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Jan

2024

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Commemoration of Jacques Delors

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, this moment of commemoration is an opportunity to look back on the decisions taken during the whole period when Jacques Delors chaired the European Commission between 1985 and 1995, because these decisions shape the architecture of today's Europe. Jacques Delors, like the great majority of the political leaders of the time, believed that the rel…

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Nov

2023

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, peace is buried under the rubble of Gaza. Peace is the first word of the Schuman Declaration. Since 1950, the world has been told that peace is the raison d’être of the European project. And when it’s time to put the founding principles into practice, what is Europe doing? The war. In Gaza, Israeli bombs rain down on hospitals. In schoolyards, children are massa…

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Jun

2023

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Establishment of the EU Ethics Body (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, you took your time to present your proposal for an independent ethics body. We thought that if you took so much time, it was because you were preparing a solid and ambitious proposal. Last week, you finally presented us with your proposal, and then we said: All this for that! Parliament asked you for a body that sets ethical rules; you propose a working group for com…

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Jun

2023

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Madam Speaker, I think it's really starting to show: I am pregnant and in two months I will give birth to a little girl. (Applause) Thank you! This is good news, it is true. But this is not necessarily good news for those who elected me. Because I necessarily asked myself whether I was entitled to an absence for maternity leave. Well, then I found out that no: in the European Parliament, nothing i…

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Jun

2023

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Strengthening social dialogue (B9-0259/2023)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like here, from the Chamber of our European Parliament, to alert you to the situation of social dialogue in France. The French government has authoritarianly pushed back the retirement age by ignoring all the demands, all the proposals of the social partners, refusing to negotiate with the trade unions, and then ignoring and flouting parliamentary rep…

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May

2023

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Roadmap on a Social Europe: two years after Porto (debate)

Mr Orville, in the same way as Mrs Vedrenne, you indicated that you support the directive for platform workers. You know that at the moment this directive is blocked in the Council, where we have a group of states, first and foremost the French government, France, which is trying to ensure that exceptions, exemptions, suspensive periods are put in place, that everything is done to dilute the direc…

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May

2023

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Roadmap on a Social Europe: two years after Porto (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, before, my political family and I felt like we were shouting in the desert. But the health crisis and the war in Ukraine have gone through this. And in the face of the terrible social consequences for European households, the importance of public services, hospitals and State aid was realised. A door was ajar. The lines have moved. The dogmas of au…

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May

2023

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, today is Europe Day, and it is the day that platform workers from all over Europe have chosen to speak with a common voice to European labour ministers. These workers are waiting for the directive that will oblige their employers to respect labour law, and to pay social security contributions. In the European Parliament, we are ready. We have validated our posit…

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Apr

2023

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Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System - Monitoring, reporting and verification of greenhouse gas emissions from maritime transport - Carbon border adjustment mechanism - Social Climate Fund - Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System for aviation (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, let me warn you. Europeans are caught in the throat by inflation and you are about to tighten the rope that is strangling them. By validating the extension of the carbon market to buildings and transport, you will make households pay for the green transition. For those who have no choice but to put petrol in their car to go to work, you say: “Global warming is y…

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Mar

2023

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Need for immediate reform of the internal rules of the Commission to ensure transparency and accountability in light of alleged conflicts of interests (debate)

Madam President, nine business class trips, all paid for by Qatar, are the nice gift given to the European Commission's top official in charge of transport. While Mr. was enjoying a five-star meal in the sky at the expense of Qatar Airways, his services were negotiating an air transport agreement, which turned out to be much more in favor of Qataris than Europeans. On the day of the revelations, t…

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Mar

2023

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More Europe, more jobs: we are building the competitive economy of tomorrow for the benefit of all (topical debate)

Mr President, yesterday, between meetings, I went to the Castorama store in Lampertheim, ten kilometres from here. It was not to rebuild the partition of my office, but it was to support Xavier, who is employed in the paint department and is on hunger strike in his car, in front of the shop. Xavier earns EUR 1 400 a month while he is 13 years old. With prices skyrocketing, he and his colleagues ar…

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Mar

2023

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Adequate minimum income ensuring active inclusion (debate)

Mr President, in France, there is a minimum income called the active solidarity income, the RSA. But when you are under 25, you are not entitled to it. France is one of the only countries in the European Union to place an age requirement on access to minimum income. Thousands of young French people find themselves condemned to start their lives in poverty because they are discriminated against in …

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Feb

2023

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Establishment of an independent EU Ethics Body (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, how many ticket cases will you need, how many suitcases, before you finally decide to publish a legislative proposal? Four years ago, Ursula von der Leyen announced the creation of a body to monitor conflicts of interest and corruption. A year and a half ago, a report from Parliament asked you to set up this ethics body, and you did nothing. Two months ago, the "Qatarga…

