What Brando spoke about.

14 Dec

2021

IT Speech

European framework for employees' participation rights and the revision of the European Works Council Directive (debate)

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(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, strengthening the tools of democracy in the workplace is today a necessity to govern the impact of the digital ecological transition on society and employment. Too often strategic decisions of companies, which concern the organization of work, investments, mergers, acquisitions or even mass redundancies take place without any involvement of workers' represe…

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, 'the European Parliament urges the Member States to ban neo-fascist and neo-Nazi groups and any other foundation or association that glorifies and glorifies Nazism and fascism', says the resolution entitled 'Increase in neo-fascist violence in Europe', adopted on 25 October 2018. It's been three years, but things haven't improved. In Rome, neo-fascist-inspire…

20 Oct

2021

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 21-22 October 2021 (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, President Charles Michel is called upon to run a meeting of the European Council which opens in a very heavy climate, and we had a taste of it yesterday during the debate with the embarrassing show by Polish Prime Minister Morawiecki here in the Chamber. But I would also like to recall the shameful outings of the last few days of Slovenian Prime Minister Janš…

5 Oct

2021

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The future of EU-US relations (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, with the election of Biden, the United States has turned the page, abandoning unilateralism and bringing the debate back to the multilateral level, albeit with an uneven attitude, let us think, for example, of the Afghan affair, which relaunches the need for strategic autonomy and European defence. But there are many issues to work on together. I am thinking of …

4 Oct

2021

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The impact of intimate partner violence and custody rights on women and children (debate)

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(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, following the important vote in the last plenary session on the inclusion of gender-based violence as a 'Eurocrime', which is therefore a particularly serious crime on which the Union can set minimum standards for defining crimes and sanctions, this Parliament is once again expressing its views on the sensitive issue of gender-based violence by partners and…

4 Oct

2021

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Artificial intelligence in criminal law and its use by the police and judicial authorities in criminal matters (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, while Parliament is preparing to examine the proposal for a regulation on artificial intelligence, with this report we are giving a clear message and already making an important point: In our view, there is no place in Europe for mass biometric surveillance and security and the fight against crime cannot be at the expense of citizens' fundamental rights. Indeed,…

15 Sep

2021

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State of the Union (debate)

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Madam President, Madam President von der Leyen, ladies and gentlemen, what would Altiero Spinelli and the founding fathers and mothers of European integration say about the last twenty years, which began with the explosion of globalisation and the attack on the Twin Towers and Afghanistan? They'd tell us: How much time did you lose while the world was running? But they would also tell us that toda…

14 Sep

2021

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EU Blue Card Directive (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, after years of stalemate, we conclude the revision of the Blue Card Directive, a necessary tool to make the European Union attractive to talent and highly skilled workers. I am pleased to have contributed to this file as rapporteur for the S&D Group in the EMPL Committee. Since the last legislature, this instrument has been important to us as a proposal for high…

7 Jul

2021

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Review of the macroeconomic legislative framework (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we must say clearly that the European Union cannot go back to the austerity policies of the past. The pandemic has shown the need and usefulness of investment and social policy choices that many of us were proposing well before this last year and a half. We are now moving forward with the reform of the Stability Pact, which takes into account a new golden rul…