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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, in Italy, France, Spain and Belgium we are protesting against the high cost of living, the skyrocketing fuel and the lack of housing. And we respond with a budget for 2027 based on the combination of rearmament and austerity. Against the high rents and the high cost of living, there is not a penny, and in the proposal we are going to vote on, we

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, there are drivers, farmers, workers and students all over Europe. My friends on the right, you cannot continue to exploit violence with sacrosanct protests by families and fathers. Have you been in Calabria, have you been in Puglia, have you been in Campania these days? Have you seen the protests they are making these days? There are no policemen, there are n

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Barbara Spinelli, a convinced but never conformist MEP, journalist and pro-European, passed away yesterday. It was a free and rigorous voice, capable of criticising Europe precisely because it believed deeply in its political and moral promise. He consistently defended peace, social justice, rights and a Europe true to its values. That is why I ask and ask, a

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Madam President von der Leyen, over the past year the Commission has presented 41 initiatives on defence and 31 on social policy. This is enough to explain its only real priority: Rearmament. Europe is a spectator in the face of the advance of artificial intelligence, rising inflation, skyrocketing energy and gasoline prices, and more and more citizens are fa

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, if you pay in cash today, you can continue to pay in cash tomorrow, just as you do today. But, if you choose to pay electronically – digitally – the digital euro will give you the European, public and independent possibility for your data to remain in Europe and to pay in Europe, rather than leaving millions of data and millions of euros in fees to pass overs

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the Five Star Movement expresses its closeness to the community of Modena, affected by a very serious act, which has shocked the country. In the moment of fear, Modena has not seen Italians against foreigners, it has seen people save other people, it has seen citizens different in origin, history and provenance risk their own lives to protect that of others.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, it is a final moment in a process that has been very demanding, in which the spirit of compromise has been necessary, as well as rigour in control. Democratic legitimacy requires respect for the rules and, as we know very well, we representatives of the institutions are called not only to respect the formal rules and norms but we must adapt to the highest mor

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, budgetary discharge is not just a technical procedure: It is a fundamental political act. This is the moment when this Parliament, elected by the citizens of Europe, exercises its function of democratic control, verifying that public money is spent in a legitimate, efficient and consistent way with the values we have given ourselves. It is an act of democratic l

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Ukraine, Venezuela, Iran, Greenland and perhaps tomorrow Mexico, Norway, Canada and who knows, France, Spain. All these Trump threats, direct and indirect, are a humiliation for Europe and are upsetting the geopolitical balance, our old certainties. NATO, the UN and even the European Union are in an identity crisis and risk being swept away by oligarchies more p

Thank you very much, colleague, for your question. Actually, I think that the European Union as such, as a Union, should invest in European defence. We are not actually investing in European defence. We are allowing Member States to invest each other in their own defence. For instance, a big state like Germany, which has huge fiscal room to invest even more, one thousand billion dollars, actually

Are you happier now that Mr Trump is actually speaking with Mr Putin instead of us? Are you happy with that? So, I am actually not happier that Trump is speaking alone now with Putin. That is why I wanted a different strategy from Europe from the very beginning. Following the only way of war is not reaching the peace, my dear.

As I said, I condemn in all the means the aggression of Russia against Ukraine. I think that the way to reach peace is not the one that Europe is following, because actually we are allowing Member States to increase defence expenditure asymmetrically. We are even, in derogation of the stability pact, allowing big Member States to increase defence. And this is even dangerous for Member States which

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, politics is not the art of preparing for war, it is the art of preventing it. And Europe exists because it has learned on its own skin that strength, without dialogue, only leads to ruin. Today someone tells us that we must get used to the idea of conflict, that our children will have to suffer as our grandparents did. I oppose this logic: If Eu

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, today we are debating InvestEU at a time when Europe is called upon to look at its position in the world. As we follow progress towards a peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia, a dissonance emerges: We can find unity in the face of conflict, but we disperse it when it comes to building our industrial future and strategic autonomy. We are ap

Mr President, Commissioner Šefčovič, ladies and gentlemen, while we are debating here and while Europe continues to negotiate as if we were still in the world of free trade, the United States has already collected over $100 billion in tariffs, applying selective protectionism that rewards its interests and punishes our economy. Why are our companies, Commissioner, being hit by unilateral measures,

(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Parliament's control of the executive of the European Union through the so-called discharge is fundamental to the smooth functioning of democracy. An exercise that for us should once again be inspired by the values of the founding fathers: peace, solidarity, human rights, the prosperity of our citizens. Instead, questioning the legitimacy of NGOs receiving

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Trump's trade policy reflects the mercantilist logic that a trade deficit is a threat. In 2023, the US imported around €157 billion worth of goods from the European Union. But we have to look at services and here we notice that it is the United States that has a surplus of 109 billion. This reminds us of how complex economic relations are and must

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Europe was not born of fear, but of hope. From men and women who, in the rubble of war, had the courage to imagine a different future, a Union based on cooperation, democracy and peace. Today, this vision is under severe strain: We are witnessing an unjustified, useless, fragmented rearmament race, lacking even a common strategy that strengthens

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Europe must choose between protecting work and dignity or succumbing to precariousness and inequality. Deindustrialisation, the ecological transition, in particular in the sector automotive, and global trade tensions cannot be a pretext to reduce wages; We need a minimum wage where there is not yet, as in Italy, to guarantee decent incomes and s

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the Commission's work programme for 2025 raises a number of concerns, with so many shadows and very few lights. On the investment front, the programme focuses too much on defence, while there are no concrete measures for the protection of citizens, workers and support for industrial sectors in difficulty, such as the industrial sector.automotive

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, while in the United States, with Trump's inauguration, Bitcoin reaches historic values and even a single currency. meme Trump gains billions in capitalization, in Europe the debate on digital currencies remains stagnant, especially with regard to the digital euro. The digital euro issued by the European Central Bank would represent a public, sec