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Common agricultural policy - support for strategic plans to be drawn up by Member States and financed by the EAGF and by the EAFRD - Common agricultural policy: financing, management and monitoring - Common agricultural policy – amendment of the CMO and other regulations (debate)

The new common agricultural policy we are voting for today will address all the current challenges facing European agriculture: it will support European farmers by enabling them to obtain a decent income, it will promote the establishment of young people, it will upgrade agricultural professions, it will ensure quality agricultural production and, above all, it will give farmers the means to guara…

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Prohibiting products made with forced labour on the Union market (debate)

Madam President, a few months ago we adopted a report on Chinese fisheries and their influence on illegal fisheries. Since then, new evidence of forced labour on board these vessels, notably in the south-western Indian Ocean area – it is the vessels fishing for tuna – has been provided. We are talking about blackmail, bullying, assaults, sexual assaults, salary deductions, months spent aboard Chin…

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2024

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Rising anti-LGBTIQ rhetoric and violence: recent attacks in Thessaloniki (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, yesterday, it was through the voice of a Member of Jordan Bardella’s group that transphobia broke into this Chamber. In the aftermath, I shared the episode on social media, on my Twitter account. Since then, it has been a surge, a surge with, every three minutes – every three minutes! – a new transphobic comment which is published in reaction to my tweet. More t…

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Mar

2024

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European cross-border associations (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, why create a new European statute for associations? Because in Hungary, for example, the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union has called on us to help the government, which is slowly killing civil society. They needed this European framework to continue defending democracy. Because in Poland – another example – where abortion was made illegal by the far…

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2024

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Implementation report on the EU LGBTIQ Equality Strategy 2020-2025 (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, for the past five years, things have happened! We have pushed back with you the LGBT-free areas by suspending European funds for Polish communities. Here, ladies and gentlemen, we have declared the European Union an area of freedom for LGBT people. You have – and we have supported you – brought Hungary before the Court for its law to combat the so-called ‘LGBT propag…

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Jan

2024

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EU Action Plan: protecting and restoring marine ecosystems for sustainable and resilient fisheries (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, over the past few months or even years, people have been gathering all over the French coastline to look at marine areas by marine protected areas, Natura 2000 areas by Natura 2000 areas, how we can reduce the impact of fishing on marine ecosystems. This is called ‘fishery risk analyses’. In concrete terms, how does it look? In concrete terms, it is fishermen who have k…

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Jan

2024

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Implementation of the Common Fisheries Policy and future perspectives (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, this report, if you want to sum it up, simply says that the common fisheries policy, as adopted ten years ago, works in an ideal world where the ocean is made up of a species of fish with a large boat fishing for it, it works. Except that the world is not ideal. The world lives on realities. Fishing, the realities, it has taken them in the face in the years that have ju…

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Jan

2024

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Recent ecological catastrophe involving plastic pellet losses and its impact on micro plastic pollution in the maritime and coastal habitats (debate)

Yes, one point of order: the interpretation was unavailable in French throughout the speech by our colleague Gabriel Mato, so we could not benefit from the speech by Mr Mato. I'm sorry.

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Dec

2023

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Jurisdiction, applicable law, recognition of decisions and acceptance of authentic instruments in matters of parenthood and creation of a European Certificate of Parenthood (debate)

Mr President, I would just like to point out that I have asked for the floor on a blue card question for the previous speaker. You did not give it to me, and I regret it. As our debates are not a succession of interventions, I cannot, as it stands, ask my question. I would like to remind you, however, that the blue card questions are of right, so if you have a good reason for refusing it to me, I …

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Dec

2023

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Jurisdiction, applicable law, recognition of decisions and acceptance of authentic instruments in matters of parenthood and creation of a European Certificate of Parenthood (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, we are about to vote on a text that is absolutely essential for the rights of a number of families in Europe and, above all, for the rights of a number of children. And I'm amazed to see one simple thing: this is the very idea of a motion to reject before any discussion. Obviously, the Rassemblement National takes a liking to the motions of rejecti…

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Oct

2023

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Urgent need for a coordinated European response and legislative framework on intrusive spyware, based on the PEGA inquiry committee recommendations (debate)

Mr President, Madam Vice-President, I have just given you my phone for the simple reason that, since I learned that I had been the target of a cyberattack and warned the European Commission – on several levels – no one at the European Commission has cared whether my phone had been infected. Maybe my phone is, as I speak to you, listening to what we are saying, maybe the Vietnamese government knows…

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Oct

2023

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General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2024 - all sections (debate)

– Mr President, since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the rise in gas oil prices, fishing has faced a sharp rise in its costs. It has taken full advantage of this increase in energy costs and has been accompanied by it. It has been widely supported throughout the European Union, and as we arrive soon in 2024, it is time for this support to enable the transition to models that will put it in a pos…

