What David spoke about.

30 Apr

2026

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How to secure a sustainable future for the EU livestock sector in light of the need to ensure food security, farmers’ resilience and the challenges posed by animal diseases? (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, livestock farming is in crisis and this report misses the root causes of this crisis. By putting on untruths and looking for scapegoats, he spares the real sponsors of this crisis. When Lactalis abandons hundreds of breeders to concentrate its collections in the most profitable areas, it is industrial logics that kill breeders; This report refuses to talk about …

28 Apr

2026

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Joint debate - Discharge 2024 (joint debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, this week, therefore, Parliament is voting on the budgetary discharges of the European institutions. In other words, what does that mean? That means that we are keeping the accounts of the European Union. On the far right of this Chamber, the European Union, they are mainly pocketing it: between EUR 3 and 5 million in the case of parliamentary assistants and EUR…

28 Apr

2026

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Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034 (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, today Parliament is speaking on the European budget for the next seven years and Parliament is sending a very clear message to the Commission: This is an end of inadmissibility in relation to the architecture that the Commission is trying to impose on our institutions. Parliament is firstly judging the Commission on the volumes of the proposed budget, since we e…

11 Mar

2026

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Rise of political violence, notably by far-left organisations (debate)

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18 Dec

2025

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European Democracy Shield – very large online platform algorithms, foreign interference and the spread of disinformation (debate)

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17 Dec

2025

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2030 Consumer Agenda (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the issue of consumer law is a matter of sovereignty and security for the European Union. Millions of unsafe and non-compliant products flood Europe via online platforms. Behind the broken prices hides a brutal reality: buying fast, throwing away more, producing far away, always exploiting. These prices are lying! They say nothing about the real cost paid by our…

25 Nov

2025

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Protection of minors online (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the attention economy has decided to make our children prey and they are using platforms and algorithms to chase our children, but also each and every one of us, to penetrate our brains and know our emotions and sensitivities. In reality, they trade in our intimacy. And my belief is that burdening families and parents with monitoring these toxic…

12 Nov

2025

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The new 2028-2034 Multiannual Financial Framework: architecture and governance (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, Madam President of the Commission – she has left, and it must be believed that two hours to discuss with Parliament the future budget was still too much – we have a problem. We have a problem because the proposed architecture is a direct aggression and the worst setback we have seen in a long time compared to European federalism. Cutting the budget into 27 national p…

20 Oct

2025

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A new legislative framework for products that is fit for the digital and sustainable transition (debate)

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Mr President, Mr Vice-President, thank you for this debate. I wanted to send a special signal to all the shadow rapporteurs, but to those who have been most in touch. There is my colleague Gozi in front of me, Mr Agius and Mrs Grossmann, and really it has been a pleasure to find consensus or dynamic compromises. And I would draw your attention, Mr Vice-President, to the fact that, when we vote on …

20 Oct

2025

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A new legislative framework for products that is fit for the digital and sustainable transition (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner Séjourné, ladies and gentlemen, this Parliament is sending a historic signal today: The era of disposable at all must come to an end. The report we are voting on is not yet another text on consumption. It is a clear political mandate, addressed to the European Commission. I started with the subjects that were not central to this report, but together with our fellow rappo…

8 Oct

2025

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Promoting EU digital rules: protecting European sovereignty (debate)

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Mr President, Madam Vice-President, today you are, in a way, the European Union’s Minister of Defence, because the file you have in hand is our fundamental line of defence in the face of the attacks we are suffering against our economic interests, but also against our democracies. I invite you to listen to this part of the Chamber, because in the other part there is a fifth column: that of Donald …

8 Sep

2025

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Public procurement (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, public procurement represents EUR 2 trillion per year in the European Union. This is ten times the amount of the EU budget. These public contracts are public money, the money of the European people. We are therefore proposing a "Buy European Act". We need green protectionism to protect the planet, our jobs, our social conquests and our sovereignty.…

10 Jul

2025

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Post-2027 Common Agricultural Policy (debate)

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Madam President, European farmers are dying, our farms are disappearing, peasants are falling under the burden of debt, and agri-food, agro-chemical and large-scale distribution companies are exploiting their work. Meanwhile, the European Commission is preparing to complete them. Ursula von der Leyen not only wants to merge the two pillars of the CAP, but she also wants to dilute it into a budget …

8 Jul

2025

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State of play of implementation of the European Media Freedom Act in the Member States (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, threats to press freedom are mounting. This is why we have put in place this European Media Freedom Regulation. The independence of the press is questioned, admittedly, by illiberal regimes that muzzle it within the European Union itself. It is endangered by oligarchs from outside the European Union, who are trying to take control of European media. It is also t…

