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Apr

2024

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European Disability Card and European Parking Card for persons with disabilities - European Disability Card and European Parking Card for persons with disabilities for third country nationals legally residing in a Member State (joint debate - Disability cards)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the European Disability Card will soon be a reality and this is good news for a Europe without obstacles. Priority access for public transport, free entry or reduced rates for cultural activities, sports, personal assistance and many other rights that from now on will have no borders. With this directive disabled people will have access to the same…

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Apr

2024

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Conclusions of the recent European Council meetings, in particular on a new European Competitiveness deal and the EU strategic agenda 2024-2029 (debate)

Madam President, Mr Vice-President of the Commission, ladies and gentlemen, we are about to conclude an unprecedented legislature, marked by sadly historic events, but also by a profound legislative intervention on our economy. Today, however, the time has come to outline the way forward for the European Union in the next parliamentary term. Road that must be the one traced by Mario Draghi in rece…

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Mar

2024

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Energy performance of buildings (recast) (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner Simson, ladies and gentlemen, the agreement reached between Parliament and the Council is an important step towards more efficient housing, energy savings, greater comfort and lower emissions for European citizens. The Italian political debate in recent months has been marred by a mix of fake news, misleading data and unjustified alarmism that the right has used for the …

11

Mar

2024

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Horizontal cybersecurity requirements for products with digital elements and amending Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 (debate)

Mr President, I thank the Commissioner and all the Members who have spoken in this debate and for their attention to this important regulation. I believe that the speeches I have heard clearly show that cybersecurity is one of the real challenges that awaits us in the future, but that already significantly characterizes our present. A challenge that also has a geopolitical dimension, as the Commis…

11

Mar

2024

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Horizontal cybersecurity requirements for products with digital elements and amending Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner Breton, ladies and gentlemen, which we are about to approve is one of the most important legislative initiatives on cybersecurity carried out by the European Union. Perhaps too little has been said about it, but the impact this law will have on citizens and businesses will be truly significant. Establishing minimum requirements for all connected products, along the entir…

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Feb

2024

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Preventing work-related deaths following the Florence tragedy (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the tragic events of the accident at the Florence shipyard have opened a wound in the hearts of the Florentines, but they have also torn a veil over realities that we cannot afford to ignore. What has happened in my city requires us to reflect on the issues of safety, prevention and undeclared work, with the humility of recognizing that we have not…

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Feb

2024

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Conclusions of the European Council meetings, in particular the special European Council meeting of 1 February 2024 (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, President Michel, the European Council, has finally cornered Orbán. But we have to learn the lesson. Anyone who thinks of blackmailing Europe must not go along with it, but must be isolated and fought, to the point of using, if necessary, Article 7 of the Treaties to deprive Hungary of the right to vote and suspend it from Community funding. Thanks to this st…

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Feb

2024

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Situation of prisoners in Hungarian jails, including the case of Ilaria Salis (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, there is a problem that affects many European countries, starting with mine: respect for the rights of detainees. An issue on which the European institutions must become increasingly aware, avoiding taking refuge in easy "no comment" for the fact that this is a matter of national competence. Because, to paraphrase a phrase attributed to Voltaire, it is from p…

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Jan

2024

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Geothermal energy (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, more than 15% of electricity consumption by 2040: This is the potential that geothermal energy has for our continent. Exploiting the heat of the earth is therefore a fundamental step to achieve climate neutrality through a source of supply that, unlike photovoltaics and wind, does not require raw materials from third countries and does not suffe…

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Jan

2024

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 14-15 December 2023 and preparation of the Special European Council meeting of 1 February 2024 - Situation in Hungary and frozen EU funds (joint debate - European Council meetings)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we welcome the Belgian Presidency of the Council. The presidencies change but the problems remain, and above all the Orbán problem remains: Putin's Trojan horse in community institutions. The possibility that in the next six months he will be able to add the office of President-in-Office to that of President of the European Council is appalled, but it is appalle…

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Jan

2024

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Fight against the resurgence of neo-fascism in Europe, also based on the parade that took place in Rome on 7 January (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the images we have seen these days in Italy have brought back sad memories of the last century; sad as the silence of Giorgia Meloni about it. As in other countries, even in Italy there has always been a small minority of nostalgics of fascism; Unlike other opposition political forces, in Italy we have never used the alarm of return to fascism to c…

12

Dec

2023

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Framework for ensuring a secure and sustainable supply of critical raw materials (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, after the pandemic and the war in Ukraine, the green transition today presents us with new strategic vulnerabilities, those on key raw materials for the production of solar panels, wind turbines, batteries and much more. This is why today's vote is a fundamental step to create a new extraction and refining capacity in Europe, to ensure higher recyc…

