What Gianantonio spoke about.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, according to the evaluation of traineeships in Europe, cooperation between the Member States and the European Union has brought about significant improvements in apprenticeships and the integration of young people into employment. But it is clear that more needs to be done, given that youth unemployment now stands at 15%. As the Commission’s assessment shows, th

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the Belgian Presidency will face many challenges in the coming months, including ensuring and securing support for European agriculture. I do not recognize myself in this Europe that prefers to defend itself with barbed wire and favour imports of food products that do not comply with European standards and food traceability. Well, I stand with farmers and agains

(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the 28th United Nations Conference on Climate Change aims to put in place a series of actions to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. The focus on climate change is certainly acceptable, but it must not become a mad ecological race, which would lead the entire European economy to collapse. Today, in fact, our companies are faced with a much greater challenge

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the latest Eurostat data on housing conditions for young Europeans are not encouraging: almost 28% of 15-29 year-olds face problems with overcrowded housing, while almost 41% suffer from excessive housing costs. Inaccessible prices and housing shortages undermine the future and prospects of independent and dignified living of young people, especially our univ

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, today is International Mountain Day. On 20 November, the Council of the European Union approved a text on the long-term vision for Europe's rural areas in order to promote prosperity and the social fabric. Rural and mountain areas face many challenges, such as depopulation, poor maintenance of forests and wildlife, and a lack of infrastructure and adequate em

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, more than a year has passed since the death of Mahsa Amini, the young Iranian woman of Kurdish origin whom Iran's so-called "moral police" had arrested for failing to comply with the obligation to wear a veil. Since then, Iranian women have sparked one of the largest protests against the Iranian regime, which to date has caused at least 500 deaths and 20,000

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in line with what is happening globally, the mountainous territory in north-eastern Italy has lost 4 million cubic metres of timber and another 2 million have been cut down by the bark beetle. The Veneto Region is the first Italian region for employees with turnover in the furniture sector: it has almost 8 400 companies, employing over 46 000 people. The sector

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, in recent days Italy has been devastated by severe weather, which has unfortunately caused many victims, missing people, displaced families, as well as considerable economic damage. In Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia, as in Tuscany, hundreds of millions of euros of damage were recorded, both in the mountains, with landslides and landslides, and along the coa

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, on 16 October 2017, the Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed by an explosion caused by a bomb placed in her car. A murder that sees a journalist pay with her life for her government's corruption investigations: He denounced trafficking related to migrants, weapons, oil and finance. The European Commission, always very careful to recall Italy i

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the summit of world leaders on climate objectives, which was held in New York last September, ended in failure. The final declaration that emerged from the summit is in fact a lapidary awareness: the objectives for combating climate change will not be achieved in 2030, nor in 2050, highlighting that radically new approaches are needed to make progress at nationa

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, according to data released by the Italian Ministry of the Interior, 115 000 migrants have arrived in Italy since the beginning of the year: an increase in arrivals compared to 2022 of 115 %. The Italian reception system is now collapsing. Where is the much-vaunted European solidarity? Where are France, Austria and, in particular, Germany which, instead of hel

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the proposal for a regulation on media freedom aims to establish common rules governing the functioning of the internal market for information services. An ambitious project for the protection of media pluralism in the European single market, which, however, provides for the establishment of a European supervisory body, to the detriment of national bodies. Th

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, for a few weeks now, Europe has been witnessing unarmed the violent protests that have broken out in France following the killing of the boy as part of police control. Anger and aggression, resulting in looting and vandalism, seem to be the outlet of a society now based only on tensions between different ethnic groups, resulting from uncontrolled immigration

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the European Commission has adopted the proposal to make 2023 the European Year of Skills, with the aim of improving the training of European citizens. We welcome Europe's focus on a skilled workforce, which means strengthening the competitiveness of European businesses, in particular our small and medium-sized enterprises. However, the objective of improving

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, on 4 May the French Minister for the Interior stated that the President of the Council of Ministers, Giorgia Meloni, would be unable to resolve Italy's migration problems. Unacceptable and shameful words on the part of the French government that, despite being always ready to give hospitality lessons to other countries, has not hesitated to send 150 additional p

Mr President, on 11 April the Italian Government declared a national state of emergency on migrants, a decision dictated by the exceptional increase in arrivals on the Italian coast, which has seen more than 32 000 disembarkations since the beginning of the year, four times more than in 2022. On the management of the migration phenomenon, Italy is doing its part, where is the European Union and wh

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the Commission has proposed that cattle farming be included in the scope of the Industrial Emissions Directive. To claim that farms pollute like factories is madness. In the period 1990-2020, Italy reduced its emissions by around a quarter, while Morocco and Turkey increased their emissions by 23% and India by 21%. The inclusion of the bovine sector in this dire

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, cycling brings many environmental and social benefits and makes an important contribution to Europe's economic growth. The European bicycle industry represents more than a thousand small and medium-sized enterprises with one million jobs. At the Italian level, the sector is worth two billion euros a year and the Veneto region alone has 110 companies and a turnov

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, according to the proposal to revise the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive, new buildings will have to be zero-emission by 2030, while existing buildings in 2050, with intermediate steps for residential buildings, will have to reach energy class E in 2030 and D in 2033. According to these criteria, in Italy no more than 9 million buildings out of 12 mi

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, after the larvae and locusts, the Commission has given the green light to the placing on the European market of crickets in powder form. In the midst of the economic crisis due to the pandemic, then the Russian invasion, Europe's priority is to bring on the tables of European citizens insects from non-European countries such as Vietnam, China and Thailand, count

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in the field of culture, the European Union has competence for actions to support and coordinate the actions of the Member States. Initiatives for the development of international cultural relations are welcome, but without forgetting the provisions of Article 167 of the Treaty, namely "the Union shall contribute to the full development of the cultures of the Me

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Article 80 of the Treaty on European Union on immigration and asylum policies states that the Union's policies shall be governed by the principle of solidarity, fair sharing of responsibility between the Member States, including financial responsibility. According to the latest Frontex data, there were more than 280 000 irregular border crossings to Europe in

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the European Union has decided that, from 2035, car manufacturers will no longer be able to sell petrol and diesel cars. A wicked decision, dictated by an ecological phobia that has not evaluated the serious socio-economic consequences deriving from its delirium. With the ban on internal combustion engines, Italy risks losing more than 70 000 jobs between 202

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, according to the judgment of the Italian antitrust authority, Nutri-Score, the labelling system that Europe would like to impose on us, was developed on the basis of an algorithm and unrecognised and shared scientific assessments. A blatantly misleading labelling system, which refers to 100 grams of product and not to a portion of consumption that encourages unh

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Article 3 of the Treaty on European Union states that the European Union ‘shall promote economic, social and territorial cohesion and solidarity between Member States’. The principle is commendable and commendable, but it applies only on paper. Lately, we have seen little solidarity between Member States. Just think of the failure of the management of migratory