What Manon spoke about.

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Feb

2025

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Resumption of the sitting

Mr President, yesterday's event organised by the ESN Group was about remigration. Remigration is the deportation of people who are European outside the European Union. Mr Garraud, by defending this event, you are showing the true face of the far right, which is today the face of a racist and xenophobic project. So yes, Mr Garraud, we protested peacefully. Yes, Mr Garraud, you will find us every ti…

13

Feb

2025

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EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, how dare you come here to defend the agreement with Mercosur, the largest and worst free trade agreement ever signed by the European Union? How dare you tell farmers, who are already struggling to make ends meet, that importing hundreds of thousands more tonnes of beef, chicken or cheese will have no impact on them? How dare you deliberately expose the population to …

11

Feb

2025

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Preparedness for a new trade era: multilateral cooperation or tariffs (debate)

Mrs Vedrenne, I appreciate that you like the debate in this Chamber as much as I do. You rightly said that we have the means to act as a European entity. We are a real economic power. But in this case, why give ourselves the means to act, on the one hand, and, on the other, let our European industries be robbed and especially sign in turn free trade agreements with countries around the world? I kn…

11

Feb

2025

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Preparedness for a new trade era: multilateral cooperation or tariffs (debate)

Madam President, Donald Trump is multiplying attacks, threats and excesses. What is the European Union doing? She looks at her shoes, her pumps. Worse, she submits. Withdrawal of the WHO, withdrawal of humanitarian aid, withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, the UN Human Rights Council, sanctions against the International Criminal Court and even the abject threat to transform the Gaza Strip into a g…

22

Jan

2025

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

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Prime Minister Tusk, on 9 June 2023, a woman, Dorota Lalik, five months pregnant, died of sepsis because she was unable to have an abortion. This happened in your country, Mr Tusk, Poland. This 33-year-old woman had her life ahead of her. She died because men decreed that they knew better than women what to do with their bodies. Like Dorota, too many women ha…

22

Jan

2025

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 19 December 2024 (debate)

Madam President, Madam President, Mr President, weapons have finally died in Gaza. The entry into force of the ceasefire is a huge relief, and its preservation must be at the heart of the Council's exchanges, rather than the signature in turn of new free trade agreements, Mrs von der Leyen. I am thinking today of the 2 million Gazans who have lived for 18 months in fear and hunger and who are fina…

20

Jan

2025

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Order of business

Madam President, rest assured, you will have the opportunity to vote in a moment, because I cannot help but react. Frankly, hearing the extreme right give lessons on ethics in this institution, while it has consistently voted against all the proposals on the fight against conflicts of interest, is involved in a number of scandals and has a large number of MEPs who receive the most ancillary remune…

18

Dec

2024

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Need to ensure swift action and transparency on corruption allegations in the public sector to protect democratic integrity (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we are here again today to talk about corruption in the European institutions. Unfortunately, this is becoming a habit, because conflicts of interest are on every level. The latest is former Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders, who is suspected of laundering up to €800,000 in 10 years. Just before, it was the head of the Commission’s Directorate-General for Tra…

16

Dec

2024

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Approval of the minutes of the previous sitting

Madam President, thank you for this point of order, on the basis of Rule 117 on Parliament’s involvement in the signing of international agreements. As you know, last week Ursula von der Leyen announced the conclusion of the EU-Mercosur Free Trade Agreement. As you know, this agreement will have disastrous consequences for our agriculture, our health and the planet. But it is all the more unaccept…

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Nov

2024

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Election of the Commission (vote)

Madam President, Mrs von der Leyen, what struck me during this debate was your level of total disconnection from the reality experienced by millions of European citizens: citizens who are struggling to make ends meet, pay their electricity bills, lose their jobs, because a few profit-seeking shareholders prefer to relocate. These people have not been mentioned today, Mrs von der Leyen, perhaps bec…

27

Nov

2024

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Presentation by the President-elect of the Commission of the College of Commissioners and its programme (debate)

Madam President, Mrs von der Leyen, your new Commission will be the first union government of the right and the far right in the history of the European Union. The so-called coalition of central groups no longer exists and all the red lines of the so-called progressives have been trampled. We were told that there would be no far right in positions of responsibility: You have chosen as Vice Preside…

25

Nov

2024

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

Ms Maréchal, in reality – and strangely – you are only interested in women’s rights when the authors are foreigners or Muslims. But you know that sexual violence knows no religion or nationality: Gérard Depardieu, Cauet, Damien Abad, PPDA, Polanski, Nicolas Bedos... I could go on, the list is long. These are Frenchmen like you and me, Madame Maréchal. And the number you come out with, you know ver…

25

Nov

2024

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

Mr President, what woman can say that she has never experienced a single gender-based or sexual violence – from a malevolent remark to a non-consensual relationship, from street harassment to a blow, from humiliation to femicide? All these acts are part of the same continuum of violence that is that of our patriarchal society, and that all women suffer until they build coping mechanisms. How is it…

