What Julie spoke about.

10 Mar

2025

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Cutting red tape and simplifying business in the EU: the first Omnibus proposals (debate)

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Mr President, the Commission is trying to exercise humility and decides to go back on some of its rules. She rediscovers a principle of wisdom: Little things the legislator does not care. The reduction of reporting obligations is good, but is it enough? Certainly not, as these adjustments do not put an end to the administered economy it has created. As a reminder, the CSRD Directive involves 50 00…

12 Feb

2025

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Competitiveness Compass (debate)

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But you're not ashamed? Aren't you ashamed? Because in reality the policy pursued by the European Commission in recent years is the policy of degrowth. If it has carried out this policy, it is in particular because the extreme left and the Greens, the ones you represent today, have infused this ideology into all public policies and especially into the politics of the company. Today, it is a total …

12 Feb

2025

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Competitiveness Compass (debate)

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Mr President, Mr Séjourné, the Commission loves the great ten-year macroeconomic programmes which return with the same regularity as the Soviet plans of another time. In the 2000s, the Lisbon Strategy promised us the knowledge society and the whole tertiary sector. Today, his latest plan, the compass for competitiveness, claims to show us the way forward. But who can still believe that the Commiss…

21 Jan

2025

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Situation in Venezuela following the usurpation of the presidency on 10 January 2025 (debate)

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Edmundo González was declared the winner by many independent observers and by the opposition’s own polls. The evidence, voting records and testimonies of Venezuelans clearly show that he won the election with considerable margin. The repression that followed the announcement of the fraudulent results was violent and merciless. Thousands of arrests, lives lost and heightened censorship of media and…

21 Jan

2025

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Situation in Venezuela following the usurpation of the presidency on 10 January 2025 (debate)

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Mr President, for too long the Venezuelan people have been suffering under the yoke of a regime that has turned oppression and political violence into a system of governance. Nicolás Maduro clings desperately to power, not with the legitimacy of popular consent, but with the weapon of lies, coercion and fear. Venezuela has immense potential, yet it is in crisis. And it is not an ordinary crisis, b…

20 Jan

2025

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Powering Europe’s future - advancing the fusion industry for energy independence and innovation (debate)

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Madam President, Europe seems to have finally turned the page on its naivety. It understood that ensuring its strategic independence was a necessity in an increasingly unstable world. Today, the European Union, which still imports more than half of its energy, must diversify its sources of supply to guard against critical dependencies. Yet there is still tension between those advocating for an amb…

19 Dec

2024

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Recommendation to the Council on the EU priorities for the 69th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women - EU priorities for the 69th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (joint debate - EU priorities for the upcoming session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women)

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Mr President, today, the ideal number of children desired by women far exceeds the actual fertility rate in many countries. In France, for example, women want an average of 2.27 children, but the fertility rate is only 1.7. This gap reflects a collective failure to support families in their aspirations. Economic barriers, the cost of living and the lack of adequate infrastructure are holding back …

18 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)

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Mr President, ‘Thank God, there is smoke leaking from the high chimneys of most factories! For I have not travelled so long without learning, from more than one painful example, that the absence of smoke coming out of its chimneys is a sign of the extinction of more than one family home, and of a lack of bread for more than one honest family," William Cooke Taylor wrote in Notes of a Tour in the M…

28 Nov

2024

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Strengthening children’s rights in the EU - 35th anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (debate)

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Madam President, educators who have sex with minors, school failures, runaways, physical assaults between children in care, drugs, the explosion of prostitution: the record of child welfare in France is catastrophic. The well-being and success of children in care should be one of the priorities of the State, but this is not the case. These children are the forgotten ones. However, budgets for chil…

27 Nov

2024

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Rise of energy prices and fighting energy poverty (debate)

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Madam President, the closure of the last bakery in a village, thousands of families who give up heating because the bill is too heavy, the massive dismissal of 1,200 employees of Michelin factories, a new episode in the industrial bleed that is hitting France. These tragedies, which are the reality of my country in 2024, have a common cause: the rules of the European electricity market. Since 2022…

25 Nov

2024

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International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (debate)

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Mr President, on 9 November, in Bordeaux, France, an 18-year-old woman was stabbed in the back while jogging. The perpetrator is a 23-year-old homeless Cameroonian, already known to the criminal record processing for choking a young woman in 2023. Shortly after the assault, another woman showed up at the police station and accused the same individual of forcing sexual touching on her. Go running, …

23 Oct

2024

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U-turn on EU bureaucracy: the need to axe unnecessary burdens and reporting to unleash competitiveness and innovation (topical debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, as we debate, companies with unique know-how are disappearing and leaving entire territories empty of meaning. French companies have always been at the forefront of innovation. Even the most traditional of them are constantly seeking to renew themselves. But they are subject to headwinds: a globalisation without rules, on the one hand, and the zeal of European r…

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)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we are therefore gathered here in the European Parliament to debate the crisis and the future of the automotive sector - the same Parliament which, under the orders of the Commission, condemned the automotive industry in the name of environmental ideology, and which today claims to defend what it condemned yesterday. We're here in the middle of schizophrenia. Wh…

17 Sep

2024

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State of the Energy union (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in publishing its annual report on the State of the Energy Union, the European Commission has engaged in a traditional exercise of style, mixing ideology and self-satisfaction as usual. According to its authors, all is well in the best of energy worlds, and Europe has not only been able to cope with the energy crisis born of the war in Ukraine, but has also over…

16 Sep

2024

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Mr President, despite the European Commission's commitments, all of whose voices assured us that the Green Deal would enable the revival of European industry, the prospects are increasingly bleak. We warned that the European Green Deal risked digging the grave of our industrial power even further, and we were right. Reality always catches up with ideologues. The automotive sector is plunged into a…