What Valérie spoke about.

22 Nov

2022

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System of own resources of the European Union (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, I would like to thank all the colleagues who have spoken and, of course, to thank José Manuel for the partnership and the relationship of trust and the quality work we are doing together on this very engaging issue of own resources. What I take away from our exchanges today is that Parliament is united, that it is united and that it will not give in to those who would l…

22 Nov

2022

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System of own resources of the European Union (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, Minister, ladies and gentlemen, in 2020 we set up the recovery plan, an unprecedented project in the history of Europe, with unprecedented economic spin-offs across the continent. Money to isolate our buildings, develop our digital champions, create quality jobs. This recovery plan, it protects Europeans, it protects our prosperity. And this recovery plan, ladies and ge…

21 Nov

2022

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Borrowing strategy to finance NextGenerationEU (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, first of all, yes, indeed, like José Manuel, I would like to thank all the colleagues who have spoken in this debate and to thank the Commissioner. Some elements of reaction: This is a lesson that I have not heard and which I would like to share with you this evening, and then, of course, an update on one of our favourite topics with José Manuel, namely own r…

21 Nov

2022

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Borrowing strategy to finance NextGenerationEU (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, two years ago we launched the first major recovery plan for the European Union, a concrete achievement creating de facto solidarity, as promised by Robert Schuman in his time. De facto solidarity through the award of grants that have made the project unprecedented in history. I say unpublished. For which regional groups in the world can boast so…

21 Nov

2022

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Assessment of Hungary's compliance with the rule of law conditions under the Conditionality Regulation and state of play of the Hungarian RRP (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, there is a short rumour that the Commission is about to give in to the blackmail of Viktor Orbán by offering him EUR 12 billion to redeem his veto. Orbán despises everything the EU stands for and represents, except its money. Commissioner, this rumour does not reassure anyone in this Chamber, let alone the taxpayers. So can you confirm that the …

9 Nov

2022

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 20-21 October 2022 (debate)

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Mr President, Mr Vice-President, ladies and gentlemen, in the face of the energy crisis, Europe is once again present: gas price cap, price corridor, joint purchase of natural gas from our partners... The Heads of State confirmed measures that my political group, Renew, had called for. So yes, since the beginning of the crisis, Europe is moving forward and Europe is here. But, it must be said, the…

19 Oct

2022

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Whitewashing of the anti-European extreme right in the EU (topical debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, Minister, ladies and gentlemen, every day we are now confronted with the words and ideas of the extreme right, on social media, in particular, in the form of insults or . Ms García Pérez is no longer present in this Chamber, but I would have liked to have answered her. I would have liked to reply that on social media, these insults are of the same caliber as the shamefu…

5 Oct

2022

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Countering the anti-European and anti-Ukrainian propaganda of Putin’s European cronies (topical debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, Minister, ladies and gentlemen, October 2011, Marine Le Pen states, I quote: I admire Vladimir Putin. February 2014, Putin invades Crimea. Marine Le Pen states, I quote again: Crimea has always been Russian. September 2014, seven months later, Marine Le Pen receives a €9 million loan from a Russian bank. She eats in Putin's hand. February 2022, Putin invades the rest of…

4 Oct

2022

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Commission proposal for measures under the Rule of Law Conditionality Regulation in the case of Hungary (debate)

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Madam President, Minister, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the best childhood friend who becomes the richest plumber in Europe, the son-in-law who receives a juicy public market for Christmas. Cases of corruption have become legion in Hungary by Viktor Orban. Systematic corruption, in the European Commission's own words, corruption against which the judiciary does not want to do anything, I me…

13 Sep

2022

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EU response to the increase in energy prices in Europe (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, it has been Russia that has been driving up energy prices for more than a year. Putin is cutting off our gas. And yet, no blackouts this summer, neither in France nor elsewhere in Europe. Thanks to what? Well, thanks to our European energy market. So, to the National Rally and its pro-Putin allies, I say it unambiguously: Russia is responsible for the energy …

6 Jul

2022

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 23-24 June 2022 (continuation of debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, over the years, Europeans have come to forget our Union's greatest success: peace. This peace has allowed us to build our prosperity. This peace that has led to academic exchanges, which has been the fertile ground for our freedoms, freedom of movement, freedom to exchange, freedom to undertake, freedom to live in peace. This freedom that no one to…

4 Jul

2022

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Digital Services Act - Digital Markets Act (debate)

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Mr President, Madam, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we have done so. In less than a year, we managed to negotiate the most ambitious texts in the world to regulate the digital giants. Faced with the hegemony of Chinese and American companies, the model muzzled by an authoritarian state or surveillance capitalism, we are building a fairer, more transparent and more protective internet for Euro…

22 Jun

2022

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Implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, because imagined for the first time, the European recovery plan was perceived as politically unfeasible. And yet, we did. And since its launch, the effects on our growth, on our GDP, have been significant. The financing of 'MaPrimeRénov' or the Ségur de la santé in France, the modernisation of hospitals in Romania, high-speed lines in Italy: Thi…

