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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the Savings and Investments Union, under technocratic airs of economic common sense, is in fact hiding a project of dispossession of our financial sovereignty, our social model and the control of our savings. This project, led by Brussels, imposes massive transfers of competence in terms of taxation, regulation and even financing of strategic sectors. The pan-European pension savings plan, for example, directly threatens our life insurance and our REP, pillars of French popular savings. While SMEs are promised easier access to capital, it is mainly foreign investors who will dictate their conditions tomorrow, to the detriment of our local productive fabric. As for our rural territories, they risk being left behind once again. The National Rally says no to this technocratic Europe and yes to a Europe of free nations, masters of their financial destiny. We demand a referendum on any progress on this project.

Mr President, the current European energy policy is a decoy. We claim to reduce our dependence on Russian gas, but we now import it via third countries, which simply resell what they buy in Moscow at gold prices. This hypocrisy is costly for Europe. Our industries are paying unbearable additional costs, our jobs are under threat and our sovereignty is crumbling. Worse, we enrich intermediaries who take advantage of our weaknesses, without solving the root of the problem. The solution is not in these bypasses, but in the immediate recovery of our energy industry. Why import Russian gas stamped "Turkey" or "India" when we have nuclear power in France, a sector of excellence that creates jobs and guarantees independence? Why subsidize dubious intermediaries when we could invest in our infrastructure, local resources and innovations? Brussels must stop imposing dogmas and free the Member States. Let them develop realistic energy strategies, rooted in their national realities. Let us protect our businesses, stabilise prices and build a Europe that relies on its own strengths, not on the whims of third markets. European dignity depends on industrial audacity, not hypocritical schemes.

Mr President, Mrs Lagarde, the European Central Bank's 2024 report confirms an alarming reality: Under the pretext of resilience and stability, the ECB has continued to impose monetary policies that stifle our national economies. It has persisted in maintaining high policy rates, penalising our SMEs and farmers, already weakened by absurd environmental regulations and a suffocating single market. Worse, this report ignores the essential: Sovereignty of States. The ECB, subservient to the federalist vision, uses monetary policy to strengthen Brussels' power at the expense of nations. When she talks about a data-driven approach, she forgets about human data: unemployment, deindustrialization and rural distress in France. In the name of the green transition, it encourages pharaonic investments in technologies inaccessible to our territories, while our peasants are crumbling under energy standards and costs. Europe's competitiveness? A decoy, when our companies are suffocated by structurally higher energy prices than elsewhere. We must reject this technocratic leap forward. France needs to regain control of its economic policy, its currency and its destiny. Rather than blindly following the dogmas of Frankfurt, let us demand an ECB at the service of the people, not ideologies.

Madam President, blockchain and cryptocurrencies were born from a simple idea: restoring control to individuals, enhancing transparency and ensuring equitable access to open systems. Decentralization, transparency and security are therefore the fundamental values of this revolution. But today, blockchain goes far beyond financial transactions. It revolutionizes data management, traceability and digital trust by transcending borders and calling for global cooperation. However, with this immense potential also come challenges: fraud, unequal access and lack of clear regulations. This is where our collective responsibility lies. We need to build global standards, not to stifle innovation, but to frame and amplify it. These standards must therefore 1) secure users; 2) Preserve decentralization; 3) fostering an environment conducive to innovation. Europe, with initiatives such as the MiCA Regulation, has shown that regulation, although partial, is possible. It must therefore now act as a bridge to initiate a global dialogue. Blockchain is a unique opportunity to build fairer and fairer systems. Together, we can steer this revolution towards a more open and prosperous future.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I am here to denounce the Digital Services Act, the DSA, which, under the guise of combating disinformation, institutionalises state censorship at European level. Indeed, this text flouts one of the fundamental principles of our democracies: freedom of expression, the once sacred principle that the DSA now seems to want to bury, sacrifice on the altar of an official truth, not always authentic, imposed by technocrats. By muzzling dissenting voices, this regulation does not protect citizens, it infantilizes them, it deprives them of their capacity for discernment. All censorship is an admission. We only gag the mouth that tells the truth. With the DSA, the European Union is only admitting its fear of the truth by constantly imposing ever more oppressive control tools. Also, I urge you to reject this authoritarian drift. Rather than censoring, let us defend the rights of European citizens to express themselves freely, without fear or institutional muzzle.

