What Manon spoke about.

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Jul

2022

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 23-24 June 2022 (continuation of debate)

Mr President, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, I am going to be cash. I would like to tell you today about an elephant in the room that everyone wants to forget: the change of the European Treaties. So yes, it was on the agenda of the last Council, I looked carefully. But pouf! In the discussions, little magic trick, the subject seemed to have disappeared. However, our Parliament had been ve…

5

Jul

2022

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Objection pursuant to Rule 111(3): Amending the Taxonomy Climate Delegated Act and the Taxonomy Disclosures Delegated Act (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, you spoke of a moment of truth. And the truth is that the planet is burning. The truth is that in this context, you are carrying out a shameful greenwashing operation by classifying nuclear and gas, which is still the main source of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe, as green energy. The truth is that even the experts in your Commission have advised against including g…

23

Jun

2022

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National vetoes to undermine the global tax deal (debate)

Mr President, tax evasion by multinationals costs us tens of billions of euros every year and the far right is its faithful accomplice. She just demonstrated it just now. Because yes, the states that are blocking the introduction of a minimum corporate tax rate in Europe today are the reactionary and authoritarian governments of Hungary and Poland. The extreme right, which claims to embody the peo…

22

Jun

2022

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 23-24 June 2022, including the meeting with Western Balkan leaders on 23 June - Candidate status of Ukraine, the Republic of Moldova and Georgia (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the war in Ukraine has now been going on for more than four months. Four months that Vladimir Putin commits the irreparable daily by invading a sovereign state, in defiance of international law, by setting fire and blood to a neighboring country, by committing abject war crimes against civilian populations, by endangering the security of our entire continent. I …

22

Jun

2022

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Voting time

Madam President, on behalf of our group on the left, I would like to support the request made by my colleague Philippe Lamberts. Today, as we know, we are going to look at a package of major proposals to combat climate change. Our planet is literally burning before our eyes and we are going to vote to act, because we know we don’t have time anymore. And, by the way, I feel I am witnessing some sor…

9

Jun

2022

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A new trade instrument to ban products made by forced labour (debate)

Mr President, 25 million people are forced to work worldwide, including 4 million children. They produce our clothes, our food, our mobile phones, and most of the time without even knowing it. Many companies such as Nestlé, Zara or Huawei are enriching themselves on this modern slavery to feed their thirst for profit. A year ago, the President of the European Commission announced with great fanfar…

9

Jun

2022

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The call for a Convention for the revision of the Treaties (debate)

Mr President, in January 2015, Commission President Juncker dared to say: ‘There can be no democratic choice against the European Treaties’, which were imposed by force, denying the French ‘no’ vote in the 2005 referendum, and which need to be reviewed more than ever, from the cellar to the attic. And our group has been the only one in recent years to call for a revision convention. But let's be c…

8

Jun

2022

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Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System (A9-0162/2022 - Peter Liese) (vote)

Madam President, clearly, I believe that we are witnessing the most complete exercise of hypocrisy on the part of the right. Who, who, gentlemen of the EPP, voted with the far right? Who voted with the far right to empower lobbies and push back the end of free quotas? Who today is responsible for climate denial? It's you, it's you. So yes, we have chosen to work together, to work together with the…

7

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))

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I brought you this article from the Mediapart newspaper, which documents how Total’s behind-the-scenes lobbying in the 1990s caused us to lose 30 years of climate action. Thirty years behind due to the culpable weakness of the European policies of the time, which gave up a real tax on fossil fuels. Thirty years wasted, which now puts the knife under our throa…

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May

2022

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The REPowerEU Plan: European solidarity and energy security in face of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, including the recent cuts of gas supply to Poland and Bulgaria (debate)

Mr President, when our bills explode, there is one thing to do, it is simple, it is basic, and above all it can relieve millions of people in trouble: blocking prices so that lighting, heating or moving is not a luxury. But, as simple as it may seem, it took you almost a year, Commissioner, to start timidly considering in your REPowerEU plan a blockage of gas prices, or even resolve to talk about …

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May

2022

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Minimum level of taxation for multinational groups (debate)

Madam President, Macron and the French Presidency had told us that the promised tax evasion is over. Their absence from the debate today is certainly a symbol of their desertion from the fight against tax evasion. Because they told us that multinationals would finally pay their taxes thanks to this famous minimum rate of 15%. Except that this rate is barely higher than that of the tax haven that i…

6

Apr

2022

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 24-25 March 2022: including the latest developments of the war against Ukraine and the EU sanctions against Russia and their implementation (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we are all appalled by the images of mass killings of civilians in Bucha. And first I wanted to have an emotional thought for their families and loved ones, even if, of course, no word can erase their pain. Our Parliament must take the oath here: We will not forget the hundreds of corpses that piled up in the streets of Bucha. I am also thinking today of the …

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Apr

2022

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Urgent need to adopt the minimum tax directive (debate)

Madam President, do you know how much McKinsey, which carries out highly paid advisory missions to the French State, has paid taxes in France in ten years? The answer is as simple as it is shocking: zero. Not a penny. This state scandal once again illustrates the tax avoidance practices of lawless multinationals. Faced with this organised robbery, the French Presidency of the European Union dares …

