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2026

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Amending Regulation (EU) 2017/2402 on securitisation and a specific framework for simple, transparent and standardised securitisation (A10-0138/2026 - Ralf Seekatz) (vote)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, securitisation is the practice that allows banks to package thousands of home loans and sell them on the financial markets. It was also the same product that triggered the 2008 financial crisis, leading to the bankruptcy of tens of thousands of businesses and bringing tens of thousands of families to the streets. Following the crisis, we agreed on clear rules so that we would never again have to save private banks with big public money. However, today, this is precisely what we are being proposed to send to trilogues without debate and without a vote: A text that recreates the conditions that led to this collapse. The European Central Bank warns us that the level of protection will be lower than before 2008. The European Systemic Risk Board is concerned about financial stability and we would rather ignore these warnings? So let's be clear: The text presented today is basically a new gift to the banking sector, which is seeing its dividends explode. Ladies and gentlemen, behind the financial arrangements are human lives. So, allow this assembly to speak and everyone to take their vote.

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May

2026

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The need to reduce work-related fatalities (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, a week ago, a young alternator died crushed by a forklift. His name was Ethan and he had just turned 18. On 17 April, just one month ago, another young person also lost his life to a forklift in Bagnols-sur-Cèze. He was a high school student, only 15 years old. In France, more than 100,000 workers under the age of 25 have been injured at work and 423 have died since just 2020. It is 2026 and children are still dying at work here in Europe. While more than 100,000 people still die each year because of the chemical risks they have been exposed to on our continent in the course of work, mainly by cancer, young people, again, are the least informed, the least trained on the dangers that these toxic products represent. Every death is a tragedy, a suffering inflicted on entire families. What could be worse than losing your children? So yes, we have a responsibility: increasing and improving labour inspectorates, legislating on subcontracting or on the effects of high heat, and having a robust body of law to ensure one thing: No more deaths at work.

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May

2026

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Recent proposals to fight poverty in the EU (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, 93 million people are living in precarious situations in Europe today. $93 million. And yet, the most worrying thing is not this figure; It is our collective ability to get used to it. We get used to seeing people sleeping on the street without even greeting them anymore, get used to the lines that lie in front of the food banks, get used to it, and end up considering the unacceptable as normal. Yet poverty is the result of political choices; To eradicate it is also to eradicate it. This strategy, Commissioner, is therefore an important first step because it finally calls for the participation of the people concerned in decisions that affect them, because it recognises the discrimination linked to the situation of poverty and because it states that no text, no investment should contribute to more precariousness. But this ambition will only become a reality with tools and a budget. Because without real means, without binding objectives, without a clear timetable, this strategy risks being just another promise, without a future. It's simple: When Europe considers a crisis as a priority, it knows how to find billions in a few weeks. We must do the same and show the same political determination to end precariousness. Europeans no longer need promises, but actions.

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May

2026

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Reviewing the ETS system to support European competitiveness (topical debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, for months now, the extreme right here – or, for that matter, quite little – has been constantly calling into question companies’ climate obligations on the pretext of competitiveness, and sometimes even pretending to defend the European working classes. At bottom, the far right is putting the climate issue in the background, even as Europe is overheating. And let me tell you that the support of the European right for the weakening of the carbon targets is serious. On the one hand, there is an extreme right which has the nerve to pretend to be a defender of the working classes, while exposing them to fossil fuels whose prices are skyrocketing and pushing them into precariousness; At the same time, it is demanding that polluting companies be cleared of their responsibility to pay. Let's be clear: ArcelorMittal or ThyssenKrupp multinationals have received more free allowances than their actual emissions, generating billions of euros in profits, while destroying jobs in Europe. This is the model that the far right wants to defend. You defend the polluters against the polluted, you defend the profiteers against the precarious, you choose the shareholders rather than the popular classes. We will continue to fight against you and the model you propose.

19

May

2026

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Presentation of the Fertilisers Action Plan (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, you are here today to present an action plan for high-priced fertilisers. But behind the stakes of costs lies a brutal reality: We let the poison enter our diet. This poison is cadmium. It comes precisely from fertilisers that accumulate in the soil, seep into crops and land in our bread, our cereals, our potatoes. In France, contamination has almost doubled in ten years. Adults are exposed, children are exposed. In 2019, Europe decided to reduce the use of these toxic fertilisers. But with how many exceptions? Member States can now freely decide to import cadmium-filled fertilisers from anywhere without a deadline. France wants to wait another 12 years before freeing itself from this poison. Are we gonna let her? Commissioner, your action plan cannot be just a plan to bring down the prices of chemical fertilisers. It must also be a plan for public health, for soil protection, for the protection of our children. So let’s not wait for more lives to be wasted and act without further delay.

