Speeches

Madam President. Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, would the European Commission consider sponsoring terrorist organisations? My question is waiting for an answer. Despite the opposition of the left and Renew groups to the organization of this debate, despite the blindness to Islamism, which has killed nearly 1,000 civilians in Europe over the past 50 years, despite the drift observed in the deployment of Erasmus programs: EUR 250 000 to the University of Gaziantep as part of this programme, while the Rector was making anti-Semitic and openly pro-Hamas speeches, an organisation recognised, it should be recalled, as terrorist by the European Union; nearly €2 million to Gaza University between 2014 and 2019, despite its proven ties to Hamas; more than 100,000 euros to the NGO Al Sharq Forum in the same framework, while it called for paying tribute to the Hamas leader killed in 2024. How can the European Union, which was built for peace, which was touched in its flesh, in Paris, Brussels or Madrid, be the banker of Islamists or terrorists? How can it fund organizations whose terror swarms into the editorial offices of our newspapers, concert halls and schoolyards? The Commission's guilty negligence casts disgrace on the great success of our Union, the Erasmus programme. Finally, how can we tolerate such failures in the protection of the European funds for which we must be the guarantors? Indeed, it is not abstract funds from a computer spreadsheet, but money from Europeans. It is the same money that our farmers are denied when they have misunderstood a regulation or incorrectly completed a form, the same money that we should spend to protect our borders and our people, the same money that should allow our youth to access housing or be better protected from the scourge of drugs. Together with my EPP colleagues, we expect an extremely clear mea culpa and immediate commitments. We don't want words, we want deeds. Stop the financing of crime, stop the financing of barbarism, stop the financing of terrorism! Commissioner, it is time to put Europe right.

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, dear European farmers, we are taking the same and starting over. You got "From Farm to Fork" and you didn't want it? Well, it doesn't matter. The policy dialogue on the future of agriculture is here to take up the torch – and worse. Assumed reduction of livestock farming and social plan for European livestock farmers, increased greening of agriculture with unidentified budgetary objects, barely veiled questioning of aid per hectare intended to support production: Here is the program. Competitiveness in Europe is at the heart of this new mandate, but farmers do not seem to be entitled to it. Their only strategic course is that of the maintenance of landscapes and nature. Finally, a role of field guard 2.0 or landscape manager. One would almost forget the nobility of the act of producing, sacrificed on the unique altar of the sustainable management of ecosystems. Yet farmers have taken to the streets all over Europe to demand more consideration, to demand dignity for their profession, to demand real economic tools for their future. The progress mentioned is to be welcomed and welcomed, even if the equitable distribution in the value chain and access to innovation are unfortunately drowned in a general vision that still carries too much the decline of agriculture and increased dependence on imports. I will strongly oppose my EPP political family and the European Commission participating in a common agricultural policy based on this document. Otherwise, farmers who are already getting impatient will have every reason to go back to the streets.