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Jul

2026

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Presentation of the programme of activities of the Irish Presidency (debate)

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May

2026

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Presentation of the Fertilisers Action Plan (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, the issue of fertilisers has become a major strategic issue for Europe, because behind fertilisers there is our food sovereignty, our energy independence and the future of our agriculture. The tensions in the Middle East and the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz remind us of a very simple truth: Dependence is vulnerability. In 2022, soaring fertiliser prices almost fo…

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Apr

2026

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How to secure a sustainable future for the EU livestock sector in light of the need to ensure food security, farmers’ resilience and the challenges posed by animal diseases? (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, in Europe farms are being closed, but free trade agreements are being signed; We're losing breeders, but we're gaining standards. In ten years we have lost 8% of cows, 16% of goats and sheep, and the Commission is proposing to cut the agricultural budget by 20%. We ask farmers more, but we give them less. I, who raise sheep, will tell you what this report does not say e…

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Apr

2026

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EU strategy in response to the ongoing Middle East crisis, its implications on energy prices and the availability of fertilizers (joint debate)

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Apr

2026

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, you rule Europe, but you do not listen to the people. Nearly 80% of French people reject the Mercosur agreement and yetme von der Leyen pushed it through. 94% say that farmers are underpaid, but you are planning to reduce the CAP budget. 86% feel that the constraints on them are excessive, but you persist in your absurd norms and your punitive ecology. Farmer…

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Mar

2026

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen of the European Commission, you have signed a new free trade agreement with Australia in opacity and haste, in defiance of farmers' warnings. Your negotiations with Australia provide for the entry of more than 30,000 tonnes of beef and as many tonnes of lamb on average. Once again, agriculture serves as an adjustment variable. Your scenario, as we…

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Feb

2026

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Jan

2026

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Framework for strengthening the availability and security of supply of critical medicinal products as well as the availability of, and accessibility of, medicinal products of common interest (debate)

In the end, for us, ecology is very important, really like you, there is no worry about it. There is no choice to be made in relation to ecology or the preference of drug manufacturing. In any case, the best thing is to do it in our countries, which is easier to be able to act on the environment too. This way we can avoid the waves of shortages and bad conditions on the other side of the world. In…

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Jan

2026

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Framework for strengthening the availability and security of supply of critical medicinal products as well as the availability of, and accessibility of, medicinal products of common interest (debate)

Already in France, already in the Constitution, it was obviously installed and in the end, we in our laws in France, there was no need even to put it in the Constitution, it was obvious. Anyway, there was no problem with that. We don't change our minds. The woman has the right to contraception and abortion as she wishes and this has never been changed.…

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Jan

2026

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Framework for strengthening the availability and security of supply of critical medicinal products as well as the availability of, and accessibility of, medicinal products of common interest (debate)

Madam President, shortages of medicines are not new. They are the result of your bad industrial and political choices accumulated for years. In France, in 2025, everyday drugs (paracetamol, amoxicillin, psychotropic...) were in tension or rupture. Despite repeated alerts, you did not anticipate anything. Elsewhere in Europe, disruptions of antibiotics, anticancer drugs or insulin are multiplying. …

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Dec

2025

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Breeders' protests following a lumpy-skin-disease outbreak in France: implications of the EU approach on sanitary and on animal health (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, lumpy skin disease – the DNC – is not just a health crisis, it is a crisis of method. In France, healthy vaccinated herds have been slaughtered, and we now need to step back from these brutal methods of systematic slaughter. On the ground, breeders mostly see rigid, disconnected and brutal decisions. Farmers cannot be told that they need to vaccina…

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Dec

2025

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Amending certain CAP Regulations as regards the conditionality system, types of intervention in the form of direct payment, types of intervention in certain sectors and rural development and annual performance reports, data and interoperability governance, suspensions of payments annual performance clearance and controls and penalties (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, this text on simplifying the CAP finally confirms what we have been denouncing for a long time: the accumulation of standards, controls, and the gradual remoteness from the realities on the ground – to the detriment of French farmers. The introduction of a single annual control per holding is a step in the right direction. It is a simple, concrete and long-awaited me…