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Feb

2023

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Electoral rights of mobile Union citizens in European Parliament elections - Electoral rights of mobile Union citizens in municipal elections (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, 12 million Europeans live in an EU country that is not their own. These Europeans have the right to work, live and study in another Member State and they know that. These mobile citizens also have the right to vote in the European elections in their host country, but often they do not know this. And so, in practice, they don't vote at all: neither in their ho…

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Jan

2023

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Revision of the European Works Councils Directive (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, rapporteur, a Frenchman named Jean Jaurès said about democracy: The Great Revolution made the French kings in the city and left them servile in the business. Unfortunately, Dennis Radtke’s report does not propose to make a revolution in the company. However, it is very important because it proposes to infuse democracy into business by strengthening…

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Jan

2023

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Revelations of Uber lobbying practices in the EU (debate)

Mr President, in July, when the Uber Files were published, the immediate reaction of Uber’s spokesmen was to say: “Circulate, there is nothing to do. All this is ancient history.” Yet these revelations confirm what we have seen for three years now in this European Parliament, namely how Uber and platforms are working hard to influence legislators’ decisions in order to write the law themselves. So…

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Jan

2023

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Terrorist threats posed by far-right extremist networks defying the democratic constitutional order (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, everywhere the fascist international is gaining ground. The latest example is the failed coup attempt in Brazil, where thousands of far-right putschists invaded the Brazilian presidential palace because they refused the outcome of the ballot box. Closer to home in Germany, it is the seditious far right that is trying to storm the Bundestag. In France, far-rig…

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Dec

2022

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Suspicions of corruption from Qatar and the broader need for transparency and accountability in the European institutions (debate) (debate)

Mr President, more than one and a half million euros in cash is 94 years at the SMIC. In other words, a couple who work their entire lives will not make as much money as Qatar has spent on corrupting European politicians. And again, we are only at the beginning of the investigation. Most of us have not been offered ticket cases. On the other hand, most of us have experienced phishing. It’s the nam…

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Nov

2022

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The European Year of Youth 2022 Legacy (debate)

Madam President, be careful, ladies and gentlemen, drum roll: the European Year of Youth is coming to an end. The European Year of Youth. I took the test last night, went to Strasbourg and asked all the young people I met if they had heard about the European Year of Youth. Well, don’t you see that not one of them answered yes to me. Not one. Still, it could have been an event. It had every reason …

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Oct

2022

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International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, what is the difference between these two packages of pasta? None, you might say. Well, the difference is their price: 21% difference between these two packets of pasta; 21% increase in one year for pasta prices. Food prices have skyrocketed. Eating noodles is becoming a luxury. But I could also have come here with frozen meat, the price of which…

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Jun

2022

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Parliament’s right of initiative (debate)

– Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I imagine that you are also regularly questioned by citizens, by associations that tell you: "There is a super important problem in Europe, the European Union should legislate. And since you are a Member of the European Parliament, well go ahead!" And I imagine that at that point, like me, you feel a little embarrassed to have to explain that it is not as simp…

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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))

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, do not exceed EUR 2 per litre of petrol and 2 °C of warming: These should be our two main priorities. However, most of the right-wing amendments and the many, not always very subtle, recommendations of the lobbies speak only of emission allowances, these polluting rights distributed free of charge to the sectors most harmful to the climate, such as aviation or t…

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May

2022

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Election of the Members of the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage (debate)

Mr President, first of all I would like to congratulate my colleague Domènec Ruiz Devesa on this excellent report. I am not going to come back to one of the major issues that is being debated, which is transnational lists, but I would like to come back to another point. You will find that in this report reference is made to the possibility of having alternating lists of women, men, women, men, wom…

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Mar

2022

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A new EU strategic framework on health and safety at work post 2020 (continuation of debate)

Mr President, yesterday in Brittany, a 43-year-old farm worker was hit by a machine used to sow grass. He's dead. The day before yesterday in the Yonne, in a company that manufactures sofas and armchairs, a 50-year-old worker who took up his post at 5 a.m. was crushed by a machine. In France, more than 800 people die every year at work. This is the highest figure in the European Union. Emmanuel Ma…

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Dec

2021

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EU response to the transport poverty (debate)

–. Mr President, Commissioner, there is no better place than a petrol station to understand the increase in the price of petrol. That is why I went to the Champigny-sur-Marne station in the Paris region. Why this station, you will tell me? Because it was the cheapest morning in the whole of eastern Paris. Some of the motorists I met drove 20 km to save between €3 and €5 on their diesel fuel. They …