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Mar

2024

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Promised revision of the EU animal welfare legislation and the animal welfare-related European citizens’ initiatives (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, how can you be bold enough to claim to be the white knights of animal welfare, when in this very Chamber you have been supporting the opening of the European market to Ukrainian chickens and eggs for two years? Do you have to remember that, in Ukraine, 40 million hens are raised in narrow sheds in the Vinnytsia region, in the center of the country, where the …

29

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, I am here to remind you of your reason. At the very moment when farmers are expressing their just and legitimate anger all over France and Europe, you want to continue to enslave them. While the price of our producers’ wheat has collapsed since you opened the European Union to Ukrainian wheat on 25 May 2002, you decide to increase the unfair competition you have imposed for decades, …

28

Feb

2024

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Report on the Commission’s 2023 Rule of Law report (debate)

Mr President, in the report on the rule of law in the European Union, the Commission and the rapporteur are competing to distribute good and bad points around them and are shooting at anyone who dares to depart from the federalist diktat of Brussels. But the same people who compete to point out the failings of others turn a deaf ear when it comes to pointing out their own. Of the 43 pages containe…

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Feb

2024

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Increased number of executions in Iran, in particular the case of Mohammad Ghobadlou

Mr President, pursuant to Sharia law, Mohammad Ghobadlou was executed in Iran on 23 January 2024. A barbaric execution, pronounced by judges of Islamic courts, because he had participated in demonstrations following another murder, that of a young girl by the Iranian morality police. A girl who had dared to go out without a veil. In a country where Islamists are in power, refusing to cover up for …

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Feb

2024

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Automated data exchange for police cooperation (“Prüm II”) (debate)

Mr President, criminals and terrorists are intelligent and, it must be said, Commissioner, these networks are set up here at home. They understood that uncontrolled movement within the Schengen area increases their capacity to be harmful. Two thirds of criminal networks are located in at least three Member States and take advantage of this to thwart the surveillance of the authorities and play hid…

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Jan

2024

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Extending the list of EU crimes to hate speech and hate crime (debate)

Madam President, your relentless fight against hate speech is actually a disguised Wokist offensive. You want to protect ultra-minority ideological activists from any challenge, and even worse, from any public debate or discussion. When I say, for example, that I do not want to touch minors with hormonal treatments and other medical interventions, it is not hate speech against transgender people, …

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Jan

2024

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Mr President, "There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come," said Victor Hugo. Today, this idea is embodied by the agricultural and popular revolt that is shaking Europe. Already in 2023, in Holland, farmers overthrew the government of your friend Mark Rutte, exposing his betrayal. In Germany, after months of unceasing protests, farmers have pushed back Olaf Scholz, also a spok…

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Dec

2023

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One year after Morocco and QatarGate – stocktaking of measures to strengthen transparency and accountability in the European institutions (debate)

Mr President, ‘to misname an object is to add to the misfortune of this world’, wrote the famous French writer Albert Camus. The European Union is clearly customary because: As soon as a scandal arises, you try to create a distraction by invoking the alleged need for transparency and accountability within our institutions. Behind these slogans, you are really trying to hide reality. The reality is…

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Dec

2023

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European Health Data Space (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, you use every crisis to advance your integration project. The migration crisis? The European Union presents its Immigration Pact to directly attack the sovereignty of the Member States by imposing and organising mass immigration into Europe. The war in Ukraine? The European Union proposes to establish a European ammunition reserve. First step, of course, towards the …

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Dec

2023

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Madam President, on 9 December 2022, the scandal of alleged corruption within even the most prestigious European institutions, with Qatar as its alleged corruptor, came out in the press. Few people today remember, however, that it was also in Qatar that the Strategy for Islamic Cultural Action outside the Islamic World, a strategy for influencing Islamism in European countries, was signed in 2000.…

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Nov

2023

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Mr President, last Saturday I was one of more than one million Spaniards demonstrating in the streets of Madrid. The reason is the refusal by the Spanish people of a legal coup d’état by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, who, in defiance of the law and national unity, granted amnesty to Catalan pro-independence prisoners in exchange for their support for his coalition government. It …

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Nov

2023

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UN Climate Change Conference 2023 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (COP28) (debate)

Madam President, your reasoning is ecologically absurd and socially unfair. How can you demand ever more climate efforts from French and European citizens, as gigantic hyper-polluting container ships continue to cross the oceans and maritime traffic continues to increase? Why import from the other side of the world when these products can be produced here? Why do climate conferences ignore the har…

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Oct

2023

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European Media Freedom Act (debate)

Madam President, in politics, nothing happens by chance. I would like to recall those words of former U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt on the occasion of this debate on media freedom. As this legislature nears its end and you have already used pressure, threats, and even financial sanctions against countries that refuse your diktat, you are taking advantage of this last stretch to try to arrogate…