Madam President, on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, it is essential to recall the following: this convention makes it clear that childhood is a sanctuary, that the protection of children from all forms of exploitation and abuse is a fundamental principle. However, we are now seeing worrying initiatives in this area, sometimes encouraged by public institutions that tend to promote so-called sexuality education from an early age. Thus, under the guise of raising awareness and combating discrimination, some of these actions risk trivialising inappropriate content or breaking the framework of protection that we must guarantee to children. These practices, far from being educational in reality, can therefore be assimilated to a form of exploitation and ideological manipulation. Children's sexuality must not be exploited in any way. So what is the European Commission doing to ensure that so-called sexuality education remains age-appropriate and respectful of children's innocence? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. What is the Commission doing to ensure that no piecemeal initiative can undermine children's healthy development or integrity? Nothing. Again, absolutely nothing. And what is the Commission doing to ensure that these abuses are not financed or promoted by European funds? Nothing. Over and over again. Absolutely nothing.

Mr President, Europe is peace. The formula is repeated at will by all seasoned Europeanists. Still, it's a lie. Indeed, today, the European Union is pushing for war. The European Union is trying to federate, through the war in Ukraine, and is interfering in the defence policy of the Member States in defiance of their sovereignty. After creating a post of European Commissioner for Defence, the European Commission is also overstepping its powers: it wants to withdraw EUR 400 billion from the budget, earmarked for the development of regions in difficulty, to be used to strengthen the military-industrial complex of the Member States and to provide military assistance to Ukraine. Is it democratic when the Commission decides, on its own, to drag all European citizens into a war against Russia? Of course not! Europe, normally, is peace. But with Mme von der Leyen at its head, Europe is war!

Mr President, under the guise of utterly misguided humanism and false good feelings, politicians who are traitors to the peoples of Europe are promoting a fanatical ideology which they have set up as dogma: immigrationism. Unfortunately, this desire for altruistic suicide imposed on Europeans has concrete consequences on a daily basis. The city of Le Mans, France, is a sad example. Immigration has more than doubled in 15 years and, with it, crimes and misdemeanours. Increase in theft by more than 300%, increase in rape by more than 500% and increase in knife attacks by 1,000%. Yes, ten times more than before the arrival on our soil of these delinquent foreigners, these criminals imported at the expense of the Europeans you call "migrants". The blood of the victims of this abomination is on the hands of the Members of the European Commission who ordered this submersion and on the hands of the Members who voted for it.

Mr President, ‘God laughs at men who deplore the effects whose causes they cherish’, said the writer Bossuet. This maxim is reminiscent of the catastrophic record of your industrial policy, if it ever existed. In your era, we will have known everything: Europe’s digital vassalage, its manufacturing dependence on emerging countries, and now the erasure of car civilisation. You are scrambling to impose the all-electric route on the entire industry in 2035, at the risk of seeing many parts of the continent disappear. Volkswagen has already announced plans to close plants. The Renault Group is sounding the alarm about the thousands of jobs at risk, such as at Valeo in Sarthe, where the automotive supplier will close its site, leaving more than 250 employees behind. So my question will be simple: How many factory closures and massive redundancies will it take for you to finally challenge your declining policy?

Mr President, I wish to defend Valeo and the employees of the La Suze-sur-Sarthe site who will lose their jobs because of uncontrolled globalisation and cascading relocations. On July 15, the automotive supplier announced the sale of its plant located 20 kilometers from Le Mans. 270 employees are now the victims of your electric dogmatism and intra-European social dumping, since the site's activities are transferred to Spain and Poland, where labor is cheaper. Less expensive and more efficient solutions than the thermal ban exist. I will fight to save our auto industry and our territories. The employees of the Valeo-La Suze factory have an inalienable right to keep their work. The French state, the largest shareholder in the group, can and must save all the employees of the Valeo factory.

Mr President, Mr Vice-President, the recent report on European agriculture is a disappointment. It does not respond to the urgent challenges facing our farmers. Loué's chicken is drowned under Ukrainian chicken. The red of the meadows, the Sarth breed of cattle, is ignored. The EU has promised to help smallholders, but where is its aid? Why open our doors wide to Ukrainian chicken when its traceability is questionable? It's a killing of our producers. Despite protests and calls for the safeguard clause to be applied, Brussels remains deaf even as it thinks of activating the emergency brake on sugar and eggs from Ukraine. The EU promotes animal welfare and imposes binding standards on our farmers, but favours countries with lower health, social and environmental standards. Mirror clauses should be mandatory in all free trade agreements that are both detrimental to our farmers and to our consumers, who end up eating food of poor quality and potentially harmful to their health. Last year you promised fair prices, more subsidies for small farms, less bureaucracy and protection from unfair competition. We do not accept that agriculture should be abandoned. You have the power to act, we have the right not to give up.