What Emma spoke about.

Madam President, from the European Parliament, I want to express all my pride and support for gen Z, which is rising all over Europe and the world. I am thinking today of the Albanian people who, for 142 days, have shown us the following: ignoring the demands of the people does not make them return home. The opposite is happening. Since October 13, young people have massively joined the mobilizati

We have therefore just witnessed Operation Nicolas Bay des Cochons. Here you are again at the bedside of your idol Donald Trump and his criminal action. Because the one who is suffocating the Cuban people today is Donald Trump. For 33 years, the UN General Assembly has condemned and called for the lifting of the illegal US blockade on the Cuban people. And today, why do Cuban doctors have to sort

Mr President, 112 metres long, capable of swallowing 400 tonnes of fish in a single day, this monster is called the ‘Annie Hillina’, the new flagship of the Dutch fleet, and it is about to join the horde of factory ships that are sacking marine biodiversity. These mega-trawlers, plunderers of the seas at the service of multinationals, exert unsustainable pressure on the ocean and unfair competitio

Madam President, the ocean is a new frontier for humanity. As we have been able to maintain scientific space cooperation for years, we must be able to do so for the ocean. Unbridled capitalism is wreaking havoc in the seas, which have become the materialisation of geopolitical conflicts – the Strait of Hormuz, new Arctic routes, appropriation of international waters – but also of material exploita

Mr President, why bother watching a game streaming with a pixelated image, clippings, spending an hour looking for a viable site and shutting down all the ads that appear, when it is broadcast on television? Perhaps because today, in France, it is necessary to pay every month 50 € to watch French football, 35 € for the Champions League, 30 € for the Grand Slam of tennis, 20 € for rugby, 15 € for h

Mr President, here lies your Atlanticist Europe and its illusions of a world under the benevolent tutelage of the American gendarme. You let Donald Trump sharpen his imperialist ambitions in Gaza. You didn't stumble when the United States bombed Venezuela and kidnapped the president of a sovereign state. As early as last July, during my resolution on Greenland, I was alarmed at the weakness of you

Last October, I met Jacques, a farmer in Mutrécy, Calvados. His little flock had been slaughtered for one bovine tuberculosis positive cow – an unprecedented trauma. Since February, we have been alerting in Normandy – in Cahagnes, in Saint-Omer, in Cesny. I alerted the Commission last April. In 2023, Jocelyn had its 305 cows slaughtered for 1 positive case. Since 2013, 45 farms have been slaughter

Mr President, COP30 is a real success for... fossil fuel multinationals! But climate diplomacy goes up in smoke. COP is burning, but we're looking elsewhere. Thousands of accredited lobbyists, excluded civil society, no mention of fossil fuels in the final text, no progress against deforestation. The record of COP 30 is zero, the European Union is humiliated. France, in the lead, shames us, the go

Madam President, the high seas represent 64% of the ocean. This is more than half the surface of the globe. It is a common good, vital for biodiversity, for the fight against climate change and for the survival of humanity. Yet today, the high seas are the far west; it is a lawless zone. The agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the conservation and sustainable use

Madam President, Commissioner, the European Union's position on COP 30 has failed. But your failure is our burden and that of future generations. Your failure to propose a climate law commensurate with the Paris Agreement is the ruin of the countries of the global South, which are assuming their responsibilities despite much more limited resources. Your complicity with ecocide multinationals, whic

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the Arctic is warming four times faster than the rest of the world. This is a wake-up call from scientists. This region of the world, which is essential in the fight against climate change, is already the first victim. Greenland is no exception, and its population suffers from the effects of climate change, which directly affect places and lifestyles. Fishing, w

Madam President, "The high seas will no longer be the Wild West", said Emmanuel Macron during the UN Ocean Conference, but he did not name the cowboys: the oil, gas or intensive fishing industries. "The high seas will no longer be the Wild West." Yet when Macron announces that he will reach 4% of marine areas without bottom trawling, he lies. This practice is already prohibited or impossible in th

Madam President, yesterday, a few kilometres from here in Alsace, the prefecture banned more than 3,000 people from using their tap water. In question, levels of PFAS, eternal pollutants, more than four times higher than the maximum threshold. You are fortunate, Commissioner, to have beautiful filtered water fountains here in Parliament, but not everyone has that luxury. And if you drank tap water

Madam President, the one whose name should not be pronounced here in the European Parliament is not Voldemort, but Donald Trump. Since the beginning of the mandate, dozens of resolutions have condemned foreign interference in the world: More than 30 targeted Russia, a dozen denounced Chinese policy, four concerned Venezuela or Cuba, but none, zero, not a single one concerned US policy. Yet Donald

Mr President, in June France will host the United Nations Ocean Conference. As such, according to Emmanuel Macron, an unreliable source, 2025 was to be the year of the ocean. However, we are heading towards the year of nothingness. The eight goals he presented at the SOS Ocean Summit come far too late and are sorely lacking in ambition. For capitalists, the ocean can wait. Commissioner, your long-

Madam President, here is a simple definition of omnibus legislation for the uninitiated: the European Commission submits to capital and yields to the demands of ecocide multinationals and the productivist far right, to the detriment of workers and the planet. European citizens will remember Mrs von der Leyen as the one who shattered all efforts to achieve proper environmental legislation. Indeed,

Mr President, to abandon young people is to sentence them to death. In Europe, suicide – suicide! – is the leading cause of death among 15-24 year-olds after road accidents. Yes, deteriorating youth mental health is a major public health issue. And we are not talking about a crisis without cause, a crisis without responsibility. We will not end the psychological distress of youth without addressin

Madam President, Commissioner, time is running out. Let us act before it is too late, for in the spring Icelandic whalers will again roam the icy waters of the far north, armed with their explosive harpoon, to sow death. 2,130 whales could be slaughtered by Iceland in the next five years, even though commercial whaling has been under an international moratorium since 1986. Even though the Icelande