What Stéphanie spoke about.

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2026

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Protecting children’s safety and mental health from the risks posed by social media – our duty to act now (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner Micallef, in the United Kingdom, the government is going to ban social networks for those under 16 and, at the moment, at the instigation of France, the G7 countries have a strong ambition to protect our minors from digital risks. But Europe is lagging behind, and at the same time our European countries are ready to take action, but each on its own. However, as is wel…

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2026

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Achieving digital sovereignty and resilience for Europe, in light of recent developments affecting access to advanced AI technologies (debate)

Mr President, European Executive Vice-President, here it is, Washington has unplugged us. Since Friday, the most powerful AI model ofAnthropic It has been deactivated for all non-Americans, in the name of a fuzzy and arbitrary conception of national security. But let's be honest, the threat of kill switch that we all feared is now real and, in the face of the ultra-power of the tech giants, contro…

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2026

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High time to deliver on the Single Market, providing certainty and predictability for EU businesses and quality jobs (continuation of debate)

Madam President, Executive Vice-President Séjourné, it is regrettable that the Council, which represents the Member States, is not here today. So, ladies and gentlemen, Europe lacks neither talent nor entrepreneurs, but it lacks a real market, a single market capable of transforming this potential into sustainable jobs and European champions. Since February 2025, ten, ten simplification packages h…

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EU cybersecurity and preparedness in view of advanced AI systems (debate)

Madam President, Vice-President of the European Commission Virkunnen, ladies and gentlemen, physicist Stephen Hawking warned us: AI could be the best or worst thing that will happen to humanity. Today, we are facing a surge of increasingly sophisticated, faster and more autonomous cyberattacks. And cyber risk has no borders. With Anthropic and its American model Mythos, some are already talking ab…

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The impact of the implementation of the Maritime Spatial Planning Directive 2014/89/EU on fisheries in selected fishing areas and sea basins (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner – dear Costas – again, ladies and gentlemen, and thanks in particular to my fellow shadow rapporteurs for this collective work and for this report. This debate underlined our deep attachment to our territories and to all those who live by the sea and who support our coastlines. And given the profusion of uses and activities that saturate the maritime space, we demand tha…

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The impact of the implementation of the Maritime Spatial Planning Directive 2014/89/EU on fisheries in selected fishing areas and sea basins (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner – dear Costas – ladies and gentlemen, the report I am presenting to you today on the Maritime Spatial Planning Directive confirms that the sea has changed profoundly. Once feared for its dangers, the sea has become a space of cohabitation, a source of lusts, rivalries and armed conflicts. Fisheries, maritime transport, marine renewable energies, tourism, pleasure boating…

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2026

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The need for targeted criminal provisions and platforms’ responsibility to effectively address cyberbullying and online harassment (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner Micallef, ladies and gentlemen, today - as colleagues have already pointed out - one in six teenagers is a victim of cyberbullying and one in eight admits to having participated in it. This is the first reason for calling emergency lines in Europe. The list of victims is growing, but the impunity of the platforms also continues. So, I ask you, how many more suicides a…

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Enforcement of the Digital Markets Act (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Vice-President Ribera, the debate is necessarily about more than just digital regulation: This is a guarantee of our European sovereignty. However, a few days ago, the German daily newspaper Handelsblatt reported that the European Commission would have decided to spare Google a record fine for non-compliance with the DMA - the first fine against Google - on t…

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2026

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Financial literacy and the rise of finfluencers in the context of the savings and investments union (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, borrow, prepare for retirement, complete your tax return: so many everyday gestures, but who finally teaches us to master them? The school teaches math, but not money management. Result: Too many decisions are made blindly. But the urgency is there, especially for young people, because Generation Z is no longer going to see its banker. She inquires on YouTube, Instag…

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2026

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Child sexual abuse online: protect children, not perpetrators (topical debate)

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Feb

2026

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Presentation of the action plan against cyberbullying (debate)

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2026

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European Central Bank – annual report 2025 (debate)

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European Central Bank – annual report 2025 (debate)

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Jan

2026

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Presentation of the Digital Networks Act (debate)

