What Massimiliano spoke about.

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Dec

2024

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Toppling of the Syrian regime, its geopolitical implications and the humanitarian situation in the region (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the voice raised by this Parliament is a legitimately desirous and dreamy voice of the rule of law also in Syria, but the march - as we know - is extremely complex. We have before us enormous divisions within that country and an enormous division also between all those outside that country who have chosen their interlocutors, within the enormous social rift. Thi…

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Oct

2024

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Tackling the steel crisis: boosting competitive and sustainable European steel and maintaining quality jobs (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we have the most innovative and sustainable steel production in the world in Europe. And it is not the only industrial area where we shine globally for our ability to maintain a balance between sustainability and competitiveness. That is why we say that the European Union's environmental policies must adapt to our productions. The opposite must not happen, na…

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Oct

2024

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Situation in Azerbaijan, violation of human rights and international law and relations with Armenia (debate)

(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in September 2023, the 100,000 people who lived in the Nagorno-Karabakh region were, in fact, deported through an ethnic cleansing operation, as has rightly been defined. Europe reacted but timidly. And it is unacceptable that gas supplies continue - without conditions - which enrich a country totally disdainful of the rule of law, such as Azerbaijan, a cou…

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Oct

2024

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The crisis facing the EU’s automotive industry, potential plant closures and the need to enhance competitiveness and maintain jobs in Europe (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the negotiating difficulty that has accompanied the whole process of approving the regulation on new standards for light-duty vehicles is now showing all its consequences. We pointed out the enormity of the industrial confusion contained in the regulation. We were only partially able to contain it. Why? Because on the one hand we discussed the 2035 target, ch…

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Sep

2024

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The future of European competitiveness (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we have a report which, as Mario Draghi mentioned a moment ago, goes in the direction that we all hope the European Union will take. Many of the things that are contained in the report have often been repeated here, in the European Parliament, but never implemented. Those who criticise the financial instruments described in support of the necessary investment…

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Mar

2024

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Type-approval of motor vehicles and engines with respect to their emissions and battery durability (Euro 7) (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we have started from a very complex text that has forced the negotiators to an uphill road, the final result of which, however, is satisfactory. In particular, we are satisfied with the agreement found on the implementation timeframe; This will allow the automotive industry to adapt, not devouring the assumptions on which it has built its innovative propensity a…

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Mar

2024

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State of play of the corporate sustainability due diligence directive (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we will never tire of repeating that the European development model, with its many shortcomings, is certainly the most sustainable in the world; It is from a social point of view, it is from an environmental point of view. And the foundation of this sustainability, the premise on which it was built, is the perception of the centrality of the person and respec…

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Feb

2024

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EU2040 climate target (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, what is happening in the world is that the non-European regions look at what we are doing in Europe with great curiosity and interest, precisely because it is sometimes the main element of competitiveness for them and not for us. We are the most sustainable continent in the world and we have a very challenging company. Rightly, we can afford it, as…

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Dec

2023

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European Defence investment programme (EDIP) (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, for many years, for decades, we have lived in peace in Europe, fortunately getting used to the concept of peace. Then, close to the fall of the Berlin Wall, we had to recognize a new concept that is that of risk, and then arrive, because of terrorism, at the concept of threat. Then what happened in February 2022 happened, so History went back seventy years an…

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Dec

2023

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EU-US relations (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the report contains valuable elements for defining, at the right time, the enormous importance of political and economic friendship between the European Union and the United States of America at global level. On the economic side, however, there is a gap, a gap on which we must work. In the economic sphere, if there is one central point that characterizes the re…

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Nov

2023

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Packaging and packaging waste (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, today we have at European level a quantity of packaging waste that certainly does not justify regulatory action such as the one we are discussing, not least because the vast majority of this packaging waste is already perfectly integrated into the recycling chain. So the risk we run is that this regulation, which is so full-bodied and so difficult, will apply…

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Nov

2023

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Strengthening the CO2 emission performance targets for new heavy-duty vehicles (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, too often the Green Deal coincides, in the minds of some, with electrification, especially in the world of mobility: in some cases very rigidly, as in the case of light-duty vehicles, in other cases less rigidly, as in the case of heavy-duty vehicles. The topic is: traditional sources are not sustainable and are not eternal. Well, there is a flaw in this approac…