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Apr

2026

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Roma inclusion, equality and fundamental rights: delivering on Europe’s values (debate)

Madam Speaker, stigmatizing people for their essence, for their identity, is called racism and it is reprehensible by law. I deeply regret that these remarks can be made in this Chamber without being sanctioned. It is absolutely intolerable what you have done, Madam, and I hope that the hatred you bear will return to you as a boomerang, because it is absolutely intolerable. In France, Angela Rostas, seven months pregnant, was murdered last year – not in the shadows, in broad daylight; Not by chance, but because she was a Roma victim of the hatred we just talked about. This is what antigypsyism actually produces. 6 million people in Europe are Roma, Sinti or Travellers. We are here 720 and yet not a single Roma voice. Why? Because antigypsyism does not belong to the past; it is there, it is systemic and it is tolerated. Roma families across the EU are still segregated in housing, education and access to care. Children are still placed in separate schools and walls still divide our societies. These are not opinions; These are documented facts. Sometimes rescue workers cannot even access reception areas, such as in Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France: Firefighters are blocked and Roma's right to life is violated. So, if our values make sense, let's prove it. Let us make European funding conditional on respect for the right to non-discrimination. Let us enforce European law, systematically initiating infringement procedures when equality is violated. Let us demand that all Member States finally recognise the forgotten genocide of Roma populations.

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Apr

2026

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EU strategy in response to the ongoing Middle East crisis, its implications on energy prices and the availability of fertilizers (joint debate)

Mr President, the crisis we are going through again puts us before our responsibilities and these are historic, because, because we have not separated sufficiently quickly from fossil fuels, energy prices are skyrocketing and our citizens are suffering as a result: plus 70% for the price of gas in the EU, €2 per litre at the pump in France, it is untenable. With each crisis, we realize the colossal cost of our addictions and the economic and social catastrophe that stems from our addiction to climate-killing energies. Commissioner, it took a war for us to finally get out of Putin's gas, but then you offered to put us in Donald Trump's gas hands. Do you realize today how serious it wasn't? So I'm asking you three things. Firstly, when several Member States want today, together with the majors oil, open new fossil fuel wells, your responsibility is to oppose and ban them. Everything must be devoted to the ecological transition. Secondly, because citizens do not have to pay the price for European mistakes, you must tax the superprofits of these war profiteers, the oil companies; plus 50% profit for Total, this is not possible. Finally, and thirdly, to introduce a right of social veto, so that no more European decisions will harden the living conditions of Europeans.

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Mar

2026

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 19 March 2026 (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, our dependence on fossil fuels destroys the climate, undermines our sovereignty and is extremely expensive for European citizens. The soaring prices at the pump still make this clear today. With the Green Deal, we took a step towards decarbonisation: energy efficiency, reducing gas consumption and supporting renewables rather than fossil lobbies. Now is not the time to back down. However, the European Commission is now proposing to develop new fossil infrastructure for nearly 80 billion euros, to finance Melita despite the scandal surrounding the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia, to finance EastMed which would draw from the disputed waters between Israel and Palestine. In all, less than half of the funding on the PCI list is earmarked for electrification, with less than half including projects that are devastating to nature such as BarMar, Kaunertal or Kemijärvi. We MEPs can relaunch the Green Deal, we can refuse to waste public money. Let us demand 100% green, 100% sovereign and 100% purchasing power investments.

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Mar

2026

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Presentation of the Energy Package (debate)

10

Mar

2026

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European Semester for economic policy coordination 2026 - European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2026 (joint debate)

Madam President, the European Commission is now using the European Semester as almost the only steering tool for Member States to work first, and unfortunately perhaps only, on competitiveness rather than on improving the lives of European citizens. Yet well-being and economics are far, far from incompatible. We should indeed pursue our fiscal policy with a key aim, that of placing humanity between a ceiling of natural resources that cannot be exceeded and a floor of non-negotiable fundamental social rights. Commissioner, we are waiting for the European Union's first ever strategy to combat poverty. Will the Commission ask Member States to ensure that their own budgets do not contribute to precariousness or inequality? Basically, this principle should be clear: no fiscal policy should be adopted if it makes life even more difficult for Europeans. In the same way, climate change and exceeding planetary limits must be at the heart of our concerns and guide our budgetary choices to allow the necessary investments. Otherwise, the European Semester will remain an indifferent tool to the real concerns of our citizens.