7 Jun

2022

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The rule of law and the potential approval of the Polish national Recovery Plan (RRF) (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Madam President of the Commission, like many of my colleagues, and while I understand a number of your Commissioners as well, I consider that your decision to approve the Polish recovery plan is a political error and an unacceptable renunciation. The question was, however, simple. What concrete progress has been made by the PiS government to return to the rul…

7 Jun

2022

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Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System - Social Climate Fund - Carbon border adjustment mechanism - Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System for aviation - Notification under the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) (joint debate – Fit for 55 (part 1))

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Mr President, Mr Vice-President, Minister – dear Chrysoula – ladies and gentlemen, every day we look with alarm at the devastating effects of climate change. For decades, leaders have blamed themselves and blamed themselves for their lack of courage. But, since 2019, we have started the necessary reforms and efforts: we have declared a climate emergency, we have negotiated for months for big pollu…

4 May

2022

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The social and economic consequences for the EU of the Russian war in Ukraine - reinforcing the EU’s capacity to act (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, Minister, ladies and gentlemen, every day we send 800 million euros to Putin through our purchases of oil, gas and coal. These 800 million allow him to feed his soldiers and recharge his tanks. As long as we continue, the horrors will not stop. So yes, we must suffocate this war economy and not fuel it. But Commissioner, it is illusory to believe that Europeans will eme…

6 Apr

2022

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Ongoing hearings under Article 7(1) TEU regarding Poland and Hungary (debate)

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Madam President, Secretary of State, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Viktor Orbán tells us that his electoral victory is so great that it can no doubt be seen from the moon, and certainly from Brussels. So yes, we have been seeing it from Brussels, from Strasbourg, for twelve years now. Twelve years of cleverly building his system to ensure his re-election: prohibited opposition of air time, t…

24 Mar

2022

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The Power of the EU – Joint European Action for more affordable, secure and sustainable energy (debate)

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Madam President, Minister, Commissioner, we all want a strong, independent and sovereign Europe here, but we must not lie either: The reality, ladies and gentlemen, is that we have only a few billion left in our European budget. So redeployments, leverage and everything that can be invented to avoid putting fresh money on the table will not be enough this time. Let us therefore be consistent and c…

8 Mar

2022

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The deterioration of the situation of refugees as a consequence of the Russian aggression against Ukraine (debate)

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Mr President, Minister, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we thought Europe was rid of barbarism forever. We had come out of two world wars with confidence. Never again. Never again the sounds of boots on our borders. Never again tanks invading a European country. Never again are families displaced by the bombings. Peace is never achieved, even on our continent, which has been bruised by the wor…

16 Feb

2022

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The Rule of Law and the consequences of the ECJ ruling (debate)

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Madam President, Minister, Commissioner, the Court ruled: Orbán and Kaczyński just lost – unsurprisingly, because, frankly, we all knew that this mechanism was legal – but during that time we lost more than a year. A year when opponents and Democrats were wiretapped with Pegasus, a year when Orbán was able to pass his anti-LGBTI law, another year when Polish political justice banned independent ju…

19 Jan

2022

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Digital Services Act (continuation of debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, today we are finally legislating against illegal content, for our online protection, and that is what is remarkable. Europe is the first in the world to have such legislation. We vote for fair rules adapted to the different digital players. We call for a greater fight against fraud, against the sale of illegal products, against counte…

19 Jan

2022

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Presentation of the programme of activities of the French Presidency (debate)

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Madam President, Mr President of the Republic, welcome to this Chamber. Colleagues, we are not here in the National Assembly or in a campaign meeting. We are here in the European Parliament and we are here in the European Parliament to build political majorities to change the lives of Europeans. Not to make the buzz for the presidential candidate. And then leave the Chamber without having received…

15 Dec

2021

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State of play of the RRF (Recovery and Resilience Facility) (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Europe is investing like never before, and these investments are the guarantors of our economic recovery, but also of our future. And it is this future that investors are optimistic about when they over-subscribe seven times – seven times – the amount of planned European bonds. This means that investors – who feel the economic situation – give their money to …

15 Dec

2021

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 16-17 December 2021 - The EU's response to the global resurgence of Covid-19 and the new emerging Covid variants (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, this summit will have the task of coordinating us in the face of our enemies, Omicron in the lead. It will also have the task of advancing our common defence through the Strategic Compass. So, remember. Remember, on March 5, 1953, Stalin died. And then the Soviet pressure started for a moment, the idea of the European Defence Community went away for decades. Com…

23 Nov

2021

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2022 budgetary procedure: joint text (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the adoption of the budget this year has the scent of victory, that of having been able to release an additional EUR 1.4 billion for vaccination in the most disadvantaged countries. However, it did not go smoothly. As every year, states have found themselves at the negotiating table with their national budget constraints and demands for cuts on health, on enviro…