What Mathilde spoke about.

15 Dec

2022

FR Speech

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, 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…

13 Dec

2022

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ASEAN relations ahead of the EU-ASEAN summit in December 2022 (debate)

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Madam President, this commemorative EU-ASEAN summit is based on, I quote, 'common values and principles, effective multilateralism and free trade'. The European Union could have been satisfied with the last term, because in reality, its action is motivated only for and by the market – a market that, unfortunately, is caught in the savagery of free trade, destroying our industries and our agricultu…

12 Dec

2022

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A long-term vision for the EU's rural areas (debate)

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Madam President, for decades the European Union has been striving to establish and promote free trade and globalisation. For this, it has multiplied the free trade treaties, which have been constantly impoverishing our agriculture and breaking up our industry. The impoverishment of our campaigns, which have been abandoned in favour of the start-up nation, in the words of our French President, is a…

3 Oct

2022

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European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control - Serious cross-border threats to health (debate)

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Madam President, there is a certain irony in advocating for more and more of the European Union when, precisely, the European Union has proved that it is unfit to do better on certain subjects, in particular the COVID-19 and health crisis. Do not displease, in the context of the COVID-19 crisis, the most appropriate, quickest and most effective responses have been community-based solutions. To wan…

13 Sep

2022

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Consequences of drought, fire, and other extreme weather phenomena: increasing EU's efforts to fight climate change (debate)

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Mr President, the fires in Europe this summer have left their mark on consciences. The conclusion our ideologues have drawn from this is that we need to fight global warming. This term, which is ultimately too vague, is terrible. Terrible, because it relieves all actors of their responsibility. Because yes, there is political responsibility. Yes, we need to maintain an operational Canadair fleet a…

6 Jul

2022

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Taxing windfall profits of energy companies (debate)

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Mr President, in the resolution voted in May, which opened up the possibility of creating a new tax on windfall profits of energy companies, the aim was to combat rising prices and strengthen the European Union’s energy independence. The duration of this tax had to be limited in time and had to respond to a specific crisis. In the current context, this tax is necessary and must be applied. However…

4 May

2022

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Use of the Pegasus Software by EU Member States against individuals including MEPs and the violation of fundamental rights (topical debate)

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Mr President, the Pegasus case is a double humiliation for Europeans. First, it shows how easy it is for states to spy on the digital lives of thousands of individuals. Despite recurrent discourses on resilience against cyber-attacks or on strengthening the European cyber-surveillance framework, which remain only at the speech stage, whistleblowers, political leaders, journalists or big bosses see…

13 Dec

2021

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Combating gender-based violence: cyberviolence (continuation of debate)

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(start of off-micro intervention) ... racial violence, economic theft, sexual abuse is obviously systemic. Men's violence against women would therefore be born in school textbooks. Except for cankers, we will have to explain the violence of learning spelling or mathematics. To treat such a sensitive and increasingly present subject with crazy ideology is a real betrayal. Online violence is just th…

22 Nov

2021

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A pharmaceutical strategy for Europe (debate)

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Madam President, at the beginning of the COVID crisis, Europeans discovered with dismay that 80% of the active ingredients of our medicines were manufactured in China or India. We were accustomed on your part to the loss of industrial, technological or agricultural sovereignty. Here we live with violence the loss of pharmaceutical sovereignty, abandoning our health to foreign and distant powers, a…

10 Nov

2021

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The European Education Area: a shared holistic approach (debate)

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Mr President, this report is frightening because it is about the brains of the younger generations. Yes, education is paramount, which is why the school must remain a sanctuary and not the blank page of your delusions. Depressive disorders and suicide attempts among young people have exploded as a result of the health crisis. At the same time, our schools suffer all the ills of our societies: down…