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May

2026

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Need for an adaptation of the EU legal framework on sustainable biofuels (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in Brussels biofuels are the poor parent of the energy transition. So if, with my group, we insisted that this debate should take place, it is because these alternative fuels have, among other advantages, to reduce the price at the pump, to reduce our imports of fossil fuels and to lower our carbon emissions. Committed to the principles of technological neutrality, we call for an adaptation of the Renewable Energy Directive, which gives priority to intermittent energy at the expense of biofuels, which are limited to 7%. We also call for the Fuel Quality Directive to be corrected in order, in particular, to allow E20 blends. Finally, not including first-generation biofuels in the proposal for CO2 emission standards for cars is an ecological absurdity that we want to correct. Imagine the prospects: in France, plug-in hybrid powertrain flexfuel would equip no less than 5 million vehicles, or 13% of the vehicle fleet. That is why we need to enable Europe's biofuel industries to be competitive, viable and profitable, both for the transport sector and for the aviation sector.

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May

2026

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Reviewing the ETS system to support European competitiveness (topical debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, when it comes to climate, Brussels is a machine to lose. Monster of bureaucracy, the European carbon market, says ETS I, is actually a European tax that does not say its name, a permanent blackmail done to Europeans. This climate dogmatism, ladies and gentlemen, is the programmed asphyxiation of our industry. This is the plight of our farmers, who were still speaking yesterday in this Parliament and whom you refuse to hear. It is the dry loss of millions of jobs on our soil. It is also a premium for relocations and foreign imports. So, together with the ECR Group, we are calling on the Commission to put an end to the race to the abyss towards which these policies are precipitating us. ETS I, with its delusional carbon price and the end of free allowances, is obsolete: it needs to be reviewed from top to bottom. ETS II, with its additional cost on the annual energy bill of households of the order of 150 euros, will be a real blow for our households and for our companies: It must simply be abandoned. So, I believe that it is time to turn the page of this left that speaks to us, hand on heart, of energy independence, but which, at the same time, has campaigned against nuclear power; which, at the same time, defended the Green Deal, which effectively leads to a real Buy China Act; who liked himself in a real agrobashing This means that we have never been so dependent on foreign farmers.

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Mar

2026

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Energy security, independence and supply in the geopolitical context - ensuring market stability and affordable energy for industry and citizens (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the surge in pump prices caused by the crisis in the Middle East is dismaying our compatriots, who are finding it increasingly difficult to make ends meet. It also puts entire sectors of our economy at risk. Fishermen, transporters, farmers, small self-employed: all are exposed to a sudden increase in costs that threatens their activity. In this situation, the only concern of our leaders should be to take urgent measures to lower the energy bill. Meloni's government did so with its "fuel decree." Hungary did this by blocking prices at the pump. Sweden has anticipated this by lowering several taxes on petrol and diesel since 2024, as has Portugal. Conversely, the French Government is distinguished by its inaction. And yet, simple solutions exist. In the short term, introduce the floating TICPE, i.e. an adjustable tax. In the medium term, relaunch oil and gas drilling in our exclusive economic zones, develop a carbon-free fertilizer production chain, relaunch the biofuel and fourth-generation nuclear sectors and, finally, launch the great geothermal revolution.

11

Mar

2026

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Rise of political violence, notably by far-left organisations (debate)

11

Mar

2026

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EUCO and situation in the Middle East (joint debate)

10

Feb

2026

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Spain’s large-scale regularisation policy and its impact on the Schengen Area and EU migration policy (debate)

10

Feb

2026

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Spain’s large-scale regularisation policy and its impact on the Schengen Area and EU migration policy (debate)

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Jan

2026

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Situation in Venezuela following the extraction of Maduro and the need to ensure a peaceful democratic transition (debate)

Madam President, today there is only the nostalgic extreme left of Bolivarian socialism to regret the Maduro regime. Throwing nearly 75% of its population below the poverty line, in one of the countries with the largest oil reserves in the world, is a feat that only Marxist governments have the secret of. But let us leave here abstract discourses on international law and hasty moral condemnations. What matters now are the realities that apply to us. For too long, we have had no strategic commitment in this region where France has an important territory, French Guiana. So let's be pragmatic and ask ourselves this simple question: How can we most effectively defend our interests in this region? By promoting Chinese influence or trying to deal with the United States and ensure that this American influence is also French and therefore European? Because that is what is at stake, and not just the drug trade, for us in South America, where there is one of the largest European space bases on French soil and important mineral and hydrocarbon resources that we so badly need.

