What Thomas spoke about.

6 Oct

2026

FR Speech

Question Time (Commission) – Implementation of the Methane Regulation

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Commissioner, we have just had an extremely hot summer. The majority of Europe has experienced very high heat stress, and in the heatwaves of June alone, more than 10,000 Europeans died from these extreme heats. What is this due to? This is obviously due to climate change. And this climate change is fueled by methane emissions. Methane alone is responsible for about a third of the climate disrupti…

7 Jul

2026

FR Speech

Urgent measures to strengthen the competitiveness and safeguard quality jobs in the EU’s automotive sector (debate)

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7 Jul

2026

FR Speech

Urgent measures to strengthen the competitiveness and safeguard quality jobs in the EU’s automotive sector (debate)

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7 Jul

2026

FR Question

Urgent measures to strengthen the competitiveness and safeguard quality jobs in the EU’s automotive sector (debate)

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17 Jun

2026

FR Speech

Electrification Action Plan (debate)

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27 Apr

2026

FR Speech

Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2024 (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, when the right cooperates with the extreme right, it does not control it, it legitimises it. So here we are with the report of a Member of the National Assembly who claims to fight against fraud, without even mentioning the investigation opened by the European Public Prosecutor's Office which targets his own political group for alleged embezzlement of public mon…

25 Mar

2026

EN Answer

Energy security, independence and supply in the geopolitical context - ensuring market stability and affordable energy for industry and citizens (debate)

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Thank you very much, colleague. I am happy that we are pursuing a conversation on energy security. Indeed, if we want to achieve energy security in Europe, we need to have secure access to heating and cooling. I think we need the Commission to be bolder in investing in all the domestic and home-grown energy sources that we have in Europe. Geothermal is actually one. We can do more for geothermal i…

25 Mar

2026

FR Speech

Energy security, independence and supply in the geopolitical context - ensuring market stability and affordable energy for industry and citizens (debate)

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Mr. Speaker, Donald Trump caused another oil shock. Our European leaders did not choose this war, but they chose to maintain dependence on fossil fuels. It is a political choice, enriching the oil and gas giants by impoverishing Europeans. When the price of oil rises, it is the auxiliary of life who pays. When the price of gas rises, the baker pays. Europe has neither oil nor g…

25 Mar

2026

IT Question

Energy security, independence and supply in the geopolitical context - ensuring market stability and affordable energy for industry and citizens (debate)

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Mr Borchia, I would like to have your opinion on the blackmail by the US Ambassador on LNG coming from the United States. I would like to have your opinion on whether we should accept this blackmail by Trump's ambassador to the EU.…

11 Mar

2026

FR Speech

Building Europe's clean, independent and secure energy following the 2026 North Sea Summit (debate)

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16 Dec

2025

FR Speech

Presentation of the automotive package (debate)

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16 Dec

2025

FR Speech

Phasing out Russian natural gas imports and improving monitoring of potential energy dependencies (debate)

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25 Nov

2025

FR Speech

European Defence Industry Programme and a framework of measures to ensure the timely availability and supply of defence products (‘EDIP’) (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, for 20 years our leaders have made two mistakes: Underestimating the Russian threat and overestimating American reliability. Here we are today caught between two brutes, Vladimir Putin, who declared war on Ukraine and Europe, and Donald Trump, who is against Europe, our interests, our values. In this world of brutes, we can only rely on ourselves. We will nee…

12 Nov

2025

FR Speech

Framework for achieving climate neutrality (debate)

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Mr President, ten years ago, the Paris Climate Agreement brought hope for a better world. Today, COP30 in Brazil is about implementation. As Europe and developing countries work together to find an agreement, we will vote tomorrow on the climate law. A law that is not perfect, but is an essential step. We Social Democrats wanted a more ambitious law, without these international credits, the credib…

22 Oct

2025

FR Speech

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

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Mr President, Vladimir Putin has been waging a hybrid war against Europe for years. His goal, the reconquest of the Russian Empire. His method, political destabilization. Its tools, the financing of extremist parties, information warfare and what the European Commission has rightly called energy warfare. Indeed, for 20 years, Europe has increased its dependence on Russian oil and gas. Even before …

22 Oct

2025

FR Speech

First anniversary of the DANA floods in Spain: improving EU preparedness (debate)

