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May

2025

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An urgent assessment of the applicability of the Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement (PDCA) with Cuba (debate)

Thank you, Mr Blaha, for your intervention. When I hear our other colleague react, I say to myself that the right wing in the European Parliament really has two double standards: a policy of migration within its borders that it wants to ban and a policy of migration for Cubans that it wants to allow. Really, you're ridiculous!…

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May

2025

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An urgent assessment of the applicability of the Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement (PDCA) with Cuba (debate)

Mrs Junco García, what Cuba is suffering from is not, as you denounce it, communism. What Cuba suffers from is not being a prison. The prison, Madam, is the one that, for more than 60 years, the United States of America has been building in Cuba by maintaining an embargo, a blockade, by considering Cuba a terrorist state. It is a policy that you support, it is the one that starves the Cuban people…

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May

2025

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Apr

2025

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Energy-intensive industries (debate)

Madam President, colleagues, Commissioner, the debate around the energy-intensive industries we have today is crucial, as the future of these sectors darkens. Faced with global competition from China and the United States and skyrocketing energy prices, millions of jobs are at risk, particularly in the steel industry, a sector that is strategic for European industrial autonomy. In France, for exam…

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Mar

2025

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Clean Industrial Deal (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, let us be serious: with the Clean Industry Pact, the Commission has still not understood anything. It continues with its neoliberal strategy, which merely recycles measures from the past that have pushed European industry into the wall. No lessons have been learned on the electricity market, as has been said, based on gas price coupling – which …

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Mar

2025

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I have one minute to tell you about a man, Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, whose name I am proud to pronounce in this Chamber. Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, a Lebanese communist activist and long-time defender of the Palestinian cause, has been imprisoned since 1984: Forty-one years in the jails of the French State. Yet here there is no expression, no resolution to dem…

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Feb

2025

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Competitiveness Compass (debate)

Yes, I cannot fail to react when I hear you, Mrs Rechagneux, as I have heard your colleagues from the European extreme right: You dare here in this Chamber to talk about sovereignty. You are the first, with your organization, to sell French and European sovereignty to Trump, Musk and GAFAM. You speak, you defend Mr Séjourné's simplification, but this simplification is the one that concretely attac…

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Feb

2025

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Competitiveness Compass (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, let us say it straight away, the compass for the competitiveness of the European Commission is a scam. What is coming, the shock of simplification, as you call it, is massive deregulation that will tackle environmental and social standards to the detriment of workers and to the benefit of lobbies and bosses. Nothing on the reform of the European el…

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Dec

2024

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Tackling abusive subcontracting and labour market intermediaries (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, in the capital-intensive organisation of labour, subcontracting is a practice that reduces employer responsibility and, conversely, increases the exploitation of workers. I come from a region, Champagne, where the employers of the wine sector, which had a turnover of more than 6 billion in 2022, excel in the use of subcontracting. For example, for …

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Nov

2024

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Prison conditions in the EU (debate)

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Nov

2024

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the situation is terrible. In Europe, every day, nine employees die at work, and every year nearly 3 million workers are victims of accidents at work. This hecatomb remains invisible and shamefully considered an acceptable risk by a large part of the bosses. And what to say in the face of these lives lost or wounded forever, to the families of the victims who ar…

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Oct

2024

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World Mental Health Day - need for a comprehensive EU strategy on mental health (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, there is one aspect of mental health that is too often overlooked, the one whose stage is played out at work, behind the doors of companies. In France, for example, it is up to the employer to take the measures, I quote, 'necessary to protect the mental health of workers'. However, this principle often remains theoretical and the means of labour inspection are d…

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Oct

2024

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Escalation of violence in the Middle East and the situation in Lebanon (debate)

What a shame! What a shame to have allowed the genocide in Gaza and the war in Lebanon to kill tens of thousands of people through your policies and the support you have given it for over a year today. It is your actions, the unconditional support you have given to Netanyahu's far-right policies, which today make us aware of the situation that you say you deplore, but in which you have participate…

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Oct

2024

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, on 18 September I went to the Mulhouse prison, where I was able to talk to Christian Tein, the chairman of the Kanak National Liberation Front and socialist of Kanaky-New Caledonia. His name may not be known to you, and I am extremely proud to be able to pronounce it in this House. New Caledonia is still included today in the list of territories considered no…