What Jean-Marc spoke about.

7 Oct

2026

FR Question

Ensuring promotion of clean energy in European policies (debate)

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So, Mr. Member, we heard you, of course: For you, the solution is "all nuclear". Can you explain, in front of this representation, on what horizon the proposals you make to produce and build new nuclear power plants will respond to the energy crisis that the French are experiencing today? Answer us, since you know very well the duration of construction of a nuclear power plant.…

7 Oct

2026

FR Speech

Ensuring promotion of clean energy in European policies (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, who is responsible for the critical rise in the price of energy? Who forces Europeans to choose between working and filling the fridge? Who is pushing SMEs into bankruptcy? Who will stop millions of families from getting warm this winter? Putin, Trump, Khamenei? Of course, but there are also culprits in this Chamber. It is those who, text after text, prevent …

7 Oct

2026

FR Speech

An ambitious multiannual financial framework 2028-2034 for a strong and resilient Europe (debate)

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6 Oct

2026

FR Speech

Affordable Housing Act (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Maricarmen has become the symbol of the dramatic housing situation in the European Union: An 87-year-old woman forcibly evicted from her home at the request of an investment fund. The European Commission is today proposing a regulation on affordable housing to tackle short-term rentals and a one-stop-shop to access EU funding. It is welcome, but as…

7 Jul

2026

FR Speech

2025 Commission report on Ukraine (debate)

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7 Jul

2026

FR Speech

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

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17 Jun

2026

FR Question

Preparation of the European Council (joint debate)

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Mrs Maréchal-Le Pen, your colleague Jordan Bardella said very recently that France's contribution to the European Union budget should be halved. I imagine you're of the same opinion. So my question is simple: What is the budget you want to cut into? European defence? Digital? Space? Investments in clean tech? The CAP? The French and Europeans have a right to know.…

17 Jun

2026

FR Speech

Preparation of the European Council (joint debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, as Putin bombs the cathedrals in Kiev, the Franco-German fighter jet is buried. As the price of energy soars, our battery and solar panel plants are closing down due to a lack of European investment. And now Trump is blocking our access to the most powerful AIs. Europe is caught in the turmoil of its economic dependencies. Parliament has proposed an adequate bud…

21 May

2026

FR Speech

The Union’s preparedness for and response to health emergencies: the case of the MV Hondius and the hantavirus warning (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, an outbreak of infection on board a cruise ship, alarming symptoms, deaths and the tracking of contact cases. The dazzling arrival of the Hantavirus has given us all the strange impression of reliving the COVID nightmare. The pandemic had highlighted the unpreparedness of Europe, disorganized and dependent on China for its masks, medicines and vaccines. So the E…

20 May

2026

FR Speech

Financing EU priorities in a sustainable, predictable and resilient way through a new EU own resource from the online gambling and betting services sector (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, here in this Chamber we have taken a historic decision on the multiannual financial framework, which can be summed up in one sentence: building the future without destroying the solidarity policies that are the strength of our Union. This is an unprecedented step in the construction of Europe since the Delors years. Never before has the European Parliament pr…

18 May

2026

FR Speech

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

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, Europe finally assumes that an open market makes sense only if the rules of the game are fair and respected by all. The steel market has been competing for years without reason and without rules. Endemic overcapacity threatens our industry, fuelled by massively subsidized production, particularly from China. In response, Europe will therefore halve…

28 Apr

2026

FR Speech

Supporting democratic resilience in Armenia (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, last Friday marked the 111th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. First of all, I would like to pay tribute to the memory of the 1,500,000 victims. This memory compels us. It obliges us not to look away when new crimes against humanity are committed. The events of 2023, which saw the displacement of more than 120,000 Armenians, echo these dark pages of histo…

28 Apr

2026

FR Speech

The Commission’s 2025 Rule of Law report (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, as we examine the rule of law in Europe with this report, how can we not be pleased with the defeat of the man who has trampled on it so much? Yes, the departure of Viktor Orbán brings a wind of hope to our continent. His successor, Péter Magyar, promised to fight corruption, restore the independence of the judiciary and universities, and restore pluralism in th…

