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Apr

2024

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Production and marketing of plant reproductive material - Production and marketing of forest reproductive material (joint debate - Plant and forest reproductive material)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I welcome the desire to unify European rules on the production and marketing of seeds, cuttings, trees, etc. I also support the stated desire to enable users to access a wide variety of reproductive material adapted to current uses and future climatic conditions. Unfortunately, you confuse unification of regulations with product standardization. Re…

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Apr

2024

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Situation in Haiti (debate)

Madam President, Mr High Representative, Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, what has happened since our last debate on Haiti? Murders increased by 50% in the first quarter, according to the UN. The more we talk about Haiti, the more the armed gangs sow terror and death there. The Haitian government has fallen, which goes in the direction of appeasement. The Transitional Council has timidly begun …

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Mar

2024

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EU climate risk assessment, taking urgent action to improve security and resilience in Europe (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, in assessing and responding to the natural risks we face, I draw your attention to the situation in the French overseas departments. In both the West Indies and the Indian Ocean, we face major threats: tropical cyclones, volcanic eruptions, marine submersions, tsunamis, but also landslides or retreat of the coastline... These dangers are misunderst…

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Feb

2024

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The current situation in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (debate)

Commissioner, Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been at war continuously since 1998: from 1998 to 2003 against state powers and since 2004 against armed groups acting as intermediaries (proxies). The record of these 25 years of conflict is terrible: 10-12 million dead, 7 million displaced, but no media coverage, let alone moral outrage …

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Feb

2024

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Geographical Indications for wine, spirit drinks and agricultural products (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the more than 2 000 products covered by quality schemes sanctioned by a PDO or a PGI are the cornerstone of our agricultural system, the driving force behind the European agricultural exception. This goes far beyond mere intellectual property in which narrow legalism wants to lock them up. This is our carnal identity, but also the financial attract…

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Feb

2024

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Unitary supplementary protection certificate for plant protection products - Unitary supplementary certificate for medicinal products - Supplementary protection certificate for plant protection products (recast) - Supplementary protection certificate for medicinal products (recast) - Standard essential patents (joint debate - Patents)

Mr President, Commissioner, this new legislative package on essential patents is all the more important given that the technology sector is essential for the growth of the European economy, and legal certainty is paramount. I will not return to the controversy regarding the doubts related to EUIPO’s inexperience in patent management, I am just saying that the European Parliament should be involved…

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Feb

2024

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Empowering farmers and rural communities - a dialogue towards sustainable and fairly rewarded EU agriculture (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the agricultural crisis today is serious, yes. What we are going through has some of its origin here in the European institutions. It is the vision of agriculture promoted, in particular, by the Commission that is now angering our fellow French and overseas farmers. In the past, the European institutions have accompanied deindustrialisation, becaus…

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Feb

2024

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Situation in Haiti on the eve of the deployment of the United Nations Multinational Security Support Mission (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, not far from Guadeloupe – and therefore from the European Union – Haiti is our sister island. As a Guadeloupean, I believe that the historical, cultural and interpersonal ties we have forged with the European territories of the Caribbean give us obligations. Gang violence, which is often the armed arm of economic and political powers, further aggra…

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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, ladies and gentlemen, it is little to say that the action plan proposed by the Commission suffers from immense weaknesses, it is the pitfall when a problem is approached from a single angle. The oceans, it is necessary both to protect them and to allow their reasoned exploitation. These two objectives can be achieved together. To do this, let us rely on fishermen, great, responsible …

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Jan

2024

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Geothermal energy (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, in many of the overseas territories we have volcanoes, we have recognised geothermal potential. Yet we continue to produce most of our electricity by burning fossil fuels. It's aberrant. The development of surface geothermal energy would be very simple in our territories. Deep geothermal energy would also be a possibility. But more than a promise, abundant ge…

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Dec

2023

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Outcome of the UN Climate Change Conference 2023 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (COP28) (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the COP 28 which is coming to an end resembles the previous ones: an inter-self of NGOs, lobbyists and state actors who will hurry to forget their non-binding commitments. The goal of keeping global warming at 1.5 degrees seems out of reach: This is impossible because the world consumes more fossil fuels every year. This race seems crazy, it will n…

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Dec

2023

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Framework for ensuring a secure and sustainable supply of critical raw materials (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to tell you that the proposal for a regulation you are submitting is better than the text adopted in September 2023. Some of the extremely binding targets of the previous version have been revised downwards, which is a good thing, as there is no point in adopting inapplicable rules. Ensuring the security of our supplies of strategic ma…

