What Isabella spoke about.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the energy crisis and inflation, further aggravated by the prolongation of the war in Ukraine and the related sanctions imposed on Russia, are disrupting the lives of millions of European citizens. This is a human drama that transcends cold statistics: In the last year, more than 41 million people have faced winter without adequate heating in their homes, a s

Dear colleague, dear colleagues, as you can see, we too have been here for many years discussing the ratification of this convention, we have never backed down. I, personally, have never backed down and you can see this with the recordings of the European Parliament. That said, you can't tell someone, a little girl who's been raped or someone who's being killed, you can't say you have to do a colo

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, since my entry into the European Parliament in 2014, I have always fought for the Istanbul Convention to be first signed and then ratified. I thought that the troubled path had passed with the signature, but the ratification becomes a bit like the epic journey of Ulysses, a real Odyssey. Never before is the convention even more necessary. The events that are

(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we are in 2023, but we are still a long way from achieving gender equality. I share the view that the gender gap in some areas is predominant and that we need to act with strength and foresight. Access to education and digital skills must be the priority. They are, in fact, indispensable tools for women to also achieve economic independence or create their

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, some of us have been crying out for years to ratify the Istanbul Convention. After the green light of the Court of Justice, there is no longer any excuse not to proceed with immediate ratification by the Council. The criticism of this Convention is ridiculous, as is the Polish Prime Minister's request for an examination of constitutionality. The Convention si

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we are rewriting the priorities of the European cultural agenda. As you can imagine, the topics are many and different. COVID has left thousands of people and artists out of work. This is why we wanted to protect entrepreneurs in the sector, almost always the owners of small and medium-sized enterprises, asking for easy access to credit to be guaranteed; workers

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, there is no sign of a decrease in cases of violence against women. In my city in recent days one woman was stabbed to death by her husband and another was seriously injured because her husband always set her on fire. This news is on the agenda in all the countries of the European Union, because hatred and violence know no borders, they have no age difference,

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, as the great Eduardo De Filippo said, the exams never end. But then why should we stop learning, acquiring new skills or qualifications? Lifelong learning must be encouraged at all levels and micro-credentials have the function of creating learning pathways that can be used by all, in particular by disadvantaged citizens and by people who have left the labour ma

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, as I said in this House a long time ago, in Europe fundamental rights are for many but not for all. We often talk about freedom, justice, gender equality, but we can't even guarantee them here at home. Unfortunately, not all EU Member States have ratified the Istanbul Convention to this day. Even today, before our eyes, thousands of women and child

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, many of the initiatives that we carry out every day seek to set in motion a virtuous process that aims not only to increase the mere presence of women in prominent positions, but indirectly aims to create the training, support and working conditions, essential in modern society, to encourage the presence of women at every level of the pyramid. What must be avoid

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, peace, law and respect for every human being. When we are young we think that they are obvious words, that we all have these positive principles within us. When you are an adult, you realize that there is good and there is evil. Today I want to use very simple and understandable words for all those who are listening to us. The Istanbul Convention is "the first l