What Manon spoke about.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, rape takes place every seven minutes in the European Union, or 100,000 every year. And how many rapists are convicted? Less than 1%. What if only 1% of burglars or thieves were convicted? That it is organised and widespread impunity. This would make all the banners of the continuous news channels. But note that it is always different when it comes to women’s rights. Yes, this text on combating gender-based and sexual violence is a step in the right direction; But I cannot help but be angry at Emmanuel Macron, who, alongside his favourite ally Victor Orbán, blocked a common European definition of rape. So I want to repeat it here in this gallery: Emmanuel Macron, on the right and on the far right: Sexual intercourse without consent is rape and must be included as such in European law. And we will proclaim it as long as it takes, loud and clear: Women's bodies don't belong to you, neither does our consent.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, what are you going to say to the sick who are going to see the price of their medicines rise, to the unemployed who are going to lose their unemployment insurance, to pensioners whose pensions are going to be frozen, to tenants of thermal sieves whose housing will not be renovated, to parents whose children will not have teachers in front of them, in short, to the millions of people weakened by austerity? That the 3 % deficit and 60 % debt had to be tackled at all costs? That a good rating of rating agencies is well worth a huge social racket of Europeans? That they should be pocketed, rather than taxing large fortunes and superprofits? Whatever the sacrifices, it will actually never be enough for you. This is what you condemn us to with the vote on these budgetary rules: austerity in perpetuity. This is how socialists, liberals and the right are working together to secure our future, our public services, our social protection and even the environment. But if there is anything that is being negotiated, it is debt, not the planet. Take a look at how the French government is already taking it to heart with its help from Lépine of the worst ideas to deprive the French of all that they have most precious: hospitals, schools, public transport, unemployment insurance, public service, ecological investments... everything, absolutely everything will suffer the assaults of the austere bulldozer. Destroy the social state to better cajole capital. Sabotage the ecological fork to run the money pump. We have been the only ones in this House to oppose your scorched earth economic policy. Then, on 9 June, your damage is permanently stopped, before it is irreversible.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, as we propose to enshrine the right to abortion in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, we see that the reactionary right is redoubled in ingenuity to oppose it. I therefore propose replacing this part, which, I quote, ‘remains a controversial issue on which EU societies have diverse views’ with ‘the right to abortion is a human right and a fundamental freedom that must be protected from attacks by the far right and reactionaries’. Because no, ladies and gentlemen, the right to abortion is not a question of perspective, it is a human right. No, the right to abortion is not controversial, it is a fundamental freedom. No, the right to abortion does not kill, on the contrary, it saves lives. And while you quietly tackle it here in the European Parliament, you can count on us in Brussels, Paris, Rome, Budapest, wherever you interfere with women's rights, you will find us on your way.

