Speeches

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, what is happening in Cameroon is unacceptable: journalists who have been arrested for exercising the right to report and the fundamental right to freedom of expression. It is unworthy that there is control over the media of this kind, with methods of intimidation to silence the press and thus suppress dissent. Justice cannot be disrupted for political reasons, and this applies everywhere, not only in Cameroon. The European Union must be able to make its voice heard, defending freedom and, in general, freedom of expression. Human rights must be defended in every way. We would have liked to have shared this resolution, but the cordon sanitaire did not allow it; You have, as it were, a strange concept of democracy in this House. So, even on such an important issue, such as freedom of expression and arrested journalists, you prefer to exclude a political party even if it perhaps shares the text. I believe instead that human rights must be defended in every way and by as many people as possible; Your attitude that aims to exclude a political party is unworthy, and it is unworthy especially for the people who are in prison today.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the major debates in this plenary in Strasbourg: Immigration, security, work... but go! The European Union's top priority is a strategy to support the Roma and combat discrimination against them. We are truly absurd. Practically every year, since I have been an MEP, there has been this debate. We are discussing what for you, evidently, is perhaps the only emergency: EUR million for unnecessary actions. Talk about easy access to homes and work, without distinction between those who respect the rules and those who do not, with good peace of the many decent people who have been on the list for years for a social home. But for you there must be preferential treatment for Roma: It is unacceptable! At the same time, you are completely disinterested in the fact that many Roma communities have no intention of integrating and live proudly between delinquency and degradation. Are we going to stop throwing taxpayers' money into really questionable strategies and plans for the Roma?

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we are here to examine the report on human rights and democracy in the world and what we read is often disconcerting: ideology everywhere and very serious omissions. There is an entire chapter dedicated to the rights of immigrants, which talks about the growth of xenophobia, racism and discrimination against migrants, victims of increasing dehumanization; no mention of the need to stop irregular immigration and the role of some NGOs complicit in human trafficking. Silence on the horrific treatment of women in numerous Islamic countries which, I recall, have not signed the Universal Charter of Human Rights; they have created a different one, an Arab Charter of Human Rights, in which Article three even mentions positive discrimination, provided for in favor of women by Islamic sharia. Not a word, moreover, about the 360 million Christians persecuted in the world. We need to focus on the real emergencies for Europe: the expansion of Islamism, which undermines our values and rights, and the spread of insecurity in our cities, often exacerbated by out-of-control immigration.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, a debate on the first 100 days of the new Commission, with triumphalist tones. Nothing, it already makes you laugh like that. Ursula von der Leyen commented (I read her statements here): "This Commission stands ready to tackle crises. We need speed and determination. We have a unique opportunity to build a stronger, safer and more prosperous Europe." Comic statements. In recent months you have worked only to modify the plans, since Green Deal to the car, passing through the repatriation regulations, because you have realized the enormous mistakes that you have made. First you make disasters by damaging businesses, families and consumers, and then you have to intervene, often badly, to remedy them. It's ridiculous! We are also here to celebrate your plan to rearma Europe and your considerations of pathetic defiance of Trump's United States: 100 days of proclamations, slogans, useless meetings, sensational turnarounds and shameful arrogance. The European citizens in the elections have already made you realise that you are doing everything wrong: But you're still pretending to be nothing!

