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Jan

2024

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Review of the economic governance framework (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the reform of the Stability Pact is perhaps one of the most important missions of this parliamentary term but, unlike what has been done with NextGenerationEU, we risk in this case a somewhat 'gattopardesca' solution: We wanted everything to change but, in the end, unfortunately everything remains too similar to what it was before. Why? Because the…

16

Jan

2024

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Role of preventive diplomacy in tackling frozen conflicts around the world – missed opportunity or change for the future? (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we have already missed too many opportunities to strengthen our role in conflict prevention and resolution. Now it's time to run for cover! The first action to be taken, in my opinion, is the establishment of the European Civil Peace Corps, an initiative already approved by this House as far back as 1999 on the initiative of our late colleague Alexander Lange…

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Jan

2024

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Humanitarian situation in Gaza, the need to reach a ceasefire and the risks of regional escalation (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, while we are debating in this House in Gaza, a tragedy of 23,000 deaths is taking place: Palestinian civilians, women, the elderly, children. How would you define having to operate on children to be amputated without anesthesia, if not a crime against humanity? Gaza today is a hell where there are no rights, where there is no right even to hope. Our 125 milli…

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Jan

2024

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Keeping commitments and delivering military assistance to Ukraine (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, for two years now, the history and values of the Union have been calling us, as Europeans, to an inalienable moral imperative: defend the Ukrainian people from Putin's barbarism. Yet as this conflict rages, a creeping threat creeps into our ever-growing and devious cities: Russian propaganda, with Italy the soft underbelly of Europe. Every day the Russians storm…

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Dec

2023

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European Defence investment programme (EDIP) (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, after the pilot projects, the short-term instruments and the more complex but inadequately funded instruments, we have now come to the real test of our ambitions for the creation of a Europe of defence. We set high levels of ambition but prepare to support them adequately at all stages of this journey. It will be essential to bring back the vari…

12

Dec

2023

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European Economic Security Strategy (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, despite the great progress made on the subject of international trade agreements, our Union is still at great risk of fragmentation. We cannot allow the Member States to proceed in a scattered manner. I am thinking, for example, of my country, Italy, which in 2019 signed a highly contested memorandum of understanding with Beijing, which was present…

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Dec

2023

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Need to release all hostages, to achieve a humanitarian ceasefire and prospect of the two-state solution (debate)

Mr President, Mr High Representative, ladies and gentlemen, as we debate here today, the tragic death toll in the Gaza Strip has now reached almost 18 000, including more than 5 000 children. He who has escaped death no longer has a home, no water, no food, and no medicine. All that remains of Gaza is a desert of ruins, pain and devastation. Punishing Hamas criminal terrorists is legitimate, dutif…

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Dec

2023

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Defence of democracy package (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, while today we are debating the content of the package for the defence of democracy, I would like to make an appeal to the Commission and to each of you: We must guard against all risks, and often the most dangerous risks are not those that come from the outside, but those that come from the inside. With the European elections approaching, fight…

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Nov

2023

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International day for the elimination of violence against women (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Giulia should have graduated in engineering on 16 November. But that day to receive that recognition for which she had studied so much and had committed so much, she could not present herself, an innocent victim of a blind, senseless violence, which brutally beat her in the body and annihilated her soul, to the point of taking her life. According t…

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Nov

2023

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Latest attacks against women and women's rights defenders in Iran, and Iran's arbitrary detention of EU nationals

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the passing of the law on the promotion of chastity and hijab is another attempt by the regime to completely dismantle the freedom of choice of Iranian women. It is essential that our Union speak out publicly, firmly, in no uncertain terms, against a law that has nothing to do with the traditions and culture of a people as rich in history as the…

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Nov

2023

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30 years of Copenhagen criteria - giving further impetus to EU enlargement policy (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, dear colleagues, 30 years have passed since we set out our criteria for accession. And after an initial impetus that brought us to the current 27 members, we started recording an enlargement fatigue that need to be left apart. The Russian criminal war against Ukraine, as well the other war crimes committed in our neighbourhood, most notably by Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Kara…

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Nov

2023

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Destruction of judicial independence and the persecution of democrats in Hong Kong (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, in recent months the dramatic situation in Hong Kong has come too far from the spotlight, overtaken by the equally, and perhaps even more, dramatic news coming to us from other parts of the world, I am thinking of Ukraine, I am thinking of Palestine. Yet we have a moral duty to pay attention to a country that has seen the arrest of more than 200 pr…

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Nov

2023

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Question Time with Commissioners - The state of implementation of the EU’s commitment to provide 1 million rounds of artillery ammunition to Ukraine until March 2024

Madam President, Commissioner, thank you for being here today for discussing a very urgent matter, such as the capacity to provide Ukraine with the ammunition it needs to defend itself. I believe it is paramount that we keep up with our promises, also in light of the fact that other countries, such as North Korea, have already supported the replenishment of the Russian stockpiles consistently. At …

