What Alessandra spoke about.

17

Jun

2025

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Combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child sexual abuse material and replacing Council Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA (recast) (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, in 2022, reports of online sexual exploitation of children increased by 30 times compared to 2010. Live streaming, dedicated channels, images are proliferating on the net deep fake and generated with artificial intelligence, allowing perpetrators to hide and escape criminal sanctions. The European Union must react strongly, starting with the broadening of the…

11

Mar

2025

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Roadmap for Women`s Rights (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to thank the Commission and Commissioner Minzatu for this road map on women's rights. I am happy to have found in the text references to crucial battles for the freedom of so many women. However, I ask that these are not just nice words spent on 8 March: concrete commitments need to be made through legislative and non-tangible measures. Gender-based…

12

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, the European right is no longer hiding. A few years ago they praised Putin, who then brought the war back to Europe, causing a global crisis that we still pay for today. Instead, they are now humiliating our countries by applauding Trump, who is about to hit our production system, our businesses and our workers with unprecedented tariffs, which will cost jobs an…

11

Feb

2025

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Political crisis in Serbia (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the rule of law, the fight against corruption, the freedom to demonstrate and the independence of the judiciary are the reasons why thousands of students, and others, have peacefully taken to the streets in recent months. Joining them is a chorus of demands that would allow Serbia to shed light on the tragedy of Novi Sad and to build a more just country, free…

11

Feb

2025

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The need to address urgent labour shortages and ensure quality jobs in the health care sector (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, during the pandemic we discovered the value and importance of the work of our doctors and healthcare professionals. Now that, fortunately, we are no longer in a health emergency and that the political priorities are other, many have forgotten about it. But the shortage of personnel weighs both on the operators themselves, called every day to decide on the lives …

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Jan

2025

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Systematic repression of human rights in Iran, notably the cases of Pakhshan Azizi and Wrisha Moradi, and the taking of EU citizens as hostages

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the courage of women frightens the Iranian regime. Kurdish activist Pakhshan Azizi is sentenced to death in Evin Prison, the same hellish place where Cecilia Sala was detained. Two women, two different stories, but united by a place that is a symbol of oppression and violence. It is courage, like that of Pakhshan, who chose to fight for rights, that the Irani…

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Jan

2025

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Ceasefire in Gaza - the urgent need to release the hostages, to end the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and to pave the way for a two-state solution (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Nariman al-Fasih, 35, lived with three children in a crumbling tent in the southern Gaza Strip. On Christmas morning she woke up at dawn to breastfeed her youngest child. "His body was cold, motionless," he said. I turned on the phone light and noticed that her skin was blue and bleeding from her mouth. I put my ear on his chest, but I didn't hear his heartbeat.…

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Dec

2024

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Recommendation to the Council on the EU priorities for the 69th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women - EU priorities for the 69th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (joint debate - EU priorities for the upcoming session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, thirty years since the Beijing Declaration, which ignited a flame of hope for millions of women around the world. Today, however, gender-based violence is still entrenched in our communities. We have not yet succeeded in disrupting that patriarchal culture, made up of stereotypes and discrimination, which prevents women and girls from living free. I always say i…

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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, ladies and gentlemen, we are facing five years in which the fate of Europe will be decided. On the one hand, there are those who want to go back, denying climate change and environmental disasters and thus determining the economic decline and geopolitical irrelevance of Europe in the global context. On the other hand, those who look to a future of economic and social progress, sustai…

18

Dec

2024

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Preparation of the EU-Western Balkans Summit (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the Western Balkans are already in Europe: It is evident not only from the geography but from our stories, from the challenges that unite us and from the solutions that we can draw together. Yet, in fact, the situation appears different, stranded in a process of accession that moves in slow motion, if not backwards. We always repeat it: We need a new impetus …

27

Nov

2024

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Recommendation on smoke- and aerosol-free environments (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, areas protected from smoking and passive aerosols are essential in the fight against addiction, cancer and non-communicable diseases. They are essential tools to achieve the objectives of the Cancer Plan and to protect public health, in particular of the weakest, such as children and pregnant women. It is crucial that the smoking ban be extended to…

27

Nov

2024

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The increasing and systematic repression of women in Iran

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the regime in Iran continues to intensify its oppression and women pay the highest price for it: clinics to treat women who refuse to wear the hijab properly. This is how the Iranian government works! They call them optional scientific and psychological treatments but we know that there is very little optional in these measures. This is also what happened to …

