What Eleonora spoke about.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, there are still deaths in Brazil. Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips are the last victims of this war waged by Bolsonaro and his allies of the ', but there is a cause, above all, our demand for Brazilian goods. It is for this reason that the Amazon burns, let's be clear. Bruno had received death threats because of his work with indigenous peoples and their organi

(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, a pensioner living in an 80-square-metre house in Italy paid a bill in February/March 2021 of EUR 75, which rose to EUR 380 in 2022. And instead a fossil giant like Eni goes from 50 million profits in the last quarter of 2020 to 2 billion in 2021, an increase of +3 780 percent, and continues in 2022, is impressive. As households and businesses run wild and

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we in the Committee on Petitions have received a large number of petitions denouncing illegal logging as a growing phenomenon in Europe. Citizens, in particular, complain that European laws, which already have several gaps, have serious shortcomings precisely in their application at the territorial level. I believe that we therefore need better control and bette

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, during the last parliamentary term I followed the work on the regulation on CO2 standards for cars and I remember very well, very well, the resistance of those who opposed stricter rules for the alleged inability of the industry to convert in time. Well, we saw and then found the exact opposite: New market prospects have opened up for manufacturers and sales of

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, citizens have shown that they have no doubts about the future of Europe. They want it to be more democratic, more transparent, fairer, fairer and above all more courageous to face the challenges of the climate crisis and the ecological crisis. The citizens drawn by lot proved to be ahead of their representatives, presenting careful and forward-looking recomme

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, this war is already causing hunger, speculation and staggering prices. The most vulnerable families are those most at risk. But what are this Parliament, the Commission and the governments concerned about? Feeding animals on intensive farms! 70% of Europe's agricultural land is already used for the production of feed and yet we are constantly importing feed,

(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, when it comes to public money, transparency is a duty, yet we are in 2022 and we have a 20-year-old regulation, mainly because of the blockade by European governments in the Council, and cases of serious lack of transparency still persist in the EU. I am talking about the Turin-Lyon high-speed rail project and the 813 million euros of public money to financ

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the cleanest, most sustainable and cheapest energy is the one we do not use. That's why energy efficiency must always be in the first place. But to build a highly efficient economy powered 100% by renewables, we need more and more batteries. That is why it is so important today to revise the battery legislation and I thank the rapporteur, Mrs Bo

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, first of all, I would like to congratulate the European Ombudsman on her excellent work in 2020. All its activities, which are the subject of this report, have confirmed that its action has once again proved crucial in safeguarding the fundamental rights of citizens. In 2020, the Office of the European Ombudsman celebrated its 25th anniversary. The impact of

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, after years of complaints, petitions and reports from citizens, all this great work is put on paper in the final report of this Parliament's Committee of Inquiry. And the citizens were right: Millions of animals are transported from one part of Europe to another and out of Europe in appalling conditions. Nightmarish travel. Why do we do this? Produce more, tr

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, air pollution is the main environmental threat to human health. According to the European Environment Agency, three quarters of Europe's urban population breathes harmful air. An unjust condemnation for all those people who inevitably compromise their health and that of their children. According to the European Environment Agency’s report on air quality in Europ

Mr President, Commissioners, ladies and gentlemen, let me remind you that we are in the 21st century, in the midst of a veritable biodiversity crisis, with entire populations of wild animals literally disappearing. Lions, tigers, elephants, zebras, reptiles, the list is very long. Do we really believe that these animals can still belong to a circus, transported from one part of our continent to th

(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, dear European leaders, whom you will meet tomorrow to discuss again the dear bills, there is a saying in Italy that says: You can't have a full beating and a drunk wife. You cannot finance other pipelines with European public money and then complain that we continue to depend on fossil energy imports from abroad. And don't complain if energy prices skyrocke

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Italy has just decided to finance drilling in the Arctic, just after signing the BOGA in Glasgow, in order to commit itself not to finance fossil fuels abroad. The Commission still wants to use citizens' money to finance gas-related projects on the fifth list of projects of common interest and still €56 billion a year is donated to fossil fuels in Europe. Instea

(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, today it is the courts that remind governments of the commitments they have made to combat the climate crisis. Today it is the International Energy Agency – and therefore not a group of environmentalists, radical chic extremists – that tells us that there is a need to radically change the energy sector in a total way and that there is no longer room for fos

(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the citizens of the Union have the right to full transparency on all aspects of the European Union's vaccination strategy. This should be taken for granted for a public institution, especially when we talk about the bloodiest health crisis of the last hundred years: making available in a transparent manner all the details of decisions taken on behalf of cit

(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, when the European Union sets itself a goal, a strategy is normally given, medium and long-term targets are set and funds are allocated. Yet, although Europe has set itself the goal of putting an end to the use of animals in research and experimentation, to date there is none of this. On the contrary, after years, there are still about 10 million animals tha