Speeches

(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the end of extreme environmentalism, the repatriation of illegal immigrants, the end of the obligation to buy only electric cars, the defence of borders, the eradication of ideology woke and peace in Ukraine and the Middle East, with the promise of a new golden age. These were the key phrases that President Trump uttered yesterday during the inauguration. Common sense phrases, which I believe every European would like to hear here too. What does Europe do? Exactly the opposite, that is, he continues to talk about stopping traditional engines, insists on the pushed Green Deal, despite the loss of hundreds of jobs, does not want a plan to re-immigrate immigrants who have committed crimes and continues to support the ideology wokeincreasingly insane and far from reality. I therefore call on the commissioners and bureaucrats to listen carefully to what President Trump has said, because this wind of change is blowing strongly and you will not be able to stop it. We too adopt the Trump recipe and make Europe great again.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, today in Italy we are witnessing an unseemly spectacle: Thousands of workers forced home, traffic jams, cancelled trains, blocked subways, paralyzed cities and millions of euros in damages. And why all this? Because Landini and four left-wing unions, instead of defending and representing the Italian workers, have decided to become the armed wing of the PD in the hope, perhaps, of winning a candidacy in Parliament in the next elections. These trade unionists are ridiculing a right that millions of workers have fought for, making it a mere tool of political propaganda for their electoral interests. Think about it: more than 1 600 strikes in 2024 alone. But where was Landini when the Green Deal was passed here in this House and left millions of workers at home? I wonder where Landini was when Europe destroyed Europe.automotive Italian and where it was when our factories were relocated to China. Then, perhaps, instead of parading at the Gay Pride with Schlein and comrades, go to the workers who today risk their place because of the policies of that same left of which Landini has now become the best ally.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, to reduce the gap on innovation and productivity, increasing investment and growth, supporting businesses in the transition, promoting energy autonomy and food sovereignty in Europe. This is the simple recipe for common sense contained in the Budapest Declaration on European Competitiveness. In short, we could say that Europe must do exactly the opposite of what it has done so far. Yes, because the enlightened progressives of the left have so far done nothing but weaken our industry and our competitiveness, wasting billions of euros in radical environmentalism and obtaining, as the only result, unemployment, deindustrialization, a dark future for the new generations. Well, we had to wait for the so vituperated and dangerous sovereignist Orban to finally hear about a European industrial strategy. I therefore really hope that Europe will finally put an end to the mad season of madness. green, starting with the stop to traditional engines.

(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in Lombardy 46 % of the prison population is non-EU, with peaks of over 60 % in the Milanese prison of San Vittore. An explosive situation, where the work of the prison police is always made difficult by really complex conditions, as I had the opportunity to verify in person at the last visit made to the prison of Brescia, where I brought my closeness to the officers, unfairly accused of violence and racism by a certain left as good-natured as hypocritical, because these continuous attacks on our police are not only an affront to them, but to the very legitimacy of the State. So I turn to my colleague, Mrs Salis, and tell her that the only way to make prisons more livable is not to abolish them, leaving criminals out and about, but to make immigrants serve their sentences in their countries of origin. The only possible ‘prison-clearing’ is repatriation – Europe does its part.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, last week, when I entered Parliament, I literally felt like I was attending a funeral: Long faces everywhere. And all this just because the American people democratically chose Trump. Today, however, I believe that democracy in this House is a bit one-way for the European left, because it is beautiful when your friends win and instead it is in danger when they lose. I, as a European, feel very happy today, especially I feel more confident with a leader like Trump, willing to defend the West and above all willing to talk about peace. With Trump, we turn the page: Enough of Ideologies woke, green and political correctness, all ideologies that are also sinking our Europe. But now it's up to us, so: Make Europe Great Again!

