What Pietro spoke about.

16 Sep

2026

IT Speech

The impact of the implementation of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) on SMEs, its administrative burden and challenges for the European Single Market (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the PPWR is perfect. But I want to break the boxes to the Commissioner because, one, the PPWR, SUP, COP and Critical Raw Material They say four different things and that's already a problem. Second, harmonisation in Europe: Many recycled materials have different definitions in different countries. Last week I was at a lithium recycling plant: It is easier for th…

17 Jun

2026

IT Speech

Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed (A10-0175/2026 - Jessica Polfjärd) (vote)

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(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in my opinion, it is a decision that we must take, given climate change and all the problems we have, it is very important to continue the issue of NGTs because they will be the solution for the European people and for agricultural production, without using and reducing the use of pesticides and other issues and addressing the problem of lack of water and s…

9 Feb

2026

EN Speech

World Cancer Day (debate)

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Madam President, last legislature, I was blessed with being part of BECA – so the cancer strategy, the European cancer strategy – and I studied a lot and I learnt a lot. There are a lot of things we can do to obtain results, and when I say we, I mean the European Parliament and the European institutions. There are some very technical ones: for example, do something about radon, the radioactive nat…

27 Nov

2024

IT Speech

Recommendation on smoke- and aerosol-free environments (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, point one: As Becker's shadow rapporteur, there are two key concepts: Risk reduction and scientific support. So, if we want to ban all these things here, however, they must give me scientific support because otherwise it does not exist. Let us remember very well that banning some of these behaviours - and let us remember that man is still linked to caffeine and …

8 Oct

2024

IT Speech

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

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, my colleagues have already said practically everything on the subject. But I wanted to remind everyone that this is just a little piece, a piece of the mosaic, because there are many other things in the Green Deal. Let's start immediately from what is the European electricity distribution system, which is already as fruity as it is now, and we will add a billion…

18 Sep

2024

IT Speech

The devastating floods in Central and Eastern Europe, the loss of lives and the EU’s preparedness to act on such disasters exacerbated by climate change (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, first of all, my closeness and condolences to the family of firefighter Ciccorelli, who died heroically trying to save lives in Foggia, of all places, so we are really close to his family. Then, I have to admit – and here I am not talking from a political point of view, but with my green and environmental friends – that a very important climate change is actu…

6 Feb

2024

IT Speech

Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, tomorrow is an important day for European agriculture and an important step towards sustainable agriculture. I know that there are many opponents of precision production methods in the European Parliament and that they are deliberately confused with GMOs. But GMOs are fundamentally different from new genomic techniques, also because, guys, there were already GMO…

5 Feb

2024

IT Speech

Situation of prisoners in Hungarian jails, including the case of Ilaria Salis (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to say, first of all, that this debate on Ilaria Salis should not even have taken place. We think that this is an instrumental request of the left, whose real purpose is not a humanitarian concern for the prisoner, but an opportunity to attack Hungary and Italy in an atmosphere of electoral campaign, as demonstrated by the attacks by the Presiden…

21 Nov

2023

IT Speech

Packaging and packaging waste (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, then the ECR Group obviously agrees with the objective of reducing the amount of material used and, above all, from my point of view, of reducing the volume going to landfills and incinerators. This is important for the whole of Europe, both for the environment but also from an economic point of view. On this regulation, as we discussed in the ENVI Committee,…

21 Nov

2023

EN Speech

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

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Mr President, we are all in agreement with our good friend Bas Eickhout – but he's not listening – regarding the need to reduce CO2 emissions on the heavy vehicles. But our approach is a pragmatic one, meaning that before we have very ambitious goals and then we do not reach them, we prefer to have very pragmatic goals that we make sure that all the Member States will reach. There are three points…

5 Oct

2023

IT Speech

Urban wastewater treatment (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, thank you to Mr Nils Torvalds, who is a great rapporteur on these matters. Most importantly, I was impressed by his personal experience of cancer. I, as shadow rapporteur of the BECA special committee, am convinced that air and water quality in Europe is key to reducing the number of cancer cases, so I am really on your side. From this point of view, there are t…

