What Ana spoke about.

Madam President, Commissioner, yesterday I spoke in this gallery about the separation of powers that is consolidated in the Treaties and about the necessary control between them. Yesterday, we all together called on the executive branch to enable our right to make commissions of inquiry, because control between powers is the very essence of democracy. And today, at the last minute of the last day

Mr President, Mr Michel, Commissioner McGuinness, ladies and gentlemen, when I arrived here a few months ago, I explained to my children that this Parliament was the guardian of European democracy. I explained to them that in democracy the power is held by the citizens, that they organise themselves through their representatives, which is all of us, and that there are basic rules for resolving con

Mr President, Commissioner, I began by saying that mechanisms of this kind are for exceptional and urgent situations or occurrences. I believe that in this debate both exceptionality and urgency have been demonstrated. Of course, we cannot say that it will happen because, as has also been mentioned, we have already been promising to join this region for 20 years, since the Thessaloniki Summit in 2

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, first of all, I would like to congratulate the rapporteurs of this report: my colleague Karlo Ressler, who cannot accompany us today, and Mr Picula. I would also like to highlight the work of the shadow rapporteurs and the secretariat. Mechanisms are instruments that respond to exceptional situations and therefore their financing and governance should be fully a

Mr President, if I were to explain to the public what the EIB is, I would tell them that it is the Bank of the European Union. It is the only bank whose shareholders are the Member States, whose interests it represents. I would also tell them that it provides its funding and expertise for investment projects that contribute to achieving the Union's policy objectives (they have said so): industrial

Mr. President, today we are evaluating our recent past, but to talk about the future. And this assessment of the multiannual financial framework implies recognising that it has lacked the necessary flexibility and sufficient autonomy vis-à-vis the Member States. It also involves putting on the table three elements that are key already today, but that will remain so tomorrow. Three questions for th

Mr President, Commissioner, our Union was born last century as a better tool for peace and with long lights on for a horizon of prosperity. In recent decades, as you mentioned, we have faced many challenges. The first of these was the construction of European citizenship, which is present from the very germ of what is now the Union and which has been consolidated over the decades thanks to the wor

Mr. President, Mr. Secretary of State, a year after Qatargate, this corruption scandal has taught us two things: that there is corruption and that corruption also comes to light. And something else: whereas, where problems exist in the European institutions, they have mechanisms to solve them and to prevent similar things from happening again. These are two essential parts of this process. When th