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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, 25 million blood transfusions, 35,000 stem cell transplants and one million cycles of assisted reproduction are carried out each year in the European Union. These figures show how essential this regulation on which we are about to pronounce ourselves is. Ensuring the quality and safety of donations of substances of human origin is essential for the survival a

Mr President, this directive is a real step forward in protecting women who are victims of genital mutilation, forced marriage or cyberbullying; but this is a missed act for rape victims. What are you going to do with these millions of women? Leave them on the side of the road? The agreement provides for a review in five years to possibly introduce rape. Doesn’t that make you uncomfortable? 100 00

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the right to safe and legal abortion is a necessity and a matter of public health. As we build a Europe of health here in this Parliament, this Parliament of which Simone Veil was President, as we legislate for equal access to care for all European citizens, a woman dies every nine minutes from an illegal abortion. However, we must have a discourse

Mr President, a year ago, in this very Chamber, on the same international day to combat violence against women, every hope was possible. We were at work to propose the first ever European law to combat violence against women and domestic violence. Today, with seven women still dying every day from the blows of their spouses, where are we now? Striking negotiations are under way between the Parliam

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for your confidence. I therefore request that the file be referred back to the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, in accordance with Rule 59(4) of the Rules of Procedure, in order to allow interinstitutional negotiations to begin.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, 25 million blood transfusions, 35 000 stem cell transplants and 1 million cycles of medically assisted reproduction are carried out each year in the European Union. These figures show how important this regulation on which we are about to pronounce ourselves is. SoHO donations are essential for the survival and recovery of many patients in the European Union,

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, few countries allow surrogacy in Europe, and those that allow it are very strict about it. In any event, the decision to prohibit or authorise surrogacy is a national competence, which is a matter of national sovereignty, and in no way a European competence. On the other hand, the European Union must intervene when surrogacy becomes an instrumen

Mr President, in order to combat drug shortages, our continent must first and foremost become attractive again with an ambitious, incentivising and competitive industrial policy vis-à-vis China and the United States. Influenza, bronchiolite, Covid-19: As soon as an outbreak emerges, many patients face shortages of medicines. This is not a new phenomenon; In Europe, drug shortages have increased 20

Madam President, Commissioner, Minister, in Europe, seven women die every day from their partners or ex-partners. It is a real scourge. To eradicate it, we need to build on the Spanish model of combating violence against women. The future European directive we are working on must focus exclusively on the protection of women and child victims. Let's not scatter. Let's avoid ideological positions an

Madam President, Commissioner, your proposal for a directive to combat violence against women and domestic violence is a step in the right direction. As rapporteur for my group, the EPP, in the Committee on Civil Liberties, I believe that it is urgent to draw strong inspiration from the Spanish model in order to combat this scourge effectively. Let us not wait until we ratify the Istanbul Conventi

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, as we know, the pandemic has had very significant economic and social repercussions, but it has also deprived some citizens of their fundamental rights. I am thinking in particular of women and children, for whom access to certain medical, educational or judicial services has been much more difficult than usual, if not impossible. Successive lockdo

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we all agree that the fight against climate change will require the end of fossil fuels, an unattainable goal without nuclear power. Look at the situation as it is. By 2050, in France alone, electricity demand is expected to increase by 35% with the development of electric vehicles or a clean hydrogen sector. At the same time, the geopolitical situ

Madam President, Commissioner, statistics show this: wage inequality in the EU averages 13%, and poverty affects women more than men. It has even increased in recent years. While violence against women, including domestic violence, exists in all settings, women with limited resources and who are economically dependent on their spouses find it even more difficult to cope; If they leave their homes

Madam President, Commissioner, a week ago, the US Supreme Court put an end to the almost 50-year-old case-law that enshrined the right to abortion of American women. This judgment does not automatically make abortion illegal: it allows states to consider it as such, and as you pointed out, 14 states have already penalised abortion or are in the process of doing so. This is obviously a serious regr

Madam President, Madam Vice-President, Minister, Simone Veil, first woman President of the European Parliament, said: ‘Contraception has enshrined women’s freedom and control over their bodies.’ That was 43 years ago. As we know, access to contraception is essential. And yet, it is still too uneven in Europe, sometimes, by the way, simply because of a lack of information. But it is also the absenc

Madam President, Commissioner, first of all, I wanted to reiterate my congratulations to our fellow rapporteur and wish him a good recovery. Today, in Europe, no less than 50 national agencies assess the added value of a new medicine that is placed on the market. This fragmented approach has a negative impact on research and development, speed of approval processes and equal access to care for Eur

Madam President, Commissioner, in the European Union we still have a lot of progress to make on gender equality, of course. But it is not with guides wishing to replace "Ladies and Gentlemen" with "Dear Colleagues", nor with caricatural statements, nor with the pronoun "ielle" that we will achieve this gender equality. On the other hand, we can act on different points. First, as regards career gui

Mr President, Commissioner, the fight against violence against women is a subject that concerns us all, on which we must act and on which we cannot fail. Europe has a role to play. Today, of course, Member States can legislate, but it is at their discretion. So, yes, Europe has a duty to act. Act by ratifying the Istanbul Convention, the first binding international instrument to combat violence ag

Madam President, Commissioner, Minister, ladies and gentlemen, the European Union is the world’s largest exporter of vaccines. 425 million doses have been given to the poorest countries, more than 1 billion doses have been exported by the European Union to more than 150 countries worldwide. Actors of European industrial excellence have enabled the production of COVID vaccines in Europe at incredib

Madam President, Commissioner, Minister, ladies and gentlemen, a year ago, the now politicised Polish Constitutional Court, which is now at the centre of the debate, considered abortion contrary to the Polish Constitution in the event of a serious and irreversible malformation of the fetus or an incurable or life-threatening disease. This amounts to making 98% of abortions in Poland illegal. If th

Madam President, Commissioner, representative of the Council, ladies and gentlemen, on 16 September we read the European Commission's copy of the new European Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA). The value of such a structure should have been twofold. On the one hand, as stated by President Ursula von der Leyen in 2020, it should have been a question of setting up a researc

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, this year marks the tenth anniversary of the Istanbul Convention. This text is fundamental as it is the first binding international instrument to combat violence against women and children. However, 2021 is a sad anniversary for the Istanbul Convention: six Member States have still not ratified it, one Member State wishes to leave it and one candid

Mr President, Commissioner, since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, COVID-19 has killed more than 750 000 people in the European Union. In terms of health, this virus has created several successive waves of contamination, creating an unusual hospital tension. In economic terms, entire sectors have been completely shut down and in social terms, successive periods of confinement have created is

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, future pandemics will appear more often, spread faster, cause more damage to the global economy and kill more people than COVID-19, if nothing is done. These alarming words are those of scientific experts and are unambiguous. Europe needs to arm itself against the risk of new pandemics, and it does so: This week, and pending the strengthening of th

Madam President, Commissioner Kyriakides, ladies and gentlemen, we are here. After the report on medicine shortages, after the implementation of the EU Health Programme, after the Commission's proposal for a pharmaceutical strategy, we vote to strengthen the powers of the European Medicines Agency. This is another step towards building an effective Europe of health, responding to the demands of he