wishing to join the European Union. Then I'll take you at your word. Where is the stability of Ukraine under attack by Russia? Where is Moldova’s stability, in the Tran…

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Nov

2023

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Strategic Compass and EU space-based defence capabilities (debate)

Madam President, rapporteur, this report, once it is not customary, is a step in the right direction. Unprecedented, it puts in stone the idea of European preference for space launch vehicles and launch sites. And contrary to the usual hollow language of the European Commission, your text proposes a real European autonomy, without dependence either on Russia or on the United States, which already …

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Nov

2023

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Continuing threat to the rule of law, the independence of justice and the non-fulfilment of conditionality for EU funding in Hungary (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, human rights are fundamental principles, but they must not be instruments of blackmail. Yet the EU does not hesitate to use them as a weapon against Hungary. The result was a refusal to give Hungary the European funds, which were financed and guaranteed by all the Member States, including Hungary itself. The reason is that Hungary would not respect the values…

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Oct

2023

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Schengen area: digitalisation of the visa procedure - Schengen area: amending the Visa Sticker Regulation (Joint debate – Schengen area)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, digitising Schengen visas is a good idea, but of all the revisions to this system, it is surely the least urgent. At a time when France has, once again, been struck by Islamist barbarism, I remember the attacks of 2015, perpetrated by killers from Belgium who had taken full advantage of the ideology of open borders. As for the external borders of the European Un…

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Oct

2023

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Recent developments in the Serbia-Kosovo dialogue, including the situation in the northern municipalities in Kosovo (debate)

Mr President, if there are any particular responsibilities in the conflict between Serbia and Kosovo, they are indeed those of both the European Union and the so-called government of Kosovo and Metohija, the object of all your benevolence. Indeed, last spring, the Albanian government, led by your protégé Albin Kurti, decided by one of these provocations of which it is customary, to appoint Albania…

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Oct

2023

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Situation in Nagorno-Karabakh after Azerbaijan’s attack and the continuing threats against Armenia (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, real ethnic cleansing is taking place on our doorstep. The planned eradication on part of its historical territory of a civilization three thousand years old, that of the Armenian people, the first Christian nation in history. This glorious qualification could only attract the contempt of some Eurocrats who, by their insensitivity to the drama of the populati…