What Francesco spoke about.

Madam President, today the debate is no longer between artificial intelligence yes or artificial intelligence no: we are all aware of the importance of this technology and that progress cannot be stopped, but must be governed. Here is the key word: to govern. That does not mean multiplying rules and bureaucracy, while the United States and China invest enormous resources in the development of arti

Mr President, there is a story that tells, more than others, of the absurd tendency of the European Union to harm itself: it is that of the ETS, a crazy system that has seen, since its inception to date, the cost of allowances multiply by ten, increasing financial speculation and its cost falling asymmetrically on the price of energy in the various European countries, but, above all, that has not

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the crisis in our health systems is not just about numbers: It is made up of doctors, nurses and health workers who live under pressure in emergency rooms, who suffer attacks, who live in territories where it is increasingly difficult to find a family doctor. In my Tuscany, the region from which I came, during my last term in the Regional Council,

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in the debate that is taking place in recent months on the role that Europe should play in the development of artificial intelligence, between those who would like a Europe in pursuit of the United States and China and those who instead dream of a Europe capable of enhancing its excellence thanks to artificial intelligence, Commissioner, we do not underestimate

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, artificial intelligence is an opportunity and this is, of course, also true for the trade sector. The risk, however, is concrete: becoming more and more a digital colony dependent on someone else, on platforms, on clouds, on hardware, on models developed far from Europe. So, building a completely European supply chain, from infrastructure to artifi

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, obesity today is a disease recognised by the WHO. It is not a matter of style, it is not a choice of life but, above all, it is not a fault. In Europe, one in six people is affected by obesity. Yet, some institutions still struggle to recognize obesity as a disease. Not just a disease: is a chronicity multiplier: more than 200 diseases, 75% of cardi

Madam President, Commissioner, we are setting ourselves an ambitious goal and that is already good news, I would say. We want to harmonise rules, boost competitiveness and make the European Union attractive for investment. We want to strengthen the single market for connectivity, overcoming spectrum fragmentation, thus offering businesses a single European market and not 27 different markets. We w

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, today the Commission is presenting us with a package that promises simplification and competitiveness. These are goals that we conservatives have been asking for for years, so we are very happy, but companies do not need new promises, they need Europe to stop stifling them under mountains of obligations, deadlines, compliance obligations that change from year to

Mr President, President von der Leyen, ladies and gentlemen, listening to your words today on unfair competition, on the defence of European independence and productivity, it is clear that you, beyond the role that requires you not to say it openly, are well aware of the damage that five years of Green Deal They have caused European businesses and farmers. That's why today we are making a simple r

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, 92% of European data is hosted on servers owned outside the EU, as is 80% of European spending on software and services in the EU. cloud It ends up in the coffers of non-European companies. These are not just numbers. This is strategic vulnerability. It means that our economy, our security, our democracy depend on infrastructure that we do not control today.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we can all say that we agree that we must regulate the digital economy and its taxation. Allow me, however, to point out that, at the same time, the issue of Base Erosion and Profit Shifting, i.e. the phenomenon whereby large multinationals exploit the tax disparities of individual national states in order to be able to shift their profits where taxation is more

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, every day, thanks to online shopping, 12 million parcels enter Europe containing goods with a value of less than EUR 150. Nine times out of ten, these packages come from China. These consignments are not subject to duties and are checked on a sample basis, which shows that, in any case, 80 % of the goods checked do not meet the European quality regulations. And

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, when we talk about cohesion policies, we rightly think of reviving the internal areas and defending European diversity. But allow me to reflect. Who will repopulate these areas? Who will make you grow up and study your children? Who will invest their capital if there is no digital connection? Today it is central to the development of life in Eur

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I believe that the debate on trade relations between Europe and the United States must now take place on two different levels. The first, on which I think and hope we all agree, is that the European Union must give a unequivocal response to the demands that come from the other side of the Atlantic. The second is that this answer cannot be just the

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, over the last twenty years more than EUR 3 billion has been invested in research into rare diseases in Europe but, nevertheless, 95 % of them still do not have a specific cure. Italy, the country I come from, is the first country in Europe and the second in the world to take care of patients through the national health system but, without the help

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, safeguarding and creating new jobs is one of the European Union's priorities to date; A socially fair and just transition towards climate neutrality will make the Green Deal a success for all Europeans. These phrases are taken from the European Pillar of Rights Action Plan, adopted by the Commission in 2021. Can we say something went wrong? We can say that fanat

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, it is impossible not to agree with an action plan aimed at curbing energy poverty and curbing price increases. The doubts, if anything, come to us on the ways we want to put in place to achieve these objectives: In the next 25 years, EU energy consumption will double and national electricity grids will need to be extended by at least 70%. And by what economic me