What Elena spoke about.

23 Apr

2024

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European Disability Card and European Parking Card for persons with disabilities - European Disability Card and European Parking Card for persons with disabilities for third country nationals legally residing in a Member State (joint debate - Disability cards)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, I must first make a note before saying that we agree with this package that we have helped to create. She said: The Commission remains committed to people with disabilities and I understand that. However, perhaps you do not know, and this was said during a Committee on Labour and Social Affairs, that the Commission has not answered the Court of Aud…

12 Mar

2024

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Council decision inviting Member States to ratify the Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No. 190) of the International Labour Organization (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the Convention on Violence and Harassment is the first international instrument to establish minimum standards for dealing with harassment and violence at work, indicating to States what action should be taken to prevent and combat it, thus achieving the objective of zero tolerance in every workplace. It should be stressed that this convention addr…

29 Feb

2024

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Major interpellations (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, how many years have we been talking about the ongoing migration crisis in the European Union? I'll answer you right away: too many. Not much has been done from Brussels to stem the phenomenon, often leaving the Member States alone. Dear Commissioner, giving money does not mean solving problems. The instruments must be put upstream. Frontex reported…

27 Feb

2024

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Geographical Indications for wine, spirit drinks and agricultural products (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we are finally definitively approving the regulation on the revision of geographical indications, which is one of the few notable results of this legislature, not least because it is the result of genuine work of sharing, as it should always be. However, we had to correct the basic text because the Commission did not have well-structured rules for …

6 Feb

2024

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

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, after twenty years, a Nobel Prize in Chemistry has finally come to this plenary in a proposal for a regulation on new genomic techniques. I remind everyone that we in the League asked from the beginning for a change of pace and to distinguish between GMOs and NGTs. Europe has finally woken up and for once decided not to follow the green follies …

20 Nov

2023

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Children first - strengthening the Child Guarantee, two years on from its adoption - Reducing inequalities and promoting social inclusion in times of crisis for children and their families (joint debate – International Day of the Rights of the Child)

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Madam President, Commissioners, ladies and gentlemen, two years after the creation of the Child Guarantee, this resolution of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs draws up an initial assessment of this programme, already suggesting amendments and corrections. In particular, it underlines the importance of having streamlined procedures, greater control and transparency in the use of funds…

19 Oct

2023

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European protein strategy (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, as Lega-Salvini Premier, we have been saying for years that Europe must increase its food sovereignty, increase domestic production and reduce dependence on third-country suppliers. But, as Lega, we also say no to lab-grown meat financed with REACT-EU funds by the Commission. We must facilitate the work of our farmers, instead of harassing them …

2 Oct

2023

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Protection of workers from asbestos (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, 88 000 deaths a year in Europe due to asbestos and the wave of renewal could make the situation worse. That is why we are convinced that we need to protect workers even more and have made an active contribution to the drafting of a shared text. I too would like to remind you here of the rapporteur, Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, who left us prematurely …

14 Sep

2023

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Improving firefighters’ working conditions (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, I would like to point out, as Mrs Zambelli did, that the debate on improving the working conditions of firefighters is also an initiative following our motion for a resolution tabled on 22 March, after the hearing. This is a source of great satisfaction for us. We all share the fact that the fire service profession is at high risk of disease due to exposure to harmfu…

13 Sep

2023

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

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I have heard that you have mentioned the quantification of the damage caused by large carnivores and I appreciate that. But how can we quantify the value of the life of a dead boy attacked by a bear in Italy? Or the 25 we just heard about from Romania? How can we soothe the pain of these families who are facing such absurd grief? The presence of wo…

31 May

2023

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Geographical Indications for wine, spirit drinks and agricultural products (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I welcome the shadow rapporteur, Mr De Castro, the Commissioner and my colleagues in this dossier. As shadow rapporteur and on behalf of the Lega-Salvini Premier, I stress that we are voting in favour, as we have already done in committee, of this proposal for revision because it is fundamental for the sector, which is fundamental for Italy, which also holds …

10 May

2023

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The role of farmers as enablers of the green transition and a resilient agricultural sector (continuation of debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, first of all I wanted to say that, listening to today's speeches, it seems to me that the majority is creaking, they are no longer all that convinced of this Green Deal. Starting from Italy, I want to remind you that my country has already implemented many of the policies required by the Green Deal and with the largest area dedicated to organic far…

16 Feb

2023

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Availability of fertilisers in the EU (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, we welcome this oral question because it raises important questions that we, as Lega-Salvini Premier of the ID Group, have been trying to bring to light for months. The war between Russia and Ukraine has exacerbated the problem of European dependence on fertilizers from a small number of suppliers. Before the war, Russia accounted for 16% of the wo…

