What Mounir spoke about.

7 Feb

2024

FR Speech

Increased number of executions in Iran, in particular the case of Mohammad Ghobadlou

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Mr President, torture, enforced disappearances, unfair trials, executions: there is arbitrariness in Iran. On 23 January, Mohammad Ghobadlou and Farhad Salimi were executed. Tomorrow, so many more are at risk of being subjected to the regime’s bloodthirsty folly. Faced with her own people and the power of the peaceful movement "Woman! Life! Freedom!", the Islamic Republic of Iran wavers and sinks …

7 Feb

2024

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Need to fight the increase of antisemitism and anti-Muslim hatred (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, last Thursday in France, a woman of Jewish faith complained of anti-Semitic violence by a person holding public authority. Images show police officers humiliating him and ripping off his wig. Free violence, feeling of total impunity: the incident is not isolated. Every effort must be made to ensure that it does not become ordinary. France is regularly blamed …

16 Jan

2024

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Humanitarian situation in Gaza, the need to reach a ceasefire and the risks of regional escalation (debate)

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Mr President, 100 days of war. A total war. An atrocious war. How do we get there? How can you continue to watch what is happening in Gaza without moving, without reacting? I was already asking this question in December. A month later, more civilians, more children and women were killed, more journalists fell at the front, more ambulances were targeted, more hospitals closed, more homes were demol…

15 Jan

2024

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Revision of the European Labour Authority mandate (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, behind these names and acronyms of MiFIR and MiFID lie very real and major issues for the lives of people across Europe. As my colleague Karima, the shadow rapporteur on this delicate issue, has said, the texts that have come out of it will indeed have a very concrete impact on the wallets of our fellow citizens, and we can congratulate ourselve…

13 Dec

2023

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

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, our youth in Europe is becoming poorer. In France, the category of young people who need to use food aid has increased by 13% in one year, and 39% of our young people are forced to continue living with their parents. For those who cannot, it is misery. But what future are we preparing for? We have a responsibility to empower our young people wit…

12 Dec

2023

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Need to release all hostages, to achieve a humanitarian ceasefire and prospect of the two-state solution (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I sincerely ask you: What are we waiting for to call for a ceasefire? Do we need more deaths? We already have 17,000. Do we need twice as many? Three times more? Four times more? Should we starve the people of Gaza even more? They are already no longer receiving aid, and UNRWA no longer has the means. Do we need more journalists killed? We already have 80. How m…

22 Nov

2023

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Humanitarian situation in Gaza, the need for the release of hostages and for an immediate humanitarian truce leading to a ceasefire and the prospects for peace and security in the Middle East (debate)

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Mr President, first of all, thank you Mr Borrell, in the face of cacophony and irresponsibility, you have held the bar high in recent weeks and I thank you for that. Since yesterday, we've had two news. The possible humanitarian truce with the release of the hostages. This is good news and a permanent and lasting ceasefire must be encouraged. And proof that we never funded Hamas. Commissioner Várh…

20 Nov

2023

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UN Climate Change Conference 2023 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (COP28) (debate)

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Madam President, last year it was Egypt, this year the United Arab Emirates: Look for the error. At COPs, the future of humanity and life on Earth is at stake, but they can be organised in repressive countries – beautiful communication or camouflage operations for their governments that violate human rights. As an environmentalist, I can only raise my voice to defend the great forgotten of this di…

8 Nov

2023

FR Speech

Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 26-27 October 2023 - Humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the need for a humanitarian pause (joint debate - Conclusions of the European Council and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the need for a humanitarian pause)

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Madam President, there are only three words worth saying today: Cease fire. You see, it’s simple, it’s easy. It takes strong convictions and a minimum of courage. So yes, the Hamas terrorist attack is filthy. It has been said, it has been repeated, it will be repeated as many times as necessary, but it does not give Israel the right to do what it does. Israel’s right to defend itself exists: it is…

18 Oct

2023

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Islamist terrorist attack on French schools and the need to protect people and promote social cohesion (debate)

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Mr President, three years after the horror of Samuel Paty’s beheading death, France is experiencing another horror with the death of another professor: Dominique Bernard. France is in mourning; National Education is living a nightmare. If our schools are affected, it is not by chance. If this violence strikes at the heart of our Republic, where our young people learn, share and assert themselves, …

18 Oct

2023

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The despicable terrorist attacks by Hamas against Israel, Israel’s right to defend itself in line with humanitarian and international law and the humanitarian situation in Gaza (debate)

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Mr President, I strongly and unwaveringly condemn the terrorist attacks by Hamas, and on the left I resent those who do not, because they allow some on the right not to condemn Israel’s disproportionate response. My ancestors were Moroccan gum trees, they fought Nazism with the Europeans, they gave their lives to liberate my country, France, even though they had not spawned Nazism and had not coll…

16 Oct

2023

FR Speech

Order of business

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Statement by the Council and the Commission on the Islamist terrorist attack on French schools and the need to protect people and promote social cohesion.

