What Elisabetta spoke about.

Madam President, dear Vice‑President, dear rapporteur, yes, there is a paradox here. 80 % of SMEs cannot find the workers with the right skills. By 2035, 6 out of every 10 jobs will require technical intermediate qualifications. Yet, we tell young people that vocational training is a second‑rate option. It is not trendy. The negative prejudice is so deeply rooted that we push our boys and girls to

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I am frankly tired of hearing these two opposing unbearable rhetorics. On the one hand, the criminalisation of protests – of course through the fault of immigrants – and the attempt to resolve them only with laws of security, command and order, which have so far brought absolutely nothing. On the other hand, the indulgence, on the other hand, also towards tho

I do not think that the recipe is to put a roof and to control in a hyperbureaucratic way all the prices of all the products. I think that the recipe, in reality, in a continent that now does not grow and grows very little, is that instead of helping to generate wealth, to help generate competitiveness, because otherwise we will never be able to redistribute and have resources to be able to suppor

I think we are at a time when families, especially some generations, are shamefully paying the price of extraordinary profits from various multinationals, including those linked to oil. Personally I am in favour of taxing extra profits, but I note that, technically, it is a very complicated mechanism and that therefore it should be done in a serious way, because in reality if you earn a lot you sh

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, we are in a perfect storm: low productivity, low real wages, low growth, exorbitant energy prices, returning inflation and several European countries exposed to debt. We must ask ourselves why the European social model no longer works and why liberal democracy has failed to deliver on its promises of prosperity and universal public services. Thi

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the house protests are a sign of the failure of liberal democracy, which promised prosperity and public services for all and failed to keep its promises. Home is the first link in the security chain for each of us. If that is missing, every other right becomes more fragile. Let's also plan to make fun of the kids, telling them to invest in the future and prepare

Mr President, healthcare workers are facing a perfect storm. They are clearly understaffed. They work excessive hours while they get older, and they are subjected to stress and burnout and often fall victims to violence and assault, particularly women. Yet amidst all that, we ask the impossible of them: to be there for an ageing and ageing population, to help us reduce waiting lists, to stay perfe

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, in Europe we are already in the third wave of super heat and we are only at the beginning of July, so the data on climate change are indisputable and those who practice denial today are simply crazy. Therefore, those who deny climate change must stay out of politics, because our duty is to respond to the needs of citizens. And I see, however, that the empty b

Madam President, I wrote my PhD dissertation in Wolfsburg in the mid-1990s, on the introduction of flexibility and the four-day workweek at Volkswagen. It was a cyclical crisis that eventually seemed to be overcome. Today we are talking of a genuine collapse, and the alarm is broader in scope because we are talking of the breakdown of the German social and economic model, the one based on co-deter

Mr President, first of all, dear Commissioner, you have noticed that basically all women have spoken in this debate, except for three courageous colleagues, and except for, for a short time, a colleague of ours whose question was really not so clear to me. But, in any case, until you know that the issue of caregiving, and the gender gap relating to that, is only a topic discussed by women, and not

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I am a Modenese woman in love with my city. On Saturday I was in Modena with my family. You can imagine the shock of Salim El Koudri's crazy, terrible, criminal act. A huge hug to the wounded and a huge thank you to the heroic citizens who blocked the criminal. To date, the motive would be a deep psychiatric illness and not terrorist ties. We'll see. But, lik

Madam President, Commissioner, this is a war started by one man – Vladimir Putin. No one else. A man who wants to decide the destiny of independent nations and even their right to exist. The recent attacks in Odesa targeting infrastructure and residential buildings tell us that civilian deaths have increased in Ukraine over the last year. Fake news spread by Putin that Russia only hits military ta

Mr President, I would say to Mr Trump: we've been patient in front of your erratic and despotic behaviour. We were patient when you started a war without knowing how to finish it. We've been patient as you use trade policy as a weapon to take revenge and threaten countries and people who simply annoy you. We were patient when you called us free riders and parasites, and we were patient when your V

Mr President, dear Commissioner, today it's really an historical moment because we have been talking for many years about the need to increase the strategic autonomy of the European Union, and the European Union has never been a fully-fledged political entity because it has suffered from two dependencies: in the east, on the gas from Russia, and in the west, on the United States for defence. A dem

No, no, we do not believe that you are crazy people, absolutely. But these are two questions. So first of all, it is absolutely true that Putin does not want peace, and we are in the middle of a hybrid war all over Europe. We can see it every day in Denmark, Sweden, Germany and so on and so forth. Second, of course Putin is not winning, because there is an incredible resistance by heroes, people f

Mr President, we all know very well what is really at stake in the Russia-Ukraine war: the defence of democracy against tyranny; the defence of pluralism against dictatorship; the defence of freedom against despotic leaders who really do not care about international law. So Putin's real target is not just the Ukraine or its critical materials, but Europe and the West: our values, our freedom, our

Mr President, dear Commissioner, we know the numbers of the crisis of the automotive industry, we know the numbers of the production fall and the sales decrease. It is a perfect storm with multiple explaining factors: the transition to electric vehicles is costly and difficult given the shortage of raw materials and delays in the infrastructure; changing lifestyles; competition from China; tariffs

Mr President, dear Commissioner, China's decision to impose anti-dumping duties of up to 62 % on the importation of European pork products is an act of profound economic injustice that damages our farmers a lot, with estimated costs of around USD 2 billion. It just happens when China itself is facing a significant domestic overcapacity of pork products, so there are no real and legitimate reasons

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, investing in nuclear fusion research is a priority. Well the ITER project, to which the European Union contributes significantly, with almost half of the funds. None of us are against research – how can we be against research? – It is important to have a diversified portfolio of energy-generating technologies. We will need a lot of energy in the future, think

Mr President, dear Commissioner, protecting biodiversity must continue to be our top priority. We have addressed it in the Green Deal, in the Nature Restoration Law, so we cannot step back or be afraid to move forward, because biodiversity is not just about the beauty of our landscapes and the fundamental fight against the extinction of animal and plant species – but it is also at the basis of our

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, subcontracting and the use of intermediaries are increasingly common in the world of work. Often, in construction they are also linked to accidents and deaths at work. Let's remember the five deaths in Florence in February 2024 due to the collapse of a construction site. The Platform Work Directive, for which I was rapporteur, includes in Article 3

Mr President, Commissioner, the spread of digital technologies is having a huge impact on the labour market, and innovations such as AI, robotics, quantum technology and 6G are triggering a wave of new demands for a new generation of advanced digital skills. The Draghi report strongly highlights how digitalisation and AI are essential, for example for the public sector due to its ability to provid

Mr President, dear colleagues, dear Commissioner, words are important, and they want to remind all of us that we cannot talk of a Union of energy until we do not have a real single energy market. And this is linked to several factors, from energy security to the fight against energy poverty, to the competences of the EU in terms of institutional governance. For instance, after the war in Ukraine,