28 Apr

2026

FR Speech

Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034 (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, today will be a landmark in European integration. Our Parliament is about to bury the absurd principle of a European budget blocked at 1% of GNP. By increasing loans by 50% and new European loans, we are creating a capacity to act of 1.8% of GNP, which breaks the glass ceiling limiting any ambition. These additional resources are deployed in five areas which I d…

11 Mar

2026

FR Speech

Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers: application EGF/2025/004 BE/Tupperware – Belgium (A10-0030/2026 - Jean-Marc Germain) (vote)

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10 Mar

2026

FR Speech

Guidelines for the 2027 budget - Section III (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, no longer one, but two wars are now threatening Europe. At this perilous moment, our responsibility is immense. So how can we understand the torpedo that has just been unleashed by the European People's Party against the budgetary guidelines of Parliament, yet the object of a compromise patiently built by my friend Nils Ušakovs, by tabling, at the …

24 Feb

2026

FR Speech

Four years of Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine and European contributions to a just peace and sustained security for Ukraine (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Vladimir Putin has never accepted the Ukrainian people's aspiration for freedom and Europe. He responded to Maidan with tanks and bombs. But, to paraphrase Victor Hugo, one does not resist the invasion of ideas by that of armies. As Ukraine prepares to enter its fifth year of ruthless Russian aggression, Maidan's spirit is more alive than ever in Koupiansk, K…

11 Feb

2026

FR Speech

Developing a new EU anti-poverty strategy (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, in Europe tens of millions of our fellow citizens and their children cannot heat their homes properly, must give up care, skip meals and suffer social isolation. This brutal reality is unbearable in a continent as rich as ours. Nelson Mandela said: Poverty is not an inevitability. It is created by man and defeated by the action of men. That is w…

11 Feb

2026

FR Speech

Rule of law, fundamental rights and misuse of EU funds in Slovakia: the need for an EU response (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, the situation of fundamental rights in Slovakia is alarming: sex binarity enshrined in the Constitution, adoption reserved for heterosexual couples, restrictions on the teaching of gender identity. These attacks on citizens who simply want to live and love freely are iniquitous. But even more worryingly, they serve as a cover for the systematic weakening of the rule …

11 Feb

2026

FR Speech

Regulation implementing enhanced cooperation on the establishment of the Ukraine Support Loan for 2026 and 2027 (vote)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we are about to take a historic decision. Finally, a decision commensurate with the sacrifices endured by our Ukrainian brothers. A decision that is much more than a zero-interest loan of 90 billion financed by the European budget. For the first time, we are providing Ukraine with the financial, civilian and military support it needs to defend itself, with an…

10 Feb

2026

FR Speech

European response to the attacks on the Ukrainian energy system causing a humanitarian crisis (debate)

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20 Jan

2026

FR Speech

Pending approval of the Hungarian national plan for Security Action for Europe (SAFE) funding in light of persistent concerns around the allocation of public funding (debate)

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Madam President, Madam Vice-President, ladies and gentlemen, it is high time for Europe to raise its head. This applies to Greenland, this applies to Trump's tariff war and this also applies to Hungary. This is a state that violates all the most fundamental principles of our Europe, repressed minorities, muzzled judges, enslaved media and chased NGOs and widespread corruption. Faced with these bre…

17 Dec

2025

FR Speech

Implementation of the rule of law conditionality regime (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner Serafin, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to thank the speakers for the richness and intensity of this debate, which is fundamental to our European Union. I would particularly like to thank my co-rapporteur, Monika Hohlmeier. That we sign this report together is a reminder to the right in this Chamber, to all those and their supporters who are attacking the most fundam…

17 Dec

2025

FR Speech

Implementation of the rule of law conditionality regime (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, today's debate is not a debate like any other. It is perhaps the most essential that we can have: the one on the values of our Union. These values, enshrined at the summit of the Treaty of the European Union in Article 2, which essentially sum up its history and singular aspiration, are the legacy of the Enlightenment, of the fight against arbit…

15 Dec

2025

FR Answer

Incentivising defence-related investments in the EU budget to implement the ReArm Europe Plan (debate)

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Mr. Member, you need to know one thing: Putin will go as far as we let him go, and what is at stake in Ukraine is not to wage a war against Russia, it is to prevent Russia from winning the war in Ukraine. We must therefore give Ukrainians the means to defend themselves and the means to defend their territory. That does not prevent – and here you are right – diplomacy from being at work, and indeed…