What Pierre spoke about.

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Oct

2022

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Global food security as follow-up to the G20 Agriculture Ministers meeting (debate)

Mr President, there are three billion people in the world whose protein intake depends on fishing, depends on the oceans. And yet, when you read the conclusions of this G20 summit, there is nothing. Nothing about fisheries, nothing about aquaculture. (The President interrupted the speaker) And for good reason, many of the countries around the table at the G20 are happily and industrially engaged i…

18

Oct

2022

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Growing hate crimes against LGBTIQ people across Europe in light of the recent homophobic murder in Slovakia (debate)

Mr President, 'dirty fag', 'old gouine', 'travelo': By accumulating, words and insults eventually become deeds, eventually become bullets and kill. Matúš and Juraj, Malta, last month in Germany, Samuel in Galicia last year, David in a park in Belgium in 2021. So I turn to the benches of the far right, which are completely empty. No speaker from the ID group came, probably out of shame, out of sham…

18

Oct

2022

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General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2023 - all sections (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, Minister, in recent years fisheries have suffered several crises that the whole of Europe has suffered, but perhaps more acutely for fisheries. I am thinking first of all of Brexit, which has called into question a certain number of accesses to waters, but also to quotas. I am obviously thinking of the COVID crisis and then, now, of this war in Ukraine which has dire…

17

Oct

2022

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Sustainable maritime fuels (FuelEU Maritime Initiative) - Deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, it is free of charge. It's really renewable. It's actually decarbonized. It does not cause oil spills. There is no risk of explosion at the time of loading. It has been used for 8 000 years to transport goods and people. This highly innovative alternative fuel is – as you have understood – wind. If I tell you about the wind, you will perhaps imagine these caravels of th…

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Oct

2022

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Momentum for the Ocean: strengthening Ocean Governance and Biodiversity (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, 2022 is truly a year dedicated to the oceans and so this resolution is timely. It started in Brest with the One Ocean Summit, it continued in Lisbon with the United Nations conference, we can talk about Sharm el-Sheikh too, and then the COP-15 that will take place in Canada on biodiversity, all these elements that are gathered to make 2022 a gre…

14

Sep

2022

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Situation of fundamental rights in the EU in 2020 and 2021 (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, I was about ten years old when, in the early 1990s, I saw collapse, we saw collapse one of the last totalitarian systems of the 20th century. It is 2022 and your report reads: backsliding on the rule of law, backsliding on LGBT rights and attitudes, backsliding on women’s rights. Basically, I think that I grew up from the age of ten with the idea that it could only go t…

12

Sep

2022

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Conservation and enforcement measures applicable in the Regulatory Area of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organisation (NAFO) - Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Convention Area: conservation and management measures (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, we do not have the opportunity to talk so often about regional fisheries organisations in our Chamber. And so, today, of course, we are going to talk about how the decisions taken by these organisations are implemented in EU law. But what I would also like to emphasise is that we are involved in shaping these decisions. And in doing so, the European Union has a voice on…

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May

2022

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Commission’s 2021 Rule of Law Report (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, this report says what we see, what I saw when I was in Poland with President Séjourné. We have seen these activists harassed by the police. We were in Hungary, in Budapest, with my colleagues Terry Reintke and Fabienne Keller, where we said no to attacks on LGBT people. This report explicitly states that these countries clearly disobey European rules. Respecting the …

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May

2022

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Discharge 2020 (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, Mr President, Minister, I am going to talk to you about fishing. In a nutshell, I would simply say that the European Fisheries Control Agency has a key role to play in achieving the objectives we set ourselves here, namely the objectives of the common fisheries policy. The aim is to ensure sustainable fishing activities in the long term in economic, social and enviro…

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Mar

2022

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Need for an urgent EU action plan to ensure food security inside and outside the EU in light of the Russian invasion of Ukraine (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, Minister – you will notice that microphones work better in Strasbourg than in Brussels and that we are better off in the Strasbourg Chamber –, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, you mentioned fishing in your opening remarks, Mr Minister too. When we talk about food sovereignty, we must not forget that 70% of the seafood we consume in the European Union is imported. …

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Feb

2022

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The death penalty in Iran

Madam President, Commissioner, ‘everywhere in the world ... where dictatorship and disregard for human rights triumph, everywhere you will find the death penalty written in bloody characters’. I borrow these words from Robert Badinter, who had the death penalty abolished in France forty years ago. That is the real meaning of the death penalty. It stems from the purely totalitarian idea that a gove…

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Feb

2022

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A European strategy for offshore renewable energy (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, when I came this afternoon, I saw on Twitter that I had been questioned by someone who said to me: "But you're going to talk about marine renewables when we've been waiting ten years for the first wind turbine that could come out of the sea in France?" That's right, whereas in Denmark, with rapporteur Morten Petersen, it's probably been 20 years since there are wind …

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Oct

2021

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General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2022 - all sections (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, EUR 1 billion, at least almost EUR 1 billion for the European fisheries, aquaculture and maritime affairs sectors in 2022, is ambitious, but it is necessary. A fisheries and aquaculture sector that has been hit hard by an unprecedented health crisis and has profoundly destabilised the seafood market. A sector that has to face on a daily basis th…

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Oct

2021

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The Arctic: opportunities, concerns and security challenges (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, it is as Chair of the Committee on Fisheries that I am surprisingly pleased with the entry into force, just over three months ago, of the agreement to ban unregulated high seas fishing in the central Arctic Ocean. In concrete terms, ten parties, including Norway, Russia and China, have agreed to ban commercial fishing and, above all, to carry ou…

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Jul

2021

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Establishment of Antarctic Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) and the conservation of Southern Ocean biodiversity (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, I would like to thank and congratulate the rapporteurs and shadow rapporteurs, particularly my colleague Catherine Chabaud and my colleague Grace O’Sullivan, for this work on Antarctica. The preservation of Antarctica is really a subject that we are dealing with here with a rather maritime – Commissioner, you are here – and environmental aspect, but it is clearly a s…

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Jul

2021

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General Union Environment Action Programme to 2030 (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, dear fellow rapporteur Grace, we know the urgency of acting for the climate, acting for our oceans – I reassure you, I am not going to talk about fishing today – for our ecosystems. Now we need concrete actions, tangible actions. I have just one minute to tell you that in the opinion of the Committee on Transport and Tourism, in which I had the pleasure of working, we r…

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Jul

2021

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Breaches of EU law and of the rights of LGBTIQ citizens in Hungary as a result of the adopted legal changes in the Hungarian Parliament - The outcome of 22 June hearings under Article 7(1) of the TEU regarding Poland and Hungary (continuation of debate)

Mr President, I have just heard some colleagues from the German and Italian extreme right: They left for lunch in the meantime, but I also heard a Hungarian colleague tell us the same thing. But, ladies and gentlemen, do you really want European money from the Structural Funds to come and finance schools, training centres and universities, even though you refuse to allow us to talk about topics su…

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Jul

2021

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The creation of guidelines for the application of the general regime of conditionality for the protection of the Union budget (continuation of debate)

Mr President, 'Bleiben Sie standhaft, Herr Kommissar'. I just heard that from someone in the ID group. When someone from the ID group tells you that, there may be a small problem. It took you six months to give us the 28 pages of guidelines. Six months to ensure that, for the fourth time, we debate this subject here. Fourth time we will repeat the same thing to you. Well, we have to enforce the la…