What Dominique spoke about.

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FR Written Statement

Recent developments in the Serbia-Kosovo dialogue, including the situation in the northern municipalities in Kosovo (debate)

The rise in tensions between Serbia and Kosovo is largely the result of unfulfilled commitments. First and foremost, the association of Serb-majority municipalities, which was already planned to be set up under the 2013 Brussels Agreement, is slow to materialise, amid constitutional disputes. Not to mention the big and small advances. I had denounced, for example, the polemics relating to certain …

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2024

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Forging a sustainable future together: economic, social and territorial challenges for a competitive, cohesive and inclusive Europe (debate)

Mr President, ladies, I will begin my last speech in this Chamber by quoting the great French writer Georges Bernanos, who is also partly from my region, Lorraine, who said: “True humility is first and foremost decency.” It is precisely this decency that the European Union lacks when it strikes us with empty words to mask the reality of the poverty that is spreading in France and elsewhere in Euro…

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2024

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La Hulpe declaration on the future of social Europe (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, thank you for your statements. After ten years in office, nothing has changed. I arrived in 2014 in feverish institutions, which austerity policies had made unpopular. I have seen you debate this eternal question: Why don't they love us anymore? You have reinvented yourself in social Europe, with your European Pillar of Social Rights, your Porto Social Summit and your E…

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Apr

2024

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EU’s response to the repeated killing of humanitarian aid workers, journalists and civilians by the Israel Defence Forces in the Gaza Strip (debate)

Madam President, first of all, let us pay tribute to the victims of the atrocities of 7 October and let us think about the 130 people who, according to reports from April, are still being held hostage by Hamas. That figure, moreover, is an estimate. They must be released without delay. On the dire humanitarian situation, in March, the World Health Organisation warned of an imminent famine in the n…

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Apr

2024

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Discharge 2022 (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, as we approach the annual ritual of the discharge procedure with no less than 55 files to vote on, there is an urgent need to tackle the major problem, that of the EU bureaucracy growing steadily and becoming increasingly expensive every day. The operating costs of this device are skyrocketing, increasing the burden on our citizens without bringing clear benefit…

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Mar

2024

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The repressive environment in Afghanistan, including public executions and violence against women

Mr President, the reintroduction of public executions in Afghanistan will no doubt have surprised only a few ingenuities, who called for a moderate Taliban government. The dramatic deterioration of the status of women had already shown that the country’s masters had not renounced their fundamentals. Indeed, nothing has been spared the interested parties, from their exclusion from higher education …

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Mar

2024

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European Semester for economic policy coordination 2024 – European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2024 (joint debate – European Semester)

Mr President, Commissioner, given that France is a net contributor to the EU budget, we are denying the Commission the right to lay down regulations to deprive us of our money. However, that is exactly what is at stake at the moment. Non-compliance with fiscal rules, economic choices contrary to European will or even violation of the sacrosanct rule of law: the EU believes that it is allowed to do…

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Feb

2024

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Need to overcome the Council deadlock on the platform workers directive (debate)

Mr Vice-President, Commissioner, the EU is about to throw months of work in the trash. This is the sad fate that should be left to the famous Platform Workers Directive. What surprises me is that no one learns from their mistakes. After opening our borders, pushing to deregulate our markets and letting multinationals bypass our national laws, the EU is agitating as it can to put a few bandages on …

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Feb

2024

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Association agreements for the participation of third countries in Union programmes (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, as my colleague Jean-Lin Lacapelle pointed out in the text that is the subject of this debate, a real parliamentary right of scrutiny over the association agreements, particularly for the Horizon Europe programme, is essential. As regards, in general, the involvement of third-country entities, I have been warning for a long time, through a series of parliamentary initia…

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Feb

2024

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Quality traineeships in the EU (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, the EU has been trying to interfere in our national rules on traineeships for almost ten years, fortunately without success. As usual, this obsession with harmonisation is a slap in the face for the Member States. Our labour markets are diverse and all unique. They are the result of our national policies, our concern for our young people, how we integrate people into th…

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Feb

2024

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Limit values for lead and its inorganic compounds and diisocyanates (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, France, a country of churches, basilicas and cathedrals, has the largest surface area of stained glass windows in the world, from the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris to those that shine beautiful colours, as can be seen in the Basilica of Saint-Epvre in Nancy, in my region of Lorraine. We want this know-how because their beauty makes the reputation of our country. Unfortuna…

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Jan

2024

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Quality jobs in a competitive future-oriented social market economy (topical debate)

Mr President, as usual, the EU opens files, organises debates but does nothing useful, especially for the French. The promotion of quality jobs is a striking example of this. 95 million people, or one in five Europeans, are currently at risk of extreme poverty. The desperation of the population is such that shoplifting is constantly on the rise, to the point that anti-theft devices are now found o…

