What Manuel spoke about.

20 Jan

2022

FR Speech

Protection of animals during transport - Protection of animals during transport (Recommendation) (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we transport more than 1.5 billion animals a year. Millions of them cross the borders of the European Union after days and days piled up at sea or on the road, suffering from heat or cold, lack of rest, water or food. All this to happen in countries where the EU cannot even control how they will be treated. Others are transported from one Member State to anot…

19 Jan

2022

FR Speech

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

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Madam Speaker, Mr. Speaker, Mr. candidate, earlier you criticized some for using this debate for electoral purposes. What bad faith! It is you who, by keeping the calendar of the French presidency as it is, sacrificed it on the altar of your electoral ambitions. Too bad for this debate. Too bad for France's influence in Europe. You presented yourself this morning as the candidate for industrial so…

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)

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Mr President, Victor Hugo said: “It is a sad thing to think that nature speaks and that mankind does not listen”. For nature speaks indeed: floods, droughts, mega-fires, pandemics, species threatened with extinction by hundreds of thousands... But the human race persists, year after year, in the same errors. Our agricultural model is the first factor in the collapse of biodiversity. It contributes…

11 Nov

2021

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The outcome of the EU-US Trade and Technology Council (TTC) (debate)

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Mr President, the Trade and Technology Council has been sold to us with the usual praise for the transatlantic relationship that the EU forms with the United States. So it seems that the unfair practices and humiliations of recent years have not been a lesson to you. Here are two from a long list. In 2014, after an unacceptable blackmail by the US judiciary, General Electric seized Alstom’s energy…

18 Oct

2021

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Protecting workers from asbestos (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, asbestos is a poison that kills up to 250 000 people every year around the world. By 2030, it could cost the lives of nearly 300 000 European citizens. It is not only a human tragedy, it is an unbearable scandal, despite the fact that this material has been known to be dangerous since the beginning of the 20th century. Years of mobilisation of asbestos victim…

18 Oct

2021

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Farm to Fork Strategy (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, our food systems are responsible for one third of our greenhouse gas emissions. They endanger ecosystems, destroy peasant agriculture, animal health and welfare. For what result? One third of food production is wasted; 8 million French people need food aid to live; almost three billion people are starving or malnourished. So there is an absolute urgency. It i…

6 Oct

2021

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European solutions to the rise of energy prices for businesses and consumers: the role of energy efficiency and renewable energy and the need to tackle energy poverty (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the price of energy is skyrocketing all over Europe. In Spain, electricity bills increased by 35% in one year. In France, the price of gas has jumped by 70% since the beginning of the year. The working classes are hit hard when they are already struggling to make ends meet. One third of those interviewed in France by the Secours populaire have difficulty payi…

15 Sep

2021

FR Speech

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

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the last few years have ushered in a new era of permanent uncertainty as a result of the consequences of the ecological disaster: COVID-19 pandemic, fires, droughts, floods, cold waves. Our way of production, consumption and trade leads us to disaster. And our agricultural model is at the heart of these deadly dynamics. With its pesticides, it poisons the air, s…