What France spoke about.

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Oct

2022

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Commission implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1614 of 15 September 2022 determining the existing deep-sea fishing areas and establishing a list of areas where vulnerable marine ecosystems are known to occur or are likely to occur (debate)

Mrs Roose, there is no question? There is no question. Well, here we go, let's all proceed by affirmation.

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Oct

2022

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Commission implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1614 of 15 September 2022 determining the existing deep-sea fishing areas and establishing a list of areas where vulnerable marine ecosystems are known to occur or are likely to occur (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, at the worst time and in the worst possible way, the European Commission decided to ban bottom fishing in 87 areas across the Atlantic coast. No, Madam – tell Mr Sinkevičius – this surface is not anecdotal and is not visible, as was said in the last Fisheries Committee by his representative. It represents 16,000 square kilometres, i.e. half the …

18

Oct

2022

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General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2023 - all sections (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the years pass, the budgets pass and, invariably, they are all alike. Always quick to ask for more from the states, more from their citizens, the European Union wants money, money and more money. All this for what? Less sovereignty, fewer businesses, fewer farmers, fishermen, jobs, public service, less growth, less energy and less purchasing power. On the oth…

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Oct

2022

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Impact of new technologies on taxation: crypto and blockchain (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the technological transformations brought about by blockchain herald the disappearance of the authority of the State, the guarantor of individual contracts and deeds of ownership. We must be well aware of what is happening right now before our eyes: powers formerly vested in the State are transferred to networks of companies and financiers acting outside any …

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Oct

2022

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Momentum for the Ocean: strengthening Ocean Governance and Biodiversity (debate)

Madam President, it has been said, illegal fishing, piracy, protection of marine systems, the blue economy is both one of the great challenges of the 21st century, but also a hotbed of innovation towards a new economy of the sea. Faced with rising tensions on the oceans, France, the second largest maritime area in the world – is it worth recalling here? – will be at the forefront of tackling these…

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Sep

2022

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Conservation and enforcement measures applicable in the Regulatory Area of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organisation (NAFO) - Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Convention Area: conservation and management measures (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, there is a need for measures to conserve fisheries resources, as the sustainability of stocks has been tested: in Saint Pierre and Miquelon, after overfishing by foreign trawlers in the 1970s, the collapse of cod stocks came close to the irreversible. Our small-scale fisheries are best able to adapt and react quickly to changes in the local resourc…

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Jul

2022

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Adoption by Croatia of the euro on 1 January 2023 (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the euro is not doing well. Its violent decline since February demonstrates its fragility. Our economy is going bad. For Christine Lagarde, President of the ECB, the worrying inflation that is taking hold will be long-lasting and excessively high. Why, then, does the European Union decide today to allow Croatia to adopt the single currency, given the difficulty …

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Apr

2022

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Future of fisheries in the Channel, North Sea, Irish Sea and Atlantic Ocean (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I am very sorry to say: With the Brexit agreement, the European Commission and its chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, have finally revealed their inability to defend the interests of our fishermen. Today, we are forced to do with an ill-fated agreement, some of whose vague clauses have simply allowed the British authorities to block many French s…

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Mar

2022

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Pilot regime for market infrastructures based on distributed ledger technology (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, missing the challenge of innovation in blockchain would obviously be a serious mistake. A pseudo-ecologist obscurantism would like to ban them on the pretext that they are too consuming. It is strange, moreover, that the same people are not thinking of banning YouTube and other popular and equally energy-intensive social networks. The only proven consequences…

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Mar

2022

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European Semester for economic policy coordination: annual sustainable growth survey 2022 – European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social aspects in the annual sustainable growth strategy survey 2022 (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, rapporteurs, yes, with the return of inflation and soaring prices for energy and raw materials, more and more of our compatriots are struggling to heat themselves, to care for themselves, to feed themselves, and finally, to live in dignity. Meanwhile, here, under the pretext of ecology, we are talking only about green taxes and punitive ecology. How can we me…

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Feb

2022

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European Central Bank – annual report 2021 (continuation of debate)

Ladies and gentlemen, Madam President, with the new taxonomy that aims to direct European funding towards activities that the Commission considers environmentally sustainable, the European Central Bank is becoming the arm of punitive ecology. As always, risks, unsustainable red tape and bankruptcies will only hit people-sized businesses – VSEs, SMEs – who are the real creators of wealth. As always…

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Nov

2021

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Introduction of a European social security pass for improving the digital enforcement of social security rights and fair mobility (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, after the reign of widespread dumping and the destruction of borders in Europe, the European Union is now concerned about the protection of mobile workers with the introduction of a European social security pass. It is a curious paradox that this proliferation of digital traceability tools grouped under the name of ‘pass’ – carbon pass, health pass…

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Oct

2021

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Protecting workers from asbestos (debate)

Mr President, rapporteur, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, responsible for between 100 000 and 150 000 deaths worldwide per year, asbestos, it is true, is the leading cause of occupational cancers. Even though my country, France, has banned its use for more than 25 years and the European Union for 15 years, this tragedy is far from behind us. On the one hand, because the interior structure has …

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Oct

2021

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Banking Union - annual report 2020 (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, Rapporteur, ladies and gentlemen, the banking union is the constant sea serpent of European policy. Today, you claim to be supervising the hyperconcentration of a risk, even though it is already out of control. The compartmentalisation of markets, the separation of risks and the diversity of pricing and control models are conditions of security. Interdependence and c…

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Sep

2021

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Fair working conditions, rights and social protection for platform workers - New forms of employment linked to digital development (debate)

Mr President, rapporteur, ladies and gentlemen, when I hear you, when I hear this catalogue of wishful thinking: clarifying workers’ rights on platforms, finding balance points, guaranteeing social protection, managing algorithms, you remind me of Jean Cocteau’s famous quote: “These mysteries are beyond us, let’s pretend to be the organisers”. But the scandal of the condition of platform workers i…