26

Nov

2024

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Prison conditions in the EU (debate)

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Nov

2024

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International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, it is not your fault; It's not your skirt's fault. It's not that glass's fault. It's not your fault if you don't love him anymore, if you have a better job than his, if you said yes before but then changed your mind: It is always the fault of those who commit violence and the denunciation should not be seen as a shame. I'm talking to a third of European women. Y…

23

Oct

2024

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Findings of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on Poland's abortion law (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, seven women have already died in Poland as a result of the ban on abortion. Polish law is one of the most restrictive in Europe, a law that not only restricts women's freedom, but heavily affects the duty of doctors to care for people. Criminalizing abortion does not eliminate abortion, but makes it clandestine and dangerous for women. An illegitimate intrusi…

22

Oct

2024

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Situation in Azerbaijan, violation of human rights and international law and relations with Armenia (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, a few times, even in this House, we have heard of Nagorno-Karabakh. Yet the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia has caused hundreds of casualties and the forcible transfer of a population: It is a real crime against humanity. Azerbaijani authorities continue to shrink civil society spaces, shutting down NGOs and arresting journalists on dubious charges. Just…

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Oct

2024

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World Mental Health Day - need for a comprehensive EU strategy on mental health (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, according to the World Health Organisation, one in eight people suffers from mental disorders. A situation exacerbated by the pandemic but also by wars and extreme climate effects that also disproportionately affect our young people. The European Health Union must include the Pillar of Rights, in particular the right to state-of-the-art, quality public health fo…

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Oct

2024

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Urgent need to revise the Medical Devices Regulation (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the right to health is a major concern for our citizens. Recently, Europe has approved a reform of the pharmaceutical legislation, but this reform effort cannot be complete without an update of the rules for medical devices. The objectives are common: accessibility, fair prices for all citizens, Europe's strategic autonomy and independence from third countries, …

7

Oct

2024

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Need to fight the systemic problem of gender-based violence in Europe (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, just this morning, on my way to Strasbourg, I read the news of a man who killed his wife in southern Italy. I didn't even make it here in time that I was reached by another news, this time in Northern Italy, in Genoa, concerning a rape that took place over the weekend. Gender-based violence is one of the few crimes that continues to be increasingly…

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Sep

2024

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The deteriorating situation of women in Afghanistan due to the recent adoption of the law on the “Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice”

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, gender apartheid: This is what is happening in Afghanistan. Since the Taliban took power three years ago, women have been engulfed in a spiral of violence and denial of rights and freedoms aimed at erasing their voice and figure from Afghan society. I ask this Parliament to reflect: What would you do if your daughter, your sister, your partner, or yourself were …

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Apr

2024

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Ecodesign Regulation (A9-0218/2023 - Alessandra Moretti) (vote)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, thank you to all those who have contributed to this result. We are very pleased to give the green light to an ecodesign regulation. The time has come to free ourselves from the outdated "take, produce and dispose" model that is creating many problems for our planet, our health and our economy. We are paving the way for a new era in which every product is made i…

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Mar

2024

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The repressive environment in Afghanistan, including public executions and violence against women

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, my friend Zara, who miraculously managed to escape from Kabul in August 2021, has a motto ‘Women for Women’. She turns it first of all to herself, because despite having managed to move to Italy and regain her freedoms, she cannot forget all the women, girls and girls who remained in Afghanistan. They have become faceless people, without rights, without a future…

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Feb

2024

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Deepening EU integration in view of future enlargement (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, even during this plenary session we have repeatedly recalled Putin's war of aggression in Ukraine, we have renewed the call for a ceasefire on Gaza and we have voted for a report that rightly draws attention to Syria. It is clear that the international situation has drastically worsened and the need for a Europe that is determined and strong in its foreign po…

27

Feb

2024

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War in the Gaza Strip and the need to reach a ceasefire, including recent developments in the region (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, more than 30 000 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip since October. We have repeatedly reiterated that Israel's right to defend itself cannot be revenge, siege, massacre of innocent civilians in defiance of international humanitarian law. Israel's reaction cannot turn into genocide, because even war has its own rules and the Netanyahu government has tra…

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Feb

2024

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Need to fight the increase of antisemitism and anti-Muslim hatred (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, there is a dangerous virus that is becoming more and more entrenched in our societies. This is about hate: hatred towards the other, towards the different, towards those who do not think like you or towards those who pray to another God. It is a dangerous sentiment, often used with the aim of diverting attention from the real problems through fake news, somet…