What Marie spoke about.

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2023

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Situation in Nagorno-Karabakh after Azerbaijan’s attack and the continuing threats against Armenia (debate)

Madam President, I have a minute, a minute to talk about a pain that has lasted for centuries, that of the Armenian people who have been martyred, humiliated and so little defended. To talk about the current exodus in Nagorno-Karabakh is to talk about our responsibility, our complicity, it is to talk about the gas that we prefer to import rather than to oppose an ongoing ethnic cleansing. Looking …

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2023

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Protection of workers from asbestos (debate)

Mr President, asbestos is an invisible killer that has caused much suffering and shortened far too many lives. Lives stolen by indifference to workers' suffering, lives poisoned by the law of profit placed above the protection of workers. Yet their lives matter. In Dunkirk, France alone, more than two thousand asbestos victims, such as Pierre Pluta, have recently been rejected. More than a quarter…

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Sep

2023

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State of the Union (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the extreme right says that on 9 June we will have a choice to make, a choice of civilisation. Well, that is true. Either we choose decline and populist national confinement, or we choose ecology to respond to the new climate regime and social justice. This is the choice we will have to make. Madam President, I listened well to your speech, in some brave ways…

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2023

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Towards a more disaster-resilient EU - protecting people from extreme heatwaves, floods and forest fires (debate)

Mr President, the planet is going through a deep ecological crisis and Europe is no exception. We have entered a new climate regime, as shown by the unprecedented fires in Greece, the drought in Spain, and others could be mentioned. But instead of reconnecting with the living, the war continues, waged here by the right wings who opposed the law on the restoration of nature before the summer. Befor…

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Nature restoration (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we are experiencing the accelerated collapse of life as a result of biodiversity loss and climate change. Everyone knows that. The Nature Restoration Act has a crucial scope. It must be adopted. Every parliamentarian in this Chamber has in his or her hands a share of the destiny of humanity. So, colleagues, open your eyes! Millions of species are disappearing, o…

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2023

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Humanitarian and environmental consequences of the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam - Sustainable reconstruction and integration of Ukraine into the Euro-Atlantic community (debate)

Mr President, "the worst environmental disaster in Ukraine since Chernobyl": This is how the Ukrainian government described the attack on the Kakhovka dam. And for good reason: 18 billion tonnes of water were released, raising the level of the river by six metres. The disasters observed are expected to extend over 5 000 kilometres: 5,000 kilometres of flooded land, including 11 natural parks and 4…

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2023

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Closure of procedure for requests for the waiver and defence of Members’ parliamentary immunity

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Europe is facing a new scandal. We learn this morning that several pesticide manufacturers have deliberately lied to the European authorities. For several years and several times, Syngenta, but also Bayer, allegedly subtracted scientific analyses demonstrating the toxicity of their products on human health, and in particular on the development of children's b…

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2023

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Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the situation is simple: If companies do not comply with the Paris Agreement, then we will not be able to limit global warming to 1.5°C. And let us be clear, let us be honest, none of the European oil and gas companies, neither Repsol, nor ENI, nor of course Total, is now on the trajectory of the Paris Agreement. Things are simple: If companies continue to sprea…

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Apr

2023

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IPCC report on Climate Change: a call for urgent additional action (debate)

Mr President, the IPCC is formal: the climate crisis is abysmal and deadly, for humanity as well as for many other species. But the IPCC is also formal: it is still possible for us to act. For this, at least three foods in the recipe. The first: Freeing yourself from fossil fuels. This means stopping all funding, support for fossil energy projects and their infrastructure. And this applies to the …

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2023

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Keeping people healthy, water drinkable and soil liveable: getting rid of forever pollutants and strengthening EU chemical legislation now (topical debate)

Madam President, ‘we have made the planet inhospitable to human life by irreversibly contaminating it, so that nothing is clean anymore, so much so that it is not clean enough to be safe’. These words are those of scientific researcher Ian Cousins, evoking per- and polyfluorinated PFAS, a family of more than 10,000 substances that are eminently toxic and so persistent that they will never disappea…

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Apr

2023

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Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System - Monitoring, reporting and verification of greenhouse gas emissions from maritime transport - Carbon border adjustment mechanism - Social Climate Fund - Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System for aviation (debate)

Mr President, four texts, four texts to accelerate our climate action. But while the IPCC is asking us to reach carbon neutrality as early as 2040 and we are claiming that we do not want to leave anyone behind, the question arises: Are we there? With only one minute left, I will only talk about the extension of the carbon market to transport and housing. Your proposal is to increase the cost of he…

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2023

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Deforestation Regulation (debate)

Well, dear colleague, it depends. There are agricultural organisations, both in Europe and around the world, who regret that we are adopting this legislation. Why? Well, simply because a large number of practices consist precisely in clearing forests, destroying ecosystems that are nevertheless the lungs of the world, the places where a certain number of people live, in order to be able to exploit…

