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Dec

2025

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Order of business

Madam President, this is a reminder to the Rules of Procedure under Rule 117. While the anger of the agricultural world is rising and raging all over Europe against the free trade agreement with Mercosur, you have refused, Madam President, for the second time to put to the vote our resolution calling for an opinion from the Court of Justice of the European Union on the legality of the agreement. T…

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Nov

2025

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International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (debate)

Madam President, no, it was not late in the evening in a dark alley. It was in a house, a bed, a living room, almost unobstructed. No, it was not a foreigner passing by, contrary to what the extreme right says. He was a husband, an uncle, a brother, an ex, as in most cases. No, it wasn't what's called "violent." There was no struggle or screaming. That night, they gave way to astonishment. But tha…

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Nov

2025

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Order of business

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Nov

2025

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Order of business

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Oct

2025

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Certain corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence requirements (A10-0197/2025 - Jörgen Warborn) (vote)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, lobbies have dreamed of it, you have. With this omnibus text, you sign the death sentence of the duty of vigilance that put an end to the impunity of multinationals by making them legally responsible for their human rights violations and environmental damage. With this text, you yield once again to the injunctions of Donald Trump, who explicitly demanded its …

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Oct

2025

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 23 October 2025 (debate)

Madam President, Madam Chairman of the Committee, Madam Minister, Mrs von der Leyen, the genocide in Gaza is not over. As I speak, the Israeli government continues to kill and block the supply of water, food and medicine to the Gaza Strip, as Palestinians starve to death, at least 20,000 injured are in a state of absolute emergency, and the World Health Organization warns of out-of-control epidemi…

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Oct

2025

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Order of business

Madam President, just to say that this very touching plea in favour of a former President of the Republic, who has been convicted of extremely serious acts, has no place in the Chamber, that no one is above the law, not even a former President of the Republic, a fortiori when he has been convicted of extremely serious acts of corruption. If you want to give lessons on the rule of law, go see what …

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Oct

2025

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This is Europe - Debate with the Prime Minister of Luxembourg, Luc Frieden (debate)

Madam President, Prime Minister of Luxembourg, you are at the head of an organised robbery. Yes, a robbery, because how else can we name a Member State that orchestrates European tax evasion and whose model literally plunders the tax revenues of other countries? According to the European Tax Observatory, $1 trillion in profits are relocated each year to tax havens. Hearing these words, one would p…

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Oct

2025

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Motions of censure (joint debate)

Madam President, Mrs von der Leyen, you must leave. You accompanied the genocide in Gaza with your cowardice and inaction. You have left tens of thousands of civilians and children to die under Israeli bombs. You still refuse to cease all trade relations with Israel and to impose an arms embargo, while we are on the nineteenth package of sanctions against Russia. How can you, powerful of this worl…

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Sep

2025

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Gaza at breaking point: EU action to combat famine, the urgent need to release hostages and move towards a two-state solution (RC-B10-0372/2025, B10-0369/2025, B10-0372/2025, B10-0373/2025, B10-0374/2025, B10-0381/2025, B10-0385/2025, B10-0387/2025) (vote)

Madam President, would it be possible to have a very short break to analyse the votes before moving on to the final vote? Thank you. It is part of the rules of procedure, but I know that the far right, the rules of procedure, you have nothing to do with it. (The Chair responded to the request)…

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Sep

2025

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State of the Union (debate)

Madam President, Mrs von der Leyen, it has already been a year since you were re-elected head of the European Commission. A year too long, during which you have done irreparable damage. Frankly, today, your speech is not enough to mask reality. Yes, you have been complicit in the genocide of the Palestinian people by not taking any real sanctions so far. And your announcements today do not change …

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Sep

2025

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Gaza at breaking point: EU action to combat famine, the urgent need to release hostages and move towards a two-state solution (debate)

Madam President, 700 days, it took you 700 days of genocide in Gaza before there was finally a resolution in the European Parliament. For 700 days, most of the groups here refused each of our demands and instead turned a blind eye to the worst humanitarian carnage our century has seen. And it is only thanks to the abnegation of our left-wing group, which has never given up anything for the Palesti…

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Jul

2025

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Alleged misuse of EU funds by Members of the far-right and measures to ensure institutional integrity (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, more than EUR 4 million: this is what the National Gathering would have embezzled in public money, i.e. the taxes of Europeans; our taxes. Only a few days after the convictions of several former MEPs of the party - including its leader, Marine Le Pen - for misappropriation of public funds, they are already reoffending. Moreover, I do not know if you noticed: The…

