27
Apr
2026
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Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2024 (debate)
Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, when the right cooperates with the extreme right, it does not control it, it legitimises it. So here we are with the report of a Member of the National Assembly who claims to fight against fraud, without even mentioning the investigation opened by the European Public Prosecutor's Office which targets his own political group for alleged embezzlement of public money. While the far right stings in the crate, part of the right closes its eyes. By tolerating the abuses of the extreme right, some imagine themselves to be sparing the future and that is a mistake. I know that, among you, there are some who doubt, who know that every time the right has believed it can tame the extreme right, it is democracy that has lost. So, dear friends of the EPP, you who will decide tomorrow on the result of the vote, whatever the line of your group, whatever your voting order, tomorrow, vote in conscience, be faithful to our republican values.