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(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, for two years now, the right - and unfortunately I am sorry to see this - has also decided to use the environment as a weapon for the next election campaign. Fake news was spread in friendly newspapers, farmers' protests were manipulated and measures that until a few months earlier were considered irremovable were blocked. In 2019, also thanks to the commit

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, after the approval of the Next Generation EU, the reform of the Stability Pact is certainly the most important of this legislature. And yet he's going quietly. No European leader today to cut the ribbons, no headlines, no TV show. Why this silence? Perhaps because they want to hide, a few weeks before the European elections, the return of austerity? With these n

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, first Qatargate, now Russiagate. The European institutions find themselves vulnerable to the many, too many attempts to influence foreign countries. For us there must be no doubt: If there are MEPs who have accepted money or favours with the aim of manipulating European democracy, then they must be expelled from our Chamber. Whether it is a Member of the Europea

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the income of our farmers has fallen mainly for two reasons. First of all because they suffer from the wild competition of low-cost products coming from the other side of the world, and then because our supply chain benefits the large distributors. One kilo of apples today is sold in supermarkets for no less than 2.10 euros, but producers only get 29 cents. This

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, today's debate clearly shows the two different conceptions of Europe that will clash at the next European elections: On the one hand, there are those who strongly condemn, as we and the vast majority of colleagues are doing, the fascist greetings in Italy, yes, but also the dangerous ideas about the deportation of citizens who are spreading in Germany. On the ot

Mr President, Commissioner, the Energy Union certainly represents a great opportunity for growth and security for our Europe. With a single purchasing powerhouse and finally weighing the strength of our Union, businesses and citizens can get more competitive prices than ever before. However, there are still many shaded areas. The renewable energy boom in 2022 is not homogeneous across all parts of

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, in this legislature we have adopted the minimum wage directive and a recommendation on minimum income: These are the first, but unfortunately insufficient, steps forward. More needs to be done because today poverty affects the elderly, students, children, families and even workers. The entire middle class is at risk due to skyrocketing inflation. Commissioner

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, after the deniers of tragedies such as the Holocaust and the climate deniers, here come those who even deny the evidence, namely gender discrimination in Europe. Let me give you some examples. Poland 2020: More than 100 municipalities, all administered by the right, have declared themselves "LGBT-free zones". Italy 2023: The Meloni government blocks registration

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Mr von der Leyen, you have proved over the past four years that you are more of a marathon runner than a sprinter. And this is a merit in politics. Allow me, however, to make one suggestion: in this last year of work, continue to pursue only the common good and the future of the European Union and do not listen to the sirens coming from European capitals. Our

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, skyrocketing mortgages, precarious jobs, starvation pay, increasingly distressed businesses, peace in Ukraine ever further away. No, for this debate the right led by Fratelli d'Italia did not propose one of these urgent issues for citizens. Their priority is to nurture yet another witch hunt against women and homogeneous families. Gestation for others is some

Mr President, with 1 134 people killed and more than 2 500 injured, the Rana Plaza tragedy in Bangladesh can be regarded as the most serious work accident in history. A tragedy only apparently far away, because at Rana Plaza the clothes that were sold in stores all over the world were manufactured, even here in Europe. We therefore also have responsibilities for working conditions in third world c

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, children are children, regardless of how they were born, how they come into the world, the race and sexual orientation of their parents. Their rights must be defended, without ifs and buts. And I say this as a mother of three biological daughters and two acquired daughters. What is happening in Italy, in my country, is shameful. A far-right government that is wa

Madam President, President von der Leyen, President Michel, ladies and gentlemen, the European Union is already lagging behind its major competitors the United States and China in the challenge of transition. Despite falling in recent months, the price of gas remains too high and costs for European businesses and households are up to 7 times higher than those in the United States. And it is clear,

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, the Five Star Movement shares the objectives of the Green Deal industrial plan, but we have doubts about the path identified to achieve them. In short, we share the end but not completely the means. The U.S. IRA provides subsidies, tax rebates of $370 billion, and what worries us most is the exclusion of European companies from this aid. This is

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I was in Washington a week ago and, together with many colleagues, we have repeatedly pointed out to our American interlocutors that the new US inflation law violates WTO rules and will have a very serious impact on European businesses. Many of the green subsidies that will be introduced in America severely discriminate against the most virtuous and advanced

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Mr von der Leyen, I very much appreciated your speech, I acknowledge your efforts and, above all, I agree with your statement that the only way to combat the energy crisis is to accelerate the transition to renewables. However, we cannot hide behind the fact that today in Europe there are 95 million people at risk of poverty, also because of the energy crisis, a

(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, on 16 September 2020, in this Chamber, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen stated 'If you are a parent in one European country, you are obviously a parent in another European country' and announced an initiative on the recognition of the children of same-sex couples in the European Union. Two years have passed and this promise has not yet been fulfill

(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, throughout the European Union, high energy is pushing millions of households below the poverty line and, as mine is the country of small and medium-sized enterprises, it is also seriously jeopardising three and a half million jobs here. So well the joint purchase of gas, is what we have been asking for a long time, even better the abandonment of the price i

Madam President, Madam President von der Leyen, ladies and gentlemen, if the symbolic image of the European Union during the pandemic was the dramatic one of wards full of COVID patients, today's one is this. This is the energy bill that a small Ligurian entrepreneur received for the month of August: €5,600 compared to €1,700 last year. More than tripled. And because of this bloodletting, many ent

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the cost of energy for Europeans has practically tripled in the last year. But the most absurd thing is that such figures depend not only on war and scarcity but also and above all on speculation on the international market. Then it is good to intervene by taxing the extra profits of the fossil multinationals: but we have to use the proceeds for

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Ukraine is the breadbasket of the world and war is starving the planet. And if the prices of bread and pasta have increased here, in Africa and in the Middle East there are those who risk starvation, because entire countries are 100 percent dependent on Ukrainian exports, which remain blocked by Russian mines and bombs. These are immense amounts

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, in order to face the coming winter, it is imperative to fill strategic gas deposits. However, the cost of the raw material interferes with this operation. The price of gas today is around 120 euros per megawatt hour, compared to not even 19 euros a year ago. And this is not only due to the war in Ukraine and Russian interference, but also to the in

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Madam Vice-President, slavery should be a phenomenon of the past, relegated to the darkest pages of history books, but unfortunately it is still very topical because there are 25 million people in the world who are in the condition of forced labour, and three quarters of these are women and girls. The Commission is about to present a new regulation that will rem

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Mr Draghi, welcome back to the European Parliament. During the pandemic we discovered how many positive things Europe can do for citizens, as you rightly pointed out, with Next Generation EU we have saved our economy and created the conditions for a restart. Then with SURE we allocated billions to help the unemployed and precarious. Of course, it was not easy

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the EU-China summit did not produce the desired results. But the time for appeals and invitations is over and the time has come to use the leverage of our trade force more forcefully, to demand from China a clear position condemning the war in Ukraine. If China wants to trade with the European Union, it must make a precise choice, because international law, t