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Mar

2024

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Deterioration of living conditions in the EU (debate)

Madam President, while energy prices have packed into an inadequate European market, while our economies are suffering from the indebtedness of the COVID-19 crisis, more than one in five Europeans is at risk of poverty or social exclusion, according to Eurostat. And France is a bad student. Unsurprisingly, the survey shows that inflation is the first concern of the French. This is followed by inse…

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Mar

2024

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Rising anti-LGBTIQ rhetoric and violence: recent attacks in Thessaloniki (debate)

Mr President, last Saturday, a trans couple was hunted down by a violent mob in Thessaloniki. Whether or not you are a transgender person, it is urgent to remember that no one in Europe should have their integrity threatened because of their opinions, religion or way of life. Logically aligned with this principle of respect for human beings, the initiators of this debate will condemn, I am sure, w…

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2024

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Regaining our competitive edge - a prosperous EU in a fragmented global economy (topical debate)

Mr President, strengthen the economic prosperity of the European Union and regain the advantage of international competition. This is a great ambition, which is none other than the Coué method, Mr Breton! How can you talk about prosperity in a continent that you have already deindustrialised for decades, which sees a level of business failures at the highest level since 2008, which increases free …

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2024

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Recent revelations of spying on Members of the European Parliament and the lack of follow up on the PEGA committee recommendations (debate)

Mr President, as a diplomatic weapon, in addition to being a cyber weapon with devastating effects, the Pegasus software continues to crack down by spying on the devices of some of our colleagues here. Beyond the obvious impediment to respect for privacy, this must lead us to question the passivity with which the European Union approaches the subject of cybersecurity and, more broadly, that of dig…

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Feb

2024

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Recent attacks on Christmas Eve in Plateau State in Nigeria

Mr President, on Christmas night, while millions of Christians around the world celebrated the birth of a child more than two thousand years ago, another 200 Christians died of this simple adoration. Around the crèche, the ultimate joy of the arrival of life, 200 Nigerians from Plateau State were massacred in the most terrible way. The cause of these killings is not explained, as some have argued,…

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Feb

2024

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Need to fight the increase of antisemitism and anti-Muslim hatred (debate)

Mr Lagodinsky, I am not a spokesperson for the AfD, I do not know at all whether they were executives or representatives. In the present case, I dare to hope that, if that were the case, they would indeed be ousted and removed from their manu militari party.…

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Feb

2024

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Need to fight the increase of antisemitism and anti-Muslim hatred (debate)

Madam President, the European Parliament likes variable geometry indignation. It calls for a necessary fight against anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim hatred, but forgets the first victims in the world because of their faith, namely Christians. We are still waiting for a coordinator responsible for this, as you have called the one against antisemitism and Islamophobia. The European Parliament also lik…

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Feb

2024

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EU2040 climate target (debate)

Mr President, like fakirs, our European Commissioners are marching on the fire of our broken up industries and crushed agriculture. Far from worrying about it, they even advocate a net 90% reduction in our greenhouse gases by 2040. Ten countries, including France, have followed Denmark's lead on this goal. Are you only aware that you are announcing a return to the Middle Ages? How can this be achi…

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2024

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Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed (debate)

Madam President, we are once again caught in this unhealthy vice that is killing our agriculture. On the other hand, we have the apostles of decay, who magnify the Stone Age without taking into account the fact that their ideas kill agronomic science like our farmers in the name of an infallible Mother Nature, totally fantasized. On the other hand, we have the gurus of the wild economy, for whom s…

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Dec

2023

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Jurisdiction, applicable law, recognition of decisions and acceptance of authentic instruments in matters of parenthood and creation of a European Certificate of Parenthood (debate)

No, that is not my point at all. In the present case, there is no cancellation of contracts drawn up in certain countries. Except that, we are not going to lie, this text just serves to provoke an attack, an offensive, against countries that have freely and sovereignly chosen not to recognize certain unions and especially not to help and "sponsor" the system of surrogacy, which is the case with th…

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Dec

2023

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Jurisdiction, applicable law, recognition of decisions and acceptance of authentic instruments in matters of parenthood and creation of a European Certificate of Parenthood (debate)

Mr President, as there is no area that the European Union does not want to escape from its totalitarian impulses, we are now dealing with the European Certificate of Parenthood. Moreover, these awful terms give the impression that being a parent depends more on administrative compliance than on nature itself. Using the same arguments of apparent benevolence and practicality, each State will have t…

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Dec

2023

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European Health Data Space (debate)

Madam President, after imposing the digital certificate of vaccination against COVID-19, the European Union is back by the big door to interfere in the sovereign competences of states – health, in this case. The European Health Data Space marks Brussels’ growing desire to establish itself as a superstate vis-à-vis European nations. Do we really want the European Union to look after the health of E…

