What Marie spoke about.

21 Oct

2025

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Commission Work Programme 2026 (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, there is no love, there is only evidence of love. And if I begin today with this rather well-known French poem, it is to ask the question, Madam President: What proof of love is this new weakening of the deforestation law that you have proposed to us today, despite all your promises. And here I want to remind you that, like love, trust must be expressed by de…

20 Oct

2025

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International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, this debate is being held on the occasion of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, which is still indispensable because billions of people around the world, hundreds of millions in Europe, are still suffering from hunger, lack of a decent roof over their heads, decent jobs or the humiliation and contempt associated with their condit…

8 Oct

2025

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Europe’s automotive future – reversing the ban on the sale of combustion cars in the EU (topical debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, I am addressing the far-right group that has asked for this debate. You claim to be patriotic, you claim to want to save the European car industry. But all this is powder in the eyes. Your Green Deal cabal actually leads you to fight against the general European interest, not only against the climate, but also against our economy and our jobs. Over…

7 Oct

2025

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Time to complete a fully integrated Single Market: Europe’s key to growth and future prosperity (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, we are here to talk about the European internal market and its contribution to our common prosperity. The state, like Mario Draghi, considered Europe to be a unique asset in a chaotic world, but on one condition sine qua non: the strength of our social and environmental model. But where have these crucial concerns gone? No, Europe does not need …

11 Sep

2025

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Summer of heatwaves in the EU: addressing the causes and providing adequate housing and health policies to address record-breaking temperatures (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, the right to healthy housing should be a fundamental right. It is unfortunately being flouted for millions of Europeans, for the million homeless in Europe, as well as for the tens of millions who suffer from poor housing or live in thermal fogs. It is a fact that Europe is subjected more and more often to increasingly hot heat waves and, in times …

10 Sep

2025

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Taxation of large digital platforms in the light of international developments (debate)

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Mr President, we must make the digital giants pay: Google, Amazon, TikTok, Meta and others. These companies plunder our data, spy on us, trample on nature and human and social rights, and then go into hiding in tax havens, sometimes even in the heart of Europe, Commissioner. While Europeans struggle to gather enough to live in dignity by the sweat of their foreheads, the "tech bros", Musk, Bezos o…

10 Sep

2025

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State of the Union (debate)

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Madam President, Madam President von der Leyen, Europe is going badly and, forgive me for telling you, but you have a lot to do with it. You come today to meet the European Parliament, with a mouth full of promises, but your words ring hollow. The reality is that the liberalism you defend as the only possible path has led us, and subjected us, to Russian and now Chinese and American neo-imperialis…

8 Sep

2025

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Investments and reforms for European competitiveness and the creation of a Capital Markets Union (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, here we are one year after the Draghi report, which was so warmly received at the time. But where are we today? Where are the investments promised to embark on the much-needed ecological transformation, including decarbonisation? Where are the billions of euros needed to preserve jobs in Europe and get rid of our multiple dependencies, for example in rare ear…

8 Jul

2025

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Presentation of the Chemicals Package (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, Executive Vice-President, you are talking about a package to support chemical companies. But I will tell you, in reality, what you are presenting to us today is a poisoning permit issued to the worst of the chemical industry, to the detriment, of course, of consumers, workers, and our children. You call it an ‘industry plan’. Well, I call it a plan to multiply cancer…

7 May

2025

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The role of gas storage for securing gas supplies ahead of the winter season (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, finally, the European Union is determined to permanently and permanently separate itself from Russian gas. It was time! Together with environmentalists, we have been constantly alerting, alerting and alerting to the danger that this toxic dependence poses to peace and to citizens. But it took the outbreak of war for the majority of this European Pa…

7 May

2025

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Competition policy – annual report 2024 (debate)

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Madam President, there is no sub-citizenship. That is why, in the outermost regions, in particular in the French overseas regions, every inhabitant should be able to enjoy the rights enjoyed by the rest of the citizens of the Union. That's not the case. There is a break in equality because the cost of living overseas is prohibitive. Europe must face this truth. In Martinique, prices for basic nece…

3 Apr

2025

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110th anniversary of the Armenian genocide

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Mr President, in April 1915, the Ottoman State arrested, deported and murdered. More than 1 million Armenians are exterminated. This genocide remains an unsuturable wound in the memory of the Armenian people and in European memory. What has been destroyed is not just scattered lives: an entire people wanted to be wiped out. We must keep the memory alive against the gravediggers of memory who still…

2 Apr

2025

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Topical debate (Rule 169) - Social Europe: making life affordable, protecting jobs, wages and health for all

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, social plans are multiplying on our continent, putting millions of workers out of work. Bills are exploding. Millions of people fail to live with dignity from their work, to house themselves, to feed their children properly. Millions of citizens are now thrown into a poverty trap, from which they are less able to escape as public policies stigmatise and harass t…

