What Fabrice spoke about.

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Jul

2026

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Narco-trafficking in Europe’s waters: protecting our borders and supporting our law enforcement officers (debate)

Madam President, drug trafficking thrives because – let’s say – our borders have become sieves and the European Union continues to create more obstacles for those responsible for protecting them. Our police officers, customs officers and magistrates need enhanced cooperation, not additional bureaucracy. Data collection and exchange between national authorities, Europol, Frontex and Eurojust should…

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Jun

2026

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Common system for the return of third-country nationals staying illegally in the Union (Return Regulation) (debate)

16

Jun

2026

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The role of the EU in efforts for peace and stability throughout the Middle East after the announced deal between the US and Iran (debate)

18

May

2026

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Order of business

Madam President, I would like to make a reminder of the Rules of Procedure on the basis of Rule 10 on the rules of conduct concerning the holding within the European Parliament of the conference entitled ‘Racial governance of mobility in the European Union: Current realities and future prospects’, organised with the ENA, whose proximity to Islamist networks, and in particular the Muslim Brotherhoo…

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Apr

2026

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Topical debate requested by a political group (PfE) (Rule 169) - Commission interference in democratic process and elections (topical debate)

28

Apr

2026

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The Commission’s 2025 Rule of Law report (debate)

Mr President, the 2025 Rule of Law Report published by the European Commission does not create a new tool; He's doing something deeper: it organises a system – a structured system of surveillance, monitoring and pressure on Member States. Because, yes, the mechanisms already exist: procedure before the CJEU, financial sanctions, budgetary conditionality. But this report marks a change of scale. It…

11

Mar

2026

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Rise of political violence, notably by far-left organisations (debate)

10

Feb

2026

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Spain’s large-scale regularisation policy and its impact on the Schengen Area and EU migration policy (debate)

10

Feb

2026

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One round of political group speakers for the Ciriani and Düpont reports

21

Jan

2026

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Restoring control of migration: returns, visa policy and third-country cooperation (topical debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, the European Commission says it wants to take back control of migration. However, the results observed on the ground contradict this ambition. Every year, almost 500 000 return decisions are issued in the European Union, and every year only 20% are actually enforced. This means a very simple thing: in four out of five cases, the EU renounces to enforce its own decisions…

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Jan

2026

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Tackling AI deepfakes and sexual exploitation on social media by making full use of the EU’s digital rules (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, sexual deepfakes and the exploitation of minors on social media are among the most serious abuses of digital technology. These are crimes that destroy lives, often in silence, while platforms are slow to act. Faced with this, the European Union multiplies the rules, but the accumulation of texts such as the Digital Services Act It is not enough when criminal content …

17

Dec

2025

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The urgent need to combat discrimination in the EU through the horizontal anti-discrimination directive (topical debate)

Mr President, for years Brussels has been piling up standards in the name of combating discrimination without ever questioning whether this leap forward really protects Europeans: texts, agencies and observatories are growing, accumulating, without improving substance or content. It merely camouflages and delays pragmatic and necessary action. Yet when the new Commission finally withdrew a directi…

17

Dec

2025

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Application of the ‘safe third country’ concept (vote)

Madam President, legislation on safe third countries and safe countries of origin is very important to protect European borders and reduce the unbearable pressure of unfounded asylum applications on our Member States. We adopted them in the European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee. This is a major political victory for the control of European borders, made possible by the advance of patriot…

15

Dec

2025

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Murder of Mehdi Kessaci - urgent need for ambitious European action against drug trafficking (debate)

Mr President, we will not let France become a narco-state and we will not let the European Union become a sanctuary for narcos, with European ports transformed into cocaine hubs. Drug trafficking is billions of euros, a daily violence, entire territories where the state has retreated. It is not a social problem, it is a political abandonment. When the left speaks of legalising, it shows that it un…