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Nov

2023

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International day for the elimination of violence against women (debate)

Mr President, on 4 August 2023, in Cherbourg, Oumar N., who had already been convicted of sexual violence, including one on his 12-year-old sister, entered Mégane’s house to beat and rape her with a broomstick. Perforation of the colon, small intestine, peritoneum, diaphragm, pneumothorax, fractures at the ribs and high risk of septic shock. The abuse was such that the caregivers were shocked and …

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Nov

2023

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Sustainable use of plant protection products (debate)

Madam President, hell is paved with good intentions, and so is this regulation. While the objective of reducing pesticides is laudable, the fact remains that achieving it poses significant scientific and social challenges. Noting the failure of a previous directive, the European Commissioners set constraints by proposing a regulation to reduce pesticides by 50% by 2030. These numbers came out of n…

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Oct

2023

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European protein strategy (debate)

Mr President, it is gratifying that the European Union is deciding on a strategy to protect our protein supplies. Finally, relocation is in the spotlight! Let us hope that European policies will bend to this new situation, namely: stop multiplying free trade treaties with the whole planet, which overwhelm us with lower quality and low cost agricultural products and suffocate our agriculture. Or al…

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Oct

2023

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Objection pursuant to Rule 111(3): Additional technical screening criteria (B9-0431/2023) (vote)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we are all aware of the financial impact of the energy transition on the key sectors of our European industries. The transport industry is undoubtedly the sector that is being asked to do the most to reduce carbon emissions today. Despite a clear desire to develop alternative energies, the European Commission's delegated act on the taxonomy for the financing of …

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2023

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

Mr President, in a world where fresh water accounts for only 3% of the world stock, where the least optimistic forecasts estimate that the flow of rivers in the Paris region or in the French South-West, for example, could fall by 50%, it is becoming necessary to worry about this essential element for all life on Earth. As such, Europe, in its entirety, must recognise the universal nature of water …

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Sep

2023

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Combating the normalisation of far-right and far-left discourses including antisemitism (debate)

Madam President, if, according to Talleyrand’s famous reflection, ‘everything that is excessive is insignificant’, the fact remains that we must rightly be concerned about the rise of extremist propaganda speeches that threaten the stability and civil peace of our European democracies. But once again, the target must not be mistaken and the EU institutions would be well advised not to play firefig…

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Jul

2023

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Protection of workers from extreme heat and other extreme weather phenomena resulting from the climate crisis (debate)

Madam President, the European Union has a strange tendency to deplore the situations to which it contributes through its policies. We are worried today about the extreme temperatures that workers experience, but less than 24 hours ago, the European Union signed a free trade agreement with New Zealand, an agreement that is expected to lead to a 30% increase in trade with one of the most distant cou…

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2023

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Surrogacy in the EU - risks of exploitation and commercialisation (topical debate)

Madam President, Article 4 of the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings states that trafficking in persons ‘means the recruitment, transport, transfer, accommodation or reception of persons, by threat or use of force’ or any other coercion such as abduction, abuse of a situation of vulnerability or by offering or accepting payments or benefits. Exploitation inc…

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Apr

2023

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Deforestation Regulation (debate)

Mr President, between palm oil, soybeans and beef, EU imports account for 16% of global trade-related deforestation. The result? We are the second responsible for the destruction of tropical forests in the world. To give an image, the area of soybean crops affected by these imports reaches the area of France, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands combined. The deforestation regulation that you are …

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2023

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Women activism – human rights defenders related to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) (debate)

In this case, death threats are made against people who speak like me. In the present case, today, J.K. Rowling and Dora Moutot. Yes, death threats, ma'am. So we may not be going to reverse the accusatory burden, because in this case, the people who are threatened are just those who say that a woman is a woman and a man is a man.…

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2023

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Women activism – human rights defenders related to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) (debate)

Madam President, this quote from Simone de Beauvoir, 'We are not born a woman, we become one', has long guided feminist activism. However, it is a decoy that breaks out in the open of violence against women who refuse to be monkeyed or denied. For the reality is this: you are a woman and you assume it or not. Feminist militancy is plagued by the smoky concept of convergence of struggles. This idea…

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Jan

2023

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Shipments of waste (debate)

Mr President, this text symbolically marks the end of globalisation, which is supposed to be happy, but which in reality has only compartmentalised the world into zones: industrial production areas, consumption areas, service areas and trash areas. Asia, legitimately asking for more respect and respect, has returned European and American waste, making it necessary to review our economic and ecolog…

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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)

Madam President, the protection of all minorities, whether ethnic, national, religious or linguistic, is fundamental. I note, however, that there are more majority minorities than others on the media-political agenda. This prioritization is unacceptable. There is a lot of talk about Uighurs or Rohingyas, rightly so; But why, then, do we systematically ignore the Christian minorities, whose members…