What Christophe spoke about.

7 May

2025

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Resilience and the need to improve the interconnection of energy grid infrastructure in the EU: the first lessons from the blackout in the Iberian Peninsula (debate)

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Madam President, I am not here to arbitrate the Spanish national debate, which seems very vehement, but 54 million Europeans who find themselves in the dark for almost 10 hours, it interests the whole of Europe, so that it never happens again. This unprecedented blackout reminds us of a simple truth: electricity is not stored. The supply must always be equal to the demand. To ensure this balance, …

7 May

2025

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Winning the global tech race: boosting innovation and closing funding gaps (topical debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Europe is losing the global race for strategic technologies: Artificial intelligence, batteries, biotech, semiconductors, small modular reactors. We innovate in Grenoble, we file patents in Eindhoven, but we produce in Taiwan, we assemble in Texas. It is not a talent problem, it is a problem of funding, orders and political will. A European venture capital initi…

2 Apr

2025

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European Steel and Metals Action Plan (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, I welcome the European Commission's awareness of the urgency of our steel and metals sectors. These materials are strategic, they are at the heart of our modes of transport, our clean technologies and our defence industry. Our sites in Dunkirk, Taranto, Liege or Ostrava are in difficulty, and thousands of employees are waiting for strong support from Europe. The prob…

31 Mar

2025

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Situation of European academics and researchers in the US and the impact on academic freedom (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, together with Mr Trump, American researchers are living a nightmare: budgets cut, scholarships cut, unfair dismissals ... Many plan to leave their country. These attacks are not only financial, they are ideological. It is a censorship of climate research, health research, cutting-edge technology, sacrificed on the altar of populism. We are back in the days of Galilee…

13 Mar

2025

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Action Plan for Affordable Energy (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, the affordable energy plan must respond to an emergency: reducing the energy bills of our industries and our citizens, because without stable and competitive energy, there is neither industry nor prosperity. Today, energy costs account for up to 40% of the production costs of the most energy-intensive industries. Our companies pay two to three times more for their elect…

11 Mar

2025

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Clean Industrial Deal (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the Clean Industry Pact is a major step forward for our industrial sovereignty. Thank you, Commissioner, for your commitment to defending our industry and jobs here in Europe, because a principle must now be clearly and firmly established: Buy European. Ladies and gentlemen, in recent days we have seen our citizens and businesses mobilise to buy…

20 Jan

2025

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Powering Europe’s future - advancing the fusion industry for energy independence and innovation (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, nuclear fusion has enormous potential. It is a clean, abundant, waste-free energy capable of ensuring energy security for future generations. Thanks to ITER, Europe is at the heart of this global breakthrough with recognised expertise and know-how. But this project is not enough. As we move forward timidly, the United States and the United Kingdom are deploying ambit…

18 Dec

2024

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Restoring the EU’s competitive edge – the need for an impact assessment on the Green Deal policies (topical debate)

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Mr President, Madam Vice-President of the Commission, ladies and gentlemen, opposing competitiveness and sustainability is not only irresponsible, but also dangerous for our common future. The Green Deal is a major step forward, and many regions around the world are following suit. No turning back will be tolerated. Our industries, businesses and SMEs need long-term stability and visibility, and t…

27 Nov

2024

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Rise of energy prices and fighting energy poverty (debate)

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Madam President, 4,166: This is the number of hours during which electricity prices have been negative on the European market this year. A market that works, no displeasure to the extreme right. Negative prices for more than three months this year. Yet household and business bills remain shockingly high. Why this inconsistency? Because our energy grid is not resilient enough to fluctuations in dem…

23 Oct

2024

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Tackling the steel crisis: boosting competitive and sustainable European steel and maintaining quality jobs (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Europe is fully suffering from steel produced at very low cost, due to global overproduction, caused in large part by China, which is crushing our European production. It is shrinking, while our imports remain at the same level. One hundred thousand jobs have been lost in the sector in Europe in fifteen years. This is not acceptable. We have had…

22 Oct

2024

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Urgent need for a ceasefire in Lebanon and for safeguarding the UNIFIL mission in light of the recent attacks (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I have an impression of deja vu today, with a few details, and still no statement from the European Parliament on the situation in Lebanon, on the attacks on peacekeepers or on Lebanese civilians. The humanitarian needs are enormous: Six out of eight hospitals are closed in southern Lebanon, with cases of scabies and cholera among the 800,000 di…

8 Oct

2024

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The crisis facing the EU’s automotive industry, potential plant closures and the need to enhance competitiveness and maintain jobs in Europe (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the European car industry is a few months away from the collision: Influenza supply chains, plant closures... We have to react. The urgency today is to support the entire sector, from manufacturers to the smallest subcontractors. That is why we need a renewed strategy for the automotive sector in the first 100 days of the new Commission, with, firs…

8 Oct

2024

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Escalation of violence in the Middle East and the situation in Lebanon (debate)

