What Nicola spoke about.

18 Apr

2023

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Adoption of the Cyber package proposals (debate)

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Madam President, Mr Vice-President Schinas, Commissioner Breton, EUR 5 500 billion: This is the cost of cybercrime in 2021. Impressive numbers, behind which are often hidden attacks not by loose dogs, but by hackers in the pay of Russia, China, Iran. Autocracies that, through this new form of hybrid warfare, aim to undermine the security of our infrastructure, drown our companies and destabilize o…

18 Apr

2023

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The need for a coherent strategy for EU-China Relations (debate)

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Mr President, Mr High Representative, Mr Vice-President, three key words to try to define a strategy for China in one minute. The first: competition. China is an competitor In this sense, strategic autonomy is a first element to avoid our subordination. But to do so, we must start playing our role in the world again, starting with the partnership with Africa and the ratification of the treaty with…

29 Mar

2023

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The Rights of children in Rainbow Families and same sex parents in particular in Italy (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, there is no doubt that the affirmation of a legal framework of adequate guarantees for same-sex couples in Italy is difficult to establish. Only in 2016, thanks to the Renzi government that placed trust in Parliament, Italy has adopted a law that allows civil unions between people of the same sex. The judgments of the judiciary and the courage of s…

29 Mar

2023

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 23-24 March 2023 (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Mr Vice-President of the Commission, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, seven lines, those are the conclusions that the European Council has dedicated to the issue of immigration, after the rivers of tears poured out after the tragedy on the Italian coasts. Politics is the art of finding compromises and solutions. Rule reality, don't put your head in the …

15 Mar

2023

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Deaths at sea: a common EU response to save lives and action to ensure safe and legal pathways (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, Minister, ladies and gentlemen, for the umpteenth time we are in this Chamber with the terrible images of a tragedy like that of Cutro still in our eyes: the broken lives of children, women and men who entrusted Europe with hopes and dreams of freedom. A shipwreck on whose rescue management there are still too many dark sides and not for the responsibility of law enforc…

15 Mar

2023

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Conclusions of the Special European Council meeting of 9 February and preparation of the European Council meeting of 23-24 March 2023 (debate)

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Madam President, President of the Commission, Vice-President of the Commission, President of the Council, ladies and gentlemen, the agenda of the next Council puts on the table the points on which the future of our Union is at stake: support for Ukraine in the first place, more than a year after the invasion, which still needs to be more solid because alongside Kiev we are defending, at whatever c…

17 Jan

2023

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

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Madam President, Prime Minister, ladies and gentlemen, the Swedish Presidency will be decisive in bringing to fruition some of the key dossiers of this legislature, which is entering its final phase. I am thinking above all of the directives on energy efficiency and renewables, which are essential tools for getting rid of Russian gas and lowering energy prices and on which the Presidency will have…

13 Dec

2022

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Renewable Energy, Energy Performance of Buildings and Energy Efficiency Directives: amendments (REPowerEU) (continuation of debate)

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Madam President, Mr Executive Vice-President, ladies and gentlemen, this year in Italy, faced with requests for 300 gigawatts of renewables, we will be able to connect only three gigawatts to the grid, a real fact that shows how the permit-granting procedures at different levels, be they national, regional or territorial, represent the real obstacle to be overcome. We therefore welcome this measur…

24 Nov

2022

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Establishing the Digital Decade Policy Programme 2030 (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the digital transformation of our society and economy is one of the great challenges facing the European Union. The Commission has done well to set specific targets to be achieved by 2030, which will allow us to play a global role. As with the Green Deal, it is only if we have measurable and tangible targets that we will be able to monitor our p…

23 Nov

2022

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A truly interconnected Energy Single Market to keep bills down and companies competitive (topical debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner Simson, ladies and gentlemen, after months and months of requests, yesterday the Commission finally proposed the mechanism for correcting the gas market, but the extraordinary effort to which the European States were called, as Mario Draghi had often reiterated, does not seem to have been put into practice. That the proposal would come out of time we knew, but that it…

23 Nov

2022

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The need for a European solution on asylum and migration including search and rescue (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, if we were to draw a balance between the words used to discuss migration in this House since 2015 and the results obtained, we could only certify the failure of Europe or rather the failure of the nation states, which have chosen electoral interests and ideology and not European rationality and values. And yet, Mr President, we all know the solutio…

9 Nov

2022

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 20-21 October 2022 (debate)

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We are well aware that consumer bills have not yet fallen and so have business bills. Of course, we must invest in two important factors: energy saving and investment in renewable energy and currently diversification of gas supply sources. That's what I think we're doing. We also need to stop speculation. As I said in the speech, the speculation on gas prices is very high and only a united Europe …

