What Ilana spoke about.

27

Feb

2024

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Amendments to Protocol No 3 on the Statute of the Court of Justice (A9-0278/2023 - Ilana Cicurel) (vote)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the Statute of the Court of Justice of the European Union is not being reformed every day. This reform concerns one of its essential tasks, that of interpreting the texts that we are voting on in this Chamber, when it is referred to it by judges in the Member States, the so-called reference for a preliminary ruling. The time taken by the Court to rule on these i…

26

Feb

2024

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Protection of the environment through criminal law (short presentation)

Mr President, Commissioner Breton, ladies and gentlemen, forest fires, oil spills, illegal deforestation: environmental crime is one of the most lucrative criminal activities in the world. This ever-growing crime is led by very inventive actors, who have so far managed to distance our legislation. The scale of the damage it causes, which often goes beyond borders, required a European response. Thi…

16

Jan

2024

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Transparency and accountability of non-governmental organisations funded from the EU budget (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, is it necessary to strengthen control over the funds distributed by the Commission? Should respect for our core values be a criterion for the allocation of EU funds? Yes, it is self-evident and yet it is not always a reality. Our citizens, and they are right, are asking for more transparency and traceability of funds. Recently, in July 2023, the Co…

12

Dec

2023

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Need to release all hostages, to achieve a humanitarian ceasefire and prospect of the two-state solution (debate)

Thank you, madam, for that question. The same work that has been done on Palestinian textbooks has also been done by independent bodies on Israeli textbooks. The result was not the same. But, of course, we must work on both sides. Of course there is room for improvement, but the examples I have given you, which are some of many examples, are not isolated textbooks. This is the Palestinian national…

12

Dec

2023

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Need to release all hostages, to achieve a humanitarian ceasefire and prospect of the two-state solution (debate)

Mr President, as Europeans, we have a promise. We were able to build peace between enemy nations after using the violence necessary to defeat Nazism. Tomorrow, this goal of coexistence must become the horizon of Israelis and Palestinians. But this will only be possible if the atrocities that Hamas is preparing, filled with destructive and obsessive hatred, are brought to an end. Beyond diplomacy, …

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, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, shortly before being assassinated by an Islamist terrorist, Dominique Bernard, a French teacher, confided to one of his colleagues, whom he found increasingly difficult to convey. Transmitting was his raison d’être, his passion: to convey the taste of the beautiful, of the great texts, to transmit the ability to think for oneself. To remain faithfu…

12

Sep

2023

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System of European Schools – state of play, challenges and perspectives (A9-0205/2023 - Ilana Cicurel) (vote)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, what if we finally talked about more education in this Chamber? How can we fail to see that the educational divides that our societies suffer are at the heart of the political crises that many of our countries are going through? We voted collectively and overwhelmingly to call for the establishment of a European Education Area to make Europe an educational po…

13

Jul

2023

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10th anniversary of the EU Guidelines on Freedom of Religion or Belief (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to start by quoting a brilliant political scientist who left us prematurely just over a year ago, Laurent Bouvet. In religious matters, he wrote, the neutrality of the state serves to protect us as citizens of the state itself, of course, but it also serves and inseparably serves to protect each of us from our co-religionists, where appropriate, or …

10

Jul

2023

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Fostering and adapting vocational training as a tool for employees' success and a building block for the EU economy in the new industry 4.0 (short presentation)

Madam President, making the professional path a path of excellence is a fight that I carry in my country, France, as well as in this Parliament. The career path must cease to be a default path and become a chosen path because it leads to employment and personal fulfilment. I would like to stress one of the components of valuing the professional route: European mobility. Commissioner, you have anno…

10

Jul

2023

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Protection of journalists and human rights defenders from manifestly unfounded or abusive court proceedings (debate)

Mr President, SLAPP! This sounds like a slap in the face and is what we call the ‘strategic lawsuit against public participation’, these SLAPPs, these practices of judicial harassment against journalists, whistleblowers and academics who are fiercely pursued by those who want to silence any criticism of them. This phenomenon is massive enough in Europe that a directive is about to be voted on, ins…

