What Thomas spoke about.

13

Mar

2025

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Action Plan for Affordable Energy (debate)

Honourable MEP Knotek, I've got a simple question: can you tell us what is the price of electricity produced by gas today in Europe? And what is the price of electricity produced by onshore wind power today in Europe?…

12

Mar

2025

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Accelerating the phase-out of Russian gas and other Russian energy commodities in the EU (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Vladimir Putin has declared war on European democracies. This war, he has been waging for more than ten years: cyberattacks, disinformation, military invasion... How does Putin manage to finance his war? The answer is simple: fossil fuels. 140 billion euros is Russia's military budget at war. 250 billion euros is Vladimir Putin's income from his oil and gas sale…

12

Mar

2025

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Accelerating the phase-out of Russian gas and other Russian energy commodities in the EU (debate)

Good evening, honourable Stoyanov. In your speech, you said that we should have more production of natural gas in Europe. I wanted to ask you if you knew what is the percentage of the natural gas we consume in Europe today that we are actually able to produce in Europe today?…

12

Mar

2025

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Action Plan for the Automotive Industry (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, today I would like to tell you the story of Soizic. She is a home nurse in Torigni-sur-Vire, rural Normandy. Every day, she takes her car to provide medical care at home. At the end of the day, she often walked 120, 150, 180 kilometers. Since Soizic has a small electric car, a Renault Zoé, it saves more than 1,000 euros a year, because driving an electric car…

11

Mar

2025

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Clean Industrial Deal (debate)

Madam President, two words: ecology and economy. Two words that are so close, but that many here are still trying to oppose – in particular the extreme right, which wants to copy Donald Trump’s policy. I note with you, my dear friends, the total absence of each of Jordan Bardella's MEPs from the PfE Group in this room at this very moment, which speaks volumes about their interest in our industry. …

12

Feb

2025

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Collaboration between conservatives and far right as a threat for competitiveness in the EU (topical debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we are once again experiencing a historic moment in which part of the European right wishes to make a pact with the far right. Here in the European Parliament, the far right simply wants to remove the Green Deal, as if our European companies should not catch up on the technological gap they have taken over China, for example in terms of electric cars and battery…

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)

Mr President, Madam Vice-President, we know this: burning oil, burning gas, is aggravating climatic disasters, such as the cyclone that has just devastated the French department of Mayotte. We know less, however, that by making oil and gas the basis of our energy system, we are putting the European economy at the mercy of oil and gas producers and the future of our peoples in the hands of Vladimir…

17

Dec

2024

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The situation in Mayotte following the devastating cyclone Chido and the need for solidarity (debate)

Madam President, in the face of the horrors experienced by our fellow Mahorese citizens, I miss words. In the face of tragedy, we can cling to two certainties. The first is that climate change kills. This climate change, caused by certain human activities, increases the power of cyclones, such as the one that has just hit the French department of Mayotte. The second certainty is the urgency of ser…

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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)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the European car industry is undergoing a profound transformation. For 20 years, car manufacturers have focused on the production of large and expensive cars. This must stop. Our industry must return to the sources that made its strength: produce cheap small cars for the middle and popular classes of our Europe. Today, we must also switch to the el…