Madam President, do you want to know how lobbyists make the law in the European institutions? I have a short instruction manual for you. In 2019, I arrived here in the European Parliament, like many of my colleagues, with a determination: the acceptance and adoption of a European directive on the due diligence of multinationals, so that, finally, Total, Shein and Apple pay for their crimes and for the environmental disasters from which they profit. These crimes continue because our laws do not allow companies to be held accountable for the horrors committed on their behalf by their subcontractors. Then, a little later, in 2022, Emmanuel Macron comes here, in this gallery, to make a promise – we say to ourselves: “Well, it’s interesting, a promise” – that France will support the duty of care. But, as always, ladies and gentlemen, with Emmanuel Macron, we must read the small lines at the bottom of the contract. Because, in reality, it had to be understood that France would support the Due Diligence Directive, subject to the agreement of the MEDEF. Lack of pot, the MEDEF and the employers' unions are against. For the past two weeks, Emmanuel Macron, his allies in Germany and Giorgia Meloni in Italy have been preventing the adoption of this law. We had Macron as Uber’s servant; This is Macron, Total's lawyer. Yet it is an essential and historic law, obliging large companies to prevent, stop and remedy the crimes they profit from, a law that imposes fines on multinational criminals of up to 5% of their turnover, a law that allows their victims to obtain redress before European courts. This is the law that we negotiated collectively with the European Commission and with the Council and the Member States. This, in theory, is the way democracy is used, if not the way lobbyists come here to get involved. So if the EU directive does not pass, I want to tell Emmanuel Macron, Olaf Scholz, Giorgia Meloni that they will have blood on their hands: that of the workers who died on the World Cup sites in Qatar, that of the Uyghurs who were enslaved in China, that of the children trapped in the Congo mines for the profits of a few multinational companies. Emmanuel Macron, it is time to choose between reason or betrayal, between criminals or victims, between our lives or their profits. Make the right choice, or we will make you pay at the polls on June 9.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, last week France led the way in Europe. Last week, France entered the history of pioneering women’s rights nations by incorporating abortion into its Constitution. Last week, in France, reactionaries of all stripes who, here, want to deprive women of the right to dispose of their bodies have definitively lost. But we know that they are gaining ground in Europe, driven by anti-choice propaganda worthy of the worst reactionaries, who even send us plastic fetuses; pushed by media outlets that relay this propaganda, as recently in France, CNews, which presented abortion as the leading cause of death in the world; pushed by the far right, which still shows its true face today: tackling women’s rights, tackling LGBT rights. Yes, we will arrest you, and yes, we will defend women’s rights to the very end against all the reactionaries on your side, who, once in power, attack women’s rights in the first place. May this victory in France, wrested from the struggle by the mobilisation of feminist associations, allow us to open a path in Europe, as we have been asking for years, to include abortion in the Charter of Fundamental Rights, so that in Poland, Hungary, everywhere in Europe, women can finally decide freely, so that a woman never again has to suffer the martyrdom of hangers, the anguish of clandestineity or the risk of death, so that women never again lose control of their bodies. It is for these same reasons that we will continue the fight to integrate consent into the definition of rape at European level, an approach blocked by Emmanuel Macron and all his reactionary allies on the benches of the extreme right, in front of me. How many times will we have to repeat it? Sexual intercourse without consent is rape, you don’t mind, just like a non-consensual kiss, like Luis Rubiales’ kiss to player Jenni Hermoso is sexual assault, and I’m surprised that no one here has spoken about it. It is time to put an end to the terrible sense of impunity felt by all these men who think that women’s bodies belong to them. It’s time to break down all stereotypes, and it’s the water polo player talking to you. But first and foremost, it is time to put down patriarchy so that every woman can choose her destiny freely forever.

You said, Mrs Vedrenne, that Richard Virenque has won a lot of trophies, it is true. But he won a lot of trophies by cheating and doping. And that is precisely what you are doing with French agriculture, cheating. Because yes, you will say Chile, it is 2% of imports, but it will be Chile, plus New Zealand, plus Kenya, plus Mexico, plus Mercosur. Where are we going to stop? And every tonne that will be imported onto European soil will be a tonne that will endanger our European agriculture.

I saw, Mrs Vedrenne, that you were at the Agricultural Fair with Mr Macron, the President of the French Republic, who said: "delegating to others our ability to produce our food, at bottom, is madness". And what is free trade if not importing products from the other side of the world and delegating our ability to produce and our food to others? So how, under these conditions, do you assume to vote this new free trade agreement? Unless you are the Richard Virenque of free trade and you sign and vote on agreements without your own free will?

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, in recent weeks I have seen you come to the farmers’ hearts, make declarations of love, tell them that we owe them so much and that we must help them. But did you also tell them that you were about to vote for yet another free trade agreement? Oh no, not one but two: with Chile and Kenya. That must be capitalism, two for the price of one. Have you told them that, because of you, the European Union is going to import thousands of tonnes of chickens, pigs, sheepmeat, olive oil, grapes and apples from the other side of the world? As if our farmers didn't know how to produce all this, here in Europe. Have you told them that you are going to subject them a little more to unfair competition, as if they are not already suffering the effects of more than 40 free trade agreements in force? Did you tell them that you were sacrificing European agriculture after going to try the cows’ ass, tasting their products and promising mountains and wonders on floor prices, as President Macron did? Frankly, you are just a bunch of hypocrites and liars. Explain to me how ambitious or sustainable it is to import from the other side of the world products that we know how to produce here, which benefit from much lower wages and which are produced with GMOs and pesticides that are banned in the European Union? And who votes against here? This is the moment of truth. Only my group in the European Parliament votes against this agreement and these agreements. From social democrats to the far right and liberals, there were no votes against. And the worst part is that you don’t stop on such a good path. After Chile, it will be Mercosur, Australia, Mexico, India and Indonesia. A beautiful tour of the world, not to mention the unfair competition just on our doorstep, posed by Ukraine. But precisely, we are not asking our food products to go around the world to fatten some agro-industrialists who make their butter on the backs of our farmers. So, ladies and gentlemen, I say to you very clearly: stop feeding their profits. The only people we want to feed here are the people. The planet is not a large commercial area serving multinationals where farmers’ lives are discounted.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, as we speak, 1.5 million people know that they will be sentenced to death in Rafah if we do nothing. Israel is preparing to launch a massive ground operation there after shelling the city with bombs, while more than half of Gaza’s population has taken refuge there under Israeli orders and is now crammed into it in abominable conditions. What will happen in the coming hours, if international pressure does not bring Netanyahu back to his senses, is a real carnage. As Mr Borrell himself said, Gazans do not die alone. They are dying because Benjamin Netanyahu is acting with impunity. They die because they deliver military equipment to Israel to blindly kill tens of thousands of Palestinians. They die because the EU prefers to turn a blind eye and refuses to suspend its association agreement with Israel for some lucrative profits. They die because the European Union is unable to implement the ruling of the International Court of Justice, which orders precautionary measures against Israel in the face of the risk of genocide. They are dying because Members here in this Chamber, just now, from the right-wing side, refuse to help them. They are dying because members here prefer to condone humanitarian carnage and genocide. They die because some here prefer to have blood on their hands.