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Nov

2023

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UN Climate Change Conference 2023 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (COP28) (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, climate change is an existential challenge that threatens our present and the future of generations to come. The recent tragic calamities that have struck my country in Tuscany, Emilia Romagna and Marche speak for themselves: They show that early action against hydrogeological instability could not only have prevented billions of euros in damage…

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Oct

2023

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Fighting disinformation and dissemination of illegal content in the context of the Digital Services Act and in times of conflict (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the leitmotif of massive disinformation campaigns against us is always the same and is based on the combination of two main elements: the attempt to present our Union as a disinterested and unreliable partner in the eyes of our interlocutors, and the glorification of the work of third-party actors behind the scenes of the countryside. We see these …

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Oct

2023

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A true geopolitical Europe now (topical debate)

Madam President, High Representative Borrell, ladies and gentlemen, for too many years we have passively accepted the label given to us by the former US Secretary of State Kissinger, namely that of an economic giant, but of a political dwarf. Since the time of this famous quote much has improved, but not enough. This is also demonstrated by what happened – our irrelevance – in the tragedy of Nagor…

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Oct

2023

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The despicable terrorist attacks by Hamas against Israel, Israel’s right to defend itself in line with humanitarian and international law and the humanitarian situation in Gaza (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the heartbreaking images of Hamas's terrorist and bloody barbarism on innocent civilians will remain forever in our eyes. Israel has the full, indisputable right to defend itself, but Israel also has the imperative duty, as a democratic state, to equally fully respect international law. To defeat Hamas terrorists, there is no need to carpet-bomb the Gaza Stri…

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Oct

2023

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Situation of Ukrainian women refugees, including access to SRHR support (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the humanitarian consequences of Putin's brutality go far beyond the already unspeakable crimes that have been committed throughout Ukraine. At least 20 000 children are forcibly deported to Russia, while there are well over 6 million refugees in our Europe who have fled in the hope of leaving violence behind. Unfortunately, for many of them, the n…

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Oct

2023

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Commission Work Programme 2024 (debate)

Mr President, Mr Vice-President Šefčovič, ladies and gentlemen, two years ago this Parliament expressed its full support for the European Citizens' Initiative 'End the Cage Age', which collected 1.4 million certified signatures. The Commission undertook to present by the end of this year a legislative proposal to ban the use of cages for a number of farmed animals. This is not happening. European …

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Oct

2023

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Establishing the Ukraine Facility (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, first of all I would like to thank the rapporteurs for their excellent work. With our yes, tomorrow we will once again confirm our determination to support the Ukrainian people. I am returning today from a very important mission in Kiev of the European Movement for Non-Violent Action to promote the European Civil Peace Corps. I saw with my own eyes…

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Oct

2023

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European green bonds (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, as we have done with the GDPR and as we are doing with the AI Act, it is imperative to create global standards also in capital markets, and tomorrow's vote is exactly in this direction. This regulation is one more piece of the puzzle to improve credibility and, most importantly, the allocation of money. In doing so, we respond to the needs of those…

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Oct

2023

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Need for a speedy adoption of the asylum and migration package (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, how many times in recent years have I and have we repeated that the migration challenge is structural and not cyclical, in which no State can offer effective answers. Meanwhile, ten long years later, landings in Lampedusa have increased dramatically: There are over 130 000 at this time, at the end of September, three times as many as in 2021. The island is colla…

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Oct

2023

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Recent developments in the Serbia-Kosovo dialogue, including the situation in the northern municipalities in Kosovo (debate)

Mr President, dear colleagues, reconciliation between Serbia and Kosovo is far from being just a regional issue. It is a strategic imperative for the whole of Europe. The recent failure in advancing this process is yet another obstacle on our way. But we must remain firm in saying that the future of Western Balkans lies in our Union. This, of course, cannot remain just a slogan. We must insist on …

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Oct

2023

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Situation in Nagorno-Karabakh after Azerbaijan’s attack and the continuing threats against Armenia (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, this is the chronicle of an announced tragedy, of a new episode of the Armenian genocide, of Medz Yeghern, of which we have been passive spectators. Despite the huge number of steps Armenia has taken to get closer and closer to Europe – not least today's ratification of the Rome Statute – the Union has turned the other way as Baku criminally blo…

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Oct

2023

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Question Time with Commissioners – EU-China trade relations

Thank you, dear Commissioner, for your answers. I would like to go a bit further in detail into some considerations on the recent Chinese ban on the export of gallium and germanium metals and all final products that contain these elements. Two months after this ban, what is your evaluation on the effects it had on the market? Also, do you believe that it has negatively impacted our capacity to acq…