10

Mar

2026

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Housing crisis in the European Union with the aim of proposing solutions for decent, sustainable and affordable housing (debate)

Madam President, millions of Europeans are no longer able to find a decent home. More than a million people now live on the street. This situation should have prompted our Parliament to claim the right to dignified housing. And yet, the European right is now proposing that we roll out the red carpet to finance at the expense of Europeans. Bank deregulation, unconditional public subsidies, relaunching securitisation, the precise recipe that led Europe right into the wall of the 2008 financial crisis. We know what's ahead of us if we walk this path: skyrocketing property prices, ever-increasing rents, and ever-increasing suffering for millions of families. As for the homeless, the only proposal from the European right is to criminalise them and ask Europol - just that! – to make them look like criminals. So I turn to my socialist colleagues. It is incomprehensible to see you adopt a report that prefers the right to property to the right to housing, evictions and predatory landlords to respect for the rights of tenants and ignores the issue of unhealthy housing that makes more than 70 million Europeans live in hell. Another European housing policy is possible, so vote with us against this report.

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Feb

2026

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Developing a new EU anti-poverty strategy (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, 'it is not poverty that is shame, it is abandonment'. This sentence, pronounced from the working-class districts of Nîmes, reflects the experience of more than 93 million Europeans today, in 2026. Abandonment is therefore a political choice. Poverty is a political choice, to eradicate it too. Today we are proud to call for a first-ever European strategy to combat poverty. So let's live up to it. This strategy cannot be a declaration of intent. It must be binding. We cannot set ambitious social goals on the one hand, and at the same time relegate the social issue behind competitiveness, trade agreements or profits that are never shared. Let's be clear: we will not eradicate poverty if this objective is, on the one hand, without a budget and, on the other hand, does not irrigate all our policies. No European policy should aggravate the most precarious situation. This is the purpose of the social veto that I propose. And let's be clear, nothing should be done for people in precarious situations without them. It is thanks to them that we understand in particular that poverty is not only monetary, it affects dignity. The permanent stigma experienced by people in precarious situations must be condemned by law and by Europe. Poverty violates human dignity, let us eradicate it.

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Jan

2026

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A new action plan to implement the European Pillar of Social Rights (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, you have a lot of responsibilities and, on our part, a lot of expectations, because it has been decades since the European Union has made commitments to social rights, objectives and, unfortunately, has not achieved them. This oral question is therefore intended to ask you how we will achieve them, but perhaps also to affirm our determination to work alongside you. The Union’s responsibility is indeed to deliver, to achieve the objectives that we have set ourselves. However, while employment rates are rising, poverty, lack of training and poor housing are also rising. We must therefore change our compass and equip ourselves with binding tools to fundamentally reorient EU policy. The European tool today is its European Semester. It focuses on productivity and growth rather than well-being or health. This is not inevitable. Yes, we can integrate the issue of housing and poor housing into European concerns. Yes, we can integrate the issue of inequalities and their extent into the European Semester. Yes, we can and must question the impact of all our policies on the most precarious and refrain from adopting legislation that would worsen their living conditions, which no public policy should be able to do. Today we need to enshrine a real principle – do no social harm – in European law: This is what I call a ‘social veto’.

19

Jan

2026

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Motion of censure on the Commission (debate)

16

Dec

2025

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Presentation of the European Affordable Housing Plan (continuation of debate)

16

Dec

2025

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Presentation of the European Affordable Housing Plan (debate)

16

Dec

2025

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Presentation of the European Affordable Housing Plan (debate)

