What Virginie spoke about.

7 Feb

2024

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

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Mr President, Minister, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the biggest thing is to have believed that these new digital laws would protect our internal market from defective Chinese inflatable dolls or fake Rolexes from the Philippines. Indeed, since the acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk, it has become the main obsession of the Commission, which absolutely wants to protect us from the Great Evi…

5 Feb

2024

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State of EU solar industry in light of unfair competition (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner: , as our former colleague Radek Sikorski, Chair of the Delegation for relations with the United States, said after the explosions that hit the Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea. This delegation, through which Washington tells us that, in order to regain our autonomy in semiconductors, we must conclude a treaty with Taiwan. Thank you, USA. …

18 Jan

2024

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Situation in Hungary and frozen EU funds (B9-0086/2024)

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Madam President, Mrs von der Leyen is in Davos at the moment to restore confidence. But what a confession! Yes, let’s talk about fraud, since nobody talks about it. The Brussels Commission published the BIP, its annual report on the protection of financial interests, with a total of around €2 billion of fraud in 2022. But one line is missing in the table: the fraud line in Brussels. No conflict of…

16 Jan

2024

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Activities of the European Ombudsman – annual report 2022 (debate)

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Madam President, Madam Ombudsman, Commissioner, the bubble of illusion is about to burst. The illusion of fabulous Pfizer contracts, wonderful stocks, this bubble will burst. And it is also thanks to the European Ombudsman that I warmly welcome: you have fought with talent for transparency against a champion administration of mismanagement. Brussels, this administration which gives red cards to ce…

14 Dec

2023

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Improving the strategic approach to the enforcement of EU Law (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, for once I agree with my colleagues. When a petition arrives here, when citizens complain, the Commission does not act on it because, supposedly, these complaints concern individual cases or various facts. This is also the attitude of the European Medicines Agency and your Brussels administration, which counts 12,000 deaths and millions of side eff…

21 Nov

2023

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Packaging and packaging waste (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we are going to vote to ban the vacuum on both sides, to bring containers of wine, milk and cattle from New Zealand. Brussels therefore wants to ban vacuum in cartons, ban camembert boxes or fruit crates. So like you, if I were a bureaucrat in Brussels, I would also force children to finish their Lego in shops to avoid these useless boxes. If I were a bureauc…

20 Nov

2023

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Common rules promoting the repair of goods

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, after decades of industrial destruction, it is time to repair Europe. With this proposal, the European Commission wants to ensure that more products are repaired under the legal guarantee. It also wants consumers to have easier and cheaper options to have products repaired when the legal guarantee has expired. Indeed, we have all realized this with planned ob…

18 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)

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Mr President, Commissioners, on 10 October, three days after campaigning in Bordeaux on the campus of Emmanuel Macron’s party, you, Commissioner, vehemently launched a battle of tweets with Elon Musk, owner of X. You accused X – formerly Twitter – of doing too little against the dissemination of illegal content and disinformation. Elon Musk was therefore summoned, by letter shared in a tweet, to p…

18 Oct

2023

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Presentation of the Court of Auditors' annual report 2022 (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, President of the Court of Auditors, thank you for your report concerning the financial year 2022. We all see in Brussels and Paris the damage of ‘whatever it costs’. Clearly, the von der Leyen presidency will have been the mandate of the budget slide. I quote: “At the end of 2022, outstanding commitments [...] reached a record €453 billion.” The negative economic result…

16 Oct

2023

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, this morning in Strasbourg, someone in the street told me: Thank you! Thank you for not letting this scandal of secret and juicy contracts between the Commission and Pfizer, Moderna and the others pass, i.e. €71 billion for 4.6 billion doses for 445 million Europeans. But then this person asked me: Don’t you feel like Don Quixote and fighting against windmill…

2 Oct

2023

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Madam President, on 2 October, the fifth anti-COVID dose was also launched in France. But nobody will tell you about the fact that the Commission has just changed the authorisation of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. I quote: Given the available data on myocarditis, the current warning on this risk needs to be modified to reflect clinical evolution and outcome. More often, after the second vaccination…

12 Sep

2023

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Single market emergency instrument (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, therefore, on behalf of the management of the next emergency, you want to give the Commission more power. We already support this cooperation between European governments in times of crisis and any proposal to speed up decisions in the Council. However, confiding in the Commission’s administration in times of crisis is neither realistic nor effe…

11 Sep

2023

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Consumer credits (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Madam Rapporteur, how can we talk about consumer credit, not to mention price inflation? What must have been an exception has become, over the years, a way of life, or even a way of survival. A credit to pay your bills, a credit to pay your taxes or simply to go on vacation with your children. Inflation is a tax for the poor, a bonus for the rich, as a former Fr…