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, bad faith, ignorance, incapacity: Here, let's say, these are the watchwords of the disaster you have caused in the world of the car, in these years. Bad faith? Bad faith, because you have carried out industrial policies disguised as environmental, an economic suicide with more unemployed in Europe while in Beijing they celebrate. Ignorance? Well, let's just say it didn't take a genius: You have imposed epochal changes without studying the effects they would have caused. Incapacity? You've hurt businesses, families and workers without getting any environmental improvements. Now correct the repairs. But it is not enough to postpone the expiry of the fines to give oxygen to the producers: You have to cancel the 2035 diesel and gasoline block. Incentives are useless, they do not convince consumers. Are you waiting for the entire supply chain to collapse? You have to apologize and change course once and for all.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, incredible! The European Commission is finally waking up. Better late than never, I'd say. After years of empty words, good attitudes about reception, you realize that the strategy on returns must be changed and, in general, that work must be done to limit illegal immigration. But you have to do a huge mea culpa. While in Italy Minister Salvini blocked landings, collapsed arrivals and therefore reduced tragedies at sea, you criticized him! When we demanded the redistribution of migrants and the rotation of ports, you slept. You've been blocking repatriation reform for six years, slaves to the blackmail of the left. Now unlock it but don't face a very important problem: In fact, there is no sanction against third countries that do not want to take back their compatriots illegally present in our countries. Against illegal immigration we need a more coordinated and firmer work, otherwise we will face yet another failure of yours: Desperate in our territories who have no right to remain there and who live delinquently. That's enough!

Look, I'll tell you what's going on in my country. In my country, whoever arrives, whoever arrives as a legal immigrant, has all the rights that Italian citizens have. So, there is no push from the state to bring these people to delinquency. But I'll ask you a question: If what you say is true, and therefore if the left is right, why in Sweden, which is the state we are talking about, did the centre-right win, in fact certifying the failure of years of the left? Probably because the Communists were wrong this time too.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, you do not have the courage to say that it is irregular immigration that has caused the spread of increasingly dangerous criminal gangs in Europe. Sweden, Germany, Belgium, France, Italy: There are more and more networks of delinquency, often involving very young people who are the protagonists of fights, dealing, vandalism and even murders and attacks. This criminality is the result of years of do-goodism, of indiscriminate acceptance, of fake integration, of open doors. It is the collateral damage of the policies of the left, which still denies the obvious correlation between irregular immigration and crime. Suburbs that become ghettos of degradation and insecurity, territories that we lose and where the police struggle to enter, areas where laws and rules no longer exist. When will you understand that those who push for more immigration put the security of European citizens at risk?

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I am in my second term here. For years now, we have been in this Parliament denouncing the horror of the human rights situation in Iran. It is regrettable, however, that for the umpteenth time we avoid saying that it is an Islamic regime, which tramples on the rights and freedoms, starting with those of women. But left-wing feminists are silent, and I address you, who are silent for fear of losing their votes. Yes, because that's the reason. If the European Union does not start from this assumption, it is as if it turns its back on women, political dissidents and those in prison subjected to isolation and torture. Let us not forget, moreover, the persecution of minorities by the Iranian regime, including Christians, Kurds and Baha'is, all victims of ethnic and religious discrimination. We cannot, therefore, condemn Iran without mentioning in the slightest the Islamic context on which the moral laws and repression carried out by the regime are based. Yet no one here has mentioned once that the regime is Islamic. In the background, there remains a huge question: Apart from pointless resolutions, what is Europe doing in the face of the terror imposed by Iran?