3 Oct

2023

IT Speech

Classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we all agree on the need to revise the CLP regulation, but there are a few points, and I turn to the Commissioner. One: Obligation to put all warning in the language of the country of destination. Why, instead of providing for Commission delegated acts to use the QR code, do we not do so immediately in the regulation using the QR code, so that we can pass all th…

13 Sep

2023

IT Speech

Reviewing the protection status of wolves and other large carnivores in the EU (topical debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, let us declassify the wolf. There are tens of thousands of attacks every year, not only on sheep, donkeys, goats and cows, but also on pets and dogs. By the way, Italy is particular, because if my dog bites a person it is suppressed by the authorities but if I shoot a wolf attacking a child I risk up to four years in prison because it is criminal. The aid to …

11 Jul

2023

IT Speech

Nature restoration (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the Nature Restoration Regulation has been rejected in three committees, AGRI, PECH and ENVI, we should ask ourselves why. The file provides for a constraint on new areas outside the Natura 2000 network – come to Italy to see what happens in Natura 2000 areas, abandoned because any kind of human activity is prohibited, they have become centres for drug dealing a…

13 Mar

2023

IT Speech

Energy performance of buildings (recast) (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Italy has given 110% tax cover to make the energy leap and in two years they have made fewer than 500 000 apartments. Now they are asking to make 9 million apartments in Italy in ten years. It will not happen, also because one of the things that happened is that the cost of insulated material and scaffolding has risen by 150% or 200%. And then, …

14 Feb

2023

EN Speech

CO2 emission standards for cars and vans (debate)

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Madam President, Vice—President Timmermans, as an entrepreneur, I really do believe that we should have left it to the market, to companies, to decide what was the best technological solution to solve the problem. We are all in favour of reducing emissions, of course, but we, as the ECR Group, have some problems. Number one: the workplace, how many jobs can be cancelled by this? What is Europe doi…

23 Nov

2022

IT Speech

Protection of livestock farming and large carnivores in Europe (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I have just returned from a series of visits to the Alps following hundreds of reports of predation by large carnivores of sheep, goats, donkeys and cows, as you know, but lately also of companion dogs, in the vicinity of human settlements. I have observed gruesome episodes, the worst of which on a predation of sheep, about ten, some of which were …

4 Oct

2022

EN Speech

Key objectives for the CITES CoP19 meeting in Panama (debate)

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Madam President, I have a very practical question for the Commission, and regarding this topic, I will present a separate vote on a paragraph 39, which bans the import of a hunting trophy. As a person that has worked a lot in Africa for many years, I know the situation very well, and I work on the side of people defending biodiversity. But, for example, in Namibia, trophy hunting, which is legal t…

7 Jun

2022

IT Speech

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))

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, tomorrow we will be voting on very important things for the future of Europe. I can only comment on a few issues that I have dealt with personally. The Social Fund is a wonderful idea but not enough. As far as emissions from cars and vans are concerned, there are problems, because we are all in favour of the environment and reducing emissions, but we must also c…

10 Mar

2022

EN Speech

The need for an ambitious EU Strategy for sustainable textiles (debate)

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Madam President, I fully agree with the position of the Commissioner. There are unluckily two major problems regarding the textile sector. They are very technical. Number one is the colouring of the textile, which is on one side strongly regulated by the Workers’ Safety Regulation, the Environmental Emissions Regulation and so on, but on the other side is still a problem. We need funds and we need…

15 Feb

2022

EN Speech

Strengthening Europe in the fight against cancer(debate)

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Madam President, this is a great and powerful document, I believe, and I’m proud to be part of it. I’m already using it, even if it’s not finalised, to put pressure on the Italian regional authorities to increase the screening programme and to increase the funding on new screening and therapeutic techniques. Also, we already started locally, based on these programmes, to increase the quality of li…