What Patricia spoke about.

13 Feb

2023

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Madam President, last Thursday, I was invited to attend the annual congress of France Grandes Cultures in Provins, in the midst of the beet sector crisis. The brutal ban on the use of neonicotinoids for beet seed coating has resulted in a brutal and total ban on this indispensable pesticide. All the professionals I met were unanimous: the risk of collapse of the entire beet sector in France is rea…

13 Feb

2023

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Electoral rights of mobile Union citizens in European Parliament elections - Electoral rights of mobile Union citizens in municipal elections (debate)

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Commissioner, Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, here in this gallery, I would like to remind you that European citizenship does not exist and will never exist. Citizenship is linked to a nation. Europe is not a nation and therefore European citizenship cannot and will never exist. It is a purely ideological construct: the European Union is made up of the citizens of the different nations that…

1 Feb

2023

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I am elected from France, and more specifically from the Somme, in Picardy, France's first beet-growing region. Here, in this forum, I want to speak for tens of thousands of French farmers, and in reality for an entire sector that risks dying from a disproportionate decision and, I believe, totally unsuited to the ecological goal pursued. The European Court of J…

16 Jan

2023

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, some of the artisan bakers from Crotoy and Abbeville whom I met last week have seen their electricity bills increase fivefold, and 80% of them fear bankruptcy. France, for a very long time, has been able to guarantee clean and cheap energy for its people and its companies. But, at the instigation of the European Commission, instead of strengthening its nuclear k…

14 Dec

2022

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Defending democracy from foreign interference (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we are all Members of the European Parliament splattered by a corruption scandal of an unprecedented scale, with practices worthy of the most shabbyly corrupt banana republics. A multitude of investigations are ongoing, but there are also, let us remember, billions of euros of public money that have been put into the manufacture of vaccines. This is also a matte…

23 Nov

2022

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The continuing repression of the democratic opposition and civil society in Belarus

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, you are once again here in the moral register. Like a new church that wants to impose itself with priests, masses and oaths. The new world looks at you with irony. Nations have their histories, states have their constraints, individuals have their affections – territorial, family and biological. Political action calls for realism. This does not mea…

21 Nov

2022

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to return to the last episode of the migration crisis that is shaking our continent: the berthing of a boat, the Ocean Viking, on the French coast with 234 illegal migrants on board. We learn tonight that more than 95% of them have vanished. The NGO SOS Méditerranée hides behind a humanitarian principle, rescue at sea, in reality a political oper…

18 Oct

2022

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Continued internal border controls in the Schengen area in light of the recent ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union (C-368/20) (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, you are always very quick to praise the advantages of free movement, of the Schengen area, but much more discreet when it comes to admitting the link with infringements, or even with the tragedies linked to the absence of border controls. All kinds of criminal, terrorist and mafia networks, as well as traffickers of all kinds benefit from free move…

18 Oct

2022

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General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2023 - all sections (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to take this opportunity to denounce a practice which seems to me to be part of a flat-rate budget. I fully appreciate the harshness of this term, but it does not come to mind. The budget is at the service of residents, economic sectors, local and regional authorities and, yes, at the service of the future. You are diverting this act by turning t…

17 Oct

2022

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FRONTEX's responsibility for fundamental rights violations at EU's external borders in light of the OLAF report (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, this evening your attitude towards Frontex has the merit of clarity. The brutal change of management and the defamation campaign against the agency are eloquent. For a long time, we have been told that Frontex is a border guard agency of Europe. We have always expressed our reservations and your attitude today removes all doubt. Schengen, which should be a prote…

5 Oct

2022

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The Dutch childcare benefit scandal, institutional racism and algorithms (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, once again the government of a Member State of the European Union is at the heart of a scandal. Illegal taking of interests seems to have become common practice among a large caste of political leaders who believe themselves to be above the law and invested with a quasi-religious ideology. People’s contempt is growing at the same time. Men are redu…

5 Oct

2022

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The recent humanitarian and human rights situation in Tigray, Ethiopia, notably that of children

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, crisis after crisis, war after war, we are witnessing human misery and the suffering of others. As the number of displaced people continues to be fuelled by new conflicts and traffickers continue to profit financially from human misery by sparkling a European Eldorado and organising lucrative channels of emigration, we know that, for the vast majority, the Europ…

14 Sep

2022

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Situation of fundamental rights in the EU in 2020 and 2021 (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, this is the first time I have spoken in the Chamber of the European Parliament, here in Strasbourg, and I greet all my colleagues. I was born Dutch and chose France. A conscious and voluntary choice, an exclusive and definitive choice. You understand that, in my career, I am intrinsically European, of all logic. If I listened to the speech, I would have to join …