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Oct

2023

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Implications of Chinese fishing operations for EU fisheries and the way forward (short presentation)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, you know that between 1983, when the common fisheries policy was established, and today, 40 years later, the share of Chinese fishing in world fisheries has increased from 5% of catches to 15%. However, many government or non-governmental organisation reports point to a number of practices that raise questions: cases of illegal fishing – we were…

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Oct

2023

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The spread of ‘anti-LGBTIQ’ propaganda bills by populist parties and governments in Europe (debate)

Mr Ilčić, I would like to know one thing. You reproach us, in any case you reproach me, for having included this debate, stating that it is not urgent. But I would like to know in this case if you consider that the impeachment of 33 families in Italy, because they are made up of lesbian mothers, by the Meloni government this summer was urgent. I would also like to know whether the tabling of these…

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Oct

2023

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The spread of ‘anti-LGBTIQ’ propaganda bills by populist parties and governments in Europe (debate)

Mr. Speaker, could Mr. Jean-Paul Garraud tell us whether he considers a couple of women or a couple of men raising their children to be a family?

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Oct

2023

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The spread of ‘anti-LGBTIQ’ propaganda bills by populist parties and governments in Europe (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I have noticed something: every time I pronounce the four LGBT letters behind each other in this Chamber, I get a flood of messages in my mailbox or on social media asking me why I am still talking about LGBT issues? I'll tell you, I'd be happy to talk about something else. I'd be happy to talk about something else. But the reality is that it is not me who is…

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Oct

2023

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Order of business

Madam President, I would point out that Mr Fico is not yet the Slovak Prime Minister and has therefore not yet had the opportunity to implement any measure. I just want to point out to you, if it is acceptable to all of our colleagues, that we could replace the words ‘hard right’ or ‘far right’ with ‘populist’ – I see no problem with that.…

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2023

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Order of business

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I do not know if you have noticed, but every time the hard right wings in Europe are in trouble, whether politically, economically or socially, they always return to a good old and sure value of the far right: homosexuals as scapegoats. In Italy, last week, in the midst of the migration crisis, MPs, backers of the Prime Minister, tabled nothing less than amen…

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2023

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Surrogacy in the EU - risks of exploitation and commercialisation (topical debate)

Madam President, rapporteur, if there is one thing I agree with you on, it is that if surrogacy is a couple buying an egg and renting a belly to make a child, it is indeed a horror, it is exploitation and it is unacceptable. However, in your speech, what particularly shocked me was that you were not even able to imagine that some women might have a sincere desire to place their bellies at the serv…

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Apr

2023

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Universal decriminalization of homosexuality, in light of recent developments in Uganda (debate)

Mr President, I shall take the floor again. I understood that I had not spoken very loudly and that, therefore, many people had not heard me. Rest assured, I will not repeat what I said. Commissioner Kyriakides has simply spoken much louder, but there are things I have not heard. Commissioner, I have not heard you condemn this law. I did not hear the Commission condemn this law. I have not heard t…

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2023

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Universal decriminalization of homosexuality, in light of recent developments in Uganda (debate)

Mr President, who am I, who are we to tell others what to think? Who are they who hear people say what they should be or how they should love? In the world, no one can, no one should arrogate to himself the right to tell the other who he is. This is not about the freedom of what you want to do; it is about the right to be. To be who we are. To live your life the way you are. To love as we are. It …

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Jan

2023

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Small-scale fisheries situation in the EU and future perspectives (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, in this report we find solutions or avenues for solutions - and thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for putting them together - to the various aspects of small-scale coastal fishing and the challenges it must address. But finally, honestly, this report should above all be a self-criticism of what is happening, of what we have been doing for years o…

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2022

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Legal protection for rainbow families exercising free movement, in particular the Baby Sara case (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, it must be said that the family is in danger. It is under attack from all sides by those who wish to impose their ideological vision on us. Children’s rights are at risk, flouted by the whims of these same ideologues who want to deprive children of their origins, even if they deny them. Colleagues, of course, here I want to talk about Sarah, this c…

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2022

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A post-2020 Global biodiversity framework and the UN Convention on Biological Diversity COP15 (debate)

Mr President, Minister, Commissioner, we have now returned to the so-called sixth mass extinction of species on Earth. The fifth, the previous, is the one that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs. For several years, the climate change crisis has covered – if I may put it this way – the awareness of the ongoing biodiversity crisis. Basically, moreover, these two crises are linked, as you pointed…

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2022

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Situation of human rights in the context of the FIFA world cup in Qatar (debate)

Madam President, what is the risk to European footballers of wearing a rainbow armband in stadiums? Get shot like five people who died in a gay bar in Colorado Springs? No, no. Do they, like their Iranian colleagues, risk their skin? Those Iranian colleagues who behaved with remarkable bravery this afternoon? The answer is again no, they risk nothing. They are not at risk of making people talk abo…