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2026

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An EU future for the Western Balkans (joint debate)

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2026

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Recruitment of children by organised crime (debate)

Ma'am, I think I'll answer you in Italian, because I want all my compatriots to understand what you're saying here. In Italy, we are absolutely open, we were also too open to those who came from the other side of the world and to those who really escaped from wars. But most of these criminals don't come from countries at war, they don't come from places where they run away, where human rights are really being persecuted. Indeed, many of these countries of origin have higher growth than ours.

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Recruitment of children by organised crime (debate)

I think European people don't want more criminals in Europe, because we don't know their family. And if they come here and they are alone, maybe their family doesn't care or their family is not welcome here, I think. We have to control who comes here. And the control should be in their origin country.

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Recruitment of children by organised crime (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, according to Europol, children account for 70% of the criminal market. But there's an elephant in the room that pretends not to see: Most of these children used by the Mafia are unaccompanied foreign minors. Who am I really? Are they really the age they say they are? European age verification rules are inadequate and should be changed. They are largely foreigners, precisely, because organized crime has a fairly efficient welfare state system, if you will: He offers him a job immediately, as a drug dealer or as a courier, offers him money and immediate employment. So as long as we pretend that the problem lies only in encrypted messaging and poor cooperation between Member States, we will not be doing any prevention. This is why in Italy we have proposed to lower the age of imputability, because a criminal is a criminal even if he is a minor. Through European instruments, more checks must be carried out on unaccompanied minors and the smugglers who bring them here must be severely punished.

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May

2026

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Political repression and humanitarian situation in Cuba (debate)

It amazes me that those in this Parliament who claim that sanctions are an effective instrument do not want to sanction a regime, a regime that starves its people. But do you hear Cubans, all over Europe – those who have the freedom to speak, all over the free world – calling for freedom, that freedom that even today, after so many years of real communism, you continue to deny? You're complicit. But how does he come to this Parliament to defend a regime against those who demand freedom? But with what courage do you come here? With what courage?

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May

2026

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Political repression and humanitarian situation in Cuba (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the tragedy in Cuba is not an accident in history, but the foreseeable result of 67 years of communist dictatorship: Prolonged blackouts, powerless hospitals, the flight of thousands of young people, hundreds of political prisoners, repression and torture are the result of a system that destroyed the economy, suppressed freedoms and maintained power by force and propaganda. Communism has failed in Cuba, as everywhere it has ruled: It always produces misery, censorship, gulag and corruption of the ruling elite. Europe and the West can no longer pretend not to see that people die of hunger, live in darkness and end up in prison for demanding freedom and bread. Cubans are not demanding a socialism with a human face, they are demanding freedom, democracy and the end of a system that has imprisoned them for generations. They deserved to take back their country. It is time to stop supporting the perpetrators and start supporting the people. History has already issued its verdict on real communism: a total failure.

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May

2026

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Order of business

No. We prefer our proposal.

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May

2026

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Order of business

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Salim El Koudri's terrorist attack in Modena brings to our face a truth that too many people in this House cowardly deny: Europe is under siege by radical Islamism. We're not just talking about external threats, we're talking about subjects. borderline, psycholabile, fanatics who grow and radicalize in our cities because of failed integration policies carried out in recent years. It has already happened in France, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands, today it affects Italy. And those who continue to downplay have a huge political responsibility: There is no room for ideological goodism, we need an immediate and very hard grip against any form of extremism. At the same time, a radical change in migration policies is essential, making the criteria for obtaining citizenship much stricter and those for revoking it much quicker. My total solidarity with the victims of Modena. Now enough words, enough justifications and enough weakness: Europe cannot subordinate the security of its citizens to political correctness.

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2026

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The Commission’s 2025 Rule of Law report (debate)

You're very misinformed, ma'am. My party, the League, among other things with the former minister and now parliamentarian Bongiorno, who is a lawyer in defense of women's rights, introduced the red code, introduced and raised the penalties precisely for rape crimes. So you are very misinformed and the law on consent in Italy is moving forward but also based on legal certainty, because legal certainty is part of the rule of law, not confusion like the one you want to import and have done in Spain, with a great deal of confusion for Spanish and European citizens.

