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22

Oct

2024

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General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sections (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, as a new member of this House, I am first struck by the fact that every report by the European Court of Auditors reveals the mismanagement of EU funds, with indecent error rates regularly observed in almost all budget headings and persistent deficiencies in management and control systems, which is a wake-up call to the effectiveness of European spending. I was m…

21

Oct

2024

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One-minute speeches (Rule 179)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the recent report by the European Court of Auditors on the Emergency Trust Fund for Stability and Addressing the Root Causes of Irregular Migration and Displaced Persons in Africa, a fund endowed with EUR 5 billion of public money from our fellow citizens, is edifying and overwhelming. If the needs are real and the situation worrying, the examples of waste witho…

10

Oct

2024

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The rise of religious intolerance in Europe (continuation of debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we have known for many years what you modestly call religious intolerance towards Eastern Christians, which is an absolute horror and forces humans to live in permanent anguish, exclusion and precariousness. I also welcome the initiative of my colleague Thierry Mariani to set up an intergroup on Eastern Christians here, and I hope that many of us will be part…

7

Oct

2024

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The reintroduction of internal border controls in a number of Member States and its impact on the Schengen Area (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, as we are debating border controls in the Schengen area today, we can only note the recent hypocrisy of the governments of some countries. Indeed, those who did not have strong enough words against the sovereignists are beginning to discover little by little that it is therefore necessary to protect themselves from massive immigration. We want to ask them why. I…

16

Sep

2024

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Need to prevent security threats like the Solingen attack through addressing illegal migration and effective return (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would first like to express my full solidarity with the families of the victims of the Solingen knife attack and, more generally, with the German people. This umpteenth attack, committed once again by a Syrian who is asked what he was doing on European soil, must ask us about the lax migration and settlement policy supported by the European Commission. Because…