16 Oct

2023

FR Speech

Order of business

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Madam President, last Friday, the French Republic was struck in the heart: at school, where our young people are built, educated and asserted themselves, thanks to teachers such as Dominique Bernard and, like three years before him, Samuel Paty. I therefore propose this debate with the following title, amended to take account of the opinions of other groups: "Declaration by the Council and the Com…

4 Oct

2023

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Decent Housing for All (topical debate)

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Madam President, inflation, declining purchasing power, the most vulnerable are those who pay the heaviest price for this crisis. As always, as always. Over the last decade, Commissioner, the number of homeless people in Europe has increased by 70%. Every night, 900,000 people sleep on the street. In 2022, almost 2.5 million households in France were waiting for social housing. The Abbé Pierre Fou…

2 Oct

2023

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

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner Schmit said: Statistics will never be able to tell the whole truth, all the realities, all the suffering that our fellow citizens are going through in this context of multiple difficulties. And, as has been said, there needs to be consistency between what the European Union does and what we do at Member State level. I regret that President Séjourné …

12 Sep

2023

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EU-Tunisia Agreement - aspects related to external migration policy (debate)

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Mr President, Tunisia is now on the European agenda. Is this good news for Tunisians? I don't think so. In any case, not for the democratic Tunisia we dreamed of so much. Commissioner, if your objectives were real, you would not have had to go through this Memorandum of Understanding. There was the Association Agreement, which you could have activated. In reality, this MoU is just an expression of…

12 Jul

2023

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Putting the European economy at the service of the middle class (debate)

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Mr President, two billion tax cuts for the middle classes. This is the promise made by Emmanuel Macron last May. A large part of the population must have felt concerned because – I quote – they were addressing French women and men who work hard, who want to raise their children well and who today have difficulty closing the month and are overwhelmed by the taxation of income. In short, we had to u…

13 Jun

2023

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Situation in Lebanon (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, the detonation of the port of Beirut on 4 August 2020 still resonates throughout the Mediterranean. Lebanon, which was recovering from conflict, was again shattered, again bruised by its inner demons – not the sectarian clash, this time, but the rampant corruption, the lack of sense of responsibility of its leaders, the complicit laissez-faire of their international sup…

10 May

2023

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Roadmap on a Social Europe: two years after Porto (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, in the face of crises, the Porto Forum must enshrine a new European social contract. There is an urgent need not to let people sink into poverty without protecting their rights. There is an urgent need not to let Eurosceptics thrive on misery. There is an urgent need not to allow the extreme right to spread withdrawal and hatred. There is an urgent…

9 May

2023

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Start of the European Year of skills (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, 1990: First IPCC report. 2023: First European Year of Skills for the Green Transition. In 2023, in France, student unions are still waiting for sustainable development to be a compulsory subject in all training courses. Look for the error. Some denounce a brutal transition. I denounce here 33 years of inaction hidden behind the myth of profitabi…

19 Apr

2023

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Children forcibly deported from Ukraine and the ICC arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Vladimir Putin, at the head of a system where his arbitrariness prevails, believes himself to be above the law. Above the law in Russia, for the crimes it commits against opponents, journalists. Above the laws he orders in Ukraine. The difference with other dark periods in history is the existence of the International Criminal Court. Deporting children en masse …

15 Mar

2023

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Tunisia: Recent attacks against freedom of expression and association and trade unions, in particular the case of journalist Noureddine Boutar

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Mr President, the situation in Tunisia is deteriorating at a glance. Kaïs Saïed installs stone after stone all the components of a dictatorship. In a few months, all democracy is on the ground, separation of powers, judicial system, freedom of the press, human rights, associative fabric. Democracy has a new page of tears. Elected mayors have been removed from office. This new system also has many …

15 Mar

2023

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More Europe, more jobs: we are building the competitive economy of tomorrow for the benefit of all (topical debate)

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Mr President, with this debate, the Renew Group is inviting us to think about what the competitive economy of tomorrow would be like. It is a shame not to talk about what a strong, inclusive economy could be like for the Europe of tomorrow. In this tense geopolitical and economic period, however, this is the important one. That is what we environmentalists are systematically trying to say in this …

14 Mar

2023

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Adequate minimum income ensuring active inclusion (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, Minister, there is no doubt that: increase in precariousness, crisis, increase in poverty and difficulty in feeding. We must guarantee a dignified minimum income for all. And to be able to guarantee it, we need a directive, a strong directive that imposes it. So I hear some people speaking out against this draft directive. How can your finger shake when it comes to fina…

14 Feb

2023

FR Speech

Response to the situation in Tunisia (debate)

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Mr President, my colleagues have said so, but I will recall this figure: 11 %. Only 11% of the Tunisian population went to vote. What does this figure mean? Weariness, first of all, in the face of such an uninclusive electoral law, of women, young people and the diversity of society. The subsequent failure of Kaïs Saïed’s hyper-presidential policy: 89% of the population remained silent. And yet, t…