7 May

2025

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High levels of retail food prices and their consequences for European consumers (debate)

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Madam President, high food prices are not inevitable. They are the result of an unfair agri-food system, in which consumers pay three times: a first time at the cash register, a second time via their taxes for agricultural aid and subsidies, and a third time by paying the cost of repairing the environmental and health damage caused by industrial agriculture, so-called hidden costs – pollution, los…

7 May

2025

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Winning the global tech race: boosting innovation and closing funding gaps (topical debate)

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Mr President, the European Union is powerful, but it is threatened by predators. We have no reason to consent to participate in a technological race whose rules these predators want to impose. To accept the standards of the Chinese or American tech oligarchs and their imperialist temptation is not what we must do. European innovation is the ability to prescribe our own rules of the game, which are…

13 Feb

2025

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Threats to EU sovereignty through strategic dependencies in communication infrastructure (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, Europe is bound together: 92% of our data is stored abroad, our infrastructure delivered to GAFAM and Chinese suppliers. And what does Europe do? It speaks of sovereignty, but in reality it submits. The far right claims to be patriotic, but lets Europe become a vassalized territory, unable to protect its citizens and businesses from US extr…

21 Jan

2025

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Need to enforce the Digital Services Act to protect democracy on social media platforms including against foreign interference and biased algorithms (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, this morning's debate is enlightening. Contrary to what we were led to believe, the subject was not censorship or lack of censorship, freedom of speech or lack of freedom of speech. This morning's debate can be summed up in one word: sovereignty. European sovereignty, i.e. the sovereignty of the European Union, presupposes the sovereignty of European nations.…

18 Dec

2024

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Challenges facing EU farmers and agricultural workers: improving working conditions, including their mental well-being (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, 'work, take pains, ... dig, dig, dig; Leave no place where the hand does not pass and passes again. In The Labourer and His ChildrenA dying father exhorts his sons to seek a treasure hidden under their land. They return to the ground with ardour and discover that the real treasure is their work and the fruits of the earth that flow from it. Our far…

17 Dec

2024

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Misinformation and disinformation on social media platforms, such as TikTok, and related risks to the integrity of elections in Europe (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, TikTok is definitely not a dance app. Behind its harmless airs of entertainment, TikTok, like other social networks, is a Trojan horse against our democracies. TikTok is not a vector of freedom, but of submission. Its weapons are based on the manipulation and mass surveillance of citizens. The recent revelations about TikTok’s interference in the elections in Ro…

7 Oct

2024

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Facing fake news, populism and disinformation in the EU - the importance of public broadcasting, media pluralism and independent journalism (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, last May this Parliament voted in favour of the European regulation on freedom of the media, but the work is not finished. Democracies must learn to defend themselves against those who want to bring them down. But there is no democracy without reliable information, and therefore an independent press. After Czech coal mines, Mediterranean ports or African concessions,…

16 Sep

2024

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Outcome of the Strategic Dialogue on the Future of EU Agriculture (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, last April the Commission had Parliament adopt a crude revision of our common agricultural policy against the environment and therefore, ultimately, against the future of women and men farmers. At the same time, the Commission launched this strategic dialogue for the future of agriculture. Let's move on to the contradiction. Dozens of organizations…

24 Apr

2024

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The attack on climate and nature: far right and conservative attempts to destroy the Green Deal and prevent investment in our future (topical debate)

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Mr President, this is a point of order. Mr Cañas, in his speech, spoke of Khmer Rouge and Khmer Verts. I would like to remind him that the Khmer are the perpetrators of genocide, and that they have massacred a quarter of the population of Cambodia. Using this kind of image in this Chamber is absolutely unworthy and I strongly condemn it.…

28 Feb

2024

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Financial activities of the European Investment Bank - annual report 2023 (debate)

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Mr President, we have an expression in France that says: One is not always a prophet in one's own country. It happens to everyone. In any case, let me say that after a few speeches I have heard, I am even more proud and happy that you are President of this EIB. And if you were French, I would be particularly happy if a woman who has your background now runs the most powerful public investment bank…

28 Feb

2024

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Financial activities of the European Investment Bank - annual report 2023 (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, first of all, President Calviño, congratulations on your election as President of the EIB. I am delighted to be able to discuss with you the tasks of the Investment Bank that you are now leading. It has been almost five years since I have been responsible for monitoring, on behalf of the Committee on Budgets, the activities of the European Investment Bank. I wou…