What Aurore spoke about.

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May

2023

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Impact of the interest rate increase decided by the ECB on households and workers (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, Minister, sometimes you cannot fight inflation with an interest rate, and you have to accept it. The rise in the interest rate today must be questioned for at least three reasons. First, because we do not fight with an interest rate against imported inflation and energy inflation. Second, because today inflation is driven by superprofits, greed, greed: it is the infl…

9

May

2023

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Revision of the Stability and Growth Pact (debate)

Mr President, Mr Vice-President, Minister, I believe that we are all welcoming the easing of fiscal rules. This is indeed welcome. This is a first step in the right direction. Now it is up to us to improve it. The blind spot of this reform, and indeed of the debate we are having today, is the issue of revenue. Finally, we are still talking about the question of expenditure, the question of rules. …

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May

2023

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Impact on the 2024 EU budget of increasing European Union Recovery Instrument borrowing costs - Own resources: a new start for EU finances, a new start for Europe (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I wondered what yet another rational argument I could use to justify the need for a budget at European level. Would I quote again from the Financial Times, the IMF, or say that we should help the European Central Bank? And in this week so special for Europe, I confess that I thought of my resistant, communist, pro-European grandfather who, if he we…

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Apr

2023

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Digital euro (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, I am still interested in the answer to the question I asked you in the previous debate about Mrs Lagarde and Mr Panetta. On the digital euro, I think the question we need to ask ourselves is: Why do we do it? For what purpose? And I think that’s a little bit of a problem, in fact, because, of course, we’re talking about sovereignty, but I think we wanted to take the dig…

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Apr

2023

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Markets in Crypto-assets (MiCa) - Information accompanying transfers of funds and certain crypto-assets (recast) (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, thanks to MiCA and TFR, crypto players will be able to start applying basic rules of traditional finance, crazy tricks such as asking for identities, having insurance, not resorting to market manipulation or insider trading. That’s good. It is better than nothing. Is that enough? No, no. The European Central Bank, through the voices of Christine…

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Feb

2023

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European Central Bank - annual report 2022 (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, Madam President Lagarde, dear rapporteur, congratulations on the work you have done! Ms Schnabel of the Executive Board of the ECB said in January 2023: "We need a better understanding of how climate change will affect the financial sector, and vice versa; for this, the development of high-quality data will be key". My question is simple: Really? Do we have time to w…

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Jan

2023

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Rules to prevent the misuse of shell entities for tax purposes (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, tax avoidance is an industry. His homeland is tax havens. His people are the plutocrats, the oligarchs, those who already have everything, probably too much, even, but who always want more, or rather who do not want to share and who do not feel indebted to anything. Its weapon is the shell companies, these fictitious companies that make it possible…

14

Dec

2022

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Defending the European Union against the abuse of national vetoes (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I do not know whether you are familiar with this film with Bill Murray, which often passes through this Christmas period and is called An Endless Day or Marmot Day, where a character lives and lives on the same day, over and over again. I have to admit that when we have a debate on the veto and unanimity, that is a bit what I feel. I have the impression that we …

14

Dec

2022

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Tackle the cost of living crisis: increase pay, tax profits, stop speculation (topical debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, 2.4%: According to the International Labour Organisation, real wages in Europe fell in the first half of 2022. Behind this figure, there are lives, thousands of families, and obviously it is the poorest and most precarious who, from a social and environmental point of view, are the most affected. That is the reality. In all logic, we should recommend raising wages, b…

14

Dec

2022

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EU response to the US Inflation Reduction Act (debate)

Madam President, Executive Vice-President, it took only three glasses to shake Europe:  IRA [Inflation Reduction Act]. Three letters so that our continent loses its bearings; three letters for the European Green Deal Continent, as a first step, to condemn the ambitious green transition plan of one of the most polluting economies in the world; three letters for Europe to panic, panic and whine, eve…

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Nov

2022

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System of own resources of the European Union (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, in recent years we have seen a number of taboo words re-emerge in the political and industrial debate: gas exit, welfare state, taxation. And I would like to rehabilitate, once and for all together, another word, that of fiscal policy and that of policy mix. In economics, we do not have fifteen possible policies, we have two: monetary and fiscal po…

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Oct

2022

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Commission proposal for measures under the Rule of Law Conditionality Regulation in the case of Hungary (debate)

Madam President, on 8 October 2021, a landmark global agreement was signed on the minimum taxation of multinationals by more than 130 countries, including the Polish and Hungarian governments. It would bring in more than €50 billion a year, which we would need right now. The Commission is now proposing a directive. There are negotiations, some countries – Malta, Ireland – are blocking, we are lift…

