What Ignazio Roberto spoke about.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner Várhelyi, a medicine declared illegal because it puts people's health at risk should be withdrawn from the market immediately and should no longer be able to be promoted or distributed. But this is not the case. An investigation - we have heard it before - conducted in Spain found that as many as 45% of medicines declared illegal in the last two yea

(IT) Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, almost one in three European workers reported suffering from stress, depression and anxiety caused or aggravated by their work. These are not individual frailties. This is our working model: excessive loads, precariousness, lack of autonomy, lack of recognition and even discrimination. We too often continue to ask people to adapt to working conditions th

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Madam President von der Leyen, you spoke of the electrification of the European continent by 2040. But what is needed today - and you recalled the tragedies of this summer - is a roadmap to stop using fossil fuels. Let me give you an example: The city of Rome is planning an incinerator of 600,000 tons of carbon dioxide emitted into the air. He then mentioned

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, this virus, which many of us have compared to what happened a few years ago with COVID, is a much more lethal, much more dangerous virus: There is no cure, there is no vaccine, and there is no way to stop bleeding inside the body and outside the body of these poor patients. We really need to replace what the United States has done with its step

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I have been with other Members of Parliament in the West Bank, in the occupied territories. We saw, as soon as we arrived in the city of Hebron, a curve where we were shown that there were still bloodstains of some Palestinians killed a few days earlier and we asked: "But why don't you go to justice?" "No, because we don't have normal justice. We h

Madam President, Madam High Representative, ladies and gentlemen, when we talk about the humanitarian situation in Cuba, we are not just talking about international politics, we are talking about the daily lives of millions of people. The embargo affecting the country has dramatic consequences for the population. 32 times in a row, the UN General Assembly has called for an end to these measures. T

Mr President Ștefănuță, Commissioner Várhelyi, ladies and gentlemen, I have spent 35 years of my life – practically more than half of my adult life – as a surgeon in the operating room and in intensive care. When a drug is missing, the problem is not theoretical, it is not geopolitical, it is not industrial: He is a doctor who does not know how to treat a patient, he is a patient who is not treate

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, if one of us suffers from a fever, a cough or a chill, it is only natural that he should ask his doctor to diagnose him and start the necessary treatment. How many people have these symptoms in Europe each year? Millions. But there are millions of young people who have a serious illness with symptoms that are not physically obvious: depression, anx

Madam President, I visited Birkenau and Auschwitz with Sami Modiano, who was deported there at the age of 13 and lost his father and young sister there. I visited Hiroshima, a museum that shows tragedy and destruction. I will not live long enough to visit the Museum of the Destruction of Gaza and to hear the voices of my great-grandchildren asking 'but where was great-grandfather in those years? H

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we are facing a genocide that cries out for justice: More than 55,000 Palestinians have been deliberately killed, including thousands of children. Gaza is now the leading place of death for children on the planet. Europe must act with harsh and lasting sanctions, Mrs Kallas: Total arms embargo, immediate suspension of all agreements with Israel. No more hypoc

Madam President, the President of our Commission has outlined her priorities: ending oil imports from Russia and pursuing a rearmament plan. First of all, I personally find it offensive speaking and leaving without listening to the voice of Parliament. She announced that the financial value of all imports has decreased from EUR 12 billion to less than 2. We should be pleased, but did it help Ukrai

Madam President, Madam Commissioner, when Trump declared 'we will take Greenland one way or the other', I felt the responsibility to study and learn. I travelled with a group of Greens to Greenland, and what I found was not a place of conflict, but a land of peace and charming people used to fully living in an incredible environment – an environment of incredible biodiversity. The people of Greenl

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, rare diseases are different from many other diseases because other diseases are usually quickly diagnosed and then put into a treatment process. In rare diseases the patient does not know what he is suffering from and wanders from one hospital to another, from one doctor to another, desperately and groping in the dark, sometimes in search of a diag

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we are discussing how to share rifles and cannons, instruments of death. But the tools of life? What is the value of a European Union if a child in one of our countries can access a life-saving medicine and in another cannot? Whether our health depends on the market, on interests, on borders? We have seen what it means to be unprepared, we have

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, young people who are isolated and fleeing society, distressed by the economic crisis, the labour crisis, the climate crisis. They feel excluded and the majority is not interested in politics because they believe that here we do not deal with them. They live an anxiety that leads them to withdraw into themselves, as has just been said, with very ser

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the withdrawal of the United States from the Paris climate agreement and the withdrawal from the World Health Organization, as well as the suspension of humanitarian aid, represent an unprecedented threat to international cooperation and global stability. The United States is responsible for about 13% of global CO2 emissions.2Second only to China. Their withd

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Trump began his term of office by reaffirming concepts that were already expressed during the election campaign, but which today become concrete actions that challenge the values on which our Union is founded. I want to name a few. Trump did not call on the President of the Commission to highlight the marginality of Europe in his worldview. He said he wanted to

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, let us imagine a world in which the air we breathe is not contaminated by smoke or harmful aerosols. It is not a dream but it is an urgent necessity. People who are regularly exposed to second-hand smoke, whether from burning cigarettes or from electronic devices - and I want to repeat this before Mr Fiocchi - are exposed, against their will, to the same health

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, as High Representative Borrell said, the election of Donald Trump is a call for reflection for all of us. It comes at a time when Europe seems to have lost its soul, its role as moral and cultural guide. We are divided, fragmented in the face of the challenges that will define our time: wars, climate, migratory flows. The war in Ukraine should have awakened i

(beginning of the speech outside the microphone)... effective and holistic migration, says the title. I suggest starting with the intellectual honesty, absent in that part of this House two days ago, which rejected the debate on deportation and detention in a prison. lager outside Europe, migrants fleeing violence, hunger and poverty. The Meloni government's agreement with Albania has a precedent:

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we must recognise the urgency of joint action on mental health. A challenge that cannot be won piecemeal. We need a common engine, a shared vision that guides our investments on a scientific, cultural and economic level. We can change our future, but we must change our attitude. Many have said it before me. We need to target resources strategically. On the one h

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, each of us must undergo checks. Think of exams like a mammogram, an MRI, a CT scan. It doesn't matter who you are and what role you play in society. Tonight's President in this House, if you have to undergo a radiological check, has no idea whether the machinery used is new or too old. It relies on the system, and that's right. But the system is also us. As a