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Madam President, I stand before you today with a tight heart. I am thinking of those 200 people who died a year ago during the floods in Spain. Among them, nine children. If so many Europeans died that day, it is because of climate change, it must be said. Scientists have been alerting us for decades. Climatologist Filippo Giorgi reminds us that there is still time to avoid the unmanageable and ma…

8 Oct

2025

FR Speech

Europe’s automotive future – reversing the ban on the sale of combustion cars in the EU (topical debate)

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Mr President, today the extreme right still shows us that it has no sense of responsibility. Let's be clear, the future of the car is electric. Scholars have been saying this for ten years, and it is now such evidence that even the German Right publicly acknowledges it through the voice of Ursula von der Leyen. Yet the far right still refuses to face reality. Is it because you are too influenced b…

8 Oct

2025

FR Answer

United response to recent Russian violations of the EU Member States’ airspace and critical infrastructure (debate)

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Mr Mariani, you are just showing me what I have to say about pro-Russian agents in this Parliament. The sentence is that of General Burckhardt, Chief of the Armed Forces Staff. As a former soldier myself, I know what we owe to the honour of our soldiers and I regret that you are now attacking one of the greatest generals we have had in our country’s recent history.…

8 Oct

2025

FR Speech

United response to recent Russian violations of the EU Member States’ airspace and critical infrastructure (debate)

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Madam President, Russia has openly designated France as its first opponent in Europe. It has made France one of its priority targets. These words were uttered by General Burckhardt, the Chief of Staff of the French Armed Forces, on July 11. For years, Russia has sought to weaken France. It finances extremist parties, attacks French interests and wages an informational war, as illustrated by the Go…

9 Jul

2025

FR Speech

EU Preparedness Union in light of the upcoming wildfire and droughts season (debate)

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Madam President, Marseille is burning, and the far right is looking elsewhere. The flames reached the Estaque district. I am thinking of the marine firefighters of Marseille and the firefighters of the SDIS who continue to fight against the flames. I am also thinking of the people of Marseille, my friends – Élisa, Léa, Christophe, Pascaline. I also feel a deep anger because IPCC scientists have be…

9 Jul

2025

FR Question

EU Preparedness Union in light of the upcoming wildfire and droughts season (debate)

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Mr Leonardelli, we MEPs are representatives of the citizens who elected us. So when you talk to people who have served the homeland as firefighters, like our colleague Grégory Allione, you talk to him, not to someone who would represent the head of state – first. Secondly, we know that there is – excuse me, I see you dodeline your head, that is how it works in a democracy, even if I know that it i…

21 May

2025

FR Speech

Russian energy phase-out, Nord Stream and the EU's energy sovereignty (debate)

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Mr President, EUR 200 billion: This is the sum that the Europeans have given to Vladimir Putin since 2022 to buy his oil and gas. Even today, the European Union is the largest buyer of Russian gas, far ahead of China. Among the European countries, it is my country, France, which is the first buyer of Russian gas today. Last April, another 1.5 billion euros of European money went to Russia. This mo…

8 May

2025

FR Speech

80 years after the end of World War II - freedom, democracy and security as the heritage of Europe (debate)

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Mr. Speaker, when I was ten years old, my eyes questioned the white and red lines of a flag floating in the wind of my native Normandy. I already knew what World War II was, but that flag I didn't know. Today I am thinking of the Polish soldiers of General Maczek's First Armoured Division. At Mount Ormel, they fought with rare bravery. Of the 1,500 soldiers engaged, only 60 were still able to figh…

2 Apr

2025

FR Speech

Energy-intensive industries (debate)

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Madam President, European industry is suffering from its dependence on fossil fuels. Our predecessors made this choice, putting the future of our industry in the hands of Vladimir Putin. In 2021, Putin cut gas supplies and created the first gas shock in European history. In May 2021, gas costs 20 euros per megawatt hour. Six months later, it costs 100 euros per megawatt hour. In 2022, after the Ru…

2 Apr

2025

FR Question

Energy-intensive industries (debate)

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Madam President, I have a simple question for Mrme Disclaimer: in 2021, the Green Deal did not exist, and no public policy was implemented. Yet the price of gas, in Europe as in France, rose from 20 euros per megawatt hour in April 2021 to 100 euros per megawatt hour in December 2021. Who do you think did this? The man whom Marine Le Pen chose to shake hands with in 2017, when she sought internati…