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May

2025

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The European Water Resilience Strategy (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, the European Parliament is today proposing to the European Commission a strong ambition to ensure access to water for all, while respecting the environment and health. Congratulations and thank you to Thomas Bajada for this beautiful result! I want to stress two points: oceans and the quality of drinking water. We must all support the "from source to sea" approach. W…

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May

2025

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Discharge 2023 (joint debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, we have come out of six months of fake news and senseless and unfounded attacks on NGOs. This afternoon, with its votes, Parliament did them justice. NGOs are key players in democracy, supported by citizens and committed to them. On the ground, the role of NGOs is to defend and assert their positions. No one can challenge them for this role and especially not silence th…

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Apr

2025

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European oceans pact (debate)

Madam Member, to express your concerns about the pact, you have used the conditional. Your colleague, Mrme Jamet, meanwhile, said that the commissioner and the pact wanted to rule everything, homogenize everything. Can you give me, since you have to discuss it in your group, examples of the Commissioner's statements aimed at regenting and homogenising everything at European level in the maritime f…

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Apr

2025

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European oceans pact (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, does Europe want to fight climate change? Half of the oxygen breathed comes from the oceans, which is the main carbon sink. Does Europe want to secure its sovereignty? 90% of imports come from the sea. What about energy sovereignty? In 2050, 20% of Europe’s electricity will come from the sea. Does Europe want its food sovereignty? As such, fishing is essential. It is ti…

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Apr

2025

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EU Preparedness Union Strategy (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, I fully share your political priorities of preparing for all risks, mobilising all levels of government, mobilising society as a whole and creating a new common risk culture based on solidarity and cohesion. Many of us here have a strong demand for you: fostering citizen engagement and securing the status of volunteers, including firefighters, by addressing the issue…

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Mar

2025

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Re-attribution of scientific and technical tasks and improving cooperation among Union agencies in the area of chemicals (short presentation)

Madam President, Commissioner, this text, in addition to the two previous ones, is also a first step. It is clear that we are faced with a broader problem of strengthening cooperation between health security agencies at European level – and the legislative framework that was proposed did not go very far in this area; We've done everything we can. It is also a question of finding the right match be…

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2025

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Common data platform on chemicals, establishing a monitoring and outlook framework for chemicals (short presentation)

Madam President, Commissioner, I believe that with this report – and I thank Mr Tsiodras for the very good work that has been done collectively – we have taken two important steps: one that will allow us to have a complete database to carry out chemical risk assessment, and the other towards opening this database to data not only from industry, but also from national authorities, the world of rese…

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Mar

2025

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A Vision for Agriculture and Food (debate)

Dear colleague, I have a very simple question for you. You have rightly said that there is a need for a large budget for the common agricultural policy. I therefore wanted to ask you whether you and your group wanted a larger budget for the European Union and own resources for this budget, which would both continue and strengthen the common agricultural policy, maintain cohesion policy and finance…

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Mar

2025

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100 days of the new Commission – Delivering on defence, competitiveness, simplification and migration as our priorities (topical debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, today I want to call on the European right wing of the EPP. Of course, I welcome the work done by the Commission over the past 100 days, particularly on defence and on industry, but we did not vote to retain from the Draghi report only simplification, forgetting investment in common or in human skills. We did not vote to see ultra-liberal texts drafted without consultat…

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2025

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Presentation of the proposal on Critical Medicines Act (CMA) (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, it is five years after the COVID-19 crisis and, unfortunately, we would probably face the same situation if a new health crisis were to occur today, and the same shortcomings in access to medicines. We therefore need this text to protect Europeans and ensure access to medicines, both in times of crisis and in normal times: This is a matter of European sovereignty. We ne…

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Jan

2025

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EU financing through the LIFE programme of entities lobbying EU institutions and the need for transparency (debate)

Very simple question, hon. member: Do you think the goals of climate policy... it doesn't work?... Do you think that the objectives of EU climate policy were based on lobbying by environmental associations or on scientific data produced, in particular, in France, by the IPCC and many other organisations of scientists from universities? Thank you for answering this question.…

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2025

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EU financing through the LIFE programme of entities lobbying EU institutions and the need for transparency (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, there is no scandal in Europe over the management of European funds by environmental NGOs. The only scandal would be to stifle civil society and the diversity of its voices. Yes, the same rules must apply everywhere. But if you think that these associations and NGOs should not be financed by the funds of sectoral policies, then make direct funding to allow th…

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Jan

2025

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Failure of the negotiations in Busan for a UN plastic treaty and the urgent need to tackle plastic pollution at international and Union level (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, my request, together with the Socialist Group, to hold this debate is to mobilise the European Parliament in support of the Commission, to resume negotiations and obtain a binding treaty on plastics, to reduce their production and eliminate dangerous products. And I hope that these deserted benches, on the right and on the far right, are not a sign of disinterest in …

