What Marie spoke about.

17 Dec

2024

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The situation in Mayotte following the devastating cyclone Chido and the need for solidarity (debate)

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Madam President, Cyclone Chido, which hit Mayotte, is not just a natural disaster. I say this because I refuse to see here the sign of inevitable inevitability. The disaster is social, health, political, because it is the result of a long history of domination, humiliation and abandonment. Nowhere are we prepared for climate disasters, which are always social disasters. But in Mayotte, extreme pov…

27 Nov

2024

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The arrest of the Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal and the call for his immediate and unconditional release, and the repression of freedom of speech in Algeria (debate)

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Mr President, it is with great indignation that I rise today, on behalf of environmentalists, to denounce the arrest of Boualem Sansal, a man of letters detained for having dared to think freely, for having chosen speech rather than the silence of lead demanded by a beleaguered regime. We demand his immediate release. To demand the release of Boualem Sansal is to defend an essential freedom: that …

27 Nov

2024

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Presentation by the President-elect of the Commission of the College of Commissioners and its programme (debate)

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Madam President, Mrs von der Leyen, by choosing to appoint Raffaele Fitto to the post of Vice-President, you are beginning your second term at the head of the European Commission in the saddest of ways. Your choice, Madam, is not one of compromise, but of compromise with the extreme right. And this is a mistake, because the political situation requires neither complacency nor confusion, but on the…

26 Nov

2024

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Political and humanitarian situation in Mozambique (debate)

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26 Nov

2024

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The Autumn 2024 Economic Forecast: a gradual rebound in an adverse environment (debate)

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25 Nov

2024

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The outcome of the G20 Leaders' Summit (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, poverty is a political choice, and so is eradicating it. So let us make sure that at the time of choice the European Union prefers humanity to greed. Half of the world's population today suffers from hunger, lack of care, an uncertain future. So, of course, it is not the same, but Europe is not spared, with nearly 23% of the population at risk of poverty and …

13 Nov

2024

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The devastating floods in Spain, the urgent need to support the victims, to improve preparedness and to fight the climate crisis (debate)

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Madam President, today we should all be Valencians. Because this terrible tragedy has taken away brothers and sisters, our brothers, our sisters, our children, our parents, our neighbours, our colleagues and our friends. The terrible images of Valencia bring us together in the same humanity struck by the catastrophe, which is why I am ashamed, I am ashamed of the lack of respect and the instrument…

23 Oct

2024

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U-turn on EU bureaucracy: the need to axe unnecessary burdens and reporting to unleash competitiveness and innovation (topical debate)

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Mr President, my colleagues on the right and on the far right have asked for this debate on bureaucracy and competitiveness to once again sound the burden on social and environmental rights. Because, let us say it frankly, it is not the administrative complexity that matters to you, but the preservation of an economic model that is out of breath. When you say: ‘competitiveness’ means: ‘relocations…

22 Oct

2024

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Situation in Azerbaijan, violation of human rights and international law and relations with Armenia (debate)

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Mr President, today we are discussing Azerbaijan, because Baku is preparing to host a world climate conference and obviously those who denounce this are being asked to keep quiet. Well, we will not be silent, because the defence of the climate cannot be done at the expense of human rights. Never. The truth is that the COP should have been boycotted and the gas agreements suspended as long as Armen…

9 Oct

2024

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Ensuring sustainable, decent and affordable housing in Europe - encouraging investment, private property and public housing programmes (debate)

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Mr President, 1.3 million people are homeless, 400 000 children live on the streets in the European Union, 29 million live in housing with mould and 24 million in highly polluted housing. Every year, 100,000 deaths in Europe are attributable to poor housing. We have been waiting too long for a real European housing policy. We now have the speeches, but they are not just speeches that we need, but …

7 Oct

2024

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The extreme wildfires in Southern Europe, in particular Portugal and Greece and the need for further EU climate action on adaptation and mitigation (debate)

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Madam President, 'Carvalho', I ask you to remember that name, because in 2018, the Portuguese Armando Carvalho complained about the European Union's climate inaction, whose climate immobility fuelled the fires that ravaged his land in 2017. Carvalho is also the Portuguese name of this tree, oak, very resistant to fire and yet gradually replaced throughout Europe by conifers, certainly profitable b…

7 Oct

2024

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Signature of acts adopted in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure (Rule 81)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, a few days ago Ursula von der Leyen announced to us the postponement by one year of the European law on deforestation, which we adopted here by a very large majority. You know, every minute, ten forest football fields disappear in the world. If we take the number of minutes in a year and the figure that the European Union is responsible for 16% of deforestati…

19 Sep

2024

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Possible extradition of Paul Watson: the danger of criminalisation of environmental defenders and whistle-blowers, and the need for their protection in the EU (debate)

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Mr President, whales are simply life. Their beauty is breathtaking. But beyond that, by their way of life, the carbon they generate, the biodiversity they maintain, whales are essential to marine life, but also to life on land. Defending whales means defending all of humanity. Yet this is the crime of which Paul Watson is accused, threatened from Denmark with extradition to a country that not only…

