What Pierre spoke about.

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Mar

2024

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Guidelines for the 2025 Budget - Section III (debate)

Mr. Speaker, my friends, every week the financial markets break new records. In both Paris and Frankfurt, money is flowing. Last year, more than 100 billion was distributed to shareholders by the CAC 40 in France – 100 billion is 40% more in four years. But, in all our countries, citizens can no longer cope with soaring prices and cuts in public budgets. There is no money for farmers, no money for…

18

Oct

2023

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Islamist terrorist attack on French schools and the need to protect people and promote social cohesion (debate)

Mr President, my friends, Yitzhak Rabin was right: we must fight terrorists as if the peace process did not exist, but we must continue to build peace as if there were no terrorists. Yitzhak Rabin, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Armed Forces who became the Nobel Peace Prize, was right: We must act, act forcefully to fight terrorists, but we must continue to act so forcefully to build peace. Thirty …

12

Jul

2023

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India, the situation in Manipur

Madam President, my friends, in Manipur in north-eastern India, violence has left more than 120 people dead in the last two months. 120 dead. 1,700 houses were destroyed. 250 churches were destroyed. Not one or two churches, 250 churches were destroyed. And 40,000 people are displaced because they fled the violence to save their lives. This is absolutely dramatic and the Indian government is doing…

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Apr

2023

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Guidelines for the 2024 budget - Section III (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, millions of people in all our countries are suffering from soaring prices. There are bakers who put the key under the door. There are thousands of families who have to choose between heating up normally or eating normally. For many, the situation is really dramatic and there are companies that relocate to the United States because energy is cheaper there and bec…

14

Dec

2022

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Upscaling the 2021-2027 Multiannual Financial Framework (debate)

I go on to say: My friends, it is not necessary to have unanimity, it only takes enhanced cooperation to create the speculative tax, which would give 57 billion every year and allow us to avoid social chaos and climate chaos. So I do not know what is expected.…

14

Dec

2022

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Upscaling the 2021-2027 Multiannual Financial Framework (debate)

Madam President, dear friends, we are facing two crises that can have catastrophic consequences if our policies and budget, our MFF, are not up to par. The first crisis is the spike in prices linked to the war in Ukraine. Tonight, millions of citizens are going to be cold on their way home. Millions of our friends will be cold. Millions of women and men have to choose every day between heating the…

12

Dec

2022

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Outcome of COP27 (debate)

Madam President, dear friends, dear colleagues, when I arrived at the European Parliament today, I was outraged by the weight of the lobbies, who succeeded in corrupting some of our colleagues. Shame on them! However, when I left the climate summit, I was outraged by the weight of the oil lobbies, who obtained that there was not a word, not a line on the end of the new oil drilling. Frans Timmerma…

14

Sep

2022

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Violations of human rights in Uganda and Tanzania linked to the investments in fossil fuels projects

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, dear friends, dear Elisa Ferreira, this summer we went on the ground with Katalin, with Marie, with Malta. We spent nine days in Uganda and we saw and heard from people who witnessed gross human rights violations. I am still very upset about that. We have seen and heard from peasant families who have not been able to use their land normally for four years, bu…

24

Nov

2021

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Negotiations ahead of Parliament’s first reading (Rule 71) (action taken)

Mr President, good morning, ladies and gentlemen, good morning, Mr Vice-President of the European Commission. The European Parliament will approve today these two complementary budgets. Budget 5, which allows humanitarian aid for Syrian refugees living in Turkey, and Budget 6, which will buy 200 million doses of vaccine to help countries in the South fight the scourge of COVID. Parliament approves…

14

Sep

2021

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Brexit Adjustment Reserve - Draft amending budget No 1/2021: Brexit Adjustment Reserve (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, dear friends, the Committee on Budgets voted unanimously, with four abstentions, on the draft amending budget to effectively implement this post-Brexit adjustment reserve. This reservation, Pascal has just explained, will make it possible to help very concretely all our citizens and all small businesses that are affected by the consequences of Brex…