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Jul

2026

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Feasibility of a 28th tax regime and its potential to support EU competitiveness (debate)

Madam President, the 28th regime is not just a tool for competitiveness, it is a real political project. It is the creation of a new European legal order, without people, without territory, but with its own rules. We are told that it will be optional, that national codes will not be deleted, but you know very well that they will gradually become useless. This is the new method of European integrat…

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Jun

2026

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Protecting EU citizens’ data from hybrid threats: the Lithuanian case (topical debate)

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Jun

2026

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Order of business

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May

2026

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EU governance under pressure – institutional responses to global challenges (debate)

The reality is that you wake up a little late. That is to say, the European Commission has been deciding for years on everything that is done in Europe, since, as you know, the European Commission has the right of legislative initiative and therefore the European Parliament has only been a chamber of registration for years. So, even if the European peoples democratically and directly elect the Eur…

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May

2026

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EU governance under pressure – institutional responses to global challenges (debate)

Mr President, today we have a real question: Who should govern Europe? Behind the discourses on efficiency, there is actually a political shift that is very clear: less power for the nations and therefore, mechanically, more power for Brussels. We are told that the veto should be abolished, that the unanimity rule should be abolished and that more and more powers should be transferred to Brussels.…

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May

2026

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Negative trade-related effects of global overcapacity on the Union steel market (debate)

Mr President, today's wake-up call is very late. For years, politicians here have been hailing the opening-up of the market while other powers have been massively protecting their strategic industries. But we are not fooled. Successive European leaders have a great deal of responsibility. Their blindness to fierce global competition has largely penalised the steel sector. For years, we have allowe…

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2026

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The need to combat antisemitism and protect Jewish life in Europe, following the recent attacks against the Jewish community in the Netherlands and Belgium (debate)

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Apr

2026

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Control of the financial activities of the European Investment Bank Group – annual report 2024 (debate)

Madam President, overall, the European Investment Bank is well managed, but the reality is that its mandate is drifting. Originally, the EIB financed strategic projects that neither the market nor the Member States could carry on their own. Today, it intervenes everywhere, including abroad, and it has become a tool to do everything. By expanding its field of action, it has moved away from its miss…

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Feb

2026

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Amending Regulations on agricultural products as regards market rules and sectoral support measures in the wine sector and for aromatised wine products (debate)

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Jan

2026

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Presentation of the Digital Networks Act (debate)

Madam President, that is it, the alarm clock seems to have finally sounded. Europe wants to move faster to deploy critical infrastructure such as digital networks. On paper, that's a very good thing. But the method is not the right one. While our competitors are investing heavily in the technologies of tomorrow, we in Europe still spend time putting those of yesterday back in order. The act we are…

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Dec

2025

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Presentation of the European Affordable Housing Plan (debate)

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Dec

2025

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Presentation of the European Affordable Housing Plan (debate)

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Nov

2025

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The situation of Christian communities and religious minorities in Nigeria and the Middle East, and Europe’s responsibility to protect them and guarantee freedom of conscience (topical debate)

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Nov

2025

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Effective use of the EU trade and industrial policy to tackle China’s export restrictions (debate)

Madam President, yes, the reality is cruel. World trade is not a neutral terrain, it is a continuous balance of power. While here we recite the myth of perfect free trade, China protects its industry, massively subsidizes, advances its pawns and surpasses us. In its naivety, Europe even goes so far as to impose all-electricity by 2035, while China has invested 230 billion in this area in recent ye…

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Oct

2025

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Combating violence against women and girls, including the exploitation of motherhood (debate)

Madam President, at the age of eight, a little girl should be able to play and laugh, not howl under a blade. Yet in Europe, more than 600,000 women have undergone female circumcision and 180,000 girls face the same fate every year; A crime imported in the name of cultural relativism and tolerated by ideological cowardice. At 12, she should be dreaming of the future. Not end up like Lola, victim o…

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Oct

2025

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Rising antisemitism in Europe (debate)

