What Stéphane spoke about.

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Oct

2022

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Countering the anti-European and anti-Ukrainian propaganda of Putin’s European cronies (topical debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, this weekend the president of a nuclear power designated us as enemies. The President of United Russia, Putin’s party, has directly threatened to use weapons against European cities. Members of the same party, members of the Russian parliament, called for genocide, rape and abduction of Ukrainian children. Vladimir Putin, his allies and his party want to destroy…

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Sep

2022

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State of the Union (debate)

Madam President, I will perhaps be a little more explicit than you about the speeches that have taken place in this Chamber. Mr Bardella, I am sorry, but your intervention is irresponsible. It is irresponsible because it is not the sanctions that are the cause of the Europeans, it is you and the Russians. You have been in touch with the Russian government for years and you are now teaching us what…

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Sep

2022

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State of the Union (debate)

Madam President, two hundred days. Two hundred days that the Ukrainian people are fighting the Russian aggressor. Two hundred days that Ukrainians are fighting for their values and those of Europe. Their fight is our fight, that of democracy against autocracy, that of the rule of law against the law of the strongest, that of freedom against oppression, that of our Union against its opponents. So m…

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Jul

2022

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US Supreme Court decision to overturn abortion rights in the United States and the need to safeguard abortion rights and Women’s health in the EU (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the shock of the US Supreme Court decision reminds us that nothing is taken for granted. This Parliament, whose first president was Simone Veil, has a duty to show unambiguous solidarity with the Americans. In one day, millions of women lost the right to dispose of their bodies. In our Union, too, millions of Poles lost the opportunity to have an abortion bec…

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Jun

2022

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 23-24 June 2022, including the meeting with Western Balkan leaders on 23 June - Candidate status of Ukraine, the Republic of Moldova and Georgia (debate)

Mr President, Madam President of the Commission, Minister, for the latter of the French Presidency, the European Council of tomorrow promises to be once again historic. My group welcomes the spirit of responsibility shown by all Member States and the Commission's work to achieve this. Madam President, Ukraine’s candidate status is a fair recognition of the sacrifice of the Ukrainian people for our…

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Jun

2022

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Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System (A9-0162/2022 - Peter Liese) (vote)

Madam President, just one word to say that I share the concern of the Chairman of the Green Group to work together on this text and to build something in majority format with the pro-Europeans. But I'm in a different situation than yours. We shared the ambition, but we made the tactical choice to vote for this text and not to mingle with the voices of the far right for the rejection of this text. …

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Jun

2022

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This is Europe - Debate with the Taoiseach of Ireland, Micheál Martin (debate)

Madam President, dear Taoiseach, dear Micheál, thank you for your speech. Let me assure you, from a very pro-European political family in this Parliament, that we are proud of the resolutely European agenda of the Irish Government. As we can count on Ireland to defend European unity, I wanted to reiterate, dear Taoiseach, that the Irish can count on Renew Europe and their Members, Barry Andrews an…

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Jun

2022

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The rule of law and the potential approval of the Polish national Recovery Plan (RRF) (debate)

Mr President, Madam President of the Commission, thank you for being here with this institution to talk about an important subject. The rule of law is the cornerstone of our democracy, the cement of our society. The European Commission is the guardian of the Treaties and Parliament is its watchdog. That is why we are making it clear, including to the members of the Council, that it is a political …

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Jun

2022

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Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System - Social Climate Fund - Carbon border adjustment mechanism - Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System for aviation - Notification under the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) (joint debate – Fit for 55 (part 1))

Madam President, Vice-President Timmermans, Minister – I am very pleased to see you on these benches, dear Chrysoula – the eight Green Deal laws that we are about to vote on this week show that there are still many reasons to hope. Hope for democracy first, because by proposing these laws, we are responding to the wishes of the millions of voters who, in 2019, chose MEPs committed to climate and p…

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Jun

2022

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Order of business

– Madam President, as you know, this Chamber has the rule of law at heart, and after the Commission’s decision, before the vote in the Council, it seems to my important group that the European Parliament can reaffirm its positions on the Polish question now, by means of a resolution. We are therefore proposing one at this plenary session in order to be able to have more impact, including on the in…

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May

2022

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This is Europe - Debate with the Prime Minister of Italy, Mario Draghi (debate)

Madam President, Prime Minister, ladies and gentlemen, allow me first of all to welcome your speech, to welcome the European commitment of your government and your contribution to the European debate. Your action has come to some extent to end a far too long period in which some European politicians have, wrongly, looked at Italy with a hint of condescension, of indifference sometimes. This may ha…

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May

2022

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Order of business

Madam President, I understand that we cannot speak in favour. Nevertheless, I would also like to express, on behalf of my group, support for this resolution, which was also presented to the Conference of Presidents and which hopes that this resolution will succeed.…

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Apr

2022

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 24-25 March 2022: including the latest developments of the war against Ukraine and the EU sanctions against Russia and their implementation (debate)

