What Laurence spoke about.

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May

2026

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Situation of women and girls in Afghanistan following the Taliban's adoption of the Criminal Procedure Code for Courts

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, strange schizophrenia sometimes than that of the European Union, which seems to discover that Afghanistan is a land of Islam and is moved by the status of women, which has been clearly defined by Sharia law for more than 1600 years. French soldiers defended France and Europe from the murderous passion of religious fanaticism to the heart of the ‘cemetery of empi…

20

May

2026

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Rights, support and protection of victims of crime (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, what wasted time, what wasted time! The Victims' Rights Directive, intended as a common sense text at first reading in this Chamber, has been delayed by the left and centre, who are more obsessed with mentioning abortion than with providing effective and timely support to victims. The first right of victims is reparation. And the reparation goes through the s…

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Apr

2026

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Situation in Lebanon: implementation of the ceasefire, support peace efforts and humanitarian access (debate)

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Mar

2026

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Child sexual abuse online: protect children, not perpetrators (topical debate)

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Mar

2026

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International Women’s Day

Madam President, dear Madam, thank you for your shocking testimony. I have seen your pain in the hearts of other mothers who are also suffering from the death of their murdered daughter. And for 50 years, feminism has been taken hostage by the left, which has made women victims of a so-called patriarchy to impose its false deconstruction, leaving today women alone, single mothers and young girls i…

12

Feb

2026

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Recommendation to the Council on EU priorities for the 70th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (debate)

12

Feb

2026

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Recommendation to the Council on EU priorities for the 70th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (debate)

10

Feb

2026

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Situation in Northeast Syria, the violence against civilians and the need to maintain a sustainable ceasefire (debate)

20

Jan

2026

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Framework for strengthening the availability and security of supply of critical medicinal products as well as the availability of, and accessibility of, medicinal products of common interest (A10-0272/2025 - Tomislav Sokol) (vote)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the aim of this amendment is to strengthen the responsibility of the Member States in the use of the Union reserve, recalling that solidarity, even in times of crisis, cannot imply gratuitousness. As the European Union has a supporting competence in the field of health, this amendment aims to ensure a sustainable financing of the reserve by providing for the rei…

16

Dec

2025

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European Citizens’ Initiative ‘My voice, my choice: for safe and accessible abortion’ (debate)

16

Dec

2025

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European Citizens’ Initiative ‘My voice, my choice: for safe and accessible abortion’ (debate)

16

Dec

2025

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European Citizens’ Initiative ‘My voice, my choice: for safe and accessible abortion’ (debate)

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Nov

2025

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EU strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities post-2024 (debate)

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Nov

2025

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Gender Equality Strategy 2025 (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, equality, freedom of choice and self-determination: this is the usual creed of mental socialism, which the West is still struggling to get rid of, and this 2025 Strategy for equality between women and men is its archetype, with its usual litany of pious and utopian vows. This report, which praises the convergence of struggles, is far removed from the real con…

23

Oct

2025

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Combating violence against women and girls, including the exploitation of motherhood (debate)

Mr. member, you accused the Conservatives of being prisoners of the patriarchal system. I'm a woman. I am a member of the Conservative Group. I'm a politician. I am not dependent on the opinion that my husband might have on me, to ban me or allow me to be engaged in politics. I wanted to make this first remark and then ask you a question. You failed to talk about women's addiction, women's slavery…

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Oct

2025

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Combating violence against women and girls, including the exploitation of motherhood (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, it is gratifying that this debate on the exploitation of maternity and therefore, let us not be mistaken, surrogacy is finally taking place in this Chamber. Because, after the UN report condemning surrogacy in all its forms, after its condemnation as a universal crime by Italy, after the inclusion in the Slovak constitution of its prohibition, it is up to the…

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Oct

2025

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UN Climate Change Conference 2025 in Belém, Brazil (COP30) (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, on a matter as serious as the environment and the economy of our territories, I deplore the fact that ideology is involved. The resolution tabled on the future COP30 only scratches the surface of nuclear power without presenting it for what it is, the only solution for low-cost, stable and decarbonised energy. At the same time, gender equality occupies a prominent pl…

10

Sep

2025

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After 10 years, time to end mass migration now - protect our women and children (topical debate)

Madam President, 12-year-old Lola Daviet, cut into pieces by Dahbia Benkired, an Algerian woman under an obligation to leave French territory (OQTF). Philippine Lenoir, 19, killed in the Bois de Boulogne by Taha Oualidat, Moroccan under OQTF. Johanna Blanes, 24, raped and killed in Mont-de-Marsan by Syrian refugee Hussein Ahmed. Nadine Devillers, 60, and Simone Barreto Silva, 44, slaughtered and s…

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Jul

2025

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Urgent need to protect religious minorities in Syria following the recent terrorist attack on Mar Elias Church in Damascus

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, on 22 June in Damascus, 25 people lost their lives and 63 others were injured because they were Christians. A few hundred meters from their church, Saint-Élie, the Rue Droite was borrowed by Saint Paul two thousand years ago. Yes, Syria was one of the cradles of Christianity, and therefore of our civilization. Today, Islamism is at the head of this fragile state…

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May

2025

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Amending Regulation (EU) 2023/956 as regards simplifying and strengthening the carbon border adjustment mechanism (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the Commission proposes that we continue today the gradual unravelling of the disastrous Green Deal with the simplification of the carbon border adjustment mechanism. The regulatory and bureaucratic madness of the European Union shows its limits and we welcome this return to reality. But that's not enough. Applied as it stands, the carbon border ta…

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May

2025

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A revamped long-term budget for the Union in a changing world (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, EUR 30 billion a year is the most relentless reality that the text on the European Union's long-term budget shows us: 30 billion euros that will have to be paid each year to repay the insanity of the Next Generation EU loan. The guidelines of this budget appear to be a leak forward: creation of own resources, enlargement, reinforced egalitarian utopia. These gui…

11

Mar

2025

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Presentation of the proposal on Critical Medicines Act (CMA) (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we were promised that the European Union will ensure our competitiveness, well-being and resilience. Yet today we have to deal with the central issue of medicines, starting with the most critical ones. Would we have become a Third World continent? Since this problem needs to be addressed, let us do so by trying, for once, not to respond to the m…

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Mar

2025

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Roadmap for Women`s Rights (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the roadmap for women's rights presented last Friday oscillates between self-satisfaction and a declaration of principle, which is more useful in hushed chambers than against the real difficulties faced by women in real life in the 21st century. Do you really want to protect women? So, start by closing the borders and stop importing into our land m…

12

Feb

2025

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US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, the World Health Organisation and the suspension of US development and humanitarian aid (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, EUR 22.6 million is the amount of development aid granted to China by the European Union in 2024. It is our money that allows the world's second largest economy to destroy our industry. For the 2024-2025 financial year, EUR 1 000 600 000 will go from the pockets of European taxpayers to countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Does this stop migratory f…

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Jan

2025

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Combating Desertification: 16th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP16) of the United Nations Convention (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, in the face of climate change, it is sad to see that ideological solutions too often take precedence over common sense. The issue of desertification is no exception and the answers to this problem, which no one denies, are often illusory. As such, the fierce and sometimes even violent opposition of French ecologists to common-sense solutions such a…