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Jul

2025

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Product safety and regulatory compliance in e-commerce and non-EU imports (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, toys stuffed with carcinogens, motorcycle helmets that do not protect, clothes made from forced labour: Temu, Shein and AliExpress flood Europe with dangerous, counterfeit products that do not meet social or environmental standards. Europe needs to legislate to stop these practices, remove the exemption from customs duties for small parcels, hold online platform…

7

May

2025

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Winning the global tech race: boosting innovation and closing funding gaps (topical debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, whenever there is talk of innovation, some here have only one mantra: Unravel, remove and then bury the rules that protect our standards, social rights and digital freedoms. You can repeat it as many times as you want: The European Union's delay in innovative technologies is due to the lack of public investment and not to the rules put in place to protect us fro…

6

May

2025

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An urgent assessment of the applicability of the Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement (PDCA) with Cuba (debate)

Madam President, you all warmly welcomed Cuban doctors during the COVID crisis. We did not hear you at that time calling for an end to the Association Agreement between the European Union and Cuba. For 63 years, the Cuban people have been suffering, and today you should be ashamed. Shame on calling for the suspension of the Association Agreement between the European Union and Cuba. All this has on…

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Apr

2025

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Topical debate (Rule 169) - Social Europe: making life affordable, protecting jobs, wages and health for all

Mr President, 'Capitalism carries war as the cloud carries the storm': This sentence of Jean Jaurès was pronounced at the dawn of the First World War and it is more relevant than ever. The European Union has just announced $800 billion in investment to prepare for war. The Maastricht criteria and the 3% straitjacket when it comes to the arms race have disappeared. What the European Union should do…

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Mar

2025

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EU Consumers Day: filling the gaps in protecting 440 million consumers in the EU (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, it will soon be the birthday of my daughter and nephew. So, to celebrate, I made purchases on the internet. My nephew is a fan of manga, so I bought him small One Piece figurines. My daughter, right now, loves animals. I found a lot of bath toys in the shape of cows and hippopotamuses. For the decoration, I ordered a lot of balloons. I'm far from s…

12

Mar

2025

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Social and employment aspects of restructuring processes: the need to protect jobs and workers’ rights (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, Renault in Flins, Audi in Brussels, ArcelorMittal in Reims, Michelin in Cholet... The list of factory closures is growing. The green and digital transition has become the new pretext for the destruction of millions of jobs, while on the contrary the transition can and must create jobs. However, this requires support for industry; vocational retraining needs to be sup…

12

Mar

2025

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100 days of the new Commission – Delivering on defence, competitiveness, simplification and migration as our priorities (topical debate)

Madam President, ‘these hundred days seem as long as a life’, said Ursula von der Leyen. I assure you that they are even longer when you have to choose between filling your fridge and paying your bills. For a hundred days, the European Commission has been preaching competitiveness, simplification and defence. This is being done against the people of Europe, who are increasingly suffering from aust…

11

Feb

2025

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The need to address urgent labour shortages and ensure quality jobs in the health care sector (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, in France a few days ago, a 20-year-old woman died after hours of waiting on a stretcher in the emergency room. This tragedy is the result of political choices. For years, public health has been attacked as a cost to be reduced, a market to be privatized. Hailed as a hero during the pandemic, healthcare workers are now abandoned. Our health systems…

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Jan

2025

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Need for actions to address the continued oppression and fake elections in Belarus (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I want to tell you about Aleksandr Yarochuk, a trade unionist imprisoned in Belarus. His only crime is to peacefully oppose the Lukashenko regime. In prison, Aleksandr has the right to see his wife only once a year. He only gets out of his cell a few days, a few minutes a day. As an enemy of the regime, his sentence can be extended without any reason. In Belarus…

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Jan

2025

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Need to enforce the Digital Services Act to protect democracy on social media platforms including against foreign interference and biased algorithms (debate)

Mr. Speaker, once upon a time there was a reactionary, megalomaniac Silicon Valley billionaire who decided to buy a very powerful social network to make it his propaganda toy. Elon Musk was not elected by anyone, yet he has a disproportionate political weight. After working to influence the US elections, he now decides to tackle the European elections. Under the guise of freedom of expression, he …

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Jan

2025

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Madam President, would protecting workers become illegal in the European Union? In any case, this is the opinion of the Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union, who recommends the complete annulment of the Directive on minimum wages in the European Union. What is the basis of this decision? The fact that the Directive goes beyond the competences of the European Union, which,…

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Dec

2024

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Promoting social dialogue and collective bargaining and the right to strike in the EU (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, some of you have probably ordered your Christmas gifts on Amazon. In warehouses or behind the wheel of trucks, Amazon employees replace Santa's elves a little more every year. The other day, Habib, Janin and Judy, employed in a warehouse in northern France, alerted me to the alarming number of accidents at work and the daily obstacles to their trad…

