What André spoke about.

16 Dec

2024

FR Speech

Right to clean drinking water in the EU (debate)

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Mr President, Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, it is surprising, in the 21st century, to mention the difficulties of access to drinking water. However, these deficiencies remain a major problem for France overseas due to unstable and limited access. Our compatriots pay the double penalty of the inefficiency of the public service and the absence of such a basic right as that of …

28 Nov

2024

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Foreign interference and espionage by third country actors in European universities (debate)

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Mr President, France is subject to foreign interference in the university. In 2021, a report from the Senate fact-finding mission referred to a policy of aggressive Chinese influence in the university. The Senate emphasized the importance of control and prevention mechanisms. Behind a facade of cooperation, China deploys all its influence in order to benefit from our research and development and m…

25 Nov

2024

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Mr President, since September, the French in Martinique have rightly protested against the excessive cost of living. The causes are of course national – such as dock dues, freight prices and the weight of oligopolies – but also European. Overseas France is specifically exposed to free trade treaties, including the one looming between the European Union and Mercosur. On this subject, since Septembe…

24 Oct

2024

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Protecting our oceans: persistent threats to marine protected areas in the EU and benefits for coastal communities (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the overseas territories enable France, the second-largest exclusive economic zone in the world, to be at the forefront of protecting the oceans: a global environmental priority, of which marine protected areas are the most prominent element. We are therefore concerned about the threats to the Scattered Islands, now claimed by Madagascar. These …

8 Oct

2024

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Outcome of the Summit of the Future: transforming global governance for building peace, promoting human rights and achieving the sustainable development goals (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, what efforts does the Commission intend to make to ensure that European industry benefits from the production of nickel in New Caledonia, a French territory that holds 29% of the world's reserves and the third largest producer in the world in 2023 of this ore coveted by China? Does the European Commission have a clear vision? I doubt it. Without affirming its…

17 Sep

2024

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Outcome of G20 ministerial meeting in Rio-de-Janeiro and fighting inequality (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, who wants to take over France from overseas? Brazil's G20 presidency has identified the growing confrontation between the United States and China as a priority for its upcoming summit in Rio. This confrontation poses a threat to the whole of a world experiencing a number of hotbeds of tension at risk, whether, among others and as everyone knows,…

10 Apr

2024

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Discharge 2022 (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, why is the European Union trying to finance countries, such as the Union of the Comoros, which are attacking its founding and contributing states? The EDF, in its 2021-2027 programme, allocates 46 million to the Union of the Comoros, a state of 800 000 inhabitants provoking, insulting and offensive towards France, to which it challenges the membership of Mayotte…

13 Mar

2024

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Cohesion policy 2014-2020 – implementation and outcomes in the Member States (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, this report makes little mention of the development of the outermost regions, particularly the French overseas departments. This offshore France is not of sufficient interest to the European Union, which does not perceive its specificity linked to remoteness and, often, insularity. I tabled an amendment to this report to take better account of n…

12 Mar

2024

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European Media Freedom Act (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in 1941, at Oxford, General de Gaulle said: "At the base of our civilization, there is the freedom of each one in his thought, his beliefs, his opinions." To speak of freedom in this place, where the texts that norment, which constrain in a punitive way and where the Commission blackmails the States are voted, is to speak of rope in the house of a hanged man. At…

8 Feb

2024

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Working conditions of teachers in the EU (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, how far will you go in your march towards federalism, after the European Pact on Immigration and Asylum, the sovereignty of European law and the Verhofstadt report, or, now, the Verheyen report and its procession of self-criticism, re-education and revision of history? In a breach of the Treaties, the European Union intends to impose a narrative of repentance on…

13 Dec

2023

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 14-15 December 2023 (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, so you have dared. Mr Verhofstadt and his friends dared to affirm the need for a reform of the Treaties, with a European Commission transformed into the European executive of a central state, the end of unanimity voting in the Council and the principle of the primacy of EU law over national laws. It is no longer a coup, but a 27-state coup. These attempts hav…

20 Nov

2023

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, three French departments: Mayotte, Martinique and Guadeloupe are suffering from a serious shortage of drinking water. But the priorities of the European Union are clearly elsewhere than in the aid to the ultramarines. I deplore this regularly, and again in the Inter-Parliamentary Committee on 7 November. The European Commission, like the Members of the European …

