What Elisabetta spoke about.

17 Jan

2024

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 14-15 December 2023 and preparation of the Special European Council meeting of 1 February 2024 - Situation in Hungary and frozen EU funds (joint debate - European Council meetings)

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Mr President, Council, the revision of the EU budget that the European Council is negotiating is absolutely good news. Europe is finally increasing the budget allocation to address energy costs, the war in Ukraine and the environmental disasters. But the bad news is that, as far as we know, today’s negotiations on the budget are still blocked and the culprit is the usual suspect, Viktor Orbán, and…

13 Dec

2023

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EU strategy to assist young people facing the housing and cost of living crisis (topical debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, representative of the Presidency, ladies and gentlemen, today girls and boys are asking us for protection, for security and for future prospects; Paradoxically, they do not ask for utopias, dreams and innovation, but for protection. We're like this. Then these questions are answered with appropriate public policies, for example with correct housing policies, not with ov…

8 Nov

2023

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Madam President, dear colleagues, given the statements made yesterday by Commissioner Hahn in the BUDG and CONT committees, on behalf of the S&D Group I would like to withdraw our request for a debate on ‘the continuing threat to the rule of law, the independence of justice and the non-fulfilment of conditionality for EU funding in Hungary’, but, however, given the recent media reports, we would l…

8 Nov

2023

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Madam President, dear colleagues, the various proposals that have been made by the different political groups mirror the gravity of the situation in the Middle East and this Parliament’s strong engagement to contribute to putting an end to violence and to the suffering of innocent civilians in the region. And in light of our responsibility as the European Union’s Parliament, it is of crucial impor…

4 Oct

2023

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Decent Housing for All (topical debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, housing is a fundamental right, a right of citizenship, it is not a concession. If you have a roof over your head, you can live safely, you can think about plans for the future, create a family, realize your desires. If, on the other hand, you are strangled by a mortgage that you have the anguish of not being able to pay, you live in a condition of insecurity…

2 Oct

2023

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Madam President, we absolutely believe that water management is a crucial topic, but we really would like to address this subject also with a debate with a larger, all-encompassing title, including on the impact on agriculture and nature. And so we would propose a broader title: the Council and Commission statements on responsible water management, nature restoration and agriculture. However, we k…

13 Sep

2023

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State of the Union (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, many things have changed in Europe in this mandate. We are pleased that even points on our agenda as Socialists and Democrats have become points on its agenda, especially after the pandemic. We supported the social turnaround of the Union, instead of austerity, solidarity; Europe has found its soul for a moment, we forgot about the market. But t…

12 Sep

2023

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Towards a more disaster-resilient EU - protecting people from extreme heatwaves, floods and forest fires (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the ecological transition is a life-saving policy for humanity. Here in Brussels and Strasbourg they tell us that the right and the left govern together on so many matters: But this is not the case with climate change. We need to say it loud and clear: There is a right and there is a left. The grades are different, the behaviors are different, the strategies are…

10 Jul

2023

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Protection of workers from extreme heat and other extreme weather phenomena resulting from the climate crisis (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the torrential floods in Emilia Romagna last May are an exemplary case of the impact of the climate crisis on businesses and workers. We have had over 12 000 farms devastated, 14 000 other businesses destroyed, 15 dead, including workers. We truly believe in the fight against climate change, certainly with common sense, with reasonableness, acco…

14 Jun

2023

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 29-30 June 2023, in particular in the light of recent steps towards concluding the Migration Pact (debate)

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Mr President, dear Minister, dear Commissioner, let us give the state. What is the state? So having unblocked the Migration Pact is a positive fact. But we are only at the beginning and we really hope to improve the text. First, the obsession with repatriations everywhere. It seems that the most important thing is to send the migrants back, to push them back as if they were parcel post packages, e…

12 Jun

2023

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Madam President, actually, we are in favour of the compromise suggested by the EPP because the title is sufficiently broad, and also because we think that we have to defend the role of the European Parliament in the negotiations that will start soon. So we think that there is a broad title, and this allows us to begin the negotiations and to try to find a good compromise also on our part.…

31 May

2023

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Social and economic costs of climate change in light of the floods in Emilia Romagna, Marche and Toscana and the urgent need for European solidarity (debate)

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Mr President, Emilia-Romagna has been overwhelmed by unprecedented floods. A very rare event, it has been said several times, an amount of water in three days equal to six months, a cyclone with the force of a hurricane, rivers that have risen up to 10/12 meters overwhelming roads, cars, houses, unfortunately even people. Fifteen victims, to their families my embrace. The landscape now in my Romag…

31 May

2023

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Madam President, in the meantime, I would like to express my gratitude to you for your words. As you said, we are facing a wounded land, that of Emilia-Romagna, Marche and, in part, Tuscany. We saw a cyclone with the force of a hurricane, hills falling and rivers rising, a river of 50 centimeters became 12 meters high. And in the face of this natural disaster, I really think it is important to hav…

11 May

2023

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Protecting and restoring marine ecosystems for sustainable and resilient fisheries - Agreement of the IGC on Marine Biodiversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (High Seas Treaty) (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we all want environmental sustainability, but I do not think that the elimination of small-scale trawling will lead to the results you want to achieve. There is no impact assessment, we are waiting for it, and above all you will have noticed that here there is a very cross-party front that goes from left to right, going back: I'd take that into acc…

18 Apr

2023

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The need for a coherent strategy for EU-China Relations (debate)

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Mr President, Mr Vice-President, Commission, we have finally heard some words of truth about relations between the European Union and China, because, dear Vice-President, in foreign policy it is not always just a matter of the formal division of labour, of who does what, we also need to give strong political messages, to have a political vision. And so it's good that von der Leyen spoke of "de-ris…

29 Mar

2023

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Actually, how do you dare to ask for a debate on the rule of law in Spain when you know the only problem with that is that you are blocking the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary after four years. So really, this is really anti-democratic and outrageous, colleagues.…

15 Mar

2023

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Deaths at sea: a common EU response to save lives and action to ensure safe and legal pathways (debate)

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Mr President, dear Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we are with you on speeding up, we hope, the asylum and migration package, for finally effective solidarity - we hope so. But frankly we must tell ourselves that we can no longer feel the blame for Europe, always, because the political responsibilities are there and can be seen. I have never seen a far-right government ask to strengthen Europe…

2 Feb

2023

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Improving working conditions in platform work (A9-0301/2022 - Elisabetta Gualmini) (vote)

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Mr President, dear colleagues, today we vote for the mandate of the report on platform work to the trilogue. I’m asking you to vote in favour of this report, which is a very balanced and innovative text. I thank all the shadow rapporteurs because they have contributed to improve the text. I would like to immediately correct the political narrative which is going on and on. No later than yesterday …

1 Feb

2023

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Madam President, actually, we are not against the topic itself, but for the sake of compromise we do suggest eventually to leave the debate in this mini—plenary with no resolution, and with a changed title that is ‘Commission statement on anarchist terrorist actions and violent extremism in Europe’. I can explain why. It is because we think that anarchism is anarchism. It is not left or right. If …

18 Jan

2023

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Revelations of Uber lobbying practices in the EU (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, when we heard Mark MacGann in the Labour Committee, a former lobbyist for Uber, we were shocked. If his revelations and investigations are confirmed, we are faced with a pervasive system of illegal lobbying on European governments and not, with violations of the law, alleged violence against workers, pressure of all kinds. Tuck into Facebook and WhatsApp with fa…

14 Dec

2022

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 15 December 2022 (debate)

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Mr President, dear Minister, dear Commissioner, dear President of the European Commission, we are at the end of 2022 and we can say that it has also been an annus horribilis because we face a triple attack on democracy: an attack on democracy by Russia with the criminal invasion of Ukraine; an attack on our economy, our single market with the unacceptable blackmail on gas; and then – I do not want…

23 Nov

2022

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A truly interconnected Energy Single Market to keep bills down and companies competitive (topical debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, today's drama is energy costs and inflation. I am sorry, but the European Commission is making fun of us by putting a cap on the price of gas of 275 euros per megawatt hour that has never been seen, never, even in the worst moments. We have regained the soul of Europe with NextGenerationEU and now we are losing it with late and completely illuso…

9 Nov

2022

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 20-21 October 2022 (debate)

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Mr President, dear colleagues, we have learned the lesson from the pandemic that from tragedies coming from outside we are able to find our unity and the soul of Europe. What we have done with the common debt, SURE and Next Gen has been revolutionary. Now, on gas and energy, we really have the same challenge and we cannot take the luxury of time. So we need again a stronger Europe for at least thr…

19 Oct

2022

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Whitewashing of the anti-European extreme right in the EU (topical debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I certainly do not fall into the trap. They come to lecture us, they explain to us that the far right in Italy has won the elections and therefore can do whatever it wants and we just have to shut up. We are determined to talk, to oppose, to tell what the extreme right is. Because this is the extreme right that has even radicalized what little remained of Berlus…

18 Oct

2022

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General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2023 - all sections (debate)

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Mr President, the general EU budget for 2023 is a powerful political tool. There is a lot of politics inside, not only economics. In times of skyrocketing inflation and economic recession, politics has to deliver. If politics does not deliver, we will have explosive populist upsurges, anti-system protests and nationalist outcries. During the pandemic, we were able to basically double the budget of…