Mr Canfin, you told us that it would not change anything to point to free trade. However, you and your group voted for one of the last free trade agreements with New Zealand, which, for example, will include the import of 15 000 tonnes of milk, 25 000 tonnes of cheese, 36 000 tonnes of butter, 164 000 tonnes of beef, all produced with pesticides, such as atrazine, which are banned in the European Union but still allowed in New Zealand. So do you think, for all these farmers, that it will not change anything to continue to import massively these products, which contribute to unfair competition?

Mr President, 'we are supposed to feed people, and you let us die in our fields': This is what I was told last week by farmers I met on blockages. Who lets them die? Names must be given: it is you, ladies and gentlemen, who have systematically refused floor prices in order to pay farmers with dignity, who have swept away the possibility of blocking the margins of the agro-industry, who have squandered their pockets by cracking down on consumers, who have in turn signed free trade agreements that impose totally unfair competition on our farmers. How dare you come to this forum and make great statements for farmers, hand in hand, when with that same hand you have just approved the free trade agreement with New Zealand, which will increase imports of milk, meat, cheese, wine or honey from literally the other side of the planet? All this, of course, with pesticides banned on European soil. Fortunately, hypocrisy does not kill, colleagues, unlike farming. Our group here in Parliament is the only one in this Chamber to have unanimously rejected all these free trade agreements. As if that were not enough, you voted for two more, last week, with Chile and Kenya. Where are you going to stop? On the complete death of our European agriculture? Do not tell me that the agreement with Mercosur would be paused when, in reality, negotiations continue and another shovel of agreements with Mexico, Australia and India is looming. How do you want our farmers to be competitive against the huge factory farms in Brazil or Ukraine? Explain to me the meaning of importing from the other side of the world products that are already produced here, and of good quality! All these agreements are insults addressed to farmers, arboriculturists, market gardeners, fishermen, agricultural workers, who feed us on a daily basis. Last week, I met two beekeepers who were calling for help. Like many, they find themselves with all of their 2023 production on their hands, which large retailers no longer want to buy, preferring New Zealand, Chinese or Ukrainian honey. Bees are foraging and supermarkets are pocketing the loot. Like many of their colleagues, these two beekeepers are discouraged and are thinking about stopping everything. What are you going to tell them? That we will continue with this madness? Farmers no longer want, can no longer be the cash cows of agribusiness and your free trade obsession, colleagues. If you continue along this path, all European agriculture will be left behind.

Mr President, our European Parliament is under control. After Qatar, we learn that a member of parliament works for the Russian secret services. Putin's interference is outrageous, but don't count on me to cry with the ball of hypocrites feigning surprise. The truth is that corruption in the European institutions is not an accident but a system. The truth is that you, Mr Schinas, are giving a lot of ethics lessons today, but when it came to Qatar and you had your hands stuck in it, you did not hesitate to give them a hand. The truth, ladies and gentlemen, is that the majority of you refuse serious rules and controls and impunity is enshrined in law. The truth is that a quarter of the Members here have violated the law or the Rules of Procedure – corruption, embezzlement, harassment. Corrupt people, ladies and gentlemen, are like vampires: They hate the light. Then we will continue to shine a huge spotlight on these practices. And on 9 June, we will have the opportunity to clean up and drive out all the magouilleurs in the European institutions.

