What Anne-Sophie spoke about.

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, throughout the 20th century and up to the present, our industrial system has led to significant exploitation of the resources offered by nature – we cannot deny this. Whether it is ephemeral fashion, agri-food products or the tobacco industry, these sectors, like all products processed by humans, have a negative impact on the environment. Given thi

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to welcome the importance of this report and the observations it makes. The rule of law is fundamental to advancing democracy, which is now under attack and weakened. And why? Because we have to worry about respect for the rule of law in some Member States. And yet it is this democratic framework that guarantees our fundamental freedom

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, our debate today joins the work of the Parliamentary Working Group on Tobacco, which I was co-hosting with our late Michèle Rivasi and whose conclusions I am announcing today will be presented in the week of 26 February in the form of a White Paper. As regards the Dentsu Tracking/Jan Hoffmann case, which refers to the conflict of interest in the de

Mr President, dear Biljana, Commissioner, this text, which aims to empower consumers in the green transition, is part of a series of important texts, as colleagues have already said and which are still being discussed in Parliament, I am thinking of sustainable textile ecodesign, repairability, green claims. These future directives do not deal directly with the same subject, but have a common obje

Madam President, rapporteur, Commissioner, the liberal ogre, swallowing up profits after profits, is fuelling overconsumption, which is harmful both to the planet and to citizens. When it is cheaper to buy new than to repair, the choice of citizens to consume is understandable. But eureka! In 2023, we rediscover our common sense: repairability. It is still quite incredible to be allowed to repair

Mr President, Commissioner, Qatargate, SMS Gate, Dentsu-Hoffman affair, Frontex ... The list is long and rather than looking these scandals in the face, everyone looks away. No, it's not happening at home. Yes, it's happening at home. Our institutions must not be content with slogans, but with a real action plan. Public access to documents is a fundamental freedom and our role is to guarantee it,

Mr President, Commissioner, thank you to Sophia in’t Veld for her report. A year later, history wants us to have answers for victims, but these are myths and legends. Legend to believe that states would offer us answers, legend to believe that our democracies would no longer have to face this affront. While Pegasus was the creator of sources, Pegasus diverted them for surveillance purposes, giving

Madam President, Commissioner, dear Biljana, thank you for this text. "Good for the environment", "green product", "eco-responsible", "100% recycled materials" are all arguments put forward by companies on their products, suggesting that they encourage sustainable consumption. The problem is that often this information is simply false. This is a shameless and indecent deception of consumers. All y

Mr President, Madam Rapporteur, ladies and gentlemen, we live in a society of risk as theorised by the sociologist Ulrich Beck. The promises of modernity have not been kept in our industrial societies. Poverty and inequality are increasing and progress, together with the wealth created being confiscated by the hands of a few, has created all sorts of risks, including industrial disasters, accident

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for the work that we have done together, since we had a common objective, namely to look for Mrs O'Reilly's work and this request for transparency. Tonight, in this Chamber, I have heard all the groups, all the groups, call for transparency. Commissioner, it is your duty today to remind Mrs Von der Leyen of what you have heard this evening. It is no

Madam President, first of all, I would like to express my sincere thanks to you, Ms O’Reilly, and to your office for all the work you have done in 2021. The European Union can be proud of having an institution that works tirelessly to strike a balance between the right of the EU institutions to work and the public interest in transparent and accountable administration. In PETI, we have the chance

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the video game industry is worth more than EUR 23 billion and one in two Europeans plays video games. This sector has developed and established itself over the years in the cultural world and we must protect consumers, especially the youngest, by regulating which ones are a scourge for players. Not only is the random pack principle paid for by a cu

Madam President, first of all, I would like to show Mrs Dalli how much this Parliament is asking her to activate things and is clearly asking her for a directive on the European Disability Card, before the end of this term of office, so that equality at least wins that victory during this parliamentary term. It is time for thanks, and I would like to thank all my shadow rapporteur colleagues, as w

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, this is what people with disabilities experience. You have experienced what they experience every day. You did not understand what I said: I simply said that in Europe – and I could not finish my speech in French sign language, since it is not a recognised language in the European Union – many people with disabilities were discriminated against and that, in t

Madam President, Commissioner: humiliated, insulted, harassed, beaten, raped, killed; the continuum of gender-based and sexual violence against women has been going on for too long. Even though the Istanbul Convention is the most protective text of women’s rights, too few States have ratified it and far too many are struggling to put it into practice. In the face of women's words and courage, we c

Madam President, I would like to thank Katrin for this ambitious text, which is so necessary for people with disabilities, as it will ultimately improve the daily lives of 87 million people with disabilities in Europe. The Resource Centre promises better knowledge and expertise on disability, in particular on accessibility issues: This is how we can build a fair society. I am pleased that the text

Madam President, finally: a decade of waiting and recurrent requests from the European Parliament, and here we are! I welcome the positive outcome of the discussions on this universal charger dossier, which represents an undeniable step forward for European consumers. Within two years, a universal USB-C charger will therefore be mandatory for all mobile phones, but also – and again, thanks to the

Mr President, fundamental rights, on the walls of the State of the Union, I am writing your names. The crisis that we went through in 2020 and 2021, and that we are still going through, has put fundamental rights to clinical death. But is it not said that the slightest injustice, wherever it is committed, ultimately threatens the entire edifice? Inequalities are exacerbated, systemic discriminatio

Mr President, Pegasus, born from the bowels of the Medusa, this multi-headed monster, appeared thanks to Perseus. Was it premonitory, because what a great breakthrough in our phones and in our lives: spied on, monitored, privacy farewell, for the pleasure of a few who wish to control. Control our ideas, our commitments, our orientations. So, for the past year, the Pegasus scandal has erupted thank

Madam President, thank you Anna for this beautiful resolution. In Europe, we are the world champions of electronic pollution: no less than 12 million tonnes of this waste generated each year, or 16.2 kg per capita. A mountain of TVs, computers, connected toys, washing machines, telephones. While the recycling sector in Europe is one of the most developed, it is still far from sufficient. As we kno

Mr President, as our rapporteur has said, toys are the first category of products notified by the European Product Hazardousness Alert System. It is therefore that there are risks, constant as well as new, linked to the manufacture of toys, the materials used or the distribution networks – I am thinking in particular of e-commerce. Children are particularly vulnerable consumers. It is therefore ou

Madam President, rapporteur, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for this vital report in order to strengthen the fight against cancer. Let me tell you about a cancer that is too little known to the general public: triple-negative breast cancer. The latter represents 15% of cases, or about 9,000 people per year, with a median survival in a metastatic situation of fourteen months. The testimonies I hav

Madam President, first of all, I would like to thank our colleague for his excellent report. Madam Ombudsman, I would also like to thank you sincerely for your work, which highlights the administrative dysfunctions of our institutions. The report provides a window into your important work, which gives the European Union the basis to ensure transparency, access to documents, and which holds the ins

Madam President, our personal data is the new gold mine. Our navigation, geolocation, age, gender, preferences, political, religious, sexual orientations, personal health data: Whole swathes of our privacy are collected, fed to companies whose business model is based on the violation of our privacy. I am of course thinking of Facebook, Amazon and others. Not only do they capture huge amounts of pe