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Sep

2023

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New Agenda for Latin America and the Caribbean in the aftermath of the EU-CELAC Summit (debate)

I will not allow myself to tell you that you are schizophrenic, I will just say that you are incoherent. How can you restrict farming in Europe, including with coercive measures like you do in the Netherlands, and at the same time sign agreements that will allow the massive import of absolutely uncontrolled meat from Latin America? To tell you everything, I would like to understand, as your logic …

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Sep

2023

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Mr President, dear friends and fellow hunters, since the public authorities are overwhelmed by the explosion of the use of weapons of war in criminal circles, they want to tighten the rules on the ownership, sale and transport of weapons. But you cannot imagine for a second that this will prevent traffickers and scoundrels, who operate in the greatest illegality, from obtaining Kalashnikovs and au…

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Jul

2023

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Public access to documents – annual report for the years 2019-2021 (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, transparency is the watchdog, the active and democratic verifier of public action. Therefore, access to documents must be the principle and not the exception. Indeed, the public is demanding access to billions of euros in pharmaceutical contracts that remain inaccessible. Citizens are shocked that there are secret negotiations or wonder how you can refuse to ans…

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Jul

2023

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Recommendations for reform of the European Parliament’s rules on transparency, integrity, accountability and anti-corruption (debate)

Madam President, we are faced with a proven system of corruption within the European institutions and you dare to talk to us about transparency? You rightly denounce the influences of the alleged corruptor which is Qatar. But why not go to the end of your approach? Set up this commission of inquiry that we are calling for. You should also ask for investigations, for example into the European funds…

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Jun

2023

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Humanitarian situation in Sudan, in particular the death of children trapped by fighting

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I lived in Sudan for several years in the 1980s. Since then, the lives of the Sudanese have been punctuated by conflicts, wars and the terrifying human misery that results and that mainly affects children. The Sudanese, direct victims of the fighting or indirect victims of the famines that aggravate these armed conflicts, tried, yesterday and to…

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Jun

2023

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Madam President, in order to facilitate the arrival of 70 million migrants in Europe, the European Commission last week adopted, in hushed offices in Luxembourg, the principles of its disastrous immigration pact. Since the 2015 migration crisis, the Commission has sought to replace sovereign states, citing the need for migration management at European level, but in reality to impose its ideologica…

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May

2023

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Adequacy of the protection afforded by the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, why are you not telling the truth? Today, there can be no real European digital protection because you have totally missed the digital transition. Europe, or rather the European Union, has left Google and Microsoft with the immense power, with millions of servers, to establish themselves as the guardians of Europeans' digital data. And the Cloud Act, the U.S. extraterri…

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May

2023

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Discharge 2021 (continuation of debate)

Madam President, the European Union is betraying the spirit of Frontex. Initially, this agency intervened to help Member States protect their external borders. But with the new migration pact, Commissioner Johansson unveils her disastrous plan to overwhelm Europe with migration and transform Frontex. The EU had announced its intention to reduce illegal immigration when, in reality, the migration p…

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Apr

2023

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The crackdown on the right to education and education rights activists in Afghanistan, including the case of Matiullah Wesa

Mr President, let us be clear: When we talk about Afghanistan, we are talking about an obscurantist regime. It is well known that Afghanistan is an Islamist emirate under the yoke of the Taliban, which imposes Sharia law – Islamic law. The Taliban are medieval Islamists, who support religious dogmas from other times. This archaic and retrograde Islam is incompatible with freedom of education and t…

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Apr

2023

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Mr President, a new wave of migrants is threatening Europe. Italy has just declared a state of migration emergency in the face of an unprecedented influx of illegal immigrants. More than 3,000 people in three days and more than 31,000 migrants have arrived illegally on the Italian coast since the beginning of the year. Four times more than last year. Finland has started to build a 200-kilometre wa…

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Mar

2023

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Mr President, immigration is an absolutely central issue. You are so aware of this that in 2020 you prepared a new Pact on Immigration and Asylum. What is striking, while you are deciding the demographic future of Europe, is that you are doing it quietly and secretly. Why don't you want a big debate on immigration? Why don’t you encourage referendums in the Member States? Why are you ignoring the …

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Feb

2023

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The recent deterioration of the inhuman imprisonment conditions of Alexey Navalny and other political prisoners in Russia

Madam President, last Thursday, France’s Minister of Culture, Rima Abdul-Malak, who should be the guarantor of freedom of expression, threatened to shut down television channels in France. It was understood that she blamed them for a lack of pluralism and for not dealing with court cases with measure. Is it necessary to recall that the drafting of each news channel sorts the information? Is it nec…