18 Sep

2024

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The deteriorating situation of women in Afghanistan due to the recent adoption of the law on the “Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice”

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to invite you to close your eyes, to imagine just a few seconds. Imagine yourself unable to raise your voice, sing, shout, or simply speak on the street, but also at home. Imagine being forbidden to move freely, to go to school or the park, to work or to the doctor. Imagine for a moment. This fate is that reserved for Afghan women, those women who a…

17 Sep

2024

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The future of European competitiveness (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the solar panel companies Systovi in France and Meyer Burger in Germany and electric car companies like Audi in Forest in Belgium are closing down these European companies. Thousands upon thousands of workers are put out of work while precariousness explodes. Europe is losing its sovereignty in areas as diverse and as crucial as the objects of the transition …

24 Apr

2024

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The attack on climate and nature: far right and conservative attempts to destroy the Green Deal and prevent investment in our future (topical debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I ask you to open your eyes. You will see floods that ravage entire territories, houses cracked due to climate change, lives of work that go up in smoke due to climate change. You will see land devalued by industrial pollution that you refuse to fight, childhood cancers explode, because of pesticides that you refuse to reduce, and water that disappears and is gr…

23 Apr

2024

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Effective coordination of economic policies and multilateral budgetary surveillance - Speeding up and clarifying the implementation of the excessive deficit procedure – amending Regulation - Requirements for budgetary frameworks of the Member States – amending Directive (joint debate – Economic governance)

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Mr President, the needs for the green transition are enormous and poverty is exploding in Europe; But it is at this very moment that you are depriving us of the means to invest in the necessary ecological bifurcation and social justice. In doing so, you also condemn Europe to lagging behind the economic powers in the face of the US IRA and the massive Chinese investment plan. In short, for you, if…

11 Apr

2024

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Internal markets for renewable gas, natural gas and hydrogen (recast) - Common rules for the internal markets for renewable gas, natural gas and hydrogen (recast) - Union’s electricity market design: Regulation - Union’s electricity market design: Directive (joint debate – Reform of the energy and electricity markets)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, there is no point in adopting ambitious climate targets and pretending to be carbon neutral if we are not able to plan for the gas phase-out. However, the package presented to us today is the only text in the entire Green Deal to address this crucial issue. It should therefore have been an opportunity to plan our exit from gas in 2035, as scientists are asking u…

10 Apr

2024

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Soil Monitoring and Resilience (Soil Monitoring Directive) (A9-0138/2024 - Martin Hojsík) (vote)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, in Guadeloupe and Martinique, soils have been polluted for two decades by the pesticide chlordecone, classified as a carcinogen, which now contaminates 90% of the population. While the marine populations denounce ecocide, we would like to underline the urgency of depolluting these soils and propose the following amendment. Member States should prioritise the …

28 Feb

2024

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Resumption of the sitting

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Madam President, I would like to make a point of order under Rule 195. The ongoing repression of environmental activists in Europe who resort to peaceful civil disobedience is a major threat to democracy and human rights. These are the words of the UN rapporteur on environmental defenders, Michel Forst, in his report published today. Ecoterrorists, ecovandalists, threats to democracy. Despite the …

27 Feb

2024

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Closer ties between the EU and Armenia and the need for a peace agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia (debate)

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Mr President, Azerbaijan is threatening Armenia. Yes, we must mobilize for peace, because yes, peace is in danger. With his ethnic cleansing operation in Nagorno-Karabakh, Ilham Aliev, the Baku autocrat, pretended to play the game of appeasement. Let's not be fooled! He is now eyeing Armenia. Europe was absent when Azeri troops entered Nagorno-Karabakh. Will we turn a deaf ear again as Aliev multi…

7 Feb

2024

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Empowering farmers and rural communities - a dialogue towards sustainable and fairly rewarded EU agriculture (debate)

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Mr President, the anger that farmers are expressing today is perfectly legitimate. But tell me, how can we claim to defend agriculture by defending the status quo of a head-on system, a model that destroys peasant employment, concentrates profits in a few hands by generalising precariousness and degrades the quality of our food by exploding food insecurity? We've had enough. Enough of the dual dis…

6 Feb

2024

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Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed (debate)

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Madam President, let us be responsible, let us reject the requests of Bayer-Monsanto, Corteva or Limagrain! Let's reject the irreversible deregulation of GMOs! The political choice we need to make is clear: the patented profits of a few or the public interest, naive trust in the supposed power of a technology or the guarantee of our food sovereignty and the independence of peasants, the explosion …

12 Dec

2023

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Environmental consequences of the Russian aggression against Ukraine and the need for accountability (debate)

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Mr President, bombs continue to fall on Ukraine, and we must continue unceasingly and relentlessly to support the Ukrainian people in the name of human rights, democracy and the European project itself. Shame on those who now turn their backs on him. This war is tens of thousands of civilian victims, thousands of lives broken, cities destroyed, children orphaned, women raped. Behind this human dev…

8 Nov

2023

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Order of business

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No, I wish to put our proposal to the vote.