What Agnès spoke about.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we have come a long way, but here we are. We will therefore finally approve definitively the heart of the climate package and, thanks to these texts, Europe is facing this absolutely historic challenge of climate change. This climate package is both ambitious and realistic, as evidenced by the creation of a carbon border adjustment mechanism. We made this ecolog

Madam President, Commissioner, COP 19 is a strategic event for the protection of wildlife and the regulation of wildlife trade. The stakes are threefold. The first challenge, of course, is to preserve our biodiversity, while the sixth mass extinction has already begun, species are dying out at an alarming rate. Second issue, health, COVID, rightly or not, has put a spotlight on zoonoses and we mus

Madam President, Commissioner, as we celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Erasmus programme this year, let us make a commitment together: Finally, let us lift the last brakes that prevent people with fewer opportunities from benefiting from these emblematic mobilities. For 35 years, efforts have been made, of course, but many obstacles remain. They are economic, cultural, linked to health, disabi

Mr President, Commissioner, the latest figures on the unemployment rate in France have just been published. The post-COVID economic recovery has helped to reduce this rate, but it obviously remains worrying, especially for those under 25, as it stands at 14.9% on average in the European Union. The European labour market has changed and must respond to several major challenges. I am thinking in par

Madam President, at last! Finally, the 8th Environment Action Programme – which I am convinced we are going to adopt today – will be able to enter into force, albeit one and a half years late due to the health crisis, but the fact remains that it was becoming absolutely urgent to have key indicators to assess our progress in implementing the Green Deal. Thanks to this Environment Action Programme,

Mr President, Commissioner, of course I can only join previous speeches and thank the negotiators for reaching such a swift agreement on the European Year of Youth 2022. Young Europeans are the engine of tomorrow's Europe, but the COVID-19 crisis has stopped their momentum. Between confinement and health measures, some people sometimes experience isolation, dropping out, or even precariousness. Th

Mr President, Commissioner, COP26 was supposed to be a historic event. This COP, alas, if it were to remain in the annals, would be the COP of small steps. Indeed, let us be lucid, it has not fulfilled the hopes that we had placed in it. But above all, Mr Timmermans, I deeply regret that the European Union has exposed its divisions. When a few states sign a declaration on the sidelines of COP26 no

Mr President, Commissioner, COP26 is a major event. The European Union is committed to being the first carbon-neutral continent in 2050 and that is all the better. It is clear that with the climate package, the promises have been translated into concrete actions. But we alone account for only 10% of global emissions. In other words, without a global approach and without a global commitment at COP2

Madam President, Commissioner, upon her arrival at the head of the European Commission, President von der Leyen made the fight against global warming and the protection of the environment a top priority. I am delighted that we can vote tomorrow on this 8th Environment Action Plan. I would also like to thank all the negotiators with whom we have had a very constructive negotiation on this text on a