22/04/2026 | 17:16:43 Thank you, Madam Chair. Ladies and gentlemen, Like me, you have seen the images of Israeli ministers popping champagne to celebrate the passing of a law providing for the death penalty only for Palestinians classified as terrorists. A racist death penalty, by hanging, reserved for Arabs. The death penalty, whether racist or not, is incompatible with the principles of the Council of Europe, as are the extrajudicial executions carried out on a large scale by Israel. Yet the Israeli Parliament... 22/04/2026 | 11:24:44 Thank you, Mister President. Since 2014, the Istanbul Convention has been the first legally binding instrument at European level to prevent and punish violence against women. 38 member states of the Council of Europe have signed up to the Convention. Several have withdrawn, including Türkiye. Several have never ratified it: Bulgaria, Hungary and Lithuania, to name but a few. Others have ratified it, but are still very poor performers. I am referring, of course, to France, my country, where... 21/04/2026 | 11:27:27 Thank you, Mr President. I would like to take this opportunity to respond to the member for Sweden who said earlier that violence comes exclusively from the left. I invite her to look at the statistics of the European Union or what is happening in France. Because what we see in France is that in 40 years, the far right has killed 10 times as many people as the so-called ultra-left. What we see is that since 1986, the far right has killed 64 people in our country for racist, Islamophobic, anti... 20/04/2026 | 16:40:20 Thank you Madam President, Minister, I am repeating the questions I put to the National Assembly to which you did not reply. On 21 April, Spain, Ireland and Slovenia will call for the suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement. Are you too going to finally call for the suspension of this agreement, or are you going to continue to disgrace our country, France? Do you regret quoting Ms Golda MEIR in the Senate? Do you support the request to exclude the Knesset from its observer status in... 25/06/2025 | 20:31:41 Thank you, Mr Chairman. The report before us reminds us that there can be no ecological transition without social justice. We cannot impose environmental measures that penalise the most vulnerable. Ecology cannot be a luxury reserved for the few. It must be accessible to all. Ecology must be popular. We must ensure that energy transition policies do not further exclude the most disadvantaged, but rather protect and support them. The rapporteur, Saskia KLUIT, cites with approval the... 25/06/2025 | 19:10:28 Thank you, Mr President, I have read this report, which I personally will support and which my group supports. And I can see that my Macronist French colleagues here today are cut to the quick by this report. They are right to be, because this report is disastrous for France and Mr Emmanuel MACRON's France has got only what it deserves. The colleague who presented the report talked about the fight against the reform of retirement at 64. You have to realise that Mr Emmanuel MACRON's violence... 25/06/2025 | 16:14:43 Thank you, Mr. President, For 21 months, our fellow Gazans have been bombed, starved, thirsty, humiliated and exterminated. Twenty-one months since the first genocide in history was filmed live, showing the powerlessness of the international system. Genocide, ecocide, urbicide, educicide, futuricide, what is happening in Gaza has brought to light unprecedented categories for understanding disaster. Atrocities that are depriving Gaza of schools, hospitals, universities and farmland, where life... 25/06/2025 | 10:23:22 Thank you, Mister Chairman. Mister Chairman, we have two joint debates today on neutrality in sport and respect for human rights in and through sport. The first debate leads me to say that I believe it's important to remember that sport is political. When, in 1968, Black athletes raised their fist in an era of segregated America, I believe it was political. When Russia has been excluded from the Olympic Games since 2022 and its athletes can only compete under neutral banners, and if they say... 24/06/2025 | 16:58:55 Mister President, Russia's invasion of Ukraine has resulted in widespread violations of international humanitarian and human rights law. The ICC has issued arrest warrants for six Russian officials, including Vladimir PUTIN, for war crimes and crimes against humanity. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the number of victims in Ukraine has even increased in recent months, particularly near the front line. We call on this Assembly to support the Ukrainian people... 24/06/2025 | 15:59:32 On 1 June, the Madleen and its crew set off for the Gaza Strip to break the humanitarian blockade and bring aid to the Gazans. A useful, highly political and peaceful action. On 9 June, the 12 crew members, including MEP Ms Rima HASSAN, Ms Greta THUNBERG, a doctor and two journalists, were abducted in international waters by the Israeli army. Following this illegal arrest in violation of international law, the crew was then also illegally held in detention for several days. In response to...