What Nicola spoke about.

Madam President, thanks to all my colleagues, we have taken note of all the suggestions, which can certainly enrich the development of the pact, but I want to say something very clear to some colleagues - which, however, I no longer see in this House: there is no rhetoric in the pact and there is no rhetoric in the agreement and in the report, because there is no rhetoric in talking about dialogue

Mr President, Madam Commissioner, the Mediterranean, in history, has been the cradle of civilization or the scene of bloody wars: it depended on the will of man whether the hypothesis was the first or the second. Today, the Mediterranean is populated by 520 million people, cultures, businesses and creative and cultural riches. But unfortunately – to quote Pope Francis from six years ago – the Medi

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in a country in the Apennines the school has a new roof thanks to European funds, a municipality could have social housing thanks to European funds and a farmer could have a tractor thanks to European funds. Now right-wing governments tell us that we have to cut the budget and we have to choose which of the three we cut. We say no! The question is wrong. Why sho

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, relaunching Europe requires more peace and more justice: Seven American digital companies together are worth more than the GDP of the entire Union. It had never happened in the history of mankind. It's an unbalanced model. Wealth continues to concentrate and is not distributed to people, and the global tax system is complicit: large digital platforms pay on a

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, theaction plan What the Commission has just presented is an unresolved but certainly important step on the path towards European technological sovereignty. Autonomy is not autarky, of course, but it is protagonism, because the Union cannot continue to depend on opaque processes and unilateral decisions by third countries. And recent incidents relat

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to express my great solidarity with all the people of Modena for the beautiful solidarity reaction they have had. Terrorism has nothing to do with the Modena tragedy and we reject any form of horrific exploitation of this tragedy. (Applause from some stalls)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, to say that Europe interfered in the defeat of Orbán is a fairy tale to cover up the failure of its policies. The real point is another: We live in an age of digital oligarchies, where few platforms vaguely decide what we see, who speaks and who disappears. Between '21 and '25 Meta drastically reduced the visibility of political content and in Italy the channels

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the ICE crimes in Minneapolis are not only against the United States of America, but a very unliberal and very liberticidal extreme right is growing all over the world. It is a threat, therefore, that affects everyone, because this right, even in our cities, speaks of security, but produces repression. It uses loneliness and anger to promise order, but it pro

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, artificial intelligence and the digital revolution are the true geopolitical infrastructures of the century. Those who govern them establish not only economic flows, but also the forms of thought. New policies are therefore welcome, because the delay must be recovered and a contradiction must be overcome: We Europeans regulate what we have not built. And the

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we have always known this: They are afraid of the European Union for its values and for its unity and for this reason they attack it and it must be saved. But it is not only saved with words or standing still. Saving it means taking a leap forward in integration, investment, strategic autonomy, energy, digital, innovation and common European defence. It means co

We defend the Europe of freedom, by Alcide De Gasperi, by Adenauer, by Spinelli, by Delors, by Romano Prodi. It is you, when you allied with the nationalist right, who betrayed your own heritage, changed you and respected those who remained in the European Parliament who defended Europe's founding values.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Europe's strategic autonomy is indispensable, but hypocrisy is enough: Autonomy is unity, sharing common policies and investments, it is not national shyness of this time. Thanks to the European Union, we have guaranteed our citizens peace, prosperity, solidarity and, within Euro-Atlantic balances, security and sovereignty for decades. Today, everything is un

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in the time of the digital revolution, we say yes to simplifying in order to make the lives of citizens and businesses easier and fairer, but no to deregulate by weakening the rights and protection of people. But we also say, and above all, that we need to invest. Our digital norms are the result of a human vision of the economy, and large external platforms and

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, quite bluntly, the truth is that the budget proposal has no courage. It freezes Europe just as the US and China race. As competition in the world increases, the budget is actually smaller and renationalizes common policies. It is the wrong choice of the right-wing governments that are now hegemonic in Europe. We are losing competitiveness on every front but, ins

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, looking at the Middle East, Ukraine, the Balkans and other tensions side by side, it is clear that the logic of the strongest has now returned to the world. While the international institutions guaranteeing peace are humiliated, rights are cornered and in the face of fears nationalism re-emerges, which divides and ultimately produces only war. M

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Mr Prime Minister, thank you for your words, this building was built not by chance, but for the foresight of the post-war generations. Today, European governments must have more courage and open a season of change, because the Europe we have known so far has served to guarantee peace, development and democracy, but it is no longer enough because the danger is

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Europe's enemy has returned and is among us, and it is nationalism. The Union was born to unite Europe, but the policies of governments influenced by nationalism want to divide it. This is the truth, they want to dismantle the pillars of the integration process. The reduction of the budget, the lack of courage on investment and the common debt, the divisions

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the MFF draws the minimum possible Europe when the opposite would be needed: the maximum necessary. Because the challenges we face are not faced by closing in on national borders, but are faced together. Everyone applauds Draghi, but then they do the opposite: No strategic investments, no common fund, no cuts to social cohesion and the CAP and no common debt.

Dear Presidents, at this moment in history you have a mission: Do not weaken the unitary process in favour of an intergovernmental Europe. I say this because we are so accustomed to civilisation, law and peace that we have forgotten that, in fact, Europeans for hundreds of years have waged war, killed themselves, and only for a short period of their history have they lived in peace: after the Rome

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Europe is the only process in history that has united 450 million people, not because they are forced, but because they are convinced, against wars, without violence, but by proposing the strength of democracy. Going from 6 to 27 states was an extraordinary process that guaranteed peace, prosperity and well-being. Europe has therefore served us to get here, but