Mr President, I come from a country, France, where, in 2024, more than 2,000 of my compatriots of Jewish faith made their alya to Israel. I come from a country where, in 2024, more than 1,500 anti-Semitic acts were recorded. These people sometimes say they are safer in a country at war than on the streets of their own country. The cause of this fear is clear: There was indeed a "October 7 effect".…

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Sep

2025

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A new vision for the European Universities alliances (debate)

Mr President, today global academic competition is intensifying and Europe is trying to hold on to it, but it is shrinking. China dominates in terms of number of patents and our venture capital remains far behind that of the United States. Today's vision is nothing new: broadening alliances, multiplying joint degrees, standardising procedures, moving towards common governance. We have been followi…

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Jul

2025

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Need for the EU to scale up clean technologies (debate)

Mr President, once again, the European Commission is stirring up the mirage of clean technologies as if it were a solution to all evils. It promises billions, plans, platforms, but the reality is that it is a failure. Heat pumps? They are more than 70% imported and they are unsuitable for 60% of the old building stock. Solar panels? They are 90% made in China, while European factories close one af…

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Jun

2025

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Electricity grids: the backbone of the EU energy system (debate)

Mr President, electricity networks are the backbone of the European energy system, but this backbone is now weakened. 40% of distribution networks in Europe are over 40 years old and 60% will have to be renovated or replaced within 10 years. The Commission itself acknowledges this in its own Action Plan of November 2023: €584 billion of investment will be needed by 2030, including more than €400 b…

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May

2025

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The role of gas storage for securing gas supplies ahead of the winter season (debate)

Mr President, this debate on gas storage raises a key question: Who decides? Since 2017, the European Union has been building a centralised energy policy piece by piece, as if Member States were unable to ensure their energy security on their own. What was voluntary coordination becomes guardianship. Since 2022, mandatory filling thresholds have been imposed, with controls, timetables and sanction…

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May

2025

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Winning the global tech race: boosting innovation and closing funding gaps (topical debate)

Mr President, the European Union claims to want to win the global technological race, but the reality is quite different. In 2024, venture capital investments for technology-expanding companies reached $30 billion in the European Union, compared to $110 billion in the United States, a gap of 82%. In semiconductors, only 4.5 billion have been contributed by the European Union, and again, it is the …

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Apr

2025

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110th anniversary of the Armenian genocide

Mr President, a hundred and ten years ago, an immense tragedy took place, one of the darkest in the 20th century. Today, this event resonates in European memory as a warning. It all started with the arrest of civil and religious figures, before more than a million men, women and children were driven from their homes and sent on the roads. Through the arid and hostile expanses of Anatolian interior…

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Apr

2025

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European Steel and Metals Action Plan (debate)

Madam President, the European steel industry is going through a major crisis. In France, there are only five blast furnaces left. In Dunkirk, 1,500 jobs are at stake and €1.8 billion in decarbonised investments have been suspended. In Germany, ThyssenKrupp announces 11,000 job cuts and in turn freezes decarbonisation projects. Since 2017, steel production in Europe has fallen from 160 million tonn…

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Mar

2025

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Union of Skills: striving for more and better opportunities to study, train or work in the EU and to bring our talents back home (debate)

Mr President, Europe is winning. Mario Draghi recalled: We are losing the battle of talent. Every year, 20% of European researchers go abroad, while the US attracts more talent than it loses. Let us take the Toulouse School of Economics, which – ironically – hosted a Nobel Prize which itself had a career in the United States. When she was last recruited, she offered six positions to brilliant rese…

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Mar

2025

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Cutting red tape and simplifying business in the EU: the first Omnibus proposals (debate)

Mr President, the Commission is trying to exercise humility and decides to go back on some of its rules. She rediscovers a principle of wisdom: Little things the legislator does not care. The reduction of reporting obligations is good, but is it enough? Certainly not, as these adjustments do not put an end to the administered economy it has created. As a reminder, the CSRD Directive involves 50 00…