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Oct

2022

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Lukashenka regime's active role in the war against Ukraine (debate)

Madam President, Russia takes Crimea, and Ukraine attacks Donbas; Russia invades Ukraine and the USA and Europe send weapons to Ukraine, so Ukraine takes back Donbas, but Russia asks Belarus for help and Belarus deploys its armies on the border, so NATO does military exercises in the war area and Russia makes possible the use of nuclear weapons. Where are we going to? This is the problem. This is …

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Oct

2022

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Russia’s escalation of its war of aggression against Ukraine (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, I believe that this time people are really very afraid. They are afraid because they see that this escalation is not only wanted on one side, but is wanted on both sides. They are not only afraid of Putin and his threats. They're afraid of us Westerners, too. I want to reread a Biden statement issued in February before the Russian invasion: If Russ…

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Oct

2022

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Question Time (Commission) Tackling depopulation through cohesion policy instrument

Thank you Commissioner, but I would like to tell you that in the meantime the new government has already cancelled the Ministry of the South, it will no longer exist, and this tells you a lot about what will happen in the coming months. But to this I would also like to add a question: For years, the version of governments that is reported in the Commission, that is reported in Europe, does not cor…

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Oct

2022

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Question Time (Commission) Tackling depopulation through cohesion policy instrument

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, I bring the voice of the South of Italy, the voice of a territory that is still more populous than Greece, more populous than Sweden. It is, however, a territory with the highest dizzying rate of depopulation in recent years and has no equal in any other country in the European Union. But we know that depopulation is concentrated where there is pov…

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Sep

2022

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Economic, social and territorial cohesion in the EU: the 8th Cohesion Report - EU border regions: living labs of European integration (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I believe that, beyond the current and medium-term crises, we can certainly say and observe that cohesion policy has everywhere had the effect of reducing the territorial divide on the territory of the European Union. This is the case, however, except in Italy, as I say to the rapporteurs, where economic, social and territorial inequalities have been increasi…

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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)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I begin by saying that I strongly condemn this Russian military attack on Ukraine and I am absolutely on the side of the Ukrainian people, of course. I say this at the start so as not to be misunderstood. And I am also on the side of the European people, who are unknowingly taking the greatest risks of this war and the greatest costs of this war. In the name …

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Mar

2022

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European Semester for economic policy coordination: annual sustainable growth survey 2022 – European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social aspects in the annual sustainable growth strategy survey 2022 (debate)

Madam President, Commissioners Dombrovskis and Gentiloni, ladies and gentlemen, this report on the European Semester rightly focuses on increasing gender, generational, social, economic and, above all, territorial inequalities due to the COVID-19 crisis. Unfortunately, we did not have time to get out of a crisis that we already find ourselves in another one, the one generated by the war, and you h…

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Dec

2021

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State of play of the RRF (Recovery and Resilience Facility) (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner Dombrovskis, Commissioner Gentiloni, ladies and gentlemen, today 22 Member States have received a positive assessment of the recovery and resilience plan, including Italy, which is the country most heavily targeted by the European Commission. Yet we have pointed out, in all possible ways, that the Italian plan does not respect the priority of reducing gender, generati…

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Nov

2021

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Outcome of the COP26 in Glasgow (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, what can we Europeans still do? I say that fighting global warming means fighting social cooling. We have the example of large industries, including European ones, which are virtuous in rich countries, while dumping poisons in poor countries. And I am referring not only to Africa or Latin America, but also to the poorest areas of our continent, where the oil ind…

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Oct

2021

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Banking Union - annual report 2020 (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we believe that this annual report is overall balanced when it comes to sustainable finance and taxonomy, supervision of banking crises, and implementation of the Anti-Money Laundering Directive, as well as the effects on large-scale sales of non-performing loans. However, we believe it is weak or unambitious about safeguards for savers, and we have serious c…