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Jan

2026

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Brutal repression against protesters in Iran (debate)

Mr President, today Iranians are dying because they aspire to freedom and dignity. We must stand by their side. This great people, one of the oldest in the world, has been living since 1979 a nightmare unworthy of its history. The heirs of Persepolis are plunged into darkness, into the night of the spirit. A dark veil descended on the civilization of colors with the help of the European left, especially French. Sartre, Foucault, the parents of Islamo-Leftism, have in the past supported Ayatollah Khomeini, long exiled in France and made the propaganda of his little green book. One day we will have to write the black book of the complicities of the left in the rise of Islamism: yesterday, with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards; Today, in favor of the Muslim Brotherhood and so many others. The Middle East and Europe need a partner Iran returned to reason, an Iran that stops instrumentalizing the Shiite worlds to sow chaos in Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen and elsewhere. The great Persian poet Hâfez sang: The spring that comes back with the charm of roses. Soon, we hope, he will return to Iran.

16

Dec

2025

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Presentation of the automotive package (debate)

16

Dec

2025

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Grids package and tackling raising energy prices through robust infrastructure (debate)

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Nov

2025

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European Defence Industry Programme and a framework of measures to ensure the timely availability and supply of defence products (‘EDIP’) (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, rearmament of our nations is no longer a choice, it is a necessity. Our continent is not destined to live under the protection of foreign powers. But Europe's power will remain a slogan as long as we do not have an autonomous defence industry, as long as we accept dependencies that make us vulnerable and as long as our defence budgets are not up to the challenge. EDIP marks, let's face it, a first step in the right direction. It reflects an emerging desire for strategic autonomy and affirms the principle of a European priority. But this text is not ambitious enough. How can we be fully satisfied when the European preference is capped at 65%? When the definitions of European components and calculation methods remain unclear? When too many exemptions still allow the purchase of South Korean or US-licensed ammunition and missiles with European taxpayers' money? We would have expected this text to set a course, for example by setting targets for industrial autonomy in the short, medium and long term. After all, this method has been adopted by this majority in terms of energy transition, so why not in terms of strategic autonomy?

12

Nov

2025

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Protecting EU consumers against the practices of certain e-commerce platforms: the case of child-like sex dolls, weapons and other illegal products and material (debate)

Mr President, imagine that it took the scandal of the sale of dolls for paedophiles, marketed on the Shein platform, for the French authorities finally to decide to look into the activity of this Chinese e-commerce giant – a giant that floods our markets with low-end products, often illegal, and whose model favours ephemeral fashion, a veritable ecological aberration. But the sale of these sex dolls is just one drop of water among the 4.6 billion Chinese parcels that pour into European soil every year. This debate – which I have called for with our group, ECR – we wanted it to become a European issue and for the Commission to finally act to protect our businesses from unfair competition and consumers of dangerous or toxic products. Be aware that a survey conducted by a consumer association found that 60% of the products analysed did not comply with our European standards! What is the point, then, of passing laws if our economic competitors do not respect them? Why investigate if dissuasive sanctions do not follow? What is the point of the Commission's formal notices if they are not followed by any sanctions? I say it clearly today: Shein must be banned from entering the European common market.

