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Nov

2025

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Effective use of the EU trade and industrial policy to tackle China’s export restrictions (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, today's debate demonstrates one thing: the European Union does not yet have the appropriate tools to defend our economic security in the face of unilateral decisions that can bring entire strategic chains to their knees. We welcome the temporary one-year suspension of some restrictions on Chinese exports negotiated between the United States and China but, let…

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Institutional aspects of the report on the future of European competitiveness (Draghi Report) (A10-0196/2025 - Brando Benifei) (vote)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the European Union is today organised in such a way that it can respond to the challenges it faces, from conflicts to transitions to economic security. We say with this text that there is much to be done to live up to it. For this reason, in the wake of the Draghi report, we affirm the need for greater political cohesion and greater institutional solidity in ord…

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2025

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Existence of a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is founded (debate)

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2025

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Institutional consequences of the EU enlargement negotiations (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, enlargement of the European Union is a clear political choice. Today the accession processes have regained momentum but if we want to welcome new members we can not only add chairs to the table: Before enlarging, the Union needs deep institutional reforms for more effective, simplified and targeted decision-making. We have to go hand in hand. Even the Draghi rep…

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The decision to impose a fine on Google: defending press and media freedom in the EU (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, a few days ago, in Italy, the journalist Sigfrido Ranucci was the victim of a terrible attack in which they tried to kill him. From here too, from this House, it must receive our solidarity and closeness. Defending those who do investigative journalism is a political and civil duty, but to do so also requires resources, social recognition and economic models tha…

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Oct

2025

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Promoting EU digital rules: protecting European sovereignty (debate)

In my frequent travels to the US as Chair of the Delegation for Relations with US of this Parliament, I very often had the chance to discuss the issue of free speech, which I think has been used sometimes to cover economic interests. So I think that when we deal with AI used to produce disinformation and fake elements also on social media, in the example you made, I think our rules to prevent lack…

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Oct

2025

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Promoting EU digital rules: protecting European sovereignty (debate)

I think it's important that we support startups. So, for example, when I worked on the AI Act, I pushed and we obtained that the Member States had to mandatorily establish a sandbox and so support a facilitation for startups to enter the market with new products. I think we need to concentrate our simplification efforts exactly towards startups and smaller enterprises. But this does not mean that …

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Promoting EU digital rules: protecting European sovereignty (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, let us send a clear message to those who listen to us outside this House. We will not accept blackmail and pressure from Big Tech and foreign governments that would like to erase our regulatory autonomy in the digital and technological sphere. Today, the European Commission presents Apply AI to increase skills and use of artificial intelligence in …

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Oct

2025

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New Strategic EU-India Agenda (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in a few weeks' time I will be attending the mission of the European Parliament's Committee on International Trade to New Delhi, at a crucial time for the future of the strategic partnership. In a global context marked by the return of protectionism and increasingly vulnerable value chains, cooperation is a strategic choice to strengthen economic and industrial …

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2025

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Implementation of EU-US trade deal and the prospect of wider EU trade agreements (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Trump threatens sanctions on Europe because he does not like our laws and von der Leyen flies over all this in today's speech, but we cannot be blackmailed and no agreement can be based on coercion and threats. The President of the EPP, Manfred Weber, said that the EU-US agreement does not convince him, but must be supported out of a sense of responsibility. I b…

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Sep

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Ukraine (joint debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the American red carpet for the war criminal Putin has produced only more bombs on Kiev, killing defenceless civilians. Listening to Trump, the war was supposed to end 24 hours after he took office, but we're still here making fun of ourselves by a murderous autocrat. No ceasefire was reached, but this was to be the precondition for further negotiations. It i…

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Governance of the internet – renewal of the mandate of the Internet Governance Forum (debate)

Mr President, renewing the mandate of the Internet Governance Forum is essential for safeguarding global internet governance. Its inclusive, multi-stakeholder model ensures that governments, civil society, businesses and the technical community can work together on equal footing, preventing fragmentation and purely state-driven approaches and political manipulations that threaten digital rights. T…

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EU-US trade negotiations (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, illegal US tariffs, which are outside the rules of the World Trade Organisation, are already affecting 70% of European goods. The Union is negotiating in good faith, also thanks to your work, Commissioner Šefčovič, just as it does between allies, but today Europe is increasingly being treated as an adversary, not as a partner. This is not acceptable, it has to c…

