Speeches

Madam President, in May 2024, France was shaken by insurrectionary riots in New Caledonia. We have witnessed real war scenes. Ten people were deplored, including two gendarmes. These riots bear the mark of Baku. As we know, Azerbaijan supported and financed the pro-independence movements with the aim of destabilising France. Today, as Martinique flares up, Azerbaijani influence is proven. On 20 July this year, Martinican separatists went to Baku to join forces under the aegis of Azerbaijan. The Aliyev regime does not hide its intention to punish France for its support for Armenia. And what is the European Union’s reaction to this country that is attacking France and threatening to commit a new genocide against Armenians? Well, the signing of new gas contracts in Baku by Mme von der Leyen and the unworthy words of Mme Simson, who officially welcomed the increased European dependence on Azerbaijani gas. But what a shame! The current leaders of the EU definitely have no dignity. Between two moral lessons, they submit to the worst of autocrats.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the condemnation of journalist Bülent Mumay is just one more example of Erdoğan censoring the press and arresting secular Turks. It relies on radical Islam, which Ataturk, the father of Turkey, mocked. I quote: "The politician who needs the help of religion to govern is only a coward." Yes, Mr. Erdoğan is a cowardly Islamist, who benefits from your submission. You have been speaking for a while now, but you are maintaining Turkey's status as a candidate for membership of the European Union. You give her billions and you don't even dare question her presence in NATO, as she fights us, colonizes Cyprus and regularly violates Greek borders. In 2020, the Turks even illuminated a French frigate; You know, it's called an act of war. Erdoğan is also waging a hybrid war on us by the Turkish diaspora, officially ordering them to have more children in Europe and not to assimilate. His statements are explicit and warlike. I quote: "Minarets are our bayonets, mosques our barracks and believers our soldiers." Finally, as in Constantinople in 1453, in Strasbourg in 2024, we discuss the sex of angels in front of Islamists who want to fight us militarily, culturally and demographically.

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, in the face of crime, we are going to need more than the speeches and sledgehammers that I have been hearing since then. You will have to open your eyes and dare to look, for example, a few kilometers away, here in Strasbourg, towards the cities of Neuhof or Hautepierre. You will see, because they do not even hide, the dealers who hold quarters by applying their rules of ultra-violence. They dominate these cities by selling cannabis, 82% of which comes from Morocco. So certainly, we make some symbolic seizures, we communicate on it, but you are not going to make me believe that with the technological means that we can have today, we do not have the capacity to better block the arrivals of these thousands of tons of cannabis, nor that Morocco does not see the thousands of hectares of production on its soil. Because yes, to bring in so much cannabis, it takes thousands of hectares of production. I think you are buying a political peace in Morocco and it is the victims of settling accounts, stray bullets or all the victims of the health consequences of cannabis who are paying the price. If you drive a few more kilometers, still here in Strasbourg, in the Rue du Doubs, you will see young girls who are victims of human traffickers, again ultra-violent. You also see them in our countryside, inside vans. You rightly denounce past slavery and you brag about being feminists. But that you are cowards when it comes to attacking the slavery of today, the one that is before your eyes, our eyes, the one that makes thousands of women rented from the sidewalk, like commodities. And what about the cocaine trafficking that leads us to a "mexicanization" of Europe. Belgium and the Netherlands are experiencing this pressure, which is already affecting their institutional bodies, and the phenomenon is spreading within the EU. We could become the first narco-continent. So stop your great speeches about power Europe, stop your blabla and take action. Finally, give Frontex and Europol the human, material and legal means to be effective and fulfil their missions, as well as to protect our external borders and coordinate the police forces of the various countries. The courts of the EU countries are gradually understanding, with their governments, that the best prevention is the fear of punishment. Do not stop them with legislation that protects traffickers under the pretext of fundamental rights that are contrary to the rights of victims and the weakest. Never forget that behind your inaction and sometimes your ideological actions, as I just mentioned, hide thousands of torn families and wasted lives.

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, as soon as this report is introduced, you have a stated objective: decarbonisation and climate neutrality in 2050. It's funny because, past the semantics, your overall vision produces rather the opposite. Here is a concrete demonstration – it will change you, from the concrete: In the 1970s, in France, we spent nearly 100 billion euros on the construction of 58 nuclear reactors, the famous Messmer plan. Today, nuclear power accounts for 70% of France's electricity mix. In the early 2000s, other plans, other mores, France decided to launch, with a vision close to yours, a renewable energy plan focused on wind and photovoltaics, a plan subsidized in all for 20 years. Here, too, about 100 billion euros. As a result, 20 years later, these energies represent 10% of the French electricity mix. The same investment for, on the one hand, 10% of electricity production and, on the other hand, 70% for nuclear power today. This has also led to a considerable increase in the price of electricity in France. In 2011, we were in France at 0.11 euros per kilowatt hour, today we are at 0.25 euros, an increase of 130% in thirteen years. Realize: A French family that paid 1,000 euros a year for electricity now pays 2,300 euros a year. Put yourself in their shoes. This increase has killed companies, industries and jobs with high added value. It increased imports and therefore created pollution. Here is a concrete example: in France, imports account for 51% of greenhouse gas emissions. And let's not even talk about the German case that everyone knows: 46% of Germany's electricity is now produced with gas and coal. This is the consequence of the abandonment of nuclear power. So yes, the new 240-metre wind turbines produce more. But planting thousands of Eiffel Towers in 2,000 tons of concrete by wind turbine to produce in the end less than nuclear and compensate with gas and coal, is it really ecological? Finally, you have one thing in common with the wind turbines you defend: You're going around in circles with wind. Fortunately, after wanting his death, you understood that nuclear power is a solution, not a problem. But it must be the main solution, whereas for you it is only a dressing to repair mistakes. The proof that this is secondary is that you didn't even mention it once before in your opening remarks. Your priority is to follow an ideology, ours is to reduce prices, to be sovereign and to pollute less. It goes through reindustrialization, nuclear power, hydropower to produce electricity, and energy savings. Your vision is ideological and semantic, ours is based on numbers, findings and science.