What Leila spoke about.

6 Oct

2026

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Affordable Housing Act (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, 20 years ago, to the day, with housing workers, we founded the Thursday Black collective to bring down rents by bursting the housing bubble. We occupied empty buildings, taken over by banks and insurance companies. And to make ourselves heard, we were throwing confetti at housing ministers and crooked landlords. I confess to you that this morning, …

14 Sep

2026

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Establishing the Union Customs Code and the European Union Customs Authority (debate)

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15 Jun

2026

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Simplification of the implementation of harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Digital Omnibus on AI) (debate)

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21 May

2026

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European Citizens’ Initiative ‘Stop destroying videogames’ (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, imagine that this Sunday is TV night at home. You sit in front of your favorite movie, you bought it, it belongs to you and poof! Black screen. It is remotely disabled because it was no longer profitable. It's unimaginable for a movie and yet, that's exactly what happens to video games. The Crew, Anthem, Concord... so many games paid full pot by…

20 May

2026

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Recent proposals to fight poverty in the EU (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, there is a legend that on the eve of the French Revolution, Queen Marie Antoinette said to the hungry people: "They have no more bread, let them eat brioche!" This sentence, in reality never spoken, could have been pronounced by Ursula von der Leyen, last week, during the presentation of the anti-poverty strategy. Millions of Europeans can no lo…

19 May

2026

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Political repression and humanitarian situation in Cuba (debate)

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Ma'am, you don't care about power cuts, you don't care about hungry Cubans. You should be ashamed. For more than 60 years, it has not been the Cuban regime's fault that they starve to death in Cuba; It is because of the 60 years of U.S. blockade that suffocates a people, that makes them die, that murders them, that wages a war against them. You should be ashamed, all opposite, to use the humanitar…

19 May

2026

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EU cybersecurity and preparedness in view of advanced AI systems (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, hospitals paralyzed by a cyberattack, surgical operations cancelled, carers deprived of computers, telephones, medical records. It's not science fiction. This is already happening, as in Besançon, Antwerp or Paris in recent months. With the offensive capabilities of new models of artificial intelligence, such as Claude Mythos or GPT 5.5, this can become our d…

28 Apr

2026

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Enforcement of the Digital Markets Act (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, as we debate the application of our digital legislation today, your colleague Mr Šefčovič has just returned from Washington. Recall that the purpose of the Commissioner's stay was to build a dialogue with the Trump administration around our digital legislation. So where is he today? He went to negotiate our laws with Trump, he doesn't even come to account for us! Bet…

10 Mar

2026

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Housing crisis in the European Union with the aim of proposing solutions for decent, sustainable and affordable housing (debate)

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Mrs Tinagli, you have been chairing the housing committee for a year, you are chairing it well, we have had …. I'll repeat the time you put on your headphones... Mrs Tinagli, you have been chairing the special committee on housing for a year, you are chairing it well, we have received a lot of experts, we have conducted a lot of hearings, we have carried out studies, we have carried out missions. …

10 Mar

2026

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Housing crisis in the European Union with the aim of proposing solutions for decent, sustainable and affordable housing (debate)

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Madam President, rapporteur, you are quite a magician. What was supposed to be a housing report becomes a real estate report. The European goal of zero homelessness by 2030? Abracadabra! Disappeared! The right of tenants? Abracadabra! Focus on the right of owners! Mr Giménez, you are stronger than David Copperfield – Mr Giménez, hou, hou, I am talking to you... Well, he's busy with something else,…

11 Feb

2026

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Addressing subcontracting chains and the role of intermediaries in order to protect workers’ rights (debate)

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Mr President, 75 billion for Vinci, 56 billion for Bouygues, 23 billion for Eiffage. Billions of turnover to build our stadiums, our metros, our Olympic villages. And at the end of the chain, on the construction sites, they are precarious workers, exhausted, endangered, sometimes without payroll or even without papers. Some leave their health there, others leave their lives there. What do the boss…

