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Jan

2023

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Order of business

Madam President, if I may, I would like to remind Mr Garraud that this committee is included in the resolution adopted by this Parliament in December. I remind him of this good reading, and I will also remind him that the way in which a committee of inquiry can be established here in the European Parliament is not by a resolution of Parliament, but by a procedure that is set, of proposing a mandat…

14

Dec

2022

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 15 December 2022 (debate)

Madam President, good morning, everyone, this time I think I’m going to speak English because I want first to thank Mr Bek and congratulate the Czech Presidency. It’s the second time that your country is leading the work of the European Union for six months, and I must say that you have already brought quite a number of important pieces of legislation across the line and also helped not solving – …

13

Dec

2022

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This is Europe - Debate with the Prime Minister of Slovenia, Robert Golob (debate)

Madam President, welcome to the European Parliament, Prime Minister. It’s good to hear sincere words of, I would say, a decent person who is in politics. We have at least two things in common. I started my career in the private sector as well for 22 years, and what made me enter politics was the fact that in my municipality, the same party, held a majority, an absolute majority for 65 years, they …

23

Nov

2022

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The need for a European solution on asylum and migration including search and rescue (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, since 2015, the EU Heads of State and Government have been unable to agree on a common response to these humans seeking refuge in our territory. This lack of an agreement increasingly hides a de facto agreement to make the European Union an impenetrable fortress. Our governments have, deliberately or through inaction, chosen the policy of refoulement and violenc…

22

Nov

2022

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Formal sitting – Ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of the European Parliament

Madam President, on 14 July 2009 I sat in the European Parliament for the first time. I will never forget my pride in becoming one of the 736 representatives responsible for working in the public interest of 500 million European citizens. I can tell you, and it is a bit of emotion, this pride is intact on this day when we celebrate the 70th anniversary of our Parliament. The European Union is the …

18

Oct

2022

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Commission Work Programme 2023 (debate)

Mr President, dear colleagues, really striking to see how much interest a debate on the Commission work programme for 2023 elicits here in this House. I’d like to spend my two and a half minutes talking to my friends of the European People’s Party, arguably the biggest group in this Parliament. Let me just tell you a story. Forty years ago, the European car industry convinced the European Union no…

13

Sep

2022

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This is Europe - Debate with the Prime Minister of Finland, Sanna Marin (debate)

Madam President, I would like to welcome the Prime Minister. On behalf of the Greens and the European Free Alliance, it’s really a pleasure to see you here because your presence reminds us that, actually, every national government also, as part of the European Council, has European responsibilities. It’s really important that we keep that spirit, that Member States are absolutely crucial to the ad…

12

Sep

2022

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Order of business

Madam President, I am a little surprised by the request from the ID Group, because the ID Group did not mention this request in the Conference of Presidents, which is the place where the agenda is discussed. Far be it from me to eliminate the idea that it is the plenary that is sovereign, but I do not see the new element that justifies putting this item on the agenda instead of – because it is ind…

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Jun

2022

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This is Europe - Debate with the Prime Minister of Croatia, Andrej Plenković (debate)

Madam President, Prime Minister, on behalf of the Green Group, welcome here to the European Parliament. Last Sunday, I was debating with Piotr Tolstoy, the Vice-President of the Duma, the Russian Parliament. He told me that he did not care if Ukraine became a candidate for the European Union, because if all goes well, within a year, Ukraine will no longer exist. That's how he used to say it! He wa…

22

Jun

2022

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Voting time

Madam President, thank you for giving me the floor, because I was attacked by my colleague Manfred Weber and I want to answer him. Mr Weber, I have never said, thought or implied that one of the 705 Members of this House has fewer rights to speak or fewer responsibilities to speak than any other. We are all equally elected by European citizens. The only thing I said, Mr Weber, was that if from the…

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Jun

2022

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Voting time

Madam President, I would like to tell you that you have exercised one of your prerogatives, namely the use of Rule 183 to change the normal order of votes on the text on the emission allowance market in Europe. This is your prerogative, but normally we vote starting with the most ambitious proposal and then back down until we find a solution that wins a majority. I can't challenge the legality of …

22

Jun

2022

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Order of business

Madam President, I would like, on behalf of the Green Group – and I know that this is supported quite widely in this House – to propose to you an exchange, i.e. to replace the debate scheduled for tomorrow at 9 a.m. on ‘the relations of the Russian government and diplomatic network with parties of the extreme right and the extreme left in Europe in the context of the war’ with statements by the Co…

8

Jun

2022

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Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System (A9-0162/2022 - Peter Liese) (vote)

Madam President, I would like to address colleagues and in particular the rapporteur, Mr Liese. I heard his frustration. And as curious as it may seem, I share it. I recall that at the beginning of the treatment of this ‘Fit for 55’ package in the European Parliament, I repeatedly proposed that the pro-European political groups in this Parliament work together, in a structured way, precisely to av…

8

Jun

2022

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Conclusions of the special European Council meeting of 30-31 May 2022 (debate)