17 Oct

2023

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

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, would this debate have taken place if I had not sounded the alarm at our last plenary session about the disastrous situation in the French departments of Mayotte and the Antilles, about the situation of several hundred thousand EU citizens who are thirsty and lack drinking water? Would the French Government have taken the decision to pay the water …

2 Oct

2023

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the EMFAF fisheries budget, voted for six years, allows vessels from 12 to 24 metres to be renewed for an amount of more than EUR 6 billion. The payment of this aid on condition of the size of the vessel is a social, economic and ecological nonsense. In addition to contributing to overfishing and the destruction of the seabed through the financing of ever-lar…

2 Oct

2023

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Economic coercion by third countries (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, when the European Parliament talks about the economies of our Member States, it only talks about protection and sovereignty. But, in reality, we are suffering the blows from non-European countries. In 2021, the European Commission affirmed its commitment to strengthen its protection against economic coercion from third countries. But there is far from words t…

2 Oct

2023

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Order of business

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Madam President, as I said, there is an emergency situation, so I think not.

2 Oct

2023

FR Speech

Order of business

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, at the beginning of the 21st century, when artificial intelligence, new technologies and progress are in the spotlight, French citizens, and therefore of the European Union, do not have access to drinking water, or even to running water. One third of nationals of Guadeloupe and Martinique face this scourge. And what about the situation in Mayotte, where the a…

12 Jul

2023

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Recommendations for reform of the European Parliament’s rules on transparency, integrity, accountability and anti-corruption (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, isn’t the declared desire to reform Parliament’s rules in order to combat corruption merely a communication effect? Ms Kaili and Mr Tarabella, caught in the act of holding EUR 1 300 000 in cash, sit with us again, as if Qatargate had never existed. Mr Glucksmann, always quick to overwhelm the opponent, but who saw nothing coming concerning colleagues from his…

12 Jul

2023

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Delivering on the Green Deal: risk of compromising the EU path to the green transition and its international commitments (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the EU's environmental policy can be summed up in one word: unconsciousness. Unconsciousness of choices. The EU is failing to respond to current and emerging climate challenges. Privileging punitive and militant ecology to pragmatism and science, it aims to be anti-nuclear. She preferred the agit-prop of a young activist whose place is in school to the opinions …

15 Jun

2023

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The water crisis in Europe (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, one third of French people in the West Indies and Mayotte do not have access to water. In the absence of a relevant response from the French Government, it is now the UN that, in a humiliating and out-of-role manner, speaks of a health emergency and reminds France of its obligations in this regard in Guadeloupe. At each meeting between the French overseas and…

13 Jun

2023

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Situation in Nicaragua (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I bring you the testimony of the young war reporter I was in 1985, who in Nicaragua accompanied the guerrillas of Comandante Cero, Edén Pastora, charismatic leader of the Democratic Revolutionary Alliance. The country was then under the control of a dictatorship set up and supported by the Soviet power in Moscow and its Castrist subsidiary in Havan…

31 May

2023

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the proliferation of standards by the European Union is forcing fishermen in the ORs to bring their fleets into line. To this end, EUR 64 million has been allocated by the Commission to five overseas departments. Many fishermen, however, have not seen its colour. It is impossible to know how many of them are actually concerned by the allocation of that aid, for …

11 May

2023

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Protecting and restoring marine ecosystems for sustainable and resilient fisheries - Agreement of the IGC on Marine Biodiversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (High Seas Treaty) (debate)

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Dear colleague, I think you misunderstood me. I have just explained that I tabled in committee a proposal for the creation of a European Maritime Agency, which was not even discussed on the sole ground that I was a member of the Rassemblement National. So, in terms of partisanship, sectarianism, we have no lessons to learn from you.…

11 May

2023

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Protecting and restoring marine ecosystems for sustainable and resilient fisheries - Agreement of the IGC on Marine Biodiversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (High Seas Treaty) (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, thanks to France and its 11 million square kilometres of maritime domain, the European Union has the world’s first maritime space. It is thanks to overseas France that this area has many assets that force us to do so. Indeed, many of our citizens live thanks to the ocean, and its conservation, future and protection require a constant effort. The co…

8 May

2023

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, French news in Mayotte is distinguished by the Union of the Comoros’ refusal to accept its own nationals, its inappropriate and irredentist assertion of Mayotte’s territorial membership of the Union of the Comoros, and its interference in France’s policy. Neither the French Government nor the European Union has reacted to the unacceptable behaviour of this micro…