12

Nov

2025

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Commemorating the 10th anniversary of the islamist attacks of 13 November 2015 in Paris (debate)

Madam President, I am speaking here on behalf of a bruised country, a martyred country. Since 2012, more than 300 French people have been victims of Islamist hatred. On 13 November 2015 alone, 130 Frenchmen were killed and 413 wounded. So, on this sad anniversary, I ask a question: Can we look the families of the victims in the eye and tell them that everything has been done so that this attack can no longer take place? Can we tell them that Islamism today is weaker than it was yesterday? The answer is unfortunately "no". Indeed, terrorists could still cross six or seven borders to come and strike our capitals, and yes, Islamist ideology continues to advance in the soil of extra-European immigration and communitarianism. How many deaths will it take to finally regain control of immigration and our borders, to finally ban the Muslim Brotherhood – as many Muslim countries have done, as the United States is planning to do, as Austria has had the courage to do – to finally assert that we are a Christian civilisation and that we are proud of it? Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, minutes of silence are no longer enough. I call on you, on behalf of all these victims, to finally support this triple response: migration, security and civilization.

22

Oct

2025

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 23 October 2025 (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, even today too many figures reveal our weakness: 70% of artificial intelligence models are developed in the United States, 80% of digital products and services used in Europe are produced abroad. Brain drain is accelerating and only three of the top 50 research institutes are European. So we expect much more than a new omnibus that will marginally correct the mistakes of the past, especially those of the Green Deal. We want a break, a software change on three major points: a European production strategy, not just decarbonised, to achieve sovereignty and maintain jobs; a European nuclear energy plan and a comprehensive energy strategy that finally lift us out of the costly utopia of renewables; the European priority at the heart of our decisions in the customs balance of power, in access to public procurement and in defence. All too often we have a Diagnostic and Communication Committee. Europeans are still waiting for this Union to take the action that we have been promised.

21

Oct

2025

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Renewing the EU-Africa Partnership: building common priorities ahead of the Angola Summit (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Mr Brunner, as Commissioner responsible for migration issues, it is up to you to put an end to the logic that has hitherto prevailed in Europe's relationship with the African continent. The Commission's main strategy has been to encourage immigration and get lost in costly sprinkling, while seeking to impose on Africans the green ideologies and "woke" values promoted by Brussels. This strategy is a race to the abyss. As we massively import African youth, we leave the continent to our trading rivals. Africans and Europeans, however, have a mutual interest in drying up sources of immigration. African host and transit countries face the same problems as many European host countries: crime, prostitution, drugs, violence, unemployment, Islamist terrorism, human trafficking. And like us, the countries of departure see their upper classes go into exile. Commissioner, it is time to act pragmatically and break with the sterile diplomacy of almsgiving and human rights. Mme Meloni understood this with her Mattei plan, which clearly links economic cooperation and the fight against immigration. It seems to me that this is a model that must be followed. Brussels must be inspired by this win-win logic.

21

Oct

2025

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Composition of committees and delegations

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I am speaking on the basis of Rule 10 of the Rules of Procedure. Yesterday, on his social networks, Rima Hassan was jubilant at the images of the summary executions of civilians committed in Gaza by Hamas terrorists. His contented and chilling comment "One by one" resonates like a real incitement to murder. This left reveals its true face, that of supporting a bloodthirsty Islamism that is draped in the clothes of justice. Make no mistake, in the spirit of Rima Hassan and his friends of the Muslim Brotherhood, this "One by One" is addressed not only to the supposed traitors of Gaza, but to all those who stand up to the jihadist project of this organization. It designates all those whom the Islamists want to fight: Jews, Christians, assimilated immigrants and European civilization, "One by one". Mrs. Hassan, we have generously welcomed your family as refugees. You betray our generosity every day by sowing hatred and discord. I have only one thing to say to you: Get out of here. Go and go back to where you consider yourself at home. So join this Hamas you love so much and taste, as a woman with the bitter delights of being a woman among Islamists and failing that at least...