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in recent years you have established the minimum length of clams, the standard size of apples and the minimum diameter of lemons. We have always opposed, unheard, these absurd self-defeating rules, which however cost small businesses almost 100,000 euros and medium-sized enterprises over 700,000 euros: These are invaluable resources that are being snatched away from innovation and development at a crucial time for Europe's competitiveness. And so with what courage do you come today to talk to us about bureaucratization, after you have encouraged the delirium of omnipotence of your bureaucrats, who have obsessively regulated every single aspect of the productive sector? Who knows how to do and who doesn't know how to do the norm? But Italy is full of excellences that know how to do and know how to do well. Then Europe should make Europe only where it is needed and leave companies free to operate without unnecessary regulatory burdens. Only in this way can we overcome and overcome the challenges of globalization.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, under the guise of protecting democracy, Brussels has in fact introduced the Chinese model into Europe, thus limiting freedom of expression and criticism. You presented the Digital Services Act as the guarantor of users’ fundamental rights. And yet, a few days ago a video of mine was removed from the network. A video in which, with clean and calm words, I criticized Europe for having spent millions of euros to give, with Erasmus courses, to minors courses to become drag queens or LGBT activists. Thus, zealous political correctness activists have been able to intervene to remove these uncomfortable truths, damaging my right to inform, but above all the right of citizens to be informed. So, you fill your mouths with noble principles, but the truth is that you want to silence your political opponents in order to impose the dictatorship of one thought, while knowing that it itself is the real enemy of democracy and freedom.

(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Europe is on the brink of the abyss, people are not able to pay the tripled mortgage installment because of the increase in interest rates. Companies are unable to access credit because the cost of money has also increased exponentially. You have compromised the business competitiveness of our industries with your pseudo policies green and every day conflicts arise at the gates of our house. And in the face of all this, you worry about fascism that died and was buried eighty years ago and resurrected only by you, as every year on the eve of April 25. But with what courage you speak of dictatorships, precisely you who in the last five years have forced European citizens to renovate their homes whenever you want, to buy the car you choose, to put on the plate what you like and to celebrate only the anniversaries established by you. More than democratic Europe! It is here, in the European institutions, that the real danger of a dictatorship, the dictatorship of unique thought, lurks. A betrayal of the project of the founding fathers who wanted us united in diversity and not all equal and homologated. You are turning the dream of a Europe of peoples into the nightmare of the European Soviet Union. But we'll stop you.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, what you call a social Europe has in fact become a Europe of waste. You have spent 3.5 billion on the integration of Roma and Sinti, yet no one sees this integration. You have invested rivers of money for women's rights, yet in many communities there is still the drama of child brides. You have spent a lot of money on schooling, on work projects, but the results - you admit it yourself - are disappointing. Too many of them want to continue to live in the nomadic camps, often a den of undisturbed illegality, because not even the police can enter and too many want to continue to live on gimmicks, begging, pickpocketing, as the events of the Milan underground show me. The truth is that your benevolent model of inclusion, that is, money on the palate without asking for anything in return, has failed and will never be realized without the will of the nomads to integrate and to respect our rules. I saw this personally in Gallarate, in the province of Varese, where a Sinti family, following an eviction, occupied the social home assigned to a disabled person who was hospitalized. So how do you justify all this in the face of millions of Italians who every day fight against the cost of living because of the inflation that Europe did not know, or worse, did not want to govern? On June 8th and 9th we have an important appointment: change this Europe and bring common sense back to these buildings.