Madam President, Minister, Mrs von der Leyen, the record is clear. The reality is that you are giving in to Mr. Orban's whims. You play the game of this institutional hostage-taking organised by Hungary that blocks aid to Ukraine and prevents the revision of the European budget. But we'll talk frankly. It would be a bit easy to hide behind the Hungarian president's spree. We have been saying this for a while now: this European budget is totally insufficient to meet the social and environmental challenges of the moment. And in the face of this, you have systematically refused our proposals to increase the resources of the European Union, for example, randomly, by using multinationals and the richest who continue, year after year, to raise indecent sums. I'll take just one example. In my country, in France, 42 billionaires have earned 230 billion euros in one year, the equivalent of a check of 3,400 euros for each Frenchman. At the same time, shareholders received nearly €100 billion in dividends last year. And on the other side, we have a third of Europeans skipping meals and people dying on the streets of our states. The equation is simple: We have in front of us a privileged minority who are gathered in Davos at the moment - I do not know if you will go, Mrs von der Leyen - who are enriching themselves on the backs of all the others who are impoverished. However, your committee, as well as the right and the Liberals in this Parliament, have systematically refused to go and get the money, the money where it is, by blocking the margins of the multinational companies that are getting richer and by using the billionaires who are bingeing. Instead, you are making people pay, people who are struggling, people by destroying public services, weakening labour rights, demanding unfair reforms, pensions and unemployment benefits. All this for what? To satisfy your sacrosanct fiscal rules that bring back austerity. Because in reality, this is the real subject that no one is talking about today and that should mobilize us all. I'm raising the alarm here. We have before us the greatest fiscal austerity cure ever seen on our continent. And it does not come from nowhere, Mrs von der Leyen, it is your direct responsibility. Seriously, I have a question for you. You do not find that our nurseries are not overcrowded enough, that 30,000 beds have been removed from hospitals in my country, in France, since 2017, it is not enough that our hospitals are in very good health, that there is not enough teachers already in our public schools, that our medicines and medical consultations are already not expensive enough, that electricity rates are not high enough and that public aid must be abolished? And then you said to yourself: with the zealous support of European states, Eureka! Let's do even worse! Let us call on states to further sacrifice public services. I conclude, Madam President, because the President of the Renew Group – not even the President – Mr Verhofstadt, has had a little more time. I finish, I have a short time, I promise you. In my country, France, the application of these new fiscal rules will mean cuts in public spending of 22 billion euros per year. So OK, this is only 12% of Bernard Arnault's fortune, but in real life, brought back to the state budget, it will mean the equivalent of the suppression of 623,000 teaching positions. Suffice it to say a social massacre, to which you add a democratic scandal, ladies and gentlemen, since a coalition of social democrats and liberals and the right together is trying to pass in force. Perhaps you were inspired by President Macron to import 49.3 from France to Europe, well, I tell you, we will not let you.

I note, Ms Loiseau, that you do not answer my question. I am in favour of condemning all war criminals, all those who commit war crimes. But I ask you a very clear question: Do you call for a permanent ceasefire for the Palestinians who are now under Israeli bombs? And I have a second question. Since you are talking about armaments, the European Union is complicit and sends millions of euros of weapons to Israel. So are you going to call for the EU to stop cooperating in this massacre and to call for a permanent ceasefire and stop sending weapons? And I hope that this time I will have a slightly clearer answer.

Ms. Loiseau, more than 24,000 Palestinians have already died in the Gaza Strip, including 10,000 children, under Israeli bombs. And I believe, you will agree, that the least we owe to the Palestinians who are under the bombs is clarity. And I regret from that point of view that the Renaissance Group, and in this case Stéphane Séjourné himself at the last Conference of Presidents, supported the deletion of the term ‘permanent’ to our Parliament’s call for a ceasefire. So my question is very clear: Are you calling for a permanent halt to the massacres or are you just asking for a pause while Israel rebuilds its missile stockpiles to continue decimating the Palestinian people?

