What Stéphanie spoke about.

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Apr

2025

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European oceans pact (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, at the beginning of this week in Paris, an SOS was launched for the ocean. It is a signal to come to the rescue of the ocean, the blue lung of our planet that stands at the crossroads of many global rivalries. Europe will arm itself with a pact for the ocean, but this must not end up in a bottle at sea. We expect from the Pact this holistic, strate…

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Mar

2025

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EU Consumers Day: filling the gaps in protecting 440 million consumers in the EU (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, today 440 million European consumers rely on us to guarantee their rights in a changing market. Every day, Temu, Shein and others flood the market with cheap, often unsafe, non-compliant or counterfeit, and dangerous products. Meanwhile, on TikTok, we find apprentice influencers, sometimes teenagers from their rooms, who sell you financial investme…

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Jan

2025

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Cryptocurrencies - need for global standards (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, in the United States, Donald Trump dreams of being the president of crypto. As a result, the cryptosphere is inflamed, a cryptocurrency created in its image and another dedicated to Melania, the bitcoin that flies and the resignation of the president of the American Financial Markets Authority. During this chaos, in Europe, we made a different choice: regulate to pro…

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Jan

2025

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Need to enforce the Digital Services Act to protect democracy on social media platforms including against foreign interference and biased algorithms (debate)

Madam President, the Digital Services Act (DSA) is an essential tool to ensure that our digital space remains a safe place. But its effectiveness is based on its strict application: that of our rules, that we, representing 450 million European citizens, have set, and which apply to all platforms that operate on our market, regardless of their nationality. Mr Musk and Mr Zuckerberg, who are blowing…

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Dec

2024

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Misinformation and disinformation on social media platforms, such as TikTok, and related risks to the integrity of elections in Europe (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, the Romanian presidential election highlighted a serious danger for our democracies: the meteoric rise of a candidate chosen by a foreign power, Russia, whose candidacy was stimulated by the algorithms of online platforms. False accounts, hidden political influencers, manipulation campaigns: Romanian citizens have been fed continuously by shadow influencers who manipula…

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Nov

2024

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Promoting a favourable framework for venture capital financing and safe foreign direct investments in the EU (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, in order to become more competitive, we must allow our European businesses to innovate. But if public money is scarce and banks don't finance risk, who can our companies turn to? The financial markets, yes, but which ones? Today, Europe is not up to the task. Our nuggets have no choice but to finance themselves across the Atlantic: the United States invests on averag…

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Nov

2024

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Fight against money laundering and terrorist financing: listing Russia as a high-risk third country in the EU (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, today we know that Putin's Russia is circumventing international sanctions and is involved in money laundering practices and financing activities that threaten our values and our collective security. In the face of opaque financial maneuvers and malicious interference by the Kremlin, we must act decisively. It is not only a question of financial security, it is a questi…

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Oct

2024

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U-turn on EU bureaucracy: the need to axe unnecessary burdens and reporting to unleash competitiveness and innovation (topical debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, more than two hundred: it is the number of European texts that have been adopted in the last five years. More than two hundred. While the EU wanted to protect its actors through regulation, this approach was ultimately quite counterproductive. Today, this regulatory millefeuille is heavy and very indigestible for Europeans. For SMEs, which represen…

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Oct

2024

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Taxing the super-rich to end poverty and reduce inequalities: EU support to the G20 Presidency’s proposal (topical debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, in order to build a competitive and fairer Europe, our businesses and citizens must be subject to the same rules of the game. However, today, at the international level, tax rules are biased in favour of the richest, because if they escape tax thanks to a more favourable regime or through tax evasion, it is the tax of households that fills the coffers of the State. Yet …

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Sep

2024

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The historic CJEU ruling on the Apple state aid case and its consequences (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, at a time when all European citizens are calling for more tax justice, I am delighted that the Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled in favour of the European Commission. The European Commission – you know, Brussels, as some call it – well, it was the Commission that asked Ireland to recover EUR 13 billion from Apple. These 13 billion eu…

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Sep

2024

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The future of European competitiveness (debate)

Madam President, EUR 800 billion a year is the sum that Europe needs to finance itself, according to Mario Draghi. If today we have set ambitious European targets, the European Union's vital prognosis is on track. The pockets of the states are empty and we lack money. Mobilising private money will be key to ensuring a green, digital and secure Europe. How? By creating a real European financial mar…

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Sep

2024

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Global measures towards social media platforms - Strengthening the role of DSA and protecting democracy and freedom in the online sphere (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, a week ago Elon Musk, the American billionaire and owner of X, called on Europe to get rid of itself, and I quote: "unnecessary rules". He was necessarily talking about the Digital Services Act, the DSA, which he felt was so complicated to comply with. Because yes, Mr. Musk, the DSA is like the Chernobyl cloud: It does not stop at the borders of Eu…