Madam President, Mr President, dear representatives, Bucha and Irpine have confirmed the criminal, deeply immoral and inhuman nature of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Failure to act on these crimes would have been an insult to our values and a disavowal of our humanity. Yesterday, Europe demonstrated once again that it can decide, in the name of its fight in Ukraine, in the name of our freedoms,…

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Apr

2022

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Question Time (Commission) - von der Leyen Commission: Two years on, implementation of the political priorities

One of the important pillars, as we have seen, is in particular the pillar of the rule of law. As you know, we did not talk about it, but it was one of the fundamental priorities of this mandate. It is clear that it is being challenged, and we remain convinced that we will be strong outside the European Union if we are strong, including on our values, internally, in the European Union. My question…

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Apr

2022

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Question Time (Commission) - von der Leyen Commission: Two years on, implementation of the political priorities

Madam President, I thank the two Presidents: first you, Madam, have allowed this exercise, and then you, Madam President, have given in to this democratic exercise, which my group has been very supportive of. I think it's necessary. To begin with, we made the long-term observation that our continent does not yet have the tools to guarantee its autonomy. We did this here in this European Parliament…

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Mar

2022

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Debriefing of the European Council meeting in Paris on 10 March 2022 - Preparation of the European Council meeting 24-25 March 2022 (debate)

Madam President, Mr President, Madam President of the Commission, ladies and gentlemen, our unprecedented response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine has created a sense of unity across Europe. The images of suffering and desolation from Ukraine must push us to go further in sanctions, in helping Ukraine and in strategic autonomy. The senseless brutality of Russian attacks on civilians must not go…

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Mar

2022

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International Women’s Day – Address by Oksana Zabuzhko

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Mrs Zaboujko, as you have said, this International Women’s Day is taking place in a particularly dark context. The images of Ukraine remind us of two realities about the fight for women’s rights. The first is that women experience specific and structural violence. The first accusations of rape as a war crime were recorded a few days ago. The second reality is…

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Mar

2022

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Russian aggression against Ukraine (debate)

Madam President, Mr President, Madam President, Mr High Representative, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to begin by saluting the courage of Ukrainian women and men who are fighting not only for their homeland, but also for their right to choose their destiny. President Zelenskyy, President of the Ukrainian Parliament, you are the honour of the Democrats today. In recent days, Europe has shown t…

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Feb

2022

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EU-Russia relations, European security and Russia’s military threat against Ukraine (debate)

Madam President, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, Madam President of the Commission, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to begin by expressing, on behalf of my group, Renew, deep solidarity with the people of Ukraine. For the third time in less than 20 years, the Ukrainian people are facing unacceptable external pressure. The resilience and calm of Ukrainian citizens force our admiration. Th…

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Jan

2022

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Presentation of the programme of activities of the French Presidency (debate)

Madam President, this is a reminder to the Rules of Procedure on the same subject as Mrs García Pérez. What a shame to turn this Chamber into a National Assembly! It is not respectful of what parliamentarians are here, nor of our work, nor of the debate. The political groups are totally open and free to organise their speaking time and the content as they wish, of course, but I would like us to be…

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Jan

2022

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Presentation of the programme of activities of the French Presidency (debate)

Madam President, congratulations once again on your election. Mr President of the Republic, Commissioners, I say this sympathetically, in the introduction, to the EPP: you have been in charge for five years and if now more action and less words are needed, I am glad that you are in that position and we are pretty much all in agreement here. But in the last two years in Europe, thanks to Europe, th…

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Jan

2022

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Election of the President of Parliament (announcement of results)

Madam President, congratulations on your election. On behalf of the entire Renew Group that I represent, I would first like to thank you for your speech, setting out your priorities. Behind the support of our group, we also have political priorities that we have agreed with a number of political groups here in this Chamber. Behind these political priorities, we want a strong Parliament, rights res…

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Dec

2021

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 16-17 December 2021 - The EU's response to the global resurgence of Covid-19 and the new emerging Covid variants (debate)

Mr President, Madam President, Minister, let me first express my regret that this House is not in a position to propose a resolution with proposals on COVID-19. With the exception of the Socialists, the other groups did not support our proposal to provide you with a list of solutions in a resolution. Apparently, some people prefer to debate how Europeans should wish themselves or celebrate Christm…

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Nov

2021

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 21-22 October 2021 (debate)

Mr President, Madam President, Mr President, a new wave of COVID is hitting our continent and let me first perhaps express my deep solidarity with the peoples of Europe who are living through this new tragedy. I do not forget European solidarity when my country and its neighbours in southern Europe were in the middle of this wave and very affected. The European Union has yet to reaffirm this solid…

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Nov

2021

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Order of business

Madam President, we all have the images in mind of a major crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border. An attack of unprecedented brutality and inhumanity, in any case, is taking place. This is an eminently European subject that needs to be debated in our Chamber. That is why, of course, the Renew Group is proposing the title you have just mentioned, hoping – trying to negotiate between the groups – t…