Madam President, Mr President, since Putin’s aggression against Ukraine, the European Union has demonstrated a unity and determination that many had underestimated. And I want to say, there's a lot of work for both of you. Our first responsibility is to preserve them over time. The collective dynamic initiated with REPowerEU can contribute to this. Removing Russian hydrocarbons would both strength…

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Jun

2022

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This is Europe - Debate with the Taoiseach of Ireland, Micheál Martin (debate)

Madam President, I say to the Taoiseach: welcome to the European Parliament. Actually, when one looks at the history of your country, a history marred by war, occupation, famine, poverty, mass emigration, a global financial crisis which hit you like few other countries, one might expect a country of anger, bitterness, revenge. And we have none of that, none of that, I’m really struck every time. A…

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May

2022

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This is Europe - Debate with the Prime Minister of Italy, Mario Draghi (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Mr Draghi, welcome to the European Parliament. Avec vous à la tête de son gouvernement et Paolo Gentiloni à la Commission européenne, on peut dire que l’Italie renoue avec un engagement européen résolu à la hauteur de ses responsabilités de membre fondaur et de troisième puissance économique de l’Union. S’il est un domaine, Monsieur le Président où l’Italie n…

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Apr

2022

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Question Time (Commission) - von der Leyen Commission: Two years on, implementation of the political priorities

Yes, I heard you well. What is true for energy is true for agriculture: It will be necessary to free our agriculture from its dependence on fossil fuels. But I would like to continue on Stéphane's line. Will Vladimir Putin’s second collateral victim be the rule of law in the European Union? There's a real risk. We clearly have problems, you mentioned them. I would like you to develop a little bit …

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Apr

2022

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Question Time (Commission) - von der Leyen Commission: Two years on, implementation of the political priorities

Madam President, in the face of the first unexpected ordeal of the pandemic, you have been able to steer the course of the European Green Deal and make it the central focus of the recovery plan. The Russian aggression in Ukraine is a second ordeal and I must admit that I am a little worried. On the energy front, you said that the only credible independence strategy is to focus on renewables and en…

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Mar

2022

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Russian aggression against Ukraine (debate)

Madam President, I would say to our dear Ukrainian friends: we do not have enough words to praise your courage and determination to defend your freedom. Your resistance is a wake—up call to all democrats around the world. Without the will to fight, democracy will perish. To your aggressor I say: your lies for justifying war cannot, and will not, remain unchallenged. No, Mr Putin, Ukraine is not ru…

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Feb

2022

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The surveillance of politicians, prosecutors, lawyers and journalists, and other persons and entities in EU Member States using cyber surveillance software(debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, alongside ever more invasive surveillance capitalism, the surveillance state is sneaking in, shamelessly attacking our fundamental freedoms. From now on, it is not only the mass surveillance programmes of China or the United States that must be feared, but also the targeted cyber-espionage practiced by more and more governments, inside or outside the European…

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Jan

2022

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Election of the President of Parliament (announcement of results)

Madam President, on behalf of the Group of the Greens in the European Parliament – the Greens/European Free Alliance – I would like to congratulate you on your election. I want to say: Finally! Finally, 20 years after Nicole Fontaine, 40 years after Simone Veil, a woman at the head of the European Parliament! And that is true, Manfred, it must be acknowledged: together with Ursula von der Leyen in…

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Dec

2021

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 16-17 December 2021 - The EU's response to the global resurgence of Covid-19 and the new emerging Covid variants (debate)

Mr President, Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, my colleagues will have the opportunity to talk to you about the subjects on the agenda of the European Council, but I would like to talk to you about a subject which, if it is not on the official agenda of the Council, will undoubtedly be the subject of many conciliabules in the corridors: taxonomy. The green taxonomy should be to finance what …

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Nov

2021

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Outcome of the COP26 in Glasgow (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, almost 30 years ago, at the Earth Summit in Rio, the very one that launched the UN climate process. A prominent EPP representative, Jacques Chirac, said "Our house is burning and we are looking elsewhere". If he had come to Glasgow, he could have said that our house is burning ever harder, we are watching it burn and we are not doing anything. Or, at most, we pr…

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Oct

2021

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European solutions to the rise of energy prices for businesses and consumers: the role of energy efficiency and renewable energy and the need to tackle energy poverty (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, if there is one lesson to be learned from the current spike in fossil fuel prices, it is that we must accelerate our transition to renewable energy, which has become the most competitive on the market, and to energy sobriety. Our addiction to fossils was already unsustainable on the climate and geopolitical level, it has also become an economic handicap. Emma…

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Sep

2021

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State of the Union (continuation of debate)

Mr President, Madam President, you are right to point out that you are one third of your mandate, not half. I want to say, despite the pandemic, that the easiest part has been done, which is to open the files and submit proposals. Now we will have to realise the many ambitions in the environmental field, in the social field, in the field of the rule of law and the defence of democracy. In the fiel…