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Oct

2023

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Situation in Nagorno-Karabakh after Azerbaijan’s attack and the continuing threats against Armenia (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the statements of the Council and the Commission are worrying. Ahinoi manifest a serious inadequacy with respect to a drama that cannot be managed with the artifice of this fake diplomacy. There have been deaths on the ground and a people who inhabited the Nagorno-Karabakh region for millennia have been crushed and driven out. Therefore, this attitude is not jus…

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Sep

2023

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Ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe (debate)

(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I shall briefly give an example, in order to understand why some of the criticisms that have been made of the proposal for a directive are not criticisms of the directive's environmental ambition, but criticisms of the directive's rigidity. There are territories in which we have extremely sustainable companies, respectful of all the limits that are placed, …

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Jul

2023

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Greening transport package (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we have noted some very positive elements in the Commission's proposal, with reference in the first instance to the new possible management of railway capacity. There is certainly room for interesting work in that area. Improvements in the efficiency of the management of the existing infrastructure suggest a performance that could improve by 4%; whereas on 20…

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May

2023

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Methane emissions reduction in the energy sector (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, leakage and methane emissions are a serious damage, both because they are a waste and because they damage the environment, so this regulation has certainly dealt with a sensitive issue. The initial content of the Commission's proposal has drawn a line which has to a large extent been considered acceptable by negotiators. The negotiations have had particularly co…

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Apr

2023

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Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System - Monitoring, reporting and verification of greenhouse gas emissions from maritime transport - Carbon border adjustment mechanism - Social Climate Fund - Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System for aviation (debate)

Mr President, I would like to thank the rapporteurs for this huge package; I have been in the European Parliament for about nine years and I have never seen a package so articulate and complicated to negotiate, so really congratulations for the enormous work done. As usual, our task is to identify some points on which it will be necessary to continue working. The commitment has not been exhausted,…

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Feb

2023

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CO2 emission standards for cars and vans (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Mr Vice-President, I am sure that we will also meet this challenge. We have won even more complex ones in Europe. However, in the analysis of the agreement reached with the trilogue, I note that the main problem is environmental in nature. Why? If we consider what happens outside Europe, it cannot fail to strike us as the countries, in particular China, where…

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Feb

2023

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Union Secure Connectivity Programme 2023-2027 (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, the commitment to this enormous challenge that completes the impressive European space programme is worthy of the objectives that we have set ourselves in the face of the most complex system challenges, some caused by very serious factors such as the Russian aggression in Ukraine or the aggressive Chinese expansionism, great system challenges in…

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Jan

2023

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Shipments of waste (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the discipline we are facing, the sensitive discipline relating to the movement and use of waste, has an impact on one of the most appealing topics in the debate on the future of sustainability, especially from an economic and industrial point of view in Europe. We must – and we are succeeding in this – promote the free movement of waste in such a way that those…

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Dec

2022

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EU response to the US Inflation Reduction Act (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the decision not to reduce Europe's ambitions in terms of sustainability and also in terms of trade fair play at global level is understandable, despite the affront received by the measures to reduce inflation proposed by the United States of America. But the condition that we can afford not to reduce our ambitions is that, at the same time, Europe decides to…

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Nov

2022

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

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, in the energy crisis we had two strategies in comparison: on the one hand those who have proposed to impose a cap on the price of gas, and it seems to me that this solution has not been substantially accepted by the Commission, on the other hand there are those who adopt a different strategy, in my view equally complex and probably even more dangerous for the…

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Sep

2022

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EU response to the increase in energy prices in Europe (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the direction taken by the European Commission is correct, first on energy reserves, in particular gas, of course, the issue of gas and electricity prices. We hope that the reasonableness of these proposals will resize the rate of selfishness of some countries that, in an attempt to pursue the national interest alone, are risking harm to the ent…

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Jun

2022

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Gas storage (debate)

(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Vice-President, thanks to the negotiators, to those who have made it possible to take this path, which was correctly launched by the European Commission in the form of that solidarity which the European Union once again manages to demonstrate in difficult times. We have seen it with Covid and we are seeing it on this very dramatic occasion. Colleagues in th…

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2022

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Binding annual greenhouse gas emission reductions by Member States (Effort Sharing Regulation) - Land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) - CO2 emission standards for cars and vans (joint debate – Fit for 55 (part 2))

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we are discussing how to build a social model, a more sustainable economic life. If we were to move this debate out of the European Parliament and place it on a global level, we could bring the European model as a model to follow, the most sustainable model in the world. Instead, we heard today that we should follow China's leadership in the transition from inte…