What Marie spoke about.

Madam President, Mr Costa, prices are soaring: those of food, rents and energy. So don't you hear the anger raging across Europe? We were entitled to expect strong decisions from the Member States, with immediate effect – but nothing. There is no more money in the pocket of Europeans or public services, the world is warming at high speed, but you still have not decided to tax the superprofits of b

Madam President, Prime Minister, the financial groups' grip on housing is crushing our citizens. In Madrid, Maricarmen Abascal saw its rent increase by 275%. The crooked real estate company that wanted to expel this 87-year-old grandmother found itself facing a massive mobilization, but which was also European. Because you see, Prime Minister, the predation of finance is exploding prices everywher

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we are living the coolest summer of the rest of our lives. The heatwave is no longer an anomaly, it is our new normal, and this heatwave is killing: 200,000 people in Europe in four years! Sue Ellen Demestre sounded the alarm on behalf of the Travellers: We are looking for a climate refuge. We can no longer breathe!" Sarah, homeless mother of four, says that

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, securitisation is the practice that allows banks to package thousands of home loans and sell them on the financial markets. It was also the same product that triggered the 2008 financial crisis, leading to the bankruptcy of tens of thousands of businesses and bringing tens of thousands of families to the streets. Following the crisis, we agreed on clear rules so

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, a week ago, a young alternator died crushed by a forklift. His name was Ethan and he had just turned 18. On 17 April, just one month ago, another young person also lost his life to a forklift in Bagnols-sur-Cèze. He was a high school student, only 15 years old. In France, more than 100,000 workers under the age of 25 have been injured at work and 423 have died s

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, 93 million people are living in precarious situations in Europe today. $93 million. And yet, the most worrying thing is not this figure; It is our collective ability to get used to it. We get used to seeing people sleeping on the street without even greeting them anymore, get used to the lines that lie in front of the food banks, get used to it, and end up co

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, for months now, the extreme right here – or, for that matter, quite little – has been constantly calling into question companies’ climate obligations on the pretext of competitiveness, and sometimes even pretending to defend the European working classes. At bottom, the far right is putting the climate issue in the background, even as Europe is overheating. An

Madam President, Commissioner, you are here today to present an action plan for high-priced fertilisers. But behind the stakes of costs lies a brutal reality: We let the poison enter our diet. This poison is cadmium. It comes precisely from fertilisers that accumulate in the soil, seep into crops and land in our bread, our cereals, our potatoes. In France, contamination has almost doubled in ten y

Madam Speaker, stigmatizing people for their essence, for their identity, is called racism and it is reprehensible by law. I deeply regret that these remarks can be made in this Chamber without being sanctioned. It is absolutely intolerable what you have done, Madam, and I hope that the hatred you bear will return to you as a boomerang, because it is absolutely intolerable. In France, Angela Rosta

Mr President, the crisis we are going through again puts us before our responsibilities and these are historic, because, because we have not separated sufficiently quickly from fossil fuels, energy prices are skyrocketing and our citizens are suffering as a result: plus 70% for the price of gas in the EU, €2 per litre at the pump in France, it is untenable. With each crisis, we realize the colossa

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, our dependence on fossil fuels destroys the climate, undermines our sovereignty and is extremely expensive for European citizens. The soaring prices at the pump still make this clear today. With the Green Deal, we took a step towards decarbonisation: energy efficiency, reducing gas consumption and supporting renewables rather than fossil lobbi

Madam President, the European Commission is now using the European Semester as almost the only steering tool for Member States to work first, and unfortunately perhaps only, on competitiveness rather than on improving the lives of European citizens. Yet well-being and economics are far, far from incompatible. We should indeed pursue our fiscal policy with a key aim, that of placing humanity betwee

Madam President, millions of Europeans are no longer able to find a decent home. More than a million people now live on the street. This situation should have prompted our Parliament to claim the right to dignified housing. And yet, the European right is now proposing that we roll out the red carpet to finance at the expense of Europeans. Bank deregulation, unconditional public subsidies, relaunch

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, 'it is not poverty that is shame, it is abandonment'. This sentence, pronounced from the working-class districts of Nîmes, reflects the experience of more than 93 million Europeans today, in 2026. Abandonment is therefore a political choice. Poverty is a political choice, to eradicate it too. Today we are proud to call for a first-ever European

Madam President, Commissioner, you have a lot of responsibilities and, on our part, a lot of expectations, because it has been decades since the European Union has made commitments to social rights, objectives and, unfortunately, has not achieved them. This oral question is therefore intended to ask you how we will achieve them, but perhaps also to affirm our determination to work alongside you. T