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2023

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Deforestation Regulation (debate)

Mr President, the decision we are adopting today is historic. This is a huge step forward for the world’s forests, climate, biodiversity, but also for human rights and, it must be remembered, the regulation of an economy that has gone mad. Because the laws of economics are not above the laws of nature. Today, the European Union is responsible for 16% of deforestation through products such as soybe…

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2023

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Conclusions of the Special European Council meeting of 9 February and preparation of the European Council meeting of 23-24 March 2023 (debate)

Madam President, Mr President, you are here to tell us about the discussions currently taking place between the Member States. Only, you don't say a word about Afghan women, not a word about Iranian women who keep being harassed. Not a word about Polish and Hungarian women fighting for their rights, as we celebrate the anniversary of International Women's Day. Nor do you say a word of regret about…

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2023

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Question Time (Commission) - How to ensure energy security in the EU in 2023

You are answering me, Commissioner, on the diversification of the supply of natural and enriched uranium. You do not answer the question of waste, and there is also another threat to energy security with regard to nuclear energy, which is the question of water. Nuclear is 150 to 180 liters of water to produce a megawatt hour of electricity. And it only takes a short episode of heatwave to make up …

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2023

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Question Time (Commission) - How to ensure energy security in the EU in 2023

Mr President, Commissioner, we are here in a debate on the energy security of the Union and therefore also, in the background, on the security of the European Union. However, there is a blind spot in the policy that is being pursued today, namely that of uranium from Russia. Imports of natural uranium reached 2 358 tonnes in 2021, amounting to around EUR 210 million, not counting the EUR 234 milli…

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Dec

2022

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Outcome of COP27 (debate)

Madam President, COP27 is a painful failure. Some of you, Mr Vice-President, have criticised China, India or the United States for hindering climate action, sometimes with good reason. But how can we claim to be exemplary ourselves, when we persist in investing in fossil fuels? I would like to welcome here the proposal that has been put on the table on loss and damage. But how can we not deplore t…

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2022

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A post-2020 Global biodiversity framework and the UN Convention on Biological Diversity COP15 (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, one million species at risk of extinction, 70% of wild animals already extinct since 1970. We must understand that we are one with the living and that to destroy it is also to destroy ourselves. Therefore, it is indeed imperative that we finally ratify an agreement on biodiversity. But I want to draw attention to two points. First, nature has never…

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2022

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Question Time (Commission) - Future legislative reform of the Economic Governance Framework in times of social and economic crisis

Thank you for proposing this reform of the tax rules that apply today in the European Union. It has been seen in recent decades how inept and unfit these rules are - unfit to preserve the dignity of peoples and democracy as in Greece; Unable also to guarantee the imperative of social justice, this shared prosperity at the heart of the European promise; We are ultimately unable to protect the publi…

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2022

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Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (debate)

Madam President, ‘flaws large enough to carry a diesel tank through’: These are the words with which Antonio Guterres described the gaping gaps between companies' climate commitments and their actions. Today we are adopting European legislation on the obligation to reporting from companies that trade products in our markets. And this is essential. For how can Europe decently claim to defend human,…

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 20-21 October 2022 (debate)

Madam President, it was our dependence on fossil fuels that put us in Putin’s hands, blew up the bills and destroyed the only planet we have. So let's not repeat the mistakes of the past. Under the guise of freeing us from Russian gas, you are now preparing our dependence on US shale gas, Qatar or Azerbaijan, in defiance of Armenia. All this while accelerating climate change, turning a blind eye t…

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2022

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International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (debate)

Will climate and environmental policies harm the poorest and exacerbate poverty? No, I do not believe it and I even believe the opposite. Do you know who is at the forefront of climate change today? Well, it is the poorest, especially those countries that we have plundered, from which we are still extracting oil while they are on the front line in the face of rising water levels and extreme temper…

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2022

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International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (debate)

Madam President, poverty is not inevitable, not even on the European continent, where it affects more than 100 million people. We keep proclaiming that we don't want to leave anyone behind. But how can we claim this without making poverty eradication the underlying condition, the condition without which none of our public policies could be deployed? Poverty is a violation of human rights that must…

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2022

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Violations of human rights in Uganda and Tanzania linked to the investments in fossil fuels projects

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the situation is simple: To meet our climate commitments, it is imperative that we leave fossil fuels under the ground. However, the project we are talking about today will not only result in the emission of 33 million tonnes of CO2, i.e. twice the cumulative emissions of Uganda and Tanzania, but will also risk pollution of Lake Albert and cross…

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Sep

2022

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EU response to the increase in energy prices in Europe (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I obviously want to welcome here, Commissioner, the proposal for the taxation of superprofits that is on the table. This is a matter of basic justice since everyone must have the means to warm up. But taxing these superprofits is not enough. To live up to this, we need to move away from productivist logic because history shows us that it is not because we pro…