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Jul

2025

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Endometriosis: Europe’s wake-up call on the gender health gap (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, one in ten women in Europe lives with endometriosis. One woman in ten suffers from chronic disabling pain that hinders her daily life, her work, her mental health. Endometriosis is responsible for 40% of infertility cases, yet it takes an average of seven years to get a diagnosis. Seven years of hearing that ‘it’s normal’, seven years of coping wit…

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Jul

2025

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Preparation for the 2025 EU–China Summit - Tackling China's critical raw materials export restrictions

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, on 4 April 2025, China adopted a law banning the export of rare earths. The blindness of our institutions has allowed China, for decades, to be in a quasi-monopoly on rare earths, with 61% of production and, well, 92% of processing capacity. So you put us in front of a Cornelian choice: on the one hand, making opaque deals with a dealer we have nurtured for d…

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Jul

2025

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Product safety and regulatory compliance in e-commerce and non-EU imports (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, 12 million duty-free packages arrive here every day. Shein and Temu are always cheaper, always faster, but at what price? To make us addicted, they turned online shopping into a real game. Finally, they have just been fined EUR 40 million in France, because more than half of their promotions are false price reductions. They lie to consumers and make fun of the a…

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Jun

2025

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Situation in the Middle East (joint debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the European Union has exclusive competence in international trade and it keeps repeating that it is an instrument to promote our values. Article 2 of the Association Agreement with Israel states that its relations with the European Union are based on respect for human rights. So how can it be maintained today? How can we even ask ourselves the que…

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May

2025

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Competition policy – annual report 2024 (A10-0071/2025 - Lara Wolters) (vote)

Mr President, there is an urgent need: We must save European steel! The director of ArcelorMittal has announced that all steel sites in Europe are under threat. France risks losing all of its blast furnaces. As the United Kingdom has done, we must react quickly. I therefore propose the following amendment to paragraph 8 of the report we are voting on: "Parliament expresses its deep disapproval of …

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Apr

2025

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Energy-intensive industries (debate)

Madam President, scarce critical raw materials are indispensable for our industrial and energy transition. The sobriety of uses and products, the efficiency of our industrial processes and the recycling of these materials should be at the heart of our strategy. However, in today's strategy, the Commission is prioritising the extractive industry. This race is taking place right now in third countri…

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Apr

2025

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European Steel and Metals Action Plan (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, with this plan, the European Commission is trying to stem the crisis in the steel and aluminium industry. An example of this crisis: ArcelorMittal, which, after the closure of these sites in Denain and Reims, warned that all of its European locations were threatened. Commissioner, you have said that Europe should no longer be a playground for th…

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Mar

2025

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Social and employment aspects of restructuring processes: the need to protect jobs and workers’ rights (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, I would like to highlight a subject that was not raised in our debate. This is not surprising, because when we talk about restructuring, we think of large sectors and large industrial companies. Yet there is a sector in Europe that employs more than 8 million people, 86% of whom are women, a quarter of whom were born outside Europe, 70% of whom are undeclared. I am t…

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Mar

2025

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Action Plan for the Automotive Industry (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, when I listen to some of you, I wonder where you grew up. I grew up in a territory that has lost tens of thousands of industrial jobs in two decades, due to the increase in production capacity in third countries and the lack of anticipation of ongoing economic changes on the part of companies and public authorities. Today – and already since the previous mand…

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Mar

2025

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Clean Industrial Deal (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, the future of industry will be green and social or not. Those who say the opposite, here on the far right, lie and know it very well, because planetary boundaries do not manipulate themselves as information is manipulated. What challenges our industry is not ecology: it is unfair competition and dependence on fossil fuels, which weighs down our trade balance and is a…

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Feb

2025

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EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, are you familiar with estradiol 17? It is a steroid hormone produced by the ovarian follicles and the placenta. It has been synthesized to become a growth hormone, in animal husbandry, to make animals fat and grow. In 2013, it was recognized that residues of this synthetic hormone are found in our bodies, in our surface waters. That is why, in i…

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Feb

2025

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

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, a few days ago in Brussels, trade unions from all over Europe came to alert us: 300,000 jobs are at risk in the steel and automotive industry. So yes, today there is an alliance, an alliance of those who lie to the workers. They lie by wanting to entrust our industrial future to shareholders and billionaires alone. Any evidence? They propose Elon M…

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Feb

2025

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Escalation of violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, mining is a source of bloody conflict all over the world. The riches of the subsoil are sometimes a curse for the populations: violence, soil poisoning, deforestation. That is why, during the previous legislature, as part of a policy of sustainable cooperation with a dozen countries in the world that have rare minerals, we, the European Union, comm…

