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Oct

2025

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Allegations of espionage by the Hungarian government within the EU institutions (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, there is no mistrust in you - we would miss it - but let me slightly doubt the good faith of this debate, because the alleged events that happened eight years ago, strangely, coincidentally, emerge a few months after the elections in Hungary. But, ladies and gentlemen, if we are going to engage this House every time journalistic rumours come up - look - we ar…

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Oct

2025

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

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Mr Von der Leyen, if you had stayed in the Chamber, I would have told you that tomorrow evening, like all my colleagues, I would have returned to my territory to meet farmers, students, mayors, the real country, and those who will ask how the plenary session went. A context where purchasing power is becoming increasingly worrying, where students want to flee …

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Oct

2025

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Time to complete a fully integrated Single Market: Europe’s key to growth and future prosperity (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, I am an expression of the small business of north-eastern Italy, that is to say one of the contexts that has historically been best able to exploit the potential of the single market. However, I was struck, but not surprised, by the fact that you attributed responsibility to the Member States for the obstacles to the single market. I believe, ho…

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Sep

2025

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State of the Union (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, President von der Leyen is not offended, but it was 75 minutes of agony: So much theory mixed with hypocrisy, because those who created the problems are now explaining how to solve them. I have heard many contradictions, because it speaks of electric cars and respect for the roadmap of the green deal Just as his Chancellor Merz, the same party, calls for more…

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Jul

2025

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 26 June 2025 (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, if the future of the Union is what we heard this morning, we need to worry. And there is so much to worry about, because we had a President of the European Council who spoke only of weapons - and I miss the times when the European left was pacifist - and a lady, von der Leyen, who has now left us, who talks about how it would be nice to pay less bills and hav…

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Jun

2025

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Clean Industrial Deal (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, it seems to me that we are witnessing the chronicle of an announced death. I say this without rejoicing, which would be out of place, because we are talking about European industry, its competitiveness and jobs. Between Asian competition and the need for rearmament ‐ necessity, we must say, even inflated by an anxious communication that we have witnessed in rece…

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Jun

2025

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Freedom of assembly in Hungary and the need for the Commission to act (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the invention of emergencies, a lot of talk about fundamental rights, but you have forgotten one: It is called democracy, it is called respect for the choices of the voters who in Hungary, for the fourth time in a row, have chosen the government. You are sometimes a majority in this Parliament, but very often you are not in real life. So, what lessons do you wan…

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May

2025

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Russian energy phase-out, Nord Stream and the EU's energy sovereignty (debate)

(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, this is a debate in which I hear so much - too much I would say - about Russia but little about Europe: We have major problems in terms of industrial competitiveness, we have increasing energy poverty. But the only answer I have heard is in the direction of much more expensive solutions than the current ones, with the Commission and the majority of this Par…

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May

2025

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Resilience and the need to improve the interconnection of energy grid infrastructure in the EU: the first lessons from the blackout in the Iberian Peninsula (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, 50 million people are in the dark and the first trial is taking place today. blackout the History of the Age of Green Deal. And then, beyond – let me put it bluntly – the need to shed light on responsibilities, there are elements that clearly emerge. First of all, the illusion of being able to replace gas with renewables has been leading to imbalances in the …

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Apr

2025

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Recent legislative changes in Hungary and their impact on fundamental rights (debate)

(IT) Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I apologize, but perhaps I misread the title of the debate, because I thought I was witnessing yet another - now I have lost count, we are in a few dozen debates - debate on Hungary, but instead I witnessed an advance of an out-of-season electoral campaign by the Hungarian opposition. Then, for the rest, it seems to me that there is always a need for an …

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Apr

2025

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 20 March 2025 (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I take note of the marketing exercise or make-up – let’s call it what we want – to make the rearmament plan more acceptable, but people don’t like it. It's probably a hasty re-edition of the Pleven plan, which will perhaps end in its own way. Then, colleagues, look: People ask me, in everyday life, when salaries will increase, when pensions will increase, not…

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Mar

2025

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Action Plan for the Automotive Industry (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, theautomotive European is a sick person, he has a serious pathology and the answer that is given is a lukewarm broth, moreover. There are less than ten years left to ban the endothermic engine but in Europe electric cars do not reach 2%. But where do you want to go? Regulation has had an increasing impact on the range of models offered but has not been able t…