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Dec

2025

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Murder of Mehdi Kessaci - urgent need for ambitious European action against drug trafficking (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, today we honour the memory of Mehdi Kessaci, a 20-year-old man who was cowardly murdered in the street by men who were, in reality, after his brother, Amine Kessaci, who was committed against drug trafficking. As you know, Amine is with us in this Chamber, and I believe he does not want me to talk about him, but rather about his brother. So let me tell you a few words. Mehdi was a happy young man, he was sensitive, he was gentle, he wanted to put his life at the service of others. After thinking about becoming a nurse, he finally decided to become a peacekeeper. He is dead and he will no longer be able to offer flowers to his mother, Ouassila, this woman so dignified in suffering, so beautiful in struggle – a warrior. Nothing will console her brother either, because, as Amine Kessaci says, "Mehdi died for nothing." So, Amine, you said you wouldn't shut up. You have chosen to continue to tell the reality of the living conditions of families hit by drug trafficking. You stand up to the "Narcocracy", which enslaves young people from the working classes all over Europe. You held on. You keep doing it and, I know, you'll keep doing it. I saw your mother asking you not to stop your fight. We urge you to keep your mouth shut: Well, no, you raise your voice even louder and invite us – basically force us – to do the same for all of us. In tribute to Mehdi, so that no more lives are lost, your strength and courage require us to continue to lead the fight with you. Then we too will be there, with you, today and tomorrow, and we tell the assassins that their bullets will not make us back down, because – I quote you, Amine – ‘you cannot kill an entire people’. We are here, we will be there, and I call on everyone in this Chamber to be dignified in the way we will approach the commitments of our Chamber in the coming months.

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Nov

2025

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Outcome of the UN Climate Change Conference - Belém (COP30) (debate)

Mr President, November 2025: the climate is getting out of order, forests are burning, disasters are multiplying and hitting, as always, first and foremost the most vulnerable, and global climate action is a halt. But perhaps worse for us here in this Chamber, November 2025: another COP, and the European voice is extinguished, because of its procrastination, its hesitations, its national egoisms – like that of my country, France, for that matter – and its compromises, and the compromises of the right with the extreme right to destroy the European voice on the climate, the forest and the European voice at all. So I say this clearly to the alliance of the right wings sitting in this Chamber: When you give in to the wishes of the major foreign powers, destroying at their request the European model of social and environmental protection, offering at their request to Donald Trump and Qatar the annihilation of the climate bonds of oil companies, or Lula Mercosur without regard for the deforestation of the Amazon, you cannot claim to defend the climate, but you cannot claim to defend Europe either. They order, you obey, the climate suffers and Europe disappears. So either Europe becomes the engine again, the leader of the just transition, or Europe is indeed doomed to vassalage. For the climate, for our economy, for our sovereignty, it is time to straighten our heads.

12

Nov

2025

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Commemorating the 10th anniversary of the islamist attacks of 13 November 2015 in Paris (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to remind you of the Rules of Procedure, Rule 40 on fundamental rights, because at the last plenary session we adopted a text that is essential for soil health, and therefore for human health. Yes, European soils are contaminated: by industry, but also by hazardous pesticides. This is the case for soils in Guadeloupe and Martinique, polluted with chlordecone, or Réunion, polluted by glyphosate, used for sugar cane, and so on... But during the trilogues, France quietly introduced a clause that excludes the outermost regions from mandatory monitoring of soil health. This is a colonial clause, and while Article 349 of the European Treaties allows the Union’s programmes and budgets to be adapted to these territories – welcome and welcome – there is nothing in the Treaties that would allow the rights of those who are full European citizens to be graduated or weakened. On the one hand, lives do not matter and on the other, lives do not matter. I therefore call on this Chamber to be vigilant in recognising and guaranteeing genuinely and fundamentally equal rights for European citizens.

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Nov

2025

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Commemorating the 10th anniversary of the islamist attacks of 13 November 2015 in Paris (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, there are events that forever hurt our memory, and this is the case of the unprecedented terrorist violence that shook France and left its mark on Europe ten years ago. I obviously remember that day as if it were yesterday, the anguished calls, the fear in the belly and the frightened eyes of the children, who offered long and their nights and days to the darkest nightmares. On this day of commemoration, our thoughts go first to the families and loved ones of the families of victims struck by barbarism. We owe them a tireless fight against jihadist fanaticism, against those who want to annihilate culture and joy, against those, all those, who want to divide us to better destroy us. On this day of commemoration, I also want to celebrate our spirit of resistance. We did not give anything up. Yes, we have chosen over and over again solidarity rather than division, dignity rather than fear and republic rather than hatred. Do not give in to fanaticism; not to crumble in the face of jihadist hatred, but to fight it with the strength of democracy; To stand firm in the face of hate preachers and refuse to look down in the face of those who want to stand against each other on all sides: This is what we will continue to do.