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Apr

2024

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Union retail investor protection rules (A9-0162/2024 - Stéphanie Yon-Courtin) (vote)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, while our single market has existed for more than 30 years, the Capital Markets Union remains a sea snake. Faced with the need for massive funding for the green, digital and defence transitions, public money is not enough. Private money must be mobilised, including reorienting Europeans’ savings. This is the purpose of the retail investment strategy. By maintain…

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Apr

2024

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Effective coordination of economic policies and multilateral budgetary surveillance - Speeding up and clarifying the implementation of the excessive deficit procedure – amending Regulation - Requirements for budgetary frameworks of the Member States – amending Directive (joint debate – Economic governance)

Mr President, Commissioners, tomorrow we will vote to update the rules of procedure of our co-ownership with regard to economic governance. What about it? These are conditions for Member States to reduce their debt levels without hampering the investments needed to meet the challenges of tomorrow. Europe will only be able to strengthen its sovereignty if it is fiscally credible, credible with futu…

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Mar

2024

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European Semester for economic policy coordination 2024 – European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2024 (joint debate – European Semester)

Mr President, Commissioners, the European Union has been at the rendezvous in the face of the consequences of the pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Energy crisis, inflation, low growth, threat to households and the competitiveness of our companies: We answered them in Europeans. What has mattered through these crises is our unity, unity in diversity, which obliges us to agree on rules of …

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Feb

2024

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Financial activities of the European Investment Bank - annual report 2023 (debate)

Madam President, Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, today the digital, environmental and security challenges have demonstrated the need for a powerful Europe where funding is the nerve of war. As the financial arm of our Union, the European Investment Bank must step up its efforts to support our objectives. As you recalled this week, President Calviño, one of the priority sectors mu…

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Feb

2024

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European Central Bank – annual report 2023 (debate)

Madam President Lagarde, Commissioner, Mr President, the financial strength of our continent has been tested several times in recent years. Many issues and crises have punctuated our daily lives: climate change, digital transition, war in Ukraine or bank failures in the United States. Following a decline in inflation from 10.6% in October 2022 to 2.8% in January 2024 in the euro area, the European…

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Feb

2024

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The fight against hate speech and disinformation: responsibility of social platforms within the Digital Services Act (topical debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, "there will be one before and one after the Hamas attacks on social media," said Commissioner Breton. Because yes, the time when the big platforms declined all responsibility for what circulates on the networks is over. Hate speech, fake news, terrorist content simply have no place on networks we frequent on a daily basis, like millions of citizens…

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Feb

2024

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Instant payments in euro (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, have you ever made a transfer where you are offered to pay an additional EUR 1 to choose the instant payment option in ten seconds? Well, it is now over, because we are making instant payment the norm. From now on, payment service providers will have to provide consumers and businesses with instant payment solutions in addition to traditional cr…

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Jan

2024

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Competition policy – annual report 2023 (A9-0427/2023 - Stéphanie Yon-Courtin) (vote)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the war in Ukraine, the pandemic, the risks of relocation and inflation are all areas where our competition policy has played a decisive role in protecting our businesses and households. With this report, we are sending a clear message about our intentions, the future of our competition policy and the industrial policy we want. We can now prevent unfair compe…

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Nov

2023

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International day for the elimination of violence against women (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, rape, genital mutilation, physical violence, harassment, human trafficking, forced marriage before she turns 18, that is what one in three women should expect today in her life. These statistics are cold in the back. But these are not just numbers, they are the lives of mothers, sisters and daughters here in Europe and elsewhere. Every case of violence is a tragedy that…

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Nov

2023

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Cyprus Confidential - need to curb enablers of sanctions-evasion and money-laundering rules in the EU (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, while we are in the 11th round of sanctions against Russia, a consortium of journalists is denouncing potential money laundering operations by Russian oligarchs in Cyprus, within the European Union itself. This is too much of a scandal that not only weakens one Member State, but the whole of Europe, as our financial system is so interconnected. At a time when the world …

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2023

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Reducing regulatory burden to unleash entrepreneurship and competitiveness (topical debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, last week the mayor of a small town in Normandy told me that he had mobilised an agent for a week to respond to a call for a European project. Results of the races: no European funds granted and a mayor who now sees Europe as a technostructure inaccessible to as many people as possible. This is the daily lot of our mayors and the leaders of millions of European SMEs,…

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Nov

2023

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

Madam President, remember: the Inflation Reduction Act reserved its market for the production of clean technologies produced on US soil, and as a result the European market was overwhelmed with Chinese photovoltaic panels at uncompetitive prices. A situation of unacceptable dependence in the photovoltaic sector, where only one country now produces 80% of the components in the world. Our 2030 targe…

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Oct

2023

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Fighting disinformation and dissemination of illegal content in the context of the Digital Services Act and in times of conflict (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, beheaded babies, raped women, racist or anti-Semitic attacks, calls for murder or hatred: A tsunami of unbearable photos and videos has been unfolding in recent days on social media here in Europe. Unfortunately, the examples do not stop there: foreign interference in our elections, fake news, conspiracy theories. All this content circulates with impunity online. In the…