11 Feb

2026

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Developing a new EU anti-poverty strategy (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, in 2021, Europe promised to end homelessness before 2030. We are in 2026 and renunciations in renunciations, 2030 has never been so far. In France, 350,000 people sleep on the streets, four times as many in the European Union. Families, young people, women, workers unable to live in housing live in the most extreme precarious conditions. The Eur…

20 Jan

2026

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Presentation of the Cybersecurity Act (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, no, Amazon, Google and the US Big Tech do not embody European sovereignty. This seems obvious. And yet, at a time when the United States is contemplating an armed conflict with the European Union, the Commission is opening the door to the United States. cloud European sovereign. The GAFAM have the nerve to explain to us that our sovereignty requires the use o…

20 Jan

2026

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Presentation of the programme of activities of the Cyprus Presidency (continuation of debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Mr President, we are in a bad situation. The Council of the European Union is now chaired by Cyprus, whose territory is partially illegally occupied by a NATO member - I am talking about Turkey - in the name of its strategic interests. And today, another NATO member is threatening European sovereign territory for the same reasons. Washington is openly threate…

19 Jan

2026

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The 28th Regime: a new legal framework for innovative companies (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the European Commission is always imaginative when it comes to sabotaging workers' rights, and the 28th regime is a perfect example of this. Why the 28th Diet? Because there are 27 states in the European Union. And here, it is a bit like the Commission creating a 28th Member State, a kind of fictitious state with its own rules, a parallel right that is said t…

16 Dec

2025

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Digitalisation, artificial intelligence and algorithmic management in the workplace – shaping the future of work

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16 Dec

2025

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Presentation of the European Affordable Housing Plan (debate)

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26 Nov

2025

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Defence of Democracy package (joint debate)

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25 Nov

2025

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Protection of minors online (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, as the great Karl Marx said, nature abhors emptiness and capitalism abhors the absence of profit. Today, one in three internet users is under the age of 18 and web giants have decided to turn this reality into a market. Their logic is simple: capture attention, create addiction, cash in on the benefits. For this, they built an arsenal: interfaces that trap, a…

24 Nov

2025

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Order of business

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12 Nov

2025

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Protecting EU consumers against the practices of certain e-commerce platforms: the case of child-like sex dolls, weapons and other illegal products and material (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Shein, Wish, Temu, Alibaba: I'm telling you, these platforms are thugs. The sordid case of child pornography dolls is just the umpteenth episode in a long series: smoke detectors that detect nothing, cancer-causing balloons, dangerous toys... In these online marketplaces, 80% of products do not comply with European standards. This unfair competition destroys …

21 Oct

2025

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Commission Work Programme 2026 (debate)

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Mr President, Madam President of the European Commission, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to remind you of something important. The European Parliament is made up of legislators, i.e. people who have been elected to build laws, rules that improve the lives of Europeans. It seems obvious, but I think it is essential to remind you, because for the last sixteen months and the beginning of this new…

20 Oct

2025

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The decision to impose a fine on Google: defending press and media freedom in the EU (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, after several years of investigation, the European Commission has finally decided to sanction Google for its abuse of a dominant position. This fine is a reminder of the obvious: The European market is not a Wild West at the mercy of the GAFAM. But throughout this sequence, what a heartbreaking spectacle the European Commission has proposed to us. …

8 Oct

2025

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Second World Summit for Social Development (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we had to dare. A World Summit for Social Development: So far, everything's fine. But to hold this social summit in Qatar is a provocation. In Qatar, 6,500 workers died on the construction sites of the football world cup. In Qatar, migrant workers are exploited and their passports confiscated. In Qatar, trade unions are muzzled. How can the European Parliament e…

8 Oct

2025

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Establishment and functioning of European Works Councils - effective enforcement (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, dividing for better rule is an effective technique for exploiting workers by preventing them from organising themselves. Ways to break up collectives include uberisation, precariousness and subcontracting. The commercial franchise model is one such strategy, and its best advocate is McDonald’s. A Big Mac, whether cooked in Paris or Bratislava, has the same ta…