12 Mar

2025

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European Semester (joint debate)

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Thank you, Mr Oliveira, for this question. What has been observed in the years, perhaps even decades, that have passed is that this fiscal straitjacket that has been imposed on Member States has sometimes led to cuts in social policies, social justice and public services – this is the case with schools and hospitals, for example, which we absolutely need for our populations – in favour of liberali…

12 Mar

2025

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European Semester (joint debate)

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Mr President, what we are discussing today, the European Semester, is a crucial tool for coordinating the fiscal – and therefore economic and social – policies of the Member States. I regret the dogma of growth and austerity in which Europe remains locked, despite the capacity for dialogue in the examination of this report. Believing that we can keep the climate issue on the periphery is madness. …

10 Mar

2025

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Cutting red tape and simplifying business in the EU: the first Omnibus proposals (debate)

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Mr Liese, thank you for your intervention. We have been listening for a while to the EPP speakers, who explain that they are ready to work with all democratic groups in the European Parliament. Yet the EPP did not respond to the call when it came to sitting together to look at what could be done to simplify business life while maintaining a high level of social and environmental ambition. Together…

10 Mar

2025

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Cutting red tape and simplifying business in the EU: the first Omnibus proposals (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I too will address the European right, as I cannot address the Commission. Under the guise of simplification, what you are proposing is an unprecedented collapse in the protections of the European economy. At a time when Europe is under threat, you are choosing deregulation over sovereignty. Indeed, you propose that we abandon the few tools that allow us, for ex…

10 Mar

2025

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Supporting the EU’s most vulnerable regions against devastating effects of climate change, such as the recent cyclone hitting La Réunion (debate)

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Mr President, this is Reunion once again hit by a cyclone of unprecedented intensity. Last year, Belal had already caused serious damage, but Garance is even worse. After Chido in Mayotte, this is a new climatic episode that defies customs in the Indian Ocean. When will we understand that we need to accelerate, rather than pause, the fight against climate change? The people of Reunion lost five of…

13 Feb

2025

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EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement (debate)

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Mrs. Karlsbro, thank you. You say that you do not understand why some are opposed to the agreement with Mercosur, which you very obviously support. However, to sign this agreement with Mercosur, to implement it, is to tell farmers, who are already suffering, who are already dying, from the low remuneration linked to the sale of their products, that we will subject them to even tougher competition …

12 Feb

2025

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Competitiveness Compass (debate)

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Mr. Speaker, our goal is to reconcile the economy with the planet: These words, which speak among other things of competitiveness, are not about me or ecologists, but about Ursula von der Leyen. Today, Mr Vice-President, I have to say that I am a little upset. Why? Because the unspoken often have a meaning that we must absolutely reveal. Total absence – total absence! – the climate and ecological …

23 Jan

2025

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Combating Desertification: 16th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP16) of the United Nations Convention (debate)

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Mr President, desertification is the other name for climate injustice and vulnerability. It is perhaps because it first affected the poorest countries that the richest countries paid so little attention to it for so long. Desertification is now upon us. Corsica and the poorest parts of the Mediterranean, Perpignan and its most precarious neighborhoods in France, or the devastated Mayotte, no longe…

22 Jan

2025

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EU financing through the LIFE programme of entities lobbying EU institutions and the need for transparency (debate)

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You ask me if anyone here has asked to cut funding for NGOs. Yes, we have a debate that aims to remove funds from these NGOs. We are talking about EUR 15 million in the LIFE programme allocated to 35 organisations, and at the same time you are fighting – Mrs Hohlmeier for example – a battle in the context of the reports on the future budgets of the European Union to abolish these funds. When you c…

22 Jan

2025

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EU financing through the LIFE programme of entities lobbying EU institutions and the need for transparency (debate)

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Madam President, a truce of hypocrisy: we are not here because the right and the far right want to make sure that European funds are used properly. No, we are here because the right and the far right have decided to wage war against these non-profit organisations – non-profit! – who work, with financial and human resources, to defend the general interest, that of the planet, that of ecology and th…

22 Jan

2025

FR Question

EU financing through the LIFE programme of entities lobbying EU institutions and the need for transparency (debate)

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Sir, you are talking about independent studies. Yet your political family, at EU level as well as in the Member States, keeps firing red bullets at all the agencies that are able to provide these independent scientific studies. To give you an example: In France, we have an institution that deals with pesticides and provides studies, which, however, are hidden. They are buried by governments, which…

18 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)

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Mr President, over the past 50 years, Europe has lost millions of industrial jobs – 2 million in France since 1970, particularly in the textile sector. The 2008 financial crisis was accompanied by massive social plans. Even today, the employees of Michelin, Vencorex, ArcelorMittal, Grandpuits and Chapelle-Darblay must be supported at all costs. Let's be serious: the Green Deal is not responsible f…