What Mélanie spoke about.

8 Oct

2026

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UN Convention on the Rights of Older Persons (debate)

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Mr. Speaker, ladies and gentlemen, the way we treat our seniors speaks volumes about our society. And today, what are we offering them in Europe? To work always longer, to retire always later with pensions that sometimes do not even allow for a dignified life. And meanwhile, in this hemicycle, we are being told about fundamental rights, active ageing and beautiful declarations. We denounce this ho…

5 Oct

2026

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Psychosocial risks, stress and mental health at work (debate)

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17 Sep

2026

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Protecting people’s health against toxic substances (debate)

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7 Jul

2026

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Presentation of the Action Plan on Cybersecurity and AI (debate)

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20 May

2026

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Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, the own-initiative report on which we are speaking today makes a clear observation: care professions, as well as the millions of caregivers who support our families, must finally be recognized. I welcome the essential progress that this text suggests for social recognition, material support and real help for caregivers. Family cohesion is the first safety net of our soc…

18 May

2026

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Negative trade-related effects of global overcapacity on the Union steel market (debate)

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Mr President, for years Europe has been opening its doors to low-cost steel, often under conditions we would never accept at home. Result: Our industries are closing, our workers are paying the price for Brussels' naiveté, and our industrial sovereignty is disappearing piece by piece. Global overcapacity from Asia is not just an economic imbalance; it is a commercial weapon. While states are massi…

27 Apr

2026

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Madam President, what is happening in Spain today is not trivial. Under the leadership of Pedro Sánchez's government, the country became one of the main gateways to migration flooding in Europe. After 250,000 regularisations in 2025, 500,000 people could now be affected. A dizzying number that engages far beyond Spain: it commits the whole of Europe, because in the Schengen area, the decisions of …

9 Mar

2026

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Gender pay and pension gap in the EU: state of play, challenges and the way forward, and developing guidelines for the better evaluation and fairer remuneration of work in female-dominated sectors (debate)

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Madam President, yesterday was International Women's Day. With this initiative, I had the hope that, for once, the good feelings of the European Parliament would lead to something balanced. Unfortunately, we always find the usual flaws: the pervasiveness of the gender dimension in EU policies and funding, the promotion of quotas rather than merit, administrative overload, the fa…

11 Feb

2026

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Addressing subcontracting chains and the role of intermediaries in order to protect workers’ rights (debate)

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Mr President, limiting subcontracting is the archetype of the false good idea. Under the pretext of fighting against real abuses, this text proposes to delete everything instead of correcting what does not work. To continue your logic, let's remove all companies, since some of them are fraud. It makes no sense, in addition to overstepping your skills. Even the IMCO Committee sees how close the Emp…

11 Feb

2026

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Developing a new EU anti-poverty strategy (debate)

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Madam President, in politics, good intention is not enough to make a good resolution. Here we are debating how to fight poverty. Who could morally oppose it? This does not prevent this subject from being treated seriously, above low electoral considerations. When we seek to stem poverty, we talk about the subject as a whole. There is no Community catalogue of those who are more legitimate to be he…

22 Jan

2026

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A new action plan to implement the European Pillar of Social Rights (debate)

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Mr President, as usual, the parliamentary majority, including the far left, is increasingly calling on the European Commission. Rather than respecting the principle of subsidiarity, everything is good to subject national social policies to the injunctions of Brussels. As usual, it calls on the Commission to ensure that mass immigration is facilitated by promoting the mobility of third-country nati…

16 Dec

2025

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Presentation of the automotive package (debate)

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15 Dec

2025

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the European Union has created a common market in Europe, but this should not be an excuse to make it a far west of trade. It is a question of balance and economic justice. On the one hand, MMS Industrie, a French company, which supports local families and know-how, which has now been weakened until judicial recovery; the other Körber, a group with an internatio…

15 Dec

2025

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Breeders' protests following a lumpy-skin-disease outbreak in France: implications of the EU approach on sanitary and on animal health (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the nodular skin disease affecting cattle farms demonstrates inadequate crisis management, disconnected from agricultural realities. The systematic slaughter of whole herds, from the first identified case, is not a balanced health policy, but an administrative violence. For farmers, these are not figures: years of work destroyed, families weakened and farms cond…

25 Nov

2025

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Protection of minors online (debate)

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Madam President, the protection of minors online must be our priority. With this resolution, the European Union is moving in the right direction, but this is just the beginning. We need to go further to preserve our children, forcing platforms to neutralize radical propaganda content. Platforms, through their algorithms and business logic, allow manipulative, addictive and sometimes dangerous cont…

22 Oct

2025

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Ending all energy imports from Russia to the EU and closing loopholes through third countries (debate)

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Mr President, as we have always said, support for the Ukrainian people in the face of Russian aggression is legitimate. Targeted sanctions can be effective if they weaken the aggressor without punishing our own peoples. However, the energy sanctions on Russian gas are a blatant failure. Moscow continues to sell its gas, including to the European Union, through absurd detours, including Azerbaijan,…

8 Oct

2025

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Establishment and functioning of European Works Councils - effective enforcement (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, as usual, the European Union wants to be involved in everything. Nothing escapes him, nothing resists him. All the problems of social life will sooner or later bend under its centralizing yoke. This time it is about social dialogue. The Commission and its supporters in Parliament want to coerce as many companies as possible. Far from us the society of freedom…

6 Oct

2025

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Madam President, in ten years the European share of world steel production has been halved. Since June, the United States has been protecting its interests by taxing imported steel at 50%. Meanwhile, Europe lets in unrestricted Chinese steel sold off. The so-called Brussels safeguard measures are yet another failure. Faced with this economic ineptitude, the European steel industry suffers and is d…

9 Sep

2025

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Cohesion policy (joint debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, cohesion policy is a central element of European construction and solidarity. That the richest help the poorest is the cement of Europe. Unfortunately, these fine principles are often tarnished when the Commission gets involved. Today, the money collected goes through a Brussels bureaucracy that does not hesitate to use the money of the Member States to advance its o…

7 Jul

2025

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the European Union shamelessly flouts our French winegrowers. While our winegrowers, suffocated by a relentless crisis – sales collapsing, unpredictable climate, unsustainable loads – Brussels, in a surge of generosity as senseless as it is outrageous, pours EUR 15 million to inflate the production of South African wines. For so-called inclusive growth with d…

7 Jul

2025

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From institution to inclusion: an EU action plan for deinstitutionalisation, family- and community-based care (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, give administrative assistance to people with disabilities and you can allow them to live. Give them autonomy, and we can give them back their freedom. Among the Patriots, we defend freedom in the face of ubiquitous administrations. It is a good thing that no one is left behind. This also applies to people with disabilities, who are largely dependent on state ac…

16 Jun

2025

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Mr President, what a farce! The Birds Directive sets the standard for the protection of Natura 2000 species and habitats, but the future Dunkirk offshore wind farm is blithely trampling on these commitments. Studies prove this: the avian fauna is in serious danger. Seabirds and migratory birds have not signed for this carnage orchestrated by these flying guillotines. The stop at Aumelas Park in Fr…

16 Jun

2025

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Strengthening rural areas in the EU through cohesion policy (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, for decades the European Commission has only played the game of excessive liberalism and unbridled globalisation. This disastrous policy initially had the effect of creating a significant divide between rich urban areas, connected to the world, and rural areas, sometimes landlocked and much more economically fragile. Yet rural areas, the beating heart of our …

5 May

2025

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5 May

2025

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Ninth report on economic and social cohesion (debate)

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