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Oct

2024

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Closing the EU skills gap: supporting people in the digital and green transitions to ensure inclusive growth and competitiveness in line with the Draghi report (debate)

Mr President, for the purposes of the ecological bifurcation, 25 million jobs are needed. But how many of these jobs will remain unfilled for lack of properly trained workers and decent working conditions? Let's take a key sector: that of construction. We all know here that there is an urgent need to renovate buildings, as this is a major social issue for our citizens, who are struggling to stay a…

8

Oct

2024

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The crisis facing the EU’s automotive industry, potential plant closures and the need to enhance competitiveness and maintain jobs in Europe (debate)

Madam President, European industrial policy is a fiasco. We are losing our strategic industries one after the other. After having lost our shipyards and our production of solar panels, it is the turn, today, of the automotive industry and its 13 million jobs. Why? Because the European Union is one of the most open markets in the world. As the U.S. and Canada decide to impose 100% on Chinese vehicl…

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Sep

2024

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State of the Energy union (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, with this report you are generally congratulating yourself on the European Union's action on energy. You should, I think, send it to our fellow citizens, to the millions of them who are still struggling to get warm in the winter, to the local authorities who have to sacrifice their local public services to pay their electricity bills, to the thousands of companies that …

23

Apr

2024

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Conclusions of the recent European Council meetings, in particular on a new European Competitiveness deal and the EU strategic agenda 2024-2029 (debate)

Madam President, Ursula von der Leyen, it is ironic to come here and talk about competitiveness and a strong Europe, without any self-criticism about the neoliberal policies that you have carried and that have led us to where we are. Where can the difficulties of our industries vis-à-vis China, India or the United States come from? Perhaps because you are imposing competition and the destruction o…

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Apr

2024

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Preventing plastic pellet losses to reduce microplastic pollution (debate)

Madam President, the battle of the century has begun. The fight against plastic pollution is probably one of the most important of our time. As plastic waste proliferates around the world in different forms, visible or invisible, we are only beginning to realise how dangerous it is for the environment and our health. The plastic is continuously fragmented and the particles become so fine that they…

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Apr

2024

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Internal markets for renewable gas, natural gas and hydrogen (recast) - Common rules for the internal markets for renewable gas, natural gas and hydrogen (recast) - Union’s electricity market design: Regulation - Union’s electricity market design: Directive (joint debate – Reform of the energy and electricity markets)

Mr President, electricity is an essential asset for almost all human activities. Yet you persist in wanting to leave it, and in considering it, as a vulgar commodity. Electricity is not intended to be managed by the market. Households, craftsmen, bakers, communities, businesses demand sufficient electricity at an affordable price. What do you offer them? The end of regulated tariffs, to the benefi…

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Mar

2024

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Inclusion of the right to abortion in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (debate)

Mr. Speaker, understand our demands and respect our rights. The project to enshrine the right to abortion in the European Charter of Fundamental Rights is a project commensurate with our collective intelligence, which carries with it fundamental values and which cannot wait any longer. A fundamental project, because it finally guarantees 250 million women in Europe the right to dispose of their bo…

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Mar

2024

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EU climate risk assessment, taking urgent action to improve security and resilience in Europe (debate)

Madam President, climate change has started, but Europe is not prepared to face increasing climate risks. Out of 36 major climate risks identified in Europe, 21 require intensified action and 8 require an emergency response. Fires, water shortages, ruined crops, floods, suffering at work as a result of the heat wave, etc. The list is long. If we do not act, we go beyond serious risks, not only to …

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Mar

2024

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Energy performance of buildings (recast) (debate)

Mr President, in France, 20% of households live in thermal sieves. Tackling this phenomenon is the best way to lower the bill and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Indeed, 40% of the country’s energy is used today for building needs. This is the first item of energy expenditure before transport. It is therefore an important ecological issue, but also a social requirement. In France, 3.5 million hou…

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2024

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Preventing work-related deaths following the Florence tragedy (debate)

Mr President, it has been two years to the day since Benjamin left for work and did not come back. It is also Flavien’s 29th birthday that he will never celebrate. Deaths at work, in Florence as everywhere in Europe, are not just numbers, they are not just names. They are lives broken forever, they are loved ones torn from their loved ones. And I tell you, I am deeply outraged that in 2024, the Eu…

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Feb

2024

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Order of business

Madam President, on Friday 16 February, in the morning, six construction workers lost their lives on a construction site in Florence following the collapse of a concrete structure. We extend our condolences to the family and loved ones of Bouzekri, Luigi, Mohamed, Taoufik and Mohamed. The youngest was 24 years old, the oldest 56 years old. They all lost their lives on February 16 at work. Unfortun…

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Feb

2024

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

Madam President, our message is clear: We do not want these new GMOs. I speak here on behalf of thousands of European citizens who write to us every day to express their anger and indignation at these new GMOs that they would consume without even being able to identify them. Everyone opposes it. Farmers are concerned about the introduction of these genetically modified products, the scientific com…

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Feb

2024

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State of EU solar industry in light of unfair competition (debate)