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Jan

2024

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Transparency and accountability of non-governmental organisations funded from the EU budget (debate)

Mr President, it is gratifying that this text makes a strong point of putting some order in the mask of the obscure operations of NGOs funded by the European Commission, and that it rightly denounces any support given to organisations linked to religious fundamentalism. These NGOs, which are supposed to be the torchbearers of European values, operate with billions of our budget. But where is trans…

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Dec

2023

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EU strategy to assist young people facing the housing and cost of living crisis (topical debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, being a Member of the European Parliament means attending every meeting with scenes of such surrealism that it would almost make you smile if the subjects were not so dramatic. For 30 minutes we have been discussing an EU strategy to help young people face the housing and cost of living crises. What if the EU stopped doing it a little? Every tim…

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Dec

2023

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Parliament’s call for the right to disconnect - three years on (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, throughout my life, I have put the idea of work well done and professional conscience at the heart of everything. A case can only work if everyone feels good and is involved in securing employment. We cannot deny the new challenges related to digital and teleworking, which became widespread and amplified during the health crisis. This observation led my country, France,…

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Nov

2023

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Children first - strengthening the Child Guarantee, two years on from its adoption - Reducing inequalities and promoting social inclusion in times of crisis for children and their families (joint debate – International Day of the Rights of the Child)

Madam President, Commissioner, the current situation in the European Union should encourage you to show humility, because the successive crises, inflation, uncertainty and insecurity suffered by our fellow citizens are also, and above all, the result of the European Union’s political choices. Today, we are saddened that children’s rights are no longer respected and that they are affected by povert…

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Oct

2023

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Mental health at work (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, no, the people are not doing well. Governments locked up the people of Europe during the health crisis and abandoned them as purchasing power melted like snow in the sun. They have thrown them into precariousness by fiercely competing with workers around the world. Results of the races: our national jewels, our family businesses, which were part of the landscape, shu…

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Oct

2023

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International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, first of all, I would like to thank the political groups for accepting the proposal from our group, Identity and Democracy, to hold this debate today. I wanted to mention Abbé Pierre, who was a Member of Parliament from my region, France, and who was one of the first to tackle this problem. But the leitmotif of October 17 is that of Father Joseph: “Where men are cond…

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Oct

2023

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Decent Housing for All (topical debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, hundreds of thousands of French people sleep outside. Nearly 600 people lose their lives every year. For those who still have a roof over their head, the situation is deteriorating more and more as the housing crisis is in full swing. In addition to the costs of energy, inflation, the explosion of charges and the spike in property taxes, it is now the binding energy …

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Oct

2023

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Rising precariousness in Europe including the need for aid to the most deprived (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, at a time when the invasion of Lampedusa has taken place before our eyes, the European Union is asking the French to welcome all the misery of the world into their homes. Yet the Brussels commissioners, the technocrats disconnected from reality, are pretending to see the misery that our peoples have been suffering head on for some time now. Our social systems are out of…

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Sep

2023

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Improving firefighters’ working conditions (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, firefighters are increasingly subject to aggression and incivility in their interventions. There is no question of this. In France, we saw a very worrying upsurge in this phenomenon last year. In 2022 alone, 1,505 attacks against firefighters were recorded, including 173 with weapons. It is very simple, far from the smoky explanations of each other, it is actually a …

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Sep

2023

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SME Relief Package (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, the number of business failures is skyrocketing. Since the beginning of the year, more than 50 000 legal proceedings have been opened, figures that are dangerously close to those of 2009, in the midst of the financial crisis. Above all, millions of workers are gradually falling into poverty because of fuel prices and inflation caused by the European Union’s delusional e…

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Sep

2023

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Question Time (VPC/HR) - Situation in West and Central Africa in the light of the recent coups d’état

On development aid, France announced on Sunday that it was suspending all aid to Burkina Faso until further notice. What about Europe, please?

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Sep

2023

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Question Time (VPC/HR) - Situation in West and Central Africa in the light of the recent coups d’état

Mr High Representative, the chaos in Niger is all the more regrettable because Mohamed Bazoum, who had been Minister of the Interior before being elected to the presidency, had shown a willingness to stem the flow of migrants to Europe. I would remind you that this country is an important link in the migratory routes. In a context of a sharp increase in crossings from the Mediterranean to Italy – …

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Jul

2023

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State of the SME Union (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, our SMEs and craftsmen are in danger. While the European Union pretends to be concerned about the plight of entrepreneurs suffering from the explosion of costs, inflation and energy prices, the constraints it imposes on the economic sector are delusional. In my region, in addition to all the problems faced by those who get up early to run the economy, our Lorraine know-…