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Madam President, High Representative, ladies and gentlemen, we have just marked the sad anniversary of the unprecedented mass terrorist attack by Hamas in Israel: 1,200 dead and 250 hostages, 63 of whom are still detained or missing. Since that attack, more than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed and almost 100,000 injured. In Lebanon, the death toll is close to 2,000, including many civilians, …

19 Sep

2024

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Composition of committees and delegations

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, in a few moments we will be voting for an EU-US security agreement on the Galileo satellites, our European GPS. But surprise, we vote to allow launches that have already taken place: the first on 28 April 2024 and the last yesterday morning. It is unacceptable that the Council and the Commission did not seek our consent before the launch. It would have been p…

17 Sep

2024

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State of the Energy union (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, the report on the state of the Energy Union is welcome at the beginning of this term of office. He highlighted the significant progress made in our European energy policy, but also its shortcomings. Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the European Union has gradually turned away from Russian gas and orchestrated a renewable revolution. In concrete terms, renewabl…

17 Sep

2024

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The future of European competitiveness (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the report by Mario Draghi must wake us up. It highlights our delays in crucial sectors such as clean technologies, microchips and artificial intelligence. While China and the United States are investing heavily in these areas, Europe is still too hesitant. This report proposes concrete and ambitious solutions to close this gap. Yes, let's mobilize public and…

25 Apr

2024

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Framework of measures for strengthening Europe’s net-zero technology products manufacturing ecosystem (Net Zero Industry Act) (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, European industry is at a turning point. Every day we install more clean technologies: wind turbines, photovoltaic panels or batteries. But most of these technologies we do not produce in Europe. This has to change and it will change thanks to this new European law. With it, we will facilitate reindustrialisation in Europe for these technologies th…

23 Apr

2024

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Withdrawal of the Union from the Energy Charter Treaty (debate)

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Mr President, EUR 200 million is the amount paid by Italy to compensate an oil company. The reason: it had simply refused a permit to drill at sea. Today, we must stop this liberticide treaty. In line with our climate commitments, I call on this whole House to support a coordinated exit from the Energy Charter Treaty. Let's get out of this deleterious system that protects investments in fossil fue…

13 Mar

2024

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The immediate risk of mass starvation in Gaza and the attacks on humanitarian aid deliveries

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, last December I went to Rafah, Egypt, at the Gaza crossing, with an official delegation of Members from my group, Renew. I have seen the delivery and distribution of humanitarian aid hampered by bombing, fighting and destruction. I have seen the plight of the Gazan civilian population, which has nothing to do with the conflict, that of innocent children, maimed,…

11 Mar

2024

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Energy performance of buildings (recast) (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, the best energy is that which is not wasted. However, many citizens live in thermal sieves, which they cannot heat, and whose bills are constantly rising. Poorly insulated buildings now account for 75% of Europe’s building stock: This is considerable! It is time for Europe to address this issue. The course is clear: new buildings will have to be zero-emission by 2030, a…

11 Mar

2024

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Horizontal cybersecurity requirements for products with digital elements and amending Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, first of all, congratulations to rapporteur Nicola Danti, from our political family, on the excellent work he has done on this file. A work that aims to answer a simple question, in fact: How can we better protect our connected products? Maybe you have a connected camera at home to monitor your newborn, a connected toy or a connected car? All of these items can be hacke…

16 Jan

2024

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Humanitarian situation in Gaza, the need to reach a ceasefire and the risks of regional escalation (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, I invite my fellow Members to vote in favour of this ambitious resolution, which sends a strong message. The European Parliament considers that all civilian lives are equal, whether Israeli, Palestinian or Lebanese. Our position is balanced. A ceasefire in Gaza will secure the release of all Israeli hostages from Hamas and guarantee humanitarian aid to Gaza's civilian p…

21 Nov

2023

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Strategic Compass and EU space-based defence capabilities (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, a few hundred kilometres above us climb our European satellites, satellites that are indispensable for our farmers, our firefighters or for each of us, so that we can find our way around with our smartphone. Until now, however, Europe was too naive and did not consider all the risks, including the risks of hostile powers. With this resolution, we call for the defence…

20 Nov

2023

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Framework of measures for strengthening Europe’s net-zero technology products manufacturing ecosystem (Net Zero Industry Act) (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, every day workers install solar panels, wind turbines or batteries on our European continent. Unfortunately, most of these technologies are not produced in Europe. We must put an end to this dependence, we must put an end to this anomaly. With this new European text, we will accelerate the production of green technologies by simplifying the installation of factories …

8 Nov

2023

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State of the Energy Union (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, the conclusions of the 2023 State of the Energy Union report were expected. They show that we have been able to respond to the energy crisis caused by the war in Ukraine by cushioning prices, and tomorrow by lowering them, thanks to our European electricity market, which is the only useful bulwark to fight against rising prices. In less than two years, we have adapted R…