Compte rendu in extenso des débats

Mardi 21 novembre 2023 - Strasbourg

7.9. Mise en œuvre du principe de la primauté du droit de l’Union européenne (A9-0341/2023 - Yana Toom, Cyrus Engerer) (vote)

– Before the vote:

  Cyrus Engerer, rapporteur. – Mr President, colleagues, imagine our continent without the unifying force of the European Union. This is what we are voting on today. It is not just a hypothetical scenario: we have multiple actors within and outside of our Union, working each day to dismantle this beautiful project that our foreparents dreamed of, built, and with which we have now been entrusted by our citizens, in our hands, to protect and strengthen.

We come together because of our shared values, and in the face of the growing challenges our strength lies in staying united, notwithstanding the diversity within us. And this is what this report is all about. With this report, my colleague Yana and myself sought to put into text the legal heart of our cohesion, the rule of law, and the good functioning of our legal framework, which after all, all of us, all of our Member States, agreed to when we decided to join this beautiful project of ours. In fact, some had said, why should we even have this report today, because isn’t it so obvious that we all – well all apart from those at the far right – agree with this principle of primacy of EU law?

So today’s vote is on whether we agree on the existence of our European project or not. Because if we dismantle what is fundamental, if we dismantle what holds us together legally, then unfortunately our Union would cease to exist.

So I would like to thank all of those who have worked on this file, on this report, and I urge everyone to vote in favour today.