What Eric spoke about.

15

Jan

2024

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Commemoration of Jacques Delors

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, this Parliament too often forgets the roots of our European culture. The Roman genius, for example, left us this formula full of wisdom: , i.e. ‘dead, nothing but good’. Jacques Delors' dreams were not ours. Where he saw a liberated economy, we fear markets in danger. What he called the "European project" inevitably led to the erasure of nations. Finally, whe…

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Oct

2023

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General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2024 - all sections (debate)

Mr President, Madam President of Parliament, ladies and gentlemen of the European Commission, are you not ashamed? By the communiqué of 9 October 2023, you announced that you would finally carry out the monitoring of the beneficiaries of humanitarian aid funds to Palestine. Recall that the University of Gaza received €1.7 million from the Erasmus programme, the university in which one of the terro…

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Oct

2023

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Interim report on the proposal for a mid-term revision of the Multiannual Financial Framework 2021-2027 (debate)

Madam President, Minister, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, ever more money, ever more borrowing, ever higher ceilings. For what result? There is no question of this finding: the European Commission has exhausted funds initially earmarked for seven years in three years. Yes, the global context following the COVID crisis and the war in Ukraine is not favourable. However, we do not have to squand…