What Sylvie spoke about.

24 Apr

2024

FR Speech

La Hulpe declaration on the future of social Europe (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, listen, today's debate is still an opportunity to recall the great social progress of this mandate. The SURE programme, a mechanism to support short-time work during the COVID-19 crisis; the Minimum Wage Directive, of course; the one on quotas for women on boards of directors; pay transparency and still today, the protection of digital platform wor…

12 Mar

2024

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Council decision inviting Member States to ratify the Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No. 190) of the International Labour Organization (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the fight against violence in the world of work and harassment must take place at all levels, international and European – that is why we are here today –, in every state and at local level. Ensuring a safe world of work for women is crucial to ensuring their empowerment and financial empowerment. I also want to stress today the concept of violence…

6 Feb

2024

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Quality traineeships in the EU (debate)

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Mr President, I congratulate the Commissioner on having become aware of the urgency of moving forward on this file. Last June, our Parliament adopted a report calling for quality traineeships, based on the high expectations of our European youth. In this report, we called for ensuring the quality of the experience gained to facilitate the transition to working life. This is all the more important …

14 Sep

2023

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Improving firefighters’ working conditions (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, thank you to the chairman of our Employment Committee, Dragoş Pîslaru, for having had the idea of putting the subject of the working conditions of our firefighters on the agenda. As we know, it is a demanding profession in terms of exposure to dangerous substances, in terms of mental health, physical health and, with climate change, unfortunatel…

11 Sep

2023

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Order of business

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of the Renew Group, I would like to request, under Rule 158 of the Rules of Procedure, a vote on an addition to the agenda at the opening of this part-session. Our group would like to propose the addition of a Council and Commission statement on aid to the most deprived in the context of growing precariousness in Europe, without resolution. The deba…

12 Jul

2023

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Putting the European economy at the service of the middle class (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, today in 2023, in the face of the increasing risk of poverty and social exclusion, in the face of the crises that are undermining Europeans, the middle classes are not spared. I am struck by the fact that various recent surveys reveal our citizens’ fear of falling into poverty and their concerns about purchasing power. In addition to these major cr…

14 Feb

2023

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Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence: EU accession (continuation of debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, do you remember this famous phrase by Hillary Clinton at the United Nations: ‘Women’s rights are human rights’? Well, six Member States have still not ratified the Istanbul Convention, including Latvia, whose President we welcomed earlier, which recalled the importance of the rule of law. However, women’s rights are part of the rule of law. So, at a time when we are …

13 Dec

2022

FR Speech

Prospects for the two-State solution for Israel and Palestine (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I reiterate my support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – that is the meaning of this resolution. Violence can only lead to violence and I condemn it, regardless of where it comes from. I strongly believe that international law must be truly respected, especially UNSCR 2334, which condemns the expansion of settlements in Palestine by …

23 Nov

2022

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Eliminating violence against Women (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, Minister, ladies and gentlemen, I really wanted to pay tribute once again to the work done, Commissioner, on this proposal for a directive, which is extremely important for all of us. In France, since the beginning of the year, 118 women have died as a result of the beatings of their spouse or partner. This is an absolutely atrocious situation. I also wanted to tell …

19 Oct

2022

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Fighting sexualised violence - The importance of the Istanbul Convention and a comprehensive proposal for a directive against gender-based violence (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, thank you for this ambitious directive to combat gender-based violence, although it needs to be improved, particularly on issues of sexual harassment at work, training for professionals in contact with victims and the situation of people with disabilities. These are priority fights that I will try to lead as shadow rapporteur for my group in the Employment Committee.…

17 Oct

2022

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Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, dear Nicolas, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to reiterate my conviction that a structurally more social semester is urgently needed. To that end, I would like to highlight a few points. We must provide social responses to the great crises we are going through, alas! – whether it is the pandemic, whether it is the war – and I am thinking in particular of the SURE pro…

13 Sep

2022

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Adequate minimum wages in the European Union (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, dear Nicolas, first of all, I would like to thank and congratulate my two colleagues, Agnes Jongerius and Dennis Radtke, for this enormous work. It is teamwork and for us it is a great victory of the French Presidency of the European Union. Together with my delegation, we committed to Europe together, and that is a promise we have kept. When I think about the challenges…

5 Jul

2022

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Mental health in the digital world of work (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner Nicolas Schmit, ladies and gentlemen, mental health issues at work have increased with the COVID-19 crisis – I was going to say all the crises, including the digital transition. These crises are not inevitable and we must take them into account, in particular through social dialogue at all levels. I would really like to thank Maria Walsh for this excellent report, which …

4 Jul

2022

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Women’s poverty in Europe (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, it is appalling, yes, appalling that in 2022 there are still millions of women, men and children in the European Union in a situation of great poverty. Poor women face specific issues that need to be addressed as such. I would like to commend the work done on this report, which presents concrete and relevant ways to combat and address women's po…

8 Jun

2022

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Global threats to abortion rights: the possible overturn of abortion rights in the US by the Supreme Court (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, in 1973 a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States legalised the voluntary termination of pregnancy. In 1975, in France, the Veil Law, Simone Veil, the first president of our directly elected European Parliament, framed the decriminalisation of abortion. Fifty years later, these hard-won rights, after bitter struggles by our mothers an…

13 Sep

2021

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Fair working conditions, rights and social protection for platform workers - New forms of employment linked to digital development (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, dear Nicolas, who is arriving at the right time, ladies and gentlemen, first of all I would like to thank my colleagues, in particular the shadow rapporteurs of the various political groups, but also my colleagues in the Committee on Transport, who, like me, have worked on this file in recent months in order to be able to define a common and ambitious position of the Eu…

8 Jul

2021

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Decent working and employment conditions in the aviation sector - Impact of the COVID-19 crisis on aviation (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, whether it is the emergence of transnational business structures with bases throughout Europe, legal uncertainty, different levels of social protection for workers, the proliferation of atypical forms of employment for crews or the loss of new jobs with the emergence of false self-employed workers: the aviation sector has been affected in recent ye…