What David spoke about.

5 Feb

2024

FR Speech

Order of business

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Madam President: ‘My friends, help... A woman has just died frozen, that night, at three o’clock, on the sidewalk of Boulevard Sébastopol, squeezing on her the paper by which, the day before yesterday, she had been expelled.’ These words were uttered by Abbé Pierre in the winter of 1954, on 1 February, in a heartbreaking call on the radio. To the general indifference to the cold deaths he wanted t…

16 Jan

2024

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Empowering consumers for the green transition (debate)

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Mr President, good morning to all of you. Listen, congratulations, mission accomplished! It is a text that, as Commissioner Reynders said, is part of a package of texts with ‘Green claims’, with eco-design, with the right to compensation. And so there, we have a flagship of this European strategy for a more sustainable market, to get out of this consumer society, to get out of this waste that was …

11 Dec

2023

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Statements by the President

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Madam President, fearless, powerful, inspiring, strong, determined, iconoclastic, resolute: This was Michèle Rivasi, whom many of you have had the opportunity to attend, as you have also been able to attend her inimitable, singular and very powerful style. It was in a devastated way that we learned of his departure on 29 November – his colleagues from the French delegation, as I know many of you. …

9 Nov

2023

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System of own resources of the European Union (debate)

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Madam President, thank you to the co-rapporteurs for their work and the follow-up on this dossier, which was one of the red threads of this mandate: the creation of new own resources for the European Union. Parliament has always been clear about its demands: a strong European budget for a strong Europe. For this, the most transparent, fair and democratic solution is to give the EU and Parliament r…

17 Oct

2023

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Commission Work Programme 2024 (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, your work programme for 2024 looks like a campaign capitulation on the ground of ecology and social justice. Today, you decide to abandon REACH, the Regulation on the Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals, and you also abandon the Law – Framework on Sustainable Food Systems. Despite the demands of Europeans, you are neglecting the animal condition d…

3 Oct

2023

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European Media Freedom Act (debate)

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Madam President, a journalist, Anne Lavrilleux, arrested, her home searched. A national weekly bought by a far-right billionaire. Newsrooms emptied of their journalists. A public audiovisual private financing. All these situations make the European Media Freedom Act a necessity. Yes, this regulation is necessary for the whole of Europe, because the threats I have just listed are not just the actio…

11 Jul

2023

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Ecodesign Regulation (debate)

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Mr President, I would like to thank Alessandra Moretti for his excellent report. Congratulations! You have achieved a feat and we are proud to be able to vote on an ambitious text. The Ecodesign Regulation aims to eventually allow only sustainable products to circulate on the European market. It is a victory for consumers and it is a victory for the planet over the consumer society. In this regula…

11 Jul

2023

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Financial activities of the European Investment Bank – annual report 2022 - Control of the financial activities of the European Investment Bank - annual report 2022 (joint debate - European Investment Bank)

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Madam President, Mr President, first of all congratulations, because we started this mandate in 2019 with the whole issue of the Climate Bank. You told us: But we can do it. And it is a Green who tells you, you have driven these changes. Of course, we're always asking for more. But, really, congratulations on this work you've done since 2019, and even before, but I've seen it since 2019. But more …

9 May

2023

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Empowering consumers for the green transition (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, dear Mrs Borzan, thank you. Thank you very much for masterfully managing this difficult negotiation. Between the definitions that each brought to the , between the difficulties that we have in making a number of our colleagues understand that the European internal market will never again be the same with the ecological constraints that are ours. The consumer …

8 May

2023

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Impact on the 2024 EU budget of increasing European Union Recovery Instrument borrowing costs - Own resources: a new start for EU finances, a new start for Europe (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, this is an important moment that we are living through, since, and this has been said by the brilliant co-rapporteurs of the own-initiative text on the budget, it is a moment of reconquest by our institution of this fiscal autonomy. It took the mind-blowing, incredible momentum of the Covid crisis, and then this other, dramatic momentum of the Russ…

15 Feb

2023

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Access to strategic critical raw materials (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, dear friends, many of us are worried about our dependence on critical raw materials. To address these concerns, we must reject the fable of maintaining our current consumption model by simply substituting our dependence on fossil fuels with a new dependence on critical raw materials. Such a scenario is not desirable from an economic, geopolitical or ecological point …