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Oct

2022

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Impact of new technologies on taxation: crypto and blockchain (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I believe that we cannot pretend that nothing has happened this summer either. So we're gonna refresh our memory together. Three Arrow Capital, a fund specialising in crypto-assets, a $650 million bankruptcy, debts of $3.5 billion. The Platform Celsius, which promised returns of up to 18% without any guarantee of users’ deposits, which they clai…

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Sep

2022

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EU response to the increase in energy prices in Europe (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, Minister, winter is going to be long, winter is going to be hard. Europeans may have to choose between food and heating. Protections will probably be stopped. We are facing a real social bomb and a real bomb, in fine, democratic. To help Europeans in this crisis, we will have to find money. There is, as we know, money. It is unevenly distributed, as we also know. The…

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Jul

2022

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Taxing windfall profits of energy companies (debate)

Mr President, good morning to all of you. More than 100%: The profits of energy companies explode to nausea. If things were otherwise going well or if these profits were the result of revolutionary innovations, we would be delighted. But it is the result, not of a market economy, as Markus Ferber has just said, but of an annuity. These profits are now being made on the backs of ecology, citizens s…

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Jun

2022

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National vetoes to undermine the global tax deal (debate)

Mr President, let us summarize the situation. The reality of the situation is that the Hungarian government and the Polish government refuse to put in place at European level an agreement that they have accepted at international level and that would save us from losing EUR 50-60 billion a year. Why? Because of unanimity. But why, especially? because we are weak. Because we accept their game. Becau…

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Jun

2022

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The call for a Convention for the revision of the Treaties (debate)

Mr President, Minister, I am delighted that you are here. We have heard your little sting against my colleague Manon Aubry, and I do not think that NUPES, even if it is obsessing your government at the moment, is responsible for train delays either. You are not accused of being late; Do not blame my colleague Manon Aubry for waiting an hour and being forced to leave. I will now begin my speech. Si…

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May

2022

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Minimum level of taxation for multinational groups (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I think a state’s ears have been particularly hissing this evening. To sum up: Europe is often blamed for being slow, doing nothing in the tax field and not doing much in the social field. But here we have a European Commission that has reacted extremely quickly - there is something to be proud of - and has done something strong in the field of …

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May

2022

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Minimum level of taxation for multinational groups (debate)

Madam President, Commission representative, ladies and gentlemen, first of all I would like to thank my co-rapporteurs, Luděk Niedermayer for the EPP, Gilles Boyer for Renew, Claude Gruffat for the Greens and José Gusmão for The Left, but also Eugen Jurzyca for the ECR. I do not thank the ID Group, because it was not present during the negotiations, as too often. I would like to thank you for thes…

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Apr

2022

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Urgent need to adopt the minimum tax directive (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, there is no doubt that taxation was probably the biggest failure in European integration. And to make matters worse, this failure took place in a global context of at least so-called fiscal race. We finally decided to whistle the end of recess. This started, as has been said, with the OECD agreement on minimum taxation of multinationals, signed …

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Mar

2022

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Update from the Commission and Council on the state of play of the Energy Charter Treaty modernisation exercise (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, Minister, ladies and gentlemen, I must tell you that for people like me who have been calling for an end to fossil fuels and our dependence on gas for years, the debate we have had since this morning should make me happy, and I will not lie to you, there is a certain bitterness in me, because it took a war for us to realize the geopolitical and environmental damage of o…

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Mar

2022

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European Withholding Tax framewor (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, when we hear about a report on withholding tax, it may seem at first sight anecdotal, a bit technical, at least not political, especially when we look at the scale of what needs to be done in the area of tax havens. And then we listen to Pedro Marques, we read his report, we realize and we understand. He reminds us on this occasion – and we remembe…

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Mar

2022

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Fair and simple taxation supporting the recovery strategy (continuation of debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, this report is based on a relentless observation: the tax impact, I quote, has shifted from wealth to income, from capital to labour income and consumption, from multinational enterprises to SMEs, from the financial sector to the real economy, with the tax burden shifting from the most mobile to the least mobile taxpayers. He lists proposals to rev…

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2022

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European Semester for economic policy coordination: annual sustainable growth survey 2022 – European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social aspects in the annual sustainable growth strategy survey 2022 (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, first of all, congratulations to the rapporteur, Ms Irene Tinagli, for unblocking this file, because we are going to need coordination of economic and budgetary policies more than ever. But not just any of them. The pandemic has painfully reminded us that, more than reducing debt and public deficits, it is important to have a pharmaceutical and textile indust…

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Feb

2022

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European Central Bank – annual report 2021 (continuation of debate)

Madam President, Madam President, Commissioner, there is what the Central Bank can do, what it cannot do and what it must do. It cannot – I think we all agree – combat short-term inflation linked to energy prices, or deflation for that matter, with an interest rate. Instead, it has to manage spreads, spreads, given that we do not have debt pooling, and that is, in fact, its real mandate today. On …