5
Oct
2026
GUE/NGL
Anthony Smith
MEP · France
Plenary speeches · European Parliament
Plenary speeches · EU Parliament
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Speeches updated
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All Contributions
44
Since July 1, 2024
Time at the Floor
0.8h
≈ 48 min
Average speech length
1:17 min
≈ 1.3 min
· Rank 565/694
Activity
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Lukas Sieper | GermanyDE | Renew Europe (Renew) | 392 |
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Sebastian Tynkkynen | FinlandFI | European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) | 354 |
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Juan Fernando López Aguilar | SpainES | Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) | 326 |
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João Oliveira | PortugalPT | The Left in the European Parliament (GUE/NGL) | 221 |
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Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis | LithuaniaLT | Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) | 209 |
5
Oct
2026
Escalating student riots in France: arson attacks on schools, assaults against firefighters, police officers and teachers, including in La Ciotat, and the role of far-left parties in inciting violence (debate)
5
Oct
2026
Escalating student riots in France: arson attacks on schools, assaults against firefighters, police officers and teachers, including in La Ciotat, and the role of far-left parties in inciting violence (debate)
17
Sep
2026
An EU health workforce crisis plan: sustainability of healthcare systems and employment and working conditions in the healthcare sector (debate)
14
Sep
2026
One-minute speeches on matters of political importance
Madam President, Western Europe has just experienced its warmest summer on record, resulting in an additional 25,000 deaths. But what kills is the European Union's abandonment of any policy to combat global warming and any protection for workers exposed to it. Since 2000, the EU has recorded a 42% increase in the number of heat-related deaths in the workplace. Above 30 degrees, the risk of an acci…
8
Jul
2026
Harnessing the potential of a competitive and sustainable EU Bioeconomy Strategy for EU strategic autonomy (debate)
Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the bioeconomy is often presented as a sector of the future, but it is still necessary to know for whom it is being implemented. As usual, the Commission's new European strategy is not up to the challenge. Under the guise of competitiveness and innovation, it organises widespread predation of the living. The logic is always the same: transforming l…
18
Jun
2026
Joint Declaration on ‘Culture for Europe - Europe for Culture’ (debate)
19
May
2026
Political repression and humanitarian situation in Cuba (debate)
Thank you, dear colleague, for accepting the blue card. You have in your mouth only the words "suspension", "sanction". I'm trying to understand, and I'm trying to understand why you're in that logic, when the first measure... You have no words, and I would like to understand why you have no words on the lifting of the blockade that has afflicted Cuba for more than six decades. Because that's the …
19
May
2026
EU governance under pressure – institutional responses to global challenges (debate)
Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, Europe is facing an increasingly brutal geopolitical environment. In this context, discussing the EU’s capacity to act in the institutional framework is important. But this debate must not be confiscated by technocrats. This is the first thing. Because it is not just a question of how the EU can decide faster, but of what it decides, for whom it de…
27
Apr
2026
One-minute speeches on matters of political importance
Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Axel was sixteen years old. He died in June 2025 during a compulsory second general internship in a company. Young trainees or apprentices are particularly exposed to accidents and join the silent procession of workers who have died at work or at work. Every day in France, between two and three employees die at work. Every year in Europe, more than 170,000 pe…
26
Mar
2026
Global Gateway – past impacts and future orientation (debate)
Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, on 28 July 1885 Jules Ferry defended in the National Assembly the foundations of colonial policy through the need for opportunities for French industry. 141 years later, nothing has changed. Global Gateway is a neocolonial instrument serving your commercial and geostrategic interests. It gives European multinationals the opportunity t…
11
Mar
2026
Rise of political violence, notably by far-left organisations (debate)
11
Feb
2026
International Day of Education, fighting inequalities in access to education (debate)
Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, public schools are one of the most effective instruments for combating social inequalities. Yet a methodical sabotage of this precious tool is orchestrated by liberals wishing, as always, to reserve education to the elites alone. In France, for example, a few days ago, the ruling macrono-socialist coalition voted to cut 4,000 professorships. Thi…
22
Jan
2026
A new action plan to implement the European Pillar of Social Rights (debate)
Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the question raised by our comrade Li Andersson highlights the reality that workers live every day. Europe is going through profound changes, but the social response, when it exists, always comes after the break - too weak, too late, too fragmented. Market Europe sanctifies competitiveness and justifies, tolerates precariousness. As an immediate…
16
Dec
2025
European Citizens’ Initiative ‘My voice, my choice: for safe and accessible abortion’ (debate)
15
Dec
2025
Impact of the geopolitical situation on European patients and their access to medicines (debate)
Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, 39: this is the percentage of French people indicating that they had experienced shortages of medicines in 2024. France is obviously no exception; 21 Member States report experiencing the same phenomenon. The fault of the capitalist laissez-faire that reigns supreme here, in Parliament and in the EU. How would it be otherwise, moreover, in a Europe…
15
Dec
2025
Breeders' protests following a lumpy-skin-disease outbreak in France: implications of the EU approach on sanitary and on animal health (debate)
Mr McNamara, I hear that you are calling on your government in Ireland. So I have a question for you, because in fact you are in the same group, Renew, as the French macronists, who are not here tonight in this Chamber. They who, in France, conduct a criminal policy, they who conduct a policy that puts down livestock. Just one question, Mr. McNamara: Do you know where the French macronists went?…
26
Nov
2025
EU strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities post-2024 (debate)
26
Nov
2025
Implementation of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (debate)
12
Nov
2025
One-minute speeches on matters of political importance
Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, it is criminal not to act when every day in Europe twelve workers, three of them in France, die at work. Together with my colleague Marina Measurement, we have built since the beginning of this mandate – together with trade unionists, labour inspectors and associations of victims’ families – a zero-death-to-work roadmap. Everywhere we present it, the testimonies…
21
Oct
2025
Institutional consequences of the EU enlargement negotiations (debate)
Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, as we say in this Chamber, enlargement will be a success only if it is at the service of the peoples and the improvement of living conditions, and not only seen as a geopolitical tool at the service of war logics that are light years away from the aspirations of the peoples of Europe. But your European Union boils down, in fact, to a set of means a…
7
Oct
2025
EU political strategy on Latin America (debate)
Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Latin America and the Caribbean are once again victims of the hypocrisy of the European Parliament. Under the guise of a supposedly fair desire for partnership, the European Union is setting itself up as the spearhead of neo-colonialism. For your will is, as yesterday, to facilitate access to the strategic natural resources of this region for the big companies o…
7
Oct
2025
EU political strategy on Latin America (debate)
Madam President, it is a festival of punctures that you are aligning, Mr Valet. It's fortunately a one-man show which lasts barely a minute, because it is disastrous. You do not have a word, Mr Valet - or worse, you offer full bail - for the Bukele regime in El Salvador that you idealise; A regime condemned by Amnesty International and other organisations as an authoritarian and reactionary regime…
9
Sep
2025
Situation in Colombia after the wave of recent terrorist attacks (debate)
Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Colombia has been subjected for several months to a wave of terrorist attacks in connection with drug trafficking targeting civilians and the military. We condemn these attacks. We stand with and support the families of the victims, as we support President Petro and his government in their fight against drug trafficking. We welcome the implementati…
8
Sep
2025
One-minute speeches on matters of political importance
Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in the face of austerity, liberal policies and the authoritarian course that is taking place among the citizens of Europe, the time is ripe for the emergence of a new spring of peoples. Everywhere, popular mobilizations call into question the hegemony of the powerful and the regressions they seek to make us suffer to the tie. In France, the Bayrou government has…