What Paolo spoke about.

10 Nov

2022

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A high common level of cybersecurity across the Union (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, first of all I congratulate the rapporteur on his good work. The digital transformation of society and the economy has broadened and differentiated the range of threats, creating new challenges that require rapid and innovative responses. The number of cyber-attacks continues to increase, with increasingly sophisticated incursions both from outs…

18 Oct

2022

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Keep the bills down: social and economic consequences of the war in Ukraine and the introduction of a windfall tax (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Luigi Einaudi, the second President of the history of the Italian Republic, called inflation an odious tax on the poor. These are prophetic words in light of how much the increase in energy prices is weighing on low-income groups and I believe that, in a normal world, we would start to reflect on how harmful the Union’s climate and energy policies …

6 Oct

2022

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The urgent need for an EU strategy on fertilisers to ensure food security in Europe (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, drought, cost explosion. 2022 in the agricultural sector sees a marked deterioration compared to last year. Consider that in Italy 34% of farms are forced to work in a negative income condition, while more than 13% are even at risk of closing down. The measures proposed by the Commission last July on the reduction of tariffs for the import of raw materials neede…

6 Oct

2022

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An EU approach for Space Traffic management - an EU contribution addressing a global challenge (debate)

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(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, the issue of the rules on the management of space traffic becomes fundamental at a delicate time for space, which sees, in addition to the International Space Station, also the presence of the Chinese Space Station and in the coming years the spread of commercial space stations. As early as 2023, the first module of the future private Axiom Sp…

4 Oct

2022

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Commission proposal for measures under the Rule of Law Conditionality Regulation in the case of Hungary (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, let us return to the plenary session with yet another questionable exploitation of Article 7, which Europeans have now come to know as the gun aimed at the heads of governments less aligned with Brussels' wishes. And it makes you smile, but not so much, that you are concerned about the rights of minorities when you are the first in this House not to respect t…

13 Sep

2022

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EU response to the increase in energy prices in Europe (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, Minister, ladies and gentlemen, there will soon be elections in Italy and only a few days ago I was a guest on a television broadcast: In connection with this, merchants in the historic centre of Vicenza threatened to put bills in the ballot box instead of ballot papers. Let's talk about the heart of the Italian Northeast, one of the traditional economic locomotives …

13 Sep

2022

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Renewable Energy Directive (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I thank the rapporteur, but we are not there. In fact, I cannot hide my concern because I do not see in this text the perception of the emergency that is bringing families and businesses to their knees and, in spite of the efforts made by the rapporteur, the final text is reduced to a series of numbers that do not take into account the post-pandemi…

6 Jul

2022

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Taxing windfall profits of energy companies (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, when the wise man points to the moon, the fool looks at his finger; If demagogic solutions are adopted, a critical situation is likely to worsen. On the other hand, good politics, the good one, not the ideological one, does not pursue public opinion but, on the contrary, manages to act on structural problems and to make self-criticism, especially on years of ene…

23 Jun

2022

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Gas storage (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, thank you, rapporteur, and I would also like to thank President Buzek, who was a patient weaver of a final agreement that included the diversity and different sensitivities expressed by the political groups. This is an anomalous phase in the history of the energy market and brings out clearly all the limits of the gas crusade that we have witnessed in this House…

7 Jun

2022

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Binding annual greenhouse gas emission reductions by Member States (Effort Sharing Regulation) - Land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) - CO2 emission standards for cars and vans (joint debate – Fit for 55 (part 2))

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, a bubble totally disconnected from reality. The debate today, which has seen the increasingly surreal Commissioner Timmermans and many, too many colleagues, lead me to think that those who sit in this House live on another planet, a planet where it is unknown that there has been a pandemic, the crisis of raw materials, the explosion of energy prices, a conflict.…

19 May

2022

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The REPowerEU Plan: European solidarity and energy security in face of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, including the recent cuts of gas supply to Poland and Bulgaria (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, there are many shadows, few lights, too many resolutions that are bound to remain on paper. REPowerEU states that the Commission is living in a bubble. Europe takes the risk of zero emissions, not taking into account economic indicators and dramatic growth estimates. This is a plan that starts from the wrong assumption, namely that the current cris…

6 Apr

2022

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Ongoing hearings under Article 7(1) TEU regarding Poland and Hungary (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we must choose which Europe we want: Either peoples are listened to or the path of blackmail and arrogance is chosen. Today's debate, however, confirms that we are moving in the direction of using Article 7 to split Europe: Good against bad, welcome against unwelcome. But the founding fathers of the Union thought of a different Europe, a Europe capable of uni…

