What Julien spoke about.

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Sep

2025

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Devastating wildfires in Southern Europe: the need to strengthen EU aid to restore the massive loss of forests and enhancing EU preparedness (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, today you are proposing a debate on the devastating fires in Europe this summer, particularly in my region of Aude. I could just think of the victims and salute the relief work, and then leave. But that's not why I'm here. I'm here to get things done, and these fires pose several problems that I'm going to address. First, they show once again that …

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Jul

2025

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Lessons from Budapest Pride: the urgent need for an EU wide anti-discrimination law and defending fundamental rights against right-wing attacks (topical debate)

Madam President, once again, you are putting on the agenda here a debate targeting one Member State, still the same, Hungary. How weird! What do you want? Do you want to exclude Hungary from the European Union, or do you just want to govern Hungary instead of the democratically elected government? I'm asking you how many democracy catch-up courses we're going to have to give you. For months now, w…

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Jun

2025

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Assassination attempt on Senator Miguel Uribe and the threat to the democratic process and peace in Colombia (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I do not share your ideas, but I will fight to ensure that you can always express them. As an elected representative, I am deeply democratic, respectful of everyone's free expression, and here I would like to express my deep emotion at the tragedy that has affected Colombia. To see a candidate being the victim of an assassination attempt almost at close range is…

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Jun

2025

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Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience Facility (debate)

It is a charade, quite simply, because the only control we have is to ask the states which are the top 100 final beneficiaries. But I don't just want the top 100 final recipients per state, I want all recipients per state and I want it to be public. I want us to see all this; Today they're hiding it from us. And when I ask the Latvian Court of Auditors, for example, where I went, very specific que…

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Jun

2025

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Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience Facility (debate)

Madam President, in 2020, the European Commission decided on large loans of 800 billion called NextGenerationEU, supposedly to revive the economy, we saw the result. Most of these loans went to the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) funds, which your report now claims to have a positive track record. I don't know if it's a deliberate lie, blindness, or a little bit of both; So let me recall th…

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May

2025

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Mr President, in 2025, more than EUR 100 million is earmarked in the European Parliament for expenditure on cleaning the premises, maintenance and security of the buildings. Worse, these already indecent amounts will increase even sharply in the 2026 budget, according to the negotiations in which I was able to participate. Apart from the structural causes caused by the existence of three European …

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May

2025

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The Hungarian government's drift to Russia-style repression: legislative threats to freedom of expression and democratic participation (debate)

Mr President, I am very shocked by the title of our debate. You therefore believe it is normal to stigmatise and target a Member State, Hungary, which is also on trial of intent. This is disloyal and unacceptable behaviour towards a Member State. This is extremely shocking. What image do you think we are sending back internationally today? The United States and China must laugh. You just don't res…

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May

2025

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Discharge 2023 (joint debate)

Mr President, as an elected member of the Patriotes for Europe Group, I will refuse tomorrow to vote in favour of the various discharges that are supposed to give discharge on management, in particular the many European agencies and joint undertakings. This choice is not a rejection of these entities as such. We support the action of some agencies – although in our view others should be abolished …

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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, today we are debating the political guidelines for the next multiannual financial framework (MFF) for the years 2028 to 2035. This MFF cannot be reduced to a repetition of the mistakes of the past. What we are seeing today is a Union budget that has become illegible, fragmented by exceptional instruments and weakened by a glaring lack of control. I would mention Next Generation EU, w…

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May

2025

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Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2023 (debate)

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Apr

2025

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Safeguarding the access to democratic media, such as Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I disagree with what you say, but I will defend your right to say it to the death. No normally constituted person can call freedom of expression into question, because it is through the confrontation of ideas and exchanges that one rises and progresses. The Patriots for Europe Group is arguably the group most committed to freedom of expression. So you are asking…

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Mar

2025

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Guidelines for the 2026 budget - Section III (debate)

Mr President, I would first like to express my condolences to France. Yes, after Romania, the rule of law has died in France today, after a judge decided to make ineligible, following a socialist cabal fomented here, the leader of the opposition, credited yesterday with 37% of the votes in the first round of the presidential election. Any Democrat can only be shocked to see that the ineligibility …

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Mar

2025

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EU Consumers Day: filling the gaps in protecting 440 million consumers in the EU (debate)

