What Caterina spoke about.

Sexual abuse and exploitation of children, online and offline, are one of the most serious and intolerable violations of fundamental rights, whose victims risk seeing their lives dramatically scarred forever. Over the last decade, the EU has seen an impressive increase in reports of child sexual abuse online, setting the sad world record for hosted child sexual abuse material in 2019. The pandemic

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the recent loss of two officers of the Spanish Civil Guard due to the ramming by a boat of drug traffickers is yet another demonstration of how much drug trafficking poses a serious threat to our societies. As the mother of two law enforcement officers, I want to express my solidarity with their families. Huge profits for criminal organisations, lo

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the phenomenon of the recruitment of children by organised crime, which is certainly not new because it is used by the mafias, has now taken on alarming dimensions and forms. As recently reported by Europol, criminal organisations across the Union systematically recruit children and young people, involved in more than 70% of criminal sectors, to

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, building an area of freedom, security and justice means preventing crime and punishing its perpetrators, of course, but it also means ensuring justice for the 75 million people who are victims of crime every year in the European Union. Ensuring justice for victims means providing them with assistance, support and protection adapted to their spec

Madam President, Commissioner, millions of people in Europe today still live in poverty or social exclusion, a condition which affects more than 20% of the European population and which affects the most vulnerable in particular. And behind the numbers and percentages are people, fragile families, people with disabilities, the elderly and especially minors – we have heard this: one in four children

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, the right to education is a fundamental human right, enshrined globally in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Rights and the 1989 International Convention on the Rights of the Child. Yet today, still today, due to situations of poverty or extreme hardship, too many children and young people in Europe and in the world do not attend or leave school

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the murder of Mehdi Kessaci, tragically a few years after the murder of Brother Brahim – and my closeness to their family – reminds us of the urgent need for ambitious and coordinated measures at European level against drug trafficking. As the EU Drugs Agency points out, we all, directly or indirectly, suffer the impact of drug trafficking in terms

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we are well aware of this: The Internet is now an integral part of the lives of our children and adolescents. There are many opportunities, of course, but an early and excessive exposure to technological devices exposes them to risks for physical and mental health, such as sleep disorders, attention, anxiety, reduction of social relationships. Harmful addictive

Mr President, Commissioner, Mr President of the European Court of Auditors, ladies and gentlemen, especially today, in the current context, with an unprecedented amount of resources allocated, the overlapping of different funding instruments, the succession of geopolitical uncertainties and the preparation of the new MFF, the Court of Auditors' annual report is of decisive importance for the valua

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, as the daughter of a judge, Rocco Chinnici, killed by the Mafia with the men in his escort; as a magistrate, who for many years worked in direct contact with the judicial police; As the mother of a police officer and a police officer and now as a legislator, I firmly believe it is our duty to protect those who protect us. Women and men of law enfor

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the right to an independent life for persons with disabilities, the possibility of choosing where and with whom to live, in order to ensure their full participation in society, on the basis of the principles of equality and non-discrimination, must be a priority for the European Union, is indeed one of the key actions of the European Strategy fo

Mr President, Commissioner Brunner, ladies and gentlemen, follow the money: this is the method to really fight organized crime, as the Italian investigative and judicial experience has taught us for over forty years. And "focus on the money" is today the motto of the European Public Prosecutor's Office in the wake of that teaching. When money becomes virtual, the challenges for regulators and law

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, guaranteeing the right to independent living and full participation in society for persons with disabilities is a moral, rather than a legal, imperative for the Union. Although this principle is enshrined in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and Article 19 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 1.4 million persons wi

(IT) Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, on 20 November we celebrated the 35th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, a historic text which recognised children as fully entitled to rights and established precise legal obligations for the signatory countries, in order to guarantee the protection and protection of the rights of all, all children, to ensure their p

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, the recruitment of children to commit crimes is particularly odious, because the first victims are the same children recruited, removed from their innocence and exploited by unscrupulous criminals. This is nothing new, of course, but in recent years the phenomenon has intensified: According to an alarming note issued by Europol a few days ago, c

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to thank President Murphy for his report and the entire European Court of Auditors for its work. It is true that the last few years have been full of unprecedented transformations and challenges to which the European Union as a whole has been able to respond. However, the Court’s report reveals worrying data that call our attention: th

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, 'everywhere, everything, everyone', these are the key words of the 'European Drug Report 2024'. Drug trafficking and related problems involve all countries. Increasingly new synthetic substances are appearing, with increased health risks, but also challenges for legislators and law enforcement authorities. All of us, directly or indirectly, suff

(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, gender-based violence, in particular violence against women, continues to be a serious problem in all the countries of the Union. Unfortunately, the current legislation fails to effectively counteract this alarming phenomenon, which, moreover, when it explodes within the walls of the house, is also dramatically spilled over on children, innocent witnesses o

Madam President, Commissioner Hahn, ladies and gentlemen, the Europol report mentioned above shows that there are as many as 821 of the most dangerous criminal networks in the whole of the European Union, three quarters of which are active in more than one Member State. And this is yet another confirmation of the fact that organised crime is a serious threat to the security, freedom and dignity of

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, it is with emotion that I too wish to bring my personal remembrance to this House today. Borsellino and Falcone were the judges that my father, Rocco Chinnici, chose when he created the anti-mafia pool, profoundly innovating the method of fighting organized crime. I myself was entrusted to Paolo Borsellino as a young magistrate. In those months spent together