9 Nov

2022

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 20-21 October 2022 (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, Mr Vice-President of the Commission, the effects of the last European Council are already visible. We are seeing a drop in the price of gas. This shows two things: the first, that the speculative component is there and is very relevant; the second, that the political response that Europe is providing is the right one and th…

19 Oct

2022

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 20-21 October 2022 (debate)

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Madam President, Mr Vice-President of the Commission, Minister, ladies and gentlemen, solutions to deal effectively with the urgent challenges of the present have been on the table for several months. We have been talking for some time about the gas price cap, decoupling prices, reforming the electricity market, but with difficulty the Commission and the Council are succeeding in adopting them. We…

17 Oct

2022

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Sustainable maritime fuels (FuelEU Maritime Initiative) - Deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the road to decarbonising the maritime sector is still long and uncertain. The Navigation Fuels Regulation sets out a realistic and gradual emissions reduction trajectory and provides an impetus for investment in research and development, while respecting the principle of technological neutrality. Some bet on hydrogen, others on ammonia and methano…

15 Sep

2022

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State of the SME Union (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, for years now we have been filling our mouths with the need to protect and preserve European SMEs, which are the essential assets for our economy: small and medium-sized enterprises for which today's energy crisis, inflation risk being lethal, especially after the backlash caused by the pandemic. We must, therefore, act on two elements: firstly,…

13 Sep

2022

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Renewable Energy Directive (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the contribution of renewable energy is now crucial not only from the climate point of view, but above all from the point of view of our energy security; Increasing the share of renewables to 45% by 2030 is therefore a target that cannot remain on paper, as has happened too often in the past due to bureaucracy. That is why we hope that we will now proceed swiftl…

12 Sep

2022

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Energy efficiency (recast) (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, it is difficult to summarise in a minute the result of months and months of work. The text that we will approve in the coming days gives us ambition and concreteness, without giving in to ideologies and political manifestos. Managing the transition means choosing achievable goals. So we decided to increase the target reducing our energy consumption…

6 Jul

2022

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The relations of the Russian government and diplomatic network with parties of extremist, populist, anti-European and certain other European political parties in the context of the war (debate)

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Madam President, Madam Vice-President, ladies and gentlemen, disinformation in recent years has had a major impact on the political choices of individual European states. Russian interference in the Brexit referendum is now well established, as are incontrovertible historical facts about the outcome of the Italian constitutional referendum in 2016. Unfortunately, this was possible because so many,…

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, Mr Vice-President of the Commission, ladies and gentlemen, as is often the case, the Council's conclusions do not leave us entirely satisfied. The recognition of the status of candidate country for Ukraine and Moldova is certainly an important message of unity and closeness, but the same cannot be said for two countries that have been candidates for some time, such as Albania and Nor…

9 Jun

2022

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The call for a Convention for the revision of the Treaties (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Madam Vice-President, Minister, the reform of the Treaties is no longer procrastinable. The pandemic told us so and the war tells us so today. The results of the Conference on the Future of Europe have given us a range of proposals in this regard. Convening a convention to revise the treaties, therefore, is no longer an option but a duty. More efficient institut…

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, as the interruption of supplies to Poland and Bulgaria shows, we are faced with the need to substantially reduce our dependence on fossil fuel imports from Russia. The new REPowerEU package is no longer just an environmental choice, but spells out strategies and measures that must lead Europe to regain its energy sovereignty. Time only allows me to…

3 May

2022

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Impact of Russian illegal war of aggression against Ukraine on the EU transport and tourism sectors (debate)

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(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has devastated the lives of millions of people to whom our support and deep solidarity go, but the consequences of this war are also being felt in Europe, particularly in sectors such as transport and tourism, which have already been marked significantly by two years of pandemic. We are approaching the summer se…

6 Apr

2022

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Data Governance Act (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, every second billions of data are generated by devices of all kinds. They represent a very important asset that, if put to good use, can make life easier for citizens, improve services or help research. A heritage that we must above all preserve from distorted or illegal uses. That of the governance Data is therefore one of the major challenges …

5 Apr

2022

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Outcome of the EU-China Summit (1 April 2022) (debate)

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Madam President, Mr High Representative, ladies and gentlemen, we are unfortunately not surprised by China's position on the aggression against Ukraine. But I want to say it clearly: This war represents a watershed in history and the choices that our partners will make today will weigh in defining what our political and trade relations of tomorrow will be. If China wants to continue the agreement …