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The Commission’s 2025 Rule of Law report (debate)

Look, I belong to a party that does not discount anyone on rape and crimes, on the contrary, would like more seriousness. Just a month ago, we presented a bill to the Italian Parliament to increase the penalties for rape. The certainty of punishment, this must be respected, because it is the certainty of punishment that, when not respected, violates the rule of law. And very often in European countries the certainty of punishment is not respected and we do not enforce it: These are the real violations.

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The Commission’s 2025 Rule of Law report (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we have missed yet another opportunity to do serious work in this Parliament, because once again this report on the rule of law is not serious work, based truly on the violation of the rights of European citizens, but a political truncheon used against governments that do not like Brussels. And they give themselves licenses of good conduct, condemn the countries that evacuate Roma camps - I would have given them a prize! Those countries that reject migrants are condemned – I would have given them one more prize! Instead of defending freedom of expression, which is a cornerstone of Western European thought – we were born, we founded the basis of Western thought – no, we want to censure the courts of the Inquisition. social For those who freely express their thoughts. We are insane! Instead, there is no word on the safety of European citizens. These are rights violated daily by millions of people, especially women, every day, who are locked in their own homes, who can no longer leave the house. Are you getting out of here? Did you go to European cities to see segregated women at home because they are afraid to go out at night? Or on the length of the processes: in Italy there is a judiciary that is among the slowest in Europe and not a word on an independent body, certainly, but that violates rights every day. Well, this isn't serious work. This is yet another ideological club used by the European left.

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2026

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Rise of political violence, notably by far-left organisations (debate)

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Spain’s large-scale regularisation policy and its impact on the Schengen Area and EU migration policy (debate)

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2026

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Restoring control of migration: returns, visa policy and third-country cooperation (topical debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, uncontrolled immigration is destroying Europe. Even the Arab countries condemn the radicalism that is spreading here. Go around European cities. You risk your life: stabbings, rapes, robberies, dealing. Irregular immigrants are often the armed wing of mafias across Europe. What does the left do? He continues to say that immigrants are resources, perhaps resources to be exploited for cheap labor, to be exploited with cooperatives that profit from reception, to be exploited electorally because on the left they are convinced that tomorrow immigrants will vote for them. No, they will vote for themselves. Poor deluded people. Already Islamic parties are being formed all over Europe and are taking hold. And when you, with your goodness and with the doors wide open, have reduced us to a minority, we will also be forced to suffer its domination. All this can be stopped: All we have to do is tighten our laws, blockades, mass repatriations, expulsion centers that work and zero tolerance. Zero tolerance because our patience is over.

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Dec

2025

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The urgent need to combat discrimination in the EU through the horizontal anti-discrimination directive (topical debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, good morning left and thank you, thank you very much for this latest waste of time, because we really lacked a good anti-discrimination directive that has stood firm for 17 years in Europe, ask yourself why. Because who is really discriminated against, today, in Europe, with all the problems we have? It is we, the European citizens, who see our culture and traditions increasingly silenced; we are forced to suffer uncontrolled mass immigration that puts our safety and our work at risk; It is we who defend the traditional family, freedom of thought, our roots and for this reason we are accused of hatred, of propagating hatred, by you, but it is us. Brussels dusts off this anti-discrimination directive after 17 years, but ignores the real discrimination, which is that against its own citizens, who demand respect for their own history. Defending identity is not discrimination, it is patriotism and freedom. And we will not stop defending our homelands, our freedom, because you are inventing these anti-discrimination directives that waste this House's time.

