What Séverine spoke about.

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May

2026

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The need to reduce work-related fatalities (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, work is not just a place to earn a living; Sometimes it's a place where you lose it. Never get used to the fact that some people go to work in the morning and never go home again. The resolution mentions – and I would like to welcome – our firefighters and law enforcement officers who suffer hatred and violence by rendering the noblest of services:…

19

Jan

2026

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Just transition directive in the world of work: ensuring the creation of jobs and revitalising local economies (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, employment, employment, the main pillar of social policy, must guide everything else. The first question that should be of interest to us is: how to preserve our jobs and better, how to create them? Certainly not with the text we are debating tonight. As a corollary of the Green Deal, which has undermined our industry, particularly the automotive industry, it…

16

Dec

2025

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Presentation of the European Affordable Housing Plan (continuation of debate)

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Nov

2025

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Fishing opportunities 2026: ensuring the sustainability of fish populations, marine ecosystems and coastal communities

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Oct

2025

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Second World Summit for Social Development (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the next World Summit for Social Development is an opportunity to take stock of what we have done over the past 30 years and to reaffirm the three pillars dear to Europeans: poverty eradication, support for quality employment and social integration of the disadvantaged. However, this is an opportunity that has been largely squandered by the obsessions of the lef…

9

Sep

2025

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Amending ERDF, Cohesion Fund and Just Transition Fund as regards specific measures to address strategic challenges in the context of the mid-term review (debate)

Mr President, in fact, what a mess! It didn't start so bad though. To our astonishment, you were finally ready to relax the regulations for the implementation of the Just Transition and Regional Development Funds, particularly with regard to defence, energy and housing: the increase in the ceiling for co-financing by the European Union, the extension of expenditure procedures, the integration of l…

9

Sep

2025

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European Social Fund (ESF+): specific measures to address strategic challenges (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, here is a great deal of time lost in arriving at this text, which is the image of this institution: filled with contradictory injunctions, stifled by diminishing ideology and also costly. Finally, sprinkle everything with a small pinch of arbitrary control and you will get the trash of this text that was initially interesting. Interesting, in particular because …

9

Jul

2025

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EU-US trade negotiations (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, for a Union stifled by Chinese customs duties and now under US threats, the awakening is brutal – after 30 years of blissful naivety in trade matters, which has made states hostage to your dogma of unlimited free trade. Let me take an example: the cognac industry. It is a flagship of French excellence, with 80,000 local jobs and €3 billion in exports – almost half of wh…

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May

2025

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Ninth report on economic and social cohesion (debate)

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Apr

2025

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European oceans pact (debate)

In answer to the first part of your question on employment and the concordance of times, the fact is that we all fully agree that France and the European states must preserve their total sovereignty over their maritime domain.…

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Apr

2025

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European oceans pact (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, the protection of the oceans is all too often reduced to an opposition between the preservation of the environment and the human activities that depend on it. But beyond the agreed discourses, one fundamental truth is neglected: Our fishermen are the first defenders of the oceans. Yet it is they that Europe always chooses to punish first. We will support our fishermen i…

12

Mar

2025

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100 days of the new Commission – Delivering on defence, competitiveness, simplification and migration as our priorities (topical debate)

Mr President, Commissioners, it is to your credit that, since your appointment, you have been working hard. Your program is out, and we can perfectly guess what your guideline is: the plundering of the competence of States. Sitting comfortably on the treaties that established you, you allow yourself to indebted the European Union. You struggle, like Don Quixote, against foreign interferences that …

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Feb

2025

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Mr President, at this very moment, more than 450 fishing vessels are stranded at berth because of the brutal and irrational renewal of the fishing ban in the Bay of Biscay. In addition to penalizing fishermen who have already made significant efforts, this measure has resulted in considerable losses for all shore-based trades. It is essential to remember that a job at sea generates three to four j…