19 Jan

2023

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Revision of the European Works Councils Directive (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, first of all I would like to thank Mr Radtke for the work he has done so far on this report, which is about recommendations to the Commission concerning the revision of the directive on European Works Councils. Several years have passed since the publication of the directive and we have thus had the opportunity to test and verify that the establish…

12 Dec

2022

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A long-term vision for the EU's rural areas (debate)

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–Mrs President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to thank the rapporteur, Mrs Carvalhais, and all my fellow Members for the compromises they have reached, despite the fact that our proposals have not been included. Rural areas certainly represent a great opportunity, both for our young people, who want to rediscover the value of the land, and for those who have to invent or reinven…

24 Nov

2022

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Establishing the Digital Decade Policy Programme 2030 (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, Mr Dlabajová, ladies and gentlemen, first of all I would like to thank my colleague Dlabajová for her fruitful cooperation and for having also accepted our contributions. This decision sets out concrete digital targets that the European Union intends to achieve by the end of the decade, as has been said, and we have felt that this is going in the right direction. How…

13 Sep

2022

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Adequate minimum wages in the European Union (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner Schmit, ladies and gentlemen, the proposal for a directive on adequate minimum wages is an important milestone for improving working conditions and combating in-work poverty, and the League will support it. Firstly, because it does not impose a statutory minimum wage on all Member States; secondly, it does not oblige Member States with a collective bargaining system that…

5 Jul

2022

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Mental health in the digital world of work (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to thank the rapporteur, Maria Walsh, for her draft report and also her office for their work together. As the report argues, the time has come to seriously address the issue of the political recognition of the crisis linked to the mental health of the citizens of the Member States of the European Union and to consider what action can …

7 Jun

2022

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Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System - Social Climate Fund - Carbon border adjustment mechanism - Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System for aviation - Notification under the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) (joint debate – Fit for 55 (part 1))

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, speaking of CBAM, as Lega per Salvini Premier we appreciate the noble attempt to counteract the risk of carbon leakage in third countries. However, the mechanism, as it is proposed today, will expose producers to very high economic and financial risks that will put Europe in a position to become the taillight of global competition. We are afraid th…

6 Apr

2022

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Data Governance Act (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, rapporteur, ladies and gentlemen, on 10 December 2021, a political agreement was reached on the , of which I was shadow rapporteur. The data economy is estimated at about 900 billion euros over the next five years, this at least we read, and it also concerns the effectiveness of scientific research and this is very important. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the…

23 Nov

2021

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Common agricultural policy - support for strategic plans to be drawn up by Member States and financed by the EAGF and by the EAFRD - Common agricultural policy: financing, management and monitoring - Common agricultural policy – amendment of the CMO and other regulations (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, today the agricultural world will have the new CAP, because we are sure that it will be so, and we are pleased that the negotiations have come to an end, in order to be able to give oxygen to our farmers who, after doctors and nurses, I want to remind you, were at the forefront during the pandemic, providing sustenance for Europe. The Commissioner …

22 Nov

2021

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Introduction of a European social security pass for improving the digital enforcement of social security rights and fair mobility (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner Schmit, the creation of a European social security pass, taking as a reference the pilot project of the Italian Social Security Institute, could prove to be an effective tool for making social security rights more visible and accessible digitally, in order to identify and record cases of social dumping, undeclared work or similar operations. Dear Co…

20 Oct

2021

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An EU strategy to reduce methane emissions (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the strategy is certainly of considerable importance, but it presents a number of problems which we are obliged to examine and on which no guarantees or certainties come from the dossier. In fact, we still see some threats to our small businesses. As the ID Group, and we in the League in particular, have proposed gradual and progressive emission…

6 Oct

2021

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European solutions to the rise of energy prices for businesses and consumers: the role of energy efficiency and renewable energy and the need to tackle energy poverty (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, the scenario that we will have to face in the coming years is a difficult one, especially for European families. Over the period 2020-2021, the price of oil soared by 200%, while gas increased by 30% only in the second quarter of 2021. In Italy, the increase in gas energy would have indirect effects on retail price lists and lead to an increase …

4 Oct

2021

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The role of development policy in the response to biodiversity loss in developing countries, in the context of the achievement of the 2030 Agenda (debate)

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(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the resolution sets out momentous themes and objectives, on which specific impact assessments are indispensable for the impact of this initiative on the lives of citizens and future global generations. It is true that the loss of biodiversity could cause irreparable damage from the social and economic environmental point of view. In fact, around 75% of plan…