8

Oct

2025

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Europe’s automotive future – reversing the ban on the sale of combustion cars in the EU (topical debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in putting this debate on the agenda, my ECR Group wanted to reiterate the urgency of lifting the ban on new combustion engines from 2035 onwards. The fruit of green dogmatism, this insane ban has put the European car industry in agony and has obviously worked in favour of Chinese manufacturers. Hundreds of thousands of European jobs have been lost as a result of climate tartufs. In France, in just five years, 40,000 jobs have been lost. This is more than 10% of the workforce. Whole parts of our economy, from heavy industry to OEMs, are now at risk. I see some of those who claim to be at the bedside of European manufacturers actually being responsible for putting the European car industry on the brink of bankruptcy. It was the von der Leyen Commission that initiated the ban on combustion engines with the adoption of the Green Deal. It was Commissioner Séjourné, then President of the Renew Group, who, on 14 February 2023, overturned this Parliament’s vote in favour of banning new combustion-engined vehicles. In France, an expression says: “It is a great wrong to be right too soon.” We know this, together with the ECR Group, which has been warning since day one about the risk of this ban. But another expression says that only idiots do not change their minds. It is therefore not too late to open your eyes and repair the mistakes of the past.

7

Oct

2025

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New Strategic EU-India Agenda (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in a world that increasingly pits China against the United States, it is in the interest of the European countries to establish deep cooperation with India, an emerging and dynamic power. This cooperation must first be done on the security front. India, like us, faces an intense Islamist threat. In this struggle, we should be more inspired by Narendra Modi, who does not have Western modesty. It must then be done in terms of defence. As a nuclear weapon, India is providing colossal means to guarantee its strategic independence. This search for autonomy has materialized in the recent purchase of Rafale aircraft and Scorpene-class submarines, an approach that we must continue to support. Cooperation must also be energetic. As an emerging industrial power, India invests heavily in the development of decarbonized energy sectors, but its nuclear sector is still in its infancy. Establishing privileged partnerships with New Delhi to pilot the creation of nuclear power plants must therefore be a priority. Finally, cooperation must be commercial. While India, under the impetus of a patriotic government, protects its market, Europe has instead opened its own without serious compensation. To close our trade deficit, we must therefore break with this naive approach, which has been the hallmark of the European Commission for too long.

7

Oct

2025

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Common agricultural policy (joint debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I do not teach anyone here that agriculture has been the great forgotten, and even the great sacrifice, of the Commission's policy of recent years. It was therefore high time to finally support our farmers in the face of the administrative hell in which they are now locked; our farmers spend more time filling out forms than planting seeds. I therefore congratulate Céline Imart on her report, because we will always be on the side of those who want to simplify the lives of workers, those who want to tell the truth about the origin of the products we consume and those who want to protect agricultural pay and merit. Nevertheless, I invite you to listen and hear the anger that is still raging today in our campaigns. Simplifying is not enough, we must also protect. However, the Commission does not protect when it plans to reduce the CAP budget. It does not protect when it wants to impose the forceful passage of the free trade treaty and, with it, the unfair competition that accompanies it. It is not acceptable to let our farms shave, to tear up our vines, to decimate our herds to sell a few more German cars on the edge of the world. I'll say it again here: There will be no European power without French growth, and there will be no French growth without the rescue of our agriculture.

10

Sep

2025

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State of the Union (debate)

Madam President, Mrs von der Leyen, today the European Union is facing an existential challenge. The great civilizations are necessary, while you cling to your old software, as with the Green Deal, and accompany our exit from history. You are preparing the signing of Mercosur by wanting once again to bypass the vote of the States. You have just accepted an unfair treaty with the United States, when this was an opportunity to live up to the historic turning point. Yet the data of the new world are clear: We have entered the era of political caesarism and no longer of techno-bureaucracy. Free trade globalization is behind us. We can no longer rely on outside powers like Washington to ensure our security. The United Nations and major international organizations are powerless in the face of ongoing conflicts. Everywhere, the balance of power has replaced international law, and we are just at the beginning of the migration crisis. Nigeria has twice as many births each year as all of our 27 countries combined. And yet, in your speech, you devote only one minute to the question of immigration. This speech is a demonstration that you have not become fully aware of this data. Then we call on you once again to make acts of rupture, because regrets do not make a policy.

