The impact of the implementation of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) on SMEs, its administrative burden and challenges for the European Single Market (debate)
Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we have indeed concluded one of the most complex negotiations in the previous parliamentary term. I am very happy to see here, today, with us, the colleagues who shared that complex negotiation phase. The final outcome is good. But it is clear that now it is necessary to make it concretely passable through the implementation phase and, as often
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Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: extension of its scope to downstream goods and anti-circumvention measures - Establishing the Temporary Decarbonisation Fund - Market stability reserve for the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS): ceasing the invalidation of allowances
Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we must recognise that what is happening in the structure of European industry is reflected in the package. automotive one of the central points, decisive for ensuring a future for the whole of European manufacturing. The European Commission's proposal for a revision of the CO emissions regulation is therefore very welcome.2 in the atmosphere for light vehicl
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Need for an adaptation of the EU legal framework on sustainable biofuels (debate)
Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, on the subject of biofuels, we have a very substantial history, with enormous discussions, often geared to deepening, sometimes geared, let us say, to limitation, to hyperregulation - it is an old habit of the European institutions - but what is certain is that today we have a clear picture of biofuels. They are a solid tool to support some of the
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EU strategy in response to the ongoing Middle East crisis, its implications on energy prices and the availability of fertilizers (joint debate)
(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the Hormuz crisis is generating an unexpectedly large energy storm and this energy crisis will inevitably worsen, because – rightly – the European Union has decided to confirm the reduction in supplies from Russia. Today we are still around 14% of imports from Russia but in 2027 we have foreshadowed a scenario of total leakage from those supplies. So the cr
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Energy security, independence and supply in the geopolitical context - ensuring market stability and affordable energy for industry and citizens (debate)
(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we certainly have a serious crisis, caused by the fact that the European Union is not so much dependent on supplies from the Gulf - minimal, as is well known - but the general dependence of the European Union produces a particular sensitivity to the price changes that we are seeing at the moment. And we are also at a particularly critical time b
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EUCO and situation in the Middle East (joint debate)
Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we have a debate that is sometimes innovative, sometimes repetitive. I would like to try to insert an element to change the point of view a bit of the problem of the future of competitiveness in Europe. We have a fact, which we have often discussed in this House, namely the drastic reduction in the presence of European products on world markets and the drasti
Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, unfortunately we lost the battle, more than ten years ago, over rare earths and critical raw materials and rightly today, with a discipline in my view that is very adequate that the European Union is adopting, we try to contain the damage with the regulation on critical raw materials, and not only: industrial, environmental and commercial protection measures.
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Recent peace agreement in the Middle East and the role of the EU (debate)
Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, first of all I would like to thank the Commissioner because, as Mrs Picierno pointed out, a pact for the Mediterranean has been presented, which is certainly a privileged framework for the work, including political work, that we are preparing to do on the exceptionally critical board of the Middle East. The peace agreement – which is a truce rat
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Europe’s automotive future – reversing the ban on the sale of combustion cars in the EU (topical debate)
Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I must say that the debate on the future of theautomotive Today's debate in Parliament has new characteristics compared to the past, and this must be acknowledged by the Commissioner. It would have been useful to take account of the appeals made by this House, this Parliament too, during the previous parliamentary term on the subject of technological neutrality.
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The EU’s role in supporting the recent peace efforts for Gaza and a two-state solution (debate)
Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the evil sown by Hamas and terrorism since 1987, well before 7 October and culminating in the 7 October attack, deserved and deserves a reaction. But that reaction cannot be a new project of annexation or occupation of the Gaza Strip, because an annexation project represents fertile ground for the rebirth of new seeds of evil. So welcome, absolutely yes, the dra
Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, some analysts have used an effective metaphor to describe the clash between Ukraine and Russia: that of the hourglasses, a competition between hourglasses. The Russian hourglass is an economic hourglass: The time against Russia, the time of the war economy that should not last for more than 18-24 months, it is said. It is up to us to slow down, indeed in this
(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we are well aware that American tariffs and provocations - even if often out of proportion, unfortunately - will not help US manufacturing to restart. What is the secret for the American economy, for the European economy and for the world economy is the link between the United States and the European Union. With less than 10% of the world's population we ma
Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the direction taken with the omnibus in the chemical sector is a direction that, in our view, follows the needs that European industry and European citizens have expressed. So, both the Classification and Labelling Regulation, the Cosmetics Regulation and the Fertilisers Regulation, the prospect seems reliable, but the Chemical Industry Package is an extremel
Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the next few days at the NATO summit will not be about just how much money or how we will defend ourselves, but what we are defending, including through organisations such as the Atlantic Alliance. The theme is the future of Western civilization. The question is therefore not how to place national spending within defence policies. We have witnessed in the rec
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Winning the global tech race: boosting innovation and closing funding gaps (topical debate)
Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, there is no doubt that the European agenda contains the challenge of innovation in its many forms. It contains it because, in any case, the resources allocated to it are increasing and it contains it because, as the Commissioner pointed out, there is an effort to simplify it more and more. Objectively, this was a bit of the historical virus of the European Union
Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to thank both the Minister and the Commissioner for having touched decisively on all the crucial points for the future of the European steel industry. Moreover, the European Commission's action plan does not skip one: It is clear that the challenge will now be action, as has already been said by other colleagues. The points are trade defence measure
Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the logic of integrated crisis preparedness is one of the reasons why the European Union exists, both in the civilian and military spheres, and why this action plan is heading in the right direction. And it is one of the directions on which even on the most serious of the crises facing the doors of the European Union - that is, the military - even in that dir
Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the plan proposed by the European Commission goes in the right direction for many reasons, identifying financial instruments or infrastructure measures that will certainly help to reduce the impact of the cost of energy. The problem is that most of the measures identified in this plan are slow, i.e. they will generate the desired effects in the long term. We als
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Unlawful detention and sham trials of Armenian hostages, including high-ranking political representatives from Nagorno-Karabakh, by Azerbaijan
Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the State of Azerbaijan continues its violence against the Armenian people undisturbed. After the military invasion in September 2023 in Nagorno Karabakh and the related deportation of 100,000 citizens, these illegal detentions of 23 Armenian citizens began and, today, these processes are totally opaque. The faults that are not forgiven to the Armenian people ar
Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we have all been somewhat wrong in this debate. As institutions, we have reversed the order of factors and decided that, in addition to defining the general framework and objectives to be achieved – the task of politics – we have invented a new model in which politics also decides all the steps, techniques and technologies with which to pursue those results.
(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, thank you, Commissioner, for the clear introduction you have made and for reiterating that the centrality of the issue of competitiveness has finally made a great comeback in Parliament's debate, a Parliament that had decidedly calmed down in a torpor that was not good for our companies in global competition. We have some elements to clarify, because it is