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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, I thought I could put the question to Valérie Hayer, who refuses it. So I will ask my question, and it will remain with a question mark; I hope that it will have the capacity to lift that question mark. In addition, I wanted to say that I shared his outrage at this biggest corruption scandal, which is unprecedented, but I had two questions. The first is how to explain that Emmanuel M…

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Dec

2022

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Order of business

Madam President, I am not going to be long, we have had the opportunity to address here the heart of the subject that concerns us. I think it would be strange, in this last plenary session of the year, just after this scandal broke, if we did not have a debate in which each and every one of the parliamentarians here, shocked and certainly angry, could express themselves. The aim is to have the opp…

12

Dec

2022

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Statement by the President

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I think it can be said very clearly: Our European Parliament is arguably caught up in the most serious corruption scandal in its history. Qatar has bought votes from this assembly to cover the exploitation to death of migrant workers at World Cup yards. As has been said, the facts are shocking: more than €1 million already seized from suspects’ homes, and the…

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Nov

2022

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Resumption of the sitting

Madam President, I would just like to remind our dear friends on the far right why this event was organised. It was a peaceful action aimed at recalling only one clear and clear thing: the right to abortion will remain the right that our institution will tirelessly uphold. And that was the meaning of our presence. I would just like to recall the words of Simone Veil, who said: “You will have to re…

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Nov

2022

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The need for a European solution on asylum and migration including search and rescue (debate)

Mr President, ‘Let him return to Africa’, in the singular as well as in the plural, whether addressed to a Member or to exiles, the problem remains the same. This phrase has been controversial in France, but what is said here more politely in the European Parliament is not better. Who would have dared to tell the Bucha refugees fleeing Putin’s war crimes that they are returning to Ukraine? In this…

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Nov

2022

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Formal sitting – Ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of the European Parliament

Madam President, Madam President of the Commission, Prime Ministers, today we celebrate the anniversary of the creation of the European Parliament. But its history, as we have seen today, shows how far we still have to go in order to truly bring democracy to the European institutions. I have just listened to my colleague Mr Legutko and obviously there is still a long way to go because I want to in…

22

Nov

2022

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Gender balance among non-executive directors of companies listed on stock exchanges (debate)

Madam President, the adoption of the directive on the representation of women on company boards is good news, but it says a lot about European inaction on gender equality. As we all know in this Chamber, it took ten years to adopt this text, and again, at a discount. Above all, this directive is not about equality between women and men, but about equality between women and men. Listening to Brusse…

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Nov

2022

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Situation of human rights in the context of the FIFA world cup in Qatar (debate)

Madam President, on Sunday, Qatar kicked off the World Cup. But for once, without even knowing the odds, I can already give you the winner: It was shame that prevailed. The shame for France, Nicolas Sarkozy and Michel Platini, of having awarded this World Cup against the sale of fighter jets and juicy contracts, thus demonstrating how political the sport was, does not displease Emmanuel Macron. Th…

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Nov

2022

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Order of business

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of our Left Group, I am indeed calling for the adoption of a resolution on human rights violations related to the World Cup in Qatar. This World Cup, as you know, is played on the body and corpse of 6,500 workers exploited on Qatari construction sites, whose families were abandoned without compensation. Thousands of human rights violations have been…

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Nov

2022

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Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (debate)

Madam President, 1.6 billion tonnes of CO2: This is Total’s total greenhouse gas emissions in one year. But, publicly, Total only declared a quarter. Oil companies lie about global warming as cigarette sellers lied yesterday about our health and as textile brands lie about forced labor. These lies have gone on for too long. So, of course, I welcome the improvement of the directive on corporate soc…

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Nov

2022

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Outcome of the modernisation of the Energy Charter Treaty (debate)

Mr President, once is not customary, allow me to celebrate a victory in this Chamber. Our two years of fighting, sometimes alone alongside NGOs, are paying off the Energy Charter Treaty. The European states – France, the Netherlands, Spain, and others – announce their exit one after the other, as this treaty is an anti-ecological heresy that protects the interests of polluting multinationals and p…

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Nov

2022

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 20-21 October 2022 (debate)

Madam President, Mr Michel, the University of Strasbourg will close two more weeks this winter. A college in Avignon puts the key squarely under the door and will not reopen. Primary schools may no longer be able to accommodate children in Slovakia. How did we get there? Because of energy costs and energy bills, our kids are deprived of education. At the very heart of the European Union, in the wo…

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Nov

2022

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Order of business

Madam President, in recent weeks, four European countries – France, Spain, Poland and the Netherlands – have announced their intention to withdraw from the Energy Charter Treaty, the real life insurance for fossil fuels. Germany, Belgium and Slovenia are considering doing the same. Italy had already taken the plunge in 2016. Thanks to the initial action of a few scouts, a consensus is therefore em…

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Oct

2022

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Sustainable maritime fuels (FuelEU Maritime Initiative) (A9-0233/2022 - Jörgen Warborn)