24 Nov

2022

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Establishing the Digital Decade Policy Programme 2030 (debate)

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Madam President, thank you to the rapporteur, thank you, Commissioner, for being here with us. There is a blind spot in this text: for me, it is the sustainable question and it is the green question. The Digital Decade takes us to 2030. We have climate targets by 2030. And in this text, there is nothing to frame what we decide to implement as an infrastructure to be able to meet these objectives. …

22 Nov

2022

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System of own resources of the European Union (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, the agreement on own resources, since I was elected in 2019, is both an acceleration and an acceleration that is going too slowly. The pace of emergencies we are facing is going much faster than the pace at which we are creating these own resources. On the first package, it is not enough and it is not fast enough. When we talk about CBAM, it is too little money compared…

21 Nov

2022

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Borrowing strategy to finance NextGenerationEU (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, yes, this shared loan was a historic – Hamiltonian – moment, as some have said. Except that today we are in the middle of the ford and the end of the story remains to be written. The current reality is that the financing of this shared loan is guaranteed by a budget that today is constrained by new emergencies, such as Putin’s Russia-imposed war…

19 Oct

2022

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Presentation of the Court of Auditors' annual report 2021 (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, congratulations, Mr President, on your new responsibilities. You have a fundamental mission: to ensure that, in our European democracy, the money we decide to spend is actually spent in the right direction, the direction in which we decided to spend it. This is fundamental for citizens who are committed to how we spend this money. The European Court of Auditors concl…

4 Oct

2022

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Radio Equipment Directive: common charger for electronic devices (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, dear friends, we are all very happy to take our minute to say that we have won a great victory with this shipper story – it has still taken twelve years, but congratulations! What I would like to say is that this charger should not be the tree that hides the forest of the potential ecological disaster of the digital business model as it is desig…

14 Sep

2022

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State of the Union (debate)

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Madam President, thank you for your speech. And then thank you for this modest tribute you paid to environmentalists by talking about the precursors who had thought as early as the 70s that the fossil had its limits. I say modest tribute because you didn't mention us, but I know you think you're going with us. Madam President, for the efforts that we are going to have to make, for the ecological t…

6 Jul

2022

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Financial activities of the European Investment Bank – annual report 2021 - Control of the financial activities of the European Investment Bank – annual report 2020 (debate)

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Madam President, Mr President, thank you for these exchanges and debates. I do not have much to add, except to invite us to persist with three words: consistency, consistency and courage. The European Investment Bank is consistent with the issue of investment on environmental issues. Coherence means doing it to the end and not, at the same time, funding projects that would still be carbon-related.…

6 Jul

2022

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Financial activities of the European Investment Bank – annual report 2021 - Control of the financial activities of the European Investment Bank – annual report 2020 (debate)

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Madam President, Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, this is the annual meeting to report on the European Investment Bank. My colleagues and I are delighted, on behalf of the Committee on Budgets, to have this interaction with you. In Lugano, at the first International Conference on the Reconstruction of Ukraine, the EIB committed to participate in this reconstruction. This is an opportunity for m…

7 Apr

2022

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Right to repair (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, dear Anna Cavazzini, thank you very much for this draft resolution on the right to reparation. Our single market must be more sustainable to avoid waste and waste, of course, and to protect the planet, consumers and consumers. This means leaving a consumer society that has become a consumer society. Consumers must be guaranteed the right to repair. To do so, …

6 Oct

2021

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Reforming the EU policy on harmful tax practices (including the reform of the Code of Conduct Group) (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, first of all, I would like to commend Aurore Lalucq for his work on this report, which reveals the absurdity of the current tax model and proposes ways to remedy it. Frankly, how can we accept the opacity in which tax rules are decided in the EU? You have to tell yourself the truth. The problem is that some of the adults in the room of the Code of Conduct Group …

5 Jul

2021

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Financial activities of the European Investment Bank - annual report 2020 - Control of the financial activities of the European Investment Bank - annual report 2019 (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Mr Hoyer, when we arrived – I have been elected since 2019 – we were elected saying: We now need a climate bank to change the European dimension and finance the transition. And the EIB told us: Great! We're going to be the climate bank, we know how to do it, we can do it. The problem is that the news is catching up with us and we can see the terrible images rece…