What Julien spoke about.

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Apr

2025

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The importance of trans-European transport infrastructure in times of stalling economic growth and major threats to Europe’s security (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, once again the Commission and the Council are rediscovering the importance of infrastructure, but always as a matter of urgency. For years, you sacrificed them in the name of free trade and ecological ideology. Result: a vulnerable, deindustrialised Europe, unable to secure its supply chains. While our roads are deteriorating and our lines are closing, you are f…

10

Mar

2025

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

Madam President, the European Commission is today presenting its first omnibus proposals to cut red tape and make life easier for businesses. However, French business leaders expect much more than just regulatory grooming. In France, our artisans, farmers and industrialists are overwhelmed by an avalanche of standards and bureaucratic constraints. In five years, 850 new European obligations have b…

23

Jan

2025

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Combating Desertification: 16th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP16) of the United Nations Convention (debate)

Mr President, COP16 was, without a doubt, the largest meeting of States to date on the subject of desertification. It was held in Riyadh, which allowed participants to see how this problem is disrupting regional powers that once relied on agriculture, such as Ethiopia or Egypt. This real scourge is now at our doorstep. It is already observed in Greece, Italy, but also in my region in the south of …

21

Jan

2025

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Situation in Venezuela following the usurpation of the presidency on 10 January 2025 (debate)

Mr President, in Venezuela, the communist regime has once again been guilty of confiscating power at the expense of the people. A gagged opposition, thousands of people locked up in the same brutality that has torn Eastern Europe apart for almost a century. This situation requires a clear finding: There are those in Europe today who welcome dictatorships, who excuse political violence and who welc…

17

Dec

2024

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Towards a shared vision for European tourism, its sustainable growth and brand Europe (debate)

Mr President, having ravaged European agriculture with its Farm to Fork Strategy, which encourages unbridled free trade – with Mercosur in particular – the European Commission is now drawing up a strategy for tourism on the continent. Tourism, however, falls within the competence of States, whose sovereignty is once again violated. In this vision, it is not surprising that we find the same forgott…

25

Nov

2024

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The outcome of the G20 Leaders' Summit (debate)

Madam President, at the end of the G20 summit in Brazil, we can only deplore the cowardice of the various European representatives regarding the signing of a free trade agreement between the European Union and the Mercosur countries. Once again, rather than agreeing to look at the reality of the problems facing Europe, they agreed to put the dust under the carpet. On this subject as on so many oth…

21

Oct

2024

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Implementation of the Single European Sky (recast) (debate)

Madam President, we defy any project that leans towards federalism, especially when it is under the aegis of the European Commission. This does not prevent us from being pragmatic and responsible. We are told that the Single European Sky project aims to facilitate air travel within the European Union and save airlines €5 billion a year in kerosene. The European Commission could only shine on this …

9

Oct

2024

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Ensuring sustainable, decent and affordable housing in Europe - encouraging investment, private property and public housing programmes (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, even though my country, France, is in a good position in almost all international rankings on sustainable development, I express my indignation at a real forfeiture. A European Commissioner for Housing has just been appointed. In the name of which provision or treaty? None, because housing is a prerogative that is fundamentally a matter for States. We do not rec…

7

Oct

2024

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Madam President, I would like to pay tribute here to the courage and dedication of the men and women volunteer firefighters who, in our French territories, devote time and energy to the service of others, often in addition to their main professional activity. Your European directive on working time directly endangers the status of volunteer firefighters, even though volunteering represents nearly …

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Sep

2024

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Persistent problems of anti-Semitism in Europe and of other forms of hate speech and hate crimes (debate)

Mr President, Mr Vice-President, ladies and gentlemen, anti-Semitism is a deadly poison whose resurgence affects many European countries, particularly my own, France. With 887 anti-Semitic acts recorded in the first half of 2024 by the French government, almost three times more than last year, France and its European neighbours are facing a rising tide of anti-Semitism. The toxic development of Is…