9

May

2023

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Start of the European Year of skills (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, dear Nicolas Schmit, ladies and gentlemen, as we speak, a proposal for a law on the mobility of alternators for an Erasmus apprenticeship is being discussed in the National Assembly in Paris. This date was of course not chosen at random. Today, on Europe Day, we celebrate the launch of the European Year of Skills and that is what brings us together in this Chamber. E…

9

May

2023

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Discharge 2021 (continuation of debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, a good Europe Day for everyone. First of all, I wanted to reiterate the deep commitment of my group, Renew Europe, to the Commission's funding of non-governmental organisations. If we are so committed to this funding, it is because, as you know, we are very committed to the Conference on the Future of Europe, which must become a new way of writing European po…

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Apr

2023

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The risk of death penalty and execution of singer Yahaya Sharif Aminu for blasphemy in Nigeria

Madam President, I would like to recall the memory of Deborah Yakubu, a 21-year-old Nigerian Christian student who was beaten to death last year after sharing on the networks a message deemed offensive to the Prophet Muhammad. As I speak, the fate of Yahaya Aminu Sharif has not yet been sealed. The 25-year-old artist, currently detained in a Nigerian prison, was sentenced to death by an Islamic co…

18

Apr

2023

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Question Time (Commission) - Legacy of the European Year of Youth

Commissioner, for this Year of Youth to be a success, its effects must be lasting. I would like to stress the need for a ‘youth test’ that would apply to all European policies. This is a strong expectation of our youth, who are very strongly represented in this Chamber and whom I welcome. It would probably be the best of legacies. Then let me share some good news with you. Mentoring has just been …

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Mar

2023

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Deterioration of democracy in Israel and consequences on the occupied territories (debate)

Mr President, I have often recalled in this Chamber the need to preserve the complexity of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, fought the iniquitous idea of talking about apartheid in a country where many Arab citizens are doctors, professors, police officers, deputies, judges, including at the Supreme Court. Today, in the face of the attempt to bring the judicial system into line, I want to address…

13

Dec

2022

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Prospects for the two-State solution for Israel and Palestine (debate)

Mr President, in order to be a credible mediator in the Middle East, our Union must acknowledge the complexity of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and be a guarantor of a far-sighted vision, far from Manichaeism. Our determination must be guided by our determination to be useful in resolving this tragic conflict and faithful to defending our democratic values. At a time when we are collectively fa…

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May

2022

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Establishing the European Education Area by 2025 – micro credentials, individual learning accounts and learning for a sustainable environment (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, in the wake of this pandemic and the potentially devastating effects of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine on our economies, we have never been more aware of the urgent need to invest in human capital, i.e. skills. I therefore welcome the Commission's proposals for the introduction of individual training accounts, inspired by the French system, an…

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Apr

2022

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Implementation of citizenship education actions (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, and in particular dear Domènec Ruiz Devesa, with whom I had great pleasure working – congratulations on your excellent work – and I also welcome the entire team of shadow rapporteurs. Kamran is Professor of History and Geography in Moscow. He's 28. Last week, he had to resign because he refused to relay to his students the official speech of the Pu…

16

Feb

2022

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One youth, one Europe (topical debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, Minister, ladies and gentlemen, I have come to tell you about the most ethical and profitable investment: This is education. I am not saying this, it was the Nobel Prize in Economics, Joseph Stiglitz, who honoured us with his presence at the interministerial conference held yesterday by the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union. Yes, education is a stra…

10

Nov

2021

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

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, a year ago in this Chamber, President Sassoli paid tribute to French Professor Samuel Paty, who was beheaded by an Islamist terrorist for teaching his students freedom of expression. It was the mourning of all European citizens gathered around the figure of a teacher embodying what we have most precious: the transmission of knowledge and the abilit…