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Apr

2024

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Resumption of the sitting

Madam President, they want to impose on us here a reform of the common agricultural policy, without debate and without a vote. We want to get rid of the ecological aspect of the CAP, without debate and without a vote. This was the case with the delegated act on the reversal of permanent grassland proposed by the Commission and for which the Agriculture Committee voted an early non-objection. This …

7

Feb

2024

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Empowering farmers and rural communities - a dialogue towards sustainable and fairly rewarded EU agriculture (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, ecology is not the enemy of agriculture. The enemy of agriculture is liberalism, liberalism that leads to a decline in agricultural income. Income, income, income: This is what should be at the heart of our debates. For this, we will need another CAP, because aid per hectare and the sale of products on unregulated and unpredictable markets do not work. But ri…

6

Feb

2024

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State of play of the implementation of the Global Gateway and its governance two years after its launch (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the Global Gateway strategy is an ambitious initiative to support the development of the Global South, which is to be welcomed. However, it is not so simple to understand what underpins it from a strategic point of view. Is it about competing with the Silk Roads? Taking positions in critical resources or infrastructure? To accompany a geopolitical …

6

Feb

2024

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

Thank you, Mr Dorfmann, for talking about wine, and that was my question. Can you tell me how the new GMO-NTGs will affect the wine sector? If you have a Chardonnay NGT, will a great Chardonnay-based wine still be a Chardonnay? Or will the specification for the geographical designation have to be redrafted?…

6

Feb

2024

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

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I am in favour of innovation and NGT legislation. New genomic techniques are certainly useful, but I refuse to play the apprentice sorcerer and to take away all freedom of choice from consumers and peasants. In the debates on this text, we have made progress on some points: for example, on the non-patentability of these new GMOs, which the rapporteurs have not d…

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Feb

2024

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Mr President, a fraud, a lie, a failure. I would like to refer here in this Chamber to the situation of Nestlé Waters, which for years has concealed the use of prohibited methods for its mineral waters. This company filtered and purified its mineral waters like a vulgar tap water, but selling it a hundred times more expensive. The French government covered up this scam and was preparing to legalis…

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Jan

2024

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, on 29 November the European Commission reauthorised glyphosate. This decision was taken by the Commission on the basis of an incomplete risk assessment and incomplete information. It did so on its own because the Council was unable to take a decision, and it did so without complying with European case-law, the Blaise judgment, which states that a full assessment…

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Nov

2023

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Sustainable use of plant protection products (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the general debate on pesticides is interesting, but the practical debate on glyphosate is even more interesting. As a new Member of Parliament, I have been very surprised in recent weeks to see that the Commission’s proposal never changes. You have never taken into account the positions of Member States, the positions of parliamentarians and th…

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Oct

2023

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A true geopolitical Europe now (topical debate)

Madam President, Mr High Representative, ladies and gentlemen, have we made a cross on 1.5 billion women and men, who will soon be almost twice as many? Have we decided to remove an entire continent from our horizon? When we talk about a geopolitical Europe, we should look to the future and face the obvious: Africa, Africa, Africa. Everything brings us closer to this continent, and our destinies a…

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Oct

2023

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The proposed extension of glyphosate in the EU (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, we cannot condemn Europe to ten years of glyphosate, ten years when there are so many uncertainties! Ten years when there are so many dangers! Ten years as science advances every day and brings new information! There is a double failure in this case. A failure of the risk assessment. Because EFSA did not give a red light, it did not give a green li…

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Sep

2023

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Towards a more disaster-resilient EU - protecting people from extreme heatwaves, floods and forest fires (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, I would like to begin by welcoming all those who have fought in Europe in the face of disasters and by welcoming the European Mechanism's response to crises. But the reality, as you said, Commissioner, is that you lack the means to deal with crises. The reality is that we do not know the vulnerabilities in Europe. The JRC is developing a tool – the vulnerability index –…

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Jul

2023

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Delivering on the Green Deal: risk of compromising the EU path to the green transition and its international commitments (debate)

Madam President, dear Frans Timmermans, thanks to this morning's vote, the Green Deal is moving forward and that is good news. Now we need an agricultural Green Deal. The current blocking situation cannot continue. This morning, the whole agricultural part of the law was pushed back and that is not good news. The agricultural world must no longer delay change, but commit itself fully to it, becaus…

11

Jul

2023

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Nature restoration (debate)

Mr Kuźmiuk, when you are heard, it is never the right proposal, it is never the right time. You always have to wait. You always have to go slower. You always have to do less. You just have to trust farmers and what's already started, as if everything is going well. So I have a simple question for you: When will it be the right time to act more strongly? Will this be the time when it's too late?…

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Jun

2023

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Implementation and delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals (debate)

Madam President, after the COVID-19 crisis, health must once again become a priority at the heart of the Sustainable Development Goals. What will be the next epidemic, and therefore the next crisis? We do not know, but to believe that there will be none would be a serious mistake. Since epidemics come from outside, it is in Europe’s interest to mobilise for rapid progress in health around the worl…