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Dear colleagues, dear Commissioner, The EU is a very strong trade power globally. We have a lot of trade agreements with many countries, world-wide. Trump is arrogant and unpredictable, and it is his weakness, but you, commissioner, are reliable and experienced, and that is your strength. We trust you. A deal is possible, the EU goal is to reintroduce tariff levels, explore commercial opportunitie

Dear President, Honourable Commissioner, we, as a delegation of the European Parliament, had to visit the United States, meet representatives of the United States Congress, and then visit the United Nations Panel of Experts, which presented all the arguments on the need to strengthen global governance of artificial intelligence, because the threats are very serious. A colleague, Andrew, rightly me

I would like to say, honourable, that you have not answered my question. You start talking about other things. I'm not asking about it. I ask you, do you agree that there is a global need to regulate the dangers that AI can bring? How the problem of nuclear weapons and other problems are regulated globally. I'm asking you about it.

President, honourable colleague. The title of the debate is ‘Global strengthening of AI governance’, a global strengthening of artificial governance. Not European, but global. Say, please, how do you think it is possible to protect humanity from artificial intelligence threats that can threaten health, life, etc.? It's not about Europe – it's about global governance. You for options to regulate da

Mr President, dear colleagues, President Costa, the issue of European defence and security is particularly urgent on the Council agenda. Let us be clear: today an absence of European defence union prolongs the war in Ukraine. When Member States do defence separately, it costs around EUR 18-57 billion per year. It is a waste of money and a waste of time. There are three clear demands. We need a tru

Mr President, honourable Vice-President, I would like to say one very clear, simple and precise point of origin for the International Criminal Court. He was born from the Holocaust. The International Criminal Court was born out of Auschwitz ashes. And those who are struggling with the International Criminal Court, that is, they want to allow the Holocaust and genocide to continue. They recognize t

Madam President, dear Commissioner, what do we expect from Europe today? We expect it to support families facing high energy prices, to prepare for the next health crisis, to protect our eastern border regions and to stand with Ukraine. Yet the proposed budget cannot carry these expectations – we cannot ask Europe to do more with less. This is the final budget of the current framework and it must

I would like to point out, honourable High Representative, that very many rational proposals have been made here in Parliament. First of all, it is the Centre for Air Security in the Black Sea, as well as, undoubtedly, the complex measures to stop escalation, which should necessarily be discussed as soon as possible with the capitals of all the Member States of the European Union. There is no doub

Madam President, I have really listened very carefully to the debate, where perhaps the most rational position was to make a really clear distinction, very clear. Don't blame each other and get along quite clearly. No speaker spoke out in favour of violence and even more said very clearly: violence kills democracy, but then speakers start talking about hate speech. Among those rioters and gangs. N

Honourable President, Commissioner, you are from Italy and you are well aware of the regional differences between Italy - southern Italy and northern Italy. We are well aware that these differences are, unfortunately, difficult to reduce. Despite the fact that cohesion policy is the instrument that could bring together and increasingly make an integrated European Union policy and an integrated Eur

Dear President-in-Office, Honourable Commissioner, there are indeed many different arguments, but in one way or another the European Union is a strong player. We are strong. Even knowing that China is trading with our market and the import and export balance figures show its strong interest. But it depends on us too. On the other hand, it is obviously important for us to see a huge global picture

Mr President, dear colleagues, last week I attended the European Health Forum Gastein. I would like to raise the important issue of bridging the gap between innovation and patients' access. We discussed those topics in Gastein. Currently, fewer than half of European innovative medicines are available to patients. This is a difficult challenge for the millions of patients and families who are waiti

Chair of the meeting, Honourable Commissioner. There have been many and correct proposals here. I would suggest, Honourable Commissioner, to think about Rapid Alert the establishment of a mechanism to combat falsified and illegal medicines entering the market in the same way that we have a rapid and rapid response mechanism in food security, where either counterfeit food or food is contaminated, a

Dear President of the sitting, Dear Vice-President of the Commission. Indeed, first of all, I thank the rapporteur, Mrs Ceulemans, and the entire shadow team of the rapporteurs. This is because the question of the submission of a new directive has been raised in a very timely manner. Data and a wealth of scientific data confirm that the combination of psychosocial risks and stress in the face of t

Mr President, honourable Commissioner, thank you very much for your excellent response to the question of those who are sowing panic here and who are spreading disinformation even in this Chamber. Your answer was correct, evidence based. And we must once again make it very clear that the countries of the world are waiting for the leadership of the European Union in this Global Health Resilience in

Mr President, Commissioner, colleagues, we all know that the healthcare workers crisis is not a problem of tomorrow, but of this exact moment. Fewer staff means heavier workloads; heavier workloads push more people to search for other sectors. In the end, it is the patients and citizens who bear the consequences. Medical deserts. It's a really difficult name, 'medical deserts'. Can you imagine how

Honourable President, Honourable High Representative. Indeed, very many proposals have been made here, both in terms of frozen assets, access and the possibility of strengthening sanctions. But defending the Ukrainian sky is a crucial part of the agenda today. Winter is approaching, all infrastructure is being bombarded and attacked in order to make the cold and the huge social consequences in cit

Madam President, dear Commissioner Andrius, colleagues, it is important to highlight that defence, public interest and social protection are not in conflict with each other. The purpose of defence spending is to safeguard citizens' well-being, dignity and democracy. Last night, a NATO jet shot down a drone over Lithuania and a Russian warship fired two emergency flares at a Danish helicopter. In a

Madam President, for years, we in this House have said that access to medicine is not a luxury, it is a right. Across our Union, patients still face delays, inequality and high prices of medicine, but we are also now under external pressure. Trump's most favoured nation policy seeks to close the transatlantic gap in pharmaceuticals by demanding Europe to pay more and threatening our budgets that k

My answer is clear: no. We need to understand now, and we need to encourage Member States to cooperate. Cross-border Healthcare Directive requires cooperation. An open method of coordination requires cooperation. Mutual recognition requires cooperation, and of course, also possibilities to encourage Member States to understand that a single market can deliver treatment to people and organise acces

Madam President, today we are debating the 28th regime for innovative start‑ups and scale‑ups. But underneath this report lies a bigger question: what do we do when 27 national tax systems slow down innovations? If we cannot have full taxation harmonisation, we need a common European layer so that our innovative start-up and scale-ups no longer have to fight 27 tax administrations to grow. It is a

Mr President, honourable Commissioner. Thank you for the very constructive presentation of the review of the Common Fisheries Policy. I remember your predecessor, Karmenu Vella, who was responsible from Malta, was responsible for the common fisheries policy and raised the same issues that my colleague Bajada is now raising with regard to the fishing problems of third countries in the Mediterranean

Madam President, Commissioner, I fully agree with what you just said about the situation related to vaccines, antibodies and so on, but what we see is climate-sensitive disease spread. Of course pandemics and epidemic threats are ongoing, we have no chance to deny it, but in opposite, we have fragile and shrinking global health financing and global health support. Now when we are discussing about