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Nov

2025

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30th anniversary of the Barcelona Process and the new pact for the Mediterranean (debate)

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Nov

2025

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Existence of a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is founded (debate)

12

Nov

2025

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The first European Annual Asylum and Migration report and the setting up of the Annual Solidarity Pool (debate)

Madam President, the New Pact on Migration and Asylum, which we are discussing today, is a real pact of shame. With this pact, the Commission does not propose to manage migration: it obliges European states to capitulate to the phenomenon of migration. With this pact, any European state refusing the distribution of migrants in our cities and villages is now under the threat of heavy financial sanc…

21

Oct

2025

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Institutional consequences of the EU enlargement negotiations (debate)

Mr President, the enlargement talks with Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, the Western Balkan countries and Turkey reflect a leak from the European Commission. Not all are at the same stage, some are at a standstill, others are suspended from meeting criteria that many do not meet. But all these enlargements, if they were to succeed, would profoundly upset the political balance, particularly in the Counc…

20

Oct

2025

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The decision to impose a fine on Google: defending press and media freedom in the EU (debate)

Mr President, Brussels announces a fine against Google for defending press freedom. All right, all right. But let's be honest, it's a late chin shot from people who let it go for 20 years. While our media was being smothered, while our data was going to the United States, the European Commission was rolling out the red carpet at GAFAM. It was these same technocrats who entrusted the Union's digita…

7

Oct

2025

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The EU’s role in supporting the recent peace efforts for Gaza and a two-state solution (debate)

Mr President, as today marks with sadness the two-year anniversary of the 7 October 2023 attack perpetrated by Hamas terrorists and other armed factions, and acclaimed by some civilians in Gaza, it is essential to recall the facts. In Gaza, the truth is blurred by words. We talk about genocide, but what we see is a people held hostage by Hamas, a terrorist organization that refuses every truce and…

6

Oct

2025

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Revision of the Visa Suspension Mechanism (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, the revision of the visa suspension mechanism is not a step forward, it is a catch-up. The European Union is late in trying to repair the consequences of its own naivety. For years, some states have abused our complacency to allow their nationals to settle illegally in Europe. This situation has become unbearable. While we live up to our commitments, others deliberat…

9

Sep

2025

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Situation in Colombia after the wave of recent terrorist attacks (debate)

Mr President, there are attacks on innocent civilians in Bogotá. These crimes are the work of armed groups that thrive on drug trafficking money. In some areas, the state has retreated and clan law is required, that of fear and violence. But make no mistake, this scourge is not confined to Latin America. In Marseille, in 2023, 47 people were killed by drug-related account settlements: a macabre re…

9

Sep

2025

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Gaza at breaking point: EU action to combat famine, the urgent need to release hostages and move towards a two-state solution (debate)

Madam President, for more than 700 days, 48 hostages have been held by Hamas. 48 lives suspended, half presumed dead, the other still held. Faces that we forget too quickly. Screams that no one should ignore. And what is Europe doing? She's talking. She talks a lot, but in a vacuum. Like King Lear, Shakespeare, she handles great speeches, but never acts to save those in need. Europe wants to be po…

8

Jul

2025

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Situation in the Middle East (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, it has been six hundred and forty-one days since Israeli hostages were held by Hamas – six hundred and forty-one days of waiting, suffering and silence for families abandoned by the international community. While negotiations are stalling in Doha, Israel continues to defend its people, alone in the face of an Islamist coalition – Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis, all of who…

7

Jul

2025

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Arbitrary sentencing of Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal and journalist Christophe Gleizes (debate)

Madam President, last Monday, a French journalist, Christophe Gleizes, was sentenced to seven years in prison in Algeria. On Tuesday, Boualem Sansal, an 80-year-old French-Algerian writer with cancer, was detained for five years. His crime? To have thought freely. Meanwhile, France is silent. The European Union continues to finance this scheme – EUR 172 million between 2021 and 2024. Two Frenchmen…