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Jul

2025

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Lessons from Budapest Pride: the urgent need for an EU wide anti-discrimination law and defending fundamental rights against right-wing attacks (topical debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Viktor Orbán has tried to ban the Pride March in Hungary; We made it the largest Budapest has ever known! Despite threats of fines and imprisonment, despite far-right protests, which have been allowed, despite facial recognition devices along the way, despite spurious arguments that describe homosexuality as ‘unnatural’, more than 200,000 people marched with …

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Jul

2025

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 26 June 2025 (debate)

Madam President, Mrs von der Leyen, Mr Costa, you are talking about peace and security, but you do not have a single word today about the ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip. Mrs von der Leyen, I quote ‘the report is very clear, Israel has violated Article 2 of the Association Agreement between the European Union and Israel.’ It is not I who say it, but your High Representative for Foreign Affairs,…

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Jun

2025

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Stopping the genocide in Gaza: time for EU sanctions (topical debate)

Madam President, Mrs Kallas, genocide, genocide, genocide. I repeat this voluntarily because, despite 18 months of massacres in Gaza, you still deliberately refuse to use this term, Mrs Kallas. 18 months of killings and more than 55,000 deaths, 18 months of destruction including 90% of schools, 18 months of famine for 2 million civilians, 18 months that the Israeli government methodically and deli…

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May

2025

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The EU's response to the Israeli government's plan to seize the Gaza Strip, ensuring effective humanitarian support and the liberation of hostages (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner: Finally! Finally, you acknowledge the need to review the Association Agreement with Israel. I must say here, it is first and foremost a victory of the mobilisations all over Europe that have maintained the pressure on the European Union. But how long did it take to wait? A year and a half of bombing, night and day, famine used as a weapon of war, more than 53,000 dea…

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May

2025

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Order of business

Madam President, dear friends and colleagues of the extreme right, it is true that last week the Court of Justice of the European Union confirmed that the President of the European Commission had lied in the Pfizergate case. There is, I quote, "no plausible explanation" for the disappearance of the texts sent to the CEO of Pfizer. Citizens have the right to know how billions of euros of public mon…

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May

2025

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A unified EU response to unjustified US trade measures and global trade opportunities for the EU (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, with the trade war initiated by Donald Trump, we are experiencing a historic economic upheaval. Faced with this, what do you propose? First, never raise your voice in the face of an American president who multiplies violations of international law. Secondly, to give in to blackmail - to his blackmail - by buying 50 billion more American products, so that he sells us the…

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Apr

2025

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Amending Directives (EU) 2022/2464 and (EU) 2024/1760 as regards the dates from which Member States are to apply certain corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence requirements (vote)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, who in this room can say that the priority today is to break the only texts on social and ecological progress that were voted on in the previous term? Who in this Chamber can seriously think that the most important thing today is to throw in the trash regulations that prevent multinationals from massacring people and the planet? To protect the environment, to im…

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Apr

2025

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 20 March 2025 (debate)

Madam President, Mrs von der Leyen, Mr Costa, I shall begin with a rather simple question: Ms von der Leyen, how much longer are you going to let Donald Trump dictate his law on US-EU trade relations? What are you waiting for, Ms von der Leyen, to raise your voice and propose a firm response that protects workers in the sectors concerned? I heard you this morning: You are still thinking, consideri…

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Mar

2025

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Need to ensure democratic pluralism, strengthen integrity, transparency and anti-corruption policies in the EU (debate)

Colleagues, between corrupt politicians who put their money in their pockets by accepting gifts from lobbyists and those who divert public money, such as Marine Le Pen, frankly, there is enough to disgust people with politics. Those who advocated ‘Head up, hands clean!’ now have their heads down and their hands dirty. Those who called for zero impunity for offenders find themselves caught up in th…

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Mar

2025

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European Semester (joint debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, it seems that you have found money, sounding and stumbling, money for tanks, but strangely not for hospitals. Indeed, this is what you propose to us: a war economy, where all of a sudden billions rain down on military spending, but not on social and environmental spending. While the debt of the states was supposed to be an insurmountable point, Europe is getting out of …

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Mar

2025

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Cutting red tape and simplifying business in the EU: the first Omnibus proposals (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner – delighted that you have finally found your way to the European Parliament; I don't know, maybe there was an "omnibus" on your way? – I will start with a simple question for you: Has Donald Trump become your role model? Because, obviously, its great wind of deregulation has blown to this side of the Atlantic. I can imagine you at the European Commi…

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Mar

2025

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Cutting red tape and simplifying business in the EU: the first Omnibus proposals (debate)

Mr President, I believe that we were all here waiting for the European Commission to deign to take an interest in our debates, deign to come to the Chamber and deign to come and present the biggest package of deregulation it has ever had. I do not know if the Commissioner is having meetings with lobbyists or banks to continue to deregulate due diligence, but I do not think that we can have such an…