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Nov

2023

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EU/New Zealand Free Trade Agreement (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the question we must ask ourselves is this: Do we really need to import tens of thousands of tonnes of apples, kiwis, onions, wine, lamb meat, butter, milk powder, fish into Europe? What are the winnings? Is it reasonable to remove all these quotas on certain goods that Europe produces in abundance? Is it ecologically reasonable to further incre…

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Oct

2023

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Water scarcity and structural investments in access to water in the EU (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, the water crisis is reaching its peak in our five French overseas departments. In Martinique and, above all, Guadeloupe – I, Guadeloupéenne, I tell you – it has been estimated for years that more than a quarter of the population does not have access to drinking water. This is not acceptable. It's 2023. In Mayotte, it is even worse, as there is no water at all. In this C…

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Oct

2023

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Fisheries control (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the new rules aimed at harmonising fisheries control have the merit of clarifying a system which, by its very disparate nature, does not make it possible to act correctly in favour of the protection of the fisheries resource. However, this new regulation will penalise the most artisanal fisheries, such as those located in the outermost regions, …

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Oct

2023

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The proposed extension of glyphosate in the EU (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the Commission is choosing science and common sense in the matter of glyphosate. This courage deserves to be praised. Of course, no one says that glyphosate is a miracle product. In an ideal world, it would probably be banned for the reasons already explained, as we know. But today we have no alternative. In any case, nothing to maintain our agricultural product…

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Sep

2023

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New Agenda for Latin America and the Caribbean in the aftermath of the EU-CELAC Summit (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, since the summit between the European Union and CELAC in July revolved around the Mercosur agreement, I will focus on this topic. Europe is right to stand firm on environmental standards, but let us draw all the consequences. Let us not neglect this French report, which estimates that the deadweight effect will accelerate deforestation by 5 to 25% in the Amazon.…

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Jun

2023

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The water crisis in Europe (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, the situation you described a few moments ago, that of a Europe without drinking water for its inhabitants, for its agriculture and for its biodiversity, we have known for years in the French overseas departments, for example Guadeloupe. In our overseas departments, it is very common to open a tap and not have water coming out of it, because the pipes are defective a…

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Jun

2023

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Ensuring food security and the long-term resilience of EU agriculture (debate)

Madam President, Madam Rapporteur, Commissioner, for the past four years, real life and the real world have returned to this Chamber. After rediscovering our vulnerability to global value chains and the true value of energy, in 2023, we discover that agriculture is not just a technocratic variable of the common market to regulate, but is political and geostrategic – a condition for any desire for …

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May

2023

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The role of farmers as enablers of the green transition and a resilient agricultural sector (continuation of debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, yes, farmers have a role to play in the green transition as facilitators of this green transition, it is true, but it is not their primary role. Their primary role is to produce: produce agricultural goods to feed us, produce to provide a decent income for them and their families. When I hear here some words which are intended to be environmentalist but which are mostly…

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Feb

2023

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Availability of fertilisers in the EU (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the text before us is a good one. I will approve it later, at the time of the votes. We know in what context, painful for our farmers, it will be adopted. Fertilizer prices, and more generally agricultural inputs, have skyrocketed in the past two years, sometimes four or fivefold. The reason why prices have been falling in recent months is that dem…

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Jan

2023

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

Madam President, rapporteur, ladies and gentlemen, as an ultramarine, I am particularly sensitive to the problem of small-scale, artisanal, traditional and sustainable fishing, as practised in the five overseas departments. I would therefore like to thank the rapporteur for her very useful report. I would like to make a reminder: on 21 April 2017, the European Parliament adopted an own-initiative …

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Dec

2022

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Implementation of the New European Agenda for Culture and the EU Strategy for International Cultural Relations (debate)

Mr President, Madam Rapporteur, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, the European cultural agenda based on the promotion of diversity and inclusiveness is a claimed means of educating the European masses, as it is not a means of Europeanising certain populations inhabiting our continent. On the diversity side, I note that Netflix has an impact infinitely greater than anything the Commission can pro…

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Oct

2022

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

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, these amendments to the regulation aimed at introducing renewable and alternative fuels into maritime transport are very important for our outermost regions, since they are only connected to the continent and to each other by sea or air. Anything that affects the price of sea freight is therefore viewed with concern in the five French overseas departments. These…

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Oct

2022

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The urgent need for an EU strategy on fertilisers to ensure food security in Europe (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the soaring price of fertilisers shows us how vulnerable we are. The European Union thought it was mastering globalisation? She believed that the huge global system would irretrievably bring peace and prosperity? The dream is over! The interdependence you celebrated is above all ‘intervulnerability’. The return to reality is painful: production cos…