(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, it has been shown that a classic car must drive for 46 years in order to match the carbon impact generated by the production of a single electric car. Yet, this House is under the illusion of changing the world by turning off the engine of historic vehicles forever, a symbol of our culture, our history and our identity, but above all vehicles that pollute much less than their electrical substitutes throughout their life cycle. I'm not in. I will continue to fight to abolish the absurd halt in 2035 to the sale of traditional engines, because it is unfair, illiberal and even an enemy of the environment. Enough with the impositions, we save the endothermic engines of our cars and our motorcycles. If, therefore, there is a man, a woman, a young person, an adult or an elderly person outside this House who loves motors, know that I am here to defend his passion, his right to choose and above all his freedom.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, five years ago a petrol-powered car cost EUR 15 000, today the electricity equivalent costs EUR 40 000. Among the many Eurofollies voted by this left majority, surely the stop to endothermic engines in 2035 is the most unjust unpopular and unjust. It is an elitist measure that only a privileged few who live in the LTZs so dear to left-wing administrations will be able to afford. But the reality, ladies and gentlemen, is quite different outside this House. The majority of citizens, in fact, use the car as a necessary and primary asset, without which they cannot go to work. Well, colleagues, unfortunately it is not the air that is polluted here because of car emissions, but only the ideological attitude that is leading to the dismantling of our entire manufacture and with it thousands of jobs in favor of foreign countries such as China, which thanks to these short-sighted policies will invade us with electric cars and even endothermic engines produced without... (the President took the floor from the speaker)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, this House is increasingly being used to place those who guarantee our security in the dock: Criticizing the work of law enforcement has now become a habit for a left that has run out of proposals. It's time to say enough! It is enough to attack those who protect us every day and then play the good guys with criminals and potential terrorists. Learn to respect those who guard our territories with sacrifice, often putting their lives at risk. It is too convenient to turn to the police when a thief enters your house, only to denigrate them in public to please four of Dad's children. I am using this House today to take a clear and clear position, which many in Italy have not yet had the courage to take. I'm with law enforcement!

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, this morning, as I was preparing my speech on this very subject, I took a look at the weather. Well I found that in the different areas of our Europe, in Palermo we have the beauty of 17 degrees, blessed them!, while in Rovaniemi, in Finland, alas, the temperature is less than a degree. It is an incontrovertible fact, dear colleagues of the Left and the Greens, who call you so much friends of the climate, that our continent has extremely different climatic areas within it. It does not take a meteorologist to understand it, just common sense... With this directive, on the other hand, you originally wanted to oblige all European citizens to renovate their homes out of their own pockets, otherwise the property would lose its value. These are concerns which I have already raised in my 100 amendments, which you have rejected, although I am pleased to note that many of my proposals have been taken up in the final text, but that is not enough! Too many uncertainties still loom over the home of the Italians and this is yet another demonstration of the abyss to which the new religion has come greenHowever, it will leave nothing green except the pockets of the Italians if this left-wing majority does not change soon.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Europe wants more rights and equality for all women, but it does not realise that today the real battle is to defend the achievements of women that we can no longer take for granted in the face of the progressive Islamisation of our cities. A few days ago, in Italy, a 13-year-old girl was abused by a herd of young Egyptians. A chilling episode, but not isolated, as confirmed by incontrovertible and chilling data, which to a certain political part it is convenient not to see, which tell us that in Italy 40% of sexual crimes are committed by foreigners. Crimes matured in a cultural context that considers the woman inferior and submissive to the man, condemned to suffer the imposition of the veil, early marriages, female genital mutilation, phenomena in worrying increase right here in Europe. Dear leftists, don't be fooled. To defend parity, it is not enough to change the name of the Chamber of Deputies by adding the word deputate. It is not enough to be a feminist only against Italian rapists, but to look the other way when it comes to raping immigrants. It is much more useful to fight together the radical Islamist ideology that threatens the security and freedom of our women. As Lega we have tabled a motion to prevent any European funding to associations promoting the use of the veil in Europe. Sinistre, you will support us or, once again, in the name of myopic goodness, you will continue to forage for those who are truly enemies of women's rights and dignity.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we strongly and unambiguously condemn all forms of extremism, but we do not accept the sinister attempt of the left to assimilate all the voters of the centre-right to a small group of nostalgics of the twenty years. On one thing, however, you are right: The danger of fascism is real, and it is in our midst. I find, in fact, fascist trying to prevent an internationally renowned conductor from taking the stage of a theater, and then insulting her from the audience only because she is not politically aligned to the left; I find fascist the unique thought of those who, behind the shield of political correctness, condemn and repress anyone who expresses themselves in dissent, labeling it from time to time with dangerous stereotypes such as "homophobic", "sexist", "masculinist", "Nazi", and sometimes exposing it to media gourmand, disdainful of the potential consequences. Finally, I find it fascist to force families who do not arrive at the end of the month to buy a new electric car, or to make very expensive building renovations that they cannot afford. The danger of fascism exists but you represent it in the most subtle way, with your coercive policies masquerading as noble objectives. Once the color of fascism was black, today it is black. green The left-wing eco-Taliban.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, our cars are in danger well before 2035 and the forced conversion to electricity, which is so popular here in Europe. With the new proposal for a regulation of the European Commission on the end of life of vehicles, in fact, you continue to want to complicate the lives of ordinary people who, unlike you, can not afford to change a car per season to boast of being greener. According to Article 26 of this Regulation, the owner of a vehicle is obliged to scrap it if its repair proves to be uneconomical, as is written in black and white in Annex 1, Article 2, under penalty of penalties. According to your short-sighted mindset it is therefore more economically sustainable, and also environmentally, to buy a new car, perhaps electric, rather than repairing the old one. So, before turning off the engines of our cars, put a hand on your conscience and ask yourself at what price you are selling our future to Chinese electric.