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Feb

2025

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Collaboration between conservatives and far right as a threat for competitiveness in the EU (topical debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, good luck. It seems to me that this Commission is supported by an uncohesive majority. For the rest, this is a lunar debate. We have heard Mr Repasi using the plenary to campaign for the German elections. Excuse me, but where are we? Buy TV commercials, don't use the European Parliament. Now you're mad at the billionaires, but when they helped and …

12

Feb

2025

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Commission Work Programme 2025 (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I am intrigued by so many exercises of wisdom on the part of those who have helped to relegate the European Union to the margins of the international arena. It was strange, for example, to see in the election campaign that the same people who had written the Green Deal, cemetery of the competitiveness of our companies, then they were the first t…

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Dec

2024

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Restoring the EU’s competitive edge – the need for an impact assessment on the Green Deal policies (topical debate)

Mr President, Commissioner Ribera, ladies and gentlemen, you mentioned that the Green Deal would make history. Look, in one sentence it completely synthesizes being outside of reality, living totally on another planet. Sales of electric cars are not taking off; To date, there are no conditions for generating all the electricity that would be needed to ensure the mobility of the car fleet of all th…

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Dec

2024

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Preparation of the European Council of 19-20 December 2024 (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, on the eve of the European Council, I am intrigued by this whole repatriation race. Evidently the campaign promises still some tailstroke present it. After years in which the League has tried to explain to you the harmful consequences of unplanned immigration, without a vision, at the mercy of human traffickers, of immigration that is too - only - quantitativ…

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Nov

2024

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Presentation by the President-elect of the Commission of the College of Commissioners and its programme (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, it is a good thing that this debate has warmed up the atmosphere in this House a little, because this morning I saw a chilly, distrustful atmosphere, where each group applauded its Commissioners. Let's say a sign of weakness. A frayed majority is not a good way to start this journey. I think that those who vote for this Commission are content with a Europe th…

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Nov

2024

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The Autumn 2024 Economic Forecast: a gradual rebound in an adverse environment (debate)

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Nov

2024

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EU-US relations in light of the outcome of the US presidential elections (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I note the annoyance and disorientation of many colleagues from the left-wing groups. Here, if for the annoyance I can do little - maybe I have some good medicine to recommend - on the subject of disorientation, instead, I would advise you to get off the pedestal, to make amends and to understand that talking only about decarbonization, without thinking about…

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Oct

2024

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Closing the EU skills gap: supporting people in the digital and green transitions to ensure inclusive growth and competitiveness in line with the Draghi report (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I do not particularly like to be pessimistic. But I believe that, in fact, to bridge the delay with China and the United States we will need a half miracle, because we cannot think that the only watchword is decarbonization. Without competitiveness, we are not going anywhere. On the issue of the lack of workers, Commissioner, you rightly mentioned …

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Oct

2024

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Tackling the steel crisis: boosting competitive and sustainable European steel and maintaining quality jobs (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, lights and shadows in your speech: an assessment must be made of the distortions, the price increases that are causing the CBAM, the carbon border adjustment mechanism, which will produce a structural increase in steel prices of around EUR 200-300 per tonne, but without protecting European production. This is because large steel users are bypass…

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Oct

2024

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Managing migration in an effective and holistic way through fostering returns (debate)

Thank you colleague of the question, which gives me the opportunity to explain our point of view. Clearly, geopolitical and international disruptions show us that choices must now be made, because we will have to deal with an ever-increasing number of people seeking asylum. Since the figures tell us that most of the requests are rejected because the preconditions are missing, we cannot harbor the …

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Oct

2024

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Managing migration in an effective and holistic way through fostering returns (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, this debate comes just a few days after a dramatic bloody event in Verona, my beautiful and hospitable city in Veneto, historically a land of emigration and integration: A Malian boy lost his life after attacking with a knife a police officer who, in order to defend himself, had to open fire. This is an episode, one of many, which testifies that, when a dispr…

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Oct

2024

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The rise of religious intolerance in Europe (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, in the meantime, let us put the dots on the i, because, before talking about Islamophobia, let us remember that, although denied, the roots of Europe are Christian, not Muslim. Then, if we want to seriously discuss this climate of hatred that is enveloping Europe, perhaps we will start reading the 2024 report of the European Agency for Fundamental Rights. Thi…

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Oct

2024

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Ensuring sustainable, decent and affordable housing in Europe - encouraging investment, private property and public housing programmes (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I am afraid that we have a problem with the title of this debate which refers to 'sustainable and affordable housing policies'. With the EPBD, the infamous Houses Directive green, at least this is how it has been renamed in Italy, we do not see where these housing policies are within reach. The costs of materials have increased, due to a drugged demand, and the …