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2023 and 2024 reports on Albania (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, respect for the law is what underpins accession to the European Union. Precisely this is missing in the shameful memorandum signed by Giorgia Meloni with Albania, a bankruptcy agreement of 800 million, now recycled with the idea of transforming empty centers into CPR, throwing mountains of taxpayers' money. An inhumane plan, but also useless and expensive, th…

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2025

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Product safety and regulatory compliance in e-commerce and non-EU imports (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, 70% of Europeans buy online and the increase in imports from outside Europe poses new challenges to the safety of our citizens and consumers. We need to act now. In 2024, 4.6 billion low-value parcels arrived in the Union, often taking advantage of the duty exemption below €150. This flaw fuels fraud, undervaluation and unfair competition, harming our companies:…

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May

2025

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EU support for a just, sustainable and comprehensive peace in Ukraine (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the European Union's support for a fair, sustainable and comprehensive peace in Ukraine must go hand in hand with justice. It is precisely on this basis that the new European Loan Cooperation Mechanism for Ukraine is based, on which I have worked together with other colleagues. It guarantees resources for reconstruction using the profits derived from the asset R…

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A unified EU response to unjustified US trade measures and global trade opportunities for the EU (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner Šefčovič, ladies and gentlemen, the real objective of the illegal tariffs imposed by Donald Trump is one and only one: to overturn the European democratic and social model, breaking down our rules that protect us on what we eat and drink, in what environment we live, what rights we have in front of the technological giants. From here we have to send a clear message: We d…

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2025

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 20 March 2025 (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Europe's well-being is severely jeopardised by the American tariffs to be announced tomorrow; This issue is, of course, at the heart of the debate between us and our governments. We must respond immediately in a cohesive manner, as the European Union, and we must do so clearly and without hesitation, because only then will we be able to sit at the negotiating…

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Cutting red tape and simplifying business in the EU: the first Omnibus proposals (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, simplifying is necessary, deregulating is not. We will always be available to work to de-bureaucratise European mechanisms, such as access to funds, but we are not available to throw the European social model overboard. The Omnibus package today is an attack on the progress of the last legislature on social and environmental sustainability. Simplification is …

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Feb

2025

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Threats to EU sovereignty through strategic dependencies in communication infrastructure (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the debate on Starlink in Italy has raised a double question: we can rely on communications from the government and the intelligence and to defend companies founded and led by those who today publicly support pro-Putin and anti-EU forces, with the use of powerful media and unlimited resources? And, if we adopt systems like Starlink, can we risk that the American…

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Feb

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EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the agreement with Mercosur is an agreement of great geopolitical importance and could redefine the global balance. It is a strategic opportunity for the European Union to strengthen its presence in Latin America and counter the influence of other superpowers. However, in order to decide whether we can vote for it, it is essential to assess its impact on work…

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Protecting the system of international justice and its institutions, in particular the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the sanctions imposed by Trump against the International Criminal Court are a serious threat to the world order, while the Court itself carries out its mission of combating impunity without looking anyone in the face, from Putin to African leaders, from Hamas to Netanyahu. I am ashamed of the absence of the Italian signature to the letter in defence of the Co…

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US AI chip export restrictions: a challenge to European AI development and economic resilience (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the decision by the United States to impose restrictions on the export of chip AI superpowers is a direct challenge to Europe's economic resilience and technological sovereignty. By classifying Member States into different categories, the common commercial policy is undermined and transatlantic relations are damaged. The European Union must act decisively to …

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2025

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Geopolitical and economic implications for the transatlantic relations under the new Trump administration (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Donald Trump has once again taken office in the White House and is announcing a new golden era for America, which, according to his words, will have to be based on retaliation against those who are taking advantage of the United States and enriching behind them. The first acts, after the inaugural speech, held in the presence of the main American tech billion…

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2025

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Need to enforce the Digital Services Act to protect democracy on social media platforms including against foreign interference and biased algorithms (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, this morning's debate has made it clear that for many colleagues on the right, freedom of expression means that in Europe it should be possible to discriminate against women or declare mentally ill homosexuals, amplifying this content through algorithms, in a non-transparent way and paying to give this content more visibility. We disagree. The majority of thi…