Madam President, it is a pity that Commissioner Virkkunen, who is in charge of this subject, has gone into the middle of a debate. In the era of social networks, AI, 5G, the European telecoms market is running with the handbrake and it is time to change gears to revolutionize our European telecoms market because it is too fragmented, not profitable enough, threatened to be swallowed up by American…

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Tackling AI deepfakes and sexual exploitation on social media by making full use of the EU’s digital rules (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, like any woman, if you post a picture of yourself on X or your child – your daughter – you may find yourself stripped naked in the public square, without your consent, exposed to millions of people. This is indeed what Grok, Elon Musk's AI, has allowed: women undressed without their consent and generated images that sexualize children. This is neither a bug nor a Gro…

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Dec

2025

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European Democracy Shield – very large online platform algorithms, foreign interference and the spread of disinformation (debate)

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Nov

2025

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Fishing opportunities 2026: ensuring the sustainability of fish populations, marine ecosystems and coastal communities

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Nov

2025

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Protection of minors online (debate)

Madam President, Commissioners, imagine a dark and hostile jungle, a jungle where every child is left to himself, alone, without landmarks, exposed to danger. This jungle is the digital world. Today, many children have their first smartphone at age 9, their first social network at age 11. They stumble upon pornography, the glorification of extreme thinness, violence, sexism. They are trapped in al…

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Nov

2025

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Protecting EU consumers against the practices of certain e-commerce platforms: the case of child-like sex dolls, weapons and other illegal products and material (debate)

Madam President, Executive Vice-President Virkkunen, ladies and gentlemen, last week, France discovered with horror that child-like sex dolls were on sale on Shein, accessible to all, all over Europe. This is only the tip of the iceberg. AliExpress, Temu, Wish...: all these platforms are full of illegal, dangerous products – sometimes even weapons – in total violation of our laws. We adopted the D…

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Oct

2025

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The decision to impose a fine on Google: defending press and media freedom in the EU (debate)

Mr President, Executive Vice-President Ribera, ladies and gentlemen, this is a serious time. Since Donald Trump's return, our European digital rules have been under threat. We are now under double pressure, from the United States, which wants Europe to bend to the Big Tech law, and from the European Commission, which seems to be shaking when it comes to enforcing its own laws. Beyond the diplomati…

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Oct

2025

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Promoting EU digital rules: protecting European sovereignty (debate)

Mr President, Vice-President Virkkunen, is there still a pilot on the plane of our European digital sovereignty? Does anyone really hold the controls to avoid the digital Europe crash? Let me doubt that. Our ambitious regulations are now under attack from all sides, first and foremost internally. For the past six months, you at the Commission have been telling us that TikTok and X have violated th…

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Oct

2025

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Common agricultural policy (joint debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, in France a farmer commits suicide every two days. It is a cry of warning, a cry of despair to which we must respond. Our farmers can no longer: too many rules, too little income, too much injustice in trade negotiations. Of course, the texts we are voting on this week are a first response: more simplification, more protection, more recognition of …

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Sep

2025

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Taxation of large digital platforms in the light of international developments (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner McGrath, ladies and gentlemen, the OECD's latest deal was clear, yet: Multinationals have to pay where they make their profits. This is a matter of tax justice. But since Donald Trump's return, the global balance has wavered and multilateral negotiations have stalled. Europe can't keep lowering its head every time Trump raises his tone. Time is no longer about fear, but …

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2025

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European Ocean Pact (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we are returning from the United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice, where Europe led the way and assumed its role as the world's leading maritime space, but that was only the starting point and we must now move from the pact to action. For this, we first need a method to turn the overall strategy into local actions. The pact for the ocean must be…

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2025

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Competition policy – annual report 2024 (debate)

Madam President, Executive Vice-President, ladies and gentlemen, competition policy is our compass for keeping Europe's economy open, fair and innovative, but to remain on the world map, it must be modernised. Regardless of attacks across the Atlantic: I would remind you that in the digital world, the rules of the game must be clear and are not negotiable. Executive Vice President Ribera, don't sh…