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Nov

2025

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Fur farming and the placing of farmed fur products on the market (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, it is deeply anachronistic that we still have to debate the breeding of animals for their fur. We are talking here about minks, foxes, chinchillas locked all their lives in tiny cages, unable to express any natural behavior. This breeding generates suffering, stress, mutilations and has become morally indefensible. It does not meet any food or vital economic …

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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, Commissioner, we are talking about industry, but we are also talking about our agriculture, which now also pays the price for European decisions. By taxing Chinese electric vehicles without negotiation, Brussels has triggered an immediate response against our exports of French cognac and pork. Result: a sharp fall in sales and, with it, the very concrete threat of the loss of thou…

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Nov

2025

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Nov

2025

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen of the Commission, since July I have been among the farmers in the demonstrations in Brussels and Strasbourg. They all gave me the same message: "Tell them that we no longer want their decisions that kill us." Today, I am passing it on word for word. Farmers do not want your new CAP, they do not want Ukraine to join the EU and they also do not want the Mercosur T…

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Oct

2025

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I come from Burgundy-Franche-Comté. In my region, we raise Bresse chicken, Charolais beef and refine the County. At home, a steak or sausage is a product of animal origin. There's no such thing as a vegetable steak. It is an invention of above ground communicators who want to give a natural varnish to ultra-processed products. Those who claim to defend the pl…

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Oct

2025

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Chemicals (joint debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, under the guise of environmental protection, Brussels is building a new technocratic gas plant: common chemical data platform, reallocation of powers between agencies and so on. All this is part of the same punitive ideology: turn every substance into a suspect and every exploitation into a culprit. In France, the National Agency for Health Security has just ban…

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Sep

2025

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Cohesion policy (joint debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the report before us illustrates a worrying and increasingly worrying trend. This drift is that of the Green Deal, which increasingly occupies the mental and political space of the centrists in Parliament. Cohesion policy, whose raison de vivre is to support the economy of our territories, has now been transformed into a political instrument of the European C…

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Sep

2025

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Mr President, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) was created to guarantee Europe its food sovereignty and to provide farmers with a dignified income. It has enabled the self-sufficiency of our nations and the development of our campaigns. It's our food shield. The European Commission is betraying this legacy. By drowning agriculture in a global fund combining cohesion, fisheries and even defence…

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Jul

2025

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Post-2027 Common Agricultural Policy (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, the CAP is a DNA, the CAP is a spirit. Its DNA is that of the first European nations, which have built a space of peace for their peoples. Its spirit is the PAC spirit. Since 1962, this spirit accompanies our farmers at the pace of their development with a main mission: guarantee them a fair standard of living and feed our people, so as not to depend on third countri…

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Jul

2025

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Presentation of the Stockpiling Strategies - strengthening response capacities for a changing risk and threat landscape (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the Commission is today presenting its strategies for stockpiling emergency stocks in the face of threats to our European peoples. The objective is necessary, but it requires strong political vigilance. These stocks should not be a mere technical measure. They must embody our food sovereignty. Storing within our borders means reducing our dependenc…

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Jun

2025

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Protecting bees: advancing the EU's New Deal for Pollinators (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the European Commission is today presenting a new pact for pollinators. The observation is shared by all. Bees, syrphs, butterflies are disappearing at an alarming rate. This decline is undermining our agriculture, food sovereignty and biodiversity in Europe. But on closer inspection, this text reflects above all the usual flaws of Brussels tech…

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Jun

2025

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Mr President, while France imports more than 30% of the meat it consumes, Macron and von der Leyen want to open Europe's doors wide to products from South America that do not meet our standards. The agreement with Mercosur is an economic, ecological and strategic absurdity. Macron plays a double game: He claims to defend our agriculture while saying he is ready to sign the agreement on the conditi…

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Jun

2025

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Strengthening rural areas in the EU through cohesion policy (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the European Union is really a weather vane that changes its mind all the time. On the one hand, it is a question of integrating the CAP, the main fund for the countryside, into the overall budget of the European Union, which will reduce it. On the other hand, today we are discussing the use of cohesion funds, which are already in high demand, f…