5 Apr

2022

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Trans-European energy infrastructure (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, as draftsman of the opinion of the TRAN Committee, I believe that, at least once, the dream book should be set aside. It should be borne in mind that the transport sector needs viable solutions and, above all, solutions that at this historical stage do not raise prices for companies, a key issue, especially now that fuel prices have literally exploded. Let's not…

24 Mar

2022

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The Power of the EU – Joint European Action for more affordable, secure and sustainable energy (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, in this morning's debate there is still the feeling that the objectives are set here first and only then is it reflected whether they are achievable or not. Eliminating 2/3 of Russian gas imports has a geostrategic value, certainly, but few reflect on the risk of energy rationing. On the issue of joint gas purchases, we need the failure of the market logic on…

8 Mar

2022

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Rising energy prices and market manipulation on the gas market (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the situation is unsustainable, the recession is one step away, and now is the time to move from words to solutions. But the assumptions of responsibility are also needed: This is the failure of an idea of a globalised Europe forced to import everything, from masks to respirators, during the first phase of the pandemic, while today we woke up, realising that we …

14 Feb

2022

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A European strategy for offshore renewable energy (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, I am afraid that we have some problems on orders of magnitude, in the sense that there are international experts who estimate that the potential production of offshore wind will be proportionally much lower than the target of 60 gigawatts that the European Union alone intends to achieve by 2030. I have a question that is far from secondary: the …

14 Dec

2021

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The situation in Nicaragua (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the sham elections of 7 November tell us that we are moving forward with Sandinistas, we are moving forward with Ortega, we are moving forward with a regime that undermines the democratic process by ostracising opposition, and perhaps this is a first point in common with this Parliament. We will vote for a balanced resolution, yes, in some places, but unbalanced…

24 Nov

2021

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State of the Energy Union (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, let us go straight to the point: who pollutes and why we have to shed tears and blood to pay the electricity and gas bills. Let's think for once about the smallest realities, small crafts, small and medium enterprises. Today the spot price of electricity in Italy has reached almost 300 EUR per kWh, but do we think that people have to go stealing to…

22 Nov

2021

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A European strategy for critical raw materials (debate)

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(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, manufacturers of household appliances, furniture and cars are experiencing hiccup production and this is not good news to help demand restart. The problem of prices has now been overcome by that of the supply of raw materials. For many EU countries, which are heavily dependent on imports, this is a big problem, not least because we are talking…

20 Oct

2021

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The rise of right-wing extremism and racism in Europe (in light of recent events in Rome) (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, instrumental, decontextualised and biased: So I summarize this debate authorized with unjustifiable superficiality by the Conference of Presidents, because in addition to the events in Rome there were similar events in Milan but, since they were provoked by anarcho-insurrectionists, someone pretended nothing. My group pointed out in the Conference of Presiden…

20 Oct

2021

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UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, the UK (COP26) (debate)

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(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the fear is that the next COP will be reduced to the usual costly nothing, pretending that there has not been a pandemic and that the demand for certain energy sources can be generated by law. A few days ago a survey was published in Italy according to which 85 percent of respondents believe that the energy transition is economically viable. This says a lot…

19 Oct

2021

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The Rule of law crisis in Poland and the primacy of EU law (continuation of debate)

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Mr President, Madam President of the Commission, Prime Minister, ladies and gentlemen, let us try to put some order in this morning's debate. From a legal point of view, it is not easy to understand what is scandalous or anti-European in the ruling of the Polish Constitutional Court. From a political point of view, on the other hand, if it is enough for this House to devote half an hour of its tim…

5 Oct

2021

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The situation in Belarus after one year of protests and their violent repression (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, there was a lack in this morning's debate. Let me explain: the Union has tightened sanctions and restrictions with regard to the ban on airspace overflights and access to European airports for carriers in Russia. Among the consequences are dramatic. In fact, the sustainability of adoption programmes is compromised, which traditionally involve European adoptive f…

14 Sep

2021

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Presentation of the Fit for 55 package after the publication of the IPCC report (debate)

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(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, to do in the next ten years what has been done in the last thirty years, not bad, I would say, for a post-pandemic context, so I think we need at least to ask ourselves some questions. For example, this morning I did not hear adequate reflections on the trend of bills for businesses and consumers. Not a word about the increase in water demand, given that th…

7 Jul

2021

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Breaches of EU law and of the rights of LGBTIQ citizens in Hungary as a result of the adopted legal changes in the Hungarian Parliament - The outcome of 22 June hearings under Article 7(1) of the TEU regarding Poland and Hungary (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, it is paradoxical that the very people who invented the cordon sanitaire are here today trying to give lessons in democracy. This morning I heard blackmail, threats, tangible proof that too many of you do not like democracy and are not accepted. You are taking time and resources away from this House by instrumentalising a law that is based on the protection of t…