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we are here to discuss how to deal with the demographic challenges facing the European Union. As you herd in the dark, let's look around: Europe is already changing face. Mohammed is already the most used name for children in Brussels, Oslo, Berlin and England. In France, almost 30% of new births involve the use of names of Muslim origin. In Molenbeek, Brussels, of the top ten most common names of newborns, nine are Muslims. The Europe we know today will no longer exist. The future that awaits us will be characterized by a panorama consisting of minarets and Islamic veils everywhere. European Judeo-Christian roots will be replaced by cultures that do not belong to us. An Islamized Europe for Muslims is a dream, a nightmare for us. What does Europe do? It pretends not to see and, indeed, with its policies favors immigration and therefore substitution.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, today, the day after Donald Trump took office, there are long faces here in the European Parliament, faces of people who are shocked by the inauguration speech. But what did he ever say? He said all the right things that we can share and that we should do too. For example, Trump talks about repatriating irregular immigrants: Instead, here the left is talking about giving away citizenships. Talk about defending national borders: instead, in Europe we had someone like Matteo Salvini who risked jail for defending European borders. Talk about using all available energy resources, including oil and gas: Here, on the other hand, we are moving forward with the Green Deal that is sinking businesses. It is contrary to ideology. woke: Here, in Brussels, we are succumbing to political correctness. He says that American citizens will be able to buy the car they want: Right thing, but the Europeans don't, because here you continue with the obligation of the electric car from 2035. In short, on the one hand Trump's revolution, on the other an embarrassing immobility.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen: women to be abused and subjugated. It is the vision that is spreading more and more among young people in Islamic communities. I wonder: When will you open your eyes? I want to read you the dramatic testimony of a young Englishwoman, one of the victims of group violence on New Year's Eve in Piazza del Duomo in Milan. He said: There were 40 disgusting men harassing me. I had to fight to survive. These are his words. Group harassment by immigrants of Islamic faith against a dozen girls according to an Arab rite called "taharrush gamea". This is not the first time: How to forget the horror of New Year's Eve 2016 in Cologne? Then we had similar cases in Hamburg, Zurich, Salzburg, Helsinki and then again in Milan, on New Year's Eve, in 2022. You are pretending nothing because you should mea culpa about the damage of immigration and failed integration in so many European countries. When will you understand that we are facing an emergency?

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the first plenary day of the first plenary session in 2025. So, we are talking about very important issues. And what is the priority for you? The priority is the record heat of 2024, the warmest year on record. So for you, again and again, it is the call for climate action to combat global warming – this is the title of the debate. What does it mean, however, in essence? More Green Deal and therefore more mazzate to the European economy. You really don't want to realize that you're making a blatant mistake. But, I say: Have you ever looked at the numbers? No, because Europe accounts for just 8-9 % of global emissions: Even if we reset ours, nothing would change. And yet, to be the first in the class, you have imposed ideological rules that no one follows, let alone China. In the meantime, however, you will remove funds from businesses, health and education. For what? Not at all. And in the meantime, did you know that global coal consumption reached its all-time high in 2024? Yes, because China consumes and produces more coal than anyone else, burning one in three tons of coal extracted in the world to power its own power plants. And then there is the electric car, your obsession, driven by a Europe that is scourged to give Beijing global dominance driven by coal. A masterpiece of contradictions. You will not convince us with this exasperated and almost grotesque climate terrorism. It's your fault what's happening, all yours.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the repression of women in Iran is ruthless: Arbitrary arrests, brutal violence and even executions are commonplace. Women's rights are being systematically crushed because of religious motivations linked to Islam. It is crucial to emphasize that the engine of this terror is radical Islam and the spread of sharia. It is unfortunate to note that in this House the Left is hesitant to recognise this clearly: I see the benches of the left completely empty. Then, I don't know, they probably don't care what's happening to women in Iran. Condemning the Iranian regime is a necessary step, but it is not enough. We must also firmly oppose the imposition of the Islamic headscarf, which remains a symbol of oppression for women. And feminists: Where are those who fill the squares, often by the way, to denounce the patriarchy? Why don't they take to the streets to raise their voices against certain Islamic communities that treat women as objects? Why are they silent in the face of the atrocities suffered by Iranian women? Why are they absent from this House today?

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we proudly say 'no' to Ursula von der Leyen. "No" to this majority, "no" to this European Commission. We say this because the world is changing direction but the European Union, inexplicably, insists on wrong policies that are weakening it. In the United States, with Trump's victory, the aim is to stop conflicts, to put an end to political climate madness, to streamline the oppressive bureaucratic machine and to reduce the fiscal burden. In Brussels, on the contrary, it pushes to fuel wars, to multiply policies green Disastrous and to impose an obsessive regulation that suffocates businesses and families. Entire sectors are being ruined, such as the European car industry, which is already on its knees. We have already had the von der Leyen experience and it turned out to be a failure, as confirmed by the voters themselves. Europe deserves better. Europe must change course. Europe must change now.