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2025

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Rule of law and human rights situation in Tunisia, particularly the case of Sonia Dahmani

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Oct

2025

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Revision of the Visa Suspension Mechanism (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, let us be clear: the visa mechanism has major problems and today we are here to strengthen an instrument that has so far worked poorly, because too many times the visa exemption has become yet another tool to open Europe to illegal immigration. And the data says so: around one in four asylum applications is made by citizens benefiting from visa liberalisation in their country. On the defence of the external borders, Europe remains weak and too many third countries take advantage of this weakness, not cooperating on returns, selling passports in exchange for money, tolerating abuses. With the lowering of the thresholds we could react immediately, avoiding unmanageable emergencies. Yes, therefore, to the revision of the visa mechanism as a necessary deterrent to stop even irregular flows. But be careful: If anyone in the Commission thinks of turning this instrument into a political weapon against unwelcome governments, he is very much mistaken. We Patriots will continue to watch. Security and sovereignty must go hand in hand in the exclusive interest of citizens.

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2025

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After 10 years, time to end mass migration now - protect our women and children (topical debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, after ten years of uncontrolled migration flows, official figures show us an incontrovertible picture. For example, in Italy immigrants represent 9% of the population, but they commit more than 40% of sexual violence. A few days ago, near Catania, two Hungarian tourists were raped by three North African citizens and these numbers oblige us to recognize the reality: Uncontrolled immigration puts the most vulnerable people at risk, especially women and children. These truths are often ignored by the national media. Go around our cities and look at the stations and the degraded places, it is full of immigrants who sell, get drunk, delinquent, and this is the reception of the left. That is why today we must firmly say that Europe can no longer be subjected to mass immigration: We need to change the rules, the conventions, the regulations, because this is the real emergency! We spent €88 billion on the war in Ukraine, a tenth would be enough to make mass returns of irregular immigrants to Europe.

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2025

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From institution to inclusion: an EU action plan for deinstitutionalisation, family- and community-based care (debate)

You see, in Italy there is a part of the left that always advocates European federalism, which in reality is not the federalism that the League means, because it is the new centralism. I really believe in federalism, I really believe in communities, I really believe in territories, I really believe in the self-determination of the peoples, of the peoples of Europe. And it is here that the Patriots, in this House, defend the self-determination of peoples. And look that in self-determination, and therefore in the closeness of institutions to territories, there is also closeness precisely to the most fragile people, to the weakest people. Today we are talking about disability: We are really close, with the institutions, to the most fragile, listening to the territories and not imposing from above.

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2025

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From institution to inclusion: an EU action plan for deinstitutionalisation, family- and community-based care (debate)

In the meantime, just one piece of information on Italian politics: In Emilia-Romagna they have ruled the Democratic Party and the left for 70 years, it has never ruled the centre-right. But, beyond that, it is funny how, even on a debate that concerns people with disabilities – and therefore everyone, including migrants – you want to make the usual confrontation with migrants and talk once again about migrants, who have absolutely nothing to do with this specific debate. For once – and I say: For once, please – can the European left show that it is on the side of all European citizens and not just migrants?

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2025

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From institution to inclusion: an EU action plan for deinstitutionalisation, family- and community-based care (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, just under two months ago, in pouring rain, the Independent Life Association protested in front of the Tuscany Region, protesting against the new guidelines of the Region to adapt to the criteria of the European Union. Today we are called upon to discuss yet another action plan of the European Union, but the truth is that the Italian regions are struggling to apply directives designed elsewhere, often lowered from above, which risk stiffening, rather than freeing. Meanwhile, in Italy, the Minister for Disabilities Alessandra Locatelli has started a concrete path, presenting the three-year operational plan for people with disabilities and carrying out the Disability decree, with the experimentation of the personalized independent life project, a real integration between health, social and rights. It is a reform that starts from below, from the territories, and that really puts the person at the center, not the bureaucracy. Here, then, is the point: We do not need new models imposed by Brussels, but certain resources, administrative flexibility and simplification of procedures. The right to live in the community is not guaranteed with standardized guidelines, but with policies designed with people.