Madam President, the European photovoltaic panels industry is in agony. Yet, driven by renewable energy, the market for solar panels is booming. But who does it benefit? Obviously, not to our European factories, which close one after the other: in Germany, in the Netherlands... And soon it will be the turn of our last two French producers, whom I met recently. It’s simple, the European Solar Indus…

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Jan

2024

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Geothermal energy (debate)

Madam President, geothermal energy offers us clean energy, which is constantly available, at an unbeatable cost. Produced locally, it can create jobs locally and contribute fully to our energy sovereignty. It also makes it possible to open up territories that are now dependent for their energy needs, I am thinking in particular of the overseas territories. It was therefore time for the European Un…

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Nov

2023

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UN Climate Change Conference 2023 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (COP28) (debate)

Madam President, scientists are about to declare 2023 as the hottest year on record. Year after year, heat records are broken, surpassing the IPCC's worst forecasts. Behind the figures is the destruction of ecosystems with consequences that are still impossible to assess for nature and human beings. For the IPCC, another 0.1 degree of global warming means 100 million premature deaths. In the face …

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Oct

2023

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Protection of workers from asbestos (debate)

Mr President, defending workers in the European institutions is not always easy. However, there are sometimes fights that bring us together in our humanity. This is the case for the protection of workers from exposure to asbestos. Parliament, with the exception of a few far-right MEPs, was united behind an ambitious legislative reform, which will save many lives and compensate those hit hard by th…

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Oct

2023

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Rising precariousness in Europe including the need for aid to the most deprived (debate)

Mr President, there is a serious crime in our criminal code: that of non-assistance to a person in danger. This offence fulfils a moral duty: act in all circumstances so as not to abandon the most vulnerable. Such a duty does not yet exist in European law. Yet it carries an essential message: in a context where 50% of Europeans are deprived, they have not been able to increase heating when they we…

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Sep

2023

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Amendment of Regulations (EU) 2019/943 and (EU) 2019/942 as well as Directives (EU) 2018/2001 and (EU) 2019/944 to improve the Union’s electricity market design (A9-0255/2023 - Nicolás González Casares) (vote)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, electricity is an essential asset. It is probably one of the most interesting for Europeans. It would therefore be shocking if the European Parliament could not comment on such a fundamental issue, even though the energy price crisis is driving millions of households into precariousness, often depriving them of vital needs such as heating and lighting. A crisis …

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Sep

2023

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Ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe (debate)

Mr President, air pollution is almost 300 000 premature deaths per year in Europe. 97% of Europeans are exposed to air pollutants. The EU therefore has a responsibility to stem this silent epidemic with an ambitious legislative framework. This includes lower pollutant thresholds, the right to compensation for victims and swift and effective implementation by Member States. I say ‘fast and effectiv…

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Sep

2023

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Surface water and groundwater pollutants (debate)

Madam President, water is a vital resource for our survival. However, this resource is becoming scarcer and more and more contaminated by various toxic substances. More than 60% of the surface waters of the European Union are now polluted. And it has been more than a decade since the World Wildlife Fund denounced the non-implementation of protocols and regulations to measure water quality, which m…

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Jul

2023

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State of the SME Union (debate)

Madam President, SMEs represent 99% of businesses in the European Union. They employ more than 100 million people and have a major role in our society. They are exploited every day, out of sheer demagogy, by the right and the far right, who do nothing to protect them when the time comes. Because today, the main threat for European SMEs is their electricity bill. Tens of thousands of SMEs went bank…

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Jul

2023

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Ecodesign Regulation (debate)

Mr President, it is official, the land is no longer enough to sustain us. In two weeks, it will be the day of the overtaking. This date from which, each year, we have consumed all the resources that the Earth can renew in a year. A date that, every year, advances inexorably and reminds us that our resources are not inexhaustible. In this context, this Ecodesign Directive, which makes our products …

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May

2023

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Myanmar, notably the dissolution of democratic political parties

Madam President, two years after the coup in Myanmar, the bloody repression of the military junta continues and all dissent is stifled. Nearly 3,000 people were killed, 1.5 million people were displaced. 13,000 people are still being held in inhumane conditions. On the eve of the next elections, the junta decided to dissolve 40 political parties, including the NLD, and imprisoned several of its me…

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Apr

2023

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Keeping people healthy, water drinkable and soil liveable: getting rid of forever pollutants and strengthening EU chemical legislation now (topical debate)

Madam President, the water crisis is here. Shortages will multiply and create more tension. The world and our continent must prepare for this crisis, which affects both the quantity and quality of water available. Faced with this, Europe has been legislating for 20 years. The Framework Directive was to protect water, restore ecosystems and reduce pollution by 2015. Result: in 2023, well, half of t…

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2023

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Energy storage (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, we are going through a global energy crisis. The causes are multiple, but one thing is for sure: In order not to depend on imported fossil fuels and to stop global warming, we need much more renewable energy. This is obviously accompanied by an increase in our energy storage capacity, as renewables are by nature intermittent. They do not produce electricity when we need…