Speeches

Thank you, dear colleague, for these two questions, which I will take pleasure in answering. The first answer is that, precisely, Fabrice Leggeri had to leave Frontex because he intended his agents not to be distributors of asylum application forms. The second question, dear colleague, is that, in my former life, I was a magistrate, and that I was in charge of an administrative detention centre for illegal aliens for more than ten years. So, if you like, I know the issue of migration, and I know it particularly well because I am not one of those Members who are disconnected from reality. I, Sir, have seen what criminality related to mass immigration is.

Madam President, it took several decades of a Europe open to all winds for the European Council and the Commission to officially declare that there is indeed a link between organised crime and migrant smuggling. One might have thought that this first discovery of the real would herald a salutary reaction; Well, that's not going to be the case. The fact that torrential flows of migrants are exploited by smugglers is self-evident. Whose fault is it? Does Frontex do the work for which it is intended? The answer is no. Frontex officers are only distributors of asylum application forms and not fighters of smugglers. Is there any dismantling of networks? Never. Is there any trial? Never. Is there any search for complicity? Never. Does anyone mention the organised crime of irregular migrants on European territory? The answer is no. The truth is that organised crime by smugglers will now be used as a pretext for a safe corridor through which migrants will enter. And this is the big scam of the New Pact on Migration and Asylum. The fight against organised crime by smugglers must not be a propaganda weapon intended to justify this disastrous pact, with its quotas of immigrants that will be imposed on European countries. The real fight against organised crime, against smugglers, against migratory flooding: This is what people across Europe are now demanding as a matter of priority. Attention: They're looking at you!

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, do you mean corruption? So let's talk about corruption, and let's not pay ourselves words. Since 2023, Ursula von der Leyen has multiplied anti-corruption texts, with a proposal for a directive, the creation of an interinstitutional ethics body, and the harmonisation of rules on transparency of interest representation. Only one question arises: Will these measures apply to Ursula von der Leyen? What transparency are we talking about, with regard to the billion doses of vaccine purchased outside any legal device, by telephone, and in defiance of all procurement rules? How transparent can the European Parliament be in the light of the Qatargate scandal, which has splattered our socialist colleagues? What about the Committee of Inquiry? What are the procedural steps? Meanwhile, in defiance of any democratic spirit, Renew MEPs accept their refusal to work on the Anti-Corruption Directive, precisely as long as Hungary presides over the Council, on the grounds that "this would amount to discussing the fences of the hen enclosure with the fox himself". Frankly, we're dreaming! So I'm asking you the only question that's worth asking today: Do these institutions still have any legitimacy to teach anyone any lesson?

Mr President, after having been President of the Central Bank and so closely involved in the guidelines of the European Union, Mario Draghi points out the total ineffectiveness of European policies, carried out with broken sticks to the detriment of the peoples. As we know, our continent is no more than a shadow of itself in terms of industry, trade and migration. Does Mario Draghi make a mea culpa? Never. To explain this disaster, in which he actively participated, he shows the shortage of skills as if it were a shortage of goods. In an attempt to remedy this, he projects us into the phantasmagoria of the digital and green transition by promising us, in an unbearable new language, ever more Europe, ever more money for hypothetical educational programmes, and in reality ever more intrusion for what remains of sovereignty to sovereign states. Mario Draghi avoids any fundamental thinking and prefers to enslave our youth to the screens and Wokist propaganda. However, restoring a level of competence to our youth means encouraging knowledge of its roots, the richness of literature, work and critical thinking. These are all conditions that are not currently guaranteed by the European Union.

Madam President, Commissioner Schinas, 10 000 or 30 000 agents, that is not the question; Frontex should not be a host agency. The external borders of the European Union must not be the sieve of migratory flows that the peoples no longer want. This is precisely what the French no longer want. This is precisely what other European countries no longer want. In her speech of 18 July 2024, reiterated today, 9 October, Ursula von der Leyen called for the reinforcement of Frontex staff. I'm asking you, you can triple the manpower, but what for? Triple the number of staff to make sense of Frontex's mission? Is it a question of continuing to finance immigrationist projects? Is it a question of reforming the content of the missions of the agency's staff to ask them to continue distributing asylum forms? We could recruit, Commissioner, tens of thousands of staff that the problem would not be solved until Frontex's tasks were clearly redistributed. Frontex staff should no longer be made up of non-frontier activists or fundamental rights pilgrims. The urgency is to be firm in the face of crime in our European countries and in the face of the migratory flood that affects our entire continent.