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Nov

2024

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Rise of energy prices and fighting energy poverty (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, it will be 2°C in Strasbourg tomorrow morning. For millions of households, it will be necessary to choose: choose between paying your energy bills and refilling your fridge; be cold or hungry; taking cold showers or skipping meals; keep your coat at home and still have a cold nose. Because we live in a thermal sieve or because bills are skyrocketing, and even…

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Oct

2024

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General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sections (A10-0008/2024 - Victor Negrescu, Niclas Herbst) (vote)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I propose this oral amendment concerning the European Parliament crèche, which is intended to replace Amendment 68, which I originally tabled, but part of which is now obsolete in the light of recent events, because the People and Baby Group, which manages Parliament’s crèche, is affected, is tainted by a public scandal in France, which prevents it from respo…

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Oct

2024

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A stronger Europe for safer products to better protect consumers and tackle unfair competition: boosting EU oversight in e-commerce and imports (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, self-inflating balloons stuffed with carcinogens, toys with parts that can be swallowed, children's motorcycle helmets that in fact do not protect at all, smoke detectors that do not detect smoke... These dangerous products are no exception: they abound on online sales platforms such as Amazon, Temu or Wish. Consumer associations have tested them, and the findin…

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Oct

2024

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International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, in France, 1 in 4 young people live below the poverty line, and 1 in 2 students is forced to skip a meal a day. Remember those endless queues for food aid during the COVID-19 pandemic? These images, they had traveled around the world. That was four years ago. And what has happened since then? Nothing. Why is the EU not asking governments to offe…

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Oct

2024

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Ensuring sustainable, decent and affordable housing in Europe - encouraging investment, private property and public housing programmes (debate)

Mr President, in Paris, the city where I live, it becomes almost impossible to stay, even when you have a stable job. Across Europe, housing is becoming a luxury. So, of course, when the European Commission announces a big plan for affordable housing, that's good news; But if we want all Europeans to have access to dignified and affordable housing, we must break with the dogmas of the market and c…

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Sep

2024

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in all your countries, when elections are held, the leading coalition is responsible for forming the government. And it is in this coalition that the candidate for the post of European Commissioner is selected. But in France, it doesn't happen that way. Here, President Emmanuel Macron clings to power and refuses to recognize the outcome of the elections. After t…

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Apr

2024

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La Hulpe declaration on the future of social Europe (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, it is still quite cynical to hear all of you self-congratulating on social Europe, even though yesterday you all rushed to vote for the return of austerity. This return to austerity will have concrete social consequences for European workers and households: less money for hospitals, class closures in schools, cuts in unemployment insurance and, as …

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Apr

2024

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Order of business

Madam President, the Israeli government is slaughtering Gazans with impunity and it is the criticism of the same Israeli government that is being criminalised. This shrinking democratic space in Europe is very dangerous. Denounce the IDF’s actions or warn about the risk of genocide is genuinely censored. In France, this may even lead to a summons to the police station for apology for terrorism. A …

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Mar

2024

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The immediate risk of mass starvation in Gaza and the attacks on humanitarian aid deliveries

Mr President, after the bombs and shells, hunger is causing death in Gaza. By refusing to allow humanitarian aid trucks in, Israel is knowingly starving more than 2 million Gazans. I would like to recall here that UNSCR 2712 specifically calls for ensuring the supply of food. Conversely, Israel organises famine. Just a few hours ago, today, Israel bombed one of the last UN food distribution centre…

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Feb

2024

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Data collection and sharing relating to short-term accommodation rental services (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, on average EUR 1 055 for a rental in Paris, are you saying that this is the price per month for a small studio? Well, not at all! Be careful, this is the price for only one night in an apartment in Paris rented on Airbnb during the 2024 Olympics. Yes, 1 055 € per night, we reach records! And unfortunately, these records have nothing to do with s…

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Feb

2024

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Need to overcome the Council deadlock on the platform workers directive (debate)

Mr President, twice an agreement has been reached in trilogue, and twice the Council has decided to reject it. This is unheard of: 23 out of 27 Member States approved the agreement reached on 8 February on the Digital Platform Workers Directive. Only four Member States did not want this agreement, choosing to trash years of work and a directive that would bring rights to millions of workers. I hav…

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Feb

2024

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Quality traineeships in the EU (debate)

That was 20 years ago. The babies of the time have become the trainees of today. Nothing has changed. A labour force that is hard-working, skilled, motivated, disposable, almost free, without rights. Businesses, the civil service and NGOs use and abuse trainees. Why deny it, since this disguised wage-earner is legal everywhere in Europe? The traineeship was to be a gateway to employment: it is an …

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Feb

2024

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Quality traineeships in the EU (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, in 2005, together with the Generation Precarious collective, we called for a strike by trainees. This call was ironic because the trainees did not have the right to strike. To ensure our anonymity and avoid sabotaging our entry into working life, we wore these white masks. These masks made it possible to make visible the millions of invisible, lawl…