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Oct

2023

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A true geopolitical Europe now (topical debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the sudden withdrawal of the United States from Afghanistan, the Russian aggression against Ukraine, Beijing's pressure on Taiwan and, finally, the Hamas attack on Israel are tragic events that give us a clear reality: The bipolar world is gone and the United States can no longer play the role of guarantor of international order. The role of China has been af…

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Oct

2023

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 26-27 October 2023 (debate)

Mr President, Minister, Vice-President, ladies and gentlemen, the facts and events facing us in the world change the priorities of the European Council every day. A few days ago it was migration, yesterday Hamas' attack on Israel, today terrorism in our cities and we cannot forget that on European soil a brutal war is still being fought against the Ukrainian people, attacked by Putin. It changes t…

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Oct

2023

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Decent Housing for All (topical debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, the terms 'Green Deal', 'Digital Decade', 'strategy' and 'ambition' are often used in this House, and we fully agree with them, but be careful: whereas we are thinking about 2030, there are European citizens who now, not in ten years' time, lack decent housing. The consequences of the housing emergency are dramatic: the increase in the number of…

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Oct

2023

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Corrupt large-scale sale of Schengen visas (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we were impressed, but not surprised, by the investigation that would have highlighted the sale of visas by the Polish authorities. Please clarify this matter as soon as possible. If confirmed, sovereignist rhetoric would be swept away by a handful of money that the moralizing government and servant of Polish identity would pocket. For years we have heard the Po…

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Oct

2023

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The 10-year commemoration since the tragedy in Lampedusa(statement by the President)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, today we are recalling a mourning event that was nothing more than the first in a long series that is still ongoing. Ten years after the tragic shipwreck, what has changed? Maybe the strip of sea or the beach where we collect the corpses, as only a few months ago in Cutro. But events do not change, and European immigration policy has not changed, still blind …

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Sep

2023

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State of the Union (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Madam President of the Commission, in recent years our Union has faced challenges that only four years ago seemed unimaginable and to which we have given adequate answers: from COVID-19 and the Recovery Plan to assistance to Ukraine. But all this cannot make us calm about the enormous challenges that lie ahead. I will mention three of them quickly. The first:…

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Sep

2023

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EU-Tunisia Agreement - aspects related to external migration policy (debate)

(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, this summer's severe migration crisis is yet another proof that the far right on this issue is good at taking votes in the election campaign but very bad when it has to deal with such a complex problem. The disaster signed by Giorgia Meloni, which is the agreement with Tunisia, is under everyone's eyes: No results, arrivals more than doubled, Europe now und…

12

Jul

2023

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The need for EU action on search and rescue in the Mediterranean (debate)

Madam President, Mr Secretary of State, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, certain principles are enshrined in international treaties and are the basis of our civilisation. Saving lives at sea is one of them and this principle stands above any other assessment of migration policies or any alleged national interest. Certainly we must invest in cooperation with the countries of origin, certainly we…

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Jul

2023

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Industrial Emissions Directive - Industrial Emissions Portal - Deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure - Sustainable maritime fuels (FuelEU Maritime Initiative) - Energy efficiency (recast) (joint debate - Fit for 55 and Industrial Emissions)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, talking about the green transition means knowing how to combine ambition and concreteness, without giving in to ideologies or political manifestos. In some cases we did not succeed and I am thinking of the Nature Restoration Act and Wednesday's vote; in others, however, we have understood that managing the transition means choosing challenging b…

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Jun

2023

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Make Europe the place to invest (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Madam Minister, Commissioner, can Europe today be an attractive continent for investment and once again be a driver of growth and prosperity? I think so. After the first globalization, during which the focus was on deregulation, lowering labor costs, absence of social and environmental rules, today the global competition will be played on human capital, innov…

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Jun

2023

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 29-30 June 2023, in particular in the light of recent steps towards concluding the Migration Pact (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Madam Minister, Mr Vice-President, the next European Council will be a milestone in the challenges facing Europe. Ukraine, climate, China, economic governance reform are some of the key issues on our agenda. On the issue of migration, after the last Home Affairs Council, we finally see an agreement materialising which recognises the need to find European converg…

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May

2023

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Social and economic costs of climate change in light of the floods in Emilia Romagna, Marche and Toscana and the urgent need for European solidarity (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the fury of the waters, the landslides, the destruction of the fields, the flooded factories: These are some of the images of an unparalleled catastrophe. And as we mourn the dead and shrug off the mud from the houses, we admire the determination of mayors, volunteers, townspeople and townspeople and municipalities who face difficulties head on …

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May

2023

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Order of business

Madam President, in the meantime I would like to express my gratitude for the solidarity you expressed at the opening of the sitting with the populations so affected in the Italian regions of Emilia-Romagna, Marche and even Tuscany. We would have an alternative proposal to the one proposed by the Socialist Group and the Group of the Greens, which has the following title: "Commission statements on …