What Anne spoke about.

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Sep

2022

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Economic, social and territorial cohesion in the EU: the 8th Cohesion Report - EU border regions: living labs of European integration (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, I too would like to welcome this report, which takes up all the opportunities in the border regions, but also shows the difficulties. Living myself in Alsace, in the Far East, in territories deeply bordered, I would like to testify to the difficulties – in particular the congestion on the roads – that cross-border workers face every day, with its share of negative effec…

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Sep

2022

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Adequate minimum wages in the European Union (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, with this directive, the European Parliament is definitively taking a further step towards a more social, fairer and more united Europe. While respecting the legal traditions of each Member State, this text, which we will adopt tomorrow, will establish a common framework for upward social convergence. At a time when workers are fully affected by in…

12

Sep

2022

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New EU Forest Strategy for 2030 – Sustainable Forest Management in Europe (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, our forests have been terribly devastated this summer by drought and fire, with terrible consequences for our territories. Because from an environmental point of view, let us remember that our forests are home to biodiversity, that they store carbon. But they also offer important bioeconomy and bioenergy solutions, enhancing our forestry resources. Valuing these resourc…

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Jul

2022

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Recent heat wave and drought in the EU (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, drought has become recurrent over the years and raises two key issues. The first is the issue of water management in our territories and the need to reconcile all uses of this vital resource for human consumption, but also for crops, livestock, industry and energy. The second issue is food safety, which is everyone's business. This is why we very q…

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May

2022

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EU action plan for organic agriculture (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, first of all I would like to thank my colleague, Simone Schmiedtbauer, for this report, which was a balancing act, but she took up the challenge well, encouraging organic production, but at the same time taking a pragmatic approach. And that is what is needed today, pragmatism. When setting targets for the development of organic production, it i…

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Feb

2022

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Strengthening Europe in the fight against cancer(debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, Minister, ladies and gentlemen, the fight against cancer is really the subject for which the European Union appears to be the right scale and has a real added value to bring. Indeed, we are all concerned, we have all lost relatives. So yes, access to better treatment and care for patients, the right to be forgotten or better cross-border cooperation in access to ther…

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Jan

2022

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Empowering European Youth: post-pandemic employment and social recovery (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, Presidents, ladies and gentlemen, young people have paid a heavy price for the COVID crisis. And even today, their unemployment rate is exploding, further weakening their future. Paradoxically, across Europe, our companies are failing to recruit. Artisans, hoteliers, restaurateurs, farmers, family carers: in all these sectors, there is a severe labour shortage penalisin…

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Nov

2021

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Common agricultural policy - support for strategic plans to be drawn up by Member States and financed by the EAGF and by the EAFRD - Common agricultural policy: financing, management and monitoring - Common agricultural policy – amendment of the CMO and other regulations (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, after three and a half years of negotiations, the EPP and its negotiating team, to which I have had the honour of belonging, do not have to blush from its record. This interinstitutional agreement will make it possible to maintain a balance between the necessary economic development of agricultural sectors and rural areas, the essential support …

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Oct

2021

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Farm to Fork Strategy (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, it is with seriousness and method that we should work to combat climate change and protect our natural resources. However, I find the opposite in the attitude of the European Commission, which presents us with a strategy that favours announcement effects rather than pragmatic, science-based objectives. It is also quite the opposite that I find in its categorical refu…

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Oct

2021

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The Council's lack of will to move the European cross-border mechanism forward (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, while almost one in three Europeans lives in a border region, the Council has decided not to continue work on the regulation on the creation of a European cross-border mechanism, a tool which the European Parliament has nevertheless called for. Border regions are real small European laboratories, innovating and living Europe on a daily basis. This is where we bu…

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Sep

2021

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Fair working conditions, rights and social protection for platform workers - New forms of employment linked to digital development (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, for more than a decade we have seen the development of a new form of work that offers many economic opportunities for our businesses, entrepreneurs and jobs. With the pandemic we have just gone through, these digital-related jobs have taken a completely different step. Platform workers have thus made it possible to save some restaurateurs by allowing them to continue…