What Ruggero spoke about.

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we are living in the time of the global Mediterranean, as we say today. We live in the time when this increasingly important geopolitical area, which connects Europe with the countries of the Middle East and the Indo-Pacific, finds itself experiencing a geopolitical and economic centrality that, finally, is collected by Europe with a clear politica

Madam President, Commissioner, Minister, ladies and gentlemen, 2027, the last year of the old multiannual financial framework, is preparing the new multiannual financial framework, but today's debate tells us that 2027 will not be the year of answers. It will not be the year of answers to entrepreneurs, who yearn for greater competitiveness, because this will perhaps come with the Competitiveness

Madam President, thank you, of course, to the Commissioner for following the debate and for also providing further input from the Commission. Thank you to all the colleagues from all the political groups who have spoken and who have made the debate rich. But the work had also taken place during the drafting of the report, as Mr Fourlas said just now. On the European legal framework, the report pro

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, when we talk about the future of European health, we are often led to talk about new medicines, new technologies, artificial intelligence, the pharmaceutical industry and biotechnologies. Everything necessary. But working on this report with Mr Fourlas, whom I really thank for the work we have done together, and with him along with all the shadow r

Mr President, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I believe that we cannot miss the opportunity of this debate by turning to ideological questions, because prevention - and the prevention strategy that the European Union has also adopted - is the first response that must be given to phenomena such as the one we have experienced in recent weeks and which we ar

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I am referring to Rule 202 of the Rules of Procedure. Next May 23 will be the anniversary, in two days, of the Capaci massacre. It was the day when the mafia inflicted a very hard blow on Italy and the democracies, assassinating Giovanni Falcone, Francesca Morvillo and the agents of the escort Antonio Montinaro, Vito Schifani and Rocco Dicillo. From that violenc

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the case of the hantavirus, as you yourself said, must not generate any panic. And this is a first message that must be addressed to the population, because the experience of the long COVID‑ pandemic is still strong and clear19. If anything, the occasion is important to ask what that pandemic left at the organisational level, whether the signals

Madam President, Commissioner Serafin, ladies and gentlemen, today's debate comes at an important time, because the evaluation of the multiannual financial framework proposed by the Commission, even in the aftermath of Parliament's vote, has seen Parliament's call for greater support for agricultural policies, greater support for cohesion policies and new support for competitiveness very broadly a

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, in the 1990s, Europe produced more than 80% of the active ingredients for its pharmaceutical production. Today we are at 30%, because 80% of the active ingredients come from India and China, and for some essential antibiotics the dependence on Asian supply chains is almost integral. That is why it is not an industrial issue, but a matter of dealing

It is not the opinion of the Conservatives and Reformists that part of today's anti-Semitism is linked to mass Islamization. If anything, the issue is the answer, don't look at a single case. And, if I have to be honest, colleague, I don't think it will do you any honour to seek controversy on a day like this at all costs.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, I think that we are not only here today to express the great feeling of condolence two years after the events of 7 October. We are here to reflect on the reasons for a growing anti-Semitism in Europe and I think that each of us, whatever our belonging, is also recognized in the cry of concern that Pope Leo XIV, precisely on this issue, in Europe an

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, on 17 September - next week - it will be two years since the visit to Lampedusa, Europe's southern border, by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and President Ursula von der Leyen. After that meeting, after the first time that Europe took note of the situation in the south of its border, the memorandum of understanding with Tunisia arrived, than

I do not think that the European Parliament, my colleague, has the opportunity to avoid further fires. Of course, European policies and national policies can provide for climate adaptation strategies, but to provide for climate adaptation strategies – I am an Italian, the Italian government has also done so by working on the climate adaptation plan – means working on prevention, it means working o

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, since the beginning of this parliamentary term, this is not the first debate in which we are dealing with fires, it is not the first debate in which we are dealing with droughts. Many months ago, as an Italian Member of Parliament, I asked the European Commission a question in which I asked about the choices that have been made, for example with

Madam President, Minister, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner Serafin has spoken about what unites us, and I will try to summarise some important things that perhaps divide us today and perhaps unite us tomorrow. There are divergences at the outset and we are afraid, for some choices, that we already know are not shared by the majority of Member States and certainly by the majority of Parliament.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Mr Executive Vice-President of the Commission, I think that, at times, this debate has not wanted or been able to take into account some of the innovations that have emerged in recent weeks. It is right and very correct that Parliament should ask itself how to move forward on the many projects which the plans have carried out in the various States and which m

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we are taking part in a particularly important debate because it concerns the economic policy trajectory that will lead us to 2035. And my previous Conservative colleagues have said how important it is for us that Europe should once again be hospitable to business, that we should be able to invest in research, innovation and development, that we sh

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I too would like to begin by acknowledging to the rapporteur, Mr Halicki, the effort he has made to try to include, in these guidelines on the 2026 budget, some of the most important essential elements that came from the proposals of all the political groups, including our own. Obviously this is a debate that takes place at a particular time, while

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, first of all thank you, Commissioner, for fulfilling one of the commitments you announced at your hearing, namely to be here within 100 days and to present a legislative act of extraordinary importance. Regulatory act that was widely expected, not only for what emerged in the aftermath of the pandemic, when we discovered as Europe that most of our