What Estelle spoke about.

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, getting up early every day to go to work and yet being unable at the end of the month to cope with the explosion in the cost of living. Not having access to decent housing, not being able to pay your energy bills or feed your family properly is the situation of millions of workers and especially women workers across Europe. Wages are stagnant an

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, social justice and climate justice: Same fight. Already today and even more tomorrow, the most vulnerable people in the north and south of the planet are paying the price for climate change. In Europe, it is estimated that the morbid count will be 80,000 deaths every summer. In Belgium alone, for this June's heat wave, there are more than 1 200

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the European Union is founded on the fundamental right of free movement of persons. This is for principle. Because, in practice, asserting your social rights when you are a frontier worker, a posted worker or when you work in one or more other Member States can become a real headache. Not to mention abuses linked to social dumping, which affect wor

You ask for the controllers, but you completely assume that in fact you are manipulating and lying to your voters since you say you are defending them and, in reality, you never vote to defend them.

Thank you, Mr. Leonardelli. I am glad to be able to ask you a small question, because you are a great defender of the fight against in-work poverty across Europe and in your country. But how is it that representatives of your group never vote on measures, in particular to ensure a minimum wage for workers, fight poverty, protect trainees from free traineeships? So here it is, of course, very inter

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, 93 million Europeans, or one in five, live in poverty or social exclusion, and almost a quarter of them are children. Admittedly, the strategy presented by the European Commission is an important step and has the ambition to eradicate poverty, but far too far away, because now is the time to act. This strategy refers to quality employment, affordab

Madam President, on Friday, the 27 Heads of State and Government discussed the repercussions of the attacks launched by the United States and Israel against the Islamic Republic of Iran. If the Council has called on all parties to de-escalate, just to note that this war is not our war is not enough, because it must be strongly condemned, even if this war is aimed at a bloody dictators

Madam President, on 8 March we were again thousands on the street demanding equal pay for equal work. However, this principle has been enshrined in the Treaty of Rome for almost 70 years. Of course, we have made progress, but we are still a long way from equality. In Europe, wage inequality between women and men rises to 30% if part-time work, most of which is not chosen, is

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Mykhailo died on a construction site in Belgium. He was Ukrainian, seconded by a Polish company for which he had never worked. That same undertaking subcontracted to a company registered in the Netherlands, without an employee. The company disappeared, the accident was never reported. Four years later, his family is without income, without rights,

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, how is it possible that in 2026, in Europe, we will have to fight to eradicate poverty? Five years ago, however, ambitious targets were set for 2030. But our social state is increasingly under attack by right-wing policies, and today one in five Europeans is at risk of poverty or social exclusion. Children are particularly vulnerable. More than

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, tomorrow, António Costa will bring together the 27 European Heads of State for a competitiveness retreat. This is an initiative to be welcomed, because there is an urgent need to work towards the strategic autonomy of the European Union. Today, of the 18 key industrial sectors, only one is doing better than our Chinese or American competitors: aeronautics. Th

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, since 2017, the European Pillar of Social Rights has been our compass for a truly more social Europe. Since 2021, the first action plan to implement this compass has been divided into three main objectives: to increase the employment rate, for access to training, to drastically reduce poverty – especially that of children. Where are we today, when

Madam President, Mrs Kallas, Mr Costa, ladies and gentlemen, the Commission and the Member States are negotiating the future European budget. And what we are hearing is worrying, because we are talking in particular about diluting European social policy into a vast programme, with agricultural policy or fisheries. And the result: there would no longer be the same obligations for Member States to u

Madam President, today the European Council is meeting with competitiveness and simplification at the top of its agenda. So let's be clear, no one likes bureaucracy and opposes healthy simplification. But what is going on in Europe is something quite different, with deregulation in Far West mode, with the aim of destroying important social and environmental regulations, standards that are neverthe

Mr President, due to geopolitical developments and global tensions, social justice is now largely under the radar, including at European level. This is a very serious mistake. Although I cannot understand Qatar’s choice to host the second summit for social development, because the least we can say is that it is not a model in this area, nor in that of respect for human rights, it is nevertheless v

Madam President, in 2024, Audi Brussels workers were informed of the relocation of their company's production by a newspaper specialising in cars, which one year later led to the closure of the site and the elimination of some 6 000 direct and indirect jobs. Such a process is intolerable. There is therefore an urgent need to strengthen the European Works Councils Directive. That is why the text pu

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, whether they are minors or adults, people with disabilities, dependants, people with mental health problems, everywhere in Europe, are either left to their fate – and then, often, at the expense of those around them, and especially the women around them, who suffer just as much from the dependence, precariousness and isolation of these people – or