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Jul

2025

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Preparation for the 2025 EU–China Summit - Tackling China's critical raw materials export restrictions

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, in the 1990s, European countries abandoned the extraction and refining of critical metals. Thirty years later, in the absence of a strategic vision, Europeans find themselves in a delicate situation of dependence on China, which accounts for 60% of the world’s rare earths mining and 92% of their refined production. As such, Beijing covers more than 90% of our needs. Any export restrictions in this area pose significant risks to our industries and defence. So, faced with the challenges posed to us by China, five priority axes must guide our policy: 1) reducing the use of rare earths if reliable alternatives exist; 2) diversification of partnerships as European agriculture is not a bargaining chip – which would be totally unacceptable; 3) research and exploitation of new European deposits; 4) development of recycling pathways; 5) Relocation of refining capacity. Finally, Brussels seems to have decided to follow this path. It is a reason for satisfaction, which must help to break the ideological shackles that declining environmentalists have imposed on us so far.

7

Jul

2025

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Arbitrary sentencing of Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal and journalist Christophe Gleizes (debate)

Madam President, Boualem Sansal, Christophe Gleizes: These two names have become the symbol of our abdication. It was not enough for France to apologize for building roads, schools and hospitals in Algeria. It was also necessary to lower one’s head in the face of the contempt of an authoritarian regime that had failed to do anything about its independence. For weeks, Paris took refuge in denial. Waiting for the end of the trial, waiting for the end of Ramadan, waiting for the appeal, then a hypothetical presidential pardon... This kneeling diplomacy has failed miserably and shames us. There are not only two prisoners in this case: there are four of them, because France and the Commission are also mentally captive to Algeria, willing victims of its memorial annuity, stunned by its immigration blackmail. So what is all his agitation worth before Trump, Iran, Putin, if the Commission is not even able to suspend the EU-Algeria agreement to protect two nationals? It's time for France to stop suffering! Let’s denounce the 1968 migration agreement, close consulates, block financial transfers to Algeria, suspend the 250,000 visas generously distributed every year! It is never too late to raise your head.

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Jun

2025

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Electricity grids: the backbone of the EU energy system (debate)

Colleagues, last April's Spanish blackout was not the result of a mismatch of circumstances, contrary to what the Spanish government is trying to make believe. It is the result of an unbalanced energy mix dominated by solar and wind energy. This is an alert that should convince this Parliament to give up pushing countries to commit to a very high percentage of intermittent renewable energy. All this with an inadequate grid, whose cost of adaptation would be such that it would explode the price of electricity for consumers. Behind the green promises, there is another hidden reality. The massive presence of intermittent renewable energy forces nuclear power to modulate its production, resulting in premature equipment wear, higher operating costs and loss of profitability. This blackout is a wake-up call. If we continue with the objectives of the Green Deal, we run the risk of increasing power outages in Europe. It is not too late to make the right choices, by further promoting nuclear and non-intermittent renewable energies such as hydropower, geothermal or biomass.

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Jun

2025

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Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience Facility (debate)

Madam President, today we are looking at the implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility. This financial instrument, worth almost €675 billion, is a centrepiece of the European recovery plan adopted in 2020. Who will repay the €42 billion in interest, two to three times more than initially planned, as the European Court of Auditors notes? Future generations, of course. A pinnacle for a plan called NextGenerationEU. By introducing a common European debt, Brussels paved the way for the creation of new own resources and new European taxes. Beyond the question of reimbursement, this plan is above all a further step towards a centralized Europe and a supranational Europe that the peoples do not want. We must absolutely reject this permanent tendency to take advantage of crises to transfer powers to the European Union behind the backs of the people, especially when we are aware of the complexity of the Brussels bureaucracy which makes access to these borrowed budgets particularly complex for our companies, especially when we are aware of the way in which the Commission uses the disbursement of these funds as a lever of blackmail towards nations recalcitrant to its policy. We expect from Europe not additional debt, but vision and protection.