Mr President, what sense does it make to vote on this text on so-called sustainable maritime fuels without asking more broadly the question of the 10 billion tonnes of goods that cross the world every year on ultra-polluting container ships? An iPhone, for example, travels around the Earth 20 times before it reaches our hands. A shrimp caught in the North Sea travels 6 700 kilometres to reach our …

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Oct

2022

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General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2023 - all sections (A9-0241/2022 - Nicolae Ştefănuță, Niclas Herbst)

Mr President, imagine for a moment that every European receives a check for EUR 300 to deal with the price explosion and get their heads out of the water. 300 euros per person, that seems too good to be true and yet there is money, just go and get it. EUR 300 per European, that is the sum we could have given by using only those who are getting richer. But this money, the Renaissance Group, the rig…

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Oct

2022

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Keep the bills down: social and economic consequences of the war in Ukraine and the introduction of a windfall tax (debate)

Mr President, I was quite interested in your speech because – finally, I want to say – you use the words ‘super-profit tax’, ‘contribution’. You said taxation of super-profits, I heard it, and I welcome the fact that the Republic in motion and Renew finally accept that there are super-profits made by large companies and that they must be taxed. So I ask a question: since it is not only the energy …

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Oct

2022

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Keep the bills down: social and economic consequences of the war in Ukraine and the introduction of a windfall tax (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, you may have noticed today that France is on strike. A growing social movement, as popular anger rises all over Europe. Because when the price of pasta rises by 40%, oil by 127%, butter by 32% and wages do not follow, it is meals that jump, hobbies that go to the trap and families forced to choose between refueling and heating. So, as since I was a little girl, …

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Oct

2022

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Order of business

Madam President, one thing that can be recognised on the far right is that it does not lack nerve and hypocrisy. The ID group suddenly disguises itself as a white knight who will come to defend women's rights and the fight against violence against women. It would be almost moving if you were not systematically opposed to women’s rights. Where were you, colleagues, when it came to voting for mandat…

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Oct

2022

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The EU’s response to the increase in energy prices in Europe (RC-B9-0416/2022, B9-0416/2022, B9-0417/2022, B9-0418/2022, B9-0419/2022, B9-0420/2022, B9-0421/2022, B9-0422/2022)

Mr President, with this resolution a new word has entered the European dictionary: superprofit. I want to say: Finally! Finally, because we have ministers, like Bruno Le Maire, who still refuse to admit that multinationals are benefiting from the crisis. Finally, a major cultural victory, when our group was the only one fighting to put them to work. But, I tell you, we are not fooled. There is no …

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2022

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The death of Mahsa Amini and the repression of women's rights protesters in Iran (debate)

Mr President, shame, shame on those who murdered Mahsa Amini and so many other women because a strand of hair went beyond their veil. Shame on the militias of the Iranian Islamist dictatorship who snatch from women the free disposition of their bodies. Shame on this obscurantist patriarchal regime that gags, crushes and imprisons women and all those who mobilize alongside them. Shame on the theocr…

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Sep

2022

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Violations of human rights in Uganda and Tanzania linked to the investments in fossil fuels projects

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, finally. Finally, our Parliament decides to adopt a resolution against the massive violations of Total's human rights. It is the same company that makes our pockets at the pump, destroying an entire region on the other side of the world. Total is on track to commit one of the biggest human and ecological crimes in our history with its plan to drill 400 oil we…

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Sep

2022

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State of the Union (debate)

Madam President, Mrs von der Leyen, the only answer you have given me is therefore to ask European citizens to send their invoices to Vladimir Putin. I’m sorry, but that’s all you have to say to the millions of people who can’t finish their month-ends? Yes, ladies and gentlemen, you can boo me. But I am proud to come here to bring the word of the people who struggle rather than that of the shareho…

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Sep

2022

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State of the Union (debate)

Madam President, Madam President von der Leyen, ladies and gentlemen, Mrs Olena Zelenska, what is the point of a general policy speech, if not to address the daily concerns of European citizens? So, to remind you, Mrs von der Leyen, I came here with the bills that citizens asked me to show you. This one, that of Gilles, who saw the price of his electricity increase by 113 euros per month and who a…

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Jul

2022

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Taxing windfall profits of energy companies (debate)

Mr President, I wanted to show you this: it is just a small ticket for a tank of petrol worth more than EUR 100. This is the case in France, but it is also the case in many countries. I don't know if we realize: 100 euros is just to be able to get around, to be able to go to work and sometimes it only lasts a week. It’s all sacrifices in the budget of millions of people to eat, to the children’s r…

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2022

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The relations of the Russian government and diplomatic network with parties of extremist, populist, anti-European and certain other European political parties in the context of the war (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, denouncing Putin’s interference is a necessary fight, which deserves to be fought with as much rigour as firmness, especially in the context of the war in Ukraine. For the past month, the liberals and the right – as Mrs Loiseau has just done, who has obviously left the Chamber – have been turning back the left and the far right by exploiting this subject, the…