[1] In this capacity, she served as the parliament's rapporteur on the role of migration for development in 2006.

[3] In addition to her committee assignments, Carlotti was a vice-chair of the ACP–EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly and a member of the delegations for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union, and to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly.

[6] Ahead of the 2014 French municipal elections, Carlotti announced her intention to become the Socialist Party's candidate to challenge incumbent Mayor of Marseille Jean-Claude Gaudin; however, she lost her party's primaries against Patrick Mennucci and Samia Ghali.

[9] In 2025, Marie-Arlette Carlotti wrote a report on the state of relations between Africa and France.

They also made 20 proposals for the future and invited the French government in particular to demonstrate "strategic patience" in the Sahel[10].