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2026

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EU-Morocco Agreement for scientific and technological cooperation setting out the terms and conditions for the participation of Morocco in the Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area (PRIMA): amendment and supplement (A10-0151/2026 - Paolo Borchia) (vote)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we are holding a vote that represents a technical alignment for Morocco's participation in PRIMA, the Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area, with a focus on water, agriculture and food security. This vote will ensure its continuity until 2031, with no budgetary implications. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank my colle…

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2026

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 18-19 June 2026 (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, in your speech, analysing the subject of the budget, you spoke of own resources, but I have a clear message to send you: taxes are enough, because first we rationalise expenditure, cut costs – often unnecessary, which this Parliament also endorses – and then we reason, and cut waste and inefficiencies. Because we have to be realistic: European i…

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2026

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Urgent measures to strengthen the competitiveness and safeguard quality jobs in the EU’s automotive sector (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I am astonished that no one in this House is asking whether electricity at all costs can be compatible with what are the limits in terms of electricity generation. If we analyze the context, we have an American market closed to China, a Chinese domestic demand in stagnation and, on the other hand, Europe that has become an outlet, a conquest ground, for Beiji…

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2026

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Electrification Action Plan (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, we have been hearing the same speeches on electrification for several years now. As you said, we have reached 23%: a 2% increase in ten years. So, if mathematics is not an opinion, we wonder how we can reach 32% by 2030. It is all a war of percentages that, however, makes us understand how much there is a strategy that is based on little. I start f…

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2026

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Preparation of the European Council (joint debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in the meantime, good luck to the Heads of State or Government who will be called upon to find solutions at the next European Council. Good luck because today, beyond so many slogans, we have unfortunately heard few concrete solutions. I was struck by yet another divide between socialists and populars. In particular, I did not expect the socialists – it is okay …

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2026

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Reviewing the ETS system to support European competitiveness (topical debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, of course, reading in the same ETS line - therefore, a tax - and competitiveness does so much as a short circuit, it does so much as a paradox. However, on 15 July the revision will come and this Parliament will be able to decide which side to stand on: whether to be on the side of the productive sectors or whether to continue to advance the idea of a Europe …

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2026

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Danger of normalising relations with Russia, including its participation in major cultural and sports events (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, sport, music, art and culture have always been vehicles, instruments of dialogue between peoples. However, Commissioner - I tell you this as a representative of the Veneto Region in the European Parliament - I consider your words serious, because this is a phase in which we need to open, not close. You have, in part, betrayed the Olympic spirit, because there…

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2026

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Topical debate requested by a political group (PfE) (Rule 169) - Commission interference in democratic process and elections (topical debate)

(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the umpteenth episode of the "festival of hypocrisy" airs, where everyone has forgotten the hours that this Plenary has dedicated, denouncing how bad things were in Hungary, but this obviously considered that it was not a violation. Have you forgotten all the money that was given to the complacent press? Have you forgotten those governments that you took by…

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Mar

2026

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Energy security, independence and supply in the geopolitical context - ensuring market stability and affordable energy for industry and citizens (debate)

No, we don't have to. Thanks for the question. We must not accept blackmail, we must think of Europe, of European consumers, of European industry. And we must also have the lucidity to reason not in ideological terms, because we will get out of this state of dependence if we have the ability to reason on an energy mix that is flexible, where renewables increase and maybe even see the red…

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2026

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Energy security, independence and supply in the geopolitical context - ensuring market stability and affordable energy for industry and citizens (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, it is nice to take note of how those who led us to the crash now explain how to get out of it. I have a question to ask you: do we really think that in terms of security of energy supply we are better than in 2022? The answer seems obvious to me, but once again we have not been heard. You have thought of getting out of a dependence, that of Russian ga…

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2026

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EUCO and situation in the Middle East (joint debate)

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2026

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Presentation of the Energy Package (debate)

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2026

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Urgent actions to revive EU competitiveness, deepen the EU Single Market and reduce the cost of living - from the Draghi report to reality (debate)