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Feb

2025

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Preparedness for a new trade era: multilateral cooperation or tariffs (debate)

Madam President, in her famous novel 1984George Orwell has this sentence: Everything was lost in the fog. . . the lie became the truth. So, instead of navigating on sight in this fog created by Donald Trump, in scattered order, let's go back to the facts. Europe's steel industry is going through an unprecedented crisis, with exports halving in ten years. But Europe's trade surpluses to the US acco…

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Jan

2025

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Addressing EU demographic challenges: towards the implementation of the 2023 Demography Toolbox (debate)

Ms Trochu, your political group is constantly attacking environmental policies. These policies protect our health, but also our fertility. Let us talk, for example, about the REACH regulation, protection against toxic substances, which, as we know, cause 1.4 million premature deaths in Europe. Your group is tackling it, and yet you want to defend European demography, you want to defend the birth r…

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Jan

2025

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Addressing EU demographic challenges: towards the implementation of the 2023 Demography Toolbox (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, like Emmanuel Macron, who talks about demographic rearmament, you want European women to have more children to wage an economic war. Raising a child today costs on average €300,000, and in many countries, working and caring for this wonderful little being is a path for the fighter, for lack of efficient public services, which you are tackling with austerity. But the mos…

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Jan

2025

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Geopolitical and economic implications for the transatlantic relations under the new Trump administration (debate)

I have two things to say. The first is that those who are now attacking the Green Deal, the economic regulation of markets and trade agreements, are the same people who want to enter our market today to make more money, and you are an agent who defends that economy in the name of public freedom. The second thing I want to say is that we environmentalists defend the ‘Buy European Act’ – a piece of …

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Jan

2025

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Geopolitical and economic implications for the transatlantic relations under the new Trump administration (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, in France we have an expression to describe the rise of fascism. We are talking about "brown pestus". Unfortunately, this epidemic is once again hitting our democracies. Hannah Arendt said that when you attack justice, science, the free press, you create the conditions for totalitarianism to emerge. This is what we witnessed yesterday at Trump’s inauguration.…

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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, ladies and gentlemen, at a time when Mayotte is counting her deaths and experiencing chaos, there is something indecent about the debate launched by the ECR Group. Climate disasters have claimed 600,000 lives in 20 years. But if human lives mean less to you than money, here's another number: €228 billion a year is the cost of our inaction. As to whether the Green Deal destroys our co…

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Dec

2024

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Right to clean drinking water in the EU (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, ‘to prosper today is to give ourselves the means to guarantee the continuation of the human adventure in twenty or thirty years’ time. To be prosperous is therefore first and foremost to be healthy.” These words by Éloi Laurent have a particular resonance with our debates today. Yes, the right to quality drinking water is a universal and fundamental right. I'm f…

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Nov

2024

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Topical debate (Rule 169) - Budapest Declaration on the New European Competitiveness Deal - A future for the farming and manufacturing sectors in the EU (topical debate)

Mr President, the twelve recommendations of the Budapest Declaration seek to make Europe's economy more competitive, particularly in industrial terms. However, it was not until point 10 of that declaration that the social aspect was addressed. However, let us remember here that it is the workers who create value in companies. In France, 2,000 jobs are at risk of disappearing in the automotive, ste…

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Nov

2024

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The Autumn 2024 Economic Forecast: a gradual rebound in an adverse environment (debate)

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Oct

2024

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Foreign interference and hybrid attacks: the need to strengthen EU resilience and internal security (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, foreign interference has always existed. Today, they benefit from the power of digital and the virality of social networks. Commissioner, in your introduction you seemed reassuring, you defended a plan, but I rather feel that we are overwhelmed. In France, researcher David Chavalarias demonstrated very clearly that the 2024 European and legislative campaigns …

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Oct

2024

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A stronger Europe for safer products to better protect consumers and tackle unfair competition: boosting EU oversight in e-commerce and imports (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in ten years, the turnover of e-commerce has tripled. In France alone, the turnover of the Shein site amounts to EUR 1.63 billion. It is an economic tsunami. So yes, yes to consumer protection, yes to the end of the exemption from customs duties below 150 euros of purchases, yes to a precise investigation into suspicions of Chinese subsidies and unfair competiti…

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Oct

2024

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Consequences of the devastating forest fires in the Amazon and the importance of the Amazon for climate change (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the Amazon is home to 10% of the world's wildlife and 34 million people. This world heritage of humanity is under attack from all sides, including fires and deforestation. European countries are responsible for more than 30% of these, because of global trade in agricultural products. There is now a profound contradiction between our discussions this afternoon…