Thank you for your question. Look, what do I do? I certainly do too little but at the moment too little is risking my life. I am under guard, I live under guard because I dared to say in this plenary, among other things, that the Islamic veil is not a symbol of freedom but of submission. But I am not afraid and therefore, precisely because I believe in this battle, I will continue to say what I think, with good peace of those like you, to whom this speech annoys, because you lose votes.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, every day the news is filled with heartbreaking stories. But there is an even more painful truth: When the victims are Islamic girls beaten, abused or even killed, a shameful silence falls. So I wonder, why do you close your eyes? Why do you ignore the broken lives of young women forced into violence just because they want to take off their headscarves, want to live freely, wear make-up or love whoever they want? I find this absolutely intolerable. These girls cry freedom but only find indifference. And the response of the left, feminists and even this institution, what is it? Silence, censorship. I say, instead, shame! It's time to stop hiding these atrocities so as not to disturb your comfortable tale of positive integration. One cannot turn a blind eye to the problem of Islamic patriarchy just so as not to displease certain communities. And do you know why you do it? For electoral reasons: You're trampling on women's rights to get votes, and that's unworthy, indecent behavior! We are at a crucial crossroads: What kind of Europe do we want to build? I do not want a Europe where women are submissive, where sharia law finds space, where the Islamic veil becomes the symbol of our future! I want a free Europe, where women can live without being oppressed, without being reduced to objects! No more silence! No more compromises on women's skin: It's time to raise your voice and fight for your freedom.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, while the world is moving in a completely different direction, as evidenced by Trump's victory, you continue, even at COP29, to pursue eco-fundamentalism and mind-blowing strategies of economic degrowth. When you realize that your policies green Does it only lead to job losses? When will you understand that imposing ever higher climate targets makes no sense, considering that Europe contributes only 7-8 % of global emissions? When will you understand that if 75% of emissions come from Asia and developing countries, that's where we need to act? When will you admit that fueling terror with phrases like "climate catastrophe" or "planet on fire" makes you, as it were, unbelievable? When will you reverse policies that lead to the demolition of our industry, effectively handing us over to China? Wake up before it's too late.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Trump did not win, he won! With good peace to all those on the left who have been gnawing for several days now; You should know that in pharmacies in Italy practically finished the Maalox, because all the communists went there with stomach pain. Your arrogance is also over, so much so that today we are here to discuss relations between Europe and the United States of America. Too bad we do this while we have hearings going on, where someone like Ribera, who is running to be Vice President of the Commission, said beautiful words about Trump, of the type that "he is illiterate". In short, there are all the foundations for solid relationships and healthy communication between the different institutions! You have lost, you have lost Kamala, you have lost the Democrats, but they have lost your policies, your policies on immigration and the environment, your proximity to China, your language. woke. Yet here you continue to perch on the same identical positions. Stop: Trump’s victory is not a defeat – even if you see it as a nightmare – it is actually a great, great, opportunity.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the European institutions have decided to entrust Enrico Letta with the task of writing a report on the future of Europe. Eh, nothing, it already makes you laugh like that. Letta is the former leader of the Democratic Party, former premier of the left in Italy, the leading face of European socialists: represents virtually all those responsible for the disaster of the European Union in recent years, among other things soundly defeated in Italy. For Letta, the green transition is indispensable and we need to accompany farmers, businesses, the car industry: This is exactly what the majority did not do. Indeed, thanks to you, these sectors are in crisis. Letta reminds us that Europe must not give in to its leading role in manufacturing: But it is precisely because of the constraints, taxes and bureaucracy that Europe wants that we find ourselves in this situation. Enrico Letta: one who has a strange concept of democracy and wanted us to say that the cordon sanitaires are fundamental to stopping the right. He, precisely he, who reiterated that more regular migrants are needed for development, going against several countries, including socialists, who finally say that immigration must be stopped. In short, do we really want to be taught by Letta, the one who says that the former Minister Fornero was an excellent minister when instead he only destroyed our country?

