What André spoke about.

8 May

2023

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Establishing the Act in support of ammunition production (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, today, 8 May, France is celebrating the end of the Second World War and its 50 million deaths. In France, we commemorate the defeat of an increasingly dominant Germany that, three times, tried to enslave Europe and even the world. This is the day that Metsola and von der Leyen chose, not only to sit rather than to revere peace, but also to discuss …

19 Apr

2023

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Dieselgate: suspected widespread use of defeat devices in cars to reduce effectiveness of pollution control systems (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, in 2015 a "dieselgate" broke out, which involved many car manufacturers. They were accused of fraudulently reducing the polluting emissions of their thermal engines during approval tests. Of course, these lies to buyers and the European Union should never have existed. However, we must try to understand how these manufacturers got there. Brussels' increasingl…

19 Apr

2023

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Keeping people healthy, water drinkable and soil liveable: getting rid of forever pollutants and strengthening EU chemical legislation now (topical debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, on entering the Chamber, many of you certainly drank a glass of water, which in the 21st century, in the European space, seems quite normal. However, one third of French people in the West Indies, 40% of those in French Guiana and 31% of our compatriots in Mayotte are not connected to drinking water. Lack of sanitation, failures, obsolete network and contamin…

29 Mar

2023

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the flags of our European partners are flying in front of the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou. But the reality of the presence of these nations in the construction and support of European space projects is much more contrasted. After Soyuz left the space center, nearly 300 jobs were cut. We should have expected the support of our partners in the development of the…

29 Mar

2023

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Fluorinated Gases Regulation - Ozone-depleting substances (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to illustrate the hypocrisy of the political formations of our Assembly. For example: the very specific case of the West Guyanese power plant, a highly innovative project, based on the creation of a ground-based photovoltaic power plant to supply energy to an area around Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni. The project company is a pioneer in the field of renew…

15 Mar

2023

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Failure of the Silicon Valley Bank and the implications for financial stability in Europe (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the bankruptcy of the SVB is reminiscent of past crises and their geopolitical, social and economic context. When Bruno Le Maire explains to the French that this crisis will not cross borders, it reminds Ms Buzyn that the virus did not have a passport. Credit Suisse's price fell by 30% this afternoon. And the risky adventure in Chinese real esta…

13 Mar

2023

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the Commission is funding an Erasmus stay on online Islamophobia for more than EUR 30 000. The organising association does not hide its proximity to the Turkish authorities and the Ismailaga movement, which is close to the Taliban and regarded by Germany as Islamist. As the EU prepares to sign the Istanbul Convention, it is no longer at odds. When France mourned…

16 Jan

2023

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30th Anniversary of the Single Market (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, should the 30th anniversary of the single market be celebrated today? To take stock, we will see that the single market has undermined the labour market by encouraging the arrival of posted workers. The single market will have encouraged France’s relocations and deindustrialisation, causing it to lose thousands of jobs. The single market will have imposed regula…

15 Dec

2022

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The 30th anniversary of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, well-ordered charity starts with oneself. How can we evoke a human rights anniversary with 6 500 workers dead on Qatar's construction sites and the scandal that ensues and shakes our institution? Although he did not hesitate to sell his services to a foreign power, one of us is setting himself up as a lesson giver, even though he did not see anything coming c…

21 Nov

2022

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Reunion Island, France’s outermost region, is Europe’s largest producer of sugar cane. Since the abolition by the EU of sugar quotas and the emergence of third countries on the market, the French Government, at the instigation of the Commission, has been forced to fill the gap in earnings of a profession which accounts for 13% of market employment, i.e. 20 00…

18 Oct

2022

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Impact of Russian invasion of Ukraine on migration flows to the EU (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, 700 000 victims in Verdun, 1 200 000 deaths at the Battle of the Somme, 20 million at the end of the first global conflict, 60 million, most of them civilians, in the wake of the Second World War. 2500 years ago, Thucydides explained that history is an eternal beginning. So have we learned nothing, learned nothing from these wars, from this barbarism, and here i…

4 Oct

2022

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Access to water as a human right – the external dimension (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, water is life. Unfortunately, it must be noted that the French outermost regions Guadeloupe, Martinique and Mayotte suffer from water supply problems. The pipe systems have not been maintained and the distribution of drinking water cannot be ensured on a daily basis. The French government has proved incapable of apprehending this catastrophic health situation…

14 Sep

2022

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Economic, social and territorial cohesion in the EU: the 8th Cohesion Report - EU border regions: living labs of European integration (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I am surprised that Mr Omarjee’s text met with almost unanimity in committee. Behind consensual approaches, he hides a deeply federalist and dangerous logic. He proposed relaunching the ECBM proposal, a mechanism invented by the Commission, which would allow a region to choose to apply a foreign law for a given subject. This form of legal extraterritoriality …

12 Sep

2022

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the Commission intends to increase the wind capacity of the 27 from 190 gigawatts to 480 by 2030. The lifespan of a wind turbine is estimated at a maximum of 20 years and it is not known how to recycle it. The base for fixing a wind turbine is 1 500 tonnes of concrete, which has been definitively ordered to remain in the ground. In the absence of wind, they must…

6 Jun

2022

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EU islands and cohesion policy (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, rapporteur, ladies and gentlemen, this report regrets the Union's lack of vision for the European islands and I would like to focus on the French outermost islands, which have been suffering particularly for five years. Pursuant to Article 168 of the Treaty, which relates to human health, the Commission must take into account health disasters, in particular chlordecone,…

18 May

2022

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, more than 90% of Guadeloupeans and Martinicans are contaminated with chlordecone, which gives the West Indies the sad world record for the number of prostate cancers. Soil, subsoil, rivers and shorelines should be decontaminated, but also support for the conversion of contaminated plots should be put in place, and drinking water production sites should be mod…

22 Nov

2021

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, in France, more than 90% of Guadeloupeans and Martinicans are contaminated with chlordecone, which is the cause of the sad world record for prostate cancer. As with Sargassum algae and access to running water, Marine Le Pen was a whistleblower on this subject, while President Macron and the government ignored this health tragedy, causing mistrust among the po…

22 Nov

2021

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Coordination of Member States’ measures in light of increasing cases of COVID-19 in the EU (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Marine Le Pen, candidate for President of the French Republic, was the first to denounce the calamitous management of the COVID pandemic, both by the European Union and by President Macron and the French Government. Confinements and self-isolation generated by anxiety-inducing communication have blocked access to care for the most vulnerable people…