Look, colleague, it seems to me that I have answered very clearly, but I am reformulating it without any problem. I have cited the example of research just to cite an example that is part of my daily life in this Parliament. I come from the North-East of Italy, which has developed its production model enjoying the benefits of the single market. Then I know that there may be prejudice in this House…

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Feb

2026

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Urgent actions to revive EU competitiveness, deepen the EU Single Market and reduce the cost of living - from the Draghi report to reality (debate)

Thank you colleague for the question. Look, I advise you to have a coffee maybe with some colleagues who are part of the ITRE committee, where for example one of the areas in which we legislate is that of research. The League has been claiming for years that in the field of research we have produced excellence, we have produced results. So, here we have to overcome the classic cloth because people…

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2026

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Urgent actions to revive EU competitiveness, deepen the EU Single Market and reduce the cost of living - from the Draghi report to reality (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, more than a year has passed since the Draghi report. For some it was the Bible, many others have read it, reread it, straletto, but evidently they did not understand it. And what changes? Change that we are in the crisis, we are in the crisis even more than before. On the other side of the world, both China and the United States are competing with us, but we …

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2026

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Spain’s large-scale regularisation policy and its impact on the Schengen Area and EU migration policy (debate)

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2026

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Restoring control of migration: returns, visa policy and third-country cooperation (topical debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, it is a pleasure for the friends of the EPP to realise that there is a problem with returns. It is also strange that this cry of alarm comes from Scandinavia. We have all heard the words of Danish Prime Minister Frederiksen, from the left, who talks about how problematic the management of immigrants is in her country. And so, after years of open doors where ever…

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Jan

2026

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European Council meeting (joint debate)

Allow me, but the question is a trivial moment since we have been talking about it for weeks. The position of the League has been known for years. Then governments – at least democratic governments, so maybe not the ones you particularly like – are governed by coalitions. In coalitions there are parties with different sensitivities and the League has always expressed itself so clearly. In fact, ye…

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Jan

2026

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European Council meeting (joint debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I listened carefully to Mrs von der Leyen's speech on the subject of Mercosur in particular, and I was amazed when she spoke of farmers being listened to. The question is: But then, if they have been so listened to, why have they been demonstrating for two days? Why are they losing hours of work? Why did they spend the night outside this Parliament below zero? T…

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Dec

2025

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EU/Jordan Agreement for scientific and technological cooperation: terms and conditions for the participation of Jordan in the Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area (PRIMA) (A10-0228/2025 - Paolo Borchia) (vote)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, PRIMA is a Euro-Mediterranean partnership on water management, agricultural systems and food supply chains, sectors closely linked to the socio-economic stability of the countries on the southern shore of the Mediterranean. It has a budget of EUR 700 million, co-financed jointly by the Union and the participating countries. Since 2018 PRIMA has produced over …

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2025

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Presentation of the automotive package (debate)

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2025

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Phasing out Russian natural gas imports and improving monitoring of potential energy dependencies (debate)

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2025

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Outcome of the UN Climate Change Conference - Belém (COP30) (debate)

(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the first metaphor that comes to mind to sum up this COP is that of a high jumper – a normal athlete, perhaps a mediocre one – who wakes up one morning and thinks of setting a new world record. I think this may be the first summary of the COP: A COP that, once again, saw yet another escape from the crucial issues, because a useless declaration of principle …

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2025

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Effective use of the EU trade and industrial policy to tackle China’s export restrictions (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Europe can no longer be the playground where everyone comes to do business without respecting the rules, where the interests of the producing countries are regularly sacrificed on the altar of the interests of the importing countries. We are not charitable fishing for Chinese overcapacity generated with state subsidies; We are a union of sovereign states with…

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2025

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 23 October 2025 (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I do not understand why President von der Leyen did not stay here. I think that an hour of his time could have dedicated it to us, also because there are many questions to ask today. I heard from the President herself that, since the ETS was introduced, GDP would increase by 27%. Well, if we had been in Italy I would have had the impression of being on the se…