What Karima spoke about.

13 Mar

2024

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Type-approval of motor vehicles and engines with respect to their emissions and battery durability (Euro 7) (debate)

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Mr. Member, I answer: we are not responsible for air pollution. Air pollution is caused by diesel and, as the WHO says, ‘diesel is carcinogenic’. Today, you talk about France. France has increased from 65,000 to 79,000 premature deaths each year. You think we're gonna sit idly by? No, no. As for our automotive industry, I repeat, it is not as efficient as it should have been, because, precisely, w…

13 Mar

2024

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Type-approval of motor vehicles and engines with respect to their emissions and battery durability (Euro 7) (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I must say how angry I am. Seven years ago, when we came out of ‘dieselgate’, we all agreed. We said: Never again! No more garbage vehicles!" We said: We, politicians, legislators, take the measure of the health scandal and take exemplary measures for our fellow citizens. We are talking about 300,000 air pollution victims every year – 300,000 people! Seven years…

28 Feb

2024

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Driving licences (A9-0445/2023 - Karima Delli) (vote)

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Madame la Présidente, mes chers collègues, je voudrais remercier mes corapporteurs. Le résultat de ce rapport n’est pas à la hauteur des enjeux, je vous le dis. The Europe that protects, that saves lives, is not really embodied in this report. We had to show just how much support and support we had for families and victims. Even if this report is adopted, I consider that it is not up to the challe…

27 Feb

2024

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Driving licences (debate)

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Ladies and gentlemen, many have not read the text! In the text, there is no longer any question of a permit, in particular SUVs or other permits. On the other hand, Mr Deli, you mentioned the issue of a tractor licence. I did not set it up, it was the EPP. And I guarantee you that there will be a deletion amendment, especially at this time. I would like to tell you, each and every one of you in th…

27 Feb

2024

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Driving licences (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, one death on the road is always one death too many. An injured person on the roads is always a tragedy that could have been avoided. As you will have understood, I do not believe in any fatality in terms of road accidents, and neither does Europe. Remember, in this house called the European Parliament, we collectively adopted a roadmap that sets a goal that h…

5 Feb

2024

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Union-wide effect of certain driving disqualifications (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, we are moving slowly along the path of a single permit. I say softly, because here we know the frilosities of the Member States in making a real European permit. Yet it would be very useful, this European permit, because we have 60 deaths on the roads a day. I repeat: 60 deaths per day in the European Union. This is dramatic, and that is why we are…

15 Jan

2024

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Amendments to the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) - Amendments to the Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) (joint debate - Markets in financial instruments regulations)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the texts we are debating today, no matter how technical, are very concrete examples of political battles and victories that have a real impact on the wallets of the citizens of the European Union. Indeed, as several academic studies have pointed out over the past two years, the surge in energy and food prices that has led to the inflation we ar…

13 Dec

2023

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One year after Morocco and QatarGate – stocktaking of measures to strengthen transparency and accountability in the European institutions (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, a year ago we were traumatised, shocked and disgusted to learn that the European Parliament and the European Commission had been the mouthpieces of Qatar’s interference. Worse, this case has splattered us all and it has discredited the political class. Between suitcases of tickets found in various homes, flights and all-expenses-paid hotels, reality has surpasse…

21 Nov

2023

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Strengthening the CO2 emission performance targets for new heavy-duty vehicles (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we have arrived with great intelligence at a historic result that puts a very fossil sector (heavy goods vehicles, 25% of carbon emissions from transport) on a low-emission trajectory. Low emissions? I would have preferred a zero-emission trajectory. We will have done it with the cars. We environmentalists have also defended it for trucks, but we agree with the …

8 Nov

2023

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Type-approval of motor vehicles and engines with respect to their emissions and battery durability (Euro 7) (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I must say how angry I am. Seven years ago, when we came out of Dieselgate, we all agreed in this Chamber. We said: Never again. Never again a trash car, never again a cheat under the complicit eye of the Member States of the European Union, we have taken the measure of the health scandal, so that the European Parliament’s Committee of Inquiry concluded that it …

18 Oct

2023

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Islamist terrorist attack on French schools and the need to protect people and promote social cohesion (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, as you know, Dominique Bernard, a professor of letters, died five days ago from the stabbing of a terrorist who injured two others, an agent and a teacher. It could have been worse. Except that Dominique Bernard, at the risk of his life, fought the assailant, giving the students time to hide and protect themselves, saving time for the police to intervene. Domini…

12 Sep

2023

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Sustainable aviation fuels (ReFuelEU Aviation Initiative) (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, tomorrow we will vote on a historic agreement that sets out for the first time a roadmap to decarbonise the aviation sector in Europe by 2050, and to lift the sector out of its dependence on kerosene, one of the most polluting fuels in the world. There is an urgent need to: the aviation sector accounts for 3% of global CO2 emissions, the equival…

11 Jul

2023

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Greening transport package (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, if we had to remind ourselves again, the climate emergency is here. It will demolish us all, and it will demolish us even more tomorrow if we do nothing. Transport accounts for a quarter of CO2 emissions in the EU and is the only sector that has not reduced its greenhouse gas emissions since 1990. The finding is therefore simple: In order to ach…

