What Matthieu spoke about.

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Jun

2025

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2023 and 2024 reports on Montenegro (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, as far as I am concerned, this report calling for Montenegro's accession to the European Union is no. First of all, the European Union is not a big braderie where we are going to welcome Turkey, Ukraine, Kosovo, all those countries that are not ready and where we are already struggling to operate at 27 in this difficult colocation. And I'll explain it to myself.…

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May

2025

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2023 and 2024 reports on Kosovo (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, at this very late hour, the report we are debating here makes a clear observation: Kosovo is facing serious structural problems, endemic corruption, pervasive organised crime and continued strained bilateral relations with Serbia. However, let me tell you that he is turning a blind eye to major security issues. Reported to its population, Kosovo has sent a dispr…

6

May

2025

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2023 and 2024 reports on Türkiye (debate)

Mr President, since 2016, European taxpayers have paid almost EUR 9 billion to Turkey under a migration agreement. 9 billion, for what result? A dangerous strategic dependence, a de facto submission to an increasingly authoritarian regime that threatens our interests, our security, our political stability and even locks up its political opponents, such as the mayor of Istanbul. President Erdogan u…

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May

2025

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Preparation of the EU-UK summit (debate)

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Apr

2025

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Verification of credentials

Madam President, my reminder is based on Rule 188 of our Rules of Procedure. You ruled our amendment number 5 to the resolution on Iran inadmissible on the grounds that it was irrelevant. Yet, as part of this resolution, we denounce the persecution of women in this country, which is linked to the strict application of Sharia law. My group's amendment is intended to alert people to the fact that th…

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Apr

2025

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Execution spree in Iran and the confirmation of the death sentences of activists Behrouz Ehsani and Mehdi Hassani (debate)

Mr President, nothing new under the sun. Regimes held by rigorous Islamism reduce women to pets, persecute religious minorities, execute opponents and turn millennia-old civilizations into gloomy societies. Again, logically, this European Parliament is outraged, and Brussels condemns. But what are they doing? Great hypocrisy, because while, rightly, our institutions mourn the fate of young Iranian…

12

Mar

2025

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Unlawful detention and sham trials of Armenian hostages, including high-ranking political representatives from Nagorno-Karabakh, by Azerbaijan

Mr President, once again we deplore and condemn Azerbaijan's hostile actions against the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh. Unfortunately, we know in advance that this debate and the resolution that will follow will fall into a deaf ear, because the gas agreement signed by the European Commission will in no way be called into question, despite our repeated requests. It is incomprehensible that the Eur…

12

Mar

2025

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100 days of the new Commission – Delivering on defence, competitiveness, simplification and migration as our priorities (topical debate)

Mr President, class council time has come. It is therefore up to us, as elected representatives of the people, to give the European Commission the first marks. I tell you, they are already catastrophic after 100 days. First, Ms von der Leyen must stop her disastrous plan to destroy our agriculture. To complete it, the President of the European Commission took out the heavy artillery: Mercosur and …

22

Jan

2025

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Case of Boualem Sansal in Algeria

Madam President, since last November, Boualem Sansal, one of the greatest French writers, has been held as a political hostage by Algeria. Despite the efforts of French diplomacy, not only does Algeria refuse to return to us a national we want to recover, but worse: from now on, it refuses to recover its own nationals and delinquents whom we no longer want in France. In five years, France and the …

21

Jan

2025

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Geopolitical and economic implications for the transatlantic relations under the new Trump administration (debate)

Mr. President, Donald Trump is now the 47th President of the United States, and his agenda is clear: everything for Americans, just for Americans and proud to be American. State of emergency at its borders, war on wokism and expulsion of foreign offenders, all in one evening. It has been done. What about us? At the last European elections, my country, France, sent its largest delegation to this Eu…

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Dec

2024

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The situation in Mayotte following the devastating cyclone Chido and the need for solidarity (debate)

Madam President, Mayotte ravaged, Mamoudzou shaved, but Mayotte standing. Standing up thanks to our police, our gendarmes, our firefighters, who, hand in hand, saved lives from the first minutes following the passage of Cyclone Chido. Today, thanks to my fellow police officers and my comrades in the gendarmerie, the island is protected from looting and violence. Yet many of them have lost everythi…

27

Nov

2024

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Stepping up the fight against and the prevention of the recruitment of minors for criminal acts (debate)

Mr President, in Marseilles, Socayna, a 24-year-old law student living in a city of modest people, was gunned down in her room by a 16-year-old hit man. In Châteauroux, 15-year-old Matisse was brutally killed by a 15-year-old Afghan minor, already known to police and judges, as usual, unfortunately. In Crepol, 16-year-old Thomas was lynched and stabbed to death, some of the perpetrators were minor…

26

Nov

2024

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Prison conditions in the EU (debate)

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Oct

2024

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Prevention of drug-related crimes, their effect on European citizens and the need for an effective European response (debate)

Madam President, this night in France, in Cavaillon, criminals wanted to burn police officers alive by attacking their police station and setting their service vehicles on fire. Cavaillon was once a peaceful city, but it is now under the control of drug traffickers, and the police are often alone in the face of organized mafias. Why would these drug traffickers deprive themselves? This criminal bu…

18

Sep

2024

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Organised crime, a major threat to the internal security of the European Union and European citizens (topical debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, having grown up in the heart of the working-class districts of Lille, in the north of France, coming from a city, I have been the first witness, since my building tower, of the laxity of the left which has excused everything, justified everything and forgiven everything to these thugs who so often rot our daily lives. Thirty years of political cowardice have …