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Mar

2022

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The Power of the EU – Joint European Action for more affordable, secure and sustainable energy (debate)

Madam President, spring has arrived, the trees are in bloom, and mercury is finally reaching 20 degrees in some places. This is the moment the European Commission has chosen to wake up to rising gas and electricity prices. Now I have to say that you surprised me: I quote the invitation from the Member States to 'regulate prices' and even to 'tax energy companies which have made exceptional profits…

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Mar

2022

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European Semester for economic policy coordination: annual sustainable growth survey 2022 – European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social aspects in the annual sustainable growth strategy survey 2022 (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to tell you about concrete realities, the litre of petrol which is increasing to more than EUR 2 without the State intervening, the overall energy bill which could increase by EUR 400 this year, hospital beds which have closed in the midst of the COVID crisis, unemployment benefits and pensions which are being reduced. A harsh reality for the peo…

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Mar

2022

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International Women’s Day – Address by Oksana Zabuzhko

Madam President, ‘Never forget that a political, economic or religious crisis will be enough for women’s rights to be called into question. These rights are never acquired. You will have to be vigilant during your life. With these words, Simone de Beauvoir was already alerting us. The march towards gender equality is constantly hampered and women’s rights are a constant struggle. This is particula…

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Mar

2022

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Shrinking space for civil society in Europe (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, protecting civil society also means protecting democracy itself, guaranteeing the possibility for the people to organise themselves into associations, trade unions and to demonstrate in order to exercise their share of power. We urgently need it as authoritarian temptation sets in – in Poland and Hungary, of course, where the ruling far right methodically crushe…

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Mar

2022

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Russian aggression against Ukraine (debate)

Madam President, Madam President of the European Commission, war is returning to Europe. I am part of this generation born after the Cold War, which has not experienced the war shock of the great powers and to which it has been repeated since childhood that Europe is peace. Now, the ghosts of the past are resurfacing and the war is back. I want to make it very clear here: Vladimir Putin bears full…

14

Feb

2022

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European Central Bank – annual report 2021 (continuation of debate)

Madam President, Madam President, Commissioner, petrol, electricity, pasta, rice: Everything costs more. Across Europe, people are caught in the throat and some are taking the opportunity to already call on the European Central Bank to tighten the monetary screw, as if policy rates were still the determinant of inflation today. Before the pandemic, the ECB had already injected €4 trillion, with no…

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Jan

2022

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

Madam President, Mr President, today you present yourself as the champion of Europe who protects, but who do you actually protect? Do you protect social rights when you pocket the unemployed and delay the Uberized Workers Directive? Do you protect sovereignty when you sign free trade agreements in turn? Do you protect women when you support an anti-IVG at the head of the European Parliament? You s…

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Dec

2021

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 16-17 December 2021 - The EU's response to the global resurgence of Covid-19 and the new emerging Covid variants (debate)

Mr President, I propose that a chronometer be scrolled through during my speech. Every second, pharmaceutical companies will make a thousand dollars in profit. This is the jackpot. By refusing to lift the patents, Mrs von der Leyen, this is what you wanted to protect at all costs: Big Pharma money rather than our lives. Because the infernal circle has been the same for two years, when COVID-19 ent…

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Nov

2021

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The International Day of Elimination of Violence Against Women and the State of play on the ratification of the Istanbul Convention (debate)

Mr. Speaker, we released the floor with MeToo, and then we threw our pork. We threw our pork in the cinema, we threw our pork in the literature, we threw our pork in the sport. We got up and broke. But you decorated the pigs. Even those who recognized the facts. Then we threw away our own family, adults who rape children, men who rape other men. We threw the actors, the musicians, the youtubers, t…

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Nov

2021

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Outcome of the COP26 in Glasgow (debate)

Mr President, blablabla, victory by K.-O. of the lobbies and . This is how COP26, which I attended, ended with a big flop, with a final image of unacceptable cynicism: the irresponsible people of this world who self-congratulate themselves on burying the planet with a suicidal trajectory of more than 2.4 degrees. No wonder we came to this when we see the omnipresence of lobbies in the COP. Imagine…

10

Nov

2021

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Disclosure of income tax information by certain undertakings and branches (debate)

Thank you, Mr Boyer, I noted in your speech – and I am delighted about that – that you want the system to be extended to all countries in the world so that, finally, there is transparency about the activity of multinational companies around the world, including the most notorious tax havens. But I remember that during the negotiations on this text, the media revealed that France had literally copi…

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Nov

2021

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Disclosure of income tax information by certain undertakings and branches (debate)

Madam President, tax evaders are like bats, they hide in darkness. For Google, Amazon or BNP, it’s ‘let’s live happily, let’s live hidden’. And it is to get them out of their den that we have been fighting for years for the transparency of the tax arrangements of multinationals. At the time of the first vote, in 2017, I was not in this Chamber, but in front of Parliament with my colleagues from Ox…