14 Jun

2023

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Surrogacy in the EU - risks of exploitation and commercialisation (topical debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I will tell you as I think: The European Parliament is the place of rights. It is here, through our work, that we ensure that no one is discriminated against for what they are. I will not accept that such fundamental societal topics as helping to found a family, whether it is reproductive aid or helping others, are being hijacked or instrumentalised against L…

9 May

2023

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Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence – EU accession: institutions and public administration of the Union - Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence - EU accession: judicial cooperation in criminal matters, asylum and non-refoulement (debate)

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Commissioner Dalli, ladies and gentlemen, five years ago I spoke in this Chamber and said it loud and clear: Fear and shame must change sides. We are five years later. It is not a giant step, it is a giant step for us women. As we know, one in three women in Europe has experienced physical or sexual violence. More than half of the women were harassed. Seven die every day under the blows of their s…

15 Mar

2023

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Need for immediate reform of the internal rules of the Commission to ensure transparency and accountability in light of alleged conflicts of interests (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, there is a rule in democracy: citizens trust us, they entrust us with part of their destiny in the name of a principle, trust. Confidence that we will serve their common interest and not particular interests. As we have seen with qatargate, our institutions are the target of foreign powers. As we have seen with dieselgate, our institutions are t…

16 Feb

2023

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Developing an EU cycling strategy (debate)

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Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I come from a land of cycling: I was born in France, in Roubaix, that is to say, I was destined to do great things for cycling. So you all know the Paris-Roubaix, its cobblestones, as you also know the Tour de France, the Tour des Flandres, the Tour de Lombardie, and so on. Cycling is an immensely popular sport in Europe, but it is above all a mode of transport.…

14 Feb

2023

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CO2 emission standards for cars and vans (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, with a lot of hard work and intelligence, we have reached a historic agreement that reconciles the car and the climate. It is still something, because normally they are two enemy brothers. It is a transition agreement: it plans to end the production of thermal vehicles and replace them with zero-emission cars. We are at the very heart of the gre…

18 Jan

2023

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Revelations of Uber lobbying practices in the EU (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, what more do we need to do? We have cascading revelations thanks to the International Consortium of Journalists on Uber’s methods of thugs. We have a whistleblower, Mr Mark MacGann, former Uber lobbyist leader, who denounced Uber’s illegal actions between 2013 and 2017. In 2017, I myself here in Parliament’s Transport Committee denounced Uber’s fra…

17 Jan

2023

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New developments in allegations of corruption and foreign interference, including those related to Morocco, and the need to increase transparency, integrity and accountability in the European institutions (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, as you have said, the situation is serious. We were betrayed by some of our colleagues who preferred Qatar, who preferred Morocco over European projects. They will be put out of harm's way. Justice is doing it, let’s trust it. But we inherit this great mess, this feeling of general mistrust, even though the war is at the gates of Europe and we m…

19 Oct

2022

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Fighting sexualised violence - The importance of the Istanbul Convention and a comprehensive proposal for a directive against gender-based violence (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, five years ago, here in this Chamber, I was shouting: Fear and shame must change sides! Five years later, nothing has changed. As we know, one in three women in Europe has suffered physical or sexual violence, more than half of women have been harassed, one in ten has been raped, seven die every day from their spouse or ex-spouse. And remember t…

17 Oct

2022

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Sustainable maritime fuels (FuelEU Maritime Initiative) - Deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, as you know, 90% of goods in Europe pass by sea. Maritimes account for 13% of CO2 emissions from transport and are an unprecedented nuisance when it comes to air quality. And more and more cities, such as Marseille, Ajaccio and all over Europe, are mobilising against these super-paquebots that pollute the air. We have solutions, I ask you to vote f…

7 Jul

2022

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Developing an EU Cycling Strategy (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I am very pleased that the issue of cycling is finally being discussed in this Chamber. This is the first step towards a European cycling strategy. The Committee on Transport and Tourism, which I chair, took up this subject a few weeks ago and prepared this oral question for the European Commission, which will be followed by a resolution after the …

7 Jul

2022

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Sustainable aviation fuels (ReFuelEU Aviation Initiative) (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we are about to vote on a text that aims to decarbonise the aviation sector. The stakes are high: aviation emissions are exploding, aviation already accounts for 3% of global emissions and air traffic will continue to increase by more than 50% in 2035. We need to decarbonise this sector and replace kerosene, which is one of the most polluting fuels…

7 Jun

2022

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Binding annual greenhouse gas emission reductions by Member States (Effort Sharing Regulation) - Land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) - CO2 emission standards for cars and vans (joint debate – Fit for 55 (part 2))

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Mr President, Commissioner, Minister, ladies and gentlemen, scientists give us three years, three years to avoid rising temperatures, three years to avoid rising bills, but above all air pollution. And it is up to us to decide now, in this House. Either we let the earth burn, or we live up to the climate challenges. So let's stop procrastinating. We have an opportunity to take this historic turn, …