Mr. Speaker, 100 days, 100 days that Israel bombs Gaza without a truce and massacres more than 300 innocent people a day, and already more than 10,000 children. 100 days for Netanyahu to realize the macabre dream of the Israeli far right: to eradicate Palestine and its people. 100 days that together with my group on the left, I come here to ask you for our Parliament to act for peace. But today, ladies and gentlemen, our work and determination are finally paying off. Against the war-mongering of the right and the extreme right, the European Parliament is finally preparing to call for a cease-fire. But if you have come to your senses, ladies and gentlemen, also call for justice, by supporting South Africa's initiative, to bring the matter before the International Court of Justice to establish the genocidal nature of Israel's action, but also by suspending our partnership agreement with Israel and stopping our arms exports to Israel. In short, ladies and gentlemen, by ceasing complicity with the European Union. For 100 days, more than 24,000 Palestinians died. Let us not wait one more day or death to demand justice and peace.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, it was not until 28 COP that States finally deigned to address the taboo of fossil fuels, but without asking for a clear and clear exit, when they are the main culprit of climate change. It will be necessary to transition without distance, without trajectory or binding timetable. In reality, it is our future on a habitable land that is moving away. The only victory to salute is therefore this great lexical creativity, I must admit, to invent terms that commit to nothing. Because today, humanity is actually transitioning mainly towards its extinction. And it's no surprise, as this conference of parties was actually a conference of lobbyists. 2500 lobbyists teeming in the corridors, four times more than for COP27. The boss of Total, a great eco, as we know, in Emmanuel Macron's suitcases. And, of course, the COP president himself, Sultan Al-Jaber, who happens to be the CEO of an oil giant. I summarize: We know that climate change is already irreversible. We're on a cataclysmic trajectory at more than three or four degrees. 2023 is already the hottest year on record. But we let the lobbies make their laws. How long are we going to accept this? As long as we negotiate with those who plundered the planet, nothing will move. As long as we refuse a radical and total break with this economic system that destroys everything, nothing will change. Ecology without questioning capitalism, colleagues, is gardening, and we no longer have time to garden. We have a planet to save.

It was interesting to hear from you, Ms Loiseau. I would remind everyone who listens to us outside that the salary of a Member is more than EUR 7 000 per month. I personally think it is an indecent remuneration, completely disconnected from the reality and everyday life of the European citizens you are talking about. I will continue to defend not only the reduction of Members’ salaries, but also the prohibition of ancillary salaries. How are you going to justify, during the elections, that there are MEPs who are paid heavily by lobbies and companies, when we are supposed to be making the law?

Ms Loiseau, you have had quite a lively plea concerning the fight against external interference and the fight against corruption, but I wonder about the distance between words and deeds. There have been many good statements following the ‘Qatargate’ corruption scandal, but I note that when it came, for example, to voting on the ban on ancillary remuneration so that Members, in addition to their very generous elected officials’ allowances, would not be paid by lobbyists, you voted against it. Have you changed your mind or are you still standing up for lobbyists?

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, just a year ago the biggest corruption scandal in the history of the European institutions broke out: ‘Qatargate’. Members sold themselves to a foreign state for ticket cases, and today we even learn that Commissioner Schinás would be involved, which I pointed out a year ago. I remember each one of you here, ladies and gentlemen, coming to this rostrum and saying your hand to your heart: Nothing will ever be the same again. One year later, nothing has changed. The vast majority of the promised reforms have been buried. Members can quietly continue to be paid heavily by lobbies or states with impunity. Forgotten, the Independent Ethical Authority that you have promised us since the beginning of your mandate, Ms Jourová. Corrupt people, ladies and gentlemen, are like vampires: They hate the light. But opacity remains the absolute rule in all negotiations. I'm sorry for the slap in the face, but I honestly believe you're not giving a damn about us. I won't let you go. And count on me, on us, on my political camp, to continue to lead the battle, to drive out all the lobbies and external interference of the European institutions, so that, once and for all, ethics take precedence over money.

Madam President, one third of Europeans do not eat enough, and the 25% increase in food prices does not come out of nowhere. Even Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank, acknowledges this: more than half of inflation comes from increased margins. Clearly, companies, large companies that are bingeing on our backs. People are tired of it. Tired that complicit governments politely demand price cuts that never come. I am sorry that the European Union is choosing this moment to re-impose austerity, right now, and is asking the States to cut the budget of our schools or hospitals, even though the solutions exist and you could now support our amendments on the taxation of superprofits and superriches and on the blocking of margins and prices. How could you, ladies and gentlemen, vote against and refuse to take back, as Abbé Pierre said so well, ‘those who have taken the whole dish on their plate, leaving the plates of the others empty’? Organising the big sharing or letting the big gavage take place is basically the dividing line that separates us here in our Chamber, and here is the choice that will have to be made for the next European elections.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, as you know, the humanitarian situation in Gaza is apocalyptic. Nearly 20,000 civilians have died under Israeli bombs, the entire humanitarian system has collapsed, the UN is talking about genocidal risk and, without the US veto, the UN Security Council would have adopted a resolution in favour of a permanent ceasefire. But here the good news is that the US is not represented. We must succeed where the UN has failed and pass a clear resolution to end this carnage, to call for a permanent ceasefire, to call for the entry of International Criminal Court investigators into Gaza, to suspend our association agreement with Israel and demand an immediate embargo on our arms deliveries, to take sanctions against illegal settlers in the West Bank. By voting on a resolution, ladies and gentlemen, we could clearly take a position. The European Union, if it so wished, could use its leverage to intervene and no longer be complicit. This is up to us.