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Oct

2025

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UN Climate Change Conference 2025 in Belém, Brazil (COP30) (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner. His name was François, he was only 23 years old and he was preparing to receive his diploma when, this Monday, this alternating in the building perished, crushed by a crane, caught in a tornado in the Paris region, a region not supposedly affected by extreme weather events. So, we could devote this minute to paying tribute to him and to saying our solidarity with his loved ones. I will use it to say that urgency is no longer an abstract concept, but today a brutal reality. Devastated territories, homes that disappear and lives forever destroyed. The science is clear. 2,000 scientists have just reminded us: Reducing our greenhouse gas emissions by at least 90% by 2040 is imperative. But Europe is late. It has still not set its targets for either 2040 or 2035. And this delay is criminal. So I appeal in particular to Emmanuel Macron. Mr Macron, you are the main reason for the European blockade and sabotage, while our country is the parent house of the Paris Agreement. It is up to us to be exemplary. Don't kill the Paris Agreement, unblock the Union and let us save the climate.

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Oct

2025

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Commission Work Programme 2026 (debate)

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 deeds. But let us come to the work programme that you are proposing for next year. And you see, the first environmental tipping point was surpassed last week, scientists told us, with the widespread decline of corals, while poverty continues to condemn millions of Europeans. Our conviction, therefore, is, it will not surprise you, that this programme must take resolute action to protect what we hold most precious: life, justice, dignity. Not to deregulate with a new wave of omnibuses, but to accelerate ecological transformation in social justice. We are delighted to see a project to adapt to climate change and accelerate actions in favour of energy efficiency or renewables, or finally, a plan to phase out fossil fuel subsidies. These are measures that protect. But we must also give ourselves the financial means to achieve our objectives. And on this side, the bast hurts a little. You are announcing an omnibus on taxation, but will it aim to tax multinationals fairly? Will it aim to ask billionaires to contribute to ecological transformation in social justice? And we are also worried, worried about this 28th regime that you are announcing, which we have no guarantee will not again participate in deregulation. Worried because, if we welcome the anti-poverty strategy with great hope, how can we understand that it is not followed by any legislation? How can we understand that, in the equity category, there are three texts, but none that are binding? So we call on you to resist the sirens of the union of the right, who are not here today, who want to put down the model of social and environmental protection and to choose solidarity rather than fear, justice rather than resignation, Europe simply.

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Oct

2025

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International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (debate)

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 condition. Yes, poverty is a political choice. Eradicate it, too. So we must change our compass, put the eradication of misery at the heart of all our actions. This requires, in the first place, putting the voices of the people concerned at the heart of public policy. Because it is those who experience poverty who know it best. Popular expertise must be at the heart of all public decisions. Secondly, I also want to tell you about the contempt of the poorest people. Because being poor is always being suspected of being responsible for your situation, guilty of your condition. The poorest are crushed under the weight of prejudices when, on the contrary, the burden of misery should be removed from their shoulders. The hand of institutions comes down smoothly on families in difficulty, for example. Too many children are still placed in Europe today because of resource constraints. We must put an end to this policy of institutionalized social violence, because that which tolerates contempt for the poor lets injustice cover the world. Thirdly, we must equip ourselves with binding tools to ensure that the fight against poverty truly becomes the backbone of the European Union. So let us endow ourselves with a right of social veto so that no more measures, no more policies are adopted if they aggravate the living conditions of the most precarious. Finally, I obviously want to talk to you about ecology, because some here, in these ranks, few in number today, come to fight nature and dare to claim to do so on behalf of the popular classes. So I want to make it clear to you: Your fight against ecology is a fight against the most vulnerable that leads to the worst environmental injustices, to the sacrifice of the health of Roma and relegated travelers, to the abandonment of working-class lives whose bodies are permanently polluted and contaminated, to the physical and mental exhaustion of the most precarious. Social justice and ecology are not two separate battles, they form one, only one, that of human dignity.

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Oct

2025

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

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 the past decade, China has expanded its grip across the entire value chain, from OEMs to the latest generation of batteries. European jobs, on the other hand, have been largely sacrificed, relocated with our know-how, without this having anything to do with the ‘all-electric’ goal in 2035. Evidence: 100 000 jobs were destroyed in France alone between 2010 and 2020. Did you hear the dates? This was before the adoption of the 2035 target. The reality is that the automotive industry you claim to defend today has suffered from its shareholders’ obsession with short-term profitability. We see exceptionally high rates of profit in this sector, despite the destruction of jobs and a counterproductive business strategy, the very one you advocate, which preferred high but short-term margins on polluting high-end vehicles, rather than investing in the lower but more sustainable margins of small, light and affordable commercial vehicles. Saving the car industry requires investment to make these vehicles even more affordable. This requires strict conditionality of public aid and a crucial European preference, not to mention making workers the engine of European car transformation.