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The worker getting up for work, the craftsman, the rural family. They are all good for you only when your ideas need to be paid for. Did you want them to adapt to your vision? No! You adapt to the visions of ordinary people, urged 🇫🇷 Jordan Bardella, perhaps the future French Prime Minister. *** 🇫🇷 Jordan Bardella (RN/PfE): Madam President, Mr. Canadian #Prime Minister, Mrs. President von der Leyen, when I hear you praise your results year after year, one would think that Europe is always on the verge of a new beginning. Yet, when we listen to our fellow citizens, it has above all reached the end of your system. Because in 2026 there are two Europes. There is the Europe of those who write regulations, of bureaucrats who squander public money and invent the taxes of tomorrow. A Europe that plans to increase its personnel costs by 40% and private jets for European Commissioners by 50%. And then there is the Europe of those who have to pay. The Europe of those who have to pay for #petrol, which will soon reach €2.50 per litre in France, for heating and for food, the costs of which are constantly rising. The Europe of those who work more and more to earn less and less. This is, in short, the real state of the European Union. Tomorrow, with your infamous EU regulation of 2023, you plan to increase fuel prices by another €0.15 per litre. Behind this abbreviation, which is incomprehensible to many of our fellow citizens, and behind the unbearable pressure on the middle and working classes, lies your policy of a very simple reality: the ever-increasing cost of living for our citizens. With you, the factory worker who commutes 40 kilometers, the craftsman who fills up his van, the rural family without a metro or tram, you are only good for one thing: paying, paying again and paying even more. And unfortunately, your Europe not only costs us more every year, but also protects us less and less. This summer in Ceuta, tens of thousands of migrants illegally crossed the European border in just a few hours. #Ceuta is Spanish and must remain so, but the border in Ceuta is also our border. And when the border can be crossed in a few hours, it is no longer just a migration crisis or an invasion; it is a crisis of sovereignty. A Europe without borders, walls or frontiers is doomed. From Ceuta to Lampedusa, from the Mediterranean to the Belarusian borders, the people of Europe expect only one thing: that you will protect our borders, that you will turn away illegal migrants who try to enter or land on our territory illegally. These people must not be dispersed across our cities and countryside, as you wish, as has already been confirmed in the New Pact on Migration, but must be returned to their countries of origin. Finally, let us look at the world around us, ravaged by war, from Ukraine to the Middle East, by Islamist terrorism and by food and energy insecurity. The United States invests, China invests, and yet we regulate. We regulate what we no longer produce, we tax what we can no longer produce, and we import what we ourselves have forbidden to produce. This is the great European #paradox. That is why we must change it and build a new European architecture. Let's massively eliminate bureaucracy and absurd, unnecessary regulations. Let's protect our farmers and businesses from unfair competition. Let's channel savings into national sovereign wealth funds and invest not only in defense, but also in space, technology and nuclear energy. Let's free ourselves from a regressive ideology without growth. Let's rediscover the taste for power, science, innovation and our own capabilities. The 21st century is finally reminding us of the truth that Europe has forgotten: people who can no longer defend their borders, keep their factories running, produce energy or feed their children are putting their fate in the hands of others. For decades, you have asked people to adapt to your vision of the European Union. Today in #Brussels, it is time to reverse this order and finally give power back to the people (EP Service Transcript).