What Mathilde spoke about.

8

Jul

2026

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EU’s response and preparedness to protect people against recurring heatwaves and upcoming wildfires (debate)

Madam President, six days of heatwaves in June in France, 2,025 dead. And while some are still talking, others are acting. In Madrid, the metro is air-conditioned. In Barcelona, climate refuges can be reached in a few minutes on foot. In Greece, employers need to provide refreshed spaces for their employees. These countries have understood one simple thing: protecting people from heat is not a lux…

18

Jun

2026

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Circularity requirements for vehicle design and management of end-of-life vehicles (debate)

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May

2026

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Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap (debate)

Mr President, individualism is destroying our social ties in Europe. Yet there is a whole category of the population that works in the shadows to make those around them better off. It is these nearly 100 million caregivers, who are obviously, most often, caregivers. While this population of caregivers is a real lever to fight against the excesses of individualism and suffers from a lack of conside…

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Apr

2026

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Women’s entrepreneurship in rural and island areas and outermost regions (debate)

Madam President, women in rural, island and overseas territories are often referred to as an audience to be helped. They are much more than that; They are often the ones who hold up our territories. In all the overseas territories, they support farms, shops, markets, family businesses, crafts, tourism and community life. But what is their reality? Impossible files, European standards above ground,…

27

Apr

2026

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Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU (debate)

I will answer your provocative question with the example given by your colleague, Mrme Scuderi, that of this eleven-year-old child whose rapists, in fact, were not convicted, on the pretext that she was consenting, and this was heard and validated by the judges. In fact, the problem of consent is the problem of definition, demonstration and evidence. One cannot demonstrate a lack of consent or con…

27

Apr

2026

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Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU (debate)

Mr President, the European Parliament now wants to impose a harmonised definition of consent in rape trials, as if the Member States had waited for Brussels to understand the seriousness of these crimes, as if their courts were not condemning rapists - not enough, indeed, I concede to you. Each State shall have its own criminal law, procedures and judges, in complete independence and sovereignty. …

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Mar

2026

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Child sexual abuse online: protect children, not perpetrators (topical debate)

10

Mar

2026

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Housing crisis in the European Union with the aim of proposing solutions for decent, sustainable and affordable housing (debate)

Madam President, having decent, sustainable and affordable housing throughout the European Union is the unmitigated challenge of a Commission that cannot help but take care of what does not concern it. So leave it to the Member States to manage their housing policy sovereignly. In France, housing accounts for 30% of constrained spending. The financialization of real estate has created a surge in p…

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Feb

2026

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Recommendation to the Council on EU priorities for the 70th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (debate)

11

Feb

2026

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International Day of Education, fighting inequalities in access to education (debate)

Madam President, on the occasion of the International Day of Education and the Fight against Inequalities in Access to Education, it is urgent to recall an obvious fact that is all too often forgotten: The school no longer fulfils its mission of social justice. In our cities, in France, as elsewhere in Europe, access to quality education is becoming a luxury. Discontinued classes, closed establish…

10

Feb

2026

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Presentation of the action plan against cyberbullying (debate)

10

Feb

2026

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Presentation of the action plan against cyberbullying (debate)

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Jan

2026

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Tackling AI deepfakes and sexual exploitation on social media by making full use of the EU’s digital rules (debate)

Madam President, deepfakes and online sexual exploitation are not mere abuses; These are crimes. A fake video can ruin a reputation, destroy families or push harassed teenage girls to suicide. As for sexual exploitation, it is the new drug of the cities and it pays better, while being a less risky trade. Platforms can no longer hide behind the excuse of neutrality when they monetize attention. The…

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Dec

2025

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European Democracy Shield – very large online platform algorithms, foreign interference and the spread of disinformation (debate)

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Dec

2025

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Mass kidnapping of children in Nigeria, including from St Mary's Catholic school in Papiri

Madam President, on Christmas Eve, I would like to express a wish for hope: peace for the 45% of Christians in Nigeria. Since the beginning of 2025, persecution has resulted in more than 7 000 deaths, or 35 deaths per day. Violence, child abductions, church fires, priests murdered in the middle of Mass, discrimination, land confiscations: everything has been getting worse for years. In December 20…

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Nov

2025

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Outcome of the UN Climate Change Conference - Belém (COP30) (debate)

Mr President, unsurprisingly, COP 30 in Belém was yet another disappointment, yet another demonstration that this kind of high mass is not the right tool to solve global climate problems. Too expensive, too polluting, too entangled in ideology, it must now be noted that the problems generated by globalization can never be solved by more globalization. Saving the environment means saving what surro…

26

Nov

2025

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Deforestation Regulation: certain obligations of operators and traders (vote)

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Nov

2025

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International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (debate)

Madam Speaker, while DJ Barbara Butch has managed to get her cyberbullyers heavily convicted, other victims of death threats or violence have their complaints left unaddressed or their victim status denigrated. Because yes, to violence against women is added this institutional and media violence that selects its victims according to their political etiquette or the supposed populism of the context…

12

Nov

2025

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Mr President, a stab in the back of our farmers: This is what Emmanuel Macron brought to COP30. While our farmers are struggling to make a living from their work, he is now rather in favour of the agreement between the European Union and Mercosur. In other words, it is ready to open the doors of our market wide to unfair competition from Brazil or Argentina, where environmental standards are non-e…

12

Nov

2025

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Gender Equality Strategy 2025 (debate)

Madam President, for too long the European institutions have been drifting towards a gender ideology, which denies natural gender differences, blurs benchmarks and threatens women's rights by suggesting that every man can be a woman. The European institutions claim to focus on people’s problems without ever providing real sustainable solutions – here it is a report on gender equality. However, the…

22

Oct

2025

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UN Climate Change Conference 2025 in Belém, Brazil (COP30) (debate)

Madam President, the COP 30 to be held in Belém, Brazil, in the heart of the Amazon is already shaping up to be a new high mass of climate hypocrisy. Thousands of politicians, NGOs and lobbyists will take a private jet to explain to people that they need to change their behaviour. Meanwhile, the major powers will continue to massively exploit their fossil resources. China will build coal-fired pow…

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Oct

2025

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The decision to impose a fine on Google: defending press and media freedom in the EU (debate)

Mr President, once again the European Commission is playing firefighters. And the title of this debate, I quote, 'Defending press and media freedom in the Union', is ironic, to say the least, when we see how it organises the massive surveillance of European digital technology. While Google is fined a record 2.95 billion euros for abuse of a dominant position, the true effects of which are still un…

7

Oct

2025

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Common agricultural policy (joint debate)

Mr President, the common agricultural policy under von der Leyen is: ever-increasing conditionalities, a punitive ecology and a reduction in agricultural budgets. To these constraints is added today a major danger: the trade agreement with Mercosur and the end of tariffs with Ukraine, which put our farms in violent competition with imported products that do not meet our environmental and social st…

6

Oct

2025

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Madam President, Emmanuel Macron and his unrealistic ideology have struck again. His government imposes absurd bans on the use of plastic containers, including reusable ones, in French canteens, while European law allows and strictly regulates them. Paris has chosen to further distill the poison of degrowth and environmental psychoses by over-transposing regulations to the detriment of French comp…

6

Oct

2025

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Intergenerational fairness in Europe on the occasion of the International Day of Older Persons (debate)

Madam Speaker, the elderly are by far the most likely to commit suicide. The older the age, the greater the risk. The suicide rate for those over 85 is twice that of the average population. While youth suicide legitimately challenges us, shocks us and immediately calls into question how we think about our policies and visions for the future, the suicides of the elderly are forgotten. So don't lie …