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2026

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Urgent measures to strengthen the competitiveness and safeguard quality jobs in the EU’s automotive sector (debate)

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2026

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Urgent measures to strengthen the competitiveness and safeguard quality jobs in the EU’s automotive sector (debate)

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2026

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Urgent measures to strengthen the competitiveness and safeguard quality jobs in the EU’s automotive sector (debate)

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Jul

2026

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Urgent measures to strengthen the competitiveness and safeguard quality jobs in the EU’s automotive sector (debate)

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Jun

2026

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EU-US trade deal (joint debate)

Mr President, I will pay attention to my speaking time, I promise you. At the same time, last year, transatlantic relations were experiencing strong tensions. European companies were also faced with a very volatile and uncertain climate, a lack of predictability with regard to customs duties in particular. Today, after a year, the Turnberry agreement, despite tensions, the situation has clearly im…

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Jun

2026

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Time for European economic independence (debate)

Mr President, well, perhaps to say a few words about what I have just heard about the last two speeches. First, some of what I have heard is within national jurisdiction. The energy mix today is a national competence. Our difficulty today to have an integrated market that can have interconnections between countries to bring down the price of energy, it is bilateral agreements between Member States…

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Jun

2026

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Time for European economic independence (debate)

Mr President, thank you for this opportunity, first of all, to tell you that one of the most important vulnerabilities is to be more than 90% dependent on a country in a strategic sector, and this is the case in many sectors in Europe today. I will not go back over the history of our vulnerabilities, the first being the vulnerability of Russian oil and gas, which has cost the European economy more…

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Jun

2026

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Time for European economic independence (debate)

Mr President, I am also delighted to inaugurate these new rules of debate with you this morning. Ladies and gentlemen, how can we guarantee our prosperity, our security, if our value chains can stop, that is actually the title of the debate you wanted, to stop overnight, by decisions taken without us, on the other side of the planet? On Friday, the US cut off access to Anthropic’s most advanced AI…

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May

2026

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High time to deliver on the Single Market, providing certainty and predictability for EU businesses and quality jobs (continuation of debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, at the end of this important debate, on behalf of the European Commission, I welcome the support for strengthening the internal market. Yes, it is high time to deliver by also offering our companies economies of scale, ensuring quality jobs for Europeans. The important message to remember is that we cannot end this mandate with more barriers, as in all other …

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Mar

2026

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Savings and Investments Union: time to accelerate the process to deepen market integration (debate)

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2026

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Savings and Investments Union: time to accelerate the process to deepen market integration (debate)

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Mar

2026

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Single Market: how to move from an incomplete single market to one market for one Europe (debate)

Madam President, I shall be very brief. First, to tell you that, and you've all said it here, it's a shared responsibility. The internal market involves both the removal of national barriers and thus the construction of our internal market. As I said, over-transpositions, all texts that have been misinterpreted by national legislation and all texts that go against national legislation. The Commiss…

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Mar

2026

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Single Market: how to move from an incomplete single market to one market for one Europe (debate)

Madam President, Minister, on behalf of the European Commission, I am very pleased to take part in this debate on the integration of our single market. Europe's competitiveness is facing unprecedented challenges. In a context you know, an unstable geopolitical context, the single market is our best asset to counter external pressures, and it is time to build on its strengths: 450 million consumers…

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2025

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Increasing the efficiency of the EU guarantee under the InvestEU Regulation and simplifying reporting requirements (debate)

Madam President, I shall be very brief, given the timetable for the end of our debates. However, I would point out one point: the broad support already given to the InvestEU scheme through the political groups you represent. I look forward to that. Again, we will also have these debates in the budget debate. InvestEU is part of the investment toolbox. Once again, we will work with the EIB and our …

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Nov

2025

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Increasing the efficiency of the EU guarantee under the InvestEU Regulation and simplifying reporting requirements (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, in organising this debate, you wished to stress the importance of Omnibus II, which will take place tomorrow with a vote. I would also like to thank you for this organised debate and, in particular, to commend the work of our two rapporteurs and to congratulate you collectively on this result, because this omnibus is the first to arrive saf…

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Nov

2025

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Effective use of the EU trade and industrial policy to tackle China’s export restrictions (debate)

Madam President, I may start by saying that the European Union is neither in an agenda of decoupling from China, nor in an agenda that would add to us a number of new dependencies. And so, if I withdraw the speeches that seemed extremist to me on one side or the other – whether it is in 100% decoupling, which is also the American agenda in a way, or when I hear Mme Montero, who can apply for a Chi…

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Nov

2025

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Effective use of the EU trade and industrial policy to tackle China’s export restrictions (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Minister, on behalf of the European Commission, I would first like to thank you for putting this item and this debate on the agenda. It is essential at a time when Europe's economic security is being tested. Let's go back to the context first. What happened last April and October on rare earths is not new. Europe experienced the first signs of Chinese restrictio…

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Oct

2025

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

A new legislative framework adapted to the challenges of our time is perhaps the red thread that you all mentioned in this debate. Mr López Aguilar, all the Commissioners of the European Commission are working together, including with Commissioner McGrath, on this subject, so that we can also provide a coherent framework. I would also point out that we share a number of objectives in this Chamber …

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Oct

2025

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

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of the European Commission, I would first of all like to commend the work of rapporteur Cormand and, more broadly, of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection. This own-initiative report comes at a very opportune time in our discussions, including in the current situation. It has been more than 15 years since the new product legisla…

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Oct

2025

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Time to complete a fully integrated Single Market: Europe’s key to growth and future prosperity (debate)

Madam President, allow me first of all to return to a number of very relevant arguments and comments that have been made in this debate. I would like to address the conditions under which we need to strengthen the internal market, and then the two major projects that I mentioned in the introduction. The key condition, if we want to strengthen the internal market, is to protect our external borders…

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Oct

2025

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Time to complete a fully integrated Single Market: Europe’s key to growth and future prosperity (debate)

Madam President, Minister, on behalf of the European Commission, I am pleased to speak again in this debate on our single market and the measures that need to be taken to strengthen it. At the last plenary session, we had already addressed these issues in connection with Anna-Maja Henriksson's excellent report. Moreover, the points of convergence between your report and this strategy on the single…

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Sep

2025

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Public procurement (debate)

Mr President, I will come back to the figures, since many have been stated. EUR 2 565 billion is the figure resulting from the 2003 public contracts. Of these 2,565 billion euros, 600 billion are within the European thresholds. It is therefore the responsibility of parliamentarians to assess, including whether these European thresholds are the right ones, whether more public procurement should be …

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Sep

2025

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Public procurement (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of the European Commission, I would like to commend the work done by the IMCO, INTA and EMPL Committees on this subject. I know that the many and sometimes complex discussions surrounding this own-initiative report also reflect the importance of the subject we are going to deal with collectively. The revision of a 2014 directive has a very clear object…

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Jul

2025

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Presentation of the Chemicals Package (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, as the Commission adopts a series of key measures for the European chemicals sector, I thank you for choosing to organise this debate, as chemistry is the mother of all industries. It is present everywhere, in all strategic and industrial sectors, from our military defence to our medicines and connected objects, which have become ubiquitous in our daily lives…

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Jun

2025

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Clean Industrial Deal (debate)

Mr President, I thank the speakers and Parliament for this debate on the Clean Industry Pact, which goes far beyond, as we have understood, a simple policy on decarbonisation, and which is a vision of what we want to do with our European industries in the next thirty or forty years. What are the historical industries that we want to safeguard for questions of sovereignty, also for questions of eco…