What Marco spoke about.

The resolution, which concerns a democratically passed law in Hungary for the protection of minors, has surreal aspects. The Hungarian rule concerns a matter of national competence and has as its main objective the protection of minors and the possibility for parents to exercise an opinion with regard to the sexual education of their children. However, for the umpteenth time, Brussels has decided

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we have reached the end of the parliamentary term and one of the last acts by which the European Commission decides to welcome these five years is emblematic, in my opinion, of the wrong approach with which the crucial issues of this legislature have been addressed. And it is wrong, in my opinion, according to two points of view: 1) in the method and 2) in th

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to speak today about two subjects which will be on the agenda of the next European Council and which are closely linked: on the one hand, the situation in Ukraine, the discussion and debate on security and defence, which seems to be one of the pillars of EU legislative work in the next legislature; On the other hand, agriculture. Starting from th

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, a glass of wine is bad for your health, while insects are good for you. Cheese is poison, but chicken made in test tubes will feed us. Fishing is now considered unnatural, but only if the vessel flies the flag of a Member State of the European Union. We promote, on the one hand, organic, but perhaps it is better if we stop growing wheat. It is better to buy it f

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Happy New Year to you all! Today I wanted to talk about the topics discussed at the last European Council but, as my colleague Mr Procaccini said, we are and we are entering an election year and what I heard from colleagues today forces me and gives me the opportunity to make a broader political reasoning about what this year will be, what the 2024 European e

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, in reiterating our support for Ukraine, we urge the European institutions, two years after the Russian aggression, to take a central role in finally opening a peace process and also to carry out a comprehensive review of all the sanctions packages carried out to date, which too often have failed to meet expectations in their effects. Coming to the discussions

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I have heard many Members wonder why, once again, Europe is irrelevant on a foreign policy issue. Just look at the positions taken by the various European institutions since 7 October: Not only in the Council but also the other authorities have expressed divergent positions, they have started a personal quarrel that unfortunately in recent months we have seen to

(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, yesterday we commemorated the anniversary of the Lampedusa tragedy, recalling the memory of those people who lost their lives in that terrible shipwreck, but today the question that European citizens are asking themselves is: What has been done in the last ten years to try to curb this phenomenon? And the answer is before everyone's eyes: Nothing has been d

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we certainly come out of this debate with positive news, namely that this is Mr Verhofstadt's last debate and, therefore, a better prospect for the European Union. For the rest, I repeat what I said: This is not the time for committees, this is not the time for working groups, this is not the time for special envoys. We know what the problems are and we need

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, President von der Leyen, it is not that I expected the fireworks from your speech, which seemed to me more like an electoral manifesto launching the campaign for your reconfirmation as President. But, frankly, I am a little unarmed to think that the weapons that you have announced to us in response to the crises that European citizens are experiencing today a

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, hearing today's bickering among the representatives of the majority in this Parliament, there is a political fact that is very clear: Today, the majority that governs these institutions no longer exists, they no longer agree on the focal points of Europe and, above all, on what is the project and model of Europe that we want to see in the next 20 or 30 years. An

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, three fundamental points on which we expect concrete answers from the European institutions in this Council. The first concerns the historic agreement on immigration reached in the Council, which is, however, only a small step, finally in the right direction, in a process that will be longer and must now focus much more on the external dimension. Fewer departure

(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, it is certainly a good thing that a proposal has finally arrived for the revision of rules which, ten years ago, it was clear to everyone, were wrong rules in the management of public finances and investment within the European Union. However, I believe that the Commission's proposal is based on three incorrect assumptions which must be corrected. The first

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I believe that the events and travels of the last week have confirmed two principles. The first is that the geopolitical dimension of the European Union does not exist or is inconsistent, and this is a promise that was made by the Commission at the beginning of 2019 and that still remains in vain today. The second consideration that is confirmed month after mont

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, from the words we heard at the last plenary session in Strasbourg and also from the words we hear today on the subject of competitiveness and the future of our industry and economy, it seems that the European institutions have clear ideas, and therefore target in the proposals those points that we lack, from the reduction of bureaucratic complexity to the imp

Madam President, President von der Leyen, President Michel, ladies and gentlemen, I listened with interest to the words of President von der Leyen, who gave us a vision of her trip to the United States and gave us an anticipation of what the measures that we so much await from the Commission will have within them. I allow myself, however, to be a bit skeptical, because in what you have outlined th

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I believe that the Green Industrial Plan presented by the European Commission has two flaws: the first in the assumptions and the second in the direction, in my opinion wrong, which takes this initiative. I'll go explain why. The first reason is to pursue the United States, and we are already starting out defeated if that is the assumption. The European Union

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the Council is finally taking up a fundamental dossier, a fundamental practice that the European Union and the European institutions have been debating for years without the ability to finally take decisive action. We have high hopes in the words we have heard today, both from the Swedish Presidency, which has been very clear about its objectives in the first

Madam President, happy birthday again, ladies and gentlemen, the last European Council, almost a year after the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, reiterated the unconditional support that European countries and European institutions are ready to give to the Ukrainian people in their struggle for freedom. But it also laid the important foundations for what are the political priorities for 2023, which

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Vice-President Šefčovič, Prime Minister, welcome to the European Parliament, the Swedish Presidency certainly comes with great expectations, at a time that is not easy, but in a semester that we hope will be a rebirth after the difficulties and the great crises that we have faced during this year. The priorities you have put on the table are priorities on whi

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, at the opening of the proceedings on Monday, in this House, there was a word spoken by all, unity, in order to respond better to an unprecedented scandal. Well, I am sorry to see that someone is still a victim of their own short-sighted political arrogance. That is why I propose, on behalf of the ID Group, an oral amendment whereby paragraph 3 should become a

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I thank the President for her words at this difficult time. What is happening these days I think is so far from the culture that it should belong to this institution, that it becomes very difficult even to find the words to comment on it. We are all deeply shocked by what is emerging in these hours, with very serious accusations against representatives of wei

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, just to remind you that this morning, unfortunately, Mr Roberto Maroni, former Vice-President of the Italian Council, Minister of Governments of the Republic, Member of Parliament and Governor of the Lombardy Region for many years, passed away. A void that leaves in politics, to which he has made an important contribution in his institutional roles, also in t

Madam President, Madam President von der Leyen, Prime Ministers, ladies and gentlemen, seventy years have passed since the creation of the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community. It was 1952 and Europe was very different from what we know today. The great wars were behind us and we were preparing for a future of peace and development with great hope. At the time, only 78 parliame

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, President von der Leyen, President Michel, we are concerned because we see that that unity, that concreteness, that impetus that the European institutions had after 24 February, after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, is failing. The debate, the discord between two European institutions, which seems to me to be quite clear even from President Michel's speech, is