Speeches

The next part-session will take place from 8 to 11 September 2025 in Strasbourg. To each and every one of you I wish you a happy holiday and I would also like to thank all those who ensured the smooth running of our session.

The minutes of this sitting will be submitted to Parliament for approval at the beginning of the next sitting. If there are no objections, I will now forward the resolutions adopted at today’s sitting to their addressees.

The next item is the debate on the Commission statement on Endometriosis: a wake-up call for Europe on health disparities between women and men." [2025/2795(RSP)]

The non-attached Members communicated to the President a decision on changes to the appointments in committees and delegations. These decisions will be included in the minutes of today's sitting and will take effect on the date of this announcement.

The minutes of yesterday’s sitting and the texts adopted are available. Are there any observations? There are none. The minutes were approved.

The next item is the debate on the statement by the Council and the Commission entitled ‘The Union of preparedness for the next season of forest fires and droughts’ (2025/2771(RSP)).

The ‘catch the eye’ procedure is closed. For the other colleagues, you can make a written statement, which will be entered in the verbatim report of our sitting.

Madam President, that the structure of our budget needs to be adapted to new realities, we all agree with that; that cohesion policy must be modernised, simplified and made more effective, we also agree. But this modernisation must not be a pretext for dismantling a policy which is above all a regional policy guaranteed by the Treaties to reduce disparities, and sacrificing the Berlin method and the categorisation of regions would be quite inconsistent. Renationalising, sacrificing the ERDF and ESF for a mega-fund backed by new objectives, means turning our backs on millions of citizens who, in rural, outermost and deindustrialised areas, rely on Europe not to be abandoned by their state. You have a few days to avoid persevering with a proposal that is opposed by the regions of Europe, by a very large number of countries and by our European Parliament.

Madam President, Commissioner, they do not speak, but without them the world would be silent. And yet, bees are already dying massively and their buzzing is running out in the din of our pesticides and a choice of a productivist and intensive agricultural model that we know today must turn the page. Every hive that empties is a field that runs out. A flower that does not fruit and, in totality, a promise of life that vanishes. Bees weave in flight the balance of life, colors and seasons too. I therefore call on the European Commission not to give in to the scuttling of the European Green Deal and to ban the most dangerous substances and to support agroecological practices. It is absolutely vital that insects remain, it is vital to prohibit what kills them, to love and protect what allows life.

The next item is the debate on the report by Anna Stürgkh, on behalf of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, on electricity networks: the backbone of the EU energy system (2025/2006(INI)) (A10-0091/2025).

Thank you very much, Mr Vice-President. I should like to inform you that I have received two motions for resolutions to close this debate. The debate is therefore closed and the vote will take place tomorrow.

The next item is the debate on the question for oral answer to the Commission on the Clean Industry Pact by Tom Berendsen, on behalf of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (O-000020/2025 - B10-0006/25) (2025/2656(RSP)) I would like to draw your attention to the fact that there will be only one round of speakers from the political groups. There will therefore be no on-demand interventions or blue cards.

No, Mr. Bellamy, you are asking the question of the speaker in the gallery. So thank you for playing the game of the Rules of Procedure and thank you for addressing the question to our colleague Girauta Vidal.

No, it's a sorry intervention, it's not a point of order. We're continuing. No, you've had two blue cards turned down, I understand you want to talk, there's the procedure catch-the-eyeI ask you to register.