What Simona spoke about.

14 Sep

2022

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State of the Union (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we are facing another serious crisis in Europe, which is severely affecting our families and businesses, caught in the grip of high energy prices and inflation. As with the pandemic, we cannot stand by and watch as businesses close and households become impoverished. In the most difficult moments it is necessary for Europe to go all the way to Europe, which p…

6 Jul

2022

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 23-24 June 2022 (continuation of debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we could call it a conclusion with light and shadow that of the last European Council. There is no doubt that progress has been made on applications for membership. The European Union is the home of democracy. We are the institution to which more and more countries look as being able to give stability, security and peace. The shadows are those that we still see …

5 Jul

2022

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Objection pursuant to Rule 111(3): Amending the Taxonomy Climate Delegated Act and the Taxonomy Disclosures Delegated Act (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we had followed the taxonomy regulation proposed by the Commission with great interest from the outset. An important measure that had the objective of establishing clear and shared criteria on the basis of which economic activities could be included among sustainable investments, thus avoiding phenomena of greenwashing and giving an unequivocal signal to those w…

22 Jun

2022

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 23-24 June 2022, including the meeting with Western Balkan leaders on 23 June - Candidate status of Ukraine, the Republic of Moldova and Georgia (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, it is now clear to everyone that Putin's attack is not limited to military aggression in Ukraine, but aims to create economic and political instability in Europe: on the one hand with the blockade of grain supplies in Ukrainian ports, which exposes in particular the countries of North Africa to a serious food crisis with repercussions on migratory flows to the E…

7 Jun

2022

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Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System - Social Climate Fund - Carbon border adjustment mechanism - Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System for aviation - Notification under the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) (joint debate – Fit for 55 (part 1))

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, when the European Parliament voted on the climate law only a year ago, it made a clear commitment to reduce climate-changing emissions by 55% by 2030, with the dual objective of combating climate change and innovating our production system and making it, precisely because it is more efficient and more sustainable, even more competitive. Today there is a third…

6 Jun

2022

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Order of business

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we have just voted to hold a debate on Wednesday on what has happened in Nigeria. So we risk having a debate on a very important topic, but in a very short time, unless the ID group decides to change the topic of the topical discussion with this important debate on price increases in Europe.…

6 Jun

2022

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Order of business

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, no, I really did not want to speak out against it. Indeed, we believe that what happened yesterday in Nigeria is a real massacre of women, men and children and that it certainly deserves a debate in plenary. However, we ask the ECR Group to consider not holding the debate tomorrow, but postponing it until Wednesday.…

6 Apr

2022

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Cooperation and similarities between the Putin regime and extreme right and separatist movements in Europe (topical debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, with Russia's invasion of Ukraine, we all came together against Putin's act of military aggression. Yet, if we rewind the tape, we realize that it has not always been so, that in recent years we have not all been on the same side; In the face of our condemnation of a regime that stifles internal dissent and restricts democratic freedoms, there were those who,…

6 Apr

2022

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 24-25 March 2022: including the latest developments of the war against Ukraine and the EU sanctions against Russia and their implementation (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the Bucha massacre has shocked us: But a unanimous condemnation of the atrocities committed by the Russian army is no longer enough, and solidarity with the Ukrainian people is no longer enough. We must stop this barbarism: They must stop these war crimes against defenseless civilians. Despite the heavy effects on the Russian economy, the sanctions put in pla…

4 Apr

2022

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Sixth Assessment Report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, there is always too little talk about it, yet climate change is a reality, even in our latitudes. The data from the IPCC report we are debating today confirm the drama of a situation that, if we do not take it in hand now and if we continue to turn the other way, will become the next serious emergency with which we will have to measure our generation, already…

23 Mar

2022

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Debriefing of the European Council meeting in Paris on 10 March 2022 - Preparation of the European Council meeting 24-25 March 2022 (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Putin's military invasion of Ukraine has brought the war back to the heart of Europe. But the war in Ukraine is not just aggression against a sovereign state, it is a frontal attack on our values of freedom, self-determination and democracy. If we want these values to continue to be guaranteed in the future, in Europe and elsewhere, we must be able to fully g…

9 Mar

2022

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Batteries and waste batteries (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I want to begin by thanking all the Members who have spoken today in this beautiful debate. I would also like to thank Commissioner Sinkevičius for his support over the past few months and, above all, I would like to thank the IMCO, TRAN and ITRE rapporteurs for their joint work and the ENVI shadow rapporteurs, with whom we have worked very well. You've got i…