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Europe is fighting Islamic extremism in words and then supporting it in practice. We have long denounced the incredible series of funding to realities close to Islamic radicalism. For example, the Commission recently announced the renewal of the Erasmus+ programme with the Islamic University of Science and Technology in Gaziantep, Turkey, a university that paid homage, speaking of martyrdom, to the Hamas leader killed at the end of July, a university that had rectors who spread radical Islamist ideas. In addition, 1.7 million euros were granted between 2014 and 2022 to the Islamic University of Gaza with the cooperation program, a university founded by the ideologue who built Hamas. Over the years we have also seen money to Turkish NGOs close to the Muslim Brotherhood and anti-Semitic compositions. Why does the money of European citizens end up in radical Islamist realities? Why do we finance those who cannot stand our values and our freedom? You are handing us over to Islamic extremists!

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Iraq wants to impose an Islamic law to legalize paedophilia. They want to amend a 1959 law by legalizing child marriage, lowering the age of women to marry from 18 to 9 years. That sucks! Already today, 30% of women in Iraq are married under the age of 18. We're talking about legalizing the rape of girls. Five days ago the news of a woman kidnapped by ISIS in Iraq at the age of eleven, in 2014, moved to the Gaza Strip and forced to marry a man as a child. She was fortunately rescued by the Israeli army. But there is someone who really thinks that a dialogue with this mob is possible. Shame on you! Just shame! Long live freedom! Long live the freedom of women!

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the obligation since 2035 to sell only electric cars is utter madness. It is a short-sightedness of the European Union that leads the car industry to a very serious crisis. In 2023, the companies in the sector that closed were 13% more than in the previous year: closed factories, layoffs, unsold cars and corporate crises. Once the left was concerned with the poor and the working people: Well, the poor can't afford an electric car. As far as workers are concerned, there are 13 million workers in the sector: 750,000 jobs are at risk, all sacrificed on the altar of peace. green. The only ones to laugh and celebrate are the Chinese, with whom someone thought they could compete and that to produce our green There are more coal-fired power plants. Well, really compliments: A huge masterpiece! It's phenomenal!

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, migrants are no longer resources and no one is talking about open doors in Europe anymore. It is the total failure of leftist policies, open doors, immigration and so on. Everyone, but everyone, in Europe, closes the doors to foreigners. There are those in France who want to pass laws to make arrivals more complicated. There are those who, like Germany, wake up and claim the right to send immigrants back home. Sweden has recently launched a package for the "re-immigration" of non-EU citizens. And the Netherlands also wants to suspend the right to asylum. Not even on the left they talk more about wanting to encourage immigration. The only nation to put a minister on trial for defending its borders and armoring its own country is Italy, with Matteo Salvini facing years in prison for doing what everyone in Europe wants to do today, namely defending borders. Here the danger is not the reintroduction of border control, but a Europe unable to take note of what is obvious to all: Immigration must be curbed seriously and drastically. Enough goodness, enough welcome at all costs, enough illegal immigrants.

(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, my thoughts and solidarity go out to the people of Emilia Romagna, in Italy, who have been hit by bad weather at this time. Debating the consequences of drought, floods and extreme phenomena is important and it is the duty of Europe and the States to take care of the affected territories, but pointing the finger exclusively on man and climate change also takes away responsibility for those who, certain works, just do not want them. When it comes to drought, we have to go in the opposite direction to the ecologists' belief. To combat these phenomena we need more people, we need more jobs and more investments, we need more structures built on the territories, we need water basins, which environmentalists often oppose, while against floods we need containment tanks, mobile barriers and cleaning of the banks. And here, too, the left is often opposed. As for farmers, in recent years Europe has outrageously blamed them, pointing to them as enemies of the climate, when instead they are very important for the territories. Especially in these difficult times, they must be supported, because they are the ones who work the land, who take care of it – the real guardians of the territories. Ideology is enough: Seriousness and more responsibility are needed, including from the European institutions, to help the affected populations.