What Benoît spoke about.

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Jun

2022

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Question Time (Commission) Reducing the use of pesticides and strengthening consumer protection

Madam President, Commissioner, there are two assumptions on which we can rely. The first is that there is a clear link between pesticide use and consumer health, and it is our duty to ensure that consumer health is no longer at risk and that it is no longer at risk. The other observation – and I am sorry, ladies and gentlemen, I am going to rescue the Commissioner – is that there are other solutio…

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Mar

2022

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Need for an urgent EU action plan to ensure food security inside and outside the EU in light of the Russian invasion of Ukraine (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the war in Ukraine has an immediate impact on global food. The countries of the North Black Sea supplied almost 30% of the world cereals market. The inhabitants of the Mediterranean basin are worried because they know that the price of bread will rise very sharply. The agricultural system established by the World Trade Organisation has collapsed…

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Mar

2022

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General Union Environment Action Programme to 2030 (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I would first like to take a moment to thank my colleague Grace O’Sullivan, who, as rapporteur on this text, has done a great job in a delicate negotiation with the Council. In particular, I welcome his determined action to retain a reference to the need to phase out subsidies that encourage the use of fossil resources. It is not insignificant t…

14

Dec

2021

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Outcome of Global Summit Nutrition for Growth (Japan, 7-8 December) and increased food insecurity in developing countries (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, what are the real challenges of a world summit on food security? Tackling the ever-increasing precarisation of access to food for more and more citizens. There are 770 million of them, the main victims of which are children and peasants. While we are seeing more and more obesity in the North, more and more famine in the South, is it not urgent to get out of the …

23

Nov

2021

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Common agricultural policy - support for strategic plans to be drawn up by Member States and financed by the EAGF and by the EAFRD - Common agricultural policy: financing, management and monitoring - Common agricultural policy – amendment of the CMO and other regulations (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, mitigating climate change, combating the collapse of biodiversity, preserving the health of eaters, restoring the quality of vital resources such as water and air, achieving food sovereignty, significantly improving farmers’ incomes, relaunching the dynamics of installation in agriculture are the salutary ambitions of the Green Deal, the basis o…

18

Oct

2021

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Farm to Fork Strategy (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Europe, our planet, humanity, above all, have a meeting point with history. So, if everything is not perfect in this Farm to Fork strategy, with for example a blind spot on the subject of seeds, its ambitions are broadly in the right direction. Let us not fall asleep by the stale words of another time, distilled by conservative lobbyists, preachers of the foo…

15

Sep

2021

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EU contribution to transforming global food systems to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (debate)

Madam President, this morning, in her State of the Union address, Ms von der Leyen did not say the words ‘peasant’, ‘fisherman’, ‘food’ or ‘agriculture’ once. Apparently, this is not one of his priorities. Yet, according to the UN, 2.3 billion people do not have access to sufficient food and 800 million are hungry every day. The common agricultural policy continues to ruin tens of millions of peas…