Mr President, Mr High Representative, ladies and gentlemen, China is a danger to Europe, and we must make this clear. As COVID-19 has shown us, this country is not a reliable and transparent partner but, on the contrary, an enemy willing to cause a global disaster in order to protect its interests. Now history repeats itself with the green transition: China holds us in its hands with batteries, microchips and rare earths and at the same time invades our market with cheaply produced electric cars, also thanks to state aid from the communist dictatorship. Italy has just abandoned the Silk Road memorandum, distancing itself from the Chinese regime, and it is time for Europe to strike a blow if it does not want to succumb. In recent days, after its first and only mission to Beijing, the European Commission denounced the serious imbalances in trade between Europe and China and even announced an investigation into Chinese dumping. All right! If we had known that President von der Leyen needed a trip to Beijing to see what the League has been saying loudly in this Parliament for five years, we would have gladly paid for this trip, but a long time ago!

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, 2023 is not yet over, but we already have 105 women killed in Italy alone. The last in order of time is Giulia Cecchettin, brutally murdered the day before her graduation by the ex-boyfriend. Our condolences go out to his family and to all the families of the victims. But that they are not empty words, but a concrete commitment so that this no longer happens, a commitment that in Italy we are carrying out at all institutional levels. It is in fact in these hours the approval of the strengthened Red Code, which strengthens the prevention tools, while in the Lombardy Region the legislative process for the introduction of the crime of double murder against those who kill a woman in an advanced state of pregnancy has been initiated. Good practices, which we call for the European Parliament to promote in all Member States, even if we are aware that a law cannot save lives if we do not intervene first in schools, educating young people to respect. Exactly as our government plans to do. Finally, yes, we need to break down patriarchal society. Dear Leftists, you heard me right: For once, we agree with you. Let's break down the patriarchy: But the real one, that of fundamentalist Islam which, thanks also to your complicit goodness, instead of wanting free and emancipated women, often wants them submissive, veiled and, sometimes, child brides.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, our companies are ahead of the European institutions, which should stimulate their growth and competitiveness, instead of curbing it with rules and constraints, as is now all too often the case, every day with measures linked to the green turnaround. Our companies are ahead because they already know for themselves that attention to the environment is a factor of competitiveness and that we need to invest in the transition green to stay in the market. Our companies are ahead because they are asking to be able to do so with adequate incentives and timing, not with absurd diktats that impoverish our productive fabric and that risk transforming Europe from an aspiring world power to serve the most polluting economies in the world. To the entrepreneurs who fight every day to defend the primacy and quality of our productions, I say that they are not alone and that in this Chamber there are still those who fight to free their energies for a better future.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, left-wing associations and parties in Belgium are pushing for a law that prohibits criticism of Islam, a law that would erase freedom of expression, handing us over directly to those who want to turn Europe into a branch in Tehran. In the ghetto neighborhoods of our cities, in the shadow of mosques funded by fundamentalists, more than a generation of immigrants is growing up who, at best, do not want to integrate and, at worst, kill us at the cry of " Allahu akbar". The left, which accuses us of being Nazis and racists because we denounce the risks of indiscriminate reception, today must apologize to Italian and European citizens, deprived of the right to live in peace and safety in their own home. And so, dear progressive colleagues who call Hamas terrorists "partisans", avoid at least inappropriately talking about Islamophobia just as the nightmare of anti-Semitism is resurfacing in Europe, but the real one.