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Jan

2025

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Addressing EU demographic challenges: towards the implementation of the 2023 Demography Toolbox (debate)

Mr MEP, can you please give me the reference to Leon Blum’s words which argued for the superiority of the white race, since you mentioned it? And since you talk about civilization, can you tell me what was the skin color of the Egyptian pharaohs and what was their geographical origin?…

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Jan

2025

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Addressing EU demographic challenges: towards the implementation of the 2023 Demography Toolbox (debate)

Mr President, I will tell you: I am a little tired of this debate which is limited to blaming women and wanting to deprive them of their rights or to refer to the issue of migration. Why doesn't anyone here, other than socialists and environmentalists, want to talk about fertility? Why does the Council and the Commission refuse to talk about fertility? Quite simply because we are being concealed f…

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Dec

2024

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Restoring the EU’s competitive edge – the need for an impact assessment on the Green Deal policies (topical debate)

Mr President, Madam Vice-President of the Commission, since the extreme right is allergic to reality, I will remind her of this. There is not, there will not be economic competitiveness in countries hit by climate change, by the collapse of biodiversity, by new chronic diseases linked to pollution and dangerous products. IPBES has just pointed out that 50% of global GDP was based on nature, and al…

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Nov

2024

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Enhancing Europe’s civilian and defence preparedness and readiness (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, crisis preparedness is a matter for society as a whole. This is at the heart of the Niinistö report and I think it is extremely important. We first need social cohesion and citizen mobilization, and insisting on the involvement of associations, but also trade unions, on citizen engagement in civil protection and local solidarities is an essential element. I w…

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Nov

2024

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Signature of acts adopted in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure (Rule 81)

Madam President, my point of order is based on Rule 10(3) of our Rules of Procedure. On Wednesday, November 6, during the hearing of Mr. Costas Kadis, our colleague Mr. Droese placed in front of him, clearly for all the deputies and especially for the cameras, a red cap bearing the famous political slogan of Donald Trump. The US is our historical ally, but Donald Trump is not a friend of Europe. L…

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2024

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Protecting our oceans: persistent threats to marine protected areas in the EU and benefits for coastal communities (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, two weeks ago, together with my colleagues from the European Parliament Intergroup on Seas, Rivers, Islands and Coastal Areas, we hosted Ocean Week in Brussels, organised by NGOs. Here is what they told us: First, there is an urgent need to mobilize to restore the health of the oceans. Secondly, there is a need to enforce existing laws – which today are not enforced …

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Oct

2024

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Question Time with Commissioners – Situation of animal health in Europe: how to prevent and prepare for future sanitary crises in agriculture

Madam President, Commissioner, on 13 September I was at the General Assembly of the National Sheep Federation in Troyes, France. I shared the plight of farmers who see their animals dying by slowly choking as a result of bluetongue. I have seen the distress of a sector with a fragile economic balance that can die out due to lack of support. Yes, they are demanding free and widespread vaccines. Yes…

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Oct

2024

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One-minute speeches (Rule 179)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, on Thursday morning, I was in my hometown of Nantes, alongside the employees of General Electric, which is preparing to cut almost 400 jobs in its factory and research and development centre dedicated to the production of offshore wind turbines. More than a decade ago, when I was vice-president of my region, I worked to create this sector and showed citizens tha…

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2024

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The devastating floods in Central and Eastern Europe, the loss of lives and the EU’s preparedness to act on such disasters exacerbated by climate change (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, I too would like to offer my solidarity to the victims and to all the local structures, local authorities and volunteers who are at their side, to offer my greeting to the staff of the European Civil Protection Mechanism who organise European solidarity in the face of these crises, and to say, in the wake of Younous Omarjee, that yes, we need a sufficient solidarity …

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Sep

2024

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Outcome of the Strategic Dialogue on the Future of EU Agriculture (debate)

Mr President, yes, the time for change has come. This is the first principle put forward in this report. It is a good principle and it is a good report. But now we're gonna have to take it seriously. I say this to the Commission and to my EPP colleagues: it will be necessary to go to the end of each of the ideas that are proposed. Let me take an example: question the system of aid per hectare and …

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2024

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Resumption of the sitting

Madam President, the President of Parliament will receive a letter from the Committee on the Environment to refer the cocktail effects of pesticides to EFSA. This concerns a major public health issue, the co-formulant/active ingredient pair, but also low doses that, combined, have significant health effects. With the support of the S&D Group, I asked EFSA two things: a review of the scientific lit…

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2024

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Production and marketing of plant reproductive material - Production and marketing of forest reproductive material (joint debate - Plant and forest reproductive material)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, first of all, I would like to thank the rapporteur, my colleague Isabelle Carvalhais, Martin Häusling and the other Members who have done this excellent work in the AGRI Committee, which, as you recalled, makes it possible to have a success where, ten years ago, there was a failure. This success is linked in particular to the collective capacity to…