Mr President, ‘I thought I was dying’ is the words of a French Member of Parliament, Sandrine Josso, who was drugged without her knowledge by a senator with the aim of abusing her. And what was the reaction of Senator Joël Guerriau questioned? His cat was dying. Yes, yes, colleagues, you heard that, because her cat was dying, it would allow her to assault a woman. But what sense of impunity must be achieved if such a defence is to be dared? Often, aggressors benefit from a power relationship. He is the radio host Sébastien Cauet, accused of rape, or the famous real estate agent Stéphane Plaza, prosecuted for violence. But these attacks and this sense of impunity are not just about celebrities. They are ubiquitous and affect all women. Predators are everywhere: in the street, even in our homes, at work or in private, from inappropriate remarks to beatings, from repeated harassment of raped bodies. How many of us here have not already suffered one of these attacks? I note, moreover, that all these debates on women’s rights generally bring together a few colleagues, and only women. It is always the same pattern, every time the same difficulty for women to speak, every time the same impunity. But we will not let patriarchy win. With more than 100,000 rapes taking place in the EU each year, France is blocking negotiations on a crucial text against sexual violence by wanting to exclude the definition of rape from EU legislation. I want to repeat it here in this gallery. Emmanuel Macron does not mind, sexual intercourse without consent is rape. Sexual intercourse without consent is rape and must be included as such in European law. It is, however, simple and we will say as long as it takes: Women's bodies don't belong to you, neither does our consent.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, this morning we are giving a first breath of relief after the announcement of a truce and the forthcoming release of several dozen hostages. I am thinking, of course, of the families who will be reunited with their loved ones, of those who do not yet have this chance and for whom we must continue to do everything possible to secure their release. I am also thinking of the people of Gaza who will be protected from bombs for a few days, but who know that their ordeal will soon resume. Every day, the human toll continues to grow and the European Union has been complicit in this massacre by refusing to condemn it. Yes, you let 14,000 civilians die, including more than 5,000 children. You let the IDF deliberately destroy hospitals, homes, schools. You have not said anything about these crimes, but you are constantly opposed to the ceasefire – because the truce cannot be a mere parenthesis, a lasting ceasefire is needed. What are you going to say, colleagues, to the thousands of parents who have lost their children? That it's collateral damage? Why has no sanctions yet been considered against Israel? We are rightly on the 12th package of sanctions against Russia, but how are you going to explain that we are not doing anything about the Israeli army’s war crimes in Gaza? This double standard is unbearable and has concrete consequences in Gaza, but also in the West Bank, which is too little talked about, where settlements are growing more and more brutally. Israeli settlers no longer have any limits. Every day, Palestinians are insulted, threatened, brutalized, murdered, driven from their land. We are witnessing ethnic cleansing. It is a moral duty to stop it because every Palestinian life counts. This is a diplomatic obligation because peace will only emerge with a two-state solution. This is a strategic imperative because what is being played out in the Middle East will have global consequences. Today, ladies and gentlemen, we are at a tipping point. If the European Union persists in its blindness, it will not only shame itself, but it will also permanently bury international law and with it the hope of lasting peace.

Madam President, if only we had farmers in Europe who produced quality milk and cheese. If only our orchards were filled with apple trees and our terroirs with vines. I know, I'm dreaming. But fortunately you, Commissioner, and you, ladies and gentlemen, who are never short of great ideas, will get us out of this bad step. Thanks to your free trade agreement with New Zealand, you will allow thousands of tonnes of milk and cheese, apples and wine to travel 20 000 kilometres in ultra-polluting cargo boats to land on the stalls of our supermarkets, with the added bonus of pesticides such as atrazine, theoretically banned from our premises. Congratulations, ladies and gentlemen, and beware of the bad languages that would dare to say that this will accelerate the climate chaos, further undermine our food autonomy, subject our farmers to unfair competition and go against the meaning of the economic sovereignty so much touted by Mr Macron. If I am ironic, ladies and gentlemen, it is because you are actually very hypocritical in voting for this free trade agreement. There is a choice to be made, it is clear: it is the earth or the container ships.