9 Mar

2022

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Batteries and waste batteries (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, it is enough to look around us in this House too to understand how the use of batteries is already an integral part of everyone's daily life, and it will be more and more so in the coming years if it is true, as it is true, that Europe has set itself the objective of climate neutrality by 2050. In fact, mobility will be increasingly sustainable,…

8 Mar

2022

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The deterioration of the situation of refugees as a consequence of the Russian aggression against Ukraine (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, in the face of the arrival at our borders of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees, mostly women and children, who have not even been given the opportunity to flee with humanitarian corridors from their land battered by Russian artillery, Europe has not turned away, as it has done too many times, but Europe has shown its true face, its face of solidarit…

19 Jan

2022

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Presentation of the programme of activities of the French Presidency (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we have learned that Europe is credible in the eyes of the citizens if it becomes a means of changing people's lives for the better and to do so it must have the tools. In these dark years of pandemic, Europe has pulled out the tools, even new ones, not foreseen before. I am thinking of the joint purchase and distribution plan for vaccines – which you, Presid…

15 Dec

2021

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 16-17 December 2021 - The EU's response to the global resurgence of Covid-19 and the new emerging Covid variants (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, there are many issues on the agenda of tomorrow's Council and there are two points that I would like to stress on all of them. First: Covid. We are in the midst of the fourth wave and unfortunately we are not yet out of this pandemic as we would have liked. We are not in the situation of a year ago, thanks also to the work of everyone, but we must not let our gu…

24 Nov

2021

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Outcome of the COP26 in Glasgow (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, certainly more could have been done, indeed more had to be done, at this climate conference in Glasgow. Today the consequences of climate change are under everyone's eyes, even in our latitudes, and no one can deny that we are facing an emergency like the pandemic we are already experiencing. More could have been done, however, at the same time, we cannot forget…

22 Nov

2021

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Coordination of Member States’ measures in light of increasing cases of COVID-19 in the EU (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we already understood a year and a half ago, when the whole of Europe came to a halt, that we were faced with a truly insidious virus. Two years later, we are not in the same emergency situation as when the pandemic began, but the rapid increase in infections and hospitalisations in our countries in recent weeks is worrying and must be tackled with efficiency an…

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, I would never have wanted a debate like this here today, but what happened in my country with the squadron attack on the headquarters of a trade union, the CGIL, by subjects belonging to Forza Nuova and other far-right organizations deserves a firm and decisive response, also from this Parliament. When we are witnessing acts with obvious neo-fascist matrices,…

20 Oct

2021

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

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we are all focused on Glasgow, but it must not be yet another meeting for the United Nations Conference, but a decisive appointment for action to adapt to and combat climate change. The latest IPCC report clearly shows that with the goals assumed so far by the signatories to the Paris Agreement, we will not achieve the goal of keeping global temperature rise bel…

19 Oct

2021

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Commission Work Programme 2022 (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we can only appreciate the work that the Commission has carried out over the last two years in the emergency situation due to the pandemic crisis. Let's think about the results of the vaccination strategy, which are enabling us to secure the health of European citizens, or the progress of the European Green Deal, with the presentation of the "Fit for 55" pack…

19 Oct

2021

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

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Mr President, Madam President of the Commission, Prime Minister, ladies and gentlemen, the judgment of the Polish Constitutional Court represents a very serious and unprecedented precedent, which cannot remain without consequences and which risks seriously pushing Poland out of the European Union. Questioning the primacy of EU law means not recognising one of the founding principles of the Europea…

6 Oct

2021

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European solutions to the rise of energy prices for businesses and consumers: the role of energy efficiency and renewable energy and the need to tackle energy poverty (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we are concerned about rising energy prices. Meanwhile, because of the impact on the most vulnerable sections of the population, but we are also concerned because increases in bills can undermine the competitiveness of European companies and jeopardise the economic recovery in Europe. But let's start by saying clearly and unequivocally that the increase in en…

15 Sep

2021

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State of the Union (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the months we have been leaving behind have been difficult, but they have taught us a hard lesson. The pandemic on the one hand and the Afghan crisis on the other have shown, once again, how the challenges of our time can only be met with a united, solid and supportive Europe. A Europe aware of its role in the world. The return to national sovereigns today is si…

14 Sep

2021

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Situation in Afghanistan (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we cannot fail to say clearly here that the military withdrawal of the forces of the international coalition from Afghanistan was a failure. But this does not mean calling into question twenty years of Western mission, in which we have tried to build a more democratic environment and fight terrorism. And precisely for this reason, now, we cannot leave that pe…