What Piernicola spoke about.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I voted in favour of this resolution, but I cannot help but point out those national practices which effectively nullify the effectiveness of cohesion policies at territorial level. Why has Germany narrowed the gap between East and West? Why has cohesion policy worked in other EU countries, while southern Italy is increasingly moving away from European standa

(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, speaking of the 'risk' of military attacks on humanitarian aid after the events have already happened, speaks volumes about the hypocrisy of this House. I want to remind you that the Treaty on European Union, the Charter of the United Nations, the Helsinki Final Act and the Charter of Paris require us to preserve peace, to prevent conflicts and to refrain f

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I voted against this resolution. The accession of Ukraine to the European Union clearly demonstrates the level of madness and the level of collective hallucination that the Commission executive von der Leyen has reached. Opening the doors of the European Union to a country at war is a real declaration of war against Russia, without any constitutional mandate, in

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I voted against yet another resolution to send weapons and for firm support for Ukraine. We have already supported Ukraine with €91 billion and, despite this, the Ukrainian army is clearly defeated: Let's take note of that. The weakest populations in the European Union paid for this economic effort. It was the poor who paid for the despicable choices of von der

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I voted against this resolution. I state that the death in prison of any political opponent or dissident must be condemned. But the real problem is that in the face of civil rights violations, human rights violations by the Russians, we are all scandalized. But let us quietly close our eyes to the torture of Guantanamo prisoners and quietly close our mouths to t

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, today's vote has put a definitive seal on the futility of this Parliament and this House. Not even in front of the tens of thousands of children massacred in Gaza have we been able to make a useful decision. Clearly, on the subject of war, the right is already the majority in this Parliament. I was present at the debate and everyone was always repeating the s

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I voted in favour of this resolution because it calls for respect for the rule of law, freedom of expression, equal economic treatment, the rights of disabled people, children and women, and economic, social and environmental rights. How can we not vote for it? The point is that in the same plenary session we also approved a stability pact that further streng

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, if you are a young girl from Southern Italy, perhaps from the inner areas that have the highest rate of depopulation, you are the most unfortunate person in Europe; you are the one who has the least chance of being included in the world of work than any other region of our continent. I'm not talking about the difference in pay between men and women: In the So

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the Union aims to reduce the gap between the levels of development of the various regions and the backwardness of the least favoured regions. This is what is written, in black and white, in Article 174 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. Yet in Italy exactly the opposite is happening, Mr President. With the definancing of the National Recover

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, this morning President von der Leyen explained to us that it was right to send weapons because the Ukrainians fought for us, defended our democracy and saved our freedom. After more than 200 000 deaths and a defeat at the gates, they still come to explain to us that it was right. They are now telling us that Ukraine meets the Copenhagen criteria and that we can

Mr President, what international relationships can we have with the United States of America? We are fully manipulated by the United States of America, so what kind of relationship are we talking about, exactly? I remember the words of Victoria Nuland, who said, ‘Fuck the EU’. And in fact, we are fucking ourselves. We are fucking our economy because of the war in Ukraine. We are fucking our humani

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, it is right to pool health data in order to strengthen the statistics of medical assessments and to improve the integrated approach of medical research on a continental scale. I have proposed several times, also in this House, a public and European pharmaceutical company that could counter the dominance and speculative blackmail of private pharmaceutical compani

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, how do you create jobs? First of all, we should avoid taking away his work. We have a unique opportunity to reform those mechanisms that strangle the economies of some Member States, but we have not been able to do anything at all. Italy has a public debt of €2.8 trillion, but until now it has already paid €3 trillion in interest payments into bankers' pocket

I voted against the resolution because the very important phrase 'cease fire' as proposed by the GUE has not been included. And yet I believe that this resolution has had the merit of exposing the gigantic hypocrisies of this House. We have heard colleagues call "free world" what for others is a prison. We heard it repeated that there was an invader and an invader and then promptly sided with the

(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I am addressing the Commission, which has mentioned the national recovery and resilience plans of several countries, but has not also mentioned Italy on the list, of which I will speak. The national plans were designed on the legal basis of social cohesion. The horizontal priorities were gender inequality, generational inequality and especially territorial

Just for a clarification. I have a specific reference to arms trafficking. Let me give you an example to make it clearer: When al-Qaeda was born, at the time of the dissolution of the former Yugoslavia, the mafia supplied it with weapons. The same has happened with ISIS and the same is happening now in Ukraine. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'd like an answer to.

We certainly need a European response to organised crime, because it is a crime that goes beyond national borders. I come from a territory in which the mafia, the Camorra, the 'Ndrangheta, the Holy United Crown have organized themselves and I can therefore say with certainty that the mafias feed on two ingredients that, however, do not all appear in those listed in the EMPACT programme. The first

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in these conclusions the Council reiterates its firm condemnation of the Russian aggression in Ukraine, because it rightly calls it a manifest violation of the Charter of the United Nations. The same charter that NATO violated in Nicaragua, Guatemala, Cuba, Libya, Serbia, Egypt, Yemen, Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq. Then we must ask ourselves whether it really makes

(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is a key instrument for addressing global social and environmental challenges, but there are important data gaps for the regional monitoring of the Union's south. Then I am obliged to report the real reasons why Italy, the country from which I come, shows the worst results in terms of poverty, unemployment, inequa

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Western democratic systems are in crisis, because it is now clear to everyone that politics does not represent the will of ordinary citizens. Politics increasingly represents the interests of financial powers, Freemasons, international funds, the oil industry, the drugs and pesticides industry, and the arms industry. Therefore, in order to restore citizens' trus

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, this important resolution was voted on today, but paradoxically, and also ironically, at the end of this vote, all the Members of Parliament went quietly to eat. That is why I want to read some of the sentences in this resolution so that the citizens are aware of what has been decided in this House. The ultimate goal of the international community should be the

Madam President, international law says that the Russian invasion is as illegal as the NATO wars in Iraq, Serbia, Libya and Syria. These are all illegal wars waged by the rich, fought by the poor and paid for by even poorer citizens. So this war is actually the usual war on the poor. There is no money, but Europe saved the banks in banking crises. There is no money, but member states immediately r

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I believe that we must take note of the fact that in the European Union social and civil rights are not safeguarded in the event of conflict with economic freedoms. Right now, in Italy, there are young people protesting in Milan, in Turin, in Rome, in Cagliari, in Florence, in Pavia. Often they are young people from the south, the poor part of the country, wh

Mr President, I had written something else, but then I got caught up in the words of the right. Illegality. Irregularities. Those who deserve it. Violation of international law. But, I say, do you really believe that a mother who boards a boat with her child to cross the Mediterranean wonders if what she is doing is illegal or if she is somehow violating international law? Is this the analysis of

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, in times of war and economic crisis, unfortunately, it is always culture that pays first, and therefore maximum solidarity with the artists who are victims of war. I come from a territory, the South of Italy, rich in art and culture, so there are endless possibilities for economic recovery linked to the artistic, historical and monumental heritage. The object