13 Jul

2023

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Public access to documents – annual report for the years 2019-2021 (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, yesterday we voted for the Pfizer report and today I am pleasantly surprised. Does the night carry advice? Because yesterday you had the opportunity to sanction, in the context of the Pfizer report, the work of the Commission which was, as we have seen, a reflection of the work of lobbyists. Indeed, that COVID-19 report did not mention either Pfizer or the SMS c…

11 Jul

2023

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COVID-19 pandemic: lessons learned and recommendations for the future (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, let us call a cat a cat. This report is the Pfizer report. 4.6 billion doses for €71 billion, including 2.4 billion doses for Pfizer at €19.50 per dose delivered and €10 per dose cancelled. 130 pages and not a word about Pfizer or the text messages exchanged between Ms. von der Leyen and the CEO of Pfizer, while in the transparency register, it is discovered tha…

15 Jun

2023

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Call for a European strategy to counter hostage diplomacy (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, this von der Leyen mandate will go down in history as an institutional hurricane. The Brussels administration swallows all the sovereign subjects: nuclear, vaccines and our mental health, the distribution of migrants to arrive near you, the delivery of weapons – with, by the way, the creation of a financial ‘Titanic’ of EUR 800 billion. And, for the digestive, B…

31 May

2023

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the Left, the Greens and Macron's friends have told us: “Why do you want to remove Pfizer’s access badges from Parliament”, when Pfizer’s CEO refused to give us ten minutes to answer our questions about the biggest contract in European history. These MPs supported Pfizer. And since then, it has been the Pfizer festival. On the one hand, Pfizer defends its commer…

9 May

2023

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Discharge 2021 (continuation of debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, have you seen this report by France Télévisions, where the President of the Commission and Albert Bourla of Pfizer are razing the walls in Davos and Strasbourg? And yet, today, you give the Commission a satisfecit for 2021, the year of all records: €71 billion in Big Pharma contracts. So congratulations to the Commission for ordering ten doses per person. Con…

8 May

2023

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Impact on the 2024 EU budget of increasing European Union Recovery Instrument borrowing costs - Own resources: a new start for EU finances, a new start for Europe (debate)

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Mr President, after this debate on the purchase of military ammunition, this debate on the budget for new own resources. I note that the Commission’s €750 billion giant post-Covid recovery plan was contracted at variable rates. Who had the great idea of borrowing at a variable rate until 2058? Are they the same ones who are negotiating the canceled anti-Covid dose at 10 euros? Who calculated the s…

16 Mar

2023

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Long term commitment to animal welfare (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, 94% is the percentage of Europeans who consider it important to protect the welfare of farm animals. Furthermore, 90% believe that a European animal welfare label would be useful to inform consumers. Finally, 72% want information on the use of a stunning method for animals when buying meat. Yet animal welfare concerns continue to be flouted on a la…

15 Mar

2023

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Need for immediate reform of the internal rules of the Commission to ensure transparency and accountability in light of alleged conflicts of interests (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, this is not a qatargate, but a Bruxellesgate. Four years since Mrs von der Leyen was appointed President and you come to promise us a reform of the Commission's internal rules almost six months before the end of this term? Transparency and accountability. How can I believe you? €71 billion in Covid vaccine contracts, the largest contract in the …

13 Mar

2023

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Activities of the European Ombudsman - annual report 2021 (debate)

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Madam President, Mrs O'Reilly, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Madam Ombudsman, first of all, thank you and congratulations for your work. Since you headed this institution, you have fought for transparency and against cases of maladministration in Brussels. You have dared to criticise the Commission's purchases of 1.5 million defective masks and, above all, the negotiation by SMS of Pfizer-Bi…

14 Feb

2023

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CO2 emission standards for cars and vans (A9-0150/2022 - Jan Huitema)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, next year Paris will ban diesel. Rouen, Lyon, Strasbourg will follow. The purchase price of cars is skyrocketing, but Macron’s allies also want to exclude French people who drive petrol cars. Why this relentlessness, when these same people go to do yoga in Bali by plane or get foamed in Davos by private jet? You want to punish a whole generation of drivers with …

14 Feb

2023

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Establishment of an independent EU Ethics Body (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, some Members sell Europe with bags of tickets, others with overpaid conferences: It is as old as the world. How can we explain that Barroso and Monti, two former members of the European Commission, sell conferences for more than €100,000? The Qatar case is the tree that hides the McKinsey scandal forest from Pfizer, and you know that. So, to wash w…

1 Feb

2023

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Transparency and targeting of political advertising (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, after the billions in health and armaments, Brussels ventures into the regulation of the 2024 European elections, even into our villages. You are all terrorised by democracy, terrorised by the idea of reliving the Trump wave, terrorised by Brexit, terrorised by freedom of expression. Your sponsors subsidise and control the press, TV channels attack your propa…