14

Nov

2024

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EU actions against the Russian shadow fleets and ensuring a full enforcement of sanctions against Russia (RC-B10-0161/2024, B10-0160/2024, B10-0161/2024, B10-0162/2024, B10-0163/2024, B10-0164/2024, B10-0166/2024) (vote)

Madam President, I am sorry, I would have liked to have avoided doing so in order to be able to finalise the vote, but after verification, the first votes on the deforestation text were reduced to three votes. There were between 625 and 630 voters. You said it yourself, most of the votes... Colleagues, I know very well that you want to kill, absolutely, the forest and this text against deforestati…

13

Nov

2024

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Signature of acts adopted in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure (Rule 81)

Madam President, I wanted to make a point of order on the basis of Rule 129 of our Rules of Procedure on the validation procedure for European Commissioners. This article states that we must meet without delay after the hearings. Yesterday, however, some groups asked for a postponement sine die and without any justification for these assessments. In fact, the justification is simple and I will giv…

23

Oct

2024

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Findings of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on Poland's abortion law (debate)

You say, Mrs Trochu, that abortion is suffering. But how dare you? Tell that to Polish women and the families of Polish women who lost their lives precisely because they could not have an abortion when their lives were in danger. You also say that the life of an unborn child must be protected. So, what to do with women's lives? Those lives that you threaten from this European Parliament, from the …

23

Oct

2024

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Findings of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on Poland's abortion law (debate)

Mr President, if I had to have an abortion in Poland, I could have died there. Like Izabela, who was in grave danger after losing water prematurely, but to whom doctors refused an abortion. Like Agnieszka, pregnant with twins, who died of sepsis after the death of one of the two fetuses and whose doctors refused to perform an abortion until the second had died. Like Dorota, whom the doctors also l…

22

Oct

2024

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Establishing the Ukraine Loan Cooperation Mechanism and providing exceptional macro-financial assistance to Ukraine (debate)

Mr President, when borders are violated, when international law is flouted, there is nothing to hesitate about. We must stand on the side of the aggressor and defend the return to peace. That is the meaning of this aid to Ukraine, financed by frozen Russian assets, which we support. But allow me, ladies and gentlemen, to make three points. First of all, I note that our common will to help the bomb…

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Oct

2024

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Signature of acts adopted in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure (Rule 81)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, it is a good thing, I wanted to talk to you about democracy and to make a point of order on the basis of Rule 154, which deals with interinstitutional agreements, to talk about the state of negotiations between the European Union and Mercosur. I shall begin, ladies and gentlemen, with a rather simple question: Who finds it normal that the most important free …

10

Oct

2024

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Composition of committees and delegations

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to make a point of order on the basis of Rule 150 concerning urgent resolutions. We are about to vote on three urgent resolutions on three cases of human rights violations. But once again, Gaza and Lebanon are forgotten and none of these texts concern the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe in the Middle East. Let me tell you, this is a scandal. Isn…

9

Oct

2024

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Taxing the super-rich to end poverty and reduce inequalities: EU support to the G20 Presidency’s proposal (topical debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, do you know how many years it takes for the SMIC to reach the wealth of Bernard Arnault, the richest European? More than 10 million years working at the minimum wage. However, it is not to Bernard Arnault that the European states will make their pockets. No, it is up to the workers, by making them pay for their sick leave, because it is well known: When you're s…

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Oct

2024

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Preparation of the European Council of 17-18 October 2024 (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Lebanon is burning before our eyes and could become the new Gaza. Yet, once again, the European Union looks elsewhere and shines with its passivity, even its complicity. Already nearly 2,000 Lebanese have died and one million have been forcibly displaced, or one in five Lebanese. It is a widespread exile, with civilians paying a high price. Contrary to what some…

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Oct

2024

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Need to fight the systemic problem of gender-based violence in Europe (debate)

Mr President, 'three minutes is not rape'. "She was pretending to sleep." "His husband was there, so she was consenting." "You wouldn't have exhibitionist tendencies?" These words and questions of the defendants and lawyers during Mazan's trial, Gisèle Pelicot had to deal with them for hours, after being raped by more than 51 men to whom her husband handed her over by drugging her for more than te…

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Sep

2024

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The historic CJEU ruling on the Apple state aid case and its consequences (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I have a little riddle for you. When you buy an iPhone like this for $800, do you know how much Apple paid in taxes? Two euros, or 0.0005% of its profit and not even in the country where you bought it, but in Ireland. So, after eight years of fighting, we finally won a battle: Apple has to pay a fine of 13 billion euros. Mais la guerre contre l'évasion fiscale e…

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Sep

2024

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The future of European competitiveness (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, put me in no doubt: When Mario Draghi talks about the slow agony of the European Union, is it the agony caused by a worn-out economic model? And why, in this case, not draw all the necessary consequences? Because I looked at the 400 pages of Mr Draghi's report - I would have liked him to be able to sit here to have this debate with us - and one thing that str…