Mr President, the Commission dares today to launch a debate on consumer protection. Some truths must therefore be recalled. First, without your European energy market, the French could have nuclear, EDF and the cheapest electricity, and be an eldorado for companies in Europe. Instead, you are robbing the French, with Macron's complicity. Secondly, is it not the European Union that, through its agr…

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Mar

2025

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100 days of the new Commission – Delivering on defence, competitiveness, simplification and migration as our priorities (topical debate)

Mr President, you propose that we discuss the first hundred days of the new European Commission. Having voted against your appointment, we can only be confirmed in our vote by your balance sheet. Indeed, what have you done in 100 days? You have done so little that we have been voting almost nothing here since the beginning of this mandate. Yes, you are in control of the agenda and have absolutely …

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Mar

2025

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, in December 2023, the Bureau of the European Parliament decided catiminially to renovate a European Parliament building in Brussels, the SPAAK building, for EUR 455 million to EUR 490 million, from 2025 to 2030, despite Strasbourg being the official seat – EUR 455 million to EUR 490 million! So you want to start this year, when the EU’s financial situation is…

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Mar

2025

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Establishing the Reform and Growth Facility for the Republic of Moldova (debate)

Madam President, while the financial situation of the European Union is worrying and the right and left groups are already preparing us for the creation of new own resources, which will further rackete citizens to be able to repay the crazy loans of NextGenerationEU, i.e. 800 billion subscribed by the Commission, one could have imagined that you would now pay attention to the relevance of the expe…

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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, at the age of 78, Donald Trump manages in a few days to cheer up the European Commission, but also the leaders of many states, including France. Whatever one thinks of his ideas, one can only note his dynamism, his voluntarism, which contrasts with the immobility surrounding here. Because Donald Trump and his entourage behave like business leaders, action-reaction, in less than a …

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Jan

2025

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Addressing EU demographic challenges: towards the implementation of the 2023 Demography Toolbox (debate)

Mr President, in this report you are concerned about demography in Europe. Not out of a spirit of identity or a desire to transmit, but only for low commercial reasons. For you, Europe is not carnal, it is a market. Your only concern, it has been understood, is to have a workforce. Then your solution is, as often, only in the short term: it is the use of immigration, forgetting in passing the horr…

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Dec

2024

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Misinformation and disinformation on social media platforms, such as TikTok, and related risks to the integrity of elections in Europe (debate)

Mr President, sometimes in this Parliament you would like us to believe that you are fighting for freedoms. So, like earlier with the Sakharov Prize, you bring people here to the public. You make them applaud – and rightly so – for their actions in favour of freedoms around the world, knowing that you would often be unable to do what they do, because it is fear that guides most European policies t…

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Dec

2024

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Madam President, during COVID-19, Europe was the laughing stock of the world because it did not have masks and had to import them. Do you remember that? This obviously did not serve as a lesson for you, because, with the EU-Mercosur agreement, it is our sovereignty and our food independence that you will destroy. When you have ransacked French agriculture – one of our wealth, strengths, specificit…

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Dec

2024

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Right to clean drinking water in the EU (debate)

Madam President, this debate on the right to drinking water in Europe is an important opportunity to tell you, as my colleagues Tolassy and Rougé have done, my disgust and shame. At a time when this Parliament and national parliaments are spending billions for the entire Earth, whether it is the Emergency Trust Fund for Africa – whose slippages and anomalies the European Court of Auditors has poin…

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Nov

2024

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Prison conditions in the EU (debate)

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Nov

2024

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2025 budgetary procedure: Joint text (debate)

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Nov

2024

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The devastating floods in Spain, the urgent need to support the victims, to improve preparedness and to fight the climate crisis (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I would first like to express my friendship, solidarity and condolences to the Spanish people. I was mayor for ten years of a commune in the south of France in a flood zone and regularly flooded. So I was deeply moved by what I saw in Spain, which was terrible. And I saw an emotion, a natural solidarity for all the Spaniards who found themselves trapped and i…

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Oct

2024

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Presentation of the Court of Auditors' annual report 2023 (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the 2023 annual report of the European Court of Auditors blatantly exposes the serious malfunctioning of the Commission in the management of European funds. The level of error in budgetary expenditure reached an impressive 5,6 %. This error rate, which even amounts to 9.3% in some sectors, shows a complete lack of rigour on the part of the Commission. This waste…