What Laura spoke about.

At European level, effective solutions and a common response on the management of migration flows are still lacking. The European Union has allocated a total of €16 billion to be spent over the next seven years in the key areas of border management and migration. It is appreciable that the 2021-2027 Asylum and Migration Fund provides a fixed amount for the allocation of funding to national program

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the horror of the massacre of civilians in Gaza does not spare those who help a population suffering all kinds of deprivation or who document the ongoing tragedy: Around 200 aid workers have been killed and 100 journalists killed, while well over 30,000 Palestinian civilians have died. The European Parliament condemned the disproportionate response of the Isr

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in a European Union where one in three women has experienced physical or sexual violence, 75% have experienced sexual harassment in the workplace and where one in two women has been the victim of gender-based cyberviolence, it is clear that effective action is urgently needed. The proposal for a directive on combating violence against women should have been a Eu

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in 2020, President von der Leyen declared that she would abolish the Dublin system. You, Vice-President Schinas and you, Commissioner Johansson, declared that solidarity would become mandatory. Well, after almost ten years, if we look at the first proposal presented in 2015 by the European Commission for the reform of the Asylum Package, after almost ten years o

(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, European legislation on animal welfare requires urgent revision for the purposes it is intended to achieve and to meet citizens' expectations. More than 1.5 million signatures have supported the ‘Enough animals in cages’ and ‘Enough fur in Europe’ initiatives to tackle cruel and unsustainable production and farming practices; This demonstrates the ethical r

(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in 2021 Alexei Navalny courageously chose to return to Russia after suffering an attempted poisoning. He knew it would be risky, but he did it to manifest the principles he believed in: freedom and justice. These are the principles that coincide with our own values. Navalny's human and political condition, which ended in a Siberian prison, and his fight aga

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the International Court of Justice has asked Israel to respect the Genocide Convention and to guarantee humanitarian assistance to the people of Gaza. This is an urgent reminder of our conscience and international responsibility. If the Netanyahu government were to turn its back on this appeal, we would face new innocent victims and forced displacement. A drama

(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, global responses are needed to tackle challenges such as women's poverty, a phenomenon that manifests itself disproportionately compared to men's poverty. Women receive lower salaries and pensions, take more responsibility for caring for family members, and suffer more from precariousness, unemployment and social insecurity. This unequal treatment is rooted

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, do the Commission and the Council really believe that, by continuing to send more and more weapons to Ukraine, Russia will sooner or later stop? The two years since the Russian invasion show the opposite: Ukraine is now in a grip of dependence on external aid to support its spending and arm its army. Sending arms to Ukraine to support it, legitimately, in its se

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the next European Council will be decisive in shaping the Europe of the future and never before have positions been so different and distant. We have Orbán's blackmail and vetoes against European unity; the return of austerity against a development and solidarity pact; linear budget cuts against investments that companies need for the green transition; new ar

(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the brutal killing of Giulia Cecchettin has profoundly shaken consciences in Italy about how serious the sequence of femicides is still. Giulia was denied her right to live, her future. And it is not the only one, because in Italy, in my country, more than 100 women have been victims since the beginning of the year, of which more than 80 have been killed in

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, it is time to put an end to the suffering inflicted on animals kept in cages, whether wild or domestic, with the aim of making money on fur production. More than 1.5 million European citizens have voiced this call, supporting the "Fur Free Europe" initiative with their signature. This kind of breeding is in stark contrast to the fundamental principles of anim

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, three years after its presentation and eight years after the first proposals for reform, the new European Pact for Migration and Asylum has not yet come into being. And it is the Mediterranean countries like Italy that pay the heaviest price for European divisions, vetoes and delays. We remember it once again: Lampedusa is a land of Italian and European borders,

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, it is difficult not to see in the EU-Tunisia agreement the attempt to contain flows in exchange for financial aid and to outsource responsibility for migration. It risks fuelling dependence on a third country with completely inadequate human rights protections. It is clear to everyone that Tunisia cannot be considered safe because of episodes of racism, xenophob

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the proposals of the ING2 Special Committee are the starting point for the reform of the internal rules of the European Parliament in order to ensure greater transparency and integrity in its work, to ensure democratic scrutiny by citizens and to combat corruption. As a 5 Star Movement delegation, we wanted to contribute to this process by tabling several ame

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, recent crises, high-energy inflation and inevitable market speculation continue to concentrate enormous wealth in the hands of a privileged few. We need to address growing economic disparities and ensure a fairer distribution of resources if we want a different development model, based on sustainability, rights, justice and peace. Taxing non-profits and those

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the threat of foreign interference, while increasing in national and European elections, is in fact manifested in many forms and continuously throughout the European Union. Disinformation and information manipulation on traditional and social media, cyberattacks targeting critical infrastructure, smuggling of influence, corruption, covert funding involving po

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, as the Five Star Movement, we have always promoted the objectives of the recent proposal for a directive on combating corruption. The European Union finally reacts with determination to combat one of the most unpunished and dangerous transnational phenomena for the integrity of democratic processes, the legal economy and social cohesion. We share the importance

(IT) Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the attempt to reduce migratory pressure towards the European Union should never result in measures that prevent people from applying for international protection in a safe territory, thus exposing them to risks of arbitrary detention, violence and discrimination. This is especially the case when it comes to relocating asylum, controlling migration flows

Madam President, the report of the International Council on Clean Transportation shows that nothing has changed since the 2015 Dieselgate scandal. In fact, 77% of the tests still reveal so-called suspicious emissions, a figure that could be explained by the possibility that millions of diesel cars in Europe use a defeat device. With the EMIS Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry, the lack of politica

Madam President, the journalistic investigation 'The Forever Pollution Project' revealed the appalling extent of contamination by PFAS substances, which are synthetically produced, are toxic and persistent substances that have a multitude of applications. We can find them in commonly used products, in the water we drink, in the clothes we wear, in the packaging of the food we eat, in the soil and

Mr President, the 441 deaths since the beginning of the year in the Central Mediterranean and the 20,000 recorded since 2014 make this migratory route, the Mediterranean route, the deadliest in the world. The main ports of Europe are the Italian coasts, where more than 32 000 arrivals took place in 2023. The declaration of the state of emergency in Italy for migrants made it clear that the Meloni

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in the Mediterranean, more and more like a cemetery, the bodies of the shipwreck in Cutro, Italy, are still being recovered today. Since 2015, 26,000 people have died. Stricter penalties for smugglers and traffickers, even if just, are not enough on their own if the lack of legal and safe access to the European Union for those fleeing conflict and persecution ha

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the accession of the European Union to the Istanbul Convention is a necessary step towards effective legal and political measures to prevent and combat gender-based violence. We cannot remain hostage to those Member States that are questioning the Convention, delaying its ratification and implementation or expressing a willingness to withdraw. These countries

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, may the European Council be an opportunity to reiterate that in Europe we do not need walls, barbed wire and funding to erect new physical barriers at external and internal borders. We need solidarity and fair sharing of responsibility, as provided for in Article 80 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. In order to alleviate the disproportio