What Isabella spoke about.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the sudden rise in energy prices, also due to the European Union's green policies, is holding back the recovery and is likely to have serious repercussions on businesses and citizens. In Italy, despite the corrections introduced by the government, this year households will spend an average of 300 euros more on electricity and gas. In the production sector, expensive energy jeopardizes our newfound competitiveness, while the rise in fuels is already penalizing many driving sectors of "Made in Italy". This situation calls into question a very ambitious, but certainly unrealistic, energy transition model. How many companies with small profit margins will be able to invest in conversion? But above all, is it right that, while the whole world pollutes, it is only Europeans who have to pay the price of the green transition? Europe reflects on these contradictions and pursues its climate goals with less ideology and more pragmatism.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the European Commission has decided that in just 14 years' time we will no longer be able to produce internal combustion cars in Europe. We in the League are not prejudicially opposed to the Green Deal However, we believe that the energy transition must take place in a practicable and, above all, progressive way. In fact, overnight armies of workers cannot be converted into computer technicians capable of programming an electric car and even the vast chain that produces components for combustion engines – 100 companies with 7 000 employees only in the province of Varese, Italy’s leader in this sector – cannot wake up one morning and start producing software. The real risk is the closure of many companies, hundreds of thousands of unemployed, with the paradox that most consumers will not be able to afford an expensive electric vehicle. The Commission then slows down this mad race towards climate neutrality and puts its policies back at the centre. green Measure and common sense.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, the scarcity of raw materials – wood, plastics, metals – is hitting our real economy hard, penalising the restart. The environment is certainly important but, while here we discuss transition, out there factories stop because there are no microchips and construction stops because cement costs too much. Stocks are finite, logistics do not support demand and prices rise rapidly impacting citizens. In a nutshell, our recovery moves away as China recovers. We have been asking for months where Europe is. We do not live by rhetoric alone on the ecological transition, we must start again from production in Europe because we can no longer limit ourselves to importing. As we see, dependence costs entrepreneurs and citizens dearly, we must avoid the demonization of entire sectors such as steel and plastic, because without them we would not have goods for many daily activities. Finally, we must think - and the League has often asked for this - of a Green Deal that in this crisis dialogues with the business world rather than accusing it or hitting it with unnecessary taxes. Without quick answers, all of us consumers will be the new victims of this crisis. All these costs that companies cannot bear will be passed on to us, with the result of blocking the recovery, work and impoverishing the citizens who have already paid dearly for the pandemic.