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would first of all like to address the lefts in this House, but they are obviously less and less present among ordinary people and in the governments of the European nations. After you have impoverished families, doubling mortgages, after you have decided to force them to buy an expensive electric car, perhaps produced in China, and after you have forced them into debt to renovate their home, under penalty of its own devaluation, you only have these ideological crusades, in the name of the LGBT lobby, against democratically elected governments that oppose your politically correct. Fortunately, this Parliament remains one of your last forts. Election after election, all over Europe citizens are resoundingly rejecting the political agenda based on asterisks and the criminalization of the family, as demonstrated by the surreal discussion carried out in Italy on a harmless television commercial. Minority rights are an important and sensitive issue that cannot and must not be exploited politically to pretextually attack opponents, as you are doing today, in a desperate attempt to divert the attention of European citizens from your increasingly obvious political failures.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Europe is not under the illusion that: With the new Critical Matters Act, we will certainly be able to create a European supply chain of these elements that are indispensable for the green transition, but we will not be able to free ourselves from dependence on China, Turkey and the countries of Africa, from which we import 98% of the rare earths. Already today, in fact, with the stop to the endothermic engine not yet operational and with the "green houses" directive not yet approved, we are tied hands and feet to these countries that do not recognize our democratic values, that do not care about the defense of the environment and that are willing to do anything to grow at the expense of Europe. And from tomorrow we will be even more vulnerable. Demand for critical materials is set to increase exponentially: Only the need for lithium, used for electric car batteries, will grow up to 89 times by 2050. The geopolitical risks for Europe are very high: If we want to continue to decide on our future, the only solution is to slow down Brussels' mad race towards climate neutrality by revising the absurd timing imposed by the green directive. Environmental sustainability is an objective that we share, provided, however, that it is not our development, our independence and, above all, our freedom that pays the price.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, everything has changed since the killing of Mahsa Amini in Iran. Unfortunately, nothing has changed in Europe. While in Tehran people die, Brussels has quickly forgotten all the Saman Abbas of Europe and continues to promote the veil as a symbol of freedom and emancipation in official communications, thus trampling on the battle of Iranian women against what they instead believe to be the emblem of female submission and thus sending a very dangerous signal to all fundamentalists living in our democratic countries. We cannot be outraged by the rights denied in Iran if we let the Islamist drift trample on our Western culture and values. We have reached the point where in Italy the acquittal of an immigrant who beat his wife to death was demanded, justifying years of beating as a cultural fact. If we continue like this, by taking backward steps on our conquests, Iran will unfortunately seem less and less distant to us.

(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, when our local administrators try to apply in the territories the crazy and ideological measures decided in the buildings of Brussels, the results are inevitably disastrous and only the citizens are always at the expense of them. In Piedmont, for example, 140 000 workers and families who own relatively recent cars – for example, cars that are only eight years old, Euro 5 diesels registered until 2015 – have risked losing their right to mobility and, therefore, their sacrosanct right to work. Fortunately in Italy there is a center-right government that, thanks to the strong pressing The League has averted this European absurdity, postponing with a decree the blockade of Euro 5 diesel cars in Piedmont and throughout the Po basin, thus allowing the engine of the Italian economy to continue to run. This government, light years away from living room environmentalism, will always defend the pockets of Italians, because environmental sustainability cannot exist without that... (The President took the floor from the speaker).