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2025

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Combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child sexual abuse material and replacing Council Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA (recast) (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, if we are unable to protect our children, then we fail in our most sacred task. Children are too often victims of horrendous crimes: sexual exploitation, child pornography, international trafficking. Behind these crimes are organized networks, unscrupulous criminals, merchants of human lives. Against these monsters we need very severe penalties, capillary controls, European collaboration and zero tolerance. On this there is no left and right. There is only the duty to defend the most defenseless without hesitation. But the threat to our children does not only come from pedocriminals, it also comes from those who want to confuse their bodies and minds from an early age. Yes, I am referring to gender indoctrination, LGBT propaganda, and attempts to normalize gender transitions on minors without maturity or awareness. Children must be protected in their innocence, not exposed to ideological experiments that seek to erase their biological identity, family, mother and father. Our children, our grandchildren are not social guinea pigs, they are our future and our hope. It is our duty to defend them from criminals as well as from those who would like to sexualize them, committing another terrible form of abuse.

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2025

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Crackdown on democracy in Türkiye and the arrest of Ekrem İmamoğlu (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the arrest and political disqualification of opponents from elections is one of the most obvious features of authoritarian regimes and, unfortunately, Erdoğan's Turkey has long offered us concrete examples of this. But since those who want to bring Turkey into Europe for twenty years have not succeeded, they have decided to make Europe look like Turkey as much as possible; because it is paradoxical that we, while we are here to comment and condemn, rightly, the arrest of the mayor of Istanbul, in France the leader of the main opposition party has been condemned to disqualification from candidacy for the next five years. In France, not in any Central African republic! Yesterday it was Romania's turn, today it is France's turn. They tried with Trump, they tried with Matteo Salvini. Today they succeeded with Bolsonaro, with Marine Le Pen, with the Romanians. And who will be next? Who will be next? Democracy is not only in danger in Turkey, it is in danger right here in our house! That is why the voice of the Patriots must rise ever louder, because on the left freedom and democracy have never loved it: They are always the usual. Down the mask: You are always the usual poor communists!

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2025

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Democracy and human rights in Thailand, notably the lese-majesty law and the deportation of Uyghur refugees

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, on 11 September 2018, Dr Abbas, a retired doctor, was forcibly taken; an arrest that seems linked to public criticism expressed by his sister, less than a week before, during an event at a think tank in which he denounced the repression of the Uyghurs. Her family has not heard from her since. On 27 February 2020, at least 40 Uyghurs were repatriated from Thailand to China, an action that is of deep concern and that violates the international standards assumed by the country. In China, Uyghurs face arbitrary detention, forced labour conditions and restrictions on fundamental freedoms. In addition, the Chinese government is extending its influence far beyond its borders, exerting pressure on other states to cooperate in the forced repatriation of persecuted dissidents and minorities. The European Union must go beyond mere declarations of condemnation, but it is necessary to adopt concrete measures, greater transparency in production chains and trade restrictions for products linked to the exploitation of forced labour, which damage our companies, subjected to rigid standards and often crazy regulations, applied by inflexible bureaucrats.

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2025

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100 days of the new Commission – Delivering on defence, competitiveness, simplification and migration as our priorities (topical debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, 100 days have passed since the start of the new Commission: 100 days of announcements, slogans, declarations. If Europe were governed by press conferences, on the Commission's ambitious plans, we would already be the safest, most competitive and most prosperous continent on the planet. Let's talk about defense: You tell us that we need a European army, rearmament, common defence, but then you can't even protect our borders from the invasion of illegal immigrants. Competitiveness: As America revives the economy and lowers corporate taxes, you confirm the Green Deal and increase bureaucracy. Good, applause. Companies are closing down and fleeing to China. And on simplification: The only thing Brussels can simplify is the way it puts sticks in our wheels. More regulations, more constraints, more follies green They penalise our farmers and our businesses. In short, after 100 days the music is the same as ever: so much Europe in words, more and more Europe on paper and zero solutions for citizens and businesses. Enough of the empty promises! President von der Leyen: Change course or change profession!