Category: VERBATIM

Let’s talk about security guarantees, Mr Putin

Intervention in the plenary session on the situation on the Ukrainian border and in the territories of Ukraine occupied by Russia


Madam President, dear colleagues, I am not going to go back over what so many of you have already said, well said and rightly said, about Russian military posturing on the border with Ukraine.

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Taiwan: one country, two systems, no thank you

Plenary speech in the debate on political relations and cooperation between the EU and Taiwan

Mr President, Commissioner, dear colleagues, there are times when even a dictator can speak the truth. When Mr Xi Jinping says that Taiwan is China, yes, he is right. Taiwan is China, and it is the destiny of Taiwan and Communist China to reunite one day, just as West Germany and East Germany did, just as the two Koreas, let us hope, let us be certain, will do one day. But under what conditions?

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Faced with the disorders of the world, the Union must pull all its weight

Speech in the plenary session in the debate on the situation in Burma

Mr President, my dear colleagues, the situation is unbearable. The facts are appalling. We know the facts and the figures: more than 1 000 people killed, more than 8 000 people imprisoned and, above all, hundreds of thousands of displaced people and even more Burmese citizens now threatened with extreme poverty, if not worse.

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The atlantic alliance must become an alliance among equal partners

Speech in the plenary debate on the relations between the USA and the European Union


Mr President, my dear colleagues, not so long ago, under the previous mandate, the two words “European defence” were taboo. Not so long ago, the words “strategic autonomy” were simply unknown in this House. Today we are adopting a report in which it is said that “the European Union must pursue strategic autonomy in the field of defence and economic relations” and that “the Atlantic Alliance must become an alliance among equal partners”.

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Foreword

Dear Readers,

welcome to this site.

It is not simply the webpage of the Member of the European Parliament, who I have become with great apprehension. Not of the journalist either, who I have been for half a century.

It is a wild ambition: I wanted to give a report on my work as an elected representative in Brussels and in Strasbourg, to continue to follow the evolution of world politics and to try to describe and decipher the stakes and the mysteries behind the scenes of the European institutions.

I wanted to create a multilingual site, to step across the